Come July 16, 2013, new Drag City imprint God? is reissuing White Fence’s self-titled debut on LP and releasing the debut EP from San Francisco’s Scraper. Preview both below.
San Francisco’s Scraper is a band throwing curves off a skate-punk kind of mound. Just some kids hanging out on the scene who formed a band out of nowhere. Of the 101 flavors currently coursing through the undead corpse of punk, these guys spray a gritty combination of grind ‘n’ groove that represents musical life at its most primal level. Then when you’re sure they just started playing instruments the day before they recorded this, the overtones hit you – Scraper touched with Flipper and Urinals art-ghetto flair. You might even call it “minimalist,” and the lyrics whip a satirical, surrealist-sychadelic angle on the inevitable social/romantic blues of the songs. Coming from the filth with no kind of irony or apology, this is just the sound of a way of life – and somehow, it sounds like fun! Following a cassette tape on Wizard Mountain, this six-song EP, recorded by Ty Segall and Eric Bauer, is Scraper’s first vinyl release. 
LISTEN TO SCRAPER’S “ELECTRIC HAIR PIECE” –
http://scraperband.bandcamp.com/
SCRAPER 7″ PRE-ORDER –
http://www.dragcity.com/products/scraper
Tim Presley’s been building a White Fence he can be proud of since back in 2010; his fourth trip to the other side of the fence just dropped and new pop music horizons continue to shimmer invitingly in all the music that he makes. Tim’s a veteran of a few bands before White Fence, like Darker My Love, and he’s made records with Ty Segall and The Strange Boys too, but his own thing is very special – a foolproof and ever-morphing approach to writing songs by bringing the freshness of lysergic 60s visions into the present day. Originally out on San Francisco’s Make a Mess label and currently available on CD on Woodsist, White Fence keeps the hits coming. The tunes warp and ripple as if something had gone awry with the tape machine, and it has highs and lows – like cough syrup in a heat-warped July. Faint hints of British accent makes us feel that we’re listening to Nobility Rock, where the singer is a king or someone like that, a Duke or an Earl, ruling over a bit of territory and considering what goes on in his land every day. The songs are these thoughts, and strands and scraps of chime and glimmer are carelessly strewn about in them, magically contriving this enchanted land with an insanely pure view of it all.
LISTEN TO/SHARE WHITE FENCE’S “BE RIGHT TOO” –
http://snd.sc/17qjl3T  
WHITE FENCE S/T LP REISSUE PRE-ORDER
http://www.dragcity.com/products/white-fence