With the unabashed pride befitting such circumstances, Sub Pop Records hereby reveals completion of a new recording agreement with Los Angeles-based psychedelic pop artist Morgan Delt, to extend throughout the known universe. Following a 2013 cassette release bearing the subtly evocative title Psychic Death Hole, Trouble in Mind Records released his self-titled album in January, 2014. That album earned acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork, LA Weekly, Fact Magazine, and Impose, and the attentions of the typically complacent staff of Seattle’s Sub Pop Records. Morgan Delt also won fans in The Flaming Lips, who invited him to tour and record with them. Morgan is currently working on a new album for Sub Pop and will tour the West Coast at the end of January. We eagerly await both. Full dates below.

Listen to Morgan Delt’s “Barbarian Kings”

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”Barbarian Kings” 7-inch single

What Are People Are Saying About Morgan Delt? This:
“Listen to the taped-together percussion on opener “Make My Grey Brain Green”, which rides a scratchy bass line and flowers into something like the moment when Dorothy’s black-and-white world goes RGB. There’s the Morricone-meets-Jodorowsky acid drone of “Barbarian Kings”, the cyclical wobble of “Little Zombies”, the way “Chakra Sharks” rattles and crashes through a hornet’s nest of guitars into a wailing refrain of “Bye bye, farewell.” Throughout the album there’s a heightened, eerie quality to his vocals; the feeling is something like an asylum patient waving to a car as it recedes over the horizon.” - Pitchfork

“This debut album proper, an 11-track collection on the Chicago imprint Trouble In Mind, takes something from the Ariel Pink school of outré production, although Delt is quite obviously on his own trip, and you could just as easily work him into a lineage that stretches from The Red Krayola and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band through to psych-influenced beatmakers such as Edan, Gonjasufi and The Gaslamp Killer.” -  Fact Magazine

“He allows his guitar and vocals to meld into a single, constantly mutating surface that coats Morgan Delt like neon jelly in a vacuum, continuously rippling and hovering in all directions. The overall effect suggests the sound of a crafty intellect worming its way through the pleasantly foggy maze of an Rx-abuse cloud.” - Impose

“A lot of people have done the same kind of excavation and restoration work he has, but few have done it as memorably. Almost no one has done it with songs as good as these.”  - All Music Guide

Tour Dates
Jan. 31 - Santa Ana, CA -  Indigo Fest @ The Observatory
Feb. 04 - San Francisco, CA -  The Chapel
Feb. 06 - Vancouver, BC - The Electric Owl
Feb. 07 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
Feb. 08 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom Sabertooth Micro Fest

Olympia, Washington’s Strange Wilds, will released their Sub Pop debut, the “Standing” + 2 single, January 19th in Europe and January 20th in North America. The single is now available digitally and as a 7”, and you can now listen to the entire single via Brooklyn Vegan!

Brooklyn Vegan says of “Standing”: ”Strange Wilds make bruising, guttural punk rock: heavy, loud and fast, with dark clouds looming.” The folks at Brooklyn Vegan aren’t esteemed for nothing; they know their stuff!

Preorders for Strange Wilds “Standing” +2 are available now through the Sub Pop Mega Mart.

Learn more about the relatively new Sub Pop band:

Strange Wilds formed in Olympia, WA in 2012. The band grew out of the fertile Pacific-Northwest punk scene, with members from Negative Press, Outlook, Wreck, and a bunch of other punk/hardcore bands of the last few years. Sometime in 2014, the band settled into the classic, economical, power-trio configuration of bass, drums, a single guitar, and vocals, and recorded “Standing,” their second release (their first being the four-song “Wet” 7” on Inimical Records).

Strange Wilds
“Standing” +2
Tracklisting:
A1. Standing
B1. Gator Cough
B2. Never Warm

We couldn’t be more excited to announce today that Montreal’s Doldrums have agreed to release their label debut, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, on CD / LP / DL April 6th in Europe and April 7th in North America. The album was recorded in Montreal and LA and produced by Doldrums’ Airick Woodhead, and is a remarkable Sub Pop debut in every sense. But, don’t just take our word for it, listen to the lead single “HOTFOOT” (embedded) now to see what we’re going on so effusively about.

The Air Conditioned Nightmare is Doldrums follow-up to their 2013 debut Lesser Evil. Airick Woodhead, the DJ, producer and performer behind Doldrums makes a sizeable leap from being darling of the same fertile Montreal warehouse creative explosion that gave the world the likes of Grimes, Majical Cloudz and Blue Hawaii to simply being a stand-alone artist and composer on the cusp of something quite special.

Preorders for The Air Conditioned Nightmare are now available from Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp. All customers who pre-order the LP version of The Air Conditioned Nightmare from megamart.subpop.com will receive the limited “Loser Edition” on clear vinyl and a limited edition 7” which features the songs “IDONTWANNABEDELETED” (feat. Samantha Urbani) and “Market Signals.” Additionally, there will be a new T-shirt design available both individually and as part of a bundle with purchases of the new record.