Sun City Girls: Cloaven Theatre/That Old Western Sieve (2LP, deluxe edition, indie exclusive) [THREE LOBED RECORDINGS]

Why you'll love it

Cloaven Theatre and That Old Western Sieve have never been on vinyl before, and this one-time pressing of about 1,000 copies comes in a heavyweight Stoughton gatefold with archival photos and an essay from Mark Gergis. Side A is the band hijacking the Arizona State University campus radio station live in October 1986.

This edition

• 2LP set in a heavyweight Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket
• Remastered from the original sources
• Archival photos and a liner essay
• One-time pressing of about 1,000 copies

About the album

Sun City Girls ran their own tape label, Cloaven Cassettes, from 1987 to 1990 because nobody else could keep up with them: twenty-two hand-dubbed titles, photocopied covers, sometimes coloured in with crayon. Three Lobed Recordings is now finishing the job Eclipse Records started in the 2000s, remastering the tapes that were never reissued and pairing them up as double albums.

Cloaven Theatre Volume 1 is the Bishop brothers and Charles Gocher taking over KASR, the Arizona State campus station, on October 1, 1986, and turning it into a radio play from another dimension ("Beelzebub Visits West Virginia", "The Men In Black"). Volume 2 is an improvised audio drama, Volume 3 heads further out, and That Old Western Sieve (which is more or less Volume 4) ends on a wonky "McCarthur Park". The band's own liner note says it's Volume 4 and it isn't. We've decided not to argue.

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Out July 31, 2026 on Three Lobed Recordings (cat# LP-TLR-155X), first issued on cassette in the late 1980s.