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Nostalgist’s New Disaffection Mini-LP Streaming in Full

Jon Rosenthal of Invisible Oranges has premiered the entire Disaffection MLP along with a new and lengthy interview with frontman Asa Eisenhardt. Read and listen here, and order the album here. Vinyl orders are already shipping out, digital will be available for whatever price you prefer as of Friday, March 30th.

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New Nostalgist MLP available today!

Nostalgist’s new Disaffection mini-LP starts shipping out tomorrow, 3/16. Heavy, ethereal post-punk featuring Aesop Dekker (Worm Ouroboros, Khôrada, Extremity, ex-Agalloch) on session drums. Five new tracks plus a remix of the band’s Catherine Wheel cover.

Download codes are included as always, but if you want just the digital version that’ll drop for whatever price you want on 3/30 (Bandcamp doesn’t allow free digital preorders, so it’s set at $1). A slight warning– due to the ineptitude and rough handling of UPS, there’s some smudging on the Side B labels of many copies, but we guarantee this does NOT affect sound quality whatsoever– it’s a matter out of our hands, alas.

You can order and stream two tracks here: http://nostalgist.bandcamp.com/

The band is playing their record release show on Saturday, 3/17 at Kame hou$e 206 with Grey Waves and Geist & the Sacred Ensemble. Message the band directly for the venue address on the day of the show.

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Standing Rock Benefit Show in Seattle ft. Planning for Burial, others on 12/17

Join us for an evening of ethereal music to benefit Standing Rock. We're flying out Planning For Burial to play alongside our local friends Golden Gardens, God and Vanilla, DJ Explorateur and DJ Retina Burn. All proceeds will go directly to the water protectors at Oceti Sakowin Camp. RSVP here. More information on Oceti Sakowin Camp here.

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ND representing this weekend at Channelfest

This Saturday, July 16th, we’re excited to be slinging our wares alongside a slew of other terrific Seattle labels at Channelfest. Free admission. Come on out and you can snag one of the final two copies of the first pressing of the Wildhoney self-titled 7″ EP (repress to come).

RSVP here.

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Catherine Wheel compilation, featuring Nostalgist and others, available for free download

Nostalgist's cover of Catherine Wheel's "Texture," featuring Aesop Dekker (VHOL, Worm Ouroboros, ex-Agalloch) on session drums can now be downloaded for free along with other great covers in The Blog That Celebrates Itself's Strange Fruits tribute compilation. Listen and download here:

https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/…/va-stran…

The band are still recording their upcoming MLP, which will feature Dekker's drums and the cover. But in the meanwhile, the vinyl version of their 2015 full-length Of Loves and Days Ago will finally be released in the coming months. Stay tuned!

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Stream Nostalgist’s Catherine Wheel cover, featuring Aesop Dekker (VHOL, Worm Ouroboros, ex-Agalloch)

Nostalgist covered Catherine Wheel's "Texture" with the session drum assistance of Aesop Dekker (VHOL, Worm Ouroboros, ex-Agalloch). The song will appear in the upcoming free tribute compilation Strange Fruits, which arrives June 13 from The Blog That Celebrates Itself. Pending licensing, it'll also be on the band's upcoming 12" EP. 

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New releases from Planning for Burial/Stress Waves and Kevin Hufnagel now available

You can now stream the grey, droning, dreamy Planning For Burial/Stress Waves split 7" at BrooklynVegan. Kristina Esfandiari of King Woman and Miserable contributes additional vocals on the PFB song, "Dove." It was honor to work with Thom, whose most recent LP, Desideratum, means the world to us (and turns two years old today!), as well as the similarly talented gents in Stress Waves. Listen here: http://bit.ly/1YqhTob Buy here: http://bit.ly/1T9agV1

Planning for Burial plays in Rochester, NY this weekend, and will embark on a short midwest tour with Ruined over Memorial Day Weekend: 5/14/16 - Rochester, NY at South Wedge Mission 5/27/16 - Pittsburgh, PA at Dock 5 5/28/16 - Grand Rapids, MI at Firehouse Art Gallery 5/29/16 - Columbus, OH at The Spacebar

You can also stream and buy the double EP cassette of gauzy, ambient guitar from the prolific Kevin Hufnagel. His other band, Gorguts, also released their impressive new Pleiades' Dust record today. Many congratulations, Kevin! Listen here: http://bit.ly/1TA22za Buy here: http://bit.ly/1T7lkip

Kevin will be playing a release show in NYC at Saint Vitus on Sunday, May 15th. More details here: Dylan Carlson (Earth), Guardian Alien, Kevin Hufnagel at Saint Vitus

Both releases will be available for pay-what-you-want download in the coming weeks.

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New Kevin Hufnagel double EP tape now streaming

Stereogum's Doug Moore has premiered Kevin Hufnagel's beautiful new double EP tape of ambient work. Side A, Backwards Through the Maze, contains five new pieces, while Side B is the 40+ minute, sleep-oriented Polar Night, a digital release from 2011. This was one of the very first ideas I had when formulating the label in my head years ago, and I'm forever grateful Kevin took me up on it.

Listen here: http://bit.ly/1TA22za Buy here: http://bit.ly/1T7lkip

Orders will begin shipping on Friday, 5/13, along with the Planning For Burial/Stress Waves 7" (which will be streaming Friday). Both will be available for pay-what-you-want download on the label Bandcamp in the coming weeks. For those into heavier music, Kevin's also a member ofGorguts, and their incredible release Pleiades' Dust comes out Friday the 13th as well.

Kevin will be playing a release show in NYC at Saint Vitus on Sunday, May 15th. More details here: Dylan Carlson (Earth), Guardian Alien, Kevin Hufnagel at Saint Vitus

We send our heartiest congratulations to Kevin, and many thanks to Doug and Stereogum.

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Nostalgist Tour Edtion 7″ now available

The remaining 37 copies of the tour version of the 2013 debut Nostalgist 7", Monochromantic, are now available in the Storenvy webstore. These are on black/white swirl vinyl and packaged in letterpressed chipboard sleeves designed and printed by Demian Johnston. Due to some miscommunication on our part, the first draft of the sleeve text was printed and as such, there's some glaring typos present (there was something like 72 records originally pressed), but we still think it looks beautiful. We also don't plan on this 7" being re-pressed any time soon. Buy here: http://bit.ly/1Rj1AcQ

In addition to the Kevin Hufnagel and Planning For Burial releases coming out this year, we'll also be releasing another tape (information TBA) issuing the Nostalgist full-length Of Loves and Days Ago on vinyl (late spring/early summer) and re-pressing the Wildhoney s/t 7". We're down to our last copies of the latter, so snatch one up while you can.

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Black Friday Sale + New 2016 Releases from Kevin Hufnagel and Planning for Burial/Stress Waves

Now through the holiday season, enter ARTIFACT at checkout in our webstore for 25% off and acquire your ND goods trample-free. Link here: http://bit.ly/1XwGvdg

We're incredibly excited to announce we have two new releases for early 2016. Guitar sorcerer Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Sabbath Assembly (official), Vaura) is one of our favorite players today, and his ambient cassette will contain two EPS: the brand new Backwards Through the Maze, and the very first physical release of his sleep-oriented 2012 effort Polar Night. If you're only familiar with one or two of his bands, this is another incredibly impressive and atmospheric side of his playing.

Simultaneously, we'll be issuing a split 7" single between dear friends Planning For Burial and Stress Waves. No other record hit us straight in the heart like the greys of PFB's Desideratum LP in 2014, and his contribution features Kristina Esfandiari of King Woman on backing vocals. Post-punk synth duo Stress Waves hail from Brisbane, Australia, and their beautiful, contemplative and romantic vibe reminds us of classic coldwave like Asylum Party.

We're also slowly putting together the pieces for the vinyl version of the Nostalgist album. Expect a very limited release of 100 or so copies in special packaging.

Have a great rest of your year and thanks for reading. We're grateful for your time and support. THE ARTIFACT MATTERS.

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Nostalgist’s debut album streaming in full at Ghost Cult

Heavy Seattle shoegaze/post-punk outfit Nostalgist’s Of Loves and Days Ago  can be streamed in its entirety here, courtesy of the kind folks at ghostcultmagazine. CDs and free physical downloads will be available on Friday, July 10th.

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New Nostalgist song debuts on Noisey!

In a few weeks’ time, Nostalgist will release their debut full-length, Of Loves and Days Ago, and embark on a west coast tour. Check out the leadoff track, “Pull of the Plow” at Noisey. You can preorder the CD version here. Vinyl and tape versions to come.

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Population and Wildhoney featured as top ten Maximumrocknroll favorites!

The kind folks at Maximumrocknroll have been giving the Population 7″ and Wildhoney s/t EP plenty of spins! Thanks, MRR folks! You can score both 7″s at a discounted price through this Saturday, April 25, in our webstore.

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20% OFF for the next week!

Today through next Saturday, 4/25, take 20% off your webstore order by entering ARTIFACT at checkout.

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Nostalgist's gigs with King Woman, the forlorn, doomy new project of Kristina Esfandiari (Miserable, ex-Whirr) are coming up fast!

Wednesday, 4/1 at Deadbeat Olympia, Olympia, WA w/ Ekstasis andGlobelamp Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1554783021459053

Thursday, 4/2 at Highline Bar, Seattle, WA w/ Nightmare Fortress and our very own @A Heart in the Stillness Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/805769769476383

Join us!

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Here's an awesome time-lapse video of Robert Hanna and friends at Print's Not Dead screening the jackets for the A Heart in the Stillness LP, along with a poster for a recent Dickies gig, by hand. Wow. Thanks again, guys, we love the results and are incredibly grateful for your hard work!

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A Heart in the Stillness'  From Here We'll Watch the Dawn LP available now!

A Heart in the Stillness' From Here We'll Watch the Dawn is now available. We'll begin shipping orders at the end of the week. In the meantime:

Listen to/pay what you want for the digital album here.

Buy the gorgeous vinyl LP here. Congratulations to Isaac on such a beautiful release!