New Releases

23 Skidoo
The Culling is Coming
PS, UK Restock. Released 2003/08/26. Boutique and LTM are proud to announce the long overdue CD reissue of the classic lost album by 23 SKIDOO, The Culling is Coming. First released on vinyl only by Crepuscule's Operation Twilight arm in February 1983, Culling flagged two radical new directions for Skidoo following their funky indie chart-topper Seven Songs the previous year. Drawn from two live performances, Culling combined a collaboration with the Balinese Gamelan Orchestra recorded at Dartington College of Music in October 1982, together with extracts from a more extreme, improvised set at the first Womad festival in July 1982, using scrap metal and tape loops. Both sides of the album were exactly 23 minutes long, and side one signed off (or rather didn't) with a stylus-hostile lock groove. "The mixes are diamond sharp. The Gamelan music drifts serenely across great canyons of nothingness, fairybell tinkling and enormous booming which disregards all forms of rhythm, ideas elongated into an immense drip-feed of sound" (NME); "Culling is a densely packed, closed and clenched fist of a record" (Sounds); "The Womad side offers tape-looped phrases segueing in and out of focus, electronic twitterings and squalling ethnic wind instruments all clawing at each other like an orgy in an abattoir" (Melody Maker) Long deleted, this, challenging misunderstood album was light years ahead of its time. Now digitally remastered for release on The Boutique Label, it has been expanded by the inclusion of a complete (and equally extreme) 26 minute loop performance at Tielt, Belgium, on 8 October 1982. Recorded as part of Crepuscule's short Move Back/Bite Harder tour with Cabaret Voltaire, Tuxedomoon and Pale Fountains, this material has never before been released. The extended CD runs for 70 minutes. The booklet features the original artwork and contextual notes by Skidoo's Alex Turnbull. The remainder of the band's back catalogue is available on the Ronin label.
Boutique-6604
CD
$15.00

AFCGT
AFCGT
PS, US LP & bonus 45 and DL codes! AFCGT (a convenient vernacular for A Frames and Climax Golden Twins) descends from a decrepit longhouse on the shores of a dark lake where the self-inflicted wounds from a windy forest of flailing, whipping branches gave birth to the white heat oddities from this their self-titled new album. Conjoined a little over two years ago, the group has already been dishing out vinyl; recording a 10-inch EP, a full-length LP, and appearing on a 7-inch compilation. AFCGT will be available as both a vinyl LP (with bonus 7-inch) and as a digital album (without bonus 7-inch), though not on CD.
Subpop
LP/45
$17.50

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers
PS, US A Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio just outside of Seattle. It was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Jon Birgisson (of Sigur Ros). For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle. This time the whole band was invited to participate and the result is their best record yet.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Ale Mania
Lustful Fistful
PS, US Made up of the same 3/5 of the Sess that make up Beaters, here we have the drummer for both of those bands, Andrew Montoya, taking the lead with his own fusion of late- 70s funk, 60s psych, and 80s punk & new wave. Pulling from a similar paranoia-induced vein as Beaters, Ale Mania trades that band's angry nature with a sense of dancing
away the fear & sadness, with some room for fun creeping in here & there
Volar-004
45
$6.25

Algernon
Ghost Surveillance
PS, US This is the third album by this instrumental post-rock/post-jazz/progressive instrumental quintet from Chicago who use dual guitars, vibes, bass and drums. Their sound is a alluring combination of indie rock, 'modern music' and beyond. RIYL Tortoise, Can, Neu!
Cuneiform-297
CD
$13.75

American Dollar, The
Atlas
PS, US The American Dollar follow-up to their much-lauded 2008 release 'A Memory Stream', Atlas come through with praise both from reviewers and fans. A lengthy, lush and visceral experience, 'Atlas' delivers the bands most complex and dense arrangements yet, while still maintaining the airy ambient soundscapes the band is best known for.
yesh-005
CD
$12.25

Animal Collective
Campfire Songs
PS, US Paw Tracks is proud to present the reissue of Animal Collective's 2003 album Campfire Songs. Since the CD's original issue on catsup plate recently went out of print it is our intention to simply keep the cd in print for as long as possible.An idea originally thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in college, Campfire Songs is not a record of songs sung around a campfire but a record that hints at songs emerging from the fire itself: "We wanted to give the music the feeling and atmosphere of the outdoors and the warmth of a fire, so people could bring it indoors."
PawTracks
CD
$12.50

Anne Arbor
La Habitacion de Musica
PS, SPAIN There are some well-educated aesthetes and provocateurs that are willing to bring a breath of fresh air and a cleansing break to clichés. Autonomous and creative minds making their own entertainment and disinclined to follow today's trends. Some will say that it is just romanticism, or narcissism of a self-chosen few as a remedy for the poverty of everyday life. Others will call it aesthetic perfectionism, sly postmodernist games or fervent evangelism of pop (the only pure faith and devotion is music, isn't it?). There is obviously something brewing at the factory of Anne Arbour, a nurturing environment for pop songs. Along with a passion for concept, melodies and presentation, Peter Anne (the Intel shows that he was once pulling the strings of Penelope Trip. Edwin Moses and Vigil) and Nathalie Arbor (her voice is very similar to the lead singers of Nosoträsh), they share a meticulously groomed and detailed-oriented sensibility. They are somehow seasoned veterans and strategists in the indie scene (they were never Ã1/4ber-hipsters though) and this record is part of their master plan. Is this the Next Big Thing in Music? Not really but a wave of positivity is here and we sincerely hope that the pop weather changes in their favor. Are musicians the lowest form of life? I am afraid it's the opposite, isn't it? AA arrives here with as much fanfare as any new group could desire. However AA defines the musical mood of grandeur and decay through a wardrobe of images and personae somewhere at the intersection of aristocracy, alien and the Dyonisian days. Maybe they have achieved an aristocratic existence, dedicated to beauty, collecting and cherishing antiques and objets d'art, visiting exotic places, feasting your eyes. Disorentiating duo? Fortunate partners in crime? Well, AA are literate, playful, ironic and quirky.
Siesta-248
CD
$19.00

Attitude Adjustment
Collection
PS, US 3 albums never before compiled together. For fans of Suicidal Tendencies, Death, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat
Taang-193
CD
$15.50

Babe Rainbow
Shaved EP
PS, US Warp Records' newest electronic music producer, 26 year old Vancouver, BC native Babe Rainbow (aka Cameron Reed) is a self described purveyor of "surf-step," which basically applies the hazy atmospherics of a West coast shoreline to some abstract form of dubstep, creating a wholly new sound, while still fitting squarely within the iconic Warp artist roster that includes such luminaries as Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus and Clark. Despite this being Babe Rainbow's first official studio release, Reed has already attracted a ton of blog love with his hazy and intense re-edits of Wavves and You Say Party! We Say Die!, along with his own whirling tracks.
Warp-9291
12
$10.00

Bardo Pond
Bufo Alvarius [expanded reissue]
PS, UK Fire presents as part of their Fire Records Embers series a deluxe remastered reissue of Bardo Pond's first album, Bufo Alvarius, originally released on Drunken Fish in 1995. Bardo Pond is a wide-eyed Philadelphian psychedelic rock unit that exists as a shining point on a graph. A scintillating cross drawn on a celestial arc, marking their place among the 13th Floor Elevators, Calico Wall, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, and, more recently, Jackie-O Motherfucker and MV & EE. Explicitly narcotic -- there's no room for coyness or prissiness in space rock! -- the band was initially an excuse for abyssal guitar drone exploration by brothers Michael and John Gibbons. But Bufo Alvarius (named after a potently hallucinogenic toad), their classic 1995 album, marked an important turning point. It was like the flickering cine-8 film of someone falling off a cliff played backwards. A hazy figure leaping out of the void, pausing at the second their foot touched terra firma. It was the juncture where their music clarified out of chaos and started to coalesce around formations of post-rock, shoegaze and psych structure while always threatening to dissolve into a blizzard of reverb, white noise, fuzz drone and echoplex. This was the album that saw them graduate from cult local concern to cult global passion, stepping out from the monolithic shadows cast by their influences. It is difficult to pick out individual high points on something so clearly designed to be listened to as a whole, but the lysergic ebb and flow of "Capillary River," the aqueous beauty of "Absence" and, of course, the half-hour long centerpiece of "Amen" demand full attention from the listener. The previously-unreleased "Fixed" rounds off an album that is transcendent in all the right meanings of the word.
Fire-137
CD
$14.25

Barker, Kevin
You & Me
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Gnomonsong-014
LP
$14.25

Beach House
Teen Dream
PS, US Vinyl version with DVD and DL codes! Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. Teen Dream will be packaged with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album.
SubPop
LP/DVD
$17.50

Beach House
Teen Dream
PS, US Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. DVD with videos for each song!
Subpop
CD/DVD
$14.00

Beautiful Losers
Nobody Knows the Heaven
PS, US The music drips w/ deep nostalgia for the decadent "beautiful people" who lived & breathed & then found a home in the songs of Lou Reed & Leonard Cohen, pervaded throughout w/ a kind of psychedelic sadness
LionProductions-622
CD
$15.00

Beck, Thavius
Dialogue
PS, US On Dialogue, his third full-length for Mush Records, Thavius Beck continues to push the boundaries of hip-hop beat making, grounding lo-fi digital drum kits in icy layers of synths and sliced up samples. Fresh off of production duties on Saul Williams' Niggy Tardust album with Trent Reznor, Beck's work on Dialogue is razor sharp. This release also finds Thavius spending more time in front of the mic, delivering the type of rhymes that originally gained him notoriety as a member of Global Phlowtations. The consummate iconoclast, Beck cleverly critiques many of America's ills with a dry, satirical wit that never falls into preechiness. With each passing release, Thavius Beck continues to prove that the only musical boundaries he sees are ones he has already left behind. Composer of mercurial soundtracks for uncertain times, Thavius Beck conjoins various strains of electronic music to arrive at a daringly ambitious sound. He has received recognition in The Wire, Spin, and Urb for his solo releases under the moniker Adlib, the Labwaste project with fellow LA artist Subtitle, his recent production for fellow Mush artist K-The-I???, his early work with Global Phlowtations, numerous guest appearances, and producing alongside Trent Reznor for and touring in support of and accompanying Saul Williams. An exceptional programmer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Thavius Beck's many talents allow him to take a song from idea to completion without ever having to leave his cluttered studio. Uncompromising vision and an ear for the unusual are staples of this writer/producer's work.
Mush-266
CD
$9.00

Big Sexy Noise
Big Sexy Noise
PS, US Big Sexy Noise follow up their vinyl mini album, released earlier this year, with a full blown Self Titled CD. The band, fronted by Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk alt-rockers James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Ian White, have recorded a further five Johnston/Lunch originals plus a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover to complement the original six tracks. Big Sexy Noise is the primaeval bump, grind and holler of White's thuggish drums, Johnston's moronic low-tuned riffing and Edwards' brutal organ and sax interventions led by Lunch's take-no-prisoners vocals.
Sartorial-044
CD
$13.75

Bird Show Band
S-T
PS, US Bird Show is Ben Vida, (TOWN & COUNTRY, SOFT CIRCLE, SINGER). The last three Bird Show albums have been on Kranky, this is a colaboration featuring Jim Baker and Josh Abrams, as well as Dan Bitney and John Herndon (TORTOISE, ISOTOPE 217). The album combines elements of 70's
Sun Ra, Weather Report's "Black Market," Raymond Scott and Delia Derbishire.
Amish-041
CD
$13.25

Bird Show Band
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Amish-041
LP
$16.75

Black Diamond Heavies
Alive As Fuck: Masonic Lodge,Covington, KY
PS, US Now available on CD. Recorded live on a hot-ass night of July the 24th 2009 at Dr. Johnny Walker's (Soledad Brothers/Cut In the Hill Gang) flat in Covington, Kentucky, this is the BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES absolutely live and kicking out the jam Southern style. "When they hammer away at max. tempo, they sound like The Stooges, with the Asheton brothers replaced by a really really loud Fender Rhodes piano. When they slow it down and groove, they sound like a broken down Booker T & The MGs/the theme from 'Taxi' being run-over by a taxi. They are, in parts, genuinely funky, and as jazz as a rock concert gets these days. They swing." - Paul Fuzz/Electric Roulette
AliveRecords-0102
CD
$13.75

Blair
Die Young
PS, US Blair's first full-length is a collection of songs written over the span of five years. Half of the record was written in New Orleans, and half while living in California. The songs have turbulent titles. It's a record about violence and daydreaming - it's the angst of heart, and dreamy escapism, of a 20 something girl all wrapped up in melodies.
AutumnToneRecords-009
CD
$11.25

Blank Realm
Heatless Ark
PS, US Vinyl debut by this consistently impressive Australian psych collective with 2 previous cassette albums on NNF. This one finds them moving into weird-punk song terrain, almost a fried improv no-wave vibe in places. Beautifully silkscreened sleeves.
NotNotFun-176
LP
$13.50

Blind Man's Colour
Wooden Blankets
PS, US 6 song EP 12" from 2 Florida 19 year olds creating lucid psychedelic pop.
Kanine
12
$12.25

Blind Pilot
3 Rounds & A Sound
PS, US Portland band exploded onto scene (NPR's Best New Band of 2008) on the strength of this record, which is now finally available remastered on limited 180gm
vinyl. Toured the West Coast from Bellingham to San Diego via bicycle before hitting up all the big festivals in 2009. Dig the rustic folk-pop stylings!
Expunged-007
LP
$16.50

Blockhead
The Music Scene
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
CD
$13.00

Blockhead
The Music Scene
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
LP
$14.75

Blue Cheer
Outsideinside [reissue]
PS, US Blue Cheer's 2nd album fully matches its predecessor's primal power: a bracing orgy of volume, distortion, & aggression.
Sundazed-5298
LP
$16.50

Blue Cheer
Vincebus Eruptum [reissue]
PS, US Landmark 1968 debut is widely regarded as Ground Zero of the heavy metal explosion. Feat. classic lineup of LEIGH STEPHENS, DICKIE PETERSON, & PAUL WHALEY and incl. mind-melting reading of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues"
Sundazed-5297
LP
$16.50

Blue Rodeo
The Things We Left Behind
PS, US Blue Rodeo's The Things We left Behind is the real deal. Recorded at the band's Woodshed Studio in downtown Toronto, the album feels like an lp with a double gate-fold sleeve, two discs and four distinct sides programmed to take the listener on a trip. Upon first listen, it is immediately clear that you are listening to a Blue Rodeo album like no other.
TeleSoulRecords-003
DCD
$14.75

Boesel, Jason
Hustler's Son
PS, US Boesel headed into the studio in March of 2009 with a core group of collaborators: Mystic Valley Band member Nik Freitas, Blake Mills (Band of Horses), and producer Jonathan Wilson (Elvis Costello 'Momofuku' and Jenny Lewis 'Acid Tongue'). He eventually sought out the additional talents of Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Orenda Fink (O + S, Azure Ray), David Rawlings (Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), and fellow Rilo Kiley member Blake Sennett. The results is an 11-song Americana album filled with powerful imagery and a sound that brings new colors to the sonic palette of country-folk greats like Townes Van Zandt, mid-'70s California rock, and the alt-country scene of today.
Team Love Records
CD
$13.00

Bolan, Marc & T. Rex
Spaceball: The American Radio Sessions
PS, US The complete American radio recordings from Marc Bolan & T.Rex early 70's trips to try and break America, featuring acoustic versions of many T.Rex Hits. Original interviews and jingles have been added to this collection along with a complete, up until now, 'lost' radio session in Chicago. All the pictures in this package were taken on the road on the promotional tour of the USA. All the tracks on this collection have all been re-mastered.
Applebush-005
CD
$20.75

Boyd, C.J.
Aerial Roots
PS, US Deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone... "Aerial Roots", the latest album from C.J. Boyd, contains three songs, and clocks in at just under 45 minutes. Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, CJ Boyd's bass playing builds upon a foundation of great bassists like Charles Mingus and Edgar Meyer. C.J. Boyd's aesthetic sensibility seeks to wed minimalism with a chamber-esque maximalism. Often flowing from singular, meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex walls of sound, CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. Utilizing only various bass instruments and some human-mouth-sounds, creating these lush arrangements is no small feat. Never suffering from the structure less experimentation so prevalent in improvised music, CJ Boyd's vision remains intact throughout the duration of "Aerial Roots".
JoyfulNoiseRecordings-041
LP
$12.00

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
PS, US This barely organized enclave ingests & disgorges outsider free music a la Smegma & other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK's A Band, 5 Starcle Men, & the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk, Destijl, & Ultra Eczema
Siltbreeze-131
LP
$16.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Spacegirl And Other Favorites
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. The Brian Jonestown Massacre has been somewhat of a musical commune for many respected musicians over the years, a band from the 1990's that has spurned other great bands ever since. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, The Silver Rockets, The Black Angels, The Ravenettes, The Dilettantes (to name a few) are all part of this musical family tree.
Arecords-009
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Thank God For Mental Illness
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. At the risk of further belaboring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music in 1996, the Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of the Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak; the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning - rarely are bands quite so productive, or quite so consistently amaz-ing. Thank God is the BJM's down-and-dirty country-blues outing, all 13-odd tracks supposedly re-corded on a single July day at a cost of just $17.36 .
Arecords-007
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Zero EP
PS, US Originally released in 2000 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Taking into consideration the last time we heard from the Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999's one-off EP of country-folk ramblings, Bringing It All Back Home Again), longtime fans of the BJM might still be a little taken aback by the songs on this 36-minute EP at first, as this is somewhat of a departure from what BJM shaman and group leader Anton Newcombe has previously written and recorded with a revolving-door membership of sidemen and -women. That is why the title and artwork (with its colorful pinwheel flowers) goes out of its way to imply that there are "zero" songs from the album Bravery included here.
Arecords-010
CD
$7.75

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Give It Back
PS, US Originally released in 1997 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start, and later for TVT and Tee Pee. BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Arecords-006
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Take It From The Man
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre's obsession with the Rolling Stones continues unabated on the bril-liant Take It From the Man!; where the group resurrected psychedelic-era excesses on the previous Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, here they jump further back in time to the Stones' mid-'60s period, with even more superlative results. From the opening "Vacuum Boots" onward, Take It From the Man! is gritty, swaggering R&B-influenced rock, delivered with remarkable assurance and atti-tude; singer Anton Newcombe is half madman and half shaman, and he commands each delirious moment with absolute mastery, emerging not so much a disciple of Mick Jagger but as a serious threat to the throne.
ARecords-005
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork . Truth in advertising: the Brian Jonestown Massacre's sophomore album does, as promised, spring forth from the Rolling Stones' long-underrated 1967 masterpiece Their Satanic Majesties Request, copping not only Mick and Keith's leering bad-boy attitude but also their their rock-and-roll-circus spirit. Opening with the brilliant "All Around You (Intro)," a tongue-in-cheek guide to the mind-altering journey ahead, the record is a kaleidoscopic, drug-fueled freakout - like the Stones' namesake album, Second Request is painted by Eastern drones and psychedelic tangents, each track bubbling with dozens of sound effects including sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels. Travelling through the past, darkly, the Massacre arrives on the other side unscathed; their music is too rich to be merely retro, and too knowing to be merely slavish - the Stones themselves haven't made a record this strong or entertaining in years.
Arecords-004
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Bravery, Repetition And Noise
PS, US Originally released in 2001 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Bravery, Repetition and Noise is a dark dreamy album, rich in atmosphere, layered in waves of sound. The album's antecedents are clear, inspired by psychedelia as they were by punk's nihilism, pulling both strands into a doom-laden, experimental sound quite distinct from anything that had come before or since. BJM uses this as their touchstone, lovingly re-creating the moods and atmospheres of the past.
Arecords-003
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Methodrone
PS, US Originally released in 1995 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus and Mary Chain . Methodrone clearly is the sum of its influences. Thankfully BJM does a very solid job with them throughout the album's course of over 70 minutes.
Arecords-008
CD
$13.00

Brokaw, Chris
Solo Acoustic Vol. 3
PS, US 12-string arrangements from a true master of the instrument, Brokaw (CODEINE, THE NEW YEAR) shows a range from waltzes to ballads to experiments & rhythms. Ltd to 500
VDSQ-003
LP
$17.00

Brunettes, The
Paper Dolls
PS, US The Brunettes have a meticulous craft in the studio. Writing pop songs, that most fickle of forms, requires a precision that comes naturally to the band, and their records ring perfection in every note. Their sense of fun firmly intact, The Brunettes inject their new batch of songs with a sense of modernity on Paper Dolls. Opener "In Colours" and closer "Thank You" are the entrance and exit into this world, as both sit comfortably with previous efforts; in between, however, principal songwriter Jonathan Bree augments his pop leanings with drum machines and an intimidatingly wide array of synths to fantastic effect. Lyrically, the album combines clever call-and-response levity, an undercurrent of smoldering romance, and a penchant for idiosyncratic storytelling. All are on display on lead single "Red Rollerskates," which finds Bree and co-lead vocalist / instrumentalist Heather Mansfield solving a relatively ordinary problem (Bree walks too fast for his asthmatic girlfriend) with an unusual solution (buying her a pair of red rollerskates and pulling her around with a rope). On "The Crime Machine," Mansfield longs to live as a 1920s kingpin, while "Bedroom Disco" lives up to its title as a stay-at-home party song. The album's title track combines surreal lyrics about a stationery fetish with Bond-movie string arrangements and guitar tremolo.
Lil'Chief
CD
$11.75

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own
PS, US VINYL VERSION
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own
PS, US Recorded with Howard Bilerman at the mighty Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, Quebec, nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains,standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon.Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in theYukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Burk, Greg
Many Worlds
PS, US On his fourth release for 482, BURK (PIANO, SMALL PERCUSSION) expands & refines concepts from his earlier work in startling new ways. With HENRY COOK (SAX, FLUTE, WASHINT), RON SEGUIN (BASS, PERCUSSION), & MICHAEL LAMBERT (DRUMS, PERCUSSION) he crafts a disc of extraordinary power, stunning beauty, & timbral intrigue. Each chord, gesture, & composition leads to the next while maintaining autonomy, conjuring
worlds while connecting them
482Music
CD
$11.75

Burning Hearts
Night Animal
PS, US Finish musicians Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) & Jessika Rapo (Le Futur Pompiste) come together as Burning Hearts. It was
inevitable that this pair of bands, whose music shares a poise & sophistication rarely heard anywhere, never mind within the modest environs of Finland, would
find each other. Full of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring as a lover's
embrace, and a tone of intimacy that could only come from collaboration that is fully simpatico
Shelflife-065
45
$6.75

Bust
#61
PS, US AMERICA FERRERA on cover! Celebrate your curves with sexy lingerie for bodacious booties. What today's tweens know about sex. Rupaul, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aubrey Plaza, VV Brown & more.
ZINE
$4.75

Cars & Trains
The Roots, The Leaves
PS, US The Roots, The Leaves is the sophomore effort of Portland, Oregon based multi-instrumentalist cars & trains (Tom Filepp), a more personal and emotive foray than his 2007 full length debut Rusty String. Tom deftly mixes out-of-the-box electronics and found sounds seamlessly with a myriad of instruments-woodwinds, banjos, acoustic guitars, strings and glockenspiel-that situate "The Roots, The Leaves" at a curious intersection between more folk-oriented electronic groups like Tunng and the distinctive Pacific Northwest experimental folk sound of K Records/The Microphones/Mt. Eerie renown.
FakeFourInc.-014
CD
$10.50

Cave In
Planets Of Old
PS, US CAVE IN, The insurmountable Hydra Head all-star traveling team has... yep, you guessed it... officially un-disbanded! Unless you're the type to follow a band's wikipedia page closely enough to notice an update the moment it occurs, this news is of the breaking variety... and what's more, Hydra Head has got 4 brand new CAVE IN tracks for those of you, who after four years of radio silence, still wear your now rusted-over Jupiter pins with pride...
HydraHeadRecords-184
CD5/DVD
$12.00

Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis
The Road [OST]
PS, US Soundtrack for the film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel. An evocative score featuring violin & piano w/ beautiful fleeting melodies & eerie sound loops filled w/ terror & suspense.
Mute
CD
$15.00

Ceephax Acid Crew
United Acid Emirates
PS, US British acid house / drum 'n' bass musician ANDY JENKINSON, brother of Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher), has been releasing records under the name CEEPHAX ACID CREW for over a decade on labels such as Rephlex, Firstcasks, and Breakin Records. Planet Mu has long wanted to make a record with Jenkinson, and they are proud to present United Acid Emirates-the definitive Ceephax album. The tracks are surprisingly straightforward-Jenkinson has stripped away the drum 'n' bass and 303 histrionics of his previous work, leaving an album that at its core is a joyfully melodic and sweetly eccentric analog piece. Crossing different BPMs and moods, United Acid Emirates is an epic release with a strong '80s feel and a sound influenced by computer game music, Italo disco, synth pop, techno, and house-all handmade on Jenkinson's ancient analog synths. From the early house feel of "Life Funk" and the 16-bit techno dash of "Sidney's Sizzler" to the Italo shimmer of "Topaz" and the lush Human League synths 'n' acid of "Parkway," United Acid Emirates showcases Ceephax at his best. This soon-to-be classic puts him up there with Aphex and his recent analog experiments. CD version features two extra tracks.
PlanetMu-255
CD
$13.50

Ceephax Acid Crew
United Acid Emirates
PS, US VINYL VERSION
PlanetMu-255
DLP
$17.50

Ceremony
Someday
PS, US Before A Place To Bury Strangers there was Skywave, a 3-piece band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Ollie left to move to NYC and formed APTBS but John and Paul stayed behind and continued on under the name of Ceremony. Their Killer Pimp LP & CD "Rocket Fire" is due out early 2010 but it's being preceded by a HOT 7" single for the song "Someday." It's one of those songs that are so incredibly infectious numerous people have already reported repeating it over and over and over again! While there's no doubt comparisons to APTBS will be made (they are friends and were in the same band, after all), Ceremony are far more focused on making catchy pop tunes than blowing out your eardrums or speakers.
KillerPimp-013
45
$4.25

Chatham, Rhys
Bern Project
PS, US In the summer of 2008, RHYS CHATHAM visited Bern, Switzerland for a guitar trio performance with local musicians that the club had recruited for him. Rhys was blown away by the skills of the drummer & bass player and talked about plans to form a trio - half a year later he was back in Bern &
introduced JULIAN SARTORIUS (DRUMS) & MAGO FLUECK (BASS) to new compositions he brought along
Hinterzimmer-008
CD
$17.50

Chicago Underground Duo
Boca Negra
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ThrillJockey-228
LP
$14.00

Chicago Underground Duo
Boca Negra
PS, US Fifth DUO album feat. ROB MAZUREK (EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, ISOTOPE 217, MANDARIN MOVIE) & CHAD TAYLOR
(FRED ANDERSON, IRON & WINE, MARC RIBOT), recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Containing both composed & improvised music, powerful grooves along
with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity & polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. CD packaged in 4 panel mini-LP style jacket
ThrillJockey-228
CD
$14.00

Cinematic Orchestra, The
Man With A Movie Camera (DVD re-issue)
PS, US Ninja Tune are proud to present the 'Man With A Movie Camera' DVD. Featuring the entire film soundtracked live in the studio by The Cinematic Orchestra, plus a short documentary about the making of the record (first aired on C4), the superb video to "All That You Give" (featuring Fontella Bass) and further extras, it's a great package. And not just for Cinematics fans or scholars of 30s documentaries, either!
NinjaTune-9078
DVD
$14.75

Citay
Dream Get Together
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DeadOceans-038
LP
$12.25

Citay
Dream Get Together
PS, US Citay makes a joyous return on Dream Get Together, the San Francisco cosmic wanderers' expansive third album. Many of the touchstones from Citay's previous work remain intact - flourishes of Led Zeppelin, Eno/Fripp, Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Popul Vuh and ELO can be heard throughout - but a newfound swagger pushes Dream Get Together way over the top. Seldom has there been a more obvious choice for an album-opener than "Careful With That Hat," a song propelled by a deep groove and swing that practically begs the listener to stand up and air-drum wildly. The vocals soar, the lead guitars catch fire and the mammoth solo (courtesy of guitarist Josh Pollock) builds to an ecstatic explosion. This is the shot across the bow. Citay have arrived on Dream Get Together. Led by songwriter Ezra Feinberg, Citay has made a career out of studio exploration, recalling a time when studio excess was the norm. Producer Tim Green, of the Fucking Champs, is no stranger to sonic indulgence, and together Feinberg and Green have woven together a musical tapestry that is both heavy and sweet. In Citay, the metal leanings of Green's band are replaced by an altogether different brand of fantasy rock.Dream Get Together has an embroidered and epic beauty that flies over the ocean while snuggling up to the ears. Joining Feinberg in Citay is drummerWarren Huegel, whose
rhythmic sensibilities are best exemplified not only by his thunderous beats, but also his percussion decorations that lift the Citay sound from the ground up. Flanking Feinberg's acoustic six string live are the electric guitars of Sean Smith and Josh Pollock. Bassist Diego Gonzalez holds it all together throughout. Feinberg shares vocal duties on Dream Get Together with Tahlia Harbour and Meryl Press, whose sweet, soaring voices play the perfect foil to the bombast. One of many highlights of Dream Get Together is "Mirror Kisses," a song Feinberg wrote specifically for guest vocalist Merrill Garbus (of Tune-Yards) to sing in three-part harmony with Harbour and Press of Citay.With the soaring Ebow guitars and vocal harmonies, "Mirror Kisses" is Citay at its most lush and melodic. In contrast, "Hunter" is Citay at its most excessive - a triumphant instrumental anthem that somehow bridges the gap between Klaus Schulze and The Scorpions.With a spaced-out synth solo by Josh Robinow of Howlin' Rain, "Hunter" is a majestic ride. Dream Get Together closes with a gorgeous rendition of Galaxie 500's "Tugboat," in which Citay replaces the reverb-y electric guitars with clean acoustic strumming and Fripp-ed out sonics, preserving the beauty of the original while making the song their own.
DeadOceans-038
CD
$11.50

City of Satellites
Machine Is My Animal
PS, US On Machine Is My Animal, City of Satellites deliver on the exceptional promise of their debut EP The Spook - and then some. This pristine album synthesizes '80s pop aesthetics with '00s production values to create a truly monumental sound. From the Eastern-influenced synth lines of superb opener "BMX" to the crystalline drift of closer "Sky Rider", Machine Is My Animal carries the listener through a glistening science fiction future, as viewed from a wistful child's window. On single "Stranger Than Fiction", swirling synth sounds, Thomas Diakomichalis' propulsive drumming and Jarrod Manuel's pure vocal tones glide beautifully. Its aching melodies to the fore, the song taking heartrending turns before dissolving into the ether. "Skeletons" glides and weaves like a hovercraft over the course of seven levitating minutes, before the epic title track stomps across a dystopian future like a Transformer with a conscience, its robot heart bleeding as its surveys the devastation it has wrought. This balance between cold synthesized tones and a warm emotional heart creates a delicious balance throughout.
HiddenShoal-061
CD
$13.00

Clipd Beaks
To Realize
PS, US After two woozy, psychedelic, and often-claustrophobic records that touched upon their great potential (2006's Preyers EP and 2007's Hoarse Lords), the Oakland-based Clipd Beaks have birthed something pretty damn amazing. 'To Realize' is a turning-point. A record of personal and artistic growth. Sonically expansive, lyrically profound, and deeply moving. It recalls the societal hangover depicted in the great California rock records of the early 70's, while sitting firmly in the noisy, chaotic present day. It's a tribute to love, to moving forward, to rejecting doom.
LovePumpUnited-026
CD
$10.50

Clipd Beaks
To Realize
PS, US VINYL VERSION
LovePumpUnited-026
LP
$13.75

Cold Cave
Cremations
PS, US Repressed and hotter than a hooker in church. LP version. "Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks from Cold Cave. From the project's isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up, the development of this singular musical entity is documented here in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Cave's infancy, sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in 'Sex Ads.' Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track 'Heavenly Metals'), Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time."
HospitalProductions
LP
$17.00

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Downtown
12
$7.00

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP
PS, US Re-released, featuring 4 new, unreleased tracks.
Downtown
CD5
$6.25

Colorlist
Square White Lie
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Kaleidoscopic flux of sounds that pools all kinds of ideas & influences into an organic wash, often transcendental & meditative, occasionally
blissed out, & once in a while a bit fevered. Slips easily into a playlist of Miles, Eno, Pharoah, Aphex Twin, & Tortoise. Limited 180gm LP includes download
coupon. CHARLES GORCZYNSKI (SAX, HARMONIUM, ELECTRONICS) & CHARLES RUMBACK (DRUMS & BELLS)
482Music
LP
$22.00

Connors, Loren & Darin Gray
The Lost Mariner: 10 Year Anniversary [reissue]
PS, US Just past 10 years ago this debut collaboration between primitive American blues guitarist Loren Connors and the confounding electric bassist Darin Gray was issued on CD. The Lost Mariner was the first in a pair of releases by the upstart Family Vineyard label. Now with a decade of hindsight and a nod to looking ahead, here is a 700 edition LP reissue of the studio session considered by Connors to be one of his finest. Since this album's 1999 release Connors has released a series of sorrowful solo albums and multi-disc collections on Family Vineyard while Gray formed the cinematic On Fillmore (with Wilco's Glen Kotche) and continued collaborations with Jim O'Rourke, Akira Sakata, Chris Corsano and others. The Lost Mariner is an improvised dialogue between these two musicians. Structure is there, but it roams as it sways, constantly adjusting and reinventing itself as the two react to its mysterious design. For this reissue the LP is sleeved inside stunning cover art (an Albert Pinkham Ryder painting) and contains the bonus At The Old Factory 7-inch. This raw, live snapshot of a 1999 performance comes on colored vinyl in a full-color sleeve designed by Katie Leming (Cro-Magnon, Bird).
FamilyVineyard-002
LP
$13.75

Cooper, Ailce
Love It To Death
PS, US 24 Kt. Gold, numbered limited edition. Alice Cooper's third album, Love It to Death, can be pinpointed as the release when everything began to come together for the band. Their first couple of albums (Pretties for You and Easy Action) were both largely psychedelicacid rock affairs and bore little comparison to the band's eventual rip-roaring, teenage-anthem direction. The main reason for the quintet's change was that the eventually legendary producer Bob Ezrin was on board for the first time and helped the Coopers focus their songwriting and sound, while they also perfected their trashy, violent, and theatrical stage show and image. One of the band's most instantly identifiable anthems, "I'm Eighteen," was what made the album a hit, as well as another classic, "Is It My Body." But like Alice Cooper's other albums from the early '70s, it was an incredibly consistent listen from beginning to end. The garage rocker "Caught in a Dream" as well as the ass-kicking "Long Way to Go" and a pair of epics -- the Doors-esque "Black Juju" and the eerie "Ballad of Dwight Fry" -- showed that Alice was easily in league with other high-energy Detroit bands of the era (MC5, Stooges). Love It to Death was the first of a string of classic releases from the original Alice Cooper group. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
Audio Fidelity - AUDF57
CD
$25.50

Creshevsky, Noah
Twilight Of The Gods
PS, US Active in electronic composition since 1971, CRESHEVSKY delights in presenting extreme & unpredictable juxtapositions in which the integration of electronic & acoustic sources & processes creates virtual "superperformers" by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past human capacities
Tzadik-8069
CD
$15.25

Curgenven, Robert
Oltre
PS, US "Transparence" resonating dubplate | turntable | field recordings | guitar feedback | ventilator/fan.
The "Transparence" dubplate, developed at O ' in Milan, Italy, works within the physical limitations of the vinyl medium, employing the object as sound source and also sound medium, to become an instrument in its own right. Using the non-linear acoustics of the gallery at O, the dubplate was recorded, and later cut to disc in Berlin, at very low volume. This ephemeral audio signal becomes present during playback only at high volume, which subsequently produces, by design, a unique physical response from the room, air and amplification - creating deep undertones and blossoming overtones via these manifold resonance's; simultaneously, the action of the stylus gently abrades the soft vinyl surface, causing the dubplate's sound to gradually disappear and evolve, successively losing higher frequencies whilst acquiring new artifacts and crackle. OLTRE documents this degradation and transformation over two months of live performances. The integrated system of subsonic feedback from ventilators, acoustically gated binaural microphones, modal micro-variations in guitar feedback, field-recordings from across remote areas of Australia and the live, physical interplay of the turntable, dubplate and stylus, combine to create a field which moves beyond the original recordings and their individual spaces.
Line-042
CD
$12.25

Customers
Howling At The Moon b/w Monster On The Loose
PS, US With the break up of CARBONAS, BEAT BEAT BEAT, & THE HEART ATACKS, CUSTOMERS are just one of the new bands emerging from Atlanta with the forementioned bands' members regrouped, bringing a fresh sound to the Southern capitol & sure to make a name for themselves. LIMITED TO 600
Rob'sHouse-052
45
$5.50

Darker My Love/Audacity
Under The Covers, Vol. 1
PS, US DML's version of "Mr. Alvarez" is a departure from their usual psych territory, leaning more towards a bubble-gum covered beach beatle. Audacity's version of "Summer Is Here" is somewhere between Todd Rundgren's "You Need Your Head", Black Flag, & a nursery rhyme. Less psych barn burner, more avante-garde, OC punk feel. LIMITED TO 300. Vol. 2 out in February feat. Fresh & Onlys, Grass Widow, So Cow, Davila 666, & more
IHateRockNRoll-005
45
$7.50

Dead Man's Bones
Dead Man's Bones
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Anti
DLP
$20.75

Decoy
Volume 1: Spirit
PS, UK Decoy is UK-based Alexander Hawkins (pipe organ), John Edwards (bass), and Steve Noble (drums). The disturbing, distorted Hammond organ sound is a natural fit for a free-jazz combo. With a pedigree including low-cost church pipe organ substitute, novelty instrument (re: Walt Disney's "Blame It On The Samba," part of his 1948 animated film Melody Time, where a Carmen Miranda-ered Ethel Smith plays a Hammond as it's blown to bits by 'toon Aracuan) and jazz-cool tool bar-none courtesy of Smiths -- Jimmy and Dr. Lonnie -- McGriff, Patton, Young, et al, the B3 and Leslie cabinet's overblown bastard tones one minute toying, the next destroying, were made to play the freedom sound. Alexander Hawkins has a pipe organ background (which is the ideal grounding for the Hammond -- you can hear his churchy tones during this album's playout) and exploits the potential of the C3 to the full -- pulls out all the stops, in fact. From the interstellar sounds of the opening "Outside In" and slick be-bopisms of "Decoy" to some fine spine-juddering scronches interspersed in "Shadows," rhythm team Noble and Edwards never let it rest as they interject, inject, impose, prompt, inspire, and kick-ass to make a proper sonic palette for the organ platform. It takes great players at the top of their game to play solo and rhythm at one and the same time without compromising either role and Noble and Edwards together are able to effectively lock down a groove over some truly inventive stretching of a traditionally-rigid instrument.
Weavil-040
CD
$15.00

Destroyer
City of Daughters / Thief
PS, CANADA Restocked! Reissue of the second and third Destroyer albums (not including cassettes), back on vinyl where they belong, and in superior versions. The original City of Daughters (1998) LP suffered from frequency related glitches which caused it to skip on many turntables. The original Thief (2000) mix was never satisfying, and the LP/CD was shoddily mastered into mono. Now Thief has been remixed by the original team of Daniel Bejar, David Carswell and John Collins at JC/DC Studios and is available in the intended stereo for the first time ever. Both albums have been remastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering and have never sounded better. The two covers have been re-worked by original artist Lester Smolenksi and printed by Stoughton as an "old style", tip-on, gatefold jacket. Initial pressing of 1000 copies. * Destroyer have released four albums and an EP on Merge Records since 2002, with a new album slated for release this year. * Head Destroyer, Daniel Bejar, is the secret weapon of Matador Records artists New Pornographers. * Original LPs have been eBay fare for most of the 00's. This package is superior on all fronts.
Nominal-003
DLP
$19.50

Dinowalrus
%
PS, US VINYL VERSION
KanineRecords-471
LP
$13.75

Dinowalrus
%
PS, US 3-person drum n' drone band out of Brooklyn. The band relies heavily on the use of self-sustaining electronic devices to push its sound into cosmic brain-melting freakouts, lush atmospheric haze, &/or juvenile twee-skronk. Didactic experiments in infinite reverb, uber- & anti- "dance-ability," delaytreated
xylophones, dime-store voice changers, deep-fried drum machines, pop-neo-orientalism, layered fuzz, & layered haircuts
KanineRecords-471
CD
$11.00

Divide The Sea
Man
PS, US South Carolina has long served as a hotbed for innovative metallic hardcore, and DIVIDE THE SEA are no exception. Having cut their teeth playing in various forms together for years, these five southern gentlemen exhibit their familiarity with one another throughout their debut full length, simply entitled Man. Swaying between gut churning heaviness and potent emotional delivery, Man serves as a powerful introduction to DIVIDE THE SEA and the bright future ahead of them.
Blood&InkRecords-1036
CD
$12.25

DJ Food
The Shape of Things That Hum EP
PS, US "Sentinel (Shadow Guard)" is the first ever studio collaboration between Kev and longtime DJ partner and Solid Steel producer DK. A track of contrasts - harp, acoustic guitar and ringing electronics versus filthy bass, heavy drums and rattling percussion. All held together by Ninja labelmate King Cannibal working the mixing desk, the results are driving and sinuous, but subtle, too.
ISI-ZEN-12252
12
$9.00

Druid Perfume
Other Worlds b/w Weird Wally Wigwam
PS, US In which DRUID PERFUME gonna unmask the Batman! Fucked up & fucking great; explore the fourth world! Issued
in collaboration with the esteemed Detroit record company Italy Records! Sleeve by JAMIE EASTER; terrifying! LIMITED TO ONLY 250
M'lady'sRecords-016.5
45
$6.00

Drumm, Kevin
Second
PS, US Reissue. Originally released in 1999. By appearing, disappearing, & reappearing, subtle & dissonant sounds characterize an internal dialogue w/in an almost filmic scenario. Foreshadowing his later, dark, ambient drone work, this utilizes a variety of sources including: guitar, organ, accordion, & analogue synth finalized to computer to create this unique document w/in his extensive output.
PerditionPlastics-010
CD
$12.75

Drumm, Kevin
S-T
PS, US Reissue of debut album from 1996. 7 sedate & monochromatic improv guitar-scapes.
PerditionPlastics-007
CD
$12.75

Dunn, Kyle Bobby
A Young Person's Guide To
PS, UK Spread across two CDs with a total running time of nearly two hours, A Young Persons Guide To... is a stunning collection of recordings from New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn. Four tracks on the first disc originally appeared as the download only album Fervency, released by the Moodgadget label in 2009. Impressed by Dunn's sensitive and world-wise compositions, it was felt that the music deserved to be released on a physical format and expanded upon with a second disc containing an additional 60 minutes of music gathered from the same period as the Fervency recordings. Utilizing an instrumental palette of guitar, strings and brass, often played by classically trained musicians drafted in on the spur of the moment, the sounds of these sessions were recorded as Dunn dictated and then reworked via computer processing into spine-tingling sounds capes. Dunn's compositions here are fully rich in timbre, painterly, hopelessly romantic and haunting; balanced between a wash of pure sound and an ornate yet subtle dance of classical instrumentation. Occupying a truly cinematic scope, these pieces can transport the listener from the deepest and most forgotten landscapes to the furthest recesses of time.
LowPoint-033
DCD
$16.25

Durutti Column, The
Paean to Wilson
PS, UK Paean to Wilson is arguably Vini Reilly and the Durutti Columns most important and consistent piece of work since the demise of the original and seminal Factory Records in the early 1990â€(tm)s. Manchester International Festival of Music commissioned it, for their festival in July 2009. Vini had already composed pieces for Tony to listen to whilst he was ill in hospital and it was from here that the project developed. "Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: "So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics." If Wilson were with us, he would have chuckled. The Granada presenter-turned-Factory Records boss spent years urging his first signing to stop singing, and concentrate on the virtuosity that led Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante to call Reilly "the greatest guitarist in the world". Two years after his death, Wilson got his way, one of many lovely touches in a very personal, emotional and often warmly funny musical tribute. Wilson signed Joy Division and Happy Mondays, yet never gave up on this cult band he adored, working with them even after his legendary label went bankrupt. A complex man, Wilson was an academic thinker who reveled in Steve Coogan's affectionate, Alan Partridge-style send-up of him as a "twat". And this tribute was no different. At one point, Reilly - known for melancholy - launched into something resembling an Irish jig. "Tony loved to laugh," he explained. "He loved absurdities." After the humour came exquisitely mournful music. With Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell augmented by bass, keyboard, violin, electric piano, drum machine and trumpet, the band's beautiful pieces reflected Wilson's love of rock and classical. Reilly's plangent guitar work showed grief's emotional spectrum, from sadness to overdriven anger. As in life, Wilson had the last word, his recorded voice expounding thoughts on socialism with an eerie echo. Silence followed as Manchester pondered the loss of one of its truly larger-than-life characters. Then everybody cheered." The bonus disc first appeared in 2005 via Wilson's project F4, as being the fourth version of Factory Records. Originally it was download-only release, Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital, It Was Heaven Sent). This is the first time that it has appeared on a physical format. It was a six track CD of personal dedications by Vini ironically the last piece being Anthony. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this instrumental tribute by The Durutti Column. We have consciously chosen the release date as 24th January marking the 32nd anniversary of the day Factory Records formed in 1978. Their publishing company was m24j - movement of the twenty fourth of January. Two showcase live dates have been confirmed at the time of writing: 24/01/10 - Lowry Theatre, Manchester 31/1/10 - Leicester Sq Theatre, London
Kooky-029
DCD
$19.00

Eat Skull
Jerusalem Mall
PS, US EAT SKULL return with a follow-up of sorts to last year's Siltbreeze released debut, Sick To Death. Three new tracks. "Don't put baby in the corner. "Jerusalem Mall" is a newer Christmas time jingle for these hopeful times. Backed with two Sick to Death outtakes unavailable on vinyl till now. No one puts baby in the corner." Limited edition pressing.
Woodsist
45
$5.25

Eels
End Times (LP/7")
PS, US LP plus bonus 4 track 7 inch (the tracks constitute the bonus CDEP in the deluxe version of the CD)
Cobraside-1141
LP
$18.75

Eels
End Times
PS, US Eels 8th studio album is the sound of an artist growing older in uncertain times. Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in E's LA basement, it's a "divorce album" with a modern twist. The artist equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity.
Vagrant
CD
$13.50

Electric Egypt
Impressions Of The Inexpressible Invisible
PS, JAPAN Electric Egypt provides the listener a medium suited for a 40-minute journey of celestial travel with his debut album Impressions Of The Inexpressible Invisible. Listening to the album without interruption is recommended. Throughout its length are well-intergraded samples of both science fiction film and radio shows, which together engrave a vocal narrative to his already impressive story and reverberated tones. Features Parisian group Electric Conversation members As Valet & Zig16 and south Carolinan Psychedelic beat-maestro 10th Letter.
Moamoo-012
CD
$17.25

Electric Pop Group, The
Seconds
PS, US Sensational sophomore album from Swedish pop heroes The Electric Pop Group! Following the success of the band's self-released debut in 2006 and the very well received "Sunrise" EP for Matinee in 2008, the band is back with ten magnificent new recordings that solidify their status as heir apparent to the pop throne once held by Matinee favorites Harper Lee and Sarah Records legends Brighter. The new album "Seconds" is a study in multiplayer, shimmering pop featuring jangling electric and acoustic guitars, bass, and prominent keyboards plus rich bursts of tambourine, strings and other nice instrumentation. Among the album's highlights, lead track "Not By Another" is a melodic love song with chiming guitars, while "Out Of Sight" mixes keyboards and guitars in an infectious pop hit with fantastic vocals and a soaring chorus. One of the newest songs on the album, "The Way It Used To Do" is catchy, continental pop with keyboards, jangling guitars, and an addictive chorus that recalls early Acid House Kings. Meanwhile, the band demonstrates it can also deliver modern shoegaze classics with "The Best of Times" showcasing a muti-layered, hazy melancholy with hypnotic percussion. The album also includes a new recording of "My Only Inspiration", an Electric Pop Group favorite that first appeared on the "Matinee Hit Parade compilation in 2007, while Into Thin Air features more chiming guitars and melodies-a-plenty and We Never Made Up Our Minds is an especially beautiful, orchestral number. An outstanding new entry to the Matinee discography, "Seconds" is glistening jangle pop genius perfect for fans of Brighter, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Field Mice or Harper Lee.
Matinee-053
CD
$12.25

Embryo
Opal
PS, US One of the most significant bands to rise out of the Krautrock scene of the 1970s. Although the group's sound has since
become synonymous w/ World Music, for their brilliant 1970 debut, the band was still fully immersed in the jazzy acid psych sound.
GetBack-711
LP
$22.00

Emika
Drop the Other
PS, US "Drop The Other," the first e.p. from Emika - and already one of the year's most auspicious debuts. Even before release, Emika's already received airplay from tastemaking DJs like Zane Lowe + Mary Anne Hobbs. On "Drop The Other," eerie, near-classical piano collides into glitched-out edits and skitering drum patterns, while speaker-shattering lows rub against Emika's own hushed, cryptic vocals, the iconoclastic blend marking her an artist that makes a habit of defying expectation. Just when you think you know what you're hearing, Emika flips the script: the cinematic sound architecture evokes the deepest techno, but the tempo moves too slow, the beats too jagged; the sub-bass, meanwhile, could shudder the most underground dubstep club, but it's paired with haunting, syncopated vocal hooks that suggest Aaliyah's work with Timbaland taken to its darkest extreme.
ISI-ZEN-12240
12
$9.00

Ent
Welcome Stranger
PS, US Ent is the solo musical project of Atsushi Horie who hails from Nagasaki in the south of Japan. Horie's main gig is of frontman of the BritPop influenced band STRAIGHTENER (EMI) that has a devoted and somewhat large following in their native Japan. However, Atsushi became attracted to Leftfield electronics and Post-rock which led him to start writing a solo album in 2006 that infused more of those genres' elements in an effort to make something more personal and deeply sentimental. Three years in the making this first album "Welcome Stranger" is a lush album of wide-eyed and unapologetic left of center pop somewhere between The Album Leaf and The Postal Service. Atsushi has succeeded in crafting an album that utilizes his newer influences with the more traditional style of song-craft his band STRAIGHTENER is known for. "Welcome Stranger" also features remixes from Kettel (Sending Orbs), Near The Parenthesis (n5MD) and Helios (Type).
n5MD-172
CD
$12.25

Everly Brothers, The
In Our Image [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. Another lost Everlys classic, this 1966 album collected most of the singles the duo had recorded over the past year or so, many of which hit the charts in Britain but flopped in America. Which is why this LP only reached #104 on the Billboard charts, but don't let that stop you-this is prime Everly Brothers, full of their trademark sound but showing hints of the British Invasion and folk-rock currents coursing around them in pop music. First time on CD.
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Everly Brothers, The
Two Yanks in England [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "At first glance, this seems like a cash-in on the British Invasion. Recorded in London in 1966, no less than eight of the 12 songs were written by the Hollies (who released their own versions of many of the tunes). There are also covers of hits by the Spencer Davis Group and Manfred Mann. With a harder rock guitar sound (though not overdone or inappropriate) than previous Everlys discs, the duo's interpretations are actually worth hearing in their own right. The harmonies are fabulous, and indeed, the Everlys improve a few of the Hollies' songs substantially. "So Lonely" and "Hard Hard Year," in particular, have a lot more force, transforming the tunes from decent Hollies album tracks to excellence. Because so much of the material is non-original, this couldn't be placed in the top rank of Everly Brothers recordings. But it is a good effort that shows them, almost ten years after "Bye Bye Love," still at the top of their game and still heavily committed to a rock & roll sound."
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Everly Brothers, The
Beat & Soul [reissue]
PS, US Not new (a 2005 reissue), but recently recommended by our pal Ric Menck. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "For the second album in a row, the Everlys presented an entire LP of rock & roll covers (and one original), most of which had originally been hits in the 1950s -- "Love Is Strange," "Money," "Hi Heel Sneakers," "My Babe," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Lonely Avenue," and so on. While the performances are pretty good -- and the vocals perennially better than good... "Love Is Strange" almost made the Top Ten in the U.K., and the sole original, "Man With Money," was a quality effort that was covered by several British groups including, unexpectedly, the Who (though their version was not released until the 1990s).
Collector'sChoice
CD
$12.50

Far Out
Nihonjin [reissue]
PS, UK Prior to metamorphosing into Far East Family Band, Japan's Far Out released this sole, space-y, guitar-drenched psychedelic prog album in 1971. Although the Floyd influences are highly apparent, the band produces an original sound which defines its own unique identity rather than being a reflection of the British and American bands that were dominating the genre. Although there is a keyboard-dominated opening, synthesizers are relegated to a supporting role, and their sparse presence is restricted to occasional sound effects. The psychedelic ambiance comes largely from the guitars, electric sitars and intelligent percussion. The original album contained just two single-sided tracks, and the intense guitar soloing, fantastic sound effects, including gongs and howling wind drones, combine to create an album of sparse beauty which effortlessly merges exotic Asian instrumentals with a psych sound occasionally reminiscent of Saucerful Of Secrets. Numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Farm Band, The
S-T [reissue]
PS, KOREA This is the first-ever CD reissue of The Farm Band's communistic classic from 1972 -- remastered in a 24-bit remaster. In the late 1960s, Stephen Gaskin, a countercultural icon, made a name for himself teaching a weekly class on the meaning of the psychedelic experience in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District. At the start of the '70s, he led a hippie exodus to Tennessee, where he created "The Farm," just about the only successful hippie commune from that era still standing. This is the first album by Gaskin and The Farm Band, who fall somewhere between the Grateful Dead and Jethro Tull, performing long, psycho blues suites with good guitar solos, flute and violin (several tracks last more than eight minutes). They released four albums between 1972 and 1977, generating more country boogie, good-time, free-loving vibes. Housed in a handsome paper gatefold sleeve that precisely reproduces the original gatefold LP sleeve in miniature form. Includes liner notes and rare photos.
RivermanMusic
CD
$16.25

Feeling Of Love
OK Judge Revival
PS, US The newest LP from Metz, France's FEELING OF LOVE is a blues-wrangling nightmare, full of nods to THE JOHN SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, and French glue-wavers CRASH NORMAL. This newest full-length studio album is an awesome follow up to their first LP and the one-sided 12-inch from last few years. Songs include amazing slide guitar riffs over drum machines, synths and tight rhythm section. This album is a complete reminder of why we have such a fondness for their first few releases and 7-inches; their tracks are driving grooves with a wild blues edge, all followed up with that magical French synthesis that delivers a "can't miss" experience. Awesome cover art, printed sleeves and limited to our usual 500 copies on black vinyl."
KillShaman-041
LP
$15.00

Felt Letters
600,000 Bands b/w "Lone Wolf-No Club
PS, US Astounding debut from this Washington, DC group made up of IAN SVENONIUS (NATION OF ULYSSES, MAKE-UP), BRENDAN CANTY (RITES OF SPRING, FUGAZI), & TOM BUNNELL. In the 1970s & 1980s, such a lineup was referred to as a "supergroup", as if the respective performers were supermen. Well, this is a supersingle! In a Rough Trade-style sleeve designed by IAN SVENONIUS
M'lady'sRecords-015
45
$6.00

Fenmen. The
Sunstroke
PS, US Prior to joining the Pretty Things in early 1967, Wally Waller and Jon Povey were members of another group from the same neighborhood, the Fenmen. Throughout 1965 and '66 the Fenmen crafted a strong harmony-based sound influenced by California groups like the Beach Boys, but retaining a strong English flavor. Their outstanding harmonies attracted the attention and praise of Graham Nash and Andrew Loog Oldham, who frequently employed them as backing singers on his sessions. Sunstroke presents a treasure trove of rare and unreleased Fenmen tracks, including 1965 demo recordings, a 1966 BBC radio session, a raw early 1963 acetate, and seven new tracks by Waller and Povey in the harmony-rich tradition of the Fenmen and the 1967-71 Pretty Things, including a breathtaking new arrangement of 'The Sun.' Old and new material flow together seamlessly to create a diverse listening experience in the tradition of your favorite classic albums. You'll want to file Sunstroke somewhere between Pet Sounds, Parachute, The Beach Boys Today and The Hollies' Greatest Hits.
UglyThings
CD
$13.75

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)
Heartland
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
DLP
$17.50

Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)
Heartland
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Folsom, Robert Lester
Music & Dreams
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. The first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia's Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of soft rock, staid yet breezy.
MexicanSummer
LP
$19.00

Foster, Josephine
Graphic As A Star
PS, US Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Emily Dickinson gems & sings them w/ a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs & folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy & Foster's music, making a natural & inevitable whole.
Fire-136
CD
$14.25

Four Tet
There Is Love In You
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.25

Four Tet
There Is Love In You
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$19.25

Frankel
Anonymity Is The New Fame
PS, US Anonymity is the New Fame is more than just a song and album title for Los Angeles songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist Michael Orendy. It's a working philosophy and a way to live an artist's and musician's life in a world of showboaters and technological exhibitionists. It's a way to stay yourself in a world where every sound and feeling shoved through the same narrow channels start to sound like a repetitive buzz of buzz.
AutumnToneRecords-008
CD
$11.25

Fraser, Brooke
What To Do With Daylight [Abridged]
PS, US In anticipation of a brand-new solo album tentatively slated for the Spring of 2010, "What To Do With Daylight" is being released in the U.S. to reinforce the successes Brooke has experienced over the course of the last couple years. To date, the album has only been available as an import and, more recently, digitally. With the public demand at a high level for all things Brooke Fraser, this is a great catalog item which will prove to be an evergreen seller over the course of time.
WoodandBone-51882
CD
$7.75

Fredrik
Trilogi
PS, US On stage this sextet can be seen playing banjo, clarinet, cello, wind up music boxes & hand made instruments along side
bass, guitars & drums. This second outing is more consistently inward-looking & takes on themes like social realities & subconscious geography. The melodies are
more serpentine & the textures decidedly darker. However, Fredrik's warm, sensitive lead voice & operatic choir work still lends the material the same comforting
elegance as on the debut. Three EP's bearing the titles "Holm", "Ava" and "Ner", all fictional names roughly signifying "Frozen Forest Island", "Water Through Sound" and "The Inside Underground" are combined here on one disc. Beautiful Gatefold Package using deluxe recycled paper stock
Kora-017
CD
$11.25

Freescha
Slower Than Church Music
PS, US Restock. Limited to 900 vinyl edition of their CD of the same name, which is also available. Electronica, spacerock, ambient, blissed out perfection. Most highly recommended!!!
Attack9-002
LP
$9.75

Freescha
Kids Fill The Floor
PS, US Restock. Pronounced freesha. Southern California electronics. Kids Fill the Floor, Freescha's first full length album released on their own Attacknine label, brings 13 songs from the creative pairing & friendship of the San Fernando Valley born Nick Huntington and Michael McGroarty. Their Californian brand of organic electronic songs are observed and enjoyed by fans the world over, as well as by other music figures such as; Two Lone Swordsmen, Moby, Casino Versus Japan, Hermann & Klein, Opiate, Manual, and Marumari. Freescha was chosen for URB magazine's "Next 100" artists to watch for in their year-end special issue. Freescha's debut album serves as both an artifact of the musicians' creative friendship as much as it embodies the very affinities that bring them together. California is a carefree, albeit melancholy vision for the songs they've cultivated for Kids Fill the Floor. From the obscured tones and nocturnal whisperings, come strange familiarities of past lives that leave you humming them long after the tunes have ceased. For Freescha, the coastlines and the evening fields are a song you hear before you fall to sleep. Recommended for fans of Organ music, John Denver, E.L.O, Tones on Tail, claymation, tide-pooling, old trails, bumble bees and Sasquatch. Future projects: Split 12"/CD with artist, Casino Versus Japan (3 exclusive tracks) Miy Paluk records (UK label) will feature a Freescha track on their upcoming compilation. Freescha are currently writing & recording for what will be their next album scheduled for release in 2004. "A ghostly, timeless, parallels, otherworldliness pervades every track taking it way beyond mere zeros and ones. File under church music from distant galaxies" -Andrew Weatherall (Two Lone Swordsmen, WARP) "i swear i've listened to those freescha cd's more than any other cd's in the last 6 months. they're so great. i love them." -Moby "...misters Huntington and Mcgroarty lost the map a while ago, but they've since killed the headlights and let go of the wheel, letting the logic of the lost highway guide them, at least until daybreak." -vietnambla.
Attack9-002
DLP
$13.00

Fresh & Onlys
Second One To Know
PS, US San Francisco's FRESH & ONLYS return to the 7-inch format. You get "Second One To Know" and "Hated or Loved," recorded spring 2009. Both tracks are taken from the super limited Bomb Wombs cassette on Fuck It Tapes. Full-color glue pocket sleeves. Two of the band's best songs yet!
Woodsist
45
$6.25

Frost, Ben
By The Throat
PS, US Vinyl version. It's impossible to truly classify where he is coming from musically, but it would be safe to say his fans would also have records from Neurosis, Tim Hecker, Sunn O))) & Fennesz in their collection. Where "Theory of Machines" came sterilized in fluorescent light, "By The Throat" is blood red & cloaked in shadow.
BedroomCommunity-006
LP
$16.25

Fuck Buttons
Tarot Sport
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ATP
DLP
$19.00

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles
PS, US MID-PRICE 2 CD and 2 LP compilation of Fucked Up's many,many hard-to-find uncollected 7" and 12" tracks. Entitled Couple Tracks, it contains 25 songs.Couple Tracks spans an extraordinarily varied (and extraordinarily collectible) musical career that has mainly been documented on 7"singles released around the world on many labels in many countries.All songs on full-length CD and LP for the first time! Including 5totally unreleased tracks.
Matador
DCD
$13.25

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Matador
DLP
$17.50

Fuzz Manta
Smokerings
PS, GERMANY After a very long and mysterious journey it's finally here: The debut album of Danish heavy hippie hardrockers Fuzz Manta. You take two guitars, mix them up with bass and drums, and finally you add one powerful female vocal. Stir it all up for a while with blues, hardrock, stoner and an over all heavy hippie approach to life, send it out on a number of adventures along the highways and offroads of Denmark, Austria and Germany and you end up with Smokerings. Fuzz Manta is five devoted musicians united by their deep dedications and desires in music. All five members have contributed to the songwriting on Smokerings, and this results in a huge variation in the repertoire. A great trademark for this album is the variety within each song. Fuzz Manta use several ideas within each song, taking the listener to new and unforeseen places all the time, although always bound together by their melodic, heavy sound. And Fuzz Manta's influences are wide: Individual inspiration comes from everything in between The Beatles, Motorpsycho, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Free, Kyuss, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and even Tool. Allow yourself to join Fuzz Manta on this album made of pure soul and heart. Smokerings is the baby of a long lasting love of playing and composing. Although a pretty young band (Fuzz Manta was formed in late 2006) the musicians have many years of experience from a wide range of other bands (a few mentioned: The Davolinas, Cherry Overdrive, Triggerbells, Aron, Hellroute 16). Smokerings is a do-it-yourself production and the band has been deeply involved in every step of the process from songwriting to recording and mixing.
BadDeal
CD
$20.50

Gainsbourg, Charlotte
I.R.M.
PS, US A musical collaboration between Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck. Over the course of a year and a half of writing and recording together, Beck's role grew to encompass all aspects of the creative process: He wrote all of the music and co-wrote the lyrics and produced and mixed the recording. Beck brought in many of his regular collaborators, including Joey Waronker and James Gadson on drums, Brian LeBarton on keyboards, David Ralicke on trumpet and Beck's father, David Campbell, for string arrangement. IRM is Gainsbourg's first album in nearly four years, following 5:55, which was released in 2006 to much acclaim.
Elektra/WEA
CD
$13.75

Gang Gang Dance
God's Money
PS, US "God's Money is an album of whims and metamorphoses...thoroughly enveloping, with a mesmerizing, vertiginous charm." - New York Times "God's Money never suspends movement: It continues to pulse and breath even in its quietest moments. And in each piece, there exists an amazing freeform beauty as well as a great sense of rhythm and melody hidden within ostensible chaos. " - Pitchfork We are pleased to offer Gang Gang Dance's landmark second studio album on LP again. Originally released in 2005 the record originally only received a limited pressing on vinyl and has been unavailable on LP for several years. With God's MoneyGang Gang Dance created a modern sound which reorientated the palette of electronic music into an organic context; manipulating sound, rhythm and melody in an almost mercurial manner. Painstakingly recorded over the course of 2004 at Junkyard Audio Salvage, the band utilized whatever means were available to them to craft their sound: drums of all shapes, sizes and circuits, various keyboards occasional aluminum chair. Blending their hypnotic rhythms into a highly structured compositional style or soaring in the lofty heights of practiced improvisation, this record follows in the footsteps of the bands previous output, simultaneously marking new ground, and pointing to their future musical directions. During writing and recording God's Money the band were playing to packed houses in NYC, Europe and it with such a heightened level of musicianship they turned even the most casual of spectators into full on believers. God's Money is a pinnacle of Gang Gang Dance's uncompromising sonic pursuit which has spanned the better part of their now near ten year history. Some of this can be gleamed from previous groups the God's Money may be interpreted as the band's high-water mark of sorts it is much more the raising of the tide as they continued to push the boundaries of the palette of sound itself with no sign of waning.
TheSocialRegistry-019
LP
$13.75

Gentle Giant
Free Hand [Remastered]
PS, US Remastered! Free Hand is perhaps Gentle Giant's most realized effort. After the excellent In a Glass House, the group further developed its Renaissance-medieval approach, producing one of the most creative and complex recordings in progressive rock history. Their vocal approach to the four-part fugue "On Reflection" was revolutionary for its time and is looked upon as one of the genre's defining moments. Despite the complexity of the arrangements, the music never sounds academic and in fact is very accessible thanks to several melodic hooks. The combination of superb musicianship, dry wit, and creative compositions make this an essential and historical recording. - Robert Taylor, AMG
Alucard Records - ALCD10003G
CD
$9.50

Gentle Giant
In a Glass House [Remastered]
PS, US Remastered! Gentle Giant was reduced to a quintet on In a Glass House with the departure of elder brother Phil Shulman, but its sound is unchanged, and the group may actually be tighter without the presence of his saxophones. The time signatures are still really strange, and the tempo changes are sometimes jarring, as is the wide range of dynamics, but this is also one of the group's most pleasing records -- they rock out in various places, and elsewhere perform all kinds of little experiments with percussion instruments ("An Inmate's Lullaby"), or create a strange, otherworldly sort of modern medieval-style music ("Way of Life"). None of it except possibly "A Reunion" is light listening, but the challenge does yield some rewarding sounds. -Bruce Eder, AMG
Alucard Records - ALCD10000C
CD
$9.50

Ginsberg, Pepi
East Is East
PS, US In East is East, Pepi Ginsberg and her collaborators step into the golden hour of the day and embrace "The most ephemeral of seasons." A mood and a time where we "know that change is coming in the form of a cool wind; we hold on until we let go." The song 'Summer Sick as Love' accomplishes this feeling, with its mythical descriptions of gutter punks and wind ravaged stop-signs. Ginsberg, with arrangements expertly handled by her band, creates a world with East is East, that is "the season in between," and parts the waters, navigating change in the sea of these strange times.
ParkTheVan
LP
$12.50

Girls
Laura b/w Oh Boy
PS, US Limited edition single with non album b-side
TruePantherSounds
45
$4.75

Glossary
Feral Fire
PS, US Glossary's new album, Feral Fire, is its first for Lucero's Liberty and Lament label (Glossary's Todd Beene also plays in Lucero), and is marked by a testifying batch of R&B and country tinged rock songs that explores the band's dysfunctional relationship with time, religion,materialism, the universe and southern ideals.
RebelGroup
CD
$12.50

Gonjasufi
Kowboyz & Indians
PS, US Only 100 Available!
Gonjasufi... a mystical individual caught between the Mojave desert, the LA streets and somewhere more cosmic. His soul-baring vocals are something to behold - described by friend and collaborator Flying Lotus as "Timeless Incredible Filth". The 2nd single from desert-dwelling spiritualist Gonjasufi is set to be released from Warp on Febuary 9th as a limited 7". With the success of the first single, Holidays, which featured a foil-printed 'prayer book' and sold out in less than a week, these small-run singles are looking more and more like collectors items in advance of Gonjasufi's debut full length, A Sufi and A Killer, out March 9th, which is already garnering big praise from peers and press. A-side track "Koyboyz & Indians" is featured on the forthcoming full length and shows off Gonja's distinctive voice shrouded with producer The Gaslamp Killer's 70s psychadelic middle-eastern samples and electronic touches, while the B-side is exclusive to this single, and is a slow burning sinister melding of mournful vocals-by-candlelight and a sleaze-infused funk.
Warp-9269
45
$4.50

Groundhogs
Solid [reissue]
PS, US In the tradition of the best bands of the era, the GROUNDHOGS took something known, like "the blues", and twisted it into something entirely new, so that over three decades later their sound still has a character all its own. Led by the extremely talented and inventive guitar wizard / idea-man TONY MCPHEE, with CLIVE BROOKS and PETER CRUICKSHANK as the hard-hitting rhythm section, Solid (1973) was one of a string of excellent albums by the band during this period, but on this album, the band really stretches out, boldly trying out a number of effects and instruments (mellotron, for example) mostly with great success.
VinylLovers
LP
$22.75

Guru Guru
Essen 1970 [reissue]
PS, US The third Essen Pop & Blues Festival took place in the Gruga Hall between 22 and 25 October 1970, and featured a set by GURU GURU. Garden of Delights has acquired the rights to these tapes. A lot of studio processing without any noticeable changes in the sound had become necessary to make the Guru Guru gig suitable for release. The 36-page color booklet contains everything a collector might be looking for: a detailed history of early Guru Guru, an 11-page discography, reprints of covers and partly unpublished band photos.
GardenofDelights-075
CD
$20.00

Hail The Size
I Can't Die In L.A.
PS, US 12 Original Songs by Charles Ezell & Matt North featuring Maria McKee (Lone Justice). Maria McKee sings three duets and lends her highly unsung piano talents to eight tracks. "Now that's a good record..." Steve Earle, Air America Radio. "Reminiscent of Townes Van Zandt." No Depression "A roots-rocking romp with more than a hint of Hayes Carll." Beat Surrender UK
GoodDrummer-001
CD
$11.00

Hammill, Peter
X My Heart (Remastered)
PS, US The pHQ undertook a number of tours after Roaring Forties and so it was natural that the (occasional) group was on Peter's mind when time came to record the next studio album. This was X My Heart. It might have been a blueprint for future work with the line-up, but in the event there were to be no more more live shows for this set-up. It features one of his most beautiful ballads, "Earthbound," which features heartfelt vocals and a gorgeous string accompaniment. "Narcissus (Bar & Grill)" will delight fans with its classic Hammill style, while "A Better Time" shows that he's one of the more underrated vocalists in rock music today. Definitely one of his finest, and a good place to start for newcomers to the unpredictable and challenging world of Peter Hammill.
Fie!-9111
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
This (Remastered)
PS, US A last hurrah for the Peter Hammill quartet came on This in 1998, though the contributions here were rather more individual than as a collective unit. One of Peter's most wide-ranging re-leases, this runs the gamut from an extended ambient piece, "The Light Continent", to some very direct near-pop songs.
Fie!-9118
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
Roaring Forties (Remastered)
PS, US Cargo UK brings three remastered recordings from the 1990s that cover the period in which Peter worked with the pH quartet - Manny Elias on drums, Stuart Gordon violin and David Jackson saxes. The sequence began with Roaring Forties, a set which included not only a long-form piece, "A Headlong Stretch," which recalled much of Peter's earlier work in breadth, ambition and complexity, but also some very direct approaches to songwriting and playing in "Sharply Unclear" and "Your Tall Ship."
Fie!-9107
CD
$13.75

Happy Hollows, The
Spells
PS, US The Happy Hollows' catchy yet dissonant sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90's college rock, garage punk, art rock, and 80's pop. Listening inspires visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious.
AutumnToneRecords-010
CD
$11.25

Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk
PS, US You may know Harvey Milk's "s/t" release as the Bob Weston Sessions, an unreleased full-length that has been floating around the .blogspot world for some time. This limited Tour Edition is the first time this record has been made available on a physical format and the audio has been re-mastered for a more enjoyable listening experience.
HydraHeadRecords-181
CD
$12.00

Hatakeyama, Chihei
A Long Journey
PS, UK I first met Chihei at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival in 2006. Its very fitting really because when I asked him a bit about the background of the album, Chihei described A Long Journey as follows: "An essential part of the album are my experiences when I went to Bellingham and San Francisco in 2006. I used field-recording material recorded in San Francisco. "A Long Journey" is a metaphor for life, my image of the journey of birth to death." Since I was a high-school student I have been interested in the Shinto religion of Japan. Shinto teaches us that everything has a spiritual essence (a "Kami"). This loosely translates as a spirit, or god even. There being a myriad of these Kami, they reside in everything but some places are considered to have a more scared spirit within them. Quite often these are rocks, rivers, trees, mountains and other such calming natural places, hence why so many shrines are built in such unique areas. Given the nature of A Long Journey, even the track titles themselves, I am reminded of how I feel when I visit these sacred places. Whilst people might not believe in religion and its after-thoughts, there is something about such places that creates a space within, a quiet space of peace and calm. In the music and indeed the titles themselves, it is this very feeling I get when I listen to A Long Journey. Its very focused on its field recordings, but it also highlights what a fabulously talented musician Chihei is, with very direct guitar-based pieces, as well as gorgeous piano elements. That it features the enormously talented (and future Home Normal artist) Federico Durand, only highlights its beautiful mystery (after all...Federico does much of his recording high up in the mountains of his native Argentina).
It was a heavy snowfall the winter we met in Bellingham, and we spent a few days together with good friends, enjoying the misty seas, views and snow-covered tree dense walks just outside the town. As Chihei made his way to San Francisco, it must have been quite a continuation of this feeling, with San Francisco's calming charm and gray misty views. The great thing about Kami is that they are not limited to Japan of course, they are found everywhere after all. If "A Long Journey" is a metaphor for life, then it is a life of peace and tranquility, filled with Kami, and that is not a bad journey at all. -- Ian Hawgood
HomeNormal-011
CD
$13.50

Henry Clay People, The
For Cheap Or For Free
PS, US The Henry Clay People are a rock and roll band from Los Angeles. With common comparisons to Pavement and The Replacements they play a type of no-frills, pretension-free rock that has sorely been missing from LA.
AutumnToneRecords-005
CD
$11.25

Hexes & Ohs
Bedroom Madness
PS, CANADA The story behind the Montreal-based electro pop duo begins with a pair of high school sweethearts and spans a decade of couplehood, musical projects and everything in between. With the release of their debut full-length Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover (2005) on Noise Factory Records, Edmund and Heidi have crafted their best, most focused work to date in the form of infectious pop compositions driven by the interplay of charming, glitchy electronics with engaging, sharp melodies. Their dynamic and energetic live show has earned them invitations to CMJ, Pop Montreal, Canadian Music Week, North By North East, Ladyfest, Halifax Pop Explosion and the CBC radio 3 national tour, sharing stages with indie legends like Mates of State, Sloan, Ivy, Japanther, as well buzz making newcomers Tokyo Police Club, Pony Up! and Most Serene Republic. Hexes & Ohs' debut album topped the campus radio charts, reaching the #2 position nationally and remaining in the top 10 for several months. The album's single "Whadaya Know?" also made CBC radio 3's list of top 50 singles of 2005.
NoiseFactory-753
CD
$13.50

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Seventeen
PS, US Prologue (in which...)
Pianist Eric Morrison and guitarist Andrew Deutsch meet in a performing arts high school in South Florida, and soon start collaborating on camcorder movies. The two ramble around various Floridian cities, moving from filmmaking to music. Eventually, they land in Tampa where they meet bassist Brad Truax and drummer Sean Martin and formally dub themselves Home (a nod to a fictional band in a soap opera they were writing). As the recordings started to pile up, they form a label/collective called Screw Music Forever and begin to offer $1 cassettes at local record stores. In a freak happenstance, one of these cassettes lands in the lap of a Relativity Records A&R man, who soon rolls up smoking large cigars and offering money for Home IX. After Home IX, Sean gets a hold of some bad shellfish and disappears for 10 years. Home carries on, making six more albums. Then, Sean reemerges, just as Brah Records befriends Home, with the notion of creating a musical tribute to fucking, resulting in Home's first Brah release, Sexteen. Phase I (in which...) The Home boys, in post-coital bliss return from traveling the land (metaphorically) having spent their wad on Home Sexteen and begin to envision an Alternate Reality (heretofore notated as "AR") from which to begin writing Home XVII. The basic story arc finds each member's life so suddenly destroyed that they are forced to all move back into a communal living space to start over and retreat to the poprock origins of their genesis. Par exemplar: A) Andrew returns home to find his entire apartment building decimated and all physical manifestations of his identity completely erased. B) Eric is excommunicated by his wife when she discovers he is a crossdresser and he embarks on a sweet but ill-conceived plan to win her back by exploding the sun on her birthday. C) Chris discovers that his lover is an android of unknown design and motive. etc./etc. Home converges in the Devils IsleWetLab Studio and records the skeleton tracks of Home XVII. Phase II (in which...) The Actual Reality (heretofore notated as "AR") Home embarks on a leisurely summer of overdubbery, during which they decide to tackle the long-overdue task of digitizing and mastering their first eight albums which have dangerously oxidized in a Makers Mark wooden box for nearly 15 years. Somewhere in analyzing these early recordings, Home becomes re-interested in the sound of songs in their genesis; the (wholley) imperfect object that is felt but not yet processed. Phase III (in which...) Each member of (AR) Home is cast about to their individual places of comfort to record their pressing concerns. The carefully crafted uber-story abandoned for passing fancy. The MS-16 fullness for the redline compression of a 4-track.When they reconvene, they sort through some 60+ songs to file down to the "new" Home XVII, a scattershot sampling of moments and perspectives that somewhat awkwardly leaves archeological traces of cross-dressing and identity destruction.
Jagjaguwar-015
LP
$12.25

Home Blitz
Out of Phase
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! "Here's the music that we've all been waiting for. It's called Out of Phase and it's the first full-length album from New Jersey's HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. Out of Phase forges a blazing thirtee- track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even Oi territories, and it's got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priest's Defenders of the Faith)."
RichieRecords-024
LP
$16.75

Honda, Yuka
Heart Chamber Phantoms
PS, US Versatile composer/performer who has worked with CIBO MATTO, YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON, MIKE WATT, etc. Mixing funky beats, hip samples, & instruments both acoustic & electric, Yuka's dramatic sense of sound & color creates a hypnotic groove for young moderns. Endlessly listenable,
her first CD in over 5 years is also her very best.
Tzadik-7722
CD
$15.25

Hood Vs. Duo 14
S/T
PS, US On sale: Limited edition 10" vinyl. Last 14 copies. A 4 song remix project with Duo Fourteen remixing Hood. Hood-dub. You gotta have it.
555-24
10
$6.25

Hot Cha Cha
World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars
PS, US The much anticipated debut full-length from the ladies of HotChaCha. Expanding upon many of the ideas laid out on their debut EP, and adding new instrumentation and sophistication of to their arrangements. The songs presented here run the gamut from staccato sing-a-longs to slowly building atmospheric explorations. Plus, you can dance to it.
ExitStencil-024
CD
$9.25

Hot Cha Cha
World's Hardest Working Telescope and the Violent Birth of Stars
PS, US Also available in LP! COMES WITH DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CODE.
ExitStencil-024
LP
$12.50

Howling Hex
Rogue Moon
PS, US The Hex go rogue, with this ltd.
early-Hex collage/montage LP on Golden Lab Recordings.
Rowf-014
LP
$20.50

Hutchens, Daniel
Love Songs For Losers
PS, US Drawing from the same well as the likes of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Hutchens grasps the duality of the American South and it's denizens -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
AutumnToneRecords-001
CD
$11.25

Ikonika
Sahara Michael / Fish
PS, US Hyperdub's original female producer Ikonika comes with this long-awaited release that lives up to all expectations, presenting two brilliant tracks that set the scene for her de-but album due early in 2010.
Hyperdub-029
CD
$10.50

Illusion of Safety
Probe
PS, US Reissue of 1992 album. DAN BURKE & JIM O'ROURKE examine an audio landscape found between youth & innocence, manufactured entertainment, &
suburban complacency. Using a pastiche of field recordings & suggestively composed elements, they strikingly capture ambivalence & their own personal interactions w/in this environment
PerditionPlastics-012
CD
$12.75

Indignant Senility
Plays Wagner: Part 1
PS, US Using a handful of dusty Wagner pieces, he has stretched & distorted the hallowed tones into something indescribably dark & beautiful. Like David Lynch's
peerless Eraserhead soundtrack before it, this is music that sounds as if you are being dragged through rusted pipes & hearing the distant swell of broken gramophones playing in unison. Music that is at all times exquisite but deeply disturbing. Like Leyland Kirby or even William Basinski, there is a sense of harmony, nostalgia & restraint in the layers of hiss, grit & noise
Type-058
LP
$20.00

Infinite Body
Carve Out The Face Of My God
PS, US Kyle Parker, better known as Infinite Body, is no stranger. He burrows deep inside what a song is, how to strip down something so far to where it just becomes two things, sound and feeling. Infinite Body started in August 2007, after performing and collaborating within the land of LA's harsh noise world (Haircut Mountain Transit, Gator Surprise, Men Who Can't Love). After years of making "Harsh" sounds with the other groups, Kyle started Infinite Body to encompass all things beautiful and began performing and recording this new project. On record, at times it can be hypnotizing and emotionally charging, other times it inspires you to think about life and drift off. Live it takes another form, learning the ropes from the noise world Infinite Body sets out to bliss out your mind, soul and ears by taking over your senses (he plays LOUD and he has a lot of lights that warp and dance with the music). It becomes an extremely vibrating, beautiful, and rewarding experiment. Infinite Body has toured with No Age two times, and was one of the openers on the "No Dearhunter Tour" (Dan Deacon, Deerhunter and No Age's collaborative round robin tour). After a self released CD titled "White Hymn", which has won over many listeners, and a few limited 12"s, Infinite Body recorded "Carve Out The Face Of My God" for PPM. It is a step in a new direction with swells, peaks, and valleys of ethereal noise and field recordings arranged for Infinite body's extreme contextual mind. This vaporous and concise recording effort marks Infinite Body's transition into deeper waters and opening up to the world around him. Feel free to write PPM HQ with any questions concerns or comments, this is definitely a record worth owning for multiple occasions and is intended for the realness of yourself.
PostPresentMedium-028
CD
$10.50

Infinite Body
Carve Out The Face Of My God
PS, US VINYL VERSION
PostPresentMedium-028
LP
$9.50

Interference
Viva La Interference
PS, US In recent years there has been no shortage of people trying to shine a light on the Downtown NYC music scene of the early 1980s. A redrafting has occurred with each book or box set, with a cast list being based upon whatever hope it at least challenges the convention, adding Interference to that list and suggesting that revisionists might have left a few stones unturned. Forming out of the musical insurgence that was the NoiseFest at White Columns Gallery in 1981; Interference Anne DeMaranis,David Linton and Michael Brown. DeMaranis had just parted ways with an early incarnation of Sonic Youth and co-curated the NoiseFest with . Linton had headed to NYC a few years earlier with then school/band mate Lee Renaldo, eventually hooking up with Rhys Chatham for a three year stretch. Brown, then a twenty six year old PhD candidate at NYU, had recently broke rank with Rhys Chatham and drafted a wholly unconventional percussive approach to the fender bass. From their inception through their eventual fragmentation 30 months later, Interference charted their course across the stages available to them: CBGB's, , etc., ultimately swelling to a quartet with the addition of fellow Rhys Chatham veteran Joe Dizney. In 1982 they recorded this LP at Radio City, engineered by and with guest appearances by Elliot Sharp and . Originally slated for release on Josh Baer and Glen Branca's legendary Neutral records, the record has remained unreleased, aside from a scant number of self-released cassettes. After the bands demise, Linton remained entrenched in the New York underground art and music scene, through involvement with , , and Soundlab, which lead him to the early 21st century downtown electronic scene. It was from here that David recruited the remixers which make up the forward thinking companion LP of this release: David Last,Doily and Criterion (Brooklyn Beats), Binsang AKA Toshio Kajiwara (Phenomena), QPE (Agriculture) and the 8-bit Gameboy tag team of Bubblyfish & glomag. is pleased to present the music of Interference both the original unissued LP, painstakingly remastered from the original master tapes, and couples it with an additional remix LP.
TheSocialRegistry-040
DLP
$14.25

Iron Bong
The Witchwoods
PS, US This is the third album from these mysterious Texas acid rockers, Iron Bong. The first two albums Big Hits and Holy Smoke sold out very quick. Holy Smoke is particularly collectible at this point. European, American and Japanese buyers have known Lost Worldwide now for years and have come to expect the finest psych today from the label. We do not do re-issues. We do cutting edge creative psych music of today. Iron Bong Big Hits climbed as high as #14 on the Italian Subterreanea Charts. Crohinga Well said of Iron Bong "one of the more recent and outstanding Texas bands with the guitar and songwriting powers of Drew Wallace backing them...Big Hits a heavy psyched out affair and one of the ultimate Texas psych albums". The Dallas Observer say's of Iron Bong "this album reminds us that punk rock is still the voice of dissent". Ptolemaic Terrascope says "positively a bong load of Texan acid psychedelia then, heading for your head and primed to cause maximum disruption on impact...a trip through every known psychedelic signature, all milled together into a hash cake of staggering proportions". The Witchwoods is a very melodic guitar ride with Talking Salamanders and Manimators. These songs rock very hard in the vein of Led Zeppelin mixed with the dark psych of the Butthole Surfers. The sweet production and vocals of Eno meet Spirit.
Lost-018
LP
$11.00

Jailbreak
The Rocker
PS, US Jailbreak is the duo of pedal steel/vocalist Heather Leigh and drummer Chris Corsano. The name foregrounds the kind of outlaw violence with which the two reformulate rock/roll instants by bringing free jazz fire power to amp-humping sex beats. Their musical alliance goes all the way back to the legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Fest, the birthplace of the 'New Weird America', where Corsano and his long-term saxophone partner Paul Flaherty joined Leigh and Christina Carter for a quartet show that took the roof off the building and the skin off their fingers. Since then Corsano and Leigh have worked together as part of Taurpis Tula and as members of Thurston Moore's Dream/Aktion Unit. Jailbreak play improvised music that dispenses with traditional notions of call and response or dialogue in favour of a profound simultaneity that would birth instant forms from the application of high energy strategies. Leigh's steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar sources and deforms them with overdriven electricity, playing a form of future-blues exploded by super-charged currents. Corsano detonates time, literally blows it to pieces, in favour of a profound polyrhythmic feel that would confuse past and future. Yet the whole thing rocks like it hasn't a braincell to spare, re-connecting avant garde tactics and ass-whooping rama-lama with alla the revolutionary fanfare of the most radical counter-cultural two-chord punk. 700 edition LP. "For those of you who've been worried that the Free Power Noize scene has become a little too tame, (and seriously who isn't somewhat concerned about that), a new screamin' creamin' duo - Jailbreak - expoldes to the rescue. The Rocker is a blast-furnace of blisteringly joyous witch-howling assaults on the essence of whips and chains and repressive injustice gone legal. Both of these magisterial musicians are capable of extreme dynamics and subtleties, but those concepts don't get in the way of this monster-truck of a record. And why should they when drums and guitar can slash and burn in a riotous electric smash fest like this crazed merry madcap of an album. Over the top . . . Way!" - Paul Flaherty, 10/10/09
FamilyVineyard-068
LP/DVD
$12.25

Johnston, Freedy
Rain on the City
PS, US Freedy Johnston seemingly went into hiding after 2001's Right Between the Promises, playing the occasional live gig, releasing an archival live disc, and putting together a collection of old four-track demos, but otherwise staying out of sight. Rain on the City marks his first collection of new songs since his tenure with the majors came to an end early in the decade, and while Right Between the Promises sometimes sounded like Johnston was forcing the cheerfulness after 1999's dour and downbeat Blue Days Black Nights, Rain on the City strikes a more comfortable balance between the bright and blue sides of Johnston's musical personality, and in terms of getting a sound that suits his songs, this is his most effective set since This Perfect World in 1994. Producer Richard McLaurin knows when to let the performances stay spare on "Lonely Penny" and "The Kind of Love We're In," and he also knows when and how to let Johnston rock, and when the guitars and drums kick in on "Don't Fall in Love with a Lonely Girl," the effect is nothing less than thrilling. Johnston also seems to have gotten his stride back as a songwriter, and these 11 tunes are full of the sharp but thoughtful wordplay and unique characters that make his best work so pleasurable; quite simply, it's hard to imagine anyone else writing something quite like "The Devil Raises His Own," "Venus Is Her Name," or the title track, and his dusty Midwestern tenor brings these stories to vivid life, which listeners can soak up like they would a good book. Rain on the City lacks the consistency of Johnston's masterpiece, Can You Fly, or its follow-up, This Perfect World, but unlike the albums that followed, this collection is a beautiful example of Johnston playing to his strengths and reminding us why he's one of the best and most singular American songwriters at work today. With any luck, it won't take quite so long for him to make something this comfortable but pleasantly surprising again. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Bar/None Records
CD
$13.00

Jukebox The Ghost
Let Live and Let Ghosts
PS, US Instantly catchy, piano-driven indie pop from Washington, DC's Jukebox The Ghost. Critics and fans rave about the group's quirky lyrics, inventive songwriting, and flamboyant, energetic live shows. They've performed with Ben Kweller, Regina Spektor, Kanye West, Le Loup, Ra Ra Riot, Tokyo Police Club, and Travis Morrison, among others. "Calling Jukebox The Ghost a 'mix between Ben Folds, They Might Be Giants, and Queen' certainly grabs my attention, especially when it turns out to be completely accurate" - VH1's Best Week Ever.
RebelGroup
CD
$15.00

Kerretta
Vilayer
PS, US Building on their reputation for intense instrumental rock, the first full length album from this New Zealand threepiece
combines catchy riffs with an often twisted heavy rock sensibility. Delicate guitar melodies & obscure atmospheres segue into brutal, driving rhythms on this
well-formed & multi-layered album. With catchy hooks scattered throughout, Kerretta stands apart from the paint by numbers delay pedal abuse bands of the past.
Midium-017
CD
$13.50

Kilbey, Steve & Martin Kennedy
Unseen Music/Unheard Words
PS, US Steve Kilbey's silky evocative voice seductively narrates his dreamy lyrics over Kennedy's cooly opiated atmospheric song structures, recalling nothing so much as The Church at their most stately, subdued and grand. For fans of: Brian Eno, Thievery Corporation, All India Radio & The Church
SecondMotion-015
CD
$13.75
Kings Go Forth
Don't Take My Shadow (Tom Moulton Remixes)
PS, US Kings Go Forth pivot from a garage-y Curtis Mayfield sound to swooping male harmonies that hearken back to the glory days of The Esquires with interchanging leads and heart-stopping falsettos. The in-your-face stomp of the drums go the beat heavy route of rap and hiphop while the pulse and swing of the bass owes as much to two-tone and ska as it does to James Jamerson. "Don't Take My Shadow" contains the mixes from famed producer Tom Moulton (invented the 12" single, the remix and the breakdown section(!)).
LuakaBop-4508
CD
$8.75

Konntinent
Opal Island
PS, UK Among many obvious definitions of the "heart" is this: "the vital center and source of one's being, emotions, and sensibilities." It's the first word I think of when I hear the work of Antony Harrison (the man behind the Konntinent moniker). And when you listen to his work, its really obvious why. The Konntinent sound is very much based on microelements I guess, at least this time around. Unlike his earlier drone-based work, "Opal Island" has much more of Antony's guitar playing to the fore, as it does the gorgeous vocals of Lisa Madisson on "Dry eyed" as well as Antony's own beautifully subtle singing. It has odd rhythms coming in and out, piano, weird glitchy sounds and tones I can't quite place. It's all in the craftsmanship you see. Its very rare to come across an artist who actually makes "songs" which can also be defined as "pieces" - and as such his work is so hard to place. All I am left to do is to go back to the image of the heart. In Japan, there is a faux-English usage of the word, made adjective...the Japanese say "heartful." Its on billboards, products and people use it all the time. Its basically used to describe something which is full of emotion and induces said emotion in others. Whilst the word admittedly does my head in when I am in Japan, in a nice and concise way it covers my feelings for the music Antony Harrison creates. Opal Island is a very "heartful" album, as Antony is himself a very "heartful" artist and songsmith.. And whilst linguists will not initially thank me, after hearing this record, you just might get what I mean. -- Ian Hawgood
HomeNormal-010
CD
$13.50

L/M/R/W
Drifts
PS, UK Four amazing musicians spread over three collaborations on one release. "Drifts" is an engaging and beautiful work. Three compositions / pieces of music / soundscapes / acoustic structures / audio landscapes are collected on the disc. Are they improvised? Are they composed? Are they structured? A combination of any possibility? Does it matter? L stands for Leo Fabriek adding harmonium to Birthday and subtle piano touches to Tegendraads. M stands for Mariska Baars who also composes solo as Soccer Committee but never is shy to engage in collaboration. The only "she" of the gang adds guitar and voice on Birthday and voice on Clay. R stands for Rutger Zuydervelt (aka Machinefabriek) and is the only one featured on all three tracks adding guitar, sampler, and effects and editing to Birthday and Tegendraads. On Clay he seems to control the controls. W stands for Wouter van Weldhoven who also releases solo compositions. On Birthday and Tegendraads he contributes tape recorders and melodica. The collaborators, the recordings and the title of the release fit perfectly together. Each track has a distinct and individual approach and voice of it's own. Track 1 Birthday has an almost static feel. Each sound seems to be frozen and locked in it and layered over and over each other until new overtones shine through the thick fog of sound creating an almost orchestral density. Track 2 Clay has a more quiet beginning. The sense of a voice fades in and takes over the piece. While the voice changes in pitch the track opens up like wings spreading further in the stereo field. After a peak the sounds slowly seem to be crawling back and hiding in the speakers leaving the voice on it's own again. Track 3 Tegendraads has a calming effect which lets the listener lean back and breathe while the piano notes drop randomly through the track like raindrops falling from the sky at the end of a storm. A voice speaks to the listener that has a soothing effect. The sounds and tones seem to stay more in place not wanting to move forward or backward while circling around and holding each other by the hand. A perfect ending to a superb release! Drifts drifts (1) and drifts (2) and drifts (3) and... SteinbrÃ1/4chel (www.synchron.ch).
HomeNormal-009
CD
$13.50

La Chansons
King & Queen Of The Dance Floor
PS, US Atlanta husband & wife dance pop duo, GREG & CARSON KELLER took their name from an old French children's book
found at Carson's parents' house. While their sound has progressed since their inception in 2004, their name "Chansons", meaning songs, still applies. Their focus has always been on writing songs that are catchy, well-crafted, & from the heart. As for the "La" in La Chansons, they still don't know if it's correct or not, but they don't really care. They like how it sounds, & it reminds them of singing.
Stickfigure-045
CD
$10.50

Land Of Talk
Fun & Laughter
PS, US Four new songs with 3 videos from "Some Are Lakes". Screen printed art designed by the band in a special limited edition package.
SaddleCreek-143
CD5
$7.25

Lazerlove5
Flicker Mask
PS, US This was released June 2005 but has only been sold via the band's website and live shows. With guest appearances from members of The Soft Boys and The Monochrome Set this album certainly falls into the quirky sarcastic smart pop category. Like it's influences, Lazerlove5's 2nd album blends 60's pop sense with post-punk edginess of the late 70's and early 80's. Bid (of the Monochrome Set), does an eerie Syd Barrett vocal on "Grouch" a song about a kid who loses his pet dog with an Alfred Hitchock twist ending? Song soundscapes range from full band to slide guitar to the sparseness of flamenco guitar, percussion and harmonies on the song "Id". During the Flicker Mask period, Lazerlove5 acted as the backing band for Bid, playing old Monochrome Set and Scarlet's Well songs for the band "The Unreal Scarlet's Well." Recommended for listeners who want to discover something new with each listen.
ReVelvet-001
CD
$9.75

Le Switch
And Now...Le Switch
PS, US Honky-tonk keyboards and fiddle ablaze, Le Switch give alt-country a riotous ragtime rip.
AutumnToneRecords-004
CD
$11.25

Leroy Franklin Starbird Band
Star Bird
PS, US In 1981, Leroy Franklin went into the San Antonio studio of Manny Guerra with a group of session musicians to record his 2-sided masterpiece, "Star Bird." The A-side, a spiritual, funky slice of Modern Soul, is reason enough for DJs & collectors to put this 45 in their box. The flip, a spontaneous anti-drug rap over "Star Bird's" instrumental track is a dancefloor filler. Recorded just over a year after "Rapper's Delight," "Star Bird II" is
quite possibly, the first Rap record ever recorded in Texas.
LightInTheAttic-45001
45
$9.50

Lid Emba
Terminal Muse: Red
PS, US The first installment in the 3 CD Terminal Muse series, dedicated to the disease of creative impulse. Fish-eye lensed precision, prog-inflected, electrik & organik.
"Think Autechre with a smile on it's face & a song in it's heart" - Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Stickfigure-046
CD
$10.50

Lilys
Zero Population Growth: Bliss Out v.15
PS, US Restock Vinyl LP. Serious Krautrock! It's the lost NEU! Record !!! It's no secret that Kurt Heasley has an uncanny knack for duplicating the sound of any pop/rock genre with all the authenticity and vitality of the original. His group The Lilys has always been an evolving and revolving meeting of musical friends for his whimsical recording and touring projects. And in this respect The Lilys latest incarnation is no different. But wait, this Lilys is entirely different from all previous. For Zero Population Growth, Kurt teamed up with long time fellow DC scenesters and artists in their own right Trevor Kampman (hollAnd) and Archie Moore (Velocity Girl, Lilys, Heartworms). The boys have collectively and successfully created a new Krautrock masterpiece modeled after NEU!, Harmonia, Kraftwerk. Zero Population Growth sounds absolutely, authentically period, Germany 1975. It is a medium, which Kurt, Archie and Trevor have all wanted to work in for some time. And Just as Kurt astonished so many with his keen ability to duplicate the Kevin Sheild's MBV sound, and was the first of many to do so, with In the Presence of Nothing (Slumberland/SpinART), and cop the The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles and The Beach Boys on subsequent releases Better Can't Make You Life Better (Che/Primary) and The Three Way (Sire), Kurt shows how exquisitely talented he is at recycling this genre. So, say Hallo zu der neu Lilies von Deutchland!!! All tracks were recorded at Studio 45 in Hartford, CT 12 track/1" by Kurt Heasley, Michael Deming and Rick Bogdan. Only period synthesizers and equipment was used. With direction from Kurt Heasley, all tracks were custom mixed by Trevor Kampman at his No Name Studio in WDC and by Archie Moore at Omega Studios, Rockville, MD. And it's part of the Bliss Out series!
Darla-091
12
$7.50

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
PS, US VINYL VERSION
SmalltownSupersound-159
LP
$15.00

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool
PS, US Special limited edition (1000) version with bonus tracks, includes remixes by AEROPLANE, IDJUT BOYS, PRINS THOMAS & DOLLE JOLLE. Christabelle aka SOLALE teams with Lindstrom to create a disco-pop full length. An edgy pop album of structured chaos & hypnotic beats. Lindstrom provided the structure for Christabelle to let loose & improvise most of the lyrics on the spot while they jammed. "One of my most anticipated albums of 2010" -Tim Breihan, Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-159
CD
$14.50

Little Girls
Concepts
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full length album on 180-gram vinyl. Previous release on Mexican Summer.
PaperBag
LP
$19.00

Little Girls
Concepts
PS, US After the success of their "Thrills" 12" on Mexican Summer, comes their proper full length release. Influenced by 80's no-wave post punk scene and the early 80's golden era of hip-hop. RIYL: Can, Joy Division, Wire and the Clean.
PaperBag-047
CD
$9.25

LoneLady
Intuition
PS, US Intuition follows the release of the first single from LoneLady, Immaterial. The A-side of the single is 'Intuition' taken from the debut album 'Nerve Up' (released on February 23rd) and the B-side is a cover of The Fall's track 'Hotel Bloedel'.
Warp-9289
45
$4.50

Los Campesinos!
Romance Is Boring
PS, US Filled out w/ added brass, strings, drum machines & electronics, packed w/ guest spots from the likes of Jamie Stewart (XIU XIU), Zac Pennington (PARENTHETICAL GIRLS) & Jherek Bischoff (DEAD SCIENCE)
Arts&Crafts-502
CD
$15.25

Los Campesinos!
Romance Is Boring
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Arts&Crafts-502
LP
$21.75

Lowe, Robert A.A. & Rose Lazar
Eclipses
PS, US Full-length of music from ROB LOWE (LICHENS) packaged with 12" X 36" double-sided color poster feat. artwork of LOWE & ROSE LAZAR. An extension of the Gyromancy art book+CD, Eclipses pushes out beyond natural terrestrial landscapes into those slightly more cosmic or alien in scope.
Recorded at home utilizing semi-modular & polyphonic analogue synthesizers. LP-only release, limited to 750, incl. download coupon,
ThrillJockey-234
LP
$14.00

Machinefabriek
The Breathing Bridge
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD. For the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010, processed field recordings from the Erasmus Bridge.
Tracks:
1. The Breathing Bridge
2. The Breathing Water
Machinefabriek-006
CD5
$10.00

Machinefabriek
Slovensko
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD! Heavily treated field recordings from Slovakia.
Machinefabriek-005
CD5
$10.50

Machinefabriek
Nerf
PS, NETHERLANDS 3" CD. Three tracks made with edited acoustic and electric guitar recordings. Very minimal.
Machinefabriek-004
CD5
$10.50

Magnetic Fields
Realism
PS, US Vinyl version!
Nonesuch-519594.1
LP
$19.00

Magnetic Fields
Realism
PS, US With no synths, no drum kits, and every instrument unplugged, the pristine Realism is the flip-side to the brash noise-pop of The Magnetic Fields' 2008 Distortion. Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt calls it "folk," but with is wide range of instrumentation and orchestrated arrangements, says Merritt, "Realism is a more kaleidoscopic approach to a genre."
Nonesuch-519594.2
CD
$15.50

Major Stars
Return To Form
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Drag City
LP
$14.50

Major Stars
Return To Form
PS, US Major Stars atomized you to bits on the last record and only now are you returning to a fully formed entity. And here, Major Stars will blow you to pieces again: 8 pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. The guitars trio of WAYNE ROGERS, KATE VILLAGE & TOM LEONARD is into their 3rd full album as the signature rock of the easties - more likened to the sounds of Motorpsycho than any of that psych-rock these days.
Drag City
CD
$12.50

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love
PS, US Malakai is Hebrew for 'angel.' It's also the name of the red-haired kid from Children Of The Corn. From which the band's name is derived. Why we're not exactly sure. Malakai, strictly speaking, are a duo. They're from Bristol, England. They aren't part of a scene, but they reflect the Bristol vibe these days: groups with dubstep running through their bones, hip hop in the fingers, '60s psychedelia in the heart. At times, the album sounds like a Jamaican garage rock band. Other time it sounds like Merseybeat if the beats were supplied by RZA. Or like Dick Dale surfing the River Severn.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Male
All Are Welcome
PS, US Re-promo/reintroduction. This title was released last year and has been recalled from CID. Male is Jonathan Krohn and Ben Mjolsness, an improvisational duo working with other experimental and jazz artists from the Chicago area. Their debut, All Are Welcome was founded on the concept that each element be recorded in one take. Each musician was assigned a time to show up, had the option of listening to the tracks that Mjolsness and Krohn produced the first day, and recorded. Jeremy Lemos (White/Light) lent his expertise in the recording and mixing process but aside from cutting incidentals, the songs remained the same.
OtherElectricities-016
CD
$12.25

Manana
Interruptions
PS, US Powerful, stirring & epic soundscapes influenced by Mew & Sigur Ros.
Quince-076
CD
$14.25

Mas Rapido
Dumb Is King!
PS, US Third album under the Mas Rapido banner from Frank & Donna, the duo formerly known as Toothpaste 2000 and before that Cowboy & Spingirl. Guitar-pop supremo!
Parasol-CD-118
CD
$10.00

MC5
Anthology 1965-1971
PS, US ANTHOLOGY 1965-1971 represents a hearty two-disc helping of the Five, more comprehensive than previous collections. Present, of course, is the original uncensored version of "Kick Out the Jams," along with a number of alternate and live versions of their most famous songs. Spin (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "With their dimed amps, teased fros, and roach-clip politics, the Motor City Five kicked out the hardest, most American rock of the era..."
Cleopatra - CLE8754
DCD
$13.00

Medication
This Town
PS, US The one-man home-recording project has built itself up into a fully-automated live band over the past year, but the seductive recordings contained herein, lush in their simplistic, beautiful morosity & minimally-orchestrated fragility, have continued to seep into the fabric that defines the season better than any other modern contenders. Mikey Hyde's songwriting development is steeped in the winning revelatory combination of isolation & reverberation, and as the static-laden echoes rise & fall against the imaginary backdrop of your mind, it's tough to fight off the therapeutic effects Medication will have on your physical & mental well-being.
HoZac-049
LP
$12.75

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 13
PS, US Volume 13 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 12
PS, US Volume 12 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Mess Folk
Something I Remember
PS, US With an immediate slop/savant aesthetic that conjures a drooling, drugged-out & agitated ball of putrescence, Mess Folk keep their blurry message straight to the point & deliver three devastating punk cuts simmering in anxiety, depression & the delusional inner turmoil that sets in after months of cabin fever. The deranged, discombobulated vocals go so perfectly with the frantic razored guitar slashings & choppy songwriting that eeks out resemblances of discarded Electric Eels & Urinals ruination/infatuation, radiating with a sticky familiarity you just can't quite put your finger on
HoZac-046
45
$6.00

Mickey
She's So Crazy
PS, US Rather than run down the list of their various past projects, it's best to take Mickey for exactly what they've become: a top-notch gutter-level glitter punk band that runs circles around everyone else, both live & now on record. What makes them special are the combined forces of experienced & inexperienced nuances that really shine on their recordings and will soon show the world how their now signature brand of glammed-up/dumbed-down shambolic pop music can hold up incredibly well under any circumstances"
HoZac-048
45
$6.00

Midlake
The Courage Of Others
PS, UK The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith's sweeping vocals. Recorded over the course of two years in their Denton, Texas studio, The Courage of Others is the result of the band's quest to create a complete work. It is an album in the classic sense, meant to be digested in a single sitting and given the opportunity to become more than its constituent parts. Here the band blends early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars to propel themselves toward new sounds and emotions. Creeping and epic, The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music's most unique torchbearers.
BellaUnion-00224
CD
$12.00

Midlake
Acts of Man b/w Rulers, Ruling All Things (ON SALE)
PS, UK Limited-edition 180g 12" vinyl featuring 2 tracks from the band's highly anticipated new full-length, The Courage of Others, due out in February. Includes a DL code for both songs!
BellaUnion-228
12
$7.25

Midway Still
I Won't Try: The Collection
PS, US 2005 release. This 2CD set from the U.K.'s early-'90s pop-punk band Midway Still compiles the very best from their two albums -- 1992's Dial Square, produced by Don Fleming, and 1993's Life's Too Long, produced by Leatherface's Frankie Stubbs -- along with bonus live tracks and demo versions. Midway Still's sound was that of gorgeous, unbalanced hardcore pop-punk. Their brilliant, critically acclaimed single "I Won't Try" made NME's list of singles of the year for 1991. Also included is a cover of My Bloody Valentine's "You Made Me Realise."
Fire
DCD
$18.50

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971
PS, UK Mighty Baby are one of the best-loved bands to have emerged from Britain's late 1960s underground, and this is the fullest live record of them in existence. Taped as they opened for Quintessence at Malvern's Winter Gardens on February 20th, 1971, the set finds the quintet poised between the driving psychedelia of their 1969 debut and the more contemplative sound of their second and final album, A Jug Of Love. It's rounded off by two bonus tracks recorded at Glastonbury in June of the same year, and comes complete with a booklet featuring rare images and notes from band members Ian Whiteman and Mike Evans, making it an essential artIfact for the Babe's many admirers.
Sunbeam-5064
CD
$16.25

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971
PS, UK VINYL VERSION Gatefold jacket.
Sunbeam-5064
DLP
$31.25

Miller, Phil/In Cahoots
All That
PS, US REPRESS! Supergroup of English jazz & rock players including Phil Miller (DELIVERY) & members from SOFT MACHINE
Cuneiform-181
CD
$13.75

Mixtapes & Cellmates
Rox
PS, JAPAN Stockholm combo Mixtapes & Cellmates return with "Rox," their highly anticipated second album. Previous albums and EPs were compared with The Radio Dept and Postal Service. The band is now a 5 piece with a new drummer and three lead singers. While the rock elements of guitar feedback, up-down rhythms, and judicious keyboard usage hint at the influence of Primal Scream's "Give Out But Don't Give Up", the group's distinct melodies and fantastic song writing are intact and better than ever. "Rox" was engineered by Johan Gustafsson (Last Days of April) and recorded at Studio Grondahl. The Japanese edition of "Rox" features two exclusive bonus tracks: "Summer" and "Apoidea."
QuinceRecords-77
CD
$14.75

Mojo
#196 (March 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Mojo
#195 (February 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Mondo Drag
New Rituals
PS, US Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
CD
$13.00

Mondo Drag
New Rituals
PS, US Limited Edition LP on colored vinyl. Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
LP
$13.00

Moonface
Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums
PS, US This is physically available only in the vinyl format (approximately 20 minutes of music on a single side of a 12-inch record). It is also available in digital formats. The vinyl edition and some digital editions will be accompanied with a dream journal, on which the music is based.
Jagjaguwar-146
12
$11.50

More, Mandy
But That Is Me [reissue]
PS, UK First time on CD! UK theatrical singer Mandy More's sole album was released without fanfare in the UK in June of 1972 on the Philips label. Featuring gorgeously melodic baroque pop sung with power and emotion and truly skilled orchestration (including a groovy, cowbell-embellished cover/reinterpretation of "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys), it has developed a devoted following and makes its long-awaited CD debut here. An enigma for decades, Mandy's story is told for the first time in the accompanying booklet, which also contains previously-unseen photographs. The set is completed by five non-LP single sides and an entire second disc of alternative takes and demos from the same period that the album was recorded, making it truly essential for all fans of classic singer-songwriting.
Sunbeam-5073
DCD
$22.25

Mummies
Death By Unga Bunga
PS, US EXCLUSIVE! REPRESS!! CD only Mummies release! What the fuck! For the first time ever: 22 tracks of pure fool's gold, like you've never heard them before...now, with bass! Apparently THE MUMMIES did have a bass player, as these master tapes reveal. Tracks culled from their now ridiculously overpriced, collector's item 45s, incl a very special, never before released, hide-the-salami bonus track
Estrus-2100
CD
$13.00

Muslimgauze
Uzi Mahmood
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Uzi Mahmood was recorded to satisfy a specific request. Soleilmoon wanted a 12-inch single that DJs could play in nightclubs. The idea was to introduce MUSLIMGAUZE to a potentially enormous new audience. Two weeks after agreeing to record a disco album for Soleilmoon, Uzi Mahmood was delivered to the label. But instead of the agreed on two or three tracks, he sent an eleven song compact disc, followed a week later by a 90-minute digital audio tape containing the entire CD plus two more pieces. Four songs were eventually selected for the experiment, and in the spring of 1998 a dirty-and-dubby 12-inch EP was released. Two more songs were later used to replace a pair of corrupted tracks on the master tape for Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass, released on CD in 1999. The music was well received by fans, but the hoped-for dance floor revolution never happened, and the little record with the unconventional beats went out of print a few years later. Fast forward to the present: The year is 2009 and the four-song EP has been out of print for more than five years, seven more songs lie waiting in the vault, still unreleased, and the two tracks tacked onto Hussein Mahmood Jeeb Tehar Gass are the only ones in wide circulation. Now available as a two CD set. Disc one has the eleven tracks from the original master, disc two has the two extra songs that came on the DAT.
Soleilmoon-161
DCD
$16.75

MV & EE
Home Comfort
PS, US Here is the first ever all live LP of MV & EE material and it is the perfect example of the scene in the tapers pit. The familiar tunes which have become staples in their set shine with an unheard intensity with killer solos and sonic excursions into the unknown, and then there is the deep of their singular 'environments', their space which manages to showcase the pastoral freakouts and cosmic raga forms so singular to this unique band. Home Comfort distills the gems of their live shows onto sweet wax. For those familiar with MATT and ERIKA's cottage label Heroine Celestial Agriculture, known to the heads as 'Heroine,' this LP reads like a best of curated by the 'you are there' Swingin' Pig and the results are a stunning cross section of their duo exchange, funky trio with WOODS' JEREMY EARL and big band exploratory stomp with DOC DUNN, MUSKOX, and WILLIE LANE of the GOLDEN ROAD. Here is the true sound of MV & EE with the songs, the extended jams and the feeling. This seminal duo and all they sail with need to be heard live and need to be heard live often, what a glorious document from the tapers pit. That's tapers pit twice in a paragraph, class. Peace."-Woodsist. Limited to 550 copies.
Woodsist-039
LP
$14.75

MV & EE
Live Road
PS, UK This is different from Woodsist's recent live LP, apparently. Collection of very recent live excursions with MV & EE, all high quality recordings from shows in November 2009. The A side opens with a MV/EE duo performance of 'Mine All Troubled Blues' from Art Damage Lodge, Cincinnati, OH on 20/11/09. This heads straight into two interpretations of 'Environments', one from Project Lodge, Madison, WI which again is just raw MV/EE action, but the second features an enhanced line up with Muskox and Doc Dunn. The two versions are blurred together into one long blazing 11 minute space jam. The flip side opens with the classic blues soaked 'Tea Devil' with Erika's laid back vocals backed with MV's rippling guitar shreds, Rongoose's (Ron Schneidermann of Sunburned/Spirit of Orr/Pewt'r) heavy bass bliss outs, and Chris Corsano showcasing a slow moving stoned out drum kit. Straight from here we head into a completely trance-inducing psychedelic haze of wild jamming with a totally different version of 'Environments'. The whole of the Bside was recorded with Chris and Ron at Bank Row, Greenfield, MA. Edition of 400 pressed on heavyweight vinyl with hand stamped labels in black and white pro printed wrap around jackets with cover art by Jeremy Earl of Woods/Woodsist Records."
BlackestRainbow-165
LP
$19.00

My Brightest Diamond
Shark Remixes
PS, US The music of My Brightest Diamond lends itself well to remixes. Shara Worden's exquisite voice provides the perfect lead (or backing track) for any sort of deconstructing
or restructuring of her original music. My Brightest Diamond and Asthmatic Kitty desired to create a cohesive and conceptual project as opposed to a mere remix album. They brought on four remixers (Alfred Brown, DM Stith, Son Lux and Roberto Carlos Lange (Epstein, Savath and Savalas, ROM) and commissioned them to each create a separate EP of remixed material. The EPs are beautifully packaged and hand numbered (edition of 1500) and signed by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond.
AsthmaticKitty-039
DCD
$18.25

Mycale
Book Of Angels Volume 13
PS, US A whole new approach to Masada music: Expressive & passionate vocalists BASYA SCHECTER, AYELET ROSE GOTTLIEB, MALIKA ZARRA, &
SOFIA RREI KOUTSOVITIS come together in an intimate a cappella setting to interpret 11 songs from Zorn's remarkable Book of Angels. Dynamic & evocative New Jewish Music.
Tzadik-7378
CD
$15.25

Myelin Sheaths
Do The Mental Twist
PS, US As each song contained within offers up a thundering blast of icy guitars & pulse-pounding rhythms, each more intense than the last, Myelin Sheaths have found a perfect
platform to desecrate the chill & melt the frozen wilderness around them. The endlessly reverberated dual male/female vocals blend together on the b-side's "Drugstore Pharmacy" so well that you can feel the sky open up & suck you straight into heaven, as it washes away the troubles clouding your weary consciousness
HoZac-047
45
$6.00

Native
Wrestling Moves
PS, US In April 2009, Native began recording their debut full-length, "Wrestling Moves" with producer Chris Common (Pelican, These Arms Are Snakes) at Red Room Studios in Seattle, WA. The album has already drawn comparisons to 90's post-hardcore acts like Braid, Jawbox, and At The Drive In
SargentHouse-027
CD
$8.75

Nerve City
Red Tops
PS, US Ease the winter solitude with 3 impeccably satisfying noisy folk vibrations from Nerve City, one of the brightest home-recording projects to explode into a gripping live band, all the while holding a line of desperate tension & aggressive simplicity. Strong handle on jangling 60s guitar & misanthropic melody coupled with savage recording methods. Debut LP out soon on Sweet Rot, 12"" EP out soon on Sacred Bones
HoZac-045
45
$6.00

New York Art Quartet
Old Stuff
PS, US Previously unheard recordings from 1965. Released on the 45th anniversary of the "October Revolution in Jazz"
Cuneiform-300
CD
$13.75

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-424
LP
$14.50

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett
PS, US Her most tightly coiled long-player yet, a heavy handful of songs that are reaching for the ripe & the light. An intense devotional,
a determined spirit journey & a collection of great slow-dance songs. Throughout the album we see Scout in deep focus. She's in an empty space & her voice snaps
against the walls, behind weird shadows we can't make out. The songs string together, almost as one, her guitar growls & bites, and the black velvet of space hovers. Just when the tension in the room & the filament of guitar can't glow any brighter, suddenly a band erupts, accompaniment to her vision - and then back down to Scout & guitar.
DragCity-424
CD
$13.25

Nice Nice
Sea Waves
PS, US Nice Nice's Sea Waves is the 2nd single leading up to their debut album (April 6th). Sea Waves is a sprawling psychedelic monolith, the song introduces itself with an imposing frenetic rhythm before breaking apart into a glorious sonic kaleidoscope, and is backed with non-album track 'We Stayed'.
Warp-9290
45
$4.50

Night Control
Life Control
PS, US The follow up to last year's Death Control CD that garnered such praise, Life Control is an experiment further into the forays of the disjunct and fractured pop music that CHRISTOPHER CURTIS SMITH is so akin to producing. Life Control sees NIGHT CONTROL venturing further into the dark depths of sonic experimentation and ambience, circling back around to Derrida's deconstruction theory and applying it to pop music. Sounds are manipulated, affected and tortured into loosely structured pop gems covered in organic acoustic guitars, blown out guitars and some of the most interested mixes of live and programmed drums. Expect to see this CD all over the place once again as Night Control has brought their signature sound to the next level of weird and interesting. This is the perfect soundtrack or city walking.
KillShaman-042
CD
$13.50

Northern Portrait
Criminal Art Lovers
PS, US Highly anticipated debut album from distinguished Danish band Northern Portrait! Following the very well received "Fallen Aristocracy" and "Napoleon Sweetheart" EPs in 2008, the band spent most of 2009 refining its live set with shows in the UK, Denmark, Germany and USA including performances at the prestigious San Francisco Popfest and Indietracks Festival. These shows also provided an opportunity to preview some of the songs that comprise "Criminal Art Lovers" to favorable response. The resulting ten-track album is a triumph for the band that solidifies their status as one of indiepop's most loved new bands.
Matinee-054
CD
$12.25

Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris
Live At Jazz Festival Saalfelden
PS, US The second full length release by the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris documents their stunning European debut performance at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2007, one of the best creative music events in the last three decades. Beautifully captured by ORF (Austrian Radio), the music exposes in a dramatic way the relentless creative energy and versatility of this unique living organism that defies any categorizations and represents a total encounter in the moment. Nublu Orchestra is assembled from the multifaceted range of musicians that call Nublu home. Band-members from Brazilian Girls, Wax Poetic, Kudu, I Led 3 Lives, and regular Nublu guests Graham Haynes and Eddie Henderson all sit under the baton of Butch Morris, the inventor of Conduction(r).
CD-NUB-022
CD
$9.00

Nurse With Wound
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine & an Umbrella
PS, US Reissue of classic 1979 debut album from one of the most important & influential industrial noise bands of all time. Includes bonus material, plus an expanded booklet
UnitedJnana-2003
CD
$16.00

Oh No Ono
Eggs
PS, US Oh No Ono is an experimental pop quintet from the tiny Danish town of Aalborg. Their music, intricate and otherworldly, defies conventions and expectations (and sometimes gravity). The ten dense, hypertextured sour-sweet-sad opuses found on their US debut album, Eggs, are truly breathtaking to behold; the band creates bewitching pop symphonies that unfold themselves more with each successive listen.
FriendlyFireRecordings-015
CD
$13.75

OK Go
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
PS, US Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it - a compelling follow-up to OK Go's acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No.
Capitol
CD
$12.00

Okapi
Love Him
PS, US On Love Him, Italian turntablist & sampling artist, okapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of
more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896- 1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolery
& slot- machine soundcards, lies the break-NOT- core, bubble-gum experimental turntablism of this new full-length from Italy's own "Daft Giraffe.
IllegalArt-020
CD
$13.00

Out of Focus
Four Letter Monday Afternoon [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Double CD reissue of their third album, originally issued in 1972. Final double album by more jazzy underground rockers/bonus track.
Kuckuck
DCD
$25.00

Out of Focus
S-T [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Reissue of the 2nd album by this group, originally issued in 1971. Second psych rock album/rock from Germany/guitar, flute, organ/long tracks.
Kuckuck
CD
$14.25

Ovo/Claudio Rocchetti
Split
PS, US The dark mist of guitar scrape & crunching drums of OVO meet the cinematic musical landscapes of the deconstructivist deejay CLAUDIO ROCCHETTI (3/4HADBEENELIMINATED, OLYVETTY). 2 songs by the duo recorded during the "Crocevia" session and 1 track of old records & dusty analogue instruments sounds by Rocchetti
Wallace
45
$8.00

Pale Sunday
Shooting Star EP
PS, US Fantastic new single from adored Brazilian indie-pop heroes Pale Sunday! The band debuted on Matinee in 2003 with the incredibly popular single "A Weekend with Jane" and made loads of new friends with their 2005 album "Summertime" The first new recordings from the band in over four years, the exclusive new "Shooting Star" EP proves the band still has the gift of writing modern indie-pop classics with superb melodies and sing-along choruses.
Matinee-073
CD5
$6.75

Patton, Charley
Moon Going Down: Electrically Recorded [reissue]
PS, US One of the earliest figures in American music, CHARLEY PATTON is not only often credited with being the father of the Delta Blues, but perhaps equally importantly was one of the first true "rock stars" of American music. Not that he played rock music, but he acted like a modern rock star: flashy clothes, flashy stage performances, virtuoso guitar playing, and a "live fast / die young" lifestyle. The tracks found here feature another giant of the Delta blues: WILLIE BROWN. Although Willie Brown was an accomplished vocalist and his guitar playing was second to none, Brown was perhaps best known as a sideman (and for his seminal "Make Me A Pallet On The Floor"), accompanying Robert Johnson, Son House and, as heard here, Charley Patton. He appeared on many of Patton's sessions recorded between 1930-1934 and his amazing guitar playing can be heard here on "Moon Going Down," "Some Summer Day," as well as on his own "Dry Well Blues." Much of the material recorded here was recorded in 1934 in NYC, just months before his death. "Hang It On The Wall" and "Poor Me." recorded in February, were the last songs he ever recorded.
Monk-311
LP
$22.25

Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Vice-80014
LP
$16.00

Pierced Arrows
Descending Shadows
PS, US Members of DEAD MOON. Rock 'n' roll that's rough, ragged, & honest
Vice-80014
CD
$13.50

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer
PS, US The Flexible Entertainer is Pit Er Pat's fourth full length album and their first as a completely re-imagined duo. The new material was mostly recorded live and incorporates electronic and acoustic drums seamlessly. The energy is high and exhilarating. Play it multiple times at high volume for the best listening results. The instrumentation is electric guitar, synthesizer, voices, kick drum, snare drum, crash cymbal, hi hat, MPC, melodica, conga and cuica. "Sharp like darts, [Pit Er Pat's] brightly kinetic songs soar, swoop and attack." - Time Out NY
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ThrillJockey
LP
$14.00

Poirier
Low Ceiling
PS, US So with his past as an influence and drawing on the current heavy cross over of electronic music/reggae & dancehall (which he in part has contributed heavily to), Poirier set about rounding out this three EP series with four instrumental bangers that have as much in common with Caribbean music hybrids as they do with classic techno (particularly of the Detroit variety) It's four tracks of minimal percussion, 808 kicks, and stabbing synths. All party starters in their own right and when compiled with the other EP's shows the diversity of Poirier's production...and that you don't always need a vocal to run the dance.
ISI-ZEN-12253
12
$9.00

Polysics
Absolute Polysics
PS, US 8th studio album. Their unique brand of synth/guitar fueled punk rock nods to everyone from Devo, XTC and Melt-Banana. Fourteen high-energy tracks firing on all cylinders.
MySpace-10200
CD
$13.00

Postdata
Postdata
PS, US Postdata is Paul Murphy of Wintersleep's first solo effort. Recorded at home in Nova Scotia with his brother Michael, spliced together from "thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams", this self titled debut is a beautiful and haunting album. Postdata will be released January 26th, 2010.
SillyOldSongsProductions-001
CD
$8.75

Predator
Honest Man
PS, US BRANNON GREENE & MIKE "BISON" BEAVERS cranked out brilliant hardcore punk as FRANTIC, & now (along with JOHN NECRO) they summon up the same youthful attitude & dark ingenuity they nailed before. Forerunners in the Atlanta punk scene after only a few months. Full length out soon on Douchemaster
Rob'sHouseRecords-055
45
$5.50

Priestess
Prior to the Fire
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Their combination of crunching riffs, hard-driving rhythms, and howling vocals isn't exactly unique, but their spin on the sound, which adds some touches of classic, early-'80s pre-glam metal to the usual blend of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, et. al, has a lot of appeal. This is a band that knows how to crank it up and boogie... It seems like Priestess, with their occasionally outsized ambition and their way with a melodic hook, could be retro hard rock's answer to Muse."
TeePee
CD
$13.00

Purling Hiss
S-T
PS, US Purling Hiss is one of Philly's Best! Purling Hiss is the side-project of Holy Mountain recording artists, Birds of Maya, guitarist Mike Pollize. Birds of Maya are a full-on psychedelic rock band from Philly. Apparently, Birds just aren't full-on enough to satisfy Pollize's far-out tendencies. On his debut solo record, Pollize plays bass, drums, and guitar, relentlessly, as if he's playing to save his life. This recording is so intense that the pressing plant told us they'd risk breaking their equipment if they cut the lacquers with the original master. We sent 'em a new master and it sounds great! For Fans Of: Birds of Maya, Earthless, Loop, High Rise, Les Rallizes Denudes, and lo-fi blown-out psych. First pressing is limited to 333 copies!!!
Permanent-010
LP
$18.75

Quail Lungs
Dumb DaDaDum
PS, US Quail Lungs is a mysterious song writing project from cardinal human, and Portland Oregon resident Travis Bonilla; and others? PPM is putting this 7" out because it sounds like something we found... 'cause we did. We've never even seen this guy play live, but the songs are top quality and just dark enough to ask questions. Do Quail Lungs like Syd Barret and large amounts of coffee? Do they like The Kinks enough to try them with Morphine? How come we can't stop listening to the A side "Dum Dadadum" and the B side "You Can't Believe in Anything, You Can't Believe in Nothing"? Expect more music and crafting, but maybe no more answers? Quail Lungs for 2010 is a good look, get into it. Limited to 500 Copies.
PostPresentMedium-029
45
$4.25

Rashomon
Finishing Line
PS, US 2nd full-length album from Rashomon (aka GUAPO founding member MATT THOMPSON) is a sonic re-imagining of John Krish's film "The Finishing Line" as a haunted meditation on the power of memory, drawing the listener into a claustrophobic sense of unease & mounting horror. An amalgam
of library music, 1970s prog soundtracks, musique concrete & spectral jazz, the music is by turns creepy, terrifying, artless then all the way back to creepy again
Hinterzimmer-007
CD
$17.50

Ratas del Vaticano
S-T
PS, US Four songs by the great Monterrey, Mexico punk band, their first release after their Siltbreeze-released LP, their Killed By Death-meets-Dead Moon punk winning over audiences across the US. Along with their neighbors Los Llamarados, XYX, and Inservibles, Ratas play a large part in the recent resurgence of Mexican punk & general musical weirdness that has caught on this side of the border
Volar-003
45
$6.25

Rauelsson
La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha
PS, US Features LAURA GIBSON. RIYL: Juana Molina, Bon Iver
Hush-090
LP
$19.25

Real Estate
Heights
PS, US ***PLEASE NOTE: First pressing sold out! Once we blow through our batch we'll be taking pre-orders for the next allotment. Comes w/DL codes. Real Estate's Martin Courtney (songwriter, vocals, guitar), Alex Beeker (bass) and Matthew Mondanile (guitar; also of Ducktails and Predator Vision) all hail from suburban New Jersey and their songs evoke the soft bliss of giving your formative, teenage years enough time to waste and beer upon which to glug. Joined now by suburban Massachusetts' Etienne Duguay on drums, the fact that Real Estate only ever sound like a gaggle of grown-up teenage pals is testament to the ease of carving out your own niche in a town that's the same as countless others across America.
MexicanSummer
12
$15.75

Record Collector
#371 (January 2010)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Record Collector
#372 (February 2010)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits
PS, US The five subjects in sequence of appearance are: Wile E. Coyote, the Warner Bros. cartoon character; George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, former presidents of the United States of America; John Wayne, the actor; and Ad Reinhardt, the artist. Their portraits in words & music will hang in the halls of
your mind, taking shape as their features are described against backdrops of familiar & characteristic music performed by Red Krayola (Alex Dower, Tom Rogerson, Q, Tom Watson, Jim O'Rourke, Mayo Thompson, Gina Birch). Songs include "Texas Our Texas," "Georgia on My Mind," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Piano Sonata No. 6" and more.
DragCity-384
CD
$13.25

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-384
LP
$14.50

Retribution Gospel Choir
2
PS, US Vinyl version w/DL codes. Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. 2 is Retribution Gospel Choir's 2nd full-length and Sub Pop debut! Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Retribution Gospel Choir
2
PS, US Sometimes, it just needs to be loud. For the members of Retribution Gospel Choir, that time is now. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. The rough heft, aggressive dynamics and emotional release found on the 10 tracks on 2 will surprise fans of Low's gorgeously restrained, spartan rock 'n' roll. Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Richter, Max
Memoryhouse [reissue]
PS, US Originally released in 2002 but long out of print, Max Richter's gorgeous debut album will finally see a much-awaited reissue via FatCat's 130701 imprint. Recorded by Richter with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and critically lauded on its original release, Memoryhouse is quite deservedly held very dear to the broad-reaching "post-classical" field. Championed as much in musical academia as by fans of film score and of contemporary music, Richter's pieces share common ground with composers such as Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and Steve Reich in their depth, patience and articulacy, but also capture the swooning serenity and grace of quieter moments from Sigur Rós or Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Contemporaries Nico Muhly, Eluvium, Jóhan Jóhansson, or labelmate Hauschka provide a loose comparison point, but Max's evocative sense of vision is stunningly singular,as is his extraordinary ability to suddenly open up a piece of music like opening one's eyes to glorious sunshine. Memoryhouse is bright, sparkling, exhilarating, warming, gripping, heartbreaking, comforting and rousing, and never loses its awe-inspiring sense of identity and imagination. It is enveloping - one can get lost in the lovingly-composed intricacies and interaction between instruments - or can be a subtle, albeit chill-inducing, soundtrack to the everyday.
FatCat-1309
DLP
$14.25

RJD2
Colossus
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
RJElec.Connections
DLP
$16.00

RJD2
Colossus
PS, US 4th solo album. Part Impressions, part Daft Punk, part Thin Lizzy. He is helped along by vocalists Kenna (STAR TRAK), Phonte Coleman (LITTLE BROTHER), Aaron Livingston (The Roots' "Guns are Drawn").
RJElec.Connections
CD
$13.75

Roadside Graves, The
My Son's Home
PS, US Each song is unique in sound with exceptional lyrics that strike you between the eyes. For those unfamiliar with them, many liken their sound to a blend of Felice Brothers, Trainwreck Riders, Kris Kristofferson, and The Band with a sprinkling of Gaelic influence in the vein of The Waterboys.
AutumnTonesRecords-007
CD
$11.25

Royal Trux
Untitled (3rd Album) [reissue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-010
LP
$15.75

Royal Trux
Untitled (3rd Album) [reissue]
PS, US Sighs of life from '92 - post-grunge,
or pre-postrock? Actually, it's untitled. Among the decade's best.
DragCity-010
CD
$12.50

Rural Alberta Advantage
Drain The Blood b/w Eye Of The Tiger
PS, US The "Drain the Blood" single includes the B-side cover of "Eye of the Tiger".
SaddleCreek
45
$3.75

Scanners
Submarine
PS, US UK's most venerable rock outfit are back with their sophomore release. "Since the days of Joy Division and the like, nobody has really grabbed the Moog and run with it as well as these guys..." LA WEEKLY.
DimMak-146
CD
$13.25

Scarlet's Well
Unreal II
PS, US While the first Unreal album was heavy on Scarlet's Well songs, Unreal II is more focused on early Monochrome Set songs. The Monochrome Set is legendary. Bid had not played on American soil since 1982. In 2004 that changed when Bid coordinated several live shows playing his back catalog of music with various different bands around the USA. Bands would learn Monochrome Set and Scarlet's Well songs and Bid would drop in for a rehearsal then play a gig or two. This concept with Bid spread to Sweden and Belfast. Many of these shows and rehearsals were recorded and compiled for this incredible release. This album is full of surprises, including legendary Monochrome Set guitarist, Foz as guest on a Scarlet's Well song and two of his own new instrumental recordings (which are very much in the Lost Weekend vein). A hybrid live/studio album, this album also gives the listener some new songs (such as an all Bid acoustic version of Grouch with lovely slide guitar). Recommended to Monochrome Set and Scarlet's Well fans.
RedVelvet-004
CD
$12.50

Schmidt, Irmin & The Inner Space
Kamasutra
PS, GERMANY Crippled Dick Hot Wax presents Kamasutra -- an unreleased soundtrack to the German erotic/educational film from 1968, composed and recorded by Irmin Schmidt and The Inner Space -- the precursor to the legendary German Krautrock band Can. Assembles Can's original line-up of Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Malcolm Mooney. Bonus track "I'm Around You Everyday" is exclusive to the CD version. For fans of: Can, the '60s sexual revolution, Vampyros Lesbos, Schulmädchenreport, Barbara Schöne.
CrippledDickHotWax
CD
$16.25

Scratoa!
Live en San Anton
PS, US Killer Pimp is excited to announce the release of first music to surface from Marc Ngyuen Tan since the last Colder album. Live en San Antón is the result of a three-day session of improvised music by Marc Nguyen and Guillaume Ollendorff recorded in the barrio San Antón, in the southern Spanish city of Alicante in April 2008.
KillerPimp-012
CD
$11.00

Seabear
The Ghost That Carried Us Away [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Originally released by Morr Music in 2007, now re-released on vinyl by sub-label A Number Of Small Things, also including the sold-out 2007 Teenage Kicks vinyl 7". This is the debut release by Iceland's Seabear. The Ghost That Carried Us Away flatters in a rather unobtrusive way: fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by Sindri Már Sigfússon. Guitars, piano, his almost bashful and yet present voice -- themes of nature, mortality and love from Iceland's musical heartland, Reykjavik. Features members of Mum and Sigur Ros.
Morr/ANumberOfSmallThings
LP/45
$18.75

Seabear
Lion Faced Boy
PS, GERMANY This is the first single from the second Seabear album, We Built A Fire. While "Lion Face Boy" features the classic Seabear indie-folk-virtues, the flipside "Cold Summer" surprises with an intense and unsettling ballad that breaks new territory. Seabear started out as a one-man project of singer/guitarist Sindri Már Sigfússon, but grew into today's collective of 7 Icelanders with their 2007 debut album The Ghost That Carried Us Away.
Morr/ANumberOfSmallThings
45
$7.00

Sebastian
Rays Of The Sun
PS, US Early '70s reissue of this much in demand deep folky psych rarity with lavish arrangements like Darius meets Scott Walker. Great songs. long and short, and with superb vocal melodies with acid leads, sitar, and 'Peppery' feel on some tracks. Undiscovered psych classic! Remastered and pressed on virgin DMM vinyl limited to 500 copies pressing.
Acme
LP
$22.50

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 13 Jan-Feb 2010
PS, UK Radio Dada: The heroic saga of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Procol Harum: Keeping the ship afloat in the '70s. The Bosstown Sound: Ultimate Spinach, The Beacon Street Union and more! Mimsy Farmer: From Riot on Sunset Strip to Dario Argento. Amorphous Androgynous: Exploding in your mind with new psych adventurers." 99 full color pages.
ZINE
$8.25

SIDS
Winter b/w Awake All Night
PS, US Repress of limited holiday release. On paper it's a Xmas record but in typical SIDS' fashion the synth keyboards, darkly delivered vocals & creepy bells are much more tropical & worth repeat listens throughout the year. Repress on red vinyl, limited to 300, don't miss out!
Rob'sHouse-048
45
$5.50

Skelton, Richard
Landings
PS, US Imbued w/ a real sense of narrative - & of place - that is both epic in scale & yet intimate in feel. And so, we are taken on a literal journey across the threshold of "Noon Hill Wood," w/ its achingly-beautiful, interleaved bowed melodies, drifting through ranks of pine, larch & birch. "Greens Within
Brook" is a crushing Eno-esque ballad for concertina, recorded by the banks of a fledgling stream as the ice melted one wintry morning.
Type-055
CD
$14.25

Skelton, Richard
Landings
PS, US DLP version contains an extra CD of bonus material.
Type-055
DLP
$25.25

Skullflower
Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
PS, US All must bow before the pagan wall of drone..." "So reads the opening line of SKULLFLOWER's website. Hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early '90s was truly a revelation. IIIrd Gatekeeper and Obsidian Shaking Codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and I approach guitar-based heavy music. To grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and MATTHEW BOWER has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years. Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament evokes Wagnerian sonic bombast, a Nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. Each spin brings new themes to the forefront. Not easy listening by anyone's standards, Strange Keys is not for the faint of heart-but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded."-Steve Von Till (Neurosis / Neurot Recordings). Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN brings psychoacoustics into three-dimensional experience.
NeurotRecordings-067
DCD
$17.50

Slow SIx
Tomorrow Becomes You
PS, US At the turn of the millennium in downtown New York, in an era of Moby and the Strokes, Slow Six was pulling up in front of clubs, loading in music stands, video projectors, a battery of string players, and a desktop computer (!) programmed with custom software. Reading down their twenty-minute electro-acoustic scores to stunned audiences, Slow Six helped redefine what was possible when those who grew up with both classical and rock music re-imagined their surrounding musical landscape in their own image.Today, so-called "cross-over" music is near ubiquitous, from The Wordless Music Series to bands like The Books and composers like Nico Muhly. Yet it is now, following their 2007 sophomore release for the prestigious classical label New Albion, that Slow Six returns to their experimental rock roots with "Tomorrow Becomes You", an emotionally unrestrained full-length infused with taught rhythms, unraveling melodies, and detailed ambiences that owe as much to Tortoise and The Dirty Three as Steve Reich and Brian Eno. In keeping with the Slow Six mantra, this is still music that changes - and changes us - slowly over time - the virtuosic, minimalist hocketing in "The Night You Left New York" slowly giving way to its eruptive guitar-soaked finale. But a new, welcomed optimism runs through "Tomorrow Becomes You" - never has the band's light shown so brightly as in the record's finale, "These Rivers Between Us". Tignor's signature software creations (free from the band's site), which he uses to transform live sound, also make key appearances, creating unique electronic landscapes from talk radio on "Because Together We Resonate" and the players' own performances on "Sympathetic Response System (part 2)".
WesternVinyl-071
CD
$11.50

Snyder, Doug & Bob Thompson
Daily Dance
PS, US HOT REISSUE! Amazing, unique, celebrated, & genuinely rare artifact from Rural Ohio. After stepping out of a Stooges show in 1971, SNYDER & THOMPSON set up a studio in their kitchen & attempted to record an even heavier record. The resulting LP, self-released & limited to 500, immediately became an underground legend. Songs start
with a semblence of a groove or rhythm until they quickly deteriorate into a wall of psychedelic noise, a frenzy of distorted guitar & improvised drumming. The type of album
that quickly achieves mythical status, begging many questions yet leaving so few answers
Cantor-002
LP
$17.00

Soft Pack, The
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Kemado
LP
$14.00

Soft Pack, The
S-T
PS, US brief synopsis of The Soft Pack's meteoric rise: a duo writing songs in California at the dawn of 2008 goes on to supporting The Breeders, Last Of The Shadow Puppets and Bloc Party as a quartet, and release two attention-grabbing singles, "Night Life" and "Extinction", that same year. They were the toast of CMJ in 2008 and South By Southwest in 2009, then toured alongside Franz Ferdinand, Phoenix, White Lies and Black Lips in 2009, and delivered the limited edition 12 inch Muslims EP to much chatter in March 2009.
Kemado
CD
$12.00

Soundpool
But It's So
PS, US Classic pop songwriting fused with hard driving disco backbeats... hooky bass lines... layered, shoegazey guitars and floating, atmospheric synths with Kim Field's unmistakably sincere and distinctively un-affected ethereal vocals.Both songs are from the forthcoming LP & CD Mirrors In Your Eyes, Soundpool's third full-length album, due early 2010 on Killer Pimp. This 7" is limited to 500 copies.
KillerPimp-014
45
$4.25

Sourpatch
Crushin
PS, US Romance is a tumultuous place, filled with feelings almost always unspoken and rarely understood. If pop music does anything at all, it helps the painful awkwardness that romance breeds and promotes a certain unmatched sincerity. San Jose natives, Sourpatch, know all about this dynamic. They play with a rough, but beautiful indie pop/punk sound that grabs at influences from both Britain and Coastal United States. A cross between the chicken and the egg, Sourpatch exists in the giant realm of 90's pop worship, where honesty (no matter how unflattering) reins supreme. Initially comprised of three members: Nicole Munoz on guitar and vocals, Christine Tupou on guitar and vocals, and Rich Gutierrez on drums-- joined shortly after their first show by Mandi Ferrell on bass; The band started as an idea for a Go Sailor/Tiger Trap cover band, but quickly took flight as a project of it's own. The four have been playing beautiful noise together for over a year and a half now--in which time, they've managed two small U.S. Coastal tours (East and West), self-released a seven-song demo, a single on WIAIWYA from England, and played the San Francisco Pop Fest. The band's newest venture is a LP released on HHBTM Records. The thirteen song release, appropriately titled "Crushin'", is predominately about the perils of confused romance, feelings unrelinquished and blurred friendships, content reminiscent of songs written by Pam Berry, Rose Melberg and Amelia Fletcher over a decade and a half ago. A great majority of the original set list were songs that Munoz, previously in the San Jose all girl band Miss Flo, had written and been working on with Tupou a few years prior to the Sourpatch's existence.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-118
CD
$12.25

Sourpatch
Crushin
PS, US Romance is a tumultuous place, filled with feelings almost always unspoken and rarely understood. If pop music does anything at all, it helps the painful awkwardness that romance breeds and promotes a certain unmatched sincerity. San Jose natives, Sourpatch, know all about this dynamic. They play with a rough, but beautiful indie pop/punk sound that grabs at influences from both Britain and Coastal United States. A cross between the chicken and the egg, Sourpatch exists in the giant realm of 90's pop worship, where honesty (no matter how unflattering) reins supreme. Initially comprised of three members: Nicole Munoz on guitar and vocals, Christine Tupou on guitar and vocals, and Rich Gutierrez on drums-- joined shortly after their first show by Mandi Ferrell on bass; The band started as an idea for a Go Sailor/Tiger Trap cover band, but quickly took flight as a project of it's own. The four have been playing beautiful noise together for over a year and a half now--in which time, they've managed two small U.S. Coastal tours (East and West), self-released a seven-song demo, a single on WIAIWYA from England, and played the San Francisco Pop Fest. The band's newest venture is a LP released on HHBTM Records. The thirteen song release, appropriately titled "Crushin'", is predominately about the perils of confused romance, feelings unrelinquished and blurred friendships, content reminiscent of songs written by Pam Berry, Rose Melberg and Amelia Fletcher over a decade and a half ago. A great majority of the original set list were songs that Munoz, previously in the San Jose all girl band Miss Flo, had written and been working on with Tupou a few years prior to the Sourpatch's existence.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-118
LP
$13.75

Spacemen 3
Perfect Prescription [reissue]
PS, UK 2009 reissue. Originally released in 1989, The Perfect Prescription is the album on which the British trio Spacemen 3 crafted some of their most dazzlingly layered psych guitar devastation. Before splitting into Spiritualized and Spectrum/EAR, Spacemen 3 created some of the most genuinely psychedelic music of the '80s and '90s, and it's on this album that they take the listener to the very center of the mind. While it's a concept album about a drug trip, no drugs are required to experience the euphoric high of opening track "Take Me To The Other Side." The cover of The Red Krayola's "Transparent Radiation" is brilliantly deranged and closer "Call The Doctor" cements this album's status as the ultimate monster come-down artifact. Sublime non-stop guitar oscillation, radiant feedback and inspired ecclesiastical channeling will sink into your brain faster than high power blotter acid. Gatefold mini-LP style packaging.
Fire
CD
$14.25

Spacemen 3
Performance [reissue]
PS, UK 2009 reissue. Originally released in 1988, Performance captures a jaw-dropping live recording from the Perfect Prescription tour, recorded on February 6, 1988 at De Melkweg, Amsterdam. The emphasis here is on the group's loud, noisy origins, with plenty of the hypno-monotonous distorted bombast of the band's unique droning guitars, feedback and pounding drums on tracks like "Starship," "Take Me To The Other Side" and "Rollercoaster." An essential document of the band's powerful sonic assault. The drug-drenched bliss of closer "Walkin' With Jesus" will take you to the other side. Gatefold mini-LP style packaging.
Fire
CD
$14.25

SPC ECO
SPC ECO 3-D (Japanese Version)
PS, JAPAN Dean Garcia (Curve) returns with SPC ECO, a nu-gaze outfit whose singer is none other than Dean's daughter Rose Berlin. "SPC ECO 3-D" is their first album and features Rose's angelic vocals, heavy bass grooves, twinkling keyboards, guitar noise, and British styled electro beats. Joey Levenson (So Young) provides guitar fx, and the resulting amalgam is a colorful and shimmering shoegaze music of sugary pop goodness. The Japanese edition of the album includes three bonus tracks: two remixes plus "Silver Clouds," an exclusive track featuring Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis).
Quince-71
CD
$14.75

Speed, Glue & Shinki
Eve
PS, UK Phoenix Records presents the first 180 gram virgin vinyl release of Speed, Glue & Shinki's 1971 debut album, Eve. Ex-Food Brain guitarist Shinki Chen, bass player Masayoshi Kabe (also known as M Glue) and Filipino Vietnam war veteran Joey "Pepe" Smith, who doubled as both the trio's drummer and vocalist, released two legendary albums in the early '70s. Eve, the earlier of the band's two efforts, was probably the band's only "real" recording, as the self-titled second release in 1972 was put together by Smith from studio outtakes of Chen's guitar playing and tracks omitted from Eve. This is a bluesy, psychedelic album, with Chen's Hendrix-style guitar playing firmly underpinned by Smith's insistent percussion style modeled on the style and technique of his idol, Ginger Baker. The band dissolved immediately after the release of Eve, as the other two members found Smith's drug-fuelled lifestyle decidedly unappealing (he was a huge fan of amphetamines and diligently applied himself to establishing a prodigious habit). Chen decided he didn't want to record again, and became a successful live artist, Joey went back to the Philippines and started the immensely successful power trio Juan de la Cruz Band, and Masayoshi Kabe would win fame with the band Pink Cloud. In spite of their short-lived activity, Speed, Glue & Shinki were important first and foremost as pioneers of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene. Gatefold sleeve.
Phoenix
LP
$21.50

Spencey Dude & The Doodles
Flirting b/w I Won't Cheat On You
PS, US Another rad San Fran band to add to your collection. Debut contains 4 amazing pop songs so instantly contagious Rob's House could have split them up over 2 singles and sold 'em like crack. No load-blowing here, either, so expect many more hits. Incl. members of GRIS GRIS & DUTCHESS & THE DUKE. LIMITED TO 700
Rob'sHouseRecords-056
45
$5.50

Spoon
Transference
PS, US Follow up to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. 11 new gems that honor the SPOON tradition while pushing the envelope of the band's sound ever further.
Merge-365
CD
$14.00

Spoon
Transference
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Merge-365
LP
$17.50

Spoon
Written In Reverse
PS, US Ltd edition, pink vinyl. "Written In Reverse" is the 1st single from Transference. Features an exclusive B-side "Mean Red Spider"
Merge-376
45
$4.50

State Champion
Stale Champagne
PS, US VINYL ONLY. Debut from Louisville native Ryan Davis and friends. Remincent of SWEETHEARD OF THE RODEO, BLEACH, and SMOG. Limited edition, clear vinyl, gatefold package, plus bonus paintings.
SohpomoreLounge-020
CD
$14.50

State Champion
Stale Champagne
PS, US VINYL ONLY. Debut from Louisville native Ryan Davis & friends. Reminiscent of 'SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO', 'RED APPLE FALLS', & 'BLEACH.' Limited edition, clear vinyl, gatefold package w/ Spot UV printing
SohpomoreLounge-020
LP
$14.50

Stephens, Leigh
Red Weather [reissue]
PS, US After leaving BLUE CHEER in 1969, guitarist LEIGH STEVENS, whose pulverizing roar was an essential element of the band's original sound, made his solo debut. Feat. a more eclectic context that encompasses elements of avant-psychedelia & electric blues.
Sundazed-5299
LP
$16.50

SubArachnoid Space
Eight Bells
PS, US 180 gram vinyl includes MP3 coupon. Gatefold featuring stunning new artwork from Stephen Kasner. The album continues in the same heavy, lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Release records, fusing wicked metallic crunch w/ ethereal, effects-laden guitar freakouts & some of their most narcotized jamming yet. Blazing luminous axe-howl over hypnotic heavy acid riffage & dense squalls of sound.
Strange Attractors
LP
$17.50

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
PS, US Anthemic, bombastic, life-affirming indie pop! Debut full-length from buzzy Florida band praised by NY TIMES: "'Velvet Underground and punk riffs, reverberating textures, African-style guitar filigrees, grunge crescendos, power-pop choruses headed for anthems and, yes, some surf-rock twang." ROLLING STONE: "Giant-sized choruses, festooned in glitter and lit up with neon." PICTHFORK: "Lo-fi clangor, glo-fi harmonies, punchy retro-garage concision, never-out-of-style classic rock song-craft."
KanineRecords-482
CD
$11.00

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast
PS, US VINYL VERSION, blue wax in a gatefold jacket, includes DL codes.
KanineRecords-482
LP
$13.75

Tape & Bill Wells
Fugue
PS, US First recording to feat. Swedish trio TAPE & legendary Scottish musician BILL WELLS. With the use of piano, organ, Fender Rhodes, guitar, bass, electronics, drums, & synth, Fugue is truly a unique & timeless recording from these legendary & prolific artists. LP incl. download coupon, limited to 900.
Immune-008
LP
$14.00

Thee Oh Sees
Quadrospazzed
PS, US San Francisco's THEE OH SEES return with a limited edition, one-sided 12-inch featuring the song "Quadrospazzed" recorded live by CHRIS WOODHOUSE. Includes a B-side etching by WILLIAM KHEIN. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies.
CastleFace
12
$12.00

Thompson, Bob
Sound Of Speed [reissue]
PS, US Originally recorded for the Dot label, "The Sound Of Speed" is Thompson's 1960 "concept" LP. Each composition evokes a different mode of modern transport, from Vespa scooters to Le Mans racers to rocket ships. Overlooked gem from a bygone era of orchestral elegance mastered in wide-angle stereo & pressed on 180gm vinyl
Sundazed-5287
LP
$16.50

Tillman, J.
"Wild Honey Never Stolen"/"Borne Away On A Black Barge"
PS, US These two tiny songs, one being "Wild Honey Never Stolen" and the other being one called "Borne Away On A Black Barge" are little stories about a post-apocalypse landscape and a reworking of the last stand of King Arthur, respectively. Both were meant to be more or less sing-alongs, the idea of including lyrics and sheet music was considered, but it was ultimately decided that that would be pretentious and weird. Josh plays guitar, piano, bass, banjo, mandolin and a lot of drums and Bill Patton plays ukulele. This limited edition 70 gram 7" record features original artwork by Toby Leibowitz.
WesternVinyl-069
45
$6.25

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man
PS, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
LP
$13.00

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man
Ps, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
CD
$13.00

Toro Y Moi
Causers Of This
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Carpark
LP
$14.00

Toro Y Moi
Causers Of This
PS, US Toro Y Moi is the sound the world has been waiting for. This multi-cultural juggernaut gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe- R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica -and creates something-freaking-else! Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length "Causers Of This", Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi's funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination.
Carpark
CD
$12.50

Travel By Sea
Days Of My Escape
PS, US An atmospheric and organic gallery of moody and rootsy vignettes.
AutumnToneRecords-003
CD
$11.25

Tyla And The Dogs
Bloody Hell Fire
PS, US Brand new 23 track 2 CD set from Tyla and The Dogs. The album features current liveb favourites "111", "Supreme Creator" and "The Rave" and includes some of Tyla's finest songs to date. This band were formed from the seminal Dogs D'Amour.
Houseof111
DCD
$20.75

U.S. Girls
Go Grey
PS, US 2nd full-length is an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals & muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, & explode. A journey of lush vistas, warm currents, & complex beauties
Siltbreeze-127
LP
$16.00

Unbunny
Black Strawberries
PS, US It took Unbunny's devoted fans to make this special release happen! Extremely limited-edition, only 300 pressed on 180g white vinyl.
CatbirdSpecialProjects
LP
$20.00

Uncle Tupelo
Anodyne
PS, US
Rhino
LP
$24.00

Uncut
#154 (March 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Uncut
#153 (February 2010) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Units, The
History of the Units
PS, US MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! Abridged vinyl LP version showcases first two 7"s & first LP, Digital Stimulation, tracks with download coupon for the full 21 tracks on the CD reissue. The vinyl edition of History of The Units: The Early Years 1977-1983 has arrived! The first ever anthology CD by San Francisco's legendary and sought-after synth punk heroes, Units, was released on Community Library in 2009. The CD has made it to dozens of year-end "best reissues" lists and has opened a new window into the amazing history of SF's art/punk scene and the DIY roots of new wave. The vinyl LP version features an abridged track list, focusing on remastered songs from the band's two original 7"s and first album, Digital Stimulation. However, the LP comes with a download coupon, which entitles the buyer to all 21 songs issued on the CD anthology. This lovingly remastered album sheds new light on the band and brings the music on wax at a price for the people, not just the elite collectors.
CommunityLibrary-016
LP
$13.75

Univers Zero
Clivages
PS, US Chamber rock for fans of Magma, Bela Bartok, Dead Can Dance, & Henry Cow.
Cuneiform-295
CD
$13.75

Vampire Weekend
Contra
PS, US Like the first album, Contra was produced by keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and is the realization of a whole and unique musical vision that sees the band stretching out and adding new textures, instrumentation, and rhythms into their sound.Primarily recorded in New York with a springtime sojourn to Mexico, Contra feels altogether fresh, joyous, and like nothing else but is immediately recognizable as the sound of Vampire Weekend.
XLRecordings
CD
$14.00

Vampire Weekend
Contra
PS, US VINYL VERSION
XLRecordings
LP
$14.75

Vanderslice, John
D.I.A.L.O
PS, US Limited! "D.I.A.L.O." is the second 7" single taken from John Vanderslice's 2009 release, Romanian Names. The song is a highlight from an album with no shortage of highlights, and paired with the exclusive non-album track "DoWhat YouWant"makes for an incredible 1-2 punch. The fried out fuzz-pop of "DoWhat YouWant" plays a perfect foil to the spacey sonics of "D.I.A.L.O." Containing two instant classics, one per side, this is the way a great 7" single should be.
DeadOceans-036
45
$4.75

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk
PS, US Four years after A Gospel Funk Hymnal, Numero returns with not quite a New Testament, rather a re-examintaion of a weighty tome. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers & performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration & invention. They were faithful to a spirit, not an ordained sound
Numero-030
CD
$15.75

Various
Psych Bites, Vol. 1: Australian Acid Freakrock 1967-1974
PS, UK Crikey! The Past & Present label presents the first volume in a new series of Australian acid freak-rock! Having housed some exuberant and obscure records from the United Kingdom in the Electric Asylum, psych expert Psychomania moves into the world Down Under for a similar feat of nail-biting pleasure. The satanic rites of psychedelia have been performed, and a gathering of demonic delights have been summoned to write their own obituaries. With 20 sonic blasts of long-forgotten freak-rock from Australia recorded between 1967 and 1974, Past & Present leaves you at the mercy of your maker. Includes a 12-page full-color booklet with detailed sleevenotes and rare pictures. Artists include: Flake, Doug Parkinson In Focus, Barry McCaskell And Levi Smith Clefs, Pirana, Long Grass, Freshwater, Ash, Chook, Michael Turner In Session, Dave Miller Set, Ticket, Rashamra, Helium, Isherwood, Healing Force, and Headband.
Past & Present PPRE2112
CD
$16.50

Various
Matinee Grand Prix, The
PS, US Brilliant new collection of songs from Matinee's truly international coterie of popstars. The disc kicks off with a firm favorite from Denmark's Northern Portrait entitled "Stirling Moss" which establishes a car racing theme rather nicely. Scottish popkids Strawberry Whiplash answer the challenge with new smash "Boy In The Bubble Car," while Australian legends The Lucksmiths deliver their swansong recording with the predictably stunning "Get-to-bed Birds." Sweden's The Electric Pop Group is represented with perhaps their strongest song to date "Believers," while Clay Hips-American expats living in Germany and Ireland-don't disappoint channeling their inner Pet Shop Boys with "Disappointed." The album's centerpoint sees the return of England's mighty Tender Trap after four years with the new classic "Danger Overboard," and Australia has its second contender with the very welcome return of Simpa¡tico and new favorite "Australian Idle." Finland's Cats on Fire begin the year with a fantastic new song called "The Hague," while Scotland is back in fine form with Bubblegum Lemonade and "Cuts Like A Dream." Finally, American hipsters Math and Physics Club break a two-year silence with a great new song called "I Keep To Myself," and Australia's The Guild League soundtrack the final lap of the compilation with the lovely "Bookmark." Demonstrating the continuing strength of the label's roster, this timeless collection is a vital release for the Matinee faithful and a fantastic introduction to some of the best indie bands of today.
Matinee-050
CD
$12.25

Various
Casual Victim Pile
PS, US Casual Victim Pile = an anagram of "Live Music Capital". You can safely assume that with all due respect to the City of Austin's attempts to promote itself as such. This compilation is only meant to reflect what I like in Austin circa 2008-2010 But there's something to be said for a highly arbitrary take on things...Whether or notthere's a genuine tie to the region's musical history is up for debate - Gerard Cosloy, Austin TX, 9/2009
Matador
CD
$11.00

Various
Private Space
PS, JAPAN This compilation is made special to feature the most popular Japanese post-classical/electronica artists. It is easy to listen to and helps you relax, providing a much deeper listening experience after repeated listening. These bright sounds perfectly suit listening in your "Private Space" while dozing off and the precious melodies made by these Japanese artists will last forever, not just momentarily.
p*dis-6505
CD
$16.25

Various
Dengue Fever Presents: Electic Cambodia
PS, US 14 newly remastered 1960s surf garage psychedelic rockers never released outside Cambodia, chosen by the members of DENGUE FEVER from their collection of rare Cambodian cassettes
Minky
LP
$21.25

Various
Pop Ambient 2010
PS, US Vinyl version (includes CD).
Kompakt-077
LP
$16.00

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control
PS, US 41+ members strong - the JOAN OF ARC extended family comes together for 18 exclusive songs curated by JOA frontman Tim Kinsella. Features new songs by TIM KINSELLA, OWEN, CALE PARKS (ALOHA), VACATIONS (ex-CHIN UP CHIN UP), GHOSTS & VODKA (ex-CAP'N JAZZ), EUPHONE, CAIRO GANG, DISAPPEARS, BIRDSHOW, A TUNDRA, WHITE/LIGHT
Polyvinyl-191
CD
$9.50

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976
PS, US Double LP Version
World Psychedelic
DLP
$18.00

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Numero-030
DLP
$19.00

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control
PS, US 2LP version, ltd to 500 on orange vinyl
Polyvinyl-191
DLP
$16.00

Various
High All The Time Vol. 2
PS, US The Past & Present label releases volume 2 of the classic High All The Time compilation series, originally released in 1995, and now available on CD for the first time. This compilation gathers together 14 of the best 1960s psychedelic obscurities you've never heard. Representing the length and breadth of America (with contributions from Arizona, California, Ohio, Kansas, and elsewhere), the set will thrill anyone whose tastes run to fuzz, echo, feedback, distortion and any other effect you care to mention. As with their companions on volume 1, these tracks are frenzied testament to the benefits of being High All The Time. Includes a booklet featuring background info and rare pictures. Artists include: J.D. Blackfoot, Magical Mist, American Zoo, Thundering Heard, ESB, Thorinshield, Grant's Blueboys, Odyssey, Ocelot, Chesmann Square, Jordan, World Column, Catfish Knight & The Blue Express, and Solid Ground.
Past&Present
CD
$16.25

Various
My Estrogeneration
PS, US 1st ever NNF vinyl compilation w/ exclusive tracks from ZOLA JESUS, TICKLEY FEATHER, POCAHAUNTED, INCA ORE, TOPAZ RAGS, HNY, TALK NORMAL, ISLAJA, L.A. VAMPIRES, U.S. GIRLS, & VALET. Ltd to 500
NotNotFun-150
LP
$11.75

Various
Pop Ambient 2010
PS, US 10th edition of the highly-anticipated fan-favorite series features tracks from MARSEN JULES, BROCK VAN WEY/BVDUB, TRIOLA, WOLFANG VOIGT, ANDREW THOMAS, THE ORB, MIKKEL METAL, DJ KOZE, JURGEN PAAPE, DETTINGER, THOMAS FEHLMANN, & POPNONAME
Kompakt-077
CD
$16.00

Various
Maximum Prog: 16 Rare Gems From The Golden Age Of British Progressive Rock
PS, UK Subtitled: 16 Rare Gems From The Golden Age Of British Progressive Rock. Virtuoso musicianship? Complex keyboards? Wild guitar? Shifting time signatures? Bizarre lyrics? All are present and correct on this scorching new collection of British prog rarities, culled from 16 of the most collectible albums in the genre, originally released between 1969 and 1973. The set comes complete with a detailed 12-page booklet offering seldom-seen pictures as well as histories and discographies of the acts involved. Artists include: Don Shinn, Aardvark, Rock Workshop, Second Hand, Sweet Slag, 9:30 Fly, Samurai, Quiet World, Big Sleep, Heaven, Brainchild, Abacus, Titus Groan, Quicksand, Czar, and Goliath.
Past&Present
CD
$16.25

Various
The Electric Asylum Volume 4: Rock Hard British Freakrock
PS, UK The Past & Present label and Psychomania presents volume 4 of The Electric Asylum, 20 tracks that will severely gouge the senses with an aural blast of rock-solid British freak-rock from the early 1970s. Amongst those coming to share their immortal heaviness are Croydon's finest fruit-eating bears, Slowload, London's sleazy psychedelic punks, Spunky Spider, Godson, Mustard, Sunshine Kid, and the most inappropriately-named Scottish proto-punks who called themselves Bubbles. Includes a 12-page, full-color booklet with detailed sleevenotes and rare pictures. Other artists include: Hector, Rog And Pip, Wolfrilla, Incredible Hog, Smoke, Ning, Quiet World, Henry Turtle, Bear Brothers, Hard Horse, Tuesday, Clutch, Jackal, and Sundance.
Past&Present
CD
$16.25

Various
The Psychedelic Salvage Company Volumes 1 & 2
PS, UK At last, both volumes of this legendary compilation of the rarest psychedelic artifacts of all time is finally available again. Spanning tapes, acetates and private pressings that for decades circulated only amongst hardcore collectors and connoisseurs, the music on this deluxe double set spans demented acid rock, way-out folk, and psychedelic jazz from artists such as German freakers The Roland Kovac Set, UK heavies Sam Gopal (featuring member Lemmy Kilmister), Irish proggers Peggy's Leg, and much more. It comes complete with a full booklet offering background information on the acts featured and rare pictures, making it a genuine must-have for all fans of way-out psychedelia. Artists include: Toby Jug, Out Of Darkness, Nick Carter, Team Dokus, Castle Farm, Purple Scurf, Ptolomy Psycon, Narnia, and Oswald Slagge.
Past&Present
DCD
$22.25

Various
An Taobh Tuathail Vol. 3
PS, IRELAND An Taobh Tuathail Vol. III is the new compilation CD from cult underground music show An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side) which celebrates ten years on the air this year. The 15 track compilation is once again compiled by mainman 'Cian Ó Cíobháin'.
Psychonavigation-034
CD
$13.50

Various
Casual Victim Pile
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Matador
DLP
$15.50

Various
Soft Sounds For Gentle People 5: Far-out Treasures from California & beyond 1966-1969
PS, US Artists: Stix & Stonz, The Johnnys, Mouse, The Rainy Daze, People, Wells and Fargo, Things to Come, Roman Chariot, The Delicate Balance, Bentley Road, The Charter Members, The Carnival, The Phoenix Trolley, Misty Morn, Devil's Brigade, The Sandals, The Lollipop Fantasy, The Flower Pot, The Capes of Good Hope, The 1st Century and The Fraternity of Man.
PetRecords
CD
$13.75

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976
PS, US The heaviest, rarest, best fuzz-funk-psych singles from Brazil, compiled on one CD.
World Psychedelic
CD
$16.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
LP
$15.50

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
CD
$13.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
CD
$13.75

Various Artists
Unpiecing The Jigsaw: Velvet Underground Tribute
PS, US The idea for this 4 cd set came from collecting together all the tribute tracks originally released on the 3 legendary Immagi-nary Records tribute albums in the early 90's and tying them up in one set along with the excellent incisive John Tobler audio interview with Lou Reed and along the way we found a couple of rare 1980's live tracks of Nico performing Velvet's material. The influence of The Velvet Underground on rock greatly exceeds their sales figures and chart numbers. They are one of the most important rock and roll bands of all time, laying the groundwork in the Sixties for many tangents rock music would take in ensuing decades. Features Nirvana, Echo & The Bunnymen, Swervedriver, Screaming Trees and more.
Ozit-16
CD-BOX
$25.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
LP
$20.75

Veirs, Laura
July Flame
Ps, US Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls "the best album of 2010," explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and the realization that such things rarely exist.
RavenMarchingBand-006
LP
$13.75

Veirs, Laura
July Flame
PS, US Her seventh album explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, pastoral dales, fireworks and warm nights, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and security and the realization that such things rarely exist. The album breaks from Veirs' previous full-band efforts, although many of the same players make appearances on the album, including longtime collaborators Karl Blau and Steve Moore. String arrangements are featured more on this album than on others; the brilliant improviser Eyvind Kang plays viola on many songs, and legendary arranger Stephen Barber composed hauntingly beautiful string quartet arrangements for three songs. PITCHFORK: "Neo-folkie takes the best aspects of her two previous records and distills them into her best album. MMJ's Jim James and the Decemberists' Chris Funk guest."
RavenMarchingBand-006
CD
$12.00

Venia
Frozen Hands
PS, US Hailing from Minneapolis, MN, VENIA has a positive, multi-faceted message that stands in stark contrast to the nature of many of their hardcore contemporaries.
Blood&InkRecords-1034
CD
$12.25

Vibracathedral Orchestra
The Secret Base
PS, US The second of three new LPs from the VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA. The Secret Base starts up at full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with MICK FLOWER's overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his Japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with CHRIS CORSANO their urgency. The sound is dark and rough, almost Xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. The percolating krautrock stylings of "If You Can't Smoke 'Em" chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. The entire B-side's 20-plus minutes are devoted to the clanging free sound of "Eyes of Wood," where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates the proceedings.
VHF-120
LP
$13.50

Vibracathedral Orchestra
Joka Baya
PS, US The ever-mysterious VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts MICK FLOWER and ADAM DAVENPORT with frequent collaborators JOHN GODBERT (TOTAL) and JOHN MOLONEY (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. Joka Baya offers up a set of shorter pieces on the A-side in a high-fidelity style that contrasts the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. The percussive grooves are overlaid with SUNROOF!!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. The roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with Moloney's drums battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis.
VHF-119
LP
$13.50

Vibracathedral Orchestra
Smoke Song
PS, US Members of SUNROOF!, TOTAL, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN. Reminiscent of the best Spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse & riding it into organ & percussion fueled bliss
VHF-121
LP
$16.00

Vibrators, The
Under the Radar
PS,UK New Vibrators albums don't come along too often -- this is their first since 2002's Energize, and their first, too, since frontman Knox returned from a four-year lay-off. But with Nigel Bennett and the rhythm section of Eddie Hedges and Pat Collier joining him, it's business as usual for one of the longest-lived of all original U.K. punk bands, kicking off with the punchy buzzsaw of "DNA Robot," and driving on through 13 more slabs of classic Vibes volatility. There's something so reassuring about it as well -- other survivors from their era may have retained their original sound, but the Vibrators are one of the few who have kept it fresh. Still lacing their punch with humor, still packing the flamboyant minimalism that was their most dramatic calling card, the Vibrators have also hung onto that innate sense of melody that made "Baby Baby" such a blessing all those years ago. And so "We're the Dead," "Darkest Before Dawn," "Nightmare Town," and "The Altar at Midnight" lead a pack that slips effortlessly in alongside the best of the band's past output, and there's only one thing here for you to disagree with. The album closes with a song called "Everything I Do Is Wrong." But it isn't. Everything's right. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide
Captain Oi!
CD
$18.50

Virgin Passages
Mandalay
PS, UK This is Virgin Passages' 2006 collection of four-track/live recordings previously released on various formats, including tapes, CD-Rs, vinyl and compilations. The Virgin Passages are a three piece from Staffordshire who make hypnotic spaced out dream-pop that's been compared to David Baker-era Mercury Rev and Jackie O-Motherfucker. Mandalay is not the Virgin Passages' debut album, but a pre-debut compilation of odds-and-ends and bits-and-bobs, basic 4 track recordings, live takes, recordings previously released on EPs and demos. Despite the scrappiness of it all then, it is still hard to imagine, with all the band's visionary and well-formed sound, that it is not their debut. The band sound like a combination of the spacey, experimental Spiritualized, Sigur Ros and the early, Syd Barrett-led, psychedelic Pink Floyd, overdosed on traditional folk and weird instruments. Mandalay is a constant LSD trip, albeit a dark, haunting one.
Fire-100
CD
$14.25

Voicesvoices
Origins
PS, US Sophomore release from LA Duo, VoicesVoices is a six track concept album recorded by Guillermo Scott Herren
(PREFUSE 73). Herren melds the guitar drone, percussive beats, vocal looping of Nico Turner & Jenean Farris to a whole new level. Look for them on tour with Prefuse 73 and Gaslamp Killer in early 2010. "The fact that they only started playing with their (borrowed) guitars and effects boxes just over a year ago makes the band even more of a fabled Echo Park music myth, seemingly ingesting every instrument they lay their hands on, spewing out staggeringly beautiful walls of noise
with a thunderous, raw drum set." -Dazed & Confused.
ManimalVinyl-019
CD
$7.75

Volcano, I m Still Excited
Volcano, I m Still Excited
PS, US 1st time on vinyl! Ltd to 2,000. Often sounding like a much more excited Spoon (w/ a Casio), these are loveably unconventional short pop songs.
Polyvinyl-067
LP
$12.75

Warning Light
Further On
PS, US Presented as "loud drone music" created by a band, the project is really the collected labors of D HADDON. The project doesn't seem to dwell on the thick &
downtempo, though there certainly are big swells & thick chunks of drone. A kind of airy atmosphere has evolved, an almost Japanese aesthetic of zen-like
atmosphere he branded "eternity drones", an attempt at making music a person could listen to repeatedly for days & days
Stickfigure-040
CD
$10.50

Washed Out/Small Black
Split
PS, US Lovepump United is stoked to release a collaborative 7-inch by Washed Out and Small Black: featuring each band re-imagining and remixing a song off the other's debut EP. The 7-inch follows both acts breakthrough records released in late 2009, featuring a killer Small Black remix of Washed Out's "You'll See It" and a gorgeous, hazy Washed Out remix of Small Black's anthemic "Despicable Dogs." "Despicable Dogs" [by Small Black] is a guaranteed soul-stirrer: Best New Music, 8/10" - PITCHFORK MEDIA
"[Washed Out] crafts impossibly gorgeous pop that mixes up woozy synthesizers, droney shoegaze textures and funky, sometimes danceable beats" - ROLLING STONE
disco and hip-hop that sounds like re-creations of songs faintly remembered...outstanding." - NEW YORK TIMES
LovepumpUnited-033
45
$3.75

Waterloo
First Battle [reissue]
PS, UK Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available in a CD version, including 6 bonus tracks. Regarded as one of the best European progressive rock albums from the '70s, the sole release by Belgian group Waterloo was originally released on the Vogue label and is a highly collectable item worth obscene sums in the collector's market. Released in 1970 and entirely sung in English, this brilliant album is a blend of progressive rock and heavy prog, with obvious Jethro Tull influences but with something else really of their own, making it a very special album. This is a new CD reissue of a classic of European progressive rock history, with 6 bonus tracks and high quality reissue standards, including a booklet with extensive liner notes and photos.
Guerssen-030
CD
$16.25

Waters, Patty
College Tour
PS, US
ESP-Disk'-1055
LP
$20.25

We Are Country Mice
There's No Other/Bullet of a Gun
PS, US Wao Wao Records is a new label formed and operated by Toby Rascal and HBear, two of the key owners of Kanine Records (www.kaninerecords.com ) Now operating in the basement of the Kanine Records' headquarters. Toby totally fell in love with this Kansas this band called We Are Country Mice and decided to start a new imprint to release their music to the world. We Are Country Mice is the kind of band that America loves. This band breathes the true American spirit or creative rock n' roll topped with a ton of originality. PITCHFORK: "They're not lo-fi and there's a healthy dose of country thrown into their distorted, anthemic attack. Singer-guitarist Jason Rueger has a high-pitched snarl and a penchant for breaking up his band's Crazy Horse-style songs with bouts of distortion. In Wilco terms, We Are Country Mice make music that sounds like Being There mashed up with a little Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."
Kanine/WaoWao
45
$4.75

Weekend
All American
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. Ear-splitting fuzz and honey-sweet melodies are the trademark of Weekend's durable, energetic sound. Shoegazer acolytes filtered through a transistor radio, they are not to be confused with the Young Marble Giants spinoff of the same name. This is the new Weekend and they are their own thing, ready to flatten you deaf, grinning ear to ear.
MexicanSummer
10
$17.75

Ween
White Pepper
PS, US Originally relased in 2000. The duo are outsider pop geniuses in the greatest sense of the term, brilliant musicians w/ a firm grasp on just about every popular genre in the last 50 years (brit-pop, prog, country, soul, new wave, & beyond) & a quirk streak a mile wide.
Plain-144
LP
$17.00

Ween
Mollusk
PS, US Originally released in 1997. After an exercise in country music on 12 Golden Country Greats, the duo returns to its usual genre jumping, though there is a heavy focus on prog-rock
Plain-143
LP
$17.00

Ween
12 Golden Country Greats
PS, US 5th full-length, originally released in 1996. The group's classic sense of humor filtered through a distinct countrypolitan sound
Plain-142
LP
$17.00

Ween
The Pod [reissue]
PS, US May contain foul language.
Rounder
CD
$12.25

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology
PS, US Hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk. Features members of the DAP KINGS, POETS OF RHYTHM & EL MICHELS AFFAIR.
Now Again
CD
$16.50

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology
PS, US Vinyl Version!
Now Again
DLP
$17.50

Wire
#312 (February 2010)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Wire Magazine
#311
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Wonder Years, The
The Upsides
PS, US The Upsides is a record about hope. In writing The Upsides, THE WONDER YEARS have created a soundtrack for the hopeful. Throughout the LP, the band continually sings, "I'm not sad anymore" in the hopes that everyone still feeling the weight of the past year can soon sing along.
NoSleepRecords-022
CD
$10.75

Worm Ouroboros
S-T
PS, US The doom-edged sound is reminiscent of classic 4AD acts like This Mortal Coil & Cocteau Twins. Delicately crafted structures counterbalance segments of distorted, down-tuned heaviness, resulting in an ethereal & atmospheric vibe that unfolds over the album's 9 tracks.
ProfoundLore-051
CD
$14.00

Xhol
Essen 1970 [reissue]
PS, US XHOL's sound was a mix of jazz-rock and psychedelia. The band from Wiesbaden and former XHOL CARAVAN stood out for their pretty lengthy improvisations holding barely any vocals. The band became quite well-known with their two LPs released on Ohr. On Saturday, October 24, 1970, they performed at the third Essen Pop & Blues Festival at the Gruga hall. At that time, HANSI FISCHER, one of the founders, had already gone on to EMBRYO. The whole festival had been recorded semi-professionally on soundboard by ROLAND VERHEYEN. The event's master tapes are partly preserved. Lavishly remastered the CD provides a quite acceptable sound, although the drums seem to be too loud. Xhol's gig had been divided into four pieces blending perfectly into each other.
GardenofDelights-052
CD
$20.00

Xiu Xiu/Parenthetical Girls
Smiths/Morrissey
PS, US Two like-minded experimental pop groups - who share a great deal of personal history & an unhealthy, often frustrating obsession with the works of one Steven Patrick Morrissey - come together to cover a couple songs. Xiu Xiu eviscerates Moz's "I Am Hated For Loving" while Parenthetical Girls
embraces under-represented Smiths masterpiece "Handsome Devil"
UpsettheRhythm-034
45
$6.00

Xx, The
Vcr b/w Insects
PS, US Limited edition single with non album b-side
YoungTurks/XL
45
$4.75

Yamamoto, Eri Trio
In Each Day, Something Good
PS, US YAMAMOTO has an amazing gift for fresh & melodically indelible compositions. These all-new, all-original pieces are, as part of her 3-album string, nigh unmatched by her pianistic peers in music, and once again brought to life with ebullience & deep sensitivity by her long-running Trio partners (DAVID AMBROSIO, BASS & IKUO TAKEUCHI, DRUMS)
AUMFidelity-059
CD
$12.75

Yello Fever
S-T
PS, US YELLOW FEVER play minimal art pop a la Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, and 1980s Rough Trade. Formed in the summer of 2006, they have released two EPs as well as a 7-inch on Hugpatch records. The album released on THE VIVIAN GIRLS' Wild World imprint compiles both of the EPs and the 7-inch onto one release.
WildWorld
CD
$10.25

Yellow Fever
S-T
PS, US YELLOW FEVER play minimal art pop à la Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, and 1980s Rough Trade. Formed in the summer of 2006, they have released two EPs as well as a 7-inch on Hugpatch records. The LP on THE VIVIAN GIRLS' Wild World imprint compiles both of the EPs and the 7-inch onto one album.
WildWorld
CD
$10.25

Yellow Fever
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
WildWorld
LP
$12.00

Youngbloods
Earth Music (Mono Ed.) [reissue]
PS, US An uncommonly solid follow-up, expanding upon the musical directions introduced on their debut. Customized covers of Tim Hardin's "Reason To Believe," Holy Modal Rounders' "Euphoria," & Chuck Berry's "Monkey Business" demonstrate their talent for seamlessly integrating a broad array of influences. Meticulously restored from the pristine, original RCA Victor analog mono master tapes
Sundazed-5322
LP
$16.50

Youngbloods
S-T (Mono Ed.) [reissue]
PS, US Eponymous debut LP incl. the band's best-known song, "Come Together," which became a hit single - & one of the Aquarian Age's definitive peace anthems - 2 years after it's release. Meticulously restored from the pristine, original RCA Victor analog mono
master tapes
Sundazed-5321
LP
$16.50

Forthcoming Releases

@c
Music for Empty Spaces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, FRANCE A romantic piano over bath-time sounds, audio pollution and chirping birds, advanced digital constructs and found sounds - the art of Portuguese duo @c is about contrasts, unheard juxtapositions staged so that they make perfect sense as part of a continuum that is better described as a hallucination or a mystical voyage than mere cinema for the ear. @c consists of Pedro Tudela (b. 1962, artist, musician, stage designer) and Miguel Carvalhais (b. 1974, communication designer, musician). They have been working together under that two-character name for exactly 10 years - their first performance took place in March 2000. They also head the venerable sound art label Crónica.
Baskaru-018
CD
$17.25

A Broken Consort
Crow Autumn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
TompkinsSquare-2349
LP
$14.00

A Broken Consort
Crow Autumn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Second release from RICHARD SKELTON. Operating under a variety of guises, Skelton creates powerful instrumental music out of denselylayered acoustic guitar, bowed strignts, piano mandoline and accordion, often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. Evoking equal parts Arvo Part and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Gorecki.
TompkinsSquare-2332
CD
$14.75

A Certain Ratio
Force (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce an expanded CD re-release of the classic fifth album by iconic post-punk funk outfit A Certain Ratio, originally released by Factory Records in November 1986. Described by drummer Donald Johnson as "the Mike Tyson of funk", Force marked a convincing return to form for Ratio, mixing the robust funk grooves of single Mickey Way with down tempo tracks, as well as Si Firmi O Grido, the percussive tour de force which provides a reliable climax to live performances. In addition to pin-sharp rhythm and groove the album also displayed real consistency, and even a pop sensibility, courtesy of guest vocalist Corinne Drewery of Swing Out Sister. The album was also one of the first to utilize the brand new Akai S900 sampler. Force reached #2 on the indie album chart, buoyed by excellent reviews. "Force is bright, brilliant and hard as nails," wrote NME. "From the stop-watch bass and drums of Mickey Way to the startlingly optimistic snap and crackle of Only Together and Bootsy, Force almost dispenses with the expected melancholy and puts some of the euphoria of the funk to work." Melody Maker were equally impressed. "Ratio have jerked from their sleeves a fine pop record. Force is bright, tight, tense and coherent; a glorious achievement." On this remastered and expanded CD, no less than five bonus tracks have been added to the original eight on the album. These include flipside tracks from single Mickey Way, an ultra rare remix of Bootsy by Robert Racic (previously only available though Factory Australasia) and The Runner, issued on a limited edition Italian EP. ACR continue to gig and record, with 2009 album Mind Made Up scheduled for re-issue through LTM later in 2010.
LTM-2552
CD
$15.00

Aarktica/Various Artists
In Sea Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US A diverse collection of artists in genres ranging from noise to indie-pop to shoegaze and electronic remix and rework Aarktica's 2009 release In Sea. All tracks are exclusive to this release and unavailable elsewhere!
Silber-079
CD
$12.25

Abrasive Wheels
Skum (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US The Abrasive Wheels formed at the back end of 1978. Their first EP was Army Song. In 1980 this was picked up by Mr Mike Stone from Clay Records who had produced bands like the Lurkers and GBH. The band went on to release the formidable album 'When the Punks go Marching in'. This had several hits in the Indie charts and reached number 3 as an album. Black Leather Girl was their second album in 1984; this went to number 8 in the Indie charts. Both albums sold in large quantities.
CrashedOutRecordings-03
CD
$13.75

African Head Charge
Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of Adrian Sherwood's mighty On-U Sound imprint, and the next 12 months will see the label's busiest schedule of new releases in more than half a decade. Leading from the front comes 'Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa', the first new studio album in 15 years from the semi-nal spiritual roots collective African Head Charge.
On-U Sound-9014
CD
$13.75

African Head Charge
Songs Of Praise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Led by percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, African Head Charge formed in the early 80s and, under a shifting lineup, have released seven albums of afrocentric dub psychedelia, most of which have been produced by Adrian Sherwood and released on his On-U Sound label. As a precursor to the imminent release of their long-awaited new album Vision Of A Psychedelic Africa, AHC and On-U present a new reissue of Songs Of Praise, which was originally released in 1991 and has been out of print for the better part of five years. Regarded by many as the band's crowning moment, Songs Of Praise was always one of On-U's best and most consistent selling titles, and remains as much in demand today as when it first appeared.
On-U-Sound-9013
CD
$13.75

Aloha
Home Acres (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Pushes the tempos & dials up the guitars, w/ the band's slow-burn intensity sometimes overflowing into huge amounts. But even as the energy surges, the group casts an otherworldly glow, serving up ambience & attach w/ equal measure.
Polyvinyl-189
CD
$10.25

Aloha
Home Acres (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Polyvinyl-189
DLP
$14.50

AM
Future Sons & Daughters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US AM brings a heady brew of twinkling Anglified folk-rock-pop,twanging Americana, caressing Philly soul and funky R&B whatchacallit -- and, best of all, joyously unheard points in-between. With, arguably, some of the best bridges and choruses in the bizness, drawing from The Beatles and Badfinger or Curtis Mayfield and Jorge Ben. Produced by Charles Newman (MAGNETIC FIELDS).
Filter-026
CD
$10.25

Andrew W.K.
Close Calls With Brick Walls/Mother Of Mankind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US New York, NY - (November 2009) - After three years of loyal patience, ANDREW W.K. fans can finally experience the "lost? third album from the established party rocker. Previously released in Japan and Korea in 2006, CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS will officially be-come available in the United States on February 23, 2010, being released by STEEV MIKE, as a special two album package (the original CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS on one disc, and an additional CD called MOTHER OF MANKIND, containing rare and unreleased mate-rial). After the recent release of 55 CADILLAC - a compilation of improvised solo piano compositions - CLOSE CALLS WITH BRICK WALLS / MOTHER OF MANKIND deliver the slamming, inspirational music for which Andrew W.K. is loved, coupled with new sounds and feelings rarely associated with his traditional work. Close Calls With Brick Walls was recorded in multiple sessions throughout 2004 and 2005, using the full Andrew W.K. touring band for the first time. With a full instrumental band, the new album includes exciting new performances, styles, and rhythms. The lyrics are more complex although still very playful, and Andrew?s voice has grown into something much more distinct and expressive.
SteevMike-3214
DCD
$17.25

Another Electronic Musician
States Of Space (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US States of Space is the new album from Jase Rex's 'Another Electronic Musician' project and his 4th full-length for the n5MD imprint. The album gets its title from the physiological effects of his mental state during an emotionally difficult time. It also alludes to how his perception of his environment shaped his thoughts. Rex has sidestepped any stylistic expectations from his previous album, Five, by changing his working environment with the introduction of hardware into what previously was a strictly software based creative process. This more tactile way of working has given Rex room to let the songs breathe more than before and an almost 'less is more' ethos has crept into his music that also implies the album's title. Although this approach may seem more minimalist on paper, it has not at all affected the production, melodicism or density of the Another Electronic Musician sound.
n5MD-171
CD
$12.25

Art Museums
Rough Frame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE February 16TH)
PS, US Cult new wave band The Art Museums tell sordid tales of artists, lovers, and poseurs. Bay Area psych burnouts Josh Alper and Glenn Donaldson converged in San Francisco in the summer of '09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa '85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi.
Woodsist
CD
$11.75

Art Museums
Rough Frame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE February 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Woodsist
LP
$13.00

Avengers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 15TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents. 2CD
Water
DCD
$18.50

Avengers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE jUNE 15TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents
4MenWithBeards
LP
$17.00

Baker, Aidan
Liminoid/Lifeforms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The first solo release from the man behind ambient doom project NADJA. Liminoid is a compostion for large ensemble exploring sonic immersion in drones & textures, rhythms & pulsations incorporating composed & improvised segments. This recording is from its premier at The Music Gallery's Avant Festival in Toronto and it features powerful vocal performances with lyrics that have been adapted from 5th-8th century Coptic Christian texts. Lifeforms is a compostion for strings, prepared/effected guitar & amplified metal works.
Alien8-087
CD
$13.50

Balaclavas
Roman Holiday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US While the band makes nods to the dub punk of PiL, the rhythms of Can, & the coldness of Killing Joke, they are able to keep things wholly unique & create an original, highly melodic sound. Hop aboard the death train. Ltd to 525
DullKnife-015
LP
$13.75

Balmorhea
Constellations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Balmorhea's previous album All is Wild, All is Silent explored the freedom and isolation of settlers learning to live on an untamed frontier. It was an intensely physical album, dealing with the struggles of man on earth. By contrast, their new album Constellations shifts our focus to the cosmos and beyond, meditating solemnly on the mystical and metaphysical. The disarming simplicity of the tracks on Constellations proves that Balmorhea doesn't need dense arrangements full of 180-degree turns to craft deeply affecting compositions. More than just self-imposed limitation, the scale of this collection of songs introduces a sense of intimacy and perspective through their skillful use of space and restraint. For centuries humans have distilled order from the chaos of the night sky, turning a collection of bright dots into the framework for giants of myth and legend. Similarly, the tracks on Constellations serve as framework for our individual mediations on the wonders of time and space. As the album captivates and inspires our imaginations by recreating the movements and colors of life, it often gives the listener the sense of being tossed about on the ocean, at the mercy of a reckless and merciless god. Ultimately we're left with the euphoric release experienced as one realizes, for the first time, that his fate relies more upon the teasing whims of the unknown than any design of his own.
WesternVinyl-70
LP
$13.75

Balmorhea
Constellations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Balmorhea's previous album All is Wild, All is Silent explored the freedom and isolation of settlers learning to live on an untamed frontier. It was an intensely physical album, dealing with the struggles of man on earth. By contrast, their new album Constellations shifts our focus to the cosmos and beyond, meditating solemnly on the mystical and metaphysical. The disarming simplicity of the tracks on Constellations proves that Balmorhea doesn't need dense arrangements full of 180-degree turns to craft deeply affecting compositions. More than just self-imposed limitation, the scale of this collection of songs introduces a sense of intimacy and perspective through their skillful use of space and restraint. For centuries humans have distilled order from the chaos of the night sky, turning a collection of bright dots into the framework for giants of myth and legend. Similarly, the tracks on Constellations serve as framework for our individual mediations on the wonders of time and space. As the album captivates and inspires our imaginations by recreating the movements and colors of life, it often gives the listener the sense of being tossed about on the ocean, at the mercy of a reckless and merciless god. Ultimately we're left with the euphoric release experienced as one realizes, for the first time, that his fate relies more upon the teasing whims of the unknown than any design of his own.
WesternVinyl-70
CD
$11.50

Bardo Pond
Bufo Alvarius (LP/CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US Deluxe remastered reissue of their 1st album, originally released on Drunken Fish in 1995. Includes one previously-unreleased bonus track
Fire-137
LP
$24.25

Bark Bark Disco
Your Mum Says Hello (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, EU Bark Bark Disco stem from the island of Malta & the city of Berlin & were formed in August 2009, a week before they played their debut concert with Bonnie Prince Billy, in a masonic cemetery in Valletta. Allegedly it was this gig that actually pushed to band to formation. The band defines their sound as 'bedroom pop', mainly because of the fact that their debut album, 'Your Mum Says Hello' (released in February 2010) was recorded entirely in their bedroom. When listening to Bark Bark Disco, one can hear the pop sensibility of bands like the Modern Lovers, Herman Dune & the Vaselines, with an even more simplistic low-fi angle.
Bark-001
CD
$8.25

Bass Clef
May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Starting with the same raw material of bass and beats assembled on four-track cassette (it was good enough for Lee Perry), Bass Clef has stepped beyond E8 city limits and into the studio to add African-ist percussion, This Heat-style drum freak-outs, and the usual riot of trombone, Theremin and cowbell familiar to anyone who has experienced Bass Clef live ... and following his storming main-stage performance at Sonar as part of this year?s Radio One showcase, that now includes several million repeat-broadcast-exposed UK listeners.
BlackTapes-011
CD
$13.75

Ben & Vesper
LuvInldleness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US This record began in Ben + Vesper's kitchen so many years ago over three bowls of vegetarian chili, a pan of cornbread, filtered water, and an agreeable dinner guest by the name of Sufjan Stevens. The occasion was an invitation to play at a house-concert series that Ben + Vesper hosted in their living room (which resulted in Sufjan's first live show ever). This unlikely start to Sufjan's performing career also resulted in an ongoing friendship and musical dialogue that has recently inspired Ben + Vesper to dish out another dollop of ambrosial pop songs titled LuvInIdleness. Here is the new EP that finally brought the dinner party full circle as Sufjan, in turn, invited the Jersey-based couple across state lines, harrowing train connections and two great rivers to record 16 minutes of listening glee. If you don't wish to try all this, then put on the CD, and you will be pleased to hear a heavy dose of Sufjan's bright and varied arrangements underpinning each track, and Ben's brother Josh plucking and bowing that unmistakably gorgeous upright bass. One of the greatest achievements of LuvInIdleness is the room provided for Vesper's voice to really shine. On every song, Vesper can be heard striding out from the shadows of a backing vocalist to command each melodic turn with her distinctive range. This gives greater weight to Ben's understated baritone as the two voices form a pleasing union throughout the course of the album.
SoundsFamilyre-34
CD5
$5.50

Besnard Lakes, The
Albatross b/w Four Long Lines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US A standout track and the first single from Montreal's The Besnard Lakes' upcoming longplayer, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, "Albatross" has all the swagger of a Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac classic or Roy Orbison reimagined as a rollicking, snakeskin-booted Mazzy Star -- dousing it all in gas and throwing the match as we hear its tale of Vancouver's skid row and its inhabitants. On the flip we find "Four Long Lines," a non-album cut that not so much exists within the dark grooves of the vinyl as it does float just above the stereo, embodying the extraterrestrial encounter the song cryptically details. "Saw an alien/On the street/At dawn...Saw Aliens/In the sky/Called out to them, " breathes Jace Lasek's otherworldly falsetto, which stays just beyond definition skating on top of what could be a basement-tape lost cut from Eno's Another Green World.
Jagjaguwar-166
12
$9.00

Besnard Lakes, The
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Jagjaguwar-126
LP
$12.25

Besnard Lakes, The
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US There is a war now. The message has been sent through short wave in code. The Besnard Lakes twisting chronicle, or fever dream, of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock gods has turned violent. Loyalty, dishonor, love, hatred all seen through the eyes of two spies, fighting a war that may not be real. One follows the other as they receive coded messages and spread destruction. The city is burning, and it's to the benefit of music obsessives everywhere. Once again, the husband-and-wife duo of Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek has crafted a majestic, sprawling vision of guitar bombast and captivating pop experiments. With the aid of Besnard members Kevin Laing on drums and Richard White on guitar, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night is a dense, ambitious recording, experimenting, as always, with the studio as instrument.
The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night calls upon the influence of ELO and finer parts of the Alan Parsons Project in its orchestration. Still helped by the Ghost of Beach Boys Past, the album is more Dennis Wilson than Brian, and more Peter Green Fleetwood Mac than Lindsay Buckingham. The album is a dark bliss-out that folds the eerie guitar epics of the Montreal band's breakthrough into a wall of affected drones and atmospherics, but with a toughened immediacy and grit that gives the form a much-needed shove over the cliffs, making for a haunting, provocative swan dive into the crushing tide.
Jagjaguwar-126
CD
$11.50

Best Coast
Something In The Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Best Coast is Bethany Cosentino (ex - Pocahaunted) with Bobb Bruno (Polar Goldie Cats). Leaving NY behind Bethany returns to Los Angeles with a different perspective on music and the world. She writes great pop songs and has a beautiful voice that sings hooks that are hard to get out of your head. Her aesthetic is semi lo-fi but you can hear the growth within. Best Coast is making headway in Los Angeles and is cramming bars left and right allover, see what all the fuss is about.
PostPresentMedium-030
45
$4.25

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Beat The Devil's Tattoo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US 6th full length from BRMC
Vagrant-579
CD
$13.75

Black Tambourine
S-T [retrospective] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 30TH)
PS, US Price TBC. New retrospective includes everything ever released by the late 80s/early 90s D.C. indie pop band that included members of Velocity Girl (and Glo-Worm and Belmondo). This apparently replaces late-90s collection 'Complete Recordings' and adds even more unreleased gemmage, ending up being, um, more completer! Features the singles and demos plus four new songs that the band reunited to record, including Buddy Holly and Suicide covers.
Slumberland
CD
$13.75

Blessure Grave
Judged by Twelve Carried by Six (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Founded as a duo by T. GRAVES & REYNA KAY in September 2008, they blur the lines between Goth, PostPunk, & NeoFolk
genres. Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets & the Cure as influences, they inject a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness and create an interesting mix of old & new but dark all around
Alien8-088
CD
$13.50

Bloom, Kath
Thin Thin Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Few people who enjoyed the signature song 'Come Here' in the movie 'Before Sunrise' knew that the artist was folk singer-songwriter Kath Bloom. Kath had recorded several albums in the late seventies but was largely unknown by 1995. Her rediscovery since then with reissues and tribute album contributions by artists such as Devendra Banhart and Mark Kozelek is reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan's. Kath's new album, Thin Thin Line justifies the enthusiasm.
CaldoVerde-010
CD
$11.25

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Who Killed Sgt Pepper? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album , "Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?". Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized) , Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) & Felix from the Russian band "Amazing Electronic Talking Cave" & other musicians from France , Germany , & Iceland , this is the band's most multi cultured re-lease to date ,while obviously keeping the band's trademark style throughout this album . 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats , to rock , to shoegazing , to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band. This is the new Brian Jonestown Massacre Album "Who Killed Sgt Pepper?"
Arecords-020
CD
$13.75

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US DLP vinyl, 180g, white with purple splatters. Recorded in early & late 2009 between Iceland & Berlin with an US tour inbetween the Brian Jonestown Massacre move forward with this new full length album, "Who Killed Sergeant Pepper ?". Working with musicans of the likes of Will Carruthers (ex Spacemen 3 & Spiritualized), Unnur Andrea Einarsdottir (who recorded vocals on the last BJM album) and Felix from the Russian band Amazing Electronic Talking Cave & other musicians from France, Germany and Iceland, this is the band's most multicultured release to date, while obviously keeping the band's trademark style throughout this album. 13 tracks ranging from the ambient bhangra beats, to rock, to shoegazing, to gypsy influences of Eastern Europe music & then back again to the subliminal all twinged with the psychedelia of the band. This is the new Brian Jonestown Massacre Album "Who Killed Sgt Pepper?"
Arecords-020
DLP
$34.25

Budd, Harold & Clive Wright
Little Windows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US Little Windows completes the trilogy begun with A Song for Lost Blossoms and carried through their previous album Candylion. Little Windows was recorded especially for John Diliberto's popular, syndicated ambient music radio show, Echoes Radio. These recordings were first heard on Echoes Radio in Fall 2009. Little Windows showcases these Artist's individual talents more so than their two previous albums. Only two of the nine tracks are collaborative Budd/Wright works. Four tracks are fully fleshed out Clive Wright solo compositions recorded at his Desert Sky Studio. Three tracks are Harold Budd solo at the piano -- just Harold with a beautiful sounding piano in a beautiful sounding room at Knobworld Studios, Silverlake.
Darla-234
CD
$12.25

Bulldog Courage
From Heartache To Hatred (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US BULLDOG COURAGE is a fierce combination of in-your-face street punk and east coast hardcore all wrapped up in one ugly, defiant package.
ThorpRecords-079
CD
$12.25

Bundles, The
The Bundles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US The Bundles boasts a line-up of Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis, Jack Lewis, Anders Griffen and Karl Blau, a formidable group of artists who have achieved great singular success. Their debut album The Bundles [KLP214] is a delightful fusion of everything they have done on their own. Mix the tragic-comic folk narratives of Jeffrey Lewis, with Kimya Dawson's friendly calls for bravery, with the daffy, multi-instrumentations of Karl Blau, Jack Lewis and Anders Griffen and the result is an album that is able to be both snarky and tender, and vulnerable and confident - all at the same time.
KRecords-214
LP
$12.25

Bundles, The
The Bundles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US The Bundles boasts a line-up of Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis, Jack Lewis, Anders Griffen and Karl Blau, a formidable group of artists who have achieved great singular success. Their debut album The Bundles [KLP214] is a delightful fusion of everything they have done on their own. Mix the tragic-comic folk narratives of Jeffrey Lewis, with Kimya Dawson's friendly calls for bravery, with the daffy, multi-instrumentations of Karl Blau, Jack Lewis and Anders Griffen and the result is an album that is able to be both snarky and tender, and vulnerable and confident - all at the same time. The Bundles started as a project of two mutual friends wanting to collaborate. Jeffrey Lewis and Kimya Dawson were fans of each other in the growing anti-folk music scene of New York City in the late 90s, and when her band Moldy Peaches landed on Rough Trade, Jeffrey soon followed. In February of 2001, Dawson visited Jeffrey who was living at the time in Austin, Texas. During this visit they wrote and recorded five songs with Lewis on guitar and Dawson on keyboards. In 2002, Kimya had started her solo career and while touring Germany with the Jeffrey Lewis Band, those same five songs were expanded into full band songs with the addition of Jeffrey's brother/bandmate Jack Lewis on bass and Griffen on drums. Years passed, during which Jeffrey and Jack released five acclaimed records on Rough Trade, and Kimya toured constantly with six solo albums, and received an invitation to the Grammy's for the Juno movie soundtrack. Despite the heavy creative schedules of all involved, The Bundles continued to be resurrected in unlikely times and places wherever in the world the members happened to cross paths. Eventually in 2009 the four congregated to make some full-band Bundles recordings at the Dub Narcotic Studios in Olympia, Washington. With additional contributions from troubadour Karl Blau - who originally only signed on to record them - they honed their old songs and crafted some new ones, too. So on one hand, their debut album took just a few days to write and record, on the other hand it took eight years! One must not wait as long to hear from them again, though, as The Bundles plan on playing shows as early as Spring 2010. "Beyond her vocals - sweet and dry like ginger ale - [Kimya] Dawson's biggest feat is her ability to write effortlessly powerful songs that kill you with kindness." - Bust Magazine "Jeffrey Lewis is the Big Apple's best-kept secret. NYC's never exactly lacked eccentric singer-songwriters, but all, from Lou Reed up to Adam Green, would struggle to out-boho Jeffrey Lewis." - NME Magazine
Krecords-214
CD
$11.50

Burning Star Core
Papercuts Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US
NoQuarter-022
CD
$10.50

Burning Star Core
Papercuts Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US
NoQuarter-022
LP
$14.25

Buzzcocks
Another Music in a Different Kitchen [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions. A major punk landmark that is full of fire, wit, speed, philosophical lyrics & gender explorations, as well as the sly psychedelia that always made them stand out from the pack, including the classic track "Orgasm Addict".
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Buzzcocks
Love Bites [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions.
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Buzzcocks
A Different Kind of Tension [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Special deluxe 2CD package containing unreleased tracks, Peel sessions, associated singles, demos, backing tracks, & live versions.
Mute
DCD
$15.50

Camden, Ken
Lethargy & Repercussion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 30TH)
PS, US Vinyl only release. Ken Camden plays guitar. While those four words might imply something extremely limiting, Ken's playing & execution are anything but. His work seamlessly melds elements of modern composition, kosmische musik, eastern modal themes & academic electronic works; in other words, a good amount of the things loved by kranky. All of the pieces were recorded in real time with no overdubs, with the exception of Jupiter which was designed & recorded as a duet for two guitars. While this process may not result in the technical perfection that many strive for, it leaves in the idiosyncrasies that give sound recordings their life & their soul, that make them unique to the individual & the moment. What results are six intoxicating, structured atmospheres perfect for headphones & a deep recline into an enveloping chair.
Kranky-140
LP
$12.25

Cars Can Be Blue
All the Stuff We Do (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Cars Can Be Blue is a two-headed creature that clawed its way out of a swamp known as Keene, NH way back in 2003, when Becky Brooks and Nate Mitchell fused into one musical essence, foisting their rudimentary songwriting skills upon the world and gradually cultivating a legion of morally questionable admirers. The Cars Can Be Blue components seem simple enough: a girl with a guitar, a guy with a ramshackle drum kit, yet this bipolar beast houses a wide swath of darkness shrouded in shiny pop confections...or is it the other way ‘round? IMAGINE Tullycraft fronted by Andrew Dice Clay or Sarah Silverman and you get the idea.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-069
LP
$13.00

Carta
An Index of Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16th)
PS, US RIYL: Low, Six By Seven, Coldplay, The Cure, Stars of the Lid, Charles Atlas, Landing, Ida. Carta returns with a new home on Silber combining all of the 1990s moody pop, slowcore, & post rock sounds into modern indie pop. File under Indie, Post Rock, Alternative, Slowcore, Minimalist Pop.
Sample track: http://www.silbermedia.com/mp3s/carta-building-bridges.mp3
Silber-077
CD
$12.25

Casino Versus Japan
Night On Tape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US While fans wait for the next official Casino Versus Japan album, Attacknine is happy to present Night On Tape, 20 previously unreleased tracks from Casino Versus Japan's recording archives. Casino Versus Japan is Erik Kowalski. His signature style of electronic songs have garnered enjoyment from fans the world over, as well as by other music figures such as; Ulrich Schnauss, Kid 606, Marumari and the folks at the luminary labels Morr Music, Carpark, Darla, & City Centre Offices. In late 2002, Erik sent Nick Huntington (co-founder of Attacknine Records and one half of the music group Freescha) five discs of his personal recordings. Erik is a fan of Freescha's music, and the discs were a gift, not meant for release to the public. But thinking that it wasn't fair that he was the only one enjoying these discs, that the music was too good, and that other people should be enjoying them too, Nick asked Erik if he would allow Attacknine to release it. The end result was Attacknine's 2004 release Hitori+Kaiso, which contained the majority of the music on discs two and three. But nothing from the first disc of music he sent was included in that collection. So here it is, "Night On Tape", Erik at his most nocturnal, his lush guitar and electronic instrumentals swelling and buzzing neon highlights through the darkness.
Attack9-018
CD

Chew, Hans
New Cypress Grove Boogie b/w Forever Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, USHANS CHEW'S skill as a piano player has complemented JACK ROSE live & on "Black Dirt Sessions" & "Luck In The Valley", and he's also an integral member of D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX. This pic disc single offers an expanded glimpse at his songwriting prowess & powerful boogie-blues, bar-rockin' piano skills. LIMITED TO 500, INCL. DOWNLOAD COUPON,
ThreeLobedRecordings-075
45
$7.25

Coconuts
Coconuts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US
NoQuarter-023
CD
$10.50

Coconuts
Coconuts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US
NoQuarter-023
LP
$10.50

Collett, Jason
Rat A Tat Tat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Follow up to his widely praised 2008 release, Here's To Being Here.
Arts&Crafts-052
CD
$16.25

Collett, Jason
Rat A Tat Tat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Arts&Crafts-052
LP
$17.00

Common Loon
The Long Dream of Birds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2010)
PS, US Common Loon is a psych-rock-pop duo, Matt Campbell and Robert Hirschfeld, who have known each other since Kindergarten (for real). They are from Illinois. They traffic in otherworldly rock, blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness. Names dropped include Sparklehorse, Sebadoh, Spacemen 3's extended family, Apples In Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Granddaddy...
AHiddenAgendaRecord-096
CD
$10.00

Cotton Candy
Top-Notch & First-Rate (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US COTTON CANDY is MARK ROBINSON (UNREST, AIR MIAMI, FLIN FLON) and EVELYN HURLEY (BLAST OFF COUNTRY STYLE). 27 tracks ranging from indie-pop to electronic-pop to hard rock. They also show off their advertising jingle chops with covers of rare radio & TV commercials. They were in Believer Magazine's 2009 Music Issue & collaborated with David Shrigley on Tomlab's "Worried Noodles" compilation. TRANSPARENT GREEN VINYL with full-color jacket & labels! 180 gram pressing comes with download code.
TeenBeat-457
LP
$12.75

Cromagnon
Cave Rock (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Originally released in 1969, "Cave Rock" strings together a patchwork of untamed sounds & mental images which perfectly articulate the boundary-breaking psychedelic revolution that was occurring at the time - musically & socially. Widely heralded as the best freak-out record of all time, the album surpassed even th most out-there psych of its day, predicting the disjointed aural landscapes of Faust & the violent scuzz of Throbbing Gristle.
Jackpot-7106
LP
$18.50

Dakota Suite
Night Just Keeps Coming In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Collection of adaptations & remixes of the seminal record The End Of Trying, featuring mostly subdued sound animations, flowing piano harmonies & smooth cello arrangements. Artists include: MACHINEFABRIEK, PETER BRODERICK, JASPER LEYLAND, HAUSCHKA, ELEGI, DEAF CENTER, ARVE HENRIKSEN, GREG HAINES, HANNU, TAPE, SWOD, THE BOATS, JACASZEK, EMANUELE ERRANTE, LOSCIL, DAKOTA SUITE & NICK HAWLEY
KaraokeKalk-051
CD
$16.75

Dakota Suite
Night Just Keeps Coming In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 2LP+CD version.
KaraokeKalk-051
DLP
$19.50

Daughters
Daughters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Daughters' Self-Titled is, the kind of record that you can't stop turning up... The kind that satisfies every cultural/musical requisite a critical listener possesses while simultaneously reinventing the wheel... The kind that's so immediately gratifying that you don't even bother to compare your instincts with what today's internet has to say... The Kind you won't have to remove from your automobile's CD player for several months... its a ten.
HydraHeadRecords-195
CD
$12.00

Demon
Live In Germany (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US REGION 0 : All Region. This film was shot in GERMANY at the Warm up Show for the KEEP IT TRUE FESTIVAL in TURNHALLE, DITTIGHEIM, GERMANY April 7th 2006, This was the first GIG of a 7 date TOUR.
HillstoneProductions-002
DVD
$23.25

Deru
Say Goodbye To Useless (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Say Goodbye To Useless is Deru's third full-length release, and his first for Mush Records. While you will find similar aesthetics to his previous releases - moody, atmospheric sounds, haunting melodies and organic textures - they are augmented by his most mature song-writing and cutting-edge beats to date. The album pays homage to classic genres and structures while cultivating a 22nd century smart-party ethic that will snatch the ear of the snobbiest beat head. Deru's listeners will continue to appreciate his drive for challenging them as much as he challenges himself. Deru is Benjamin Wynn, an electronic musician from Los Angeles. His compositions find hip-hop and electronic music linking hands, while dipping more than a toe in the ambient and classical pools. Previous releases on Ghostly International, Merck, Neo Ouija and more have allowed him to cultivate a dedicated following. An accomplished sound designer and film-scorer, he has been nominated for the MPSE's Golden Reel Award and written works for the Paris Opera Ballet Company. Deru's appreciation of art and architecture runs as deep as the basslines that support his thoughtfully constructed songs. With one eye on music technology innovations, one ear tuned to the strains of his musical forefathers and every remaining molecule dedicated to producing synthetic symphonies, Deru is a creative force to be reckoned with.
Mush-268
CD
$11.50

Diamond Rings
Wait & See (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Diamond Rings is a creative outlet for Toronto based artist and musician John O. His first single "All Yr Songs" was released on limited edition vinyl via his own boutique label and design house Hype Lighter in August 2009. Thanks in large part to a music video that attracted positive reviews from Pitchfork and countless international fashion and music blogs the entire pressing sold out in little more than a month. Diamond Rings has most recently performed alongside La Roux and Dragonette and will be making a
series of appearances at SXSW in March 2010. Diamond Rings' follow up single Wait & See marks his first release with German record label Tomlab and features gated snares, distorted guitar, and a catchy chorus featuring backing vocals from Toronto based indie-pop star Gentleman Reg. The B Side is an unlikely cover of Sebadoh's "On Fire" that trades the mid-nineties acoustic aesthetic of the original for night club ready MIDI beats and shimmering analog synth flourishes. Diamond Rings has recently finished shooting a new Janet Jackson inspired music video for Wait & See and is currently hard at work in Toronto mixing his debut full-length album, "Special Affections".
Tomlab-135
45
$5.50

Disappears
Lux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 13TH)
PS, US Disappears are that rarest of musical things, a 'rock' band affiliated with Kranky. But at least they are a rock band & not some less than reasonable facsimile, because let's face it; most bands using that descriptor would not sonically intimidate your grandmother if she were alone in a dark alley. And deliver the granite the Disappears do from the opening chords, delivering scuzzy, driving rhythms that certainly imply a threat of ill will. Drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay & repetition, Disappears play minimal rock music inspired by krautrock, punk rock, the mid 80's New Zealand scene & a bit of everything in between. And in their minimalist approach the band finds their real strength, hammering home chord structures that are tried & true and can and do remain fresh in the hands of the right talents such as these.
Kranky-143
CD
$12.25

Disappears
Lux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 13TH)
PS, US Disappears are that rarest of musical things, a 'rock' band affiliated with kranky. But at least they are a rock band & not some less than reasonable facsimile, because let's face it; most bands using that descriptor would not sonically intimidate your grandmother if she were alone in a dark alley. And deliver the granite the Disappears do from the opening chords, delivering scuzzy, driving rhythms that certainly imply a threat of ill will. Drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, distortion, delay & repetition, Disappears play minimal rock music inspired by krautrock, punk rock, the mid 80's New Zealand scene & a bit of everything in between. And in their minimalist approach the band finds their real strength, hammering home chord structures that are tried & true and can and do remain fresh in the hands of the right talents such as these.
Kranky-143
LP
$12.25

Dum Dum Girls
Jail La La (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US First single from "I Will Be", the debut full-length out March 30 on Sub Pop. Having previously released an EP on Captured Tracks, a 7" on HoZac, and a CD EP on Zoo Music, DDG churn out blissful pop that falls somewhere between the Ramones & the Ronettes. Which, in our opinion, is a very good
thing.
SubPop-869
45
$4.75

Durutti Column, The
2001-2009 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US 5CD set. The complete output of Vini Reilly from 2001-2009! Special edition set includes unheard exclusive bonus tracks & art prints of each CD cover.
Artful-067
CD-BOX
$37.50

DVA
Natty/Ganja (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Rinse FM's breakfast show host, DVA is a producer with a unique take on the UK Funky bug, blending the stiff 8-bar funk of grime with a super-supple rhythmic sensibility, sew-ing neon colours with a laid back precision into his tracks.
HyperdubRecords-030
12
$10.50

Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Wet Cement EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010)
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. Three new tracks from Australia's garage-pop titans. Shades of The Saints, The Troggs and Thee Oh Sees but with a sound all their own. ROSE QUARTZ: "Casually great ... Lo-fi singalongs with perfectly satisfying climaxes."
MexicanSummer
45
$4.25

Electric President
The Violent Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic prog rock. For the last 3 years the band has been releasing music on German imprint and indietronic mainstay Morr, now in 2010 they release their first album on CT based Fake Four Inc.
FakeFourInc.-015
LP
$13.00

Electric President
The Violent Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic prog rock. For the last 3 years the band has been releasing music on German imprint and indietronic mainstay Morr, now in 2010 they release their first album on CT based Fake Four Inc.
FakeFourInc.-015
CD
$10.50

Eluvium
Similes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Introduced in 2003, Matthew Cooper's Eluvium moniker was an unexpected breath of fresh air to an ambient electronic scene that was quickly losing steam. Influenced by neoclassical icons like Erik Satie and Philip Glass, Eluvium snuck emotionally stirring melodies into a blizzard of haze and fuzz, and incidentally became a celebrated composer oft-mentioned in the same breath as his heroes. After the release of Copia in 2007, Eluvium toured for over a year, often supporting labelmates and close friends Explosions In The Sky. By the middle of 2008, Cooper was craving a new direction. After five albums in as many years, he was perhaps feeling a little complacent. For the first time since its inception, a year would pass without a new Eluvium album. In fact, three years would pass. During that time, Cooper released a stirring solo album (Miniatures), scored a major motion picture (Some Days Are Better Than Others) and released a jaw-dropping deluxe vinyl box set. After completing and subsequently scrapping what was to be the follow-up to Copia, Cooper took a courageous creative leap with Similes, an 8-song album featuring three key musical elements previously uncharted by Eluvium: percussion, a verse-chorus song structure, and singing. For a celebrated experimental musician, it was just about the bravest and scariest direction to go. In this way, Similes is the most truly experimental Eluvium album yet, and also the most accessible. Written, performed and recorded as always by Cooper in his home studio, Similes marries Eluvium's trademark dream-like aura with Cooper's unique, laconic vocals, akin to an especially contemplative Ian Curtis with trace reflections of Magnetic Fields and Brian Eno. It is the most daring - and ultimately most rewarding - work of Eluvium's impressive and prolific career.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-163
CD
$11.50

Engines
Wire & Brass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US Chicago's best-known & busiest improvising musicians: trombonist Jeb Bishop, saxophonist Dave Rempis, bassist Nate McBride & drummer Tim Daisy. Recorded live in April 2008 at the Hungry Brain in Chicago
OkkaDisk-2079
CD
$12.50

Ent
Fuck Work (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, FRANCE Fuck Work - ENT's official full-length debut - has been obtained d through the advanced yet surprisingly vivid distillation of several avant-garde music aesthetics, including electronica, post-rock, turntablism, noise and electro acoustic improv. Instruments and machines blend together into a multi-hued soundscape that entices the listener to dive in and immerse himself/herself into the listening experience.
Baskara-5
CD
$14.75

Ex
Maybe I Was The Pilot b/w Our Leaky Homes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 8TH)
PS, US The title "Our Leaky Homes" comes from the title of a chapter of a book called "HEAT (How to stop the planet from
burning)" by English journalist George Monbiot. The main riff of "Maybe I was the Pilot" was borrowed & adapted from a song called "Elosi aberu akipore imaniti abide" by Ugandan singer & adedeu (harp) player Iganitiyo Ekacholi.
ExRecords
45
$9.75

Fang Island
Fang Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description.
SargentHouse-028
CD
$8.75

Far East Family Band
Parallel World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, UK Originally released in 1976 by Nippon Columbia, this is the final album by legendary Japanese space/psych-rockers Far East Family Band. Unlike other albums where the band focused on Pink Floyd-esque psych ballads, on Parallel World, the influence of German producer/electronic music composer Klaus Schulze is more pronounced, merging prog rock with electronic music to create something rather weird and wonderful. Although Schulze oversaw the production of the album rather than playing on it (which he definitely didn't!), the synth star here is Masanori Takahashi who was later to find new age fame and fortune under the name of Kitaro. This is space rock at its finest and the band's extended compositions attracted favorable comparisons with both Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and even at times the vocal style of the Moody Blues. Unfortunately, this was the band's last album, but they went out on a high, achieving the rare feat of appealing to devotees of both Krautrock and electronic psychedelia alike. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Fell, Lugano
Slice Repair (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, FRANCE Lugano Fell is the solo project of James Taylor, a founding member of UK tech house duo Swayzak. After 12 years spent perfecting the pumping house music of Swayzak (whose seminal album "Snowboarding in Argentina" has been reissued in 2009), Taylor felt like trying something totally different, quieter, and more detail-focused. From the noisy (i.e. loud) and pulsating soundworld of Swayzak, Taylor has sliced and spliced his way to a noisy (i.e. sound-based) and textural soundworld.
Baskaru-016
CD
$17.25

Field Music
Field Music (Measure) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 20-track double-album of artful English prog-pop. Following a self-imposed three-year hiatus, the UK's Field Music returns. Powered by brothers and co-frontmen Peter and David Brewis, Field Music's line-up now includes Kev Dosdale (guitar and keys) and Ian Black (bass). The new album (self-titled but identified as Field Music (Measure) to distinguish it from their debut album) is a gloriously rich LP that entwines the brothers' renewed love of the rock music canon with a rediscovery of some of pop's overlooked adventurers.
MemphisIndustries
CD
$14.75

Foxx, John
My Lost City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, UK Most of the material on the album was recorded at Foxx's Shoreditch studio, The Garden, between 1981 - 1985. "I hadn't listened to the recordings that are being released as the My Lost City album since they were made, over twenty years ago,' says Foxx. 'When I played them I was struck by the way they evoke a time and a place - and how I'd been unaware of this when they were made. Then they seemed like fragments, unfinished and unsatisfying. A stop on the way to somewhere else."
Metamatic-021
CD
$16.25

Frightenend Rabbit
The Winter of Mixed Drinks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US With their sophomore outing The Midnight Organ Fight a fixture on 2008's Best Of The Year circuit, a fan base increasing in both size and devotion, and multiple sold-out tours of ever-larger venues under their belts, Glasgow-based Frightened Rabbit are releasing their third LP to towering expectations. The Winter Of Mixed Drinks - an accessible collection of ambitious, moving, and gloriously accomplished songs - more than meets this challenge. Written during singer/songwriter Scott Hutchison's self-imposed exile to secluded seaside hamlet Crail, on Scotland's Fife coastline, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks is speckled with nautical metaphor and imbued with themes of human isolation, resilience, and the mournful triumph of mortality. String arrangements by Frightened Rabbit's Fat Cat label mate, Dusseldorf-based composer/pianist Hauschka, add heft and richness to these gorgeously memorable songs. With a full US tour planned around this highly anticipated release, as well as appearances at SXSW and major summer festivals, in addition to massive press, digital, TV, and multiple-format radio outreach, 2010 is poised to be the Year Of The Rabbit!
FatCatRecords-084
LP
$13.00

Frightenend Rabbit
The Winter of Mixed Drinks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US With their sophomore outing The Midnight Organ Fight a fixture on 2008's Best Of The Year circuit, a fan base increasing in both size and devotion, and multiple sold-out tours of ever-larger venues under their belts, Glasgow-based Frightened Rabbit are releasing their third LP to towering expectations. The Winter Of Mixed Drinks - an accessible collection of ambitious, moving, and gloriously accomplished songs - more than meets this challenge. Written during singer/songwriter Scott Hutchison's self-imposed exile to secluded seaside hamlet Crail, on Scotland's Fife coastline, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks is speckled with nautical metaphor and imbued with themes of human isolation, resilience, and the mournful triumph of mortality. String arrangements by Frightened Rabbit's Fat Cat label mate, Dusseldorf-based composer/pianist Hauschka, add heft and richness to these gorgeously memorable songs. With a full US tour planned around this highly anticipated release, as well as appearances at SXSW and major summer festivals, in addition to massive press, digital, TV, and multiple-format radio outreach, 2010 is poised to be the Year Of The Rabbit!
FatCatRecords-084
CD
$11.50

Funkadelic
America Eats Its Young (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 4th album from GEORGE CLINTON's funk/psych/rock outfit, originally released in 1972. Deep & heavy grooves propelled by the always amazing guitar, bass & keyboard work of Eddie Hazel, William "Bootsy" Collins, & Bernie Worrell, respectively. Equally sleazy, political, heartfelt, & just plain bizarre. 180 gram 2LP
4MenwithBeards-179
DLP
$23.25

Funkadelic
Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 6th album from GEORGE CLINTON's pioneering funk-rock outfit, originally released in 1974. Another feather in the increasingly bizzare & brilliant cap of Mr. Clinton
4 Men With Beards
LP
$16.50

Gentle Friendly
Ride Slow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Using a wide palette of sound that successfully captures the intensity of their live performance, GENTLE FRIENDLY have completed their adventurous debut album, surpassing the band's lo-fi origins & demonstrating an uplifting emotional range. Rounds of echo drench & repetitive rapture glide seamlessly between songs of euphoric warmth to broken stammering rhythms to crushing walls of atmosphere
UpsettheRhythm-031
CD
$16.25

Gentle Friendly
Ride Slow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
UpsettheRhythm-031
LP
$17.00

Gibson, Laura & Ethan Rose
Bridge Carols (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US As the project developed, Gibson began improvising lyrics & wordless vocalizations that tumbled out in long, trailing waves. Rose then reshaped tones & sounds around her words. RIYL: Grouper, Max Richter, William Basinski, Tim Hecker
Holocene-010
CD
$16.50

GiGi
Maintenant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Gigi is the recording project of Vancouver-based songwriter Nick Krgovich and producer/engineer Colin Stewart. In the spring of 2005 Stewart acquired two huge vintage plate reverbs and, eager to use them in a way that befit their history, he asked Krgovich to come up with a couple songs in the vein of classic Phil Spector/Brill Building pop hits and invited a large group of musician friends into the Hive Studios to record the songs live-off-the-floor. The results of that night were amazing, inspiring a string of
recording sessions that took place over the following 3 years, collected here on Gigi's debut album Maintenant. Capturing the spirit of the pop music that flooded the hit parade in the early 60's is a tall order, and the songs on Maintenant decidedly develop a world and language of its own. With a reverent eye on the past and a deep respect for the airtight songsmithery of artists like Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Shadow Morton (among countless others), the songs aren't content to be throwback-y pastiches or polka-dotted retro workouts but rather stand as attempts at working within a specific and incredibly rich tradition of pop music production. There is something deeply satisfying about bringing together a large group of singers and musicians, cramming them into the studio, running through a song a couple times and then hitting "record". The shape of the songs forming on the fly and being coloured by the entire group, the intent and heart of the song crystallizing as the tape rolls. By the same token, the charming flubs and missed cues swirling in a dense cloud of reverb revealing sublime harmonies, soaring brass, and all the bells and whistles one might expect from a Krgovich/Stewart helmed project. In addition to Stewart's engineering and production credits on albums by Black Mountain, Cave Singers and Destroyer, as well as, Krgovich's other groups NO KIDS and P:ANO, GIGI has given the pair an opportunity to unabashedly profess their love of pop music in the most direct way conceivable, and this could not have been accomplished without the talents of the many players and singers that graciously helped out along the way. With singing contributions from artists such as Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, Mirah, Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls, Katie Eastburn of Young People, Rose Melberg and Karl Blau, the character studies in the songs are voiced from wildly distinct positions giving the narratives of lovesick loneliness, solitary walks around the neighbourhood at twilight, and friday nights at home with parents watching television in the front room, just that much more poignancy. In the end, what began as a humble experiment four years ago has ballooned into a pop extravaganza that will sit just as comfortably next to your Back To Mono box set as it will your rotary phone, waiting to ring.
Tomlab-132
CD
$12.25

GiGi
Maintenant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Tomlab-132
LP
$14.25

Goat, The & The Occasional Others
The Goat Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The Goat is some real nice sh!t. A legendary SKATER amd his Crazy-ass iconic-in-their-own-right budd's all styled up and shredding skate-park-punk riffs under dirrrrty lingo. an american ORIGINAL. OG. Like if a BAD BRAINS fan slurped codeinated 40 water and puked on a MURDER CITY DEVILS fan.
WerewolfHeartRecords-001
CD
$8.75

Gonjasufi
A Sufi And A Killer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US In these recent heady days, hype spreads like digital swine-flu and new artists are subjected to the sea change of an entire career before ever developing their sound. So to exist outside of the spotlight and develop a sound at once ready for the masses online, yet rooted in the fierce individualism of artists past may seem somewhat of a quaint notion until you hear Gonjasufi. At the moment, he stands just outside the spotlight cast on his friends and collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer, but the sonic brotherhood that exists is implicit rather than as similarities in sound. Drawing from unearthed strains of global psychedelia and merging it with a rejuvenated sense of hip-hop clarity currently distinct to the West Coast, Gonjasufi is more than just a songwriter, MC or performer. His debut album "A Sufi And A Killer" recalls moments in love as well as trading sinister threats with enemies, sometimes within the same song. Trading in both the murk of lo-fidelity vintage samples and the concentrated crispness of current West Coast production, "A Sufi And A Killer" is both a roadmap to the riches of the distant past and a signpost to the future.
WarpRecords-10172
DLP
$16.25

Gonjasufi
A Sufi And A Killer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US In these recent heady days, hype spreads like digital swine-flu and new artists are subjected to the sea change of an entire career before ever developing their sound. So to exist outside of the spotlight and develop a sound at once ready for the masses online, yet rooted in the fierce individualism of artists past may seem somewhat of a quaint notion until you hear Gonjasufi. At the moment, he stands just outside the spotlight cast on his friends and collaborators Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer, but the sonic brotherhood that exists is implicit rather than as similarities in sound. Drawing from unearthed strains of global psychedelia and merging it with a rejuvenated sense of hip-hop clarity currently distinct to the West Coast, Gonjasufi is more than just a songwriter, MC or performer. His debut album "A Sufi And A Killer" recalls moments in love as well as trading sinister threats with enemies, sometimes within the same song. Trading in both the murk of lo-fidelity vintage samples and the concentrated crispness of current West Coast production, "A Sufi And A Killer" is both a roadmap to the riches of the distant past and a signpost to the future.
WarpRecords-1017
CD
$13.00

Gonzales, Ernest
Been Meaning to Tell You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Gonzales' music offers up sonic interpretations of that sweet & sour, mixing organic & artificial sounds to create an elaborate experience of guitar meeting textured & careful electronics. 180g white vinyl. Includes download card w/ access to 16 song remix album feat. DAEDELUS, MEXICANS WITH GUNS, YPPAH, AETHER, & COPY
TallCorn-006
LP
$17.00

Gultskra Artikler
Galktika (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US Limited edition colored vinyl. Moscow-based Gultskra Artikler (Alexey Devyanin) can't be easily categorized. He's explored multiple styles and approaches, with consistently unpredictable output. His ideas on releases for labels such as Hyperboloid, Lampse, Miasmah and Other Electricities comprise a wealth of concept, intent, and overall exploration. Building on versatile collections of folktronica, field recordings, drone, glitch and avant-garde, he returns with Galaktika.
OtherElectricities-024
LP
$12.25

Guthrie, Robin
Sunflower Stories (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Limited edition of 1000. Digipak. Sunflower Stories is third in a trilogy of EPs from master soundscaper Robin Guthrie following Songs To Help My Children Sleep, released October '09 and Angel Falls, released August '09. We have a few words to describe these songs - uplifting, summery, opulent, dreamlike, exquisite, moving - with Guthrie quietly coaxing beauty out of layers of echoes and always inventive soundscaping. Given the quality of the recent album and two EPs, it's not surprising that as a guitarist and producer, Guthrie has been a massive influence on everyone from My Bloody Valentine through to Antony and the Johnsons, new 4 A.D. Act The Big Pink and M83.
In recent years he's worked with School Of Seven Bells, John Foxx (Ulrich Schnauss, Harold Budd and shared a stage with Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine). Most people know about his work in the Cocteau Twins, but he's also produced Ian McCulloch, Edwyn Collins and Felt, as well as defining the now vogue-ishly fashionable early '90s shoegazing scene with his productions for the likes of Lush and Chapterhouse.
Darla-233
CD5
$8.25

Hawgood, Ian
Slow Films In Low Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, UK 'Slow Films In Low Light' is a collection of remixes and re-workings by friends and artists from my now deleted album 'Soundtrack To A Film In My Head Which Will Never Get Made'. The original album was released on the lovely Rope Swing Cities but I decided I wanted it to be a temporary release given the nature of the album. RSC and I decided to do a small release to coincide with the original, as a limited run CD-R featuring re-workings and remixes of the pieces by friends, namely The Remote Viewer, Geskia!, Ten and Tracer and Pan Am Scan.
HomeNormal-013
CD
$12.25

Hayaino Daisuki
The Invincible Gate Mind Of The Infernal Fire Hell, Or... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US I was like you once... Often a little too lazy to get out of bed to blow a piss, old milky cereal bowls... so yeah, I know exactly what your thinking... your thinking, how could Hayaino Daisuki, arguably the most influential power-thrash outfit ever, outdo what they already pulled off on their debut EP, Headbanger's Karaoke Club Dangerous Fire? But they did... let me break it down. OK so, Hayaino Daisuki has always been the tightest and the fastest band out there, right? Hayaino's new record, other wise known as The Invincible Gate Mind of the Infernal Fire Hell, or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuki? maintains the aforementioned titles while gaining them another... After this record hits the shelves, people like you and me are going to have to start referring to Hayaino Daisuki as the fastest, tightest and most melodic metal band ever! And dude, if your into aggressive music you've come to the right place... listening to this band, and in particular the record in question, is like crossing streams with a fire hose... You know... Obviously you run the risk of injury, but your stoned and growing up in the suburbs...
HydraHeadRecords-177
CD
$9.50

High On Fire
Snakes For The Divine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL
E1Music-2010
DLP
$23.25

High On Fire
Snakes For The Divine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US One of the most highly anticipated releases of 2010, "guaranteed to alter heart rhythms & weaken building infrastructures...as powerful & gargantuan a threesome as metal has produced" - Pitchfork
E1Music-2010
CD
$12.25

Hoquiam
Hoquiam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Hoquiam is a city located on the coastal region of Washington State. Hoquiam is also a band consisting of members and brothers, Drake and Damien Jurado. With their self-titled release, they have created an album based around their childhood in Grays Harbor. A region of cold, damp, grey, low hanging clouds, isolation, bonfires, and the vast Pacific. Spliced into that landscape are frames of horror, the macabre; ghosts, skeletons, zombies, and darkness. In the fall of 2008, Damien began a side project to run opposite to, yet borrow from, the folk music leanings that he is known for. He wanted to add a dark early 60's garage feel to the songs. Infusing this sound came easily with the addition of his younger brother, Drake. With no musical experience other than high school choir (and being mistaken for Damien on the phone) Drake took naturally to drawing out the dark tales from the city where he was born. The songs are compelling in story, but also pay tribute in feel to the real town of Hoquiam. Gothic folk, personal narratives, and simple strong percussive elements define the music of Hoquiam. Sparse, desolate, and a place you will find yourself passing through from time to time-both the town and the band.
St.Ives-037
LP
$12.25

Hot Chip
One Life Stand [deluxe expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US CD+DVD special edition.
Astralwerks
CD/DVD
$21.25

Hot Chip
One Life Stand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US The band's most boldly accomplished record yet, at once offbeat & anthemic, cerebral & danceable
Astralwerks
CD
$15.50

Howe, Catherine
What a Beautiful Place (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US Since arriving on London racks in the summer of 1970, Catherine Howe's debut album has been unavailable in its original format. Produced by the legendary jazz pianist Bobby Scott, this orchestral-folk master stroke has once again been set to lacquer, remastered & restored directly from the original master tapes specifically for this deluxe vinyl release. Gatefold package includes replica LP art & complete annotation on the sessions & history of this forgotten Brit-folk treasure.
Numero-012
LP
$18.50

Human Skab
Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skab's music - an orchestration of pots n' pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone - is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains extensive liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky, and radio DJ John Straub along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: "the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool!"
FamilyVineyard-027
CD
$11.50

Human Skab
Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
FamilyVineyard-27
LP
$12.25

iTi
Artifact: Live In St. Johann (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Recorded on March 8th, 2008 at Alte Gerberel, St. Johann in Tirol/Austria at Festival ArtActs 2008. Features on trombone Johannes Bauer, drums Paal Nilssen-Love, analogue synthesizer Thomas Lehn & reeds Ken Vandermark
OkkaDisk-2077
CD
$12.50

Jaga Jazzist
One Armed Bandit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US The Norwegian 9-piece return to the fray with the stunning "One Armed Bandit,". All galloping rhythms, arpeggiated harpsichord and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as "Wagner meets Fela Kuti!" Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood viking epic.
NijaTune-152
CD
$13.00

Japanther
Rock N Roll Ice Cream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYL FOR DIRECT STORES ONLY!! PREORDER ASAP- ONLY 500 AVAILABLE. The story behind Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream is an adventure tale of exploring harmonies, writing together & a little bit of that West Coast surf vibe whilst lurking a bit towards Japanther's salad days in Brooklyn to draw on pop hooks & simple drum parts that make skating seem easier & bikes move faster. Produced by Michael Blum, whose past projects include Michael Jackson, Madonna (Like a Prayer, Who's That Girl), Pink Floyd and Suicidal Tendencies. It seemed a daring fish out of water fit for an album envisioned by Japanther as a dance party - and all the kids are invited! Comes with digital download.
MenloPark-7055
LP
$11.75

Jarnow, Al
Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US First collection of work by reknowed public television filmmaker Al Jarnow. His films have been seen by tens of millions of people of the last 40 years on PBS. Here 45 individual films are restored & color corrected in HD and lovingly packaged with a 60 page full color book and 30 minute documentary. Al Jarnow captured life's scientific minutia & boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters & counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion & cel animation with simple objections found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation. Region 0
Numero-031
DVD
$24.75

Jatun
Blanket of Ash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9th)
PS, US When Jatun's eponymous debut dropped in 2007, dream-pop enthusiasts and headphone purists alike were astounded by its thoughtfully detailed songs and meticulous textures. Subtle, distinct variations embedded in teeming walls of sound egged them on for a louder-than-loud listen. And there was just no denying the nuance cycles of swarming and disintegrating buzz; conduits for robot melodies. With Blanket of Ash, Jatun offers up another does of clandestine vocals, heavy layers and unmistakable intensity: A vinyl-only collection of metallic drone and spackjunk beats for the truly frequency-dependent.
OtherElectricities-022
LP
$12.25

jj
jj nº 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Last summer Gothenburg, Sweden's jj quietly released one of 2009's most critically-acclaimed albums. The album was named nº 2 and it was the group's debut full-length (their first single was nº 1).With the naive swagger of youth, jj have already completed their next full-length. We here at Secretly Canadian are incredibly proud to present nº 3 to you. If nº 2 was (as it was to many) the quintessential summer 2009 album, nº 3 is destined to be the quintessential winter 2010 album, a soft, red smear of blood on a field of fresh snow. jj create R&B and Balearic dub from the ghosts of lost lovers; pop as delicate as a fawn's nose across blades of frosted grass. It is the soundtrack for friends packed into the town squares tiniest tavern, their moontanned, apple-cheeked faces glowing, their dilated pupils filled with all the meaning and meaninglessness of a magic 8-ball. Their music is both carefree without carelessness, and self-aware without being self-conscious. With it, they build an ice bridge arching from Gothenburg into the heart of middle America, and everywhere in between.
SecretlyCanadian-212
CD
$11.50

jj
jj nº 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
SecretlyCanadian-212
LP
$12.25

Julius, Rolf
Music for the Ears (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US "For a long time I've been thinking about how to create spaces into which one can retreat, where one can find quiet, where one can see, hear, where one is able to concentrate, where one is isolated from the world around but still is able to participate in it...by means of art or music or both" - Rolf Julius, 1987
Futurism and Dadaism both made use of the synthesis of audio and visual arts to create a singular experience greater than the sum of its parts. This idea was further advanced by the Fluxus and Minimalism movements. Born in 1939 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Rolf Julius was profoundly influenced and inspired by these movements while he studied art in Bremen and Berlin. Years later, after immersing himself in musical works by artists like Morton Feldman, John Cage, and La Monte Young, Julius began to shift his focus from visual art to the synthesis of sound and visual art and nature, exploring the relationships between sounds and objects and environments. Julius soon discovered how sounds can influence vision, creating simple tones to be presented in conjunction with his early photographic work. Such experiments culminated in the creation of his pioneering work "Dike Line" (1979), which combined visual images with texture-inducing tones. This piece was presented at the ground breaking exhibition "Fr Augen Und Ohren" in 1980. Mythical in scope, this was the first major European exhibition attempted to map international research by artists exploring relations between sound and visual art, bringing together work by John Cage, Luigi Russolo, Nam June Paik, Joe Jones, Bill Fontana, Milan Knizak, Harry Bertoia, David Tudor and Rolf Julius. Over the next 30 years Julius went on to create some of the most meaningful and moving works in the gray area between music and art, between sound and silence. Alongside Takehisa Kosugi, Terry Fox, and Akio Suzuki, he has emerged as one of the most important and influential sound artists of our time. Since the early 1980's Julius has referred to his compositions as Small Music, receiving international acclaim from those in the fields of contemporary art and music for calling the origins of sound and vision into question. Small Music not only describes Julius' approach to composition (soft and compelling sounds from simple instruments and nature), but also a way in which to view his works and ultimately the world. Art historian Bernd Schulz once wrote "if one recalls John Cage's central theme of "silence" then Rolf Julius is the contemporary artist who approaches him most closely". Julius' Small Music has the distinct ability to heighten our perception such that "silence" becomes a positive quality of a place and a situation, and not just an absence of sound. Whether using photographs, ink drawings, audio compositions, or subtle and sometimes almost hidden outdoor installations, Rolf Julius' works serve as catalyst, increasing our awareness of the great beauty of the world that surrounds us. Western Vinyl is proud to release "Music for the Ears" the first in a series of Small Music releases by Rolf Julius. With a goal of creating solitary sound environments, the Small Music series will culminate into a boxed edition of seminal works by this master sound artist. "Music for the Ears" is comprised of two long tracks of gently weaving tones exploring the possibilities of spatial experience. The cover image depicts Julius' sound installation in a bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan where his music is placed high in the air, by speakers hanging freely from the branches of the trees. As the music suspends itself in the air, the
tones sway in the wind floating ever so gently, caressing the ears, the trees, the light, and clouds.
WesternVinyl-075
CD
$11.50

June, Sarah
In Black Robes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Attic core spooky americana w/ a sweet child like voice singing stories of love, cowboys, & death.
Silber-076
CD
$12.50

Knife, The
Tomorrow, In a Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US Price/format TBC! Details courtesy of PITCHFORK: "Last year, the Knife recorded a soundtrack to an experimental opera based on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species called Tomorrow, In a Year. (Berlin dance-rock act Mt. Sims and chamber experimentalist Planningtorock also collaborated on the music.) The stage performance premiered in September...it's about as fucked up and amazing-looking (and -sounding) as one would expect from an avant-opera featuring music from the Knife. And now a studio version of the soundtrack is on the way, courtesy of Mute. The 11-minute epic "Colouring of Pigeons" is currently streaming at the Knife's website and it just might rupture your brainspace... Nobody on earth (or elsewhere) is making music like this."
Mute
DCD
$16.25

Knife, The & Mt. Sims
Tomorrow, In A Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 9TH)
PS, US 90 minutes of music by THE KNIFE & their collaborators MT. SIMS & PLANNINGTOROCK, recorded for the Danish theater experimentalists Hotel Pro Forma for their modern opera "Tomorrow, In A Year"
Mute-94442
DCD
$19.75

Lamps
Niels Bohr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US You may know the band from their fine releases on In The Red. The guitar riff on "Niels Bohr" jackhammers into your brain before giving way to a deadpan chorus that is catchy as hell. The flip side is a killer noisy number in the Amp Rep tradition. Ltd to 500
DullKnife-016
45
$5.50

Lawrence Arabia
Chant Darling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US After spending a few year in NYC and working with some of the finest (Mike Ladd, Antipop Consortium, TV on the Radio...), Tahiti Boy aka David Sztanke came back to Paris. He'll then gather musicians, calling themselves the Palmtree family. On top of the traditionnal pop combo, they've added percussions, a cello, and Tahiti Boy's keyboards, central elements of their signature groovy psychedelic pop sound.
BellaUnion-000222
CD
$11.25

Let's Wrestle
In the Court of the Wrestling Let's (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US Influences as vast as Black Flag, Faust, & Edith Piaf but are ultimately trying to be as raw as possible.
Merge-374
CD
$12.50

Licht, Alan & Loren Connors
Into the Night Sky (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Into the Night Sky is the sixth album from avant guitarists Alan Licht and Loren Connors, the first after 2003's In France. Since 1993 these New York City artists have evolved an instrumental dialogue merging shades of electric blues and minimalism. These two epic pieces - one from 1996, the other 2006 - recorded live in concert clearly show far their desolate sound world grew over a decade of collaboration while the core of layered guitar complexities and alien melodies remain. The atmosphere conjured by the duo is unmistakable - the ebb of eloquently shaped feedback - while the harmonic patterns recall 20th Century classical music. Active since the early 1990s, Licht has worked with a veritable who's who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends to downtown composers while performing in Text of Light and an ongoing duo with Aki Onda. Since 1978 Connors has released dozens of acclaimed and sought after LPs documenting his singular adaption of the blues and forging his place as one of America's most iconoclastic artists.
FamilyVineyard-75
CD
$11.50

Local Natives
Gorilla Manor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
FrenchKiss-042
LP
$17.50

Local Natives
Gorilla Manor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Soaring, sky-scraping harmonies, dreamy orchestral melodies, & throbbing tribal beats. Draws a line from the vocal stylings of Crosby Stills Nash & Young & the Zombies through the more esoteric edges of post-punk & Afro-beat.
FrenchKiss-042
CD
$13.25

LoneLady
Nerve Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and tight guitarist. With little more than thorny determination and a shoestring budget, she built a secluded ramshackle studio in the belly of one of Manchester's crumbling mills and created her debut full length album, "Nerve Up" in the span of four weeks. The aesthetics of this ex-mill were a pure joy for LoneLady, and invoked the ghosts of bands she loves ... (Joy Division, ESG, Wire, Grace Jones, The Fall, Suicide, PiL). Co-produced by Julie and Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, The Breeders, Stereolab), LoneLady has delivered far more than just an assembly of songs in album form, but the outcome of a process of making something out of nothing.
WarpRecords-10186
LP
$13.00

LoneLady
Nerve Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and tight guitarist. With little more than thorny determination and a shoestring budget, she built a secluded ramshackle studio in the belly of one of Manchester's crumbling mills and created her debut full length album, "Nerve Up" in the span of four weeks. The aesthetics of this ex-mill were a pure joy for LoneLady, and invoked the ghosts of bands she loves ... (Joy Division, ESG, Wire, Grace Jones, The Fall, Suicide, PiL). Co-produced by Julie and Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, The Breeders, Stereolab), LoneLady has delivered far more than just an assembly of songs in album form, but the outcome of a process of making something out of nothing.
WarpRecords-10186
CD
$13.00

Lopez, Francisco & Lawrence Engish
HB (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Francisco Lopez - the most mysterious sound artist ever, the man who has elevated aural enigma and sonic displacement to art form status - joins forces with Lawrence English, the leading figure of the Australian experimental music scene, for a puzzling CD. The result is resolutely sombre going on obscurantist: occulted birdsongs, unidentified tremors, delicate but disquieting sounds from a jungle that could be either of the wild or urban kind. This sound world lies somewhere between mystery and mystification.
Baskaru-13
CD
$17.25

Loscil
Endless Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US Vinyl with two extra tracks not on the CD version!
Kranky-141
DLP
$16.50

Loscil
Endless Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US The album begins and ends with the sound of rain recorded by Scott in his back yard, precipitation being a constant presence in his home city of Vancouver. Many of the other sounds on the album are derived from these same recordings, processed & combined with other harmonic sounds to create the
textures & drones. Something completely new to this release would be vocals, of a sort, a first for any loscil composition, contributed by Daniel Bejar (DESTROYER) on the final track.
Kranky-141
CD
$12.25

Love Is All
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US After releasing two critically acclaimed full-lengths (Nine Times That Same Song, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night) and several EPs on New York-based What's
Your Rupture?, Love Is All returned home to Gothenburg, Sweden after their spring 2009 tour with no record deal in place (and accordingly, no demands) to produce a
new album. And so, the band members decided to take their time writing and recording and - gasp! - actually have a good time collaborating on the songs that would
eventually comprise their third record: Two Thousand And Ten Injuries. The result is an eclectic collection of pop melodies, anchored by New Wave and punk rock rhythms, that are as refined as they are unpredictable. All told, Two Thousand And Ten Injuries successfully manages.
Polyvinyl
CD
$11.00

Love Is All
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Polyvinyl
LP
$13.25

Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello
Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler.
12K-1048
CD
$12.25

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