UK Gold, by UK GOLD

UK Gold

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Cameron the whole thing is fantastic, but the "high command" side is really something special Favorite track: Cracked.

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1.	Intro 01:45	buy track
2.	Auto Responder 01:57	buy track
3.	Cracked 02:14	buy track
4.	Hunter / Hunted 02:58	buy track

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Olympia's UK Gold is the trio of Matt Murillo (The Maxines), Forrest Peaker (Wisdom Teeth) and Vadi Erdal (Pitted Youth). Their debut single is a limited, four-song release recorded in two sessions at High Command with Captain Tripps Ballsington and Dub Narcotic Studio with Calvin Johnson. Listen after midnight.

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"Three of the best shows that I played last year were with UK GOLD from Olympia, who put out a great self-released 7” around mid-2017 that’s taken me a couple of months to truly pin down. Their take on tense, aggressively dry post-punk is almost disarmingly straightforward—Matt Murillo talk-shouts WIPERS-esque narratives of paranoia and alienation while simultaneously pounding his drums in simple but clockwork-precise rhythms, as Forrest Peaker’s jagged guitar cuts in and out as the anxiety level rises. There’s enough dissonant, coldly fixed-gaze moments in “Auto-Responder” and “Cracked” to add in a No Wave qualifier or two (specifically the punishing-yet-restrained minimalism of Glenn Branca’s guitar abrasion in the STATIC and THEORETICAL GIRLS), while “Hunter/Hunted” begins with a shadowy drone and slowly unfolds into a hallucinatory tightrope walk between calm and noise that suggests sorely underrated first-wave New Zealand post-punks the GORDONS transported to the grey gloom of the Pacific Northwest. If those are reference points that mean anything at all to you, you should be all over this one."

- Futures & Pasts | MRR #418

"This chic first EP of UK Gold from Olympia, Washington comes with brittle minimal riffs and a soundfield somewhere in the spectrum of Postpunk and Noise Rock."

- 12XU

"...minimalist and without artifice, UK Gold proposes a first reference. ...Cracked and Hunter / Hunted are thus two beautiful little pearls beautifully basic, abrupt, melodic on a thread, heady."

- Perte & Fracas

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released April 28, 2017

Side "Dub" - Recorded by Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic Studio, mixed by Sam Gray
Side "High Command" - recorded and mixed by Captain Tripps Ballsington at High Command
Mastering by Golden Mastering
All songs by UK GOLD

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