The Columbia, Missouri, trio Ptarmigan has made a fine album of dreamy pop music that’s well-suited for a warm summer evening… Ptarmigan’s artful use of insect chatter gives a nice, rhythmic textures to the melodic pop on the disc… The Forest Darling benefits from this ambient noise but doesn’t lean on it as a shtick; instead, the band’s sugary, rubbery hooks recall the blissed-out sunbursts of Tripping Daisy and mid-period Flaming Lips.

-Christian Schaeffer, The Riverfront Times

The Forest Darling is as good a record as I’ve heard this year. The trio pull from a wide array of influences to form a rather coherent eleven-song album that you should really check out. Those influences? The ones I hear and have read about include but are not limited to Peruvian forest sounds, early Modest Mouse, Born Ruffians, and The Flaming Lips. So, one can instantly see the appeal this record carries.

-Zac Early, Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement

1. Stillborn Kings
2. Where
3. Of The Hills And The Hunt
4. Primrose & Snapdragon
5. We, The Forest
6. Delta
7. The Quadrille
8. Sentient
9. My Mind Bleeds
10. Migratory
11. Metronome

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Well, he’s technically a newcomer at least – Neatly Knotted (AKA the fabulously talented Ben Chlapek of Never Sleeping) has been collaborating with various Yards & Gods artists over the past few months on projects you’ll likely be hearing a lot more about sometime in the near future, but this is his first official release with us.

Recorded in all analog on a cassette 4-track, and limited to 75 physical copies (tapes, which are $4 each). For the moment, if you’d like a tape contact Ben at neatlyknotted@gmail.com. For a digital taste, click any of the song names below to stream them or enter your email at the bottom of the page and we’ll send you a download link!

1. Around and Down
2. The Plague
3. Rat Killer
4. Friends
5. White Star

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• Sentient

So sit back, relax, and dream of sitting on your favorite porch while enjoying these two solid tracks from our resident queen of dreamy synthesizer music.

1. Blink Two Times
2. Dulcet Punk Daze

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Featuring an unrelenting lineup of ten choice cuts, a resale value of exactly zero dollars, and digital liner notes so slick they’ll slide off your screen and onto your floor where your cats will run over and smell them and then slink back to whatever they were doing before the sliding/falling thing, When We Were Captains is the final word on what could have been.

Spanning the band’s entire existence, from the dubious days of Nascar Diarrhea to the surprisingly nautical-pun-bereft sounds of Cpt. Captain, When We Were Captains stands as a definitive document of one of the most promising and fertile periods in the history of the Columbia, MO, music scene. Latecomers will marvel at what they missed, those who were there will bask in the sad glow of what was and will never be again, and the band itself will reap millions in royalties and inevitable licensing deals. These ten songs will set the record straight, rightfully placing Cpt. Captain once and for all in the highest echelon of local rock and roll royalty.

1. Raytown Killers (Pop Song #1)
2. Rockabilly Suicide
3. No Horse Town
4. Nascar Diarrhea presents Cpt. Captain
5. Landlocked, Landlocked
6. Zydeco Manslaughter
7. Spot On
8. Hold Your Head Up, Holly
9. Story Ends (That’s Exactly How The)
10. Eccentric Ways

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Mark your calendars for April 13th for the release of Rae’s first Y&G full length, and enjoy the sneak preview!  Also, be sure to hit up Mojo’s on said date for the CD release show with Vulvette and Cabin Sessions.

1. Captain Future

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And here’s a little more info from the shadowy abyss of secrecy from which this thing continues to emerge:

Outside of a small handful of compilation releases in 2009 and the band’s zombiefied MySpace page, no record survives Cpt. Captain’s short existence in the no horse town of Columbia, Missouri. That is until March 22, 2011, when Yards & Gods is pleased to finally release When We Were Captains, the authoritative anthology we never knew we needed. Featuring an unrelenting lineup of ten choice cuts, a resale value of exactly zero dollars, and digital liner notes so slick they’ll slide off your screen and onto your floor where your cats will run over and smell them and then slink back to whatever they were doing before the sliding/falling thing, When We Were Captains is the final word on what could have been.

Spanning the band’s entire existence, from the dubious days of Nascar Diarrhea to the surprisingly nautical-pun-bereft sounds of Cpt. Captain, When We Were Captains stands as a definitive document of one of the most promising and fertile periods in the history of the Columbia, MO, music scene. Latecomers will marvel at what they missed, those who were there will bask in the sad glow of what was and will never be again, and the band itself will reap millions in royalties and inevitable licensing deals. These ten songs will set the record straight, rightfully placing Cpt. Captain once and for all in the highest echelon of local rock and roll royalty.

Get your free download and conclude for yourself that damnit, Cpt. Captain was the best goddamn band in town at www.yardsandgods.com.

-Z. Noland

In the works for over a year and “almost done” for just about as long, we finally got our hands on the finished product late last night and don’t even want to take the time to write up a suitable description before delivering it straight to your ears. This EP is a co-release with French net label Universal.

Artwork by Jennie Williams.

1. Marooned
2. dp
3. Ares
4. Dee Dee (Don’t Dance)
5. Peakend
6. Diddy

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This latest batch of songs has more in common with a fuzzed out version of early Ducktails than, say, the Eno-esque synthscapes his music has been characterized by in the past.  This is a glimpse of a musician rediscovering an instrument and broadening his expansive sonic palette.

Artwork by Aaron C. Lewis.

1. Ambient Shitwaves
2. At Depth
3. Exo
4. Fucked
5. Fall And Winter Ghosts – Full No Hiss

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