Name: America’s Velvet Glory
Brand: The Molochs

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

IL2042

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-01-13

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Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0810874021786

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

IL2042V

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Artist

The Molochs

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Innovative Leisure

Innovative Leisure is an independent record company based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2010 by Hanni El Khatib, Jamie Strong, and Nate Nelson, the label has quickly established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.
With a focus on nurturing and promoting emerging talent, Innovative Leisure has become known for its diverse roster of artists spanning various genres. From rock and punk to soul and electronic music, the label prides itself on pushing boundaries and challenging conventional norms.
Driven by a passion for creativity and innovation, Innovative Leisure continues to discover and support groundbreaking musicians who are redefining the sound of today. With their finger firmly on the pulse of contemporary music trends, this label is at the forefront of shaping the future of independent music.

The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Lucias Fitzsimons’ guitarist / organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013 on his own label - named after a slightly infamous intersection in their then-home of Long Beach - and was twelve songs of anxious garagey proto-punky folky rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs made so far. The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock- like the Sunset Strip ’66 stormer No More Cryin' or the Little Black Egg-style heartwarmer- slash-breaker The One I Love but like one of Foster’s and Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it.

America’s Velvet Glory

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