AXED CROWN - Amnesty

Axed Crown - Amnesty comes out January 29th, 2016 on Asunder Records!
Cassette, CD, Digital

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Axed Crown's first record Amnesty builds on layers of loss and beauty. The buzzing distortions and fading echoes reflect the transience of memory. Bittersweet melodies are woven with electronics smooth and rough, and swell from delicate washes to heavy waves. The sounds are as much about texture as they are tones. There are moments of clarity and obfuscation as instruments fade in and out, like trying to remember details of days long past.

In the case of Andrew Cox those days were spent in California on a dilapidated resort full of haunted buildings, one of which graces the cover of Amnesty. The property was owned by the Unification Church, a waning seventies cult of acid casualties and ex-flower children turned conservatives who worshipped a Korean messiah. After a strange upbringing, Andrew Cox went on to graduate from Calarts, and has worked for Hydra Head Records since 2007. He's directed videos for Old Man Gloom, Torche, and Helms Alee, created live projections for Prurient and Vatican Shadow, and worked with many others including Jesu and Sigur Rós. He also plays drums in Andraus. In Axed Crown he does nearly everything himself: recording, production, artwork. He plays and programs all of the instruments, with occasional help ("Solless" features his brother and Andraus guitarist Austin Cox). Perhaps that solitude is why these songs feel haunted. The ghosts of those empty buildings from his past, and the cassette-taped voices of religious leaders leak into the tracks.

Amnesty drifts through a haze of sub-genres, with impressions of shoegaze, noisy electronics, ambient experimentalism, and even twinges of industrial and black metal. It's post-something. The cohesion of it's precursors and influences becomes something more, as a person is more than the sum of their experiences. Like broken pottery repaired with gold, the beauty of Amnesty is in the rough spaces between it's parts.

Tracklist:
1. Overturn
2. Dial Tone
3. Eyespace
4. Grey Sea
5. Phantomatic
6. Small Knives
7. Solless
8. Ave Cavern
9. Cloudbreak
10. Deign

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AXED CROWN - Buster T-Shirt

Hydra Head Poster + T-shirt

I designed this poster/t-shirt for Hydra Head Records.
The poster is a 4 Color screen printed 18"x24" poster on 100# "Berrylicious" Pop Tone Paper. Hand-numbered and limited to 50.
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The shirt is limited edition pre-order only, so order it now if you want one ever!
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They are part of a series of prints for Hydra Head by a bunch of awesome artists that I helped curate, including:
- Faith Coloccia
- Michael DeForge
- Julia Gfrörer
- Tom Neely
- Sophie Penrose
- Aaron Turner
and more!

Helms Alee Preorder Shirt

I did a drawing of Helms Alee as Beavis and Butthead, which is now the exclusive preorder shirt for their new album Weatherhead. You can preorder the shirt, 2xLP, and CD in the Hydra Head Shop. Go to the 2xLP or CD page to stream "Elbow Grease."

Also here is a sketch I did on a cardboard spacer that went in a package to Fairon:

Ah Want Mah Mummy

Hey gang, I just added the "A Ninja Could Kill You Easily" shirt to the store. I have sizes Small through X-Large. I promise I will add some non-shirt items very soon. And if you are on the mailing list there will be an opportunity to get one of them for free.
I am leaving to sell shirts at the Bob Marley festival at Pitzer College. So if you are around there tonight, look for me. Otherwise come to the Glasshouse next Saturday (November 11th) for the first Glasshouse swap meet. Then stick around for the Islands show. It is gonna be blasty blast.

Character Select

You probably saw the sweet character select screen that is our front page, and maybe you realized that you will be taken to the page of the person you click on. Which means Akina's half off the site is finally up (albeit under construction).
I added some more shirts to the store. There is a now a Mummy "All My Friends Are Dead Shirt"(S, M, L, XL), and you can get a charcoal Ghost shirt in something besides X-Large (S, M, L). I am going to add some non-clothing items real soon, so keep your eyes peeled.
Also, I will be selling my wares at the swap meet at the Glasshouse in Pomona on Saturday, November 11 from 10am to 4pm. Afterwards you should stick around and go to the Islands show. It will be ten million kinds of awesome.

Vampire shirts

I added the Vampire "All My Friends Are Dead" shirt (black) to the store. The sizes in stock include Youth X-Large, Small, Large, and X-Large. Get 'em while they're hot.
Don't forget to join the mailing list. There is something brewing that only mailing listers will have access to, so get on it.

Store Update: the sequel

The new sizes are in the store. Get your shirts now, kiddo. I'll have non-clothing items in the store shortly.
The shirts I added are:
Penguin shirt (black) - Youth X-Large, Small, X-Large
Heartbot shirt (pink) - Small
Heartbot shirt (red) - Medium, Large
Have a blast kids, and if you have the money go to a Revenge of the Book Eaters benefit in your area. So far they have been enviably amazing. A David Byrne/Sufjan double team in New York, Ben Gibbard in Chicago. The LA one is tomorrow night at UCLA, and there are still tickets. If you have a spare $150 or so, buy three tickets and take Akina and me. Jenny Lewis, Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, The Mountain Goats, Andy Richter, and more, all for a good cause. Let's do it.

Store Update

I updated the store and added the Heartbot shirt in pink. Right now there is only Youth Large and Youth X-Large, but I have adult smalls that I am about to print. I also have some red mediums and larges, and some black Youth X-Larges, adult smalls, and X-Larges, so keep an eye out for red heartbots, and black penguin and vampire shirts in those sizes. If there is something that you want that is not in the store, feel free to let me know, and I will make it available as fast as I can.

In other news, Islands is playing the Glasshouse in Pomona on Saturday November 11th, and I already have my tickets. Get yours, too.

Adios, kiddos,

Andrew