In addition to Ben Jenkins and Troy Nelson’s new Killroom Records, there are several other local labels that are putting out great music.
Abduction
Underground-music legend Alan Bishop splits his time between Seattle and Cairo, Egypt, these days, but the commitment to high-quality releases for his Abduction imprint hasn’t wavered. Abduction made a huge splash with the 2015 reissue of Sun City Girls’ long out-of-print, singular ethnodelic masterpiece Torch of the Mystics. But the label is not by any means rooted in the past (not that there’s anything wrong with that), even if lately it’s been heavy on Alvarius B. archival digs. Bishop’s newish Egyptian band, the Invisible Hands, have dropped a couple of sweet garage-rock anomalies over the last few years, and 2016 has seen the appearance of Diminished Men’s Vision in Crime, a cutthroat renovation of surf rock, spy jazz, Ennio Morricone–esque soundtracking, and gamelan…
