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A dump thread for new BARELY HUMAN stuff for anyone interested; all items shipping from Sydney, Australia, so beware postage costs for internationals, but heaps keen to get some of this stuff in distro's/stores over yonder if yr down. All available direct via https://barelyhuman.bandcamp.com/ but PM/DM/email (max@barelyhuman.info) if you wanna save on a package deal, distro or whatever!
BOOT: BUTTHOLE SURFERS - AFTER THE ASTRONAUT (1998, unreleased LP)
Bootleg C100 cassette tape of the unreleased BUTTHOLE SURFERS LP 'After the Astronaut'. Held back from release due to a contractual dispute with Capitol Records, much of this would be re-recorded and turned into the unfortunate Weird Revolution LP. Audio is taken from existing online boots, with minor corrections of the upload errors.
BOOK: BARELY HUMAN: DISPATCHES FROM AN UNDERGROUND MUSIC ANTI-HISTORY
Collection of all the zines, longform essays, podcast scripts and more from the BARELY HUMAN underground music history project. From international dirty blues, folk, '60s counterculture and country, through punk, post-punk, hardcore and into the contemporary underground.
BOOTLEG: Вова Синий И Братья По - Молчать! + Игра Синих Лампочек (1985, unreleased reel-to-reels)
Bootlegged C90 cassette tape of Soviet subverts 'VOVA BLUE & THE BROTHERS IN MIND', recordings all done in '80s USSR in a secret village by splicing together smuggled post-punk tapes for the loops, and singing over the top with sardonically voiced Russian lyrics. MONTYAB!
DISTRO: PARADISE ESTATE (Novel; 2023)
My second novel published only in Australia/New Zealand, and set over the course of 2022 ater a sharehouse is formed by a zine-maker, an ex-punk, a socialist couple, a part-time rugby league player and more. A document of 2022 contemporary working class Sydney.
DISTRO: ROMANCE - SEVEN INCHES OF... (2023, 7")
Members of SHRAPNEL, DISPLAY HOMES and BB & THE BLIPS come together for a 7" of "rhythm-section-forward, garage-y post-punk with a nasty edge" (Alex Howell, MRR). Six-track 7" EP.
DISTRO: TIM & THE BOYS - GROWING LP
Satirical drum machine driven hard post-punk that sits somewhere between BIG BLACK, BLACK RANDY and COUNTRY TEASERS to my ears; interviewed in the final ever print issue of MRR no less! Singer has since moved on to front Sydney's best hardcore band OSBO, other two known for HOUSEWIVES, BB & THE BLIPS, DEAD FARMERS and more.
Hit me up at max@barelyhuman.info if you're after any of these; I'll dump new stuff into this thread as it happens.
and Sorry State are awesome! Really hard to get anything stocked overseas without much of a following behind it, but they always take a punt on something new - best shop by a long way.