fuxa: our lips are sealed/crystal blue

The cover of ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’ features Sarah Peacock of Seefeel on vocals, the flipside is a Dean & Britta song remixed by Fuxa. Detroit-based experimental rock legends, Füxa focus on a lo-fi, electronics-heavy blend of droning, treated guitars, vintage synths, and sparse percussion in the vein of suicide, Spacemen 3 / Spiritualized, and neu!. Comprised of Randall Nieman, Tom Meade, and Ryan Anderson, the group formed in 1995 after Nieman left Dearborn-based space-rock group Windy & Carl to pursue other projects. He hooked up with Anderson, who'd recently severed his ties with another local group, Asha Vida, and a common interest in arcane instruments and electronics led the pair to each form a label -- Nieman with Mind Expansion and Anderson with Astro Lanes -- to put out collaborative material. What followed was a veritable flood of releases, not only on Mind Expansion and Astro Lanes, but labels such as Burnt Hair, Rocket Girl, the Great Pop Supplement, Static Caravan, Alley Sweeper, Che, Darla and more. most of them meticulously conceived with an eye toward collectibility (hand-cut and numbered sleeves, colored vinyl, strategic split recordings, etc.). The result was Füxa's quick ascension to cult status, buoyed by split recordings with artists such as the Azusa Plane, Telescopes, Martin Rev, Dean and Britta and Stereolab. For the better part of the last decade, fuxa frontman Randall Nieman has also been a part of sonic boom"s Spectrum as well as sitting in from time to time with long time friends and collaborators the telescopes. so, finally after a few years consumed by other projects, fuxa returns full steam with a new album and a string of ltd edition split singles which have all sold out in record time. finally, the king of space rock has returned!!! This is a very limited, color 7" (500 only).