Rosemary Krust archives

Banana Head / Rosemary Krust split (2010)

2010-09-29T22:21:00.000-07:00

Cassette tape released September 23rd, 2010

"Banana Head and Rosemary Krust obsess over the basic structures of popular music, deconstructing the same formulas until they dissolve into reflective plainness. Banana Head nods to the wedding ballad, schmatlz indulged to the point of confusion, eagerness and imprudence, a distant relative way too old to be that hammered bleeding an oldie-but-a-goodie into monotone. Rosemary Krust draws out the essentials of guitar-drums-keys, abstracts, flattens them into hissing post-pop atmospherics. Paired up like two Moby Dicks of dopeness."

$5 postage paid

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Bernt Anker 7" EP (2009)

2009-10-14T20:28:00.000-07:00

7" EP released September 2009 on Dull Knife. Edition of 300 hand-numbered copies.

a1 Fire
a2 Cicada Killer

b1 For Matthia
b2 Pedicularis

from http//www.citypaper.com/:

"No sense in overcomplicating it--Bernt Anker, Rosemary Krust's second 7-inch of '09, is simple in dissection. Take one part "pretty" and blast, flood, or stew it with two parts fuzz and/or feedback. For the net result, imagine His Name Is Alive caught in a dust storm, if you like. And it's that simplicity--and a weird and hard-to-explain lack of self-consciousness--that helps make this frequently so sublime. And effortlessly so. In a way, 2008's relatively varied Slow Light LP--misshapen indie-rock melodies; inward-looking, minimal Zomes-y drone, and vibe-mess, mostly one at a time--was simpler, and less shambolic. Bernt Anker starts off slow with "Fire," a big reverberating guitar line snaking out a melody while Katherine Plummer sings from what sounds like purgatory; it's captivating, not like a fire but like all-encompassing gravity. "For Matthia," meanwhile, is a transcendent mess of distant guitar cloudburst and what sounds like a tiny accordion, while a simple pop song traces through the fray. And all four songs reduce to something like pop lovingly damaged--which is an idea that's been effed to all hell by the hype machine, but credit Rosemary Krust with a beautiful pre-hype take on it, at least. For more information visit dullkniferecords.com." - Michael Byrne

from http://www.volcanictongue.co.uk:

"Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies 7” from this Baltimore boy/girl duo with a similar feel to early Charalambides and the basement styles of the 90s underground. The fuzz guitar approximates the infinite riffing euphoria of Luxurious Bags’ classic Frayed Knots side, with floating female vocals and handclaps that pilot it straight into the narcotic pop zone and a brokedown/avant garage style that is aesthetically spot-on. Excellent."

$5.00 postage paid

Slow Light (2008)

2009-06-17T22:40:00.000-07:00

released in May 2008 as a CD-R on MT6 Records and sPLeeNCoFFiN in a limited edition of 45 copies with handmade collage artwork. #6 on Baltimore City Paper's top local albums of 2008 list.

from http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/:

"The best way to describe Rosemary Krust is as a cross between the Dead C and Beat Happening. Primitive abstract, out-of-control guitar chords meet artless, honest and vulnerable vocals. Maybe free noise, maybe no wave, maybe indie pop, I don't know, call it what it you like, it's good. "

from http://www.citypaper.com/:

"If you're one of those crotchety shut-ins who still dusts off early/mid-'90s 7-inches and LPs from the likes of Jessamine, the Shadow Ring, Strapping Fieldhands, and whatever slow-burning goodies labels such as Chocolate Monk, Drunken Fish, Little Brother, Majora, and Road Cone offered, then local label Spleen Coffin has a tasty new buzz just for you. Rosemary Krust, a duo of Towsonites Katherine Plummer and William Hardy, sketches the sort of ephemeral, meandering folk/psych rock-cum-swirl pop that's perfect for wandering around Cylburn Arboretum for four hours--because either you're just taking in the sights, sounds, and smells or you can't quite remember where you parked."

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R.K. 7" EP (2007)

2009-06-17T21:34:00.000-07:00

released as a 7" EP on sPLeeNCoFFiN, May 2007. 300 hand numbered copies with screen printed recycled envelope sleeves.

a1 Blank Stare
a2 Interlude
a3 Luskins Reverie

b1 Crampson Leg
b2 White Lips

from http://www.volcanictongue.co.uk/:

"7” EP from this interesting boy/girl duo from Baltimore with a feel for primitive folk/pop forms ala K Records et al cut-up with the kinda charged sonic debris normally found floating around the skulls of the early Siltbreeze roster. Tough guy sounds for vulnerable kittens. "

from http://siltblog.blogspot.com/:

"Rosemary Krust don't seem as precious as all them Slumberland bands what come before'em, I dunno, maybe it's the lo-fi starkness but they remind me of a marriage of DR503 Dead C & Our Bed Is Green era Charalambides. Or maybe the American equivalent to Garbage & The Flowers. I sure don't hear no MBV influence which is fine by me. Sonically introspective, slightly fuzzed + guiltlessly twee'd =A GOOD THING."

from http://beatbots.com/ :

"The debut 7” EP from Towson, Maryland duo Rosemary Krust contains a mere nine and a half minutes of tunes, tape hiss, flushing toilets, and (somewhat) random yelps, but I dare you to find even a second of it that you don’t enjoy. These songs are thick with texture. Relentless, fuzz-driven guitar, background drones, and the almost-too-pure vocals of leading lady Katherine Plummer are the duo’s hallmarks, but there’s something else here – something that can’t easily be pinned down – that will keep the listener coming back for more. "

Still available through Spleencoffin

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The First Two Weeks EP (2007)

2009-06-17T21:04:00.000-07:00

self-released on CD-R in March 2007, assembled by request with unique watercolor or xerox art.

from http://www.volcanictongue.co.uk/:

"Debut self-released CD-R in hand-made packaging from this Baltimore-based boy/girl duo who channel the early narcotic folk sound of Charalambides alongside aspects of the first buncha International Pop Underground 7”s and some nice Siltbreeze-style lo-fi confusion. Comes in a plastic bag with various art extras. "

from http://200lbu.blogspot.com/:

"Unlike most of the four track brigade clogging the underground these days who use their lack of prowess and recording funds as a crutch rather than a place to explore, Rosemary Krust seem to create their own world out of their limitations, which is what it’s all about in the first place…right? The CD-R that documents their first two weeks of playing together, titled (surprise, surprise) ‘The First Two Weeks of Rosemary Krust’ is abit more noisy and baleful than some of these later recordings. It sounds like Katherine Plummer and William Hardy (the two that make up R.K.) are both discovering and destroying their equipment to make that dusty carpet appear to be ridden into oblivion. A cloudy take on Teenage Jesus and the Jerks’ ‘Orphans’ is thrown in to prove the point of shrouded nihilism on the bands’ part and ‘The First Two Weeks..’ is over."

This can still be purchased at Volcanic Tongue and Insound

download: http://www.mediafire.com/?wjgwlihvtkh