WE SHARE RAGE NOW. LET US TRANSMUTE IT INTO MAGIC.
Nona Invie
SELF-SOOTHING
2/25/25
LP/CASSETTE/DIGITAL HERE
Nona Invie is a Minneapolis singer/composer that has worked with a range of musical projects, including singer-songwriter Angel Olsen, Duluth slowcore heroes LOW, folk Americana band Dark Dark Dark, electronic trio RONiiA, and the choral ensemble Anonymous Choir. Their solo work layers acoustic piano with synth instruments, submerging the listener in an ethereal landscape led by Invie's breathtaking voice. Their solo album Self-soothing matches Invie's otherworldly poetry and enchanting keyboards with the alchemical production work of Andrew Broder (Lambchop, Joe Rainey, Circuit des yeux, Fog), the transfixing saxophone of Cole Pulice, and the melodic stature of bassist Cole Davis. Self-soothing is an immersive experience, steeped in catharsis and sonic healing. "Everything can be falling apart all around me and the piano will ground me," Nona says. Frst single "Forget My Name" is an introspective meditation on love, a stratospheric lullabies overflowing with shimmering ambience. "These songs are a weighted blanket that comforted and supported me in a lonely time. I hope that they can be supportive, comforting to others."
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Memory Pearl
COSMIC/ASTRAL
1/31/25
LP/DIGITAL PREORDER HERE
Memory Pearl's sophomore album Cosmic-Astral is a collection of nine new original pieces composed by Toronto electronic producer Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg with improvisational input from Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, The War on Drugs), Alec O’Hanley (Alvvays), Sam Prekop (Sons Of, The Sea and Cake), Bram Gielen (Jeremy Dutcher, Owen Pallett), Brandon Valdivia (Mas Aya, Lido Pimienta), and Moritz Fasbender. Fisher-Rozenberg recomposes the original 1970s 'cosmic-astral' music program – a playlist of classical works meant to accompany LSD treatments that was ultimately discontinued for being too confrontational – with his own "more delicate and tender" experience. Beginning with "Astral Travel," Cosmic-Astral remaps the connection between sonic healing and the psyche through nurturing compositions that revel in the intrinsic character of electronic instruments.
Cold Court
Spider/Twin
9/18/24
12" single only
As the saying goes, there’s opportunity in chaos. It’s been a decade of chaos, so is this aftermath pure opportunity? For the fearless, quite certainly. For the rough and tumble, quite surely. For the kids, quite necessarily. Those willing to dive headfirst into the abyss might be surprised by what they find in the pool. Boiled Records is proud to announce that we’ve got five avid swimmers ready to try.
COLD COURT, no member older than 21 and none younger than 17, stand fearless, rough, tumble, and undeniably young. They’re stage tested at this point, recently crowned by the Philadelphia Council Of The Unimpressed as “most likely to take the title in 2025” due to their furious live shows. Their drummer’s name is Jett Mann, really. The bass player is from London and surely has a sixth finger somewhere. The guitarists, seemingly psychic, are brothers with stunning hair circumference. They formed the final member out of 100 percent New Jersey clay on a lazy July Sunday, purely on a whim. Now they have a sax player. No obstacle too large. Gigs with Black MIDI behind, gigs with Deerhoof ahead. Onward.
Produced by Michael Johnson in a weekend marathon, complete with bells. Bandcamp only ***
Nat Harvie
NEW VIRGINITY
6/7/24
LP/DIGITAL HERE
On 'New Virginity,' Nat Harvie (they/them) longs for love – but “not reaching so much for the lover or the friend, as through my self,” says the Minneapolis singer-songwriter, producer and engineer. Each of the album’s eight songs is a story, dreaming of an imagined future as the last person alive on Earth, to a mirror version of childhood, the possibilities of gender in a ruined Eden, and the inevitable loss that comes from loving – all happening together at once.
“There’s a magical realism to saying ‘I am a virgin again’ – it becomes true – this is the logic of the album: that one can reset their relationship to experience, to the sensual,” Nat says. “It’s not regressive though, not revisionist – I am not winding back the clock of my life, I am bringing a *new* virginity to myself.”
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Releaseds June 7. Available for pre-order via Boiled bandcamp.