2013's Tops 'n What Have You

Well, as I do every year for no reason besides my own ego-driven amusement, here's the officially sanctioned PtMiiC year end list. This year, particularly the last six months, have been alright, and we're looking to close it up on a high note and continue the thread into '14. Of course, life's never given me reason to stay optimistic for too long, and who really fuckin' cares anyway? Gotta live one way or another. Anyway, 's far as the fifth and final issue of the zine is concerned, supplies are running low on my end. I plan to print a small re-press, but if you are interested in ordering direct it's advisable not to wait. As far as distros go, it appears to still be available from Swill Radio in the U.S. and should soon be hitting the shores of England, to be purchased through Penultimate Press. Copies are also en route to Permanent Records in Chicago and Eternal Soundcheck got a couple for inquisitive Australians. I'd like to thank everyone who's been kind of enough to express "bummed this is the last issue" type sentiments. It is certainly appreciated, but I'd like to note that we're just getting warmed up here at PtMiiC HQ. Creatively things have been dormant for awhile but expect a lot of musical activity from related projects in the next year that might be to your liking if you've dug the focus of the zine, as well as records featuring both myself and other people I've never met before in the near future. Don't ever do anything you don't want to do.
-"The Editor"

LPs:
Counter Intuits S/T (Pyramid Scheme)
The Floor Above Bishop (Savage Quality)
Good Area French Antarctica (Kye)
Anne Guthrie/Richard Kammerman Sinter (ErstAEU)
Matt Krefting High Hopes (Open Mouth)
Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet Photographs (Erstwhile)
Lloyd Pack At Home with the Lloyd Pack (L'Espirit De L'Escalier)
Mordecai College Rock (Richie)
Satanic Rockers Fu Kung (Albert's Basement)
True Sons of Thunder Stop and Smell Your Face (Little Big Chief)

Singles:
A Band Called Life "S/T" (Albert's Basement)
CCR Headcleaner "S/T" (Caesar Cuts)
Condominium "Carl" (Sup Pop)
Cured Pink "S/T" (Black Petal)
Graham Lambkin "Abersayne" b/w "Attersaye" (Kye) [B-side in particular]
Mad Nanna "I Wanna See You" b/w "The Nectarine Tree" (Soft Abuse) [After a couple phoned-in ones Mad Nanna are back on top. Their best single yet. Fuck off, I love this band!]
Mike Rep and the Quotas "It's My Movie" b/w "Gloria" (Hard to Beat) [Fuck off, made available for the first time this year so I say it counts] 
Repos "Armed and Using" b/w "Hole in the Hill" (Cowabunga)
Strapping Fieldhands "Impossible to Say" b/w "Sitting on Her Whiskers" (Richie)[A-side in particular]
Uranium Orchard "Unchurched Shithead" (Cold Vomit)

Reissues: 
Too many, I'm sick of 'em! Give me an OG, or even better, the Now. Pete and Royce was one of my favorite previously unheard surprises though, as was the recently acquired Semikolan by Lars-Gunnar Bodin & Bengt Emil Johnson. A whole different beast than Johnson's Sound Poetry of which I was somewhat familiar with, this one hits hard and it hits often. And hey, how 'bout that side two of the Kevin Aprill acetate that was cause for Del Val to break a decade+ hibernation?! Echo'd kazoo never sounded so fucked!

Tapes/etc.:
New-ish IFCO's have been keeping my tape deck busy (E.1027 on ORL/Noise Below and the split with Tim Shortell/Darren Harris on Rectial), as have Messrs, Love Chants on BDTD, Workers Comp and Kremlin demos (R.I.P. Of course just when I find a new HC band that really hits me they break up. Here's to hoping these bucks continue to fight the good fight in future outfits), to name a few.

I got mixed feelings 'bout Enjoy the Experience. On one hand it's tacky, expensive and pointless, but on the other it's pretty choice to leaf through. We'll have to cut the baby in half on that 'un. Have been enjoying Patrick Lundborg's massive Psychedelia over the past month or so as well (I think I actually got this for last X-Mas but just got to it now), and it's kind of music-related. I don't agree with where his argument seems to be headed (i.e. a sympathetic view of spirituality/mysticism), but I still got 200+ pages so it's a bit unclear if that's what he's on about just yet. That's about all I got for now. 2013, another one in the can. 2014, seal slowly and pee...