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13th Floor Elevators
Psychedelic Circus
PS, US Formed in Texas in the mid-'60s, the 13th Floor Elevators started as a garage rock outfit, scoring their one and only modest national hit with You're Gonna Miss Me. While Roky Erickson's loopy persona and Tommy Hall's odd "jug" percussion were the band's most distinguishing features, several members of the group's original lineup contributed strong material to their albums. Trips to San Francisco established the group as an up-and-coming underground favorite and one of the original acid rock bands.
TheGreatAmericanMusicCo.-102
CD
$9.50

24-Carat Black
Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
PS,US "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is seen as 24-Carat Black's first & final chapter, barely a footnote in the well-documented history of Stax. "Gone" is by no means a sequel. Missing are the poignant & bleak sermons, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of love songs DALE WARREN had written as far back as 1965. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, & mission yet tethered by it's singular creator. 150 GRAM LP IN EMBOSSED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
Numero
LP
$17.50

24-Carat Black
Gone: The Promises of Yesterday
PS,US "Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth" is seen as 24-Carat Black's first & final chapter, barely a footnote in the well-documented history of Stax. "Gone" is by no means a sequel. Missing are the poignant & bleak sermons, replaced by dusky, sensuous re-workings of love songs DALE WARREN had written as far back as 1965. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, & mission yet tethered by it's singular creator. DELUXE CD INCL. EMBOSSED COVER & 20 PAGE BOOKLET
Numero
CD
$13.25

2562
Love In Outer Space/Third Wave
PS, US "Love In Outer Space" is one sneaky manoeuvre - a warped synth hook rattles your skull in a woozy, intergalactic machine-funk trip that is as groundbreaking & disorienting as 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Third Wave" is a more accessible 4/4 roller. Heavily spun by Martyn, Appleblim, & Peverelist, this energizing rhythm sounds like Herbie Hancock hitting a dubstep fix
Tectonic-029
12
$11.75

A Bolha
Um Passo a Frente
PS, US Originally released in 1973 by the Continental label, this Brazilian band experiemented with a heavier sound, more akin to UK bands of that era (Deep Purple,
Cream, King Crimson, Humble Pie, with a little Beatles' "White Album" in for good measure) than that of their Brazilian cohorts
LionProductions-629
CD
$15.00

A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Delivrance
PS, US Vinyl version. Forges deeper into the culture of the old East & comes back w/ a suite of euphoric melodies for times of revelry. Recorded in Budapest around the core of a Hungarian folk group, this is by far their most vivid, intense, & confident work to date
Leaf-063
LP
$17.25

A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Deliverance
PS, US Forges deeper into the culture of the old East & comes back w/ a suite of euphoric melodies for times of revelry. Recorded in Budapest around the core of a Hungarian folk group, this is by far their most vivid, intense, & confident work to date.
Leaf-064
CD
$16.00

Alabaster Suns
S-T
PS, US New band rising from the ashes of the much celebrated CAPRICORNS. This bears comparison w/ elements of Voivod, Prong & similarly progressive brutal acts of the mid 80s, though w/ a Dischord edge, perhaps bringing to mind bands such as Swiz & Circus Lupus.
IronPig-003
CD
$16.25

Alarm Will Sound
Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin
PS, US Alarm Will Sound, the young 22-piece new music band featuring voices, strings, brass, woodwinds & percussionists takes on twisted techno master Aphex Twin in "Acoustica." Alarm Will Sound, who the New York Times calls "the future of classical music," with a cadre of 10 arrangers, painstakingly recreates and rethinks Aphex Twin's legendary electronic work for an all-acoustic ensemble
Cantaloupe
CD
$12.00

All Tiny Creatures
Segni
PS, US This limited-edition colored vinyl release is a prelude to ATC's upcoming debut LP, which will feature vocalists Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Megafaun and more. Stacked melodies, distorted organs, stretched chords, reimagined vocals: Collections of Colonies of Bees/ Volcano Choir multi-instrumentalist Tom Wincek drops his Emotional Joystick handle for the glorious themes of All Tiny Creatures. During the 17-minute titular piano triumph and through the luminous haze of "Street Lights Ten Thousand Feet," ATC's debut EP, Segni, builds four ideas into four engrossing instrumentals.
Hometapes
12
$12.50

Altair Nouveau
Space Fortress
PS, US 3 tracks of larger-than-life spaced-out future disco
DFA-210
12
$8.00

Anchor & Braille
Felt
PS, US Debut side project from ANBERLIN frontman Stephen Christian. Featuring members from Anberlin and COPELAND.
ArsonMedia-011
CD
$13.00

Anfang, Silvester
Sylvester Anfang II
PS, US
AuroraBorealis
CD
$17.75

Antony & The Johnsons
Aeon
PS, US Antony and the Johnsons will release the "Aeon"/"Crazy in Love" double A-side single in the US on August 4th on CD and 7"through Secretly Canadian and on August 3rd in Europe and UK on 7" through Rough Trade."Aeon" is one of the highlights of the critical and commercial smash album The Crying Light which debuted at #1 on the European chart. The band appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman for the song's television debut. Antony and the Johnsons' earnest and impassioned cover of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love", a long time live favorite, is being released officially for the first time. The Crying Light is the band's follow up to the Mercury prize winning I Am a Bird Now and was released on January 20 through Secretly Canadian. The band is currently on a European leg of their world tour. The summer shows see them playing with some of the most esteemed symphonies in Europe in prestigious venues including La Carre in Amsterdam, Manchester Opera House, and the Grand Theatre Romain de Fouviere in Lyon.
SecretlyCanadian-209
CD5
$6.25

Antony & The Johnsons
Aeon
PS, US Antony and the Johnsons will release the "Aeon"/"Crazy in Love" double A-side single in the US on August 4th on CD and 7"through Secretly Canadian and on August 3rd in Europe and UK on 7" through Rough Trade."Aeon" is one of the highlights of the critical and commercial smash album The Crying Light which debuted at #1 on the European chart. The band appeared on The
Late Show with David Letterman for the song's television debut. Antony and the Johnsons' earnest and impassioned cover of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love", a long time live favorite, is being released officially for the first time. The Crying Light is the band's follow up to the Mercury prize winning I Am a Bird Now and was released on January 20 through Secretly Canadian. The band is currently on a European leg of their world tour. The summer shows see them playing with some of the most esteemed symphonies in Europe in prestigious venues including La Carre in Amsterdam, Manchester Opera House, and the Grand Theatre Romain de Fouviere in Lyon.
SecretlyCanadian-209
45
$6.25

Astromero
Live In San Francisco
PS, US Psychedelic synth/noise project of Japanese pioneer Hiroshi Hasegawa (ASTRO, CCCC) & LA's Damion Romero (SPECULUM FIGHT). Side A is a live show, a total scorcher w/ an immense level of energy where shifting walls of synthetic sound produced by Hasegawa are complemented by the signature rumbling low end frequencies coming from Damion's custom electronics. Side B is a new studio track, full of brain melting tones & showing the more
compositional side of this sick ongoing collaboration. Limited to 350
NoFunProductions-041
LP
$16.25

Audion
It's Full Of Blinding Light
PS, US MATTHEW DEAR releases some sneak-peak tracks that are deeper & darker than ever before, while maintaining an irresistible, lose-your-mind edge. The title track is a polyrhythmic mishmash of clicks, clacks, & distant children's voices until a fleet of synthesizers produces waves of
electronic noise
SpectralSound-077
12
$12.75

Axeman
Scary! Part III
PS, US Limited edition vinyl reissue of 1989 cassette-only release. Novice ears that have made it through this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, & Ptose
Siltbreeze-119
DLP
$19.25

Axemen
Big Cheap Motel
PS, US
Siltbreeze
LP
$13.50

Azar, Steve
Slide On Over Here
PS, US Steve Azar's seventh studio album's, Slide Over Here, "Moo La Moo", will ring true to fans of all ages, as his light take on being broke long before payday rolls around. With this latest collection of songs, Azar demonstrates continued growth and maturity as an artist, and presents his most solid work yet."
Ride-86328
CD
$12.00

Baby Teeth
Hustle Beach
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "There's no question that Chicago's Baby Teeth draw heavily and heartily from the classic rock and power pop of the 1970s. It can be trickier to say whether the results constitute jokey pastiche or sincere homage, but that confusion seems entirely appropriate -- and the distinction almost irrelevant -- when you consider that the '70s were an era when playfulness and emotional earnestness coexisted in rock music far more easily than they typically do today. (Take, for instance, the work of the Todd Rundgren, Electric Light Orchestra, and Meat Loaf with Jim Steinman, all of whose influence is readily evident here.) ...The album is a pure, understated joy, striking just the right balance of braininess, frivolity, and heart."
Lujo-074
CD
$12.25

Bad Veins
Bad Veins
PS, US "Every once in a while a band crosses our path that simply blows us the f*** away. This was the case with Bad Veins, a duo from Cincinnati that is making some of the best indie pop around" --TheTripwire.com
Dangerbird-30027.2
CD
$15.00

Balmorhea
All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes
PS, US Balmorhea's All is Wild, All is Silent has received praise from critics, fans, and most importantly from the band's close friends. Many of their friends are not surprisingly musicians themselves. The idea to release the All is Wild, All is Silent Remixes evolved organically as the band asked a few of their closest friends if they'd like to remix a track. To their surprise 11 of their friends jumped at the opportunity to create remixes of these wordless narratives that have become so meaningful to them. The resulting album is distinctly more experimental than the original album, but no less joyous and haunting. Many of the tracks retain Balmorhea's uniquely
American optimism, though some hardly leave a trace of the original's simplicity and restraint. Eluvium's 17-minute remix of "Settler" opens the album, evolving from swirls of vocals and upright bass into swells of blissful drones and echos. In contrast, The Fun Years' remix of "Coahuila" brings the drums to the forefront, almost morphing the track into a pop/rock jam. The acoustic fingerpicking of "Elegy" is deconstructed and turned into a wall of metallic noise with Bexar Bexar's refractive remix. Peter Broderick's unique remix of "November 1, 1832" begins as a spoken letter to Rob and Michael of Balmorhea. As the track develops, multiple layers of Peter's intense vocals build, resonating the song's unforgettable feeling of longing.
WesternVinyl-064
DLP
$15.75

Band Of Skulls
Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
PS, US Their debut offers a taste of their driving guitar force, heartbreaking duets, and sun-kissed, wall of sound harmonies. Produced, recorded, and mixed by Ian Davenport (Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy). Artwork by bassist/vocalist Emma Richardson. "Patterns" selected for Activision's Tony Hawk World Skate Game (out fall 2009). ESPN will use "I Know What I Am" in sports backgrounds. The song is also featured in the film "Whip It!" and the TV trailer for "I Love You, Man".
ArtistFirst-101027.2
CD
$10.25

Banquet of the Spirits
Infinito
PS, US CYRO BAPTISTA's newest band is augmented here by an array of his most distinguished musical associates in a delightful program of experimental Brazilian pop songs
Tzadik-630
CD
$15.25

Bao, Billy
May 08
PS, US CD version.
PartsUnknown-041
CD
$14.75

Bao, Billy
May 08
PS, US The Nigerian monstrosity that is BILLY BAO returns in agony. Bleeding. Pointing a colossal black finger at global capitalism, regular music, non-music and anti-music, at the food crisis of 2008, the moribund spirit of 1968, and especially at you, the record buyer, who maybe 'really dug' his first LP, Dialectics of Shit, and will come back for more, or perhaps 'heard a lot about him' and his bandmate MATTIN in the 'blogosphere' or even in print media (ooh!) (whatever that is), and are 'curious to finally h+ear his music' because you find the stories 'interesting' and this is even heavier and more f'ed up than The Brainbombs at their heaviest right? This LP is so angry the songs don't even have titles. Some of 'em are really long, some are really short, but they're all pretty goddamn infuriating, as they oughta be. May '08 is actually surprising, because where do you go after those first four platters, honestly? Well you make a record that's somehow noisier than all of those, more tweaked and fucked-with and digitally distorted than anything before it, crammed with grotesque and sublime samples from the noise of yesteryear: Nono, Kuti, Whitehouse, Brainbombs, and Billy, Billy Bao. It should be pretty goddamn clear to you why you want and need to purchase this record."-Parts Unknown
PartsUnknown-041
LP
$11.00

Bare Wires
Artificial Clouds
PS, US Oakland's Bare Wires are three talented hooligans revisiting pre-punk sounds from a post-post-post-punk world. And preferring the primitive RNR lexicon largely
as is. From this stance, the band plows ahead with twelve tracks of sleazy, sizzlin, mid-fi 70's rock. Artificial Clouds has an aesthetic somewhere between offbeat (but great sounding) KBD scuzz moments and the glossier power-pop shimmer. Mastered by JAY REATARD
TicTacTotally
LP
$12.75

Belong
October Language
PS, US Somewhere in-between the physical lushness of Christian Fennesz's static-haze & the isolated melancholy of William Basinski, this is a series of compositions that move in a glacial drift, decaying slightly w/ each desperate layer of processed guitar. Distortion & feedback are found weaving into one another creating blankets of shifting white noise, atop gaspingly beautiful melodies nearly lost in the distance. These starbursts of sound are confronted by moments of hauntingly barren tones that gnaw at you even after the song expires. 180 gram black vinyl, limited to 500. ESSENTIAL
GeographicNorth-006
LP
$17.00

Bennink, Han & Terrie Ex
Zeng!
PS, US 9 improvisations that are wild & sweet, manic & relaxed, sonic & swinging, obnoxious & together. Han Bennink is one of the world's most renowned freeimprovisation drummers. Terrie Ex is one of the founding members of multi-free-improv-punkband THE EX.
Terp-013
CD
$17.50

Bikini Kill
New Radio + 2
PS, US Featuring Punk Feminist anthem "Rebel Girl" & produced by legendary Runaway's Joan Jett. Still relevant, still confrontational, this is one of the very best EPs of the 90s
KillRockStars-212
45
$4.25

Bish
Surrounded By Mountains
PS, US Surrounded By Mountains is the second album from Pogues bass player Darryl Hunt under the monika Bish. Musically, Surrounded By Mountains is bittersweet, jangly pop sound is closer to literate indie outfits like The Go-Betweens and Spearmint than The Pogues.
LFTRecords-002
LP
$13.75

Bizzy B
Retrospective
PS, US A retrospective featuring 12 of his ultimate classic plates from back in the day ('92-'94) plus 2 unreleased tracks from the same period. This collection documents hardcore's transformation into jungle. Hip-house breaks speed up into hyperkinetic trills & mangled rave-hoovers perform demented riffs the likes of which have not been heard since
PlanetMu-145
CD
$16.00

Bizzy B
Retrospective
PS, US 3LP version
PlanetMu-145
3XLP
$21.50

Black Fortys
Kaskaskia Island
PS, US Produced by Brian Deck (MODEST MOUSE, CALIFONE) this six song EP is a great sign of what is to come from this Southern Illinois rock band. Made
up of a collective of great individual musicians, they work incrediably well together. All the tracks are catchy and will be stuck in your head. This is an album for fans of the Shins & the New Pornographers"
BlackFortys-001
CD5
$5.50

Blank, Amanda
I Love You
PS, US
Downtown-1
DLP
$17.00

Blank, Amanda
I Love You
PS, US Amanda Blank is part of a loose collective of musicians that include SPANK ROCK, SANTIGOLD and DIPLO. She takes influences as diverse as 90's R&B, 80's dance, indie, new wave and brit pop. On tour with Santigold this summer.
Downtown-089
CD
$15.00

Bleu
A Watched Pot
PS, US 3rd studio album full of soaring melodies, meticulously crafted productions and sincere, yet inventive lyrics. Featuring members of ROONEY, JELLYFISH and BANG CAMARO
Artist'sGarage-29
CD
$12.25

Blue Cheer
Oh! Pleasant Hope
PS, UK Exact repro reissue of the legendary cult band's sixth album, an overlooked, atypical gem originally released in 1971. This was the last album before the band's hiatus that would end with their return on 1983's The Beast Is Back. This album features Dickie Peterson's lead vocals on only three songs, reveals a blues/psych-tinged maturity in the more acoustic-centered tracks than what's found throughout the rest of their FM-radio saturated catalog, and includes "I'm The Light," a pop masterpiece blessed with the presence of synth and sitar sounds. Underrated but essential, Oh! Pleasant Hope finds Blue Cheer on a cosmic plane that remains criminally undiscovered by most.
Philips
LP
$10.25

Blue Roses
Blue Roses
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The debut from English singer/songwriter Laura Groves (aka Blue Roses) draws more than a little from 1960s folk traditions, both British (Anne Briggs) and from across the pond (Joni Mitchell). Groves' earnest yet elusive wordplay, serpentine melodies, and minimal arrangements lithely follow the trail blazed by the current crop of postmillennial retro fairy tale crooners like Joanna Newsom, Tiny Vipers, and Laura Barrett, but her willingness to explore the more commercial side of the experimentalalternative folk movement may shield her from the "freak folk" tag so liberally applied to many of her contemporaries."
XLRecords
CD
$15.75

Blue Roses
Blue Roses
PS, US
XLRecords
LP
$15.25

Blues Control
Local Flavor
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Siltbreeze-095
LP
$16.00

Blues Control
Local Flavor
PS, US Features guest musicians JESSE TRBOVICH & KURT VILE. While past releases have been beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia & billowing fog of ambient space, this is the one where all the chickens have come home to roost. The opening track is practically a sidways step into boogie rock. It's easily the band's longest stomp in the forest of rock since their debut cassette.
Siltbreeze-095
CD
$14.25

Blur
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Released in conjunction with their 2009 reunion, the double-disc career retrospective Midlife emphasizes Blur's early psychedelic grind -- halfway between Syd Barrett and shoegazing -- along with their post-Brit-pop indie makeover, giving somewhat short shrift to the band's pop prime, cutting out four of the band's big hits ("There's No Other Way," "Country House," "End of the Century," and "Charmless Man") in favor of album tracks that play into the thesis that Blur were as somber and serious a guitar band as Radiohead. Of course, Blur did rival Radiohead, recording some of the greatest guitar rock of the '90s, but that was only one facet of the band: they were also a bright, artful pop band, cleverly twisting '60s traditions and post-punk styles into the present. Elements of this Blur are evident in "Girls & Boys" and "Parklife," hits so big they couldn't be ignored, and while Midlife could have used a heavier dose of this side of Blur, there's not a bad track here, and the set also brings their glorious, epoch-creating single "Popscene" back into circulation, so Midlife has some considerable value."
VirginUS
DCD
$19.00

Blur
Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur
PS, US Released in conjunction with their 2009 reunion, the double-disc career retrospective Midlife emphasizes Blur's early psychedelic grind -- halfway between Syd Barrett and shoegazing -- along with their post-Brit-pop indie makeover, giving somewhat short shrift to the band's pop prime, cutting out four of the band's big hits ("There's No Other Way," "Country House," "End of the Century," and "Charmless Man") in favor of album tracks that play into the thesis that Blur were as somber and serious a guitar band as Radiohead. Of course, Blur did rival Radiohead, recording some of the greatest guitar rock of the '90s, but that was only one facet of the band: they were also a bright, artful pop band, cleverly twisting '60s traditions and post-punk styles into the present. Elements of this Blur are evident in "Girls & Boys" and "Parklife," hits so big they couldn't be ignored, and while Midlife could have used a heavier dose of this side of Blur, there's not a bad track here, and the set also brings their glorious, epoch-creating single "Popscene" back into circulation, so Midlife has some considerable value. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Capitol/EMI
DVD
$19.99

BMX Bandits
The Rise & Fall of BMX Bandits
PS, SPAIN Who are the BMX BANDITS? Where did this group come from, who, after more than 20 years together, have been talked about by people like TEENAGE FANCLUB's Norman Blake (who was in the group in its beginning), Liam Gallagher or Kurt Cobain? Who are the people responsible for this band who have had members of THE VASELINES, TEENAGE FANCLUB and THE SOUP DRAGONS, among others, in its midst? Where was this group, with fans not only in Europe and North America, but also in Japan and the rest of Asia, born? How have they been able to release music on mythic labels like Creation Records, 53rd & 3rd or Vinyl Japan, among many others? Who is this Duglas T Stewart whose name we've also seen on the albums of Alex Chilton, Chip Taylor, Stevie Jackson, Eugene Kelly, Francis McDonald and Ally Kerr, and who also produces his own albums? The way this Scottish band has given birth to its albums (the first in 1985), completely outside of the music industry's paradigms, spreading its melodic seeds through half a world's worth of record labels in every format imaginable (the single or the EP is a focus for them), has gained them a cult status, which has only been consolidated by the incredible songs they have been giving us throughout their career; songs with a clear affinity for hyper-melodic pop, strongly influenced by people like Brian Wilson, Ennio Morricone and Serge Gainsbourg. Elefant has been a stop in their passionate trajectory before (that now out of print "C86 and More", their collaboration on "Snowstorm", the tribute to GALAXIE 500, that 7" titled "Help Me Somebody", recently their "The BMX Love EP"...) and since it couldn't be any other way, Elefant continues to be a significant stop for them. "The Rise & Fall of BMX BANDITS" is no normal disc. Nor is it a greatest hits compilation. Did you really think Duglas would follow the canon of the conventional and foreseeable? Their Nth album is a recovery of songs chosen by Stewart himself throughout his own career, some of which are out of print, hard to find B sides of singles, others which were rerecorded for the occasion, some which were previously unreleased (like that Tom Waits version from 1997!), and still other great achievements from their catalogue, recoveries of songs published on mythic labels like Vinyl Japan (NORTHERN PICTURE LIBRARY, FAT TULIPS, THE HIT PARADE, MONOCHROME SET...), etc... So, what is the reason, the concept behind this "compilation" (we can call it that)? The music, Duglas exalted ability for pop. Should there be another reason.
Elefant-1134
CD
$16.25

Boards Of Canada
Peel Session TX 21/07/98
PS, US Restocked!
Warp-114
CD
$5.25

Bondy, A.A.
American Hearts
PS, US On vinyl for the first time! "American Hearts is an unfolding tableau of hell on earth as seen by a weary set of eyes & described w/ a troubadour's guitar & an obsessive's mastery of form & musical history" - Pitchfork
FatPossum-112
LP
$17.50

Bones, Sean
Rings
PS, US A song cycle that runs the roots gamut from the sturdy rocksteady groove & sly Phil Spector nods of "Cry Cry Cry" to the myriad twilight zone passages of "Smoke Rings," a song that isn't afraid to drop bits of Afrobeat, reggaeton & disco on its way to your summer-time-in-the-city playlist
FrenchKiss-039
CD
$13.25

Book of Love
S-T [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Though their 1986 debut album still remains in print in its original form, even fans of the band who own that CD will have to pick up this set, as the band has contributed an entire extra disc s worth of bonus material! And it s good bonus material, too, like the very demo ('Boy') that got them signed to Sire Records by Seymour Stein. Other bonus cuts include demos of 'I Touch Roses'; 'Lost Souls'; 'You Make Me Feel So Good'; 'White Lies'; 'Book of Love', and 'Still Angry'; live performances of 'Boy' and 'Happy Day', and rare versions of 'I Touch Roses' (Daniel Miller mix); 'Lost Souls' (original 12' version), and 'We Three Kings'. 12 bonus tracks in all like a whole additional album!
NobleRot-024
DCD
$20.50

Book of Love
Lullaby [expanded re-issue]
PS, US 1988 s 'Lullaby' was the band s highest-charting album, thanks in large part to the two killer cuts that led off the record: their remix of Mike Oldfield s 'Tubular Bells (Theme from the Exorcist)' and 'Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls', which was quite possibly the first song about AIDS ever to hit the charts. This deluxe reissue includes the bonus extended mix of 'Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls'; 'Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls' (Regan s House medley); 'Lullaby' (Pleasant Dream mix); 'Witchcraft' (extended mix), and 'Enchantra'.
NobleRot-025
CD
$15.25

Book of Love
Candy Carol [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Highlighted by the tracks 'Alice Everyday'; 'Counting the Rosaries', and 'Sunny Day' (which was featured in the film 'Silence of the Lambs'), this 1991 album shifted in a more psychedelic direction, and was rewarded with another chart entry. An 'Everyday Glo Mix' and 'Sam the Butcher Mix' of 'Alice Everyday' are among the bonus tracks, which also include the single remix of 'Sunny Day' and the 'Happiness and Love Mix' of 'Counting the Rosaries'.
NobleRot-026
CD
$15.25

Book of Love
Love Bubble [expanded re-issue]
PS, US 'Lovebubble' (1993) was Book of Love s last album for Sire (they disbanded shortly after its release), and it certainly does show the various band members moving in different directions, making it an interesting, eclectic listen. We ve added the 'Go Bottom Go Top' and 'Swinging Boy Pop' mixes of 'Boy Pop'; the 'Sweet and Sticky Mix' of 'Hunny Hunny' (the band s ABBA tribute), and the 'Late Nite Chat Mix' of 'Chatterbox' as bonus tracks!
NobleRot-027
CD
$15.25

Boy In Static
Candy Cigarette
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-007
CD
$10.50

Brackles
LHC
PS, US With a sound a million miles away from the current blokey, sludgy dubstep fare, this kid effortlessly incorporates funky, rolling grime, vintage two-step, & bassline into his energetic, elastic sets
PlanetMu-241
12
$7.25

Broach, Chris
Airplanes. Gravity. Distance. Space. Crowds. Alcohol. Sex. Panic. Depression. Mania.
PS, US
Lucid
CD
$14.00

Broderick, Peter
Falling From Trees
PS, US Score for Adrienne Hart's Falling From Trees, utilizing only piano & strings. Lovely!
WesternVinyl-062
CD
$9.00

Burger/Voigt
Wand Aus Klang Remixes
PS, US Two remixes of Jorg Burger & Wolfgang Voigt's "Wand Aus Klang," by Partial Arts Finbury (feat. Ewan Pearson) & It's A Fine Line (aka Ivan Smagghe & Tim Paris)
Kompakt-195
12
$12.50

Burkett, Joshua
Owlsleavesrustling
PS, US Originally released in a micro-run of 200 in 1996 as the first release on Joshua's own label. Colored vinyl, original stampers. Includes a booklet with art from Joshua & an extensive set of liner notes. Recycled lp jackets much like the original, but with the orignal artwork reversed
SpiritofOrr-70
LP
$16.25

Bust
#58
PS, US DIABLO CODY, It's Always Sunny In Philadephia's Kaitlin Olson, Fever Ray, Dead Weather, Regina Spektor, Anna Sui, DIY Tights, Bike Fashion, Bust Fall Preview, & the usual Bust fare
ZINE
$4.75

Buzzer
Teacher's Pet b/w Stunning Freak
PS, US The follow up to their Douchemaster Records debut. This one sounds like the Cuts at times to me, but harder. Straight up unashamed rock n roll with an overt glam vibe. Think rock solos and other shamelessly melodic choruses that are actually great sounding.
TicTacTotally-024
45
$5.75

Carroll, Tim
All Kinds of Pain
PS, US TIM CARROLL, a product of rural Indiana, releases his sixth record, All Kinds Of Pain. As a guitar player in the '70's cult punk band, THE GIZMOS, Tim displayed his bare-bones rock ethic and polished it in the '80's with a New York City bar band, THE BLUE CHIEFTANS. A Nashville transplant since 1993, Tim has had songs recorded by John Prine, Asleep At The Wheel, BR-549, Robbie Fulks, Kasey Chambers, Elizabeth Cook, Bare Jr., Sunny Sweeney, Sonny Burgess and others. In 1995, he made the cover of Billboard magazine in an article about Nashville's burgeoning alt-country music scene. In 1996, Tim was nominated for a Nashville Music Award in the category of Best Unsigned Artist. In 1997 he signed a deal with Sire Records and began working with producer Andy Paley. In 1999, Carroll had two of his Sire recordings on major motion picture soundtracks. Since 2000, Tim has appeared on The Grand Ole Opry literally hundreds of times as sideman to his wife, Americana chanteuse and Sirius Radio host ELIZABETH COOK. He's toured in Japan, England, Scotland, Wales, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, and Korea
Gulcher-701
CD
$10.25

Carter, Christina
Lace Heart
PS, US Double LP reissue of a 2005 CD-R released on CHRISTINA CARTER's own Many Breaths imprint. Six love songs comprised of elliptical bell like guitar phrases, barely there, sometimes even coaxing silence, set behind the extended vowel sounds of voice. Soft gentle performances here, like this whole record was cut very very late at night or in the early hours of the morning. An unhinged 'nowness' is pervasive in Christina's work, and Lace Heart is no exception. There is a very private feeling here, some kinda intimacy that just feels really rare. Lovers of past, present & future all collapse into one. Memories of smells, tastes and textures all channeled into wide open song. No one really does it like this. Three sides of music and an etching of one of Christina's drawings on the fourth side. Red vinyl with maroon splatter. Edition of 500.
RootStrata
DLP
$24.25

Case, Neko
Middle Cyclone
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anti
DLP
$24.50

Casper & The Cookies
Modern Silence
PS, US Modern Silence is the third album from ex-OF MONTREAL's JASON NESMITH. Includes guest appearances from many of the Elephant 6 crew including ROBERT SCHNEIDER (APPLES IN STEREO), BILL DOSS (OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL), BRIAN POOLE (Of Montreal), etc. Double LP on 180-gram audiophile colorlight red vinyl in deluxe gatefold jacket with digital downloads included.
Piaptk-040
DLP
$23.25

Chain Of Strength
The One Thing That Still Holds True
PS, US We are proud to bring back the definitive release of this classic straight edge band from Southern California. During the hardcore years of the late eighties, Chain of Strength showcased its straight power with this album. This amazing release also includes the 7" release True Till Death from Revelation and the self released 7" What Holds Us Apart plus an unreleased track. Chain of Strength brings you hardcore straight edge in the purest form. Most of you already know, others are still learning. No true fan of hardcore can call their collection complete without this essential album.
Revelation-010
LP
$11.25

Champagne Socialists
Blue Genes
PS, US Members of ROYAL WE & BRICOLAGE. Coming on like Sparks produced by Joe Meek & Phil Spector, the band has a flair for echoey 3-minute symphonies, marrying classic pop melodies w/ punk-informed crunch & glam-infused '70s stomp. In other words, classic pop for the '00s, w/ nods to Blondie & Shop Assistants along the way
Slumberland-98
45
$3.75

Chaplin Harness
S-T
PS, US The great New Jersey band who recorded their self-titled album in 1969. At Mod Sound Studios. Great late '60s psychedelic music with distorted guitars and heavy organ.
GearFab
CD
$12.50

Chapman, Roger
One More Time For Peace
PS, US Roger Chapman is the singer best-known in Britain for his work with Family and the 70s r'n'b band Streetwalkers.
One More Time For Peace is the first Chapman release since 2001's live album Rollin' & Tumblin'.
MysticRecords-200
CD
$13.75

Cheap Trick
The Latest
PS, US New album! Multi-platinum rock band Cheap Trick returns with The Latest, a self-released album and their first new studio album since 2006's Rockford. The Latest, produced by Julian Raymond & Howard Willing, continues Cheap Trick's reign as power-pop progenitors as they celebrate their 35th anniversary together. The album features the original line-up of Robin Zander - vocals and guitar, Rick Nielsen - guitar and backing vocals, Bun E. Carlos - drums and backing vocals & Tom Petersson - bass and backing vocals. According to producer Julian Raymond, "Cheap Trick are fun to record because they are each a master of their craft, and there are so many great new songs on this record. But we also included an old one called 'When The Lights Are Out.' I couldn't believe it wasn't released in '76 when the band did it. I insisted they put it on the record just as it was."
Megaforce
CD
$12.25

Chillage, Mick
Tales from the Igloo
PS, IRELAND "Tales from the Igloo" is the result of almost 13 years of Mick Chillage experimenting with electronic sounds & structures while constantly redefining & perfecting his vision which draws from many influences, it also showcases an artist who is almost impossible to pigeon hole into any one specific genre. The album is a collection of pieces created between 2005 & 2008, which were carefully chosen to display Mick Chillage's deeper, atmospheric & more emotional side. Mick blends Ambient, Electro, Techno, Dub & experimentalism to create a unique mixture of various moods, sometimes reaching epic wide screen scope. From the furthest outpost of distant galaxies on "Gateway Station" while returning to earth gracefully with the soulful electro blues of "Melting Emotion" to the disturbing dark environmental tones of "Disturbed Earth" & "Hypothermia" this is a wonderful trip. The album concludes on a high with a beautiful remix of "The Final Storm" by ambient pioneer Pentatonik.
Psychonavigation-031
CD
$15.50

Chrome
Alien Soundtracks
PS, US Special limited edition vinyl reissue of the seminal 1978 album - the 1st to feature the aggro-guitar stylings of Helios Creed - includes the classic "Chromosome Damage" & "All Data Lost"
Cleopatra-075
LP
$17.75

Chrome
3rd From The Sun
PS, US Special limited edition vinyl reissue of the 1982 album by the Bay Area masters of alternative industrial noise rock
Cleopatra-124
LP
$17.75

Circle Jerks
Golden Shower of Hits
PS,US Re-mastered 180 gram vinyl. The band's trademark sense of humor is still present, witnessed by numbers like "When the Shit Hits the Fan" & the hilarious medley "Golden Shower of Hits." However, the anger & frustration of tracks like "Coup D'etat" & "Rats of Reality" keep the hardcore edge that fans always expected & reveled in
Porterhouse-2005
LP
$16.50

City Of Ships
Look What God Did To Us
PS, US CITY OF SHIPS ten-song monumental debut full length. Intense and atmospheric, melodic and heavy.
SoundStudy-005
LP
$16.75

Clark
Totems Flare
PS, US
Warp-10185
CD
$13.00

Clark
Totems Flare
PS, US
Warp-10185
LP
$17.25

Classics of Love
Walking In Shadows
PS, US A sonic punk rock sound that would fit comfortably in the DC hardcore scene of the '80s. Features Jesse Michaels (OPERATION IVY)
AsianMan-182
LP
$12.75

Cloud, Dave and The Gospel of Power
Fever
PS, US For this album, Dave Cloud dragged the ever-changing Gospel Of Power band across the Atlantic to record at Fire Records' Stoke Newington studio. It was here that the ever amenable Cloud created another record of fractured garage and garrulous lo-fi, bizarre character studies and paeans to ladies and love. Fever once again roughs up the Nashville tradition. The title track takes the melody of the song that Peggy Lee made famous for a late night drink in a seedy bar where it never really wanted to go while The Citadel even out-swaggers'n'sleazes the Rolling Stones' original. It's a surprising end to Cloud's peculiar journey, but you'd be a fool not to join him on it.
Fire-133
CD
$11.25

Clutch
Strange Cousins from the West
PS, US New album.
Weathermaker
CD
$15.75

Coal Hook
Who's Distraced?
PS, US Second set of recordings from this past May. A bit more abrasive
BlueberryHoney-014
CDR
$10.50

Coal Hook
Subsistance Compulsion
PS, US 2nd release by this self-driven mind mash featuring Danish experimentalist/composer/inventor JORGEN TELLER & RON SCHNEIDERMAN. Originally devised as a long lost collaboration after an impromptu concert, these are all new recordings from Tyte Studio recorded in May of 2009. No rules, no plans, simple pure expression & explosion
BlueberryHoney-011
CDR
$10.50

Coastal
Halfway To You
PS, US Halfway to You is the most sophisticated collection of Coastal songs to date and a welcome reminder that leisurely-paced music can also shimmer and beguile. Halfway To You retains the fragile beauty of Coastal's debut album, but evokes a more textured ambiance, owing in part to a wider array of instrumentation employed on these new songs - including cello, bells, found samples, and viola (courtesy of Lorna's Helen Maltby). Jason Gough's sparse songwriting earnestly beckons the listener to join him on his alternately optimistic and melancholic pursuits. With Luisa Gough adding her enchanting voice to nearly every song, the result is a union of harmonies among the wedded twosome that rivals the best of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker (Low) and Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell (Slowdive / Mojave 3). "Until You Sleep" opens the album with Coastal's signature casual, faraway vocals, stirring and immersing the listener with gentle, but profound impressions. "Eternal" is the album's most overwhelming work - though rhythmically punctuated only by the occasional bell - featuring serene verses bridged by a heartrending cello quartet. The title track is a slightly more buoyant composition, in which Gough's steady, uniform drumming effortlessly affixes itself to the recurring picks of his acoustic guitar. "Leaves" is a naked lament in which Gough's stretched, languid remembrances about his childhood home are propelled by a methodical, evocative guitar melody. "Night Sky" puts the Coastal stamp on the hypnotic instrumental leanings of Spiritualized or even Brian Eno's work in Music For Films, due in large part to Josh Calloway's gliding bass. The closer, "So Close" begins with a slow nod to American Analog Set, differentiated and enhanced by the Gough's most melodious vocals on the album, only to morph into a hazy, dream-pop excursion, flooded with layers of viola and echoed guitar strumming. Coastal formed in 2000 in Provo, Utah and has performed with Low, American Analog Set, Lorna, and The Autumns.
WordsOnMusic-15
CD
$9.75

Cock Sparrer
Here We Stand
PS, US There is no introduction needed for one of the most influential streetpunk/oi! bands of all time: Cock Sparrer. In 2007 Captain Oi! Records released Cock Sparrer's first album since 1997's Two Monkeys. Previously only available as an import title, Pirate's Press brings this sixth studio album to the US with a ton of bonus material with each format but at a domestic price!
PiratesPress
CD
$10.50

Cohen, Tim
Two Sides of Tim Cohen
PS, US The debut solo full-length from FRESH & ONLYS frontman TIM COHEN. Ten tracks. A split release between the Secret Seven and Empty Cellar labels. "Tim Cohen may be familiar to you because you recently heard about the Fresh & Onlys, are a fan of the multi-genred BLACK FICTION, or are familiar with one of his many mysterious side projects. This record, however, is the first to bear his name. Written and recorded by Tim at his home during the interim between the unfortunate end of Black Fiction and the birth of the Fresh & Onlys, The Two Sides of Tim Cohen is perhaps his most personal work to date. An immensely creative psych-folk opus, it is full of heartfelt love songs, amazing visions, & musings on death and worms. Tim's songs are reminiscent of the catchy, self-produced pop songs of (RAM era) Paul McCartney and Emitt Rhodes crossed with the skewed baritone bellows of Skip Spence and Michael Yonkers. Recommended for fans of Ariel Pink, Panda Bear, and Mayo Thompson, this vinyl-only release is limited to 250 copies. Keeping with the times, the album comes with a CD-quality digital download of the full album plus seven unreleased bonus songs."
SecretSeven-002
LP
$13.25

Collections Of Colonies Of Bees
Birds
PS, US Limited Japanese Tour Edition. This sweeps in grandly, in billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of minuscule, elegant detail. Guitars chime & soar; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica.
TableOfTheElements-818
LP
$14.25

Cometbus
#52: The Spirit Of St. Louis
PS, US The long-running zine takes an exceptionally nostalgic turn, when AARON applies his storytelling skills to the city of St. Louis, and their punk scene. But it's a tale so familiar, it could be any tiny scene anywhere. Maybe even the town you yourself grew up in. The ragtag group of characters that Aaron introduces us to are busy repeating the mistakes of those before them, and making new mistakes for the younger punks to follow. It's a particularly bitter story this time around, but also a reminder to support your community--not just in word, but also in deed." 65 pages.
ZINE
$2.75

Constants
The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension
PS, US Space rock/art rock/progressive indie textural mamma jammas. Beautiful, challenging, conceptual epics.
MyleneSheath
CD
$10.00

Crooked Fingers
Forfeit/Fortune Here We Stand
PS, US Crooked Fingers will release their fifth LP titled Forfeit/Fortune. Forfeit/Fortune features the fullest and most eclectic orchestration on a Crooked Fingers release to date, enlisting an all-star cast of players to perform. Brian Kotzer (Silver Jews) lent his talents to the project in Nashville, while Tom Hagerman (Devotchka) laid down string parts in Denver. Frequent Crooked Fingers touring mate Neko Case sang the brilliant album-closing duet "Your Control" with Bachmann in Tucson. Bachmann, a noted composer in his own right, wrote and arranged the string and horn parts on the record.
ConstantArtists-001
CD
$12.00

Curd, James
We Just Won't Stop
PS, US A timeless hip house disco dancefloor jam from the DFA! Curd recently remixed Juan Maclean's "One Day"
DFA-215
12
$8.00

Dandy Warhols
Dandy Warhols Are Sound
PS, US
BeatTheWorld
LP
$16.25

Dandy Warhols
Dandy Warhols Are Sound
PS, US The album equivalent of the "Director's Cut" of Welcome To The Monkey House
BeatTheWorld
CD
$15.25

Davis, Greg
Mutually Arising
PS, US Davis' second album for Kranky following 2004's Somnia. Features two tracks over 51 minutes, "Cosmic Mundra" is a subtle & slowly changing circle, a sun, the sun, the moon. Not the Arpeggio Minimalists, rather: the quiet time stretchers of long tones & long tones sustained & hyper-sustained until buzz value outweighs pitch, sounds seeming to fly around the screen, hyper-spiritual with hardly a word. "Hall of Pure Bliss" is a chord and all sorts of wonderful sounds which live to its left and right. Low is left and high is right and then the travelling hisses swim on either side of this imagined keyboard in glitterspace.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Dead Weather, The
Horehound
PS, US
Warner-519785.2
CD
$18.75

Dead Weather, The
Horehound
PS, US
Warner
DLP
$25.75

Deastro
Vermillion Plaza
PS, US LIMITED!! "Vermillion Plaza," the second single from Deastro's full-length debut, Moondagger, miniaturizes the album's best assets & shoots them out of a cannon. The B-side is Mux Mool's lumbering, half-time remix of "Vermillion Plaza." The former Ghostly Swim featured artist plunges Chabot's vocal into a sinister electronic nightmare-scape, squelching through mud puddles of bass as synthesized strings circle the skies. NO EXPORT!
GhostlyInternational-088
45
$10.75

Deceh
Deceh
PS, US Limited edition of 400. Handmade letter pressed covers. Deceh is a fine drone quartet utilizing traditional ethnic drone instruments as well as vintage analog synthesizers. This record was recorded on a centered room microphone as the group sat in a perfect square around it. This method of recording perfectly captured the focused intimacy of the moment complete with the crackling bellows of an ancient harmonium.
Bringing strict discipline, control and patience they're able to achieve densely transcendental focus in their work. Imagine taking three notes from Terry Riley and stretching them out into pulsating 20 minute sublime pieces. An obvious reference point might be the recent Yoshi Wada Earth Drones reissues but somehow even more transcendent. Fine drone. Acoustic & analogue. Deceh.
Important-258
LP
$20.00

Delby L
Nine Skies
PS, US Recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago @ Electrical Audio.
FakeFourInc.-008
CD
$9.50

Demissie, Zerfu
Akotet
PS, US 11 songs of the Begena, the 10 string "Harp of David," which is still played in Ethiopia. A mesmerizing buzz sound which is dark, heavy & serious, but also light,
fragile & spiritual
Terp-012
CD
$17.50

Depreciation Guild
Dream About Me b/w Listless
PS, US Fuzzed-out, reverb-drenched melodies, featuring 2 members of PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART. Brooklyn-based 3-piece The Depreciation Guild have been making underground waves to match those created by their fuzzed-out, reverb-drenched melodies. Artfully combining progressive and retro chic, the trio draws influence from shoegaze guitar walls, dreampop highs, and the rigidity of electronic rhythms, while creating a sound that is a bit different from both, dreamily reinventing their musical heritage. *Special note, two of the members fo this band also play and write songs in The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. This is their debut 7 inch in full color jacket, WHITE vinyl and download card! 400 Limited one time pressing only. Side A Dream About Me Side B Listless. Catch them on tour now with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Cymbals Eat Guitars.
KanineRecords
45
$4.75

Desolation Wilderness
New Universe
PS, US Swooning guitars, found sounds, synthesizer trills, forward percussion and dream vocals; New Universe [KLP204] is the
second full-length album by Desolation Wilderness. After touring the country extensively, this album is the labor of a restless engine; postcards from being constantly on the move. New Universe alternates between lonely sounds and the euphoria of freedom and distance - like an empty, foggy beach in the early morning. These songs have a particular movement, whether it's the sun-drenched strut of "Boardwalk Theme" or a barefoot sandy run on "Venice Beach." There are themes of escape and renewal, in leaving behind youth. The world is a vast and beautiful place, but also dangerous - full of doomed, overpowering love ("You Hold a Power Over Me") and night-walking loners ("San Francisco 2AM"). Desolation Wilderness meets the listener on the edge of the ocean, where the horizon meets the water in a perfect line. Without searching, this New Universe finds you ("No Tomorrow"). New Universe was recorded at the Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington after returning home. Desolation Wilderness will tour the United States and the UK in the fall of 2009. With the windows down. "[Listening to] Desolation Wilderness is like relaxing in a beach house with some wind chimes, a guitar and a million different effects pedals ... every song like its own mini beach vacation."
- The Fader
KRecords-204
LP
$11.50

Desolation Wilderness
New Universe
PS, US Swooning guitars, found sounds, synthesizer trills, forward percussion and dream vocals; New Universe [KLP204] is the second full-length album by Desolation Wilderness. After touring the country extensively, this album is the labor of a restless engine; postcards from being constantly on the move. New Universe alternates between lonely sounds and the euphoria of freedom and distance - like an empty, foggy beach in the early morning. These songs have a particular movement, whether it's the sun-drenched strut of "Boardwalk Theme" or a barefoot sandy run on "Venice Beach." There are themes of escape and renewal, in leaving behind youth. The world is a vast and beautiful place, but also dangerous - full of doomed, overpowering love ("You Hold a Power Over Me") and night-walking loners ("San Francisco 2AM"). Desolation Wilderness meets the listener on the edge of the ocean, where the horizon meets the water in a perfect line. Without searching, this New Universe finds you ("No Tomorrow"). New Universe was recorded at the Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Washington after returning home. Desolation Wilderness will tour the United States and the UK in the fall of 2009. With the windows down. "[Listening to] Desolation Wilderness is like relaxing in a beach house with some wind chimes, a guitar and a million different effects pedals ... every song like its own mini beach vacation."
- The Fader
KRecords-204
CD
$11.50

Destroy All Monsters
Double Sextet
PS, US Recorded in 1975, this long lost gem features the group as a sextet. Missing are the lovely lyrics & goth scrawl of Niagara but in her place we see the collective brainstorm through 30 minutes of an underground music/non-music & B-culture genealogy that is unmistakably DAM. A melted mind, reconstructed w/ duct-tape, bent circuits, saxophone drips, & fuzz that will lead you into dark corners w/ bright futures.
EndisHere-033
LP
$15.50

Destroy All Monsters
1974-1976
PS, US Long out-of-print, this reissue of the 1996 cult-classic Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod release collects all 3CDs in a simple eco-friendly digi-hub package.
EndisHere-032
3XCD
$21.25

Diskjokke
Discolated (Remixes 2007-2008)
PS, US In-between travelling to support the successful "Staying In" album & making new music Diskjokke also made himself a name as a great remixer. On this album you'll find a compilation of remixes from 2007& 2008 of well knows artists such as Bloc Party, Foals, Lykke Li & Metronomy, dance/electronic acts such as his friend Lindstrom, Ost & Kjeks & Spektrum, as well as the lesser known Norwegian acts Harrys Gym & National Bank.
SmalltownSupersound-168
CD
$14.50

DoF
Rid The Tree Of It's Rain
PS, US "Rid the of Tree it's Rain" is a new EP of vocal based organic electronica from DoF, released on CD by Abandon Building. DoF (aka Brian Hulick) is one of the most prolific voices of underground electronic music, releasing eight albums (both physical and digital) along with a small armada of comp tracks and remixes over the last 6 or 7 years. DoF initially came to the attention of discerning file sharers with his inclusion on a compilation hosted by the Soulseek community. His unique blend of disjointed IDM inspired percussion and lush playful melodies attracted the attention of the UK record label Highpoint-Lowlife, who released the debut "If More Than Twenty People Laugh, It Wasn't Funny".

Hulick then combined forces with the U.S. label Abandon Building, who selected his EP "Mine is May" as their second release. The response was nothing short of amazing. DoF's next full length "Sun Strength and Shield" met with similar success, ending up on several best of the year lists.

Now DoF has returned with "Rid The Tree of it's Rain" 7 new songs in the vein of "Red Pine Pasture" with organic percussion complementing the digital beatwork. The result is one of the most perfect summer albums a pair of ears could ever hope to meet. Every track is drenched in sunshine and warm regard, with Hulick's understated yet poignant lyrics painting portraits of fond memories and forgotten dreams.

There is little one can say about DoF that isn't best left said by the music itself. He is not only one of the pioneers of the electro-acoustic movement but continues to reinvent it every couple of years. "Rid the of Tree it's Rain" " has some of DoF's finest guitar work, each note seeming more joyful than the last. The drums are a choppy fusion of glitch and Afro-Cuban jazz that almost dares the listener not to bob their head. The vocal content forgoes the use of irony or theatrics, instead plotting a straight path to your heart. Go ahead and give it a listen. Your ears will thank you.
AbandonBuilding-012
CD
$8.25

DRMWPN
Bright Blue Galilee
PS, US Over the past three years DRMWPN (aka DREAMWEAPON) has gradually evolved to become the premier band operating at the nexus of the many divergent strains of experimental music in Chicago. Originally intended to be an outlet to showcase the more Dionysian improvisational impulses of the core members of TOWN & COUNTRY-BEN VIDA, JIM DORLING, LIZ PAYNE, BEN ABRAMS-DRMWPN has grown into an amorphous collective that at any given show may include a slew of Chicago heavy-hitters.
HBSP-008
LP
$16.75

Duke & The King, The
Nothing Gold Can Stay
PS, US LONDON TELEGRAPH: "Like some lost classic from the Seventies, Simone Felice and songwriting partner Robert "Chicken" Burke blend Americana, soul and psychedelia with classic singer-songwriting. Simone Felice has the poetic gifts and fearless aesthetic to rank among the all-time greats, from Cohen to Cave."
Ramseur
CD
$13.75

Eagle Twin
The Unkindness Of Crows
PS, US Debut full-length from this hotly-touted new outfit from Southern Lord fronted by the former leader of ICEBURN COLLECTIVE. Hand-picked to open for the latest SUNN O))) tour, expect an album desne with guitars, topped by some grest Tom Waits/Howlin' Wolf-esque raspy vocals. Massive buzz on this release, and it's easy to see why.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.25

Ecovillage
Phoenix Asteroid
PS, JAPAN A Good Vibrations, The Association, psychedelic pop kind of affair mixing Shoegaze with vocal harmonies, electronics and some sitar. Ecovillage is a two-man Psychedelic/Shoegaze band from Sweden. They have both been involved with different bands over the years. In 2005 they went on a journey together which changed their view on music radically. In 2006 they formed the band Ecovillage...with this band everything fell into its proper place and just clicked from the beginning. They felt that Ecovillage was something special so they put everything else on hold and dedicated all their time to their music. Ecovillage's music has often been described as euphoric, melancholic, ethereal and very psychedelic. The album features Jonas Munk aka (Manual/Darla Records), Jakob Skott (Syntaks/Benbecula Records/Ghostly International) and Sherlie Matthews (Motown Records).

"When I first heard Ecovillage, I couldn't believe my ears. Sometimes it sounds like radio friendly boy band pop filtered through shoegaze aesthetics, other times it comes across as psychedelic music - not so much in sound as in effect. This really is Dream Pop in the original sense of the term, but still sounding strangely timeless. Somehow it's the kind of personal sounds that could only originate deep in the flourishing Swedish nature, far away from hipsterness and fancy musical trends. Killer album!" - Jonas Munk/Manual

"Fantastic album! Can easily imagine this doing really well!" - Ulrich Schnauss
Quince-72
CD
$14.75

Electric Frankenstein
Sick Songs
PS, US New album.
EF
CD
$13.75

Eleh
Homage To The Sine Wave
PS, US 2nd release in their sound waves-based Homage To... series, following 2008's sold-out LP, Homage To The Square Wave. 200 gram virgin vinyl in a hand-numbered edition of 500. This is two-tone drone targeted towards absolute, meditative bliss
Taiga-7
LP
$23.50

Eternal Tapestry
Palace of the Night Skies (LP/CD)
PS, US Limited to 730. While this trio 1st turned heads w/ their expansive psych/kraut/blues guitar explorations as embodied w/in a series of small run cassette & CDR releases, their 2007 "Mystic Induction" album on Not Not Fun firmly established the band as formidable players worthy of sharing the stage & spotlight w/ such current
heads as Wooden Shjips & Kinski. 180g RTI vinyl w/ CD that includes the 2 album tracks & a bonus track
TLR
LP
$22.00

Fabolous
Loso's Way
PS, US His fifth studio album.
DefJam-01
LP
$14.00

Factums
Sistrum
PS, US Full-length follow-up to last year's LP on the Sitlbreeze label from this band that vaguely circles in the A-Frames/Intelligence/Fruit Bats orbit. Critics have compared FACTUMS to Tronics, Cabaret Voltaire, or Pere Ubu's more chaotic moments also citing some heavy Kraut influenced flashes.
SacredBones-004
LP
$14.75

Farmer Dave Scher
Bab'lone Nights b/w You Pick Me Up
PS, US Previously of starry bands BEACHWOOD SPARKS & ALL NIGHT RADIO. Gorgeous lush arrangements & jams that reflect sunny JJ Cale meets Motown lovin. A sweet West Coast journey & good times from start to finish. There's something so quality about his honest marriage of nostalgia & now, w/ gems like "Bab'lone Nights," he keeps country minded & blends it properly w/ psych, soul, surf, & tinge of B. Bacharach.
MexicanSummer
45
$4.25

Few Nolder
New Folder
PS, US Experimenting w/ off-kilter micro-house & druggy wonk, Linas Strockis drops a barebones beat around which he flips deceptively simple synthline progressions the grow into monolithic riffs. At the crux of nu-disco, dubstep, & techno
PlanetMu-238
DLP
$19.25

Fiery Furnaces
I'm Going Away
PS,US Eighth FRIEDBERGER album recorded & mixed by JASON LOEWENSTEIN (bass, SEBADOH) in NYC. ELEANOR wrote most of the lyrics; MATT wrote most of the music & also produced. All rock music is a sort of dramatic music. Since the times are tough, it makes sense to have that "drama" be something more like "Taxi" & less like "Titanic." Hopefully this record can be used as theme songs to folks' own personal visions of drama. CD presented in 4 panel mini-LP style jacket
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Fiery Furnaces
I'm Going Away
PS,US Eighth FRIEDBERGER album recorded & mixed by JASON LOEWENSTEIN (bass, SEBADOH) in NYC. ELEANOR wrote most of the lyrics; MATT wrote most of the music & also produced. All rock music is a sort of dramatic music. Since the times are tough, it makes sense to have that "drama" be something more like "Taxi" & less like "Titanic." Hopefully this record can be used as theme songs to folks' own personal visions of drama. LP on 180g & limited to 1500, old-style tip-on gatefold jacket, incl. MP3 download coupon
ThrillJockey
LP
$16.25

Floating Points
J&W Beat
PS, US 2 slices of psychedelic soul & synth-funk squiggles. Underpinned by squashed up 2-step rhythms & compressed hip hop drums, this is on par w/ anything by Hud Mo or Mike Slott
PlanetMu-242
12
$7.25

Florida
S-T
PS, US From Brooklyn, NY. Lo-fi acoustic psych-rock with droned out freaky vocals. Their first release on SHDWPLY was a limited cassette that quickly sold out of the first pressing. Now back with a special 7" w/ 3D COVER and comes w/ 3D GLASSES
SHDWPLY-010
45
$7.25

For Against
Coalesced
PS, US Signposts: R.E.M., Chameleons, Felt, Kitchens of Distinction, Pale Saints. "Jeffrey Runnings makes a serious case for himself as one of the past decade's most underrated tunesmiths. "Coalesced" may very well be the best record For Against has ever done." - POP CULTURE PRESS. COALESCED is the sixth album by Lincoln Nebraska's eminent indie trio, FOR AGAINST, and was named album of the year by THE BIG TAKEOVER. Produced by MIKE MOGIS (Azure Ray, Bright Eyes, Cursive), COALESCED is the band's first album since 1997 and mark's FOR AGAINST's triumphant return to the independent music scene. The album delivers Runnings' trademark soaring vocals enmeshed in a delicate latticework of guitars and punctuated rhythms, to craft an arresting blend of lucid, gorgeous atmospheres. "Medication" and "So Long" begin the album with Paul Engelhard's spry, energetic drumming anchoring Runnings' airy vocal melodies to Steven Hinrichs' sparkling guitars. "Fuel" follows, which, along with "Shelflife," are matchless ballads - perhaps the finest and most heartrending Runnings has ever composed. The anthemic "Coalesced" is the album's centerpiece, opening with an etching of the contemplative disposition of their 1987 debut ECHELONS, with Hinrichs' churning, reverbed guitar and Runnings' eighth note basslines recalling the early FACTORY RECORDS sound. The song ultimately bursts into a rousing chorus and then races through a jaw-dropping three-minute coda of vigorous guitar work and spectacular Engelhard fills. The finale, "Love You," resurrects Maurice Deebank-era FELT into an excursion of the scenic side of post-rock, weaving multiple layers of beautiful guitar melodies with a precise, balanced cadence and rhythm. In sum, COALESCED is a seamless, coherent masterpiece of riveting pop craftsmanship, unspoiled by studio contrivances or artistic pretensions. "An incredible LP, full of cascading guitar sounds, naked tenderness and emotional meltdowns, and passage after passage of shimmering beauty. It's just plain dazzling." - THE BIG TAKEOVER.
WordsOnMusic-11
CD
$12.25

Fruit Bats
Ruminant Band
PS, US Over the course of three records, Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have looked for ways to file down the cynical edge of modern life & found many. Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occassional blazing insight & tender observation, they've never shied away from darkness, but more uncommon in this day & age, the've refused to shy away from light.
SubPop-830
LP
$14.25

Fusinato, Marco
Ripping Skies
PS, US From the bowels of the southern hemisphere, guitar/electronics noise signor Marco Fusinato givs us the full F/A-18 squadron attack. One side is an inferno of mangled guitar spit, relentlessly speeding & colliding w/ all in its path. The flipside features a giant monochord stuck & struggling to escape from the shards of the volatile overload. Recorded live, then spliced/mixed/mastered by OREN AMBARCHI. Limited to 300
NoFunProductions-042
LP
$16.25

Galactic Zoo Dossier
#8
PS, US "The world's greatest psychedelic underground hand drawn pro-zine" Interviews with Vashti Bunyan, Djin Aquarian (YaHoWha13), Peter Walker, Mani Neumeier & more. Features on Del Shannon, Eddie Hazel, George-Edwards Group, Kim Fowley & more. Plus a CD compilation of totally unreleased magical sounds by YaHoWha13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, Monster Magnet, Christina Carter & way more!
DragCity-402
ZINE
$14.75

Gary War
Horribles Parade
PS, US Gary War's thick synth-heavy psychedelia occupies a space between spacey bedroom experimentalists like R. Stevie Moore or the more contemporary Kurt Vile & the abrasive proto-punk of Chrome & Debris. CD contains "Anhedonic Man" from the Hell Yes! single & the entire "Galactic Citizens" 12" soon to be released on Captured Tracks.
SacredBones-023
CD
$12.00

Generationals
Con Law
PS, US Generationals is the collaboration of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer (formerly of Eames Era). Oranges Band founder Daniel Black engineered and produced the record in the style of his heroes George Martin, Phil Spector, Jeff Lynn, and Quincy Jones with meticulous attention to detail and a willingness to make the recordings sound old. The result is one of those "first record" moments that blissfully wills its listeners into repeat listens.
Park the Van Records PKVN71128
LP
$15.50

Gerationals
Con Law
US, PS Formed in 2008 by ex-Eames Era guitarists/songwriters Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, New Orleans-based indie pop outfit Generationals craft hook-filled indie pop that draws liberally from rock and pop's '50s, '60s, and '70s heydays, while maintaining enough modern sensibilities to remain relevant in the MP3 age. Like their Park the Van contemporaries Dr. Dog, Spinto Band, and Capitol Years, Generationals' lo-fi recording techniques are buffered by their advanced musical chops, resulting in a clever new take on sugar pop psychedelia.
Park The Van PKVN71127
CD
$13.03

Giuliani, Trevor
Subcontrario
PS, US After moving from New York's Lower East side to the more environmentally-focused Portland, OR - Trevor Guiliani is finally set to release his debut album. Featuring vocal sfrom Katrina Kerns of SUFJAN STEVENS and the ILLANOISEMAKERS. RIYL: Andrew Bird, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Cass McCombs. In eco-friendly digipack.
HighWire-023
CD
$12.25

Glass Candy
Geto Boys
PS, US GLASS CANDY returns with another hot 12-incher for Italians Do It Better. You get the the band's most popular live song-they always end their set with it-"IKO IKO" done over the instrumental version of GETO BOYS "My Minds Playin Tricks On Me," backed with "Animal Imagination," and instrumental mixes of each. Includes an insert to boot.
ItaliansDoItBetter-007
12
$8.50

Glaze, Brian
Green Living
PS, US BRIAN GLAZE's notoriety as the original drummer in the BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE is forever eclipsed by his status as a singer/songwriter with his new LP, Green Living. This "best of" collection of home recordings makes for a surprisingly cohesive album with a strong narrative arc. In the past Glaze has collaborated in the studio and on the road with Greg Ashley of Gris Gris fame, here Brian has constructed every recording by himself and the result is his most focused effort to date best evidenced in what proves to be the definitive take on "Bad News." This moody atmospheric demo truly conjures up the feeling that bad news is indeed lurking in the shadows no matter where you go and is sooner or later bound to turn up.
WorldFamousInSanFrancisco-005
LP
$10.00

Greymachine
Disconnected
PS, US GREYMACHINE is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most realized collaborative effort between Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, Napalm Death etc..), Dave Cochrane (Head Of David, God, Ice), Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner (ISIS, House of Low Culture, etc..) ever! If you're a fan of Godflesh, or have even a fleeting interest in the band, this bud's for you; if you subscribe to The Aural & Visual Art of Aaron Turner this shits a pool party. Disconnected, the album in question, is at once jarring and ethereal.... which is, as you may already know, the kind of combination that results in entire city blocks bobbin' their heads to This...

In summation, GREYMACHINE sounds like a serious case of cyberbullying through the mind of an extremely autistic child living in an ever-shifting hadean landscape thronged with mindless militants, dilapidated cityscapes and ephemeral phantoms... so to summarize the summation, Disconnected is haunting and modern sounding... In a good way.
HydraHead-188
CD
$13.75

Grizzly Bear
Horn of Plenty
PS, US For the first time, the full Horn of Plenty album is available on 180gm black vinyl w/ printed inner sleeve. Limited to 1000.
Kanine
LP
$13.75

Guilt
A Comprehensive Guide to Anger Management in Drop D
PS, US Limited reissue.
Initial-026
CD
$10.50

Gus Gus
Add This Song
PS, US With their highly-infectious, metrosexual, multimedia pop, they secured themselves a deal with the prestigious 4AD label, & are set to release their 7th studio album on Kompakt, who are honored to present the catchy harmonies of "Add This Song," with remixes by Lopazz & Zarook, Gluteus Maximus, & Patrick Chardronnet
Kompakt-196
12
$12.50

Hamburger, Neil
Western Music & Variety
PS, US Filmed at the famed Radio Recorders studio, this DVD features a one hour variety event with Neil & his band, plus two music videos, TV appearance, short film, slide show & a special appearance by Dr. Demento! In addition to the sets of jokes, the film features the "live & dirty" versions of many of the songs heard on his "Sings Country Winners" album, as well as a dramatic reading of The Bee Gees' "I Started a Joke." All Region - 87 minutes.
DragCity-382
DVD
$14.75

Hardkiss, Scott
Technicolor Dreamer
PS, US Technicolor Dreamer, is Scott Hardkiss' highly anticipated first first full-length album. A perfect summer album with booty-shakin' dance grooves which take his signature psychedelic fusion sound to the next level. Technicolor Dreamer, brings together a kaleidoscopic spectrum of musicians, artists and genres to create an album that can be perfectly summed up as a celebratory dance pop funk-fest."
GodWithinRecordings-001
CD
$14.75

Hardwick, Gareth
Aversions
PS, UK 'Aversions' is the second full-length album by Nottingham based musician Gareth Hardwick. The origins of the release occurred when a disastrous hard drive crash caused the loss of an entire album's worth of new music. Disheartened with the thought of having to start afresh, an alternative form of evaluation was set in motion - a way of taking stock before moving on. For that reason, Hardwick handed over his back catalogue (containing material ranging from split vinyl releases and compilation appearances to limited run cdrs and tapes) to several artists considered close friends and colleagues for them to reinterpret, remix or supplement the original material however they wished. Although many remix projects often fall into the trap of inconsistency, each remix on 'Aversions' manages to perfectly encapsulate the individual approach and musical style of its artist, while also preserving the integrity of Hardwick's original material. The end result is a unique collaborative album, which manages to flourish from the adverse circumstances in which it was born.
A 60 minute, 9 track album featuring material by English drone musician Gareth Hardwick remixed or reinterpreted by fellow artists associated with the genre.
LowPoint-025
CD
$15.00

Hayman, Darren & The Wave Pictures
Madrid
PS, UK Recorded Live on the 22nd April 2007 at Sala Siroco, Madrid). After ten albums, with and without Hefner, Darren Hayman has secured a loyal cult following both in Britain and in Spain. Similarly the Wave Pictures have quickly built up a large fan base both with their own records and their collaborations with Jeffrey Lewis, Herman Dune and the Mountain Goats. Darren took the Wave Pictures on tour with him as his backing band in 2007 where this memorable show was recorded. The group performs Hefner hits and rari-ties as well as the best of Darren's solo output. Also included is a live version of Genesis Rock, a song as yet unreleased elsewhere.
Belka-10
CD
$13.50

Helado Negro
Awe Owe
PS, US Drawing from a rich variety of influences from the cradle to his crate
digging years, Roberto C. Lange as Helado Negro cites influences such as Funkadelic, DJ Premiere, South American 60's pop, Arthur Russell, Ecuadorean ballad singer Julio Jaramillo, and the production style of Adrian Sherwoods in the early ON-U Sound releases. But when asked about his contemporaries, Lange references all the players on the album, adding the names of visual artists David Ellis and Christian Marclay, two artists who use elements of DJ culture in their work. This is apropos when listening to the record, when it seems as if the songs have been sculpted or painted. Musicians and bands like Prefuse 73, Feathers, and Stars Like Fleas (among others) all contribute members in some form or other. Inspirations for sound are as diverse as they are numerous. Awe Owe is an album carefully steeped in DJ, art, and multiculturalism.
AsthmaticKitty-065
CD
$11.50

Helado Negro
Awe Owe
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
AsthmaticKitty-065
LP
$12.25

Hematic Sunsets
Aroma Club Paradox
PS, US Alias for German Soundartist Asmus Tietchens. Reminiscent of his Sky-era attempts w/ rhythm & melody, the Aroma Club series is his warped, almost parodic (per)version of lounge music. He elaborately transforms the cheesy associations into cold, bloodless, almost unhuman pop tunes totally lacking the sensationalism & pseudo-fervour of most music, especially modern pop music
Dekorder-032
LP
$18.25

Hendrix, Jimi Experience
Live At Woodstock
PS, US 3LP to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his performace at Woodstock.
Geffen-987
3XLP
$33.25

Henke, Robert
Indigo Transform
PS, US Best known for his work as MONOLAKE, & as the software technology developer for the pioneering Ableton music software, this is a re-envisioning of the quietly pulsing, water droplet-dappled Monolake piece, "Indigo" for use in an installation piece by Swedish artist Fredrik Wretman
ImbalanceComputerMusic-008
CD
$11.50

Her Space Holiday
Sleepy Tigers
PS, US Lead off single from "XOXO, Panda & The New Kid Revival." In addition to the title track, 3 new compositions are included. Sugarcoated dreamscapes floating alongside bitter-sweet narratives of life.
Mush-041
CD5
$7.00

Hercules and Love Affair
Hercules and Love Affair: Sidetracked
PS, US DJ Mix from H&LA! Spread across two discs, one mixed and one unmixed, it includes tracks from such artists as In Flagranti, Westbam, Daniel Wang and Dubwise. A new Hercules song, "I Can't Wait," also sneaks onto the mixed side.
Renaissance-52
DCD
$22.50

Hex Dispensers
Winchester Mystery House
PS, US Austin's HEX DISPENSERS are back with their sophomore album, and it pretty much picks up exactly where the previous LP ended. If you've been paying attention over the past few years, you know that the Hex Dispensers are masters in the art of spewing forth short bursts of haunted fury. D~M~R isn't exactly known for it's story tellers, but Winchester Mystery House offers a thematically torturous series of songs concentrating on the horrors of love, life, sailing, skin masks, and the end of it all. The good news is that there are twelve songs, so there is an opportunity to feel satiated. One of those songs being a Devo cover, and another being "My Love is a Bat" from a Euro tour single that most of us on this side of the water didn't get a chance to own.
Douchemaster-032
CD
$12.00

Hex Dispensers
Winchester Mystery House
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Douchemaster-032
LP
$12.00

High Castle
You're On Your Own Way
PS, US One-sided 12" EP. Hailing from different corners of the noisier spectrum of Southern California bands (Child Pornography, Duchesses, Woman's Worth, Work, Hips, and Saboteurs), we signed them not on the strength of their pedigrees but on the bona fides of a sucker punch live delivery and one self-released CDR. High Castle is your older brothers' favorite band, assuming he grew up on a steady diet of '90s underground rock. They produce a viscous byproduct of the jams you grew up on dragged through a record collection's worth of sludge and muck. Once you decide to bring it, that's kinda the only way to go. The "You're on Your Own Way" EP is the debut record for High Castle, a culmination of songs road tested on summer 2008 US tour and written post New Years hallucinations. Songs about garbage strikes, astral projection, lonely security guards, hedonism, dropping out, meditation, injustice, misplaced hearts...and more. Seven short bursts of salvation, pressing of 500, mastered by Weasel Walter. Two color silk-screened covers by Paul Morgan (Club Sandwich, Business Lady) "I feel like I'm back in ear-bleeding country with the trio's Unwound-ishly, damaged style of noisy rock, nursing an insatiable appetite for more tinfoil-scorched guitar scuzz, blown-out low end, and full-tilt drum thwackage. As each song unloads, three howling voices punctuate the maelstrom...Whatever avenue this threesome decides to explore in the future - be it noisesome or poppy - I I know I'll be all ears." - Chris Sabbath, SF Bay Guardian
Zum-026
12
$9.00

High Places/Soft Circle
Split
PS, US HP's track on the split "Late Bloomer" is very mysterious, crashing & rhythmic collisions; whispers, bangs, clangs, seashores & melody seep into your body. Definitely rides the line of club banger or bedroom jammer, it works perfect either way. SC's (formerly of BLACK DICE, PIXELTAN, LIGHTNING BOLT) 2 tracks on the split "Don't Just Stand There" & "Light Bright" are way more geared to a dance floor inspired mass, underground disco, NY wave.
PostPresentMedium-025
LP
$9.00

Holiday Shores
Columbus'd The Whim
PS, US Summer is no myth. It exists year round on Holiday Shores Court, a two-block stretch on the Florida panhandle where twenty-one year old NATHAN PEMBERTON grew up. It's no more than five minutes from white sand beaches, squawks of seagulls, and wafting smells of suntan lotion. Columbus'd The Whim is the first first full-length album from Pemberton's HOLIDAY SHORES, who, like the street that bears their name, are quintessentially summer: chimey guitars, reverb-soaked vocals, warbling Rhodes, echoes of years past. The album, packed with 10 could-be singles, reads like a book of Pemberton's well-written memories. Each word chosen meaningfully with a linguist's touch; each sentence constructed carefully with an artist's ear. Columbus'd The Whim is a literary work in addition to a sonic one. Multiple features in Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan have already posted.
Twosyllable-005
CD
$11.00

Holy Modal Rounders
Good Taste Is Timeless
PS, US The seminal Greenwich Village acid-folkies' twisted Americana collided w/ mainstream Nashville to produce this 1971 cult classic
Sundazed-253
DLP
$16.50

Hot Cops
Everyone's An Animal
PS, US 2009 debut. Untouchable anthemic fevered working of Midwestern roots through the collective cotton gins of stringbending, pink noise, and bombastic rock. Incl members of Pulsar 47. This is the real deal.
HC-001
CD5
$5.00

Howling Bells
Radio Wars
PS, US 2009 sophomore album. If their debut could easily be the soundtrack for the beautifully haunted world of Twin Peaks, their sophomore effort would be their leap into the blockbuster mainstream. There s a formidable richness here, a glorious depth and maturity and growth which takes the Howling Bells sound into hitherto unexplored terrain, aided, in no small part, by the expertise of producer extraordinaire Dan Grech-Marguerat.
Nettwek
CD
$17.75

Human Skab
Stay Thirsty
PS, US "Well, there's this 10-year old singer from Elma, Washington. He's really cool. His mom calls him Travis but his real name is Human Skab. Picture this: 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!" - Bruce Pavitt, Sub Pop Zine 1986 "I'm not doin' this for the money. I'm on a mission. I have a message for the world. It's not just playin' guitars good that is important. It's all the things that you do." - Human Skab, interview 1986 Stay Thirsty is one of a half-dozen or so cassette tapes recorded by Human Skab during the mid-1980s and injected into the underground web of cassette traders and freak finders. Now, 23 years later this is the first time any of the Skab's rare recordings have been reissued or even made available outside of dusty, personal collections. Family Vineyard will follow up this ultra-limited 100 edition LP with a full-length CD reissue of the stunning and epic "Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags" in late 2009. No joke.
FamilyVineyard-026
LP
$13.75

Hunter, Ian
Man Overboard
PS, US Man Overboard is Ian Hunter s 13th solo album since his eponymous debut in 1975. Recorded in late 2008 in Pawling, NY, the 11-song set is a stunning follow up to the overwhelmingly critically acclaimed Shrunken Heads album. Man Overboard was produced by Andy York (veteran guitarist for John Mellencamp) and Ian Hunter and features a backing band of superstar talent comprised of Steve Holley on drums and percussion (Wings, Joe Cocker), Paul Page on bass (Dion), Jack Petruzzelli on electric guitar (Rufus Wainwright, Joan Osbourne), James Mastro on electric guitar (Patti Smith, John Cale), Andy Burton on piano and organ (The Db s) and Producer Andy York on guitar and backing vocals. Many of the band members are returning from the Shrunken Heads sessions. Regarding Man Overboard, Ian Hunter stated, When we did Shrunken Heads, I felt like we had a good thing going so I wanted to revisit the experience before anything changed, and that s what we did.
NewWestRecords-6167.2
CD
$17.75

Iggy & the Stooges
Cock In My Pocket
PS, US Collectible 7 inch vinyl single
Cleopatra-675
45
$7.25

Iggy & the Stooges
More Power
PS, US Digitally remastered collection of rare studio recordings from the punk icons recorded in the same year the band released their seminal album "Raw Power"
Cleopatra-687
LP
$19.75

In The Country
Whiteout
PS, NORWAY Ambitious, epic and grand in scale, the third album by Norway's piano trio In The Country could very well be their magnum opus. Most of the music was performed and written as a thank you, as is the tradition, after leader Morten Qvenild (Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Shining) was awarded Kongsberg Jazzfestival's prestigious Musician's Award. Along with bass player Roger Arntzen and drummer Pål Hausken, on Whiteout, Qvenild allows themes to develop and terrain to broaden, as in exploratory jazz and classic progressive rock music. For example, "Ursa Major" starts out as an almost space-jazz expedition, which then crescendos and decrescendos into over 9 minutes of intertwining piano and post-rock guitar stratospherics. It's also a highly personal album, coming to an emotional and dramatic conclusion with the touching last track softly sung by Morten himself -- all gossamer and hazy brushstrokes of circling piano melodies, cymbal wash, and distant percussion. In The Country has been selected as among Norway's best musicians, reaching critical acclaim with their previous albums This Was The Pace Of My Heartbeat (RCD 2045CD) and Losing Stones, Collecting Bones (RCD 2059CD): Downbeat called their debut "one of the finest and most arresting albums to come out of Europe" that year, Mojo said "startling," Straight No Chaser said "fantastic," and a host of others followed. Whiteout is set to eclipse all previous praise, with its epic, masterful scope that shows this trio at the absolute peak of their compositional and performance powers. Recorded in the legendary Atlantis Studio in Stockholm, home of the first classic Abba recordings and full of vintage analog equipment. Engineered by Janne Hansson and mastered by Bob Katz, with a striking sleeve design by Kim Hiorthøy. In The Country are: Morten Qvenild (grand piano, synthesizers, Rhodes, programming and vocals), Roger Arntzen (double bass and vocals), Pål Hausken (drums, percussion, Dynacord Percuter and vocals), with Andreas Mjøs (Jaga Jazzist) (guitars, vibraphone, marimba, violin, programming and percussion).
RuneGrammofon-3086
CD
$16.25

Iron Age
Sleeping Eye
PS, US Austin, Texas' Iron Age have been slugging it out in hardcore and punk circles since the middle of the decade, touring with such contemporary hardcore luminaries as Rise And Fall and Fucked Up, while steadily honing the riffed-out hardcore sound established on their 2006 debut Constant Struggle. With The Sleeping Eye, Iron Age remains a modern torchbearer for the long tradition established by the crossover classics but twists the NYHC-inspired thrash of their debut to create something bigger and darker, enhancing the violence of their former efforts with mammoth Lovecraftian atmopshere.
TeePee
CD
$15.00

Israelite, Koby
Is He Listening
PS, US A student of jazz, classical, punk, heavy metal, gypsy, Balkan & reggae, Koby effortlessly blends it all into a unique & vibrant new music. Filled w/ wit, passion & a surreal sense of humor, this is his sly take on easy listening
Tzadik-145
CD
$15.25

Jandek
Six & Six
PS, US Originally released in 1981, JANDEK'S second album stands as an incredible document of the formative stages of his cracked genius. The musical elements are almost catatonic: 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. First time on vinyl in over 25 years. Old-style tip on jacket. LIMITED!
JackpotRecords740
LP
$20.75

Jansch, Bert
Santa Barbara Honeymoon
PS, US First time on CD! Originally recorded for Charisma in the 1970s and has been out of print for decades. Jansch hand-picked the bonus material, much of which is
previously unreleased. Delicate instrumentals, Irish traditional songs, a couple of slow blues & some of Bert's most overlooked songs which look back to his
childhood & his early days on the folk scene in Edinburgh.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Jansch, Bert
Rare Conundrum
PS, US First time on CD! Originally recorded for Charisma in the 1970s and has been out of print for decades. Jansch hand-picked the bonus material of unreleased solo tracks recorded live at the Montreux Festival in the summer of 1975.
DragCity-415
CD
$13.25

Jansch, Bert
L.A. Turnaround
PS, US First time on CD! Originally recorded for Charisma in the 1970s and has been out of print for decades. Jansch hand-picked the bonus material, much of which is previously unreleased. This edition of L.A. Turnaround is enhanced to include a previously-unseen 13 minute cinema-verite film, made
during the recordings at Stratton Smith's Sussex mansion & features Bert, Mike Nesmith & Red Rhodes recording & performing four songs.
DragCity-413
CD
$13.25

Japandroids
Post-Nothing
PS, US One guitar, one set of drums & two vocalizers. They call it garage rock. They don't care what you call it, as long as it's not minimal. They are maximal - a two piece band trying to sound like a five piece band
Polyvinyl-184
CD
$10.50

Japandroids
Post-Nothing
PS, US vinyl!
Polyvinyl-184
LP
$12.25

Jay Reatard
Watch Me Fall
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Matador
LP
$15.50

Jeremih
S-T
PS, US
DefJam-01
DLP
$14.00

Jeremih
Birthday Sex
PS, US A/w main and instrumental versions. B/w up tempo main and instrumental versions.
DefJam-11
12
$5.75

Johannsson, Johann
Englaborn
PS, US Highly-acclaimed 1st solo album from consummate Icelandic musician, composer & producter, originally released on CD by Touch in 2002, now issued in a gatefold vinyl edition. Written for string quartet, piano, organ, glockenspiel & percussion, these organic elements were processed & manipulated, adding delicate electronic backgrounds to the otherwise entirely acoustic recordings
Touch-052
LP
$16.25

Johnston, James & Philippe Petit
Fiends With A Face
PS, US Members of STRINGS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, GALLON DRUNK. A homage to the golden era of horror movies - these two fiends wanted to conjure up blood-curdling & haunting soundscapes, playing w/ an unsettling ambiance of strings, piano, organ, electronics, guitar drone & feedback screech
DirterProductions-065
CD
$18.00

Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart
PS, US Companion piece to the 7 inch vinyl featuring recordings from the Martin Hannett tapes, newly remastered, plus a 12 inch bonus remix
Cleopatra-828
12
$12.50

Judge
What It Meant: The Complete Discography
PS, US To most fans of hardcore, Judge is a band that needs no introduction. The band who took the ideals and positive goals of Youth of Today and infused them with beefy guitar licks, introspective lyrics and a hefty influx of New York style. Their debut EP was released with much fanfare, selling faster than it could be kept in press.Their live shows were infectious, and soon the entire Northeast, not to mention the world, had their eyes on Judge. It was official - Judge was a full-fledged outbreak.And almost as suddenly as it had started, it was over. A final show in Florida unceremoniously stands as their farewell - no reunions, no grandstanding, and no apologies. The face of the band and singer Mike Judge parted ways with the hardcore scene, but his legacy remains in his words... "Can you hear me, hear when I scream - you hear my words, but do you know what I mean?"The Complete Discography compiles the entire recorded output of Judge, the first time available on one format. The lasting memory of Judge and impact it has had on hardcore can be seen all around, and this discovery will truly lead you to what it meant.
Revelation-122
LP
$16.50

Keane
Live [blue ray]
PS, US Blue Ray version.
Interscope
DVD/BR
$24.50

Keane
Live
PS, US
Interscope
DVD
$17.75

Kooper, Al & Mike Bloomfield
Super Session
PS, US Historic 1968 summit meeting features blues guitar hero extraordinaire Mike Bloomfield, multi-talented keyboard visionary Al Kooper & Buffalo Springfield/CSNY founder & ace axeman Stephen Stills
Sundazed-275
LP
$16.50

Kooper, Al & Mike Bloomfield
Live Adventures Of
PS, US Blues-steeped guitar hero Mike Bloomfield (BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND, ELECTRIC FLAG) & keyboardist/singer Al Kooper (BLUES PROJECT, BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS). 2LP
Sundazed-276
DLP
$16.50

L'Acephale
Malefeasance
PS, US A lengthy & complex affair that further explores their fascinations & strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic: further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach. On the 23 minute album
closer, dreamlike interludes pass into arcs of harsh noise followed by acoustic guitars before once again entering the dream state, a field recording from beyond
consciousness.
AuroraBorealis-032
CD
$17.00

Lazer Crystal
EP1
PS, US LAZER CRYSTAL's Lipp Service experiences a similarly awesome transmogrification, in this case from robotic amphetamine Devo/Chrome jerky pogo boogie infected with chainsaw buzz and dislocated motor bass into a total fall-to-your-knees-and-worship the absolute God of fearsome headbanging in the abject throes of a deliriously sweet synthetic solo.
HBSP
LP
$16.75

Left Alone
Left Alone
PS, US It's Punk Rock folks! Left Alone is a punk rock band from Wilmington, California. They were formed in May 1996 by lead vocalist and guitarist Elvis Cortez. Cortez formed his own label, Smelvis Records, to release Left Alone's records, and has since expanded the label to include numerous other underground bands. Cortez was also the owner of the PCH Club in Wilmington, which is now defunct. Left Alone's music has ska influences, and the band is notable for adhering to a do it yourself ethic by avoiding major labels, booking their own tours, and making their own merchandise. After releasing numerous demos, splits, and EPs, Left Alone released their first full-length, Streets of Wilmington, in 2002. A year later, the band compiled their earlier, out-of-print recordings on the anthology Left Alone: 1996-2000. In 2003, Cortez went on the Warped Tour as a roadie. After Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman heard Left Alone's music, he chose the band to be the Warped Tour BBQ band for the 2004 tour. The band were invited back to be the BBQ band for the 2005 tour. While on the Warped Tour, Tim Armstrong of Rancid heard Left Alone's 2004 album, Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. Armstrong signed the band to his label, Hellcat Records, and re-released Lonely Starts & Broken Hearts. The band released their third full-length album, Dead American Radio, on August 8, 2006, which features guest appearances from Tim Armstrong and Patricia Day of the Horrorpops.
BlackbirdMusic-1202
CD
$12.00

Left Alone
Left Alone
PS, US From the streets of Wilmington, Ca. comes a three-piece that combine three-chord punk rock with ska and just a dash of country to create a unique sound all their own. Singing in both English and Spanish, they have managed to win over fans in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The new self-titled release meshes these experience into one polished and progressive sound, with personal lyrics and a commitment to give the fans something to salivate over, and silence the critics they care so little about.
BlackbirdMusic-1202
LP
$12.00

Legion of Two
Riffs
PS, US New project from Alan O'Boyle & David Lacey. It pits electronics against live drums & percussion for a dark, dense, & noise dirge. Huge basslines, slow, pounding rhythms, & feedback dominate. Industrial, dub, & metal influences are shredded through old guitar pedals & cheap reverbs & reassembled into a driving & melodic force
PlanetMu-234
DLP
$19.25

Levin, Elliot Meets The Seesaw Ensemble
S-T
PS, US Tenor sax jazz musician teams up w/ free jazz group to create a sound & feeling that incorporates the best characteristics of the late 60's jazz movement. Sudden bursts of energy, playful interplay, experimental sounds, sullen grooves, psychedelic & spiritual sounds that ebb & flow together. A recording tha will surely appeal to fans of John & Alice Coltrane & Sun Ra
Porter-1001
CD
$14.75

Lightning Dust
Infinite Light
PS, US Infinite Light, Lightning Dust's sophomore album for Jagjaguwar, finds duo Amber Webber and Joshua Wells (both of Black Mountain) calling upon the powers of classic pop arrangements and making the most of five days with a Steinway Grand piano. While Webber and Wells met through their involvement in what they described as two of the saddest bands in Canada, the songs written for Infinite Light found the two moving away from the uniformly downbeat. Rather, the songs were more suited to lush and melodramatic arrangements. Cue the strings. Lightning Dust have delivered a cosmic record about the adventure in finding love and the journey in losing and rediscovering "the light." "I declare a war on you, someday soon,"AmberWebber warns soon into opener "Antonia Jane." And damned if she isn't singing the truth. Following track "I Knew" is absolutely shot out of a cannon, driven by the ping/thud pulse and crusty keyboards of Suicide and taken to flight by the FleetwoodMac chorus your heart belts on the drive home after that first, anxious make-out session. It's a blazing, triumph of a song that permanently cauterizes any notion of Lightning Dust as a side project. Later, on "Never Seen," Lightning Dust stunningly melds mystic, theatrical balladry into a dark, electro "Hounds of Love." While Infinite Light is definitely more layered and lush than previous efforts, Lightning Dust's minimal aesthetic works well in the economy of musical theater, an influence for the record, wherein each song's movements aim to be more inspiring than the one before it. And this is suiting in that Infinite Light is a nod to "the light of inspiration" that inspires us to keep dancing, creating and loving in spite of an encroaching darkness. It's a reminder that what makes the mountains so very, very black is a distant light somewhere on the other side.
Jagjaguwar-139
LP
$12.25

Lightning Dust
Infinite Light
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Jagjaguwar-139
CD
$11.50

Lights
Rites
PS, US Vinyl.
DragCity-408
LP
$14.75

Lights
Rites
PS, US Any band that mutates the powers of Jimi Hendrix, unicorns, Stevie Nicks, glowsticks, Prince, Indians & cowboys, Yoko Ono, red wine, Jem & Beyonce into their own smoothly flowing sound, they're acting from the heart -or the dark side of their Id. Their songs are the lovechild of American soul music, country, metal, psychedelic rock, disco & new age. PITCHFORK: "Drag City debut is a wonderful stoner rock record, but so much more, finding inspiration in everything from soul and country to radio pop and classic rock."
DragCity-408
CD
$13.25

Lisa o Piu
When This Was The Future
PS, US The album is filled w/ delicious & bewitching woodland folk hymnals, eloguent yet eerie, & led by Lisa's gossamer vocals, as delicate as a wavering candle flame. It somehow divinely conjures the essence of Linda Perhacs, Bridget St. John, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Vashti Bunyan & Joanna Newsom into one singular siren, but w/ a thoroughly unique, haunting delivery
Subliminal-029
CD
$18.00

Lloyd, Richard
The Jamie Neverts Story
PS, US Ex-Television and Rocket from the Tombs guitarist (and frequent Matthew Sweet collaborator) RICHARD LLOYD will have his new album, The Jaime Neverts Story, released this Summer by Parasol Records. The Jamie Neverts Story is Richard's long-awaited collection of Jimi Hendrix covers recorded in early 2008. As much a homage to Jimi as it is to Lloyd's and Hendrix's mutual friend Velvert Turner (R.I.P.), the story behind this release touches on punches thrown, tears shed and three men whose legendary guitar alchemy has shaped and continues to shape rock music ever since. For recording Richard was joined by bassist Keith Hartel and longtime Lloyd session drummer Chris Purdy, with a special guest appearance by Television drummer Billy Ficca. This is Lloyd's third release for us and we're proud to be working with one of Punk's true godfathers.
Parasol-CD-113
CD
$10.00

Lord Fowl
Endless Dynamite
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-004
CD
$9.50

Lowe, Nick
Brentford Trilogy
PS, US Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically acclaimed The Impossible Bird by Upstart Records. With the overall excitement that followed the release, it was evident that Nick's music had taken a slightly different twist on the road to a more mature tone and stripped down musical arrangement.And although it was unknown at the time, Nick's next two records Dig My Mood and The Convincer would travel the same road, achieving greater result and success with each effort. These three records always represented a kind of trilogy to Nick and now for the first time, all three are being packed together in a very limited edition Brentford Trilogy boxed set for hardcore fans and new believers alike. In this package is a new book with extra photos and a new interview with Nick by Paul Gorman. The three CDs and booklet are encased within a handsome box which is open on one end to reveal the individual spines of each record. On the cover, there's a great photo of Nick from the period and on the back is an essay by Nick himself talking about why he considers these three records to be a "trilogy." Many fans consider Nick's later period of work to be his very best and of course we agree. Nick Lowe is the man. Follow him and discover his subtle greatness.
YepRoc-2633
CD-BOX
$21.50

Lubelski, Samara
Future Slip
PS, US A gorgeous & friendly collection of bittersweet melodies, sinister basslines, gestural Polaroid lyrics, & spot-on drumming garnished w/ sprigs of fuzz, paired w/ a guitar Riesling.
EcstaticPeace-110
CD
$10.00

Lucksmiths, The
Warmer Corners
PS, US Restock. Seventh studio album from Australia's hardest-working band and follow-up to the excellent 'Naturaliste' album from 2003 is, dare we say it, the best Lucksmiths release yet! As always, there are lots of guitars, some soothing basslines, and a singing drummer who's far better than Phil Collins, but this time there's also a horn section having a party, some fiery organs, a string section who dig Phil Spector, and a lazy pedal steel. 'A Hiccup in Your Happiness' kicks the album off with an uplifting nod of reassurance to a girl named Louise. Coincidentally, this song also marks the recorded debut for new Lucksmiths guitarist Louis Richter. It's a dancefloor sizzler! As well as the aforementioned strings and horns, the song features some seriously funky guitar and a bassline possibly borrowed from Orange Juice. From there, the floor just keeps rumbling with 'The Music Next Door' and its pleasantly off-kilter guitar riff. By now it's evident Marty Donald's turns-of-phrase seem to have ripened with age, while Tali White's vocals are as warm as ever. As with the last few albums, producer Craig Pilkington was put to work on string and brass arrangements, and he's done some seriously wonderful things on 'Warmer Corners'. Notably, the string section on first single 'The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco' drops the song off effortlessly at the bridge (and the monumental first ever use of wah-wah). Later, the fruits of bassist Mark Monnone's relocation to Tasmania are on display, namely in the hobo lament 'I Don't Want to Walk Around Alone No More' which meanders along gently and runs head first into 'The Fog of Trujillo'. The former features superb whistling and beautiful acoustic guitar, while the latter, a sort of paean to a daydream, invites the horns back for another sangria and a rockin' party again ensues. As if that weren't enough, the album features seven more hits including an earnest Rickenbacker jangler called 'Sunlight In A Jar' and the tale of a Kansas City barbecue called 'Fiction' that builds to a zydeco wigout! We kid you not. So, 'Warmer Corners': everything you've always wanted in a Lucksmiths album and more.
Matinee-039
CD
$12.25

Lunch, Lydia
Big Sexy Noise
PS, US Lydia Lunch has collaborated with Terry Edwards, James Johnston and Ian White in a variety of musical guises for the last ten years. From Hangover Hotel and Smoke in the Shadows to the most recent multimedia performances of Real Pornography and The Ghosts of Spain, the three rabble rousers from Gallon Drunk have, in a series of ever morphing configurations, collaborated with Lydia in creating psycho-ambient soundscapes in the service of propelling forth spoken word exorcisms in her decades -long prophecies of societal collapse, moral bankruptcy, and global corruption.
Sartorial-039
LP
$17.25

Lynn, Barbara
Here Is Barbara Lynn (DELAYED: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
PS,US Originally released on Atlantic in 1968, & featuring many of her Atlantic singles from the time period, this is the deep soul singer at one of the high points of her career. Features the hits "This Is The Thanks I Get" & "You'll Lose A Good Thing"
Water
CD
$14.50

Mad Gregs
Big Nun
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-003
CD
$9.50

Magnolia Electric Co.
Josephine
PS, US The band is back on its heels, yes, but they are going to fight back in the only way they know how. This is a tribute to the life & spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. There are cues taken from great songwriters like WIllie Nelson & Warren Zevon. This is heartbreak at ten paces, to be sure.
SecretlyCanadian-185
LP
$12.25

Maher Shalal Hash Baz
C'est La Dernière Chanson
PS, US Fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz & experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. This is compact & richly melodic; forgotten melodies played w/ a fragile trust.
Krecords-210
DCD
$12.50

Major Lazer
Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
PS, US Vinyl version.
Dowtown-1
LP
$19.00

Mammut
S-T
PS, US First official CD release of one of the most legendary German small label pressed albums. Originally released in 1971, this album is an intense and bombastic hybrid between heavy fuzz acid guitar, instinctive free rock improvisations and some lyrical, classical influenced interludes/fragments. Mammut played in an impressive and convincing manner their conception of an psychedelic rock opera. For that each title includes the name Mammut. The opening track 'Bird Mammut' is a groovy, percussive, crazy psychedelic affair featuring an avalanche of drums, trippy organs, bluesy e-guitar and wistfull flute passages. 'Classical Mammut' delivers a short piano interlude, a pleasant melodic moment. 'Mammut Ecstasy' is a fuzzy heavy psychedelic composition with furious rhythms, an efficient bass guitar leading theme and some nice keyboard moves. 'Foot Machine Mammut' alternates a bluesy pop song with free guitar jams accompanied by Hammond organ. Perhaps parts of the first Embryo album are comparable to this. 'Nähgarn Mammut" is their attempt to be more lyrical and melodic, while the album closes with 14 minutes of 'Mammut Opera,' which show Mammut at their best. Dark sounds with hints of Amon Düül II, heavy blues rock with all sorts of strange, ethnic and gothic touches combined in their music. Altough the band themselves quoted Deep Purple in rock as a major influence, their spirit was purely Krautrock. Their sole album is a legendary rarity. CD comes with 1 bonus track, comprehensive booklet, digitally remastered. A classic! Don´t miss it!
LongHair
CD
$23.75

Marmoset
Tea Tornado
PS, US Throughout the last 14 years, the enigmatic trio known as Marmoset have fostered a near-mythical cult status with their claustrophobic, moody, and etherial blend of indie pop. The band's subtle take on primordial-post-punk spawns songs whose overly-simple structures seem to speak in tongues - channeling the spirit of Swell Maps and the Velvet Underground into something all together new.
JoyfulNoise-035
CD
$11.25

Mass Shivers
Torrid Sex In East Berlin b/w Tickled On Poppers
PS, US
MassShivers
45
$5.00

Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?
PS, US Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008) was one of the all-time great soul singers. His 1962 record "Village of Love" made him a star, and he inspired several generations of musicians, especially in his hometown of Detroit. Nathaniel's last sessions took place during two long summer days and nights of intense jamming, writing, and recording. "Why Don't You Give It To Me?" was the first installment of these recordings to be unleashed. Now, here at last, is a second volume of Nathaniel Mayer having a blast with the assistance of members of the Black Keys, SSM, Outrageous Cherry, and the Dirtbombs. The two acoustic performances are from a 2007 radio interview, Nathaniel's only known "unplugged" performance. About the title: It has to do with the food he kept being served while on tour in Europe. When Nate finally became frustrated with the countless plates of cheese and French bread that awaited him backstage at every gig, he shouted "Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?". He agreed that it sounded like a good title for his next album.
Alive-096
CD
$13.00

Mayer, Nathaniel
Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?
PS, US LIMITED EDITION of 500 on BLUE VINYL. Nathaniel Mayer (1944-2008) was one of the all-time great soul singers. His 1962 record "Village of Love" made him a star, and he inspired several generations of musicians, especially in his hometown of Detroit. Nathaniel's last sessions took place during two long summer days and nights of intense jamming, writing, and recording. "Why Don't You Give It To Me?" was the first installment of these recordings to be unleashed. Now, here at last, is a second volume of Nathaniel Mayer having a blast with the assistance of members of the Black Keys, SSM, Outrageous Cherry, and the Dirtbombs. The two acoustic performances are from a 2007 radio interview, Nathaniel's only known "unplugged" performance. About the title: It has to do with the food he kept being served while on tour in Europe. When Nate finally became frustrated with the countless plates of cheese and French bread that awaited him backstage at every gig, he shouted "Why Won't You Let Me Be Black?". He agreed that it sounded like a good title for his next album.
Alive-096
LP
$13.00

MC5
Kick Out The Jams
PS, US Gorgeously designed limited edition 7 inch vinyl of 2 masterpieces of garage rock
Cleopatra-887
45
$7.25

Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly
PS, US Vinyl version includes album download and side-D etching.
Hometapes-029
DLP
$17.25

Megafaun
Gather, Form & Fly
PS, US Their highly anticipated second album. All the hints they've given us from songs Stereogum described as "mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics" to tours with The Rosebuds, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Akron Family have culminated in a record that's an ode to death, love, musical history, community, tradition, and experimentation. In all, it's an ode to the listener.
Hometapes-029
CD
$13.75

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol 7: Kujakubato
PS, US Merzbow's 13 Japanese Birds is a 13 month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's Catalogue D'Oiseaux. Beginning in January 2009 one volume of 13 Japanese Birds will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released January 2010. Each volume will be a one time pressing of 1000 copies. Available from Important Records is a deluxe hand made numbered bamboo box to hold the 13 cd collection. Cover art by Jenny Akita.
Important-257
CD
$13.25

Mi Ami
Towers Fall
PS, US First volume of new "Techno" series takes a step away from the visceral punch of their live show toward something almost purely electronic. "Cassette Mix" on B-side perhaps best seen as a dub-style version rather than a traditional remix. LIMITED TO 500, INCL. DOWNLOAD COUPON
HossRecords-015
12
$16.00

Miaou
Painted E.P.
PS, JAPAN Restock. Having joined a comilation album released from Where Are My Records (Canada), Miaou is gradually winning fans in the north American and Japanese music scenes. A year after their second album, Make These Things Alright, Miaou releases their latest. This time the band features an Austrian musician, Qua, also known as a producer for Architecture in Helsinki, British post rock band Epic45 and Pascal Asselin (millimetrik) from Below The Sea. Now Miaou is ready to challenge the global market. Formed in 1999, band released their debut album Happiness (Noon Records), 2003. In 2005 the band released a second album Make These Things Alright. The band joined the compilation album Je T'aime (Where Are My Records), which also featured Epic45 and Below The Sea in 2006. The new album features 5 new tracks and 3 remixes by Qua (headz), Epic45 and Pascal Asselin (millmetrk) from Below The Sea. Track Listing: 01. We lost it 02. Scene of sunrise 03. Anything goes 04. Grasslands (revised) 05. Airship 06. Fatune avillion (millimetrick remix) 07. Dante (epic45 remix) 08. on a sunday (qua remix).
ThomasonSounds-2016
CDEP
$10.25

Modest Mouse
No One's First, And You're Last EP
PS, US Collection of b-sides from the "We Were Dead.." & "Good News.." sessions
Epic
CD
$9.50

Modest Mouse
No One's First, And You're Next EP
PS, US Includes digital code
Epic
LP
$19.00

Modest Mouse
Perpetual Motion Machine b/w History Sticks to Your Feet (DELAYED)
PS, US
Epic
45
$7.50

Mojo
#190 (September 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Monosov, DJ Ilya & The 20th Century Punks
New Music
PS, US Too rhythmic to call noise, too chaotic to call music. This 4 track 12-inch is nothing like Nurse With Wound while sounding like an American counterpart
HolyMountain-56
12
$14.25

Moondog
S-T
PS,US Debut album, originally released in 1956. The blind Kansas native showcases his talent for the minimal & avant-garde here, w/ compositions driven by percussion & Japanese-inspired melodies, complimented by street sounds, recitations, & animal noises. Bizarre even for today's standards, it's a wonder this was released over a half-century ago
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Moondog
More Moondog
PS,US 2nd LP, originally released in 1956. Continues the NYC street performer's exploration of minimalist composition & field recording, mixing percussion & sparse melodies w/ piano solos, street sounds, & monologues. Surprisingly accessible despite it's avant-garde nature, bridging the gap between the familiar & the bizarre. Another all out masterwork from one of 20th century America's most unique minds
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Moondog
Story of Moondog
PS,US 3rd LP from NYC street performer & avant-garde/minimalist composer, originally released in 1957. Perhaps the least accessible of his early releases, this album is made up of percussive jams, usually on instruments of his own creation, street sounds, poetry, & Far East melodies, despite opening w/ a swinging number that is, oddly, the most bizarre thing on the album
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Morris, Joe
Wildlife
PS, US A gorgeous modern jazz album with vintage microphone glow; four fully inviting long-form collective improvisations. New group concept feat. MORRIS on bass, PETR CANCURA on tenor & alto sax, & LUTHER GRAY on drums. This warm first group recording emphasizes a very modern swing with each player drawn toward melodic elucidation via joy of creation.
AUMFidelity-056
CD
$12.75

Most Serene Republic
And The Ever Expanding Universe
PS, US The Most Serene Republic follows a kind of musical continuum. From Underwater Cinematographer (their debut) to Phages (their EP) to Population (their follow-up album), and now with ...And The Ever Expanding Universe, the band's repertoire runs the gamut from prog-rock to densely layered, indie-pop. TMSR harmoniously combine traditional instrumentation with strings, banjos, and digital programming. Their music demands your involvement- and though you might find yourself digging a little deeper with each song, their art is worth the excavation. Hailing from the Toronto suburb of Milton, Ontario, the young septet (now each 24-years old) has performed together for a half dozen years. The band is very much a product of their wide ranging personalities, beginning with Ryan Lenssen's classical piano experience and an obsession with musical history; and singer/lyricist Adrian Jewett's Joycian stream-of-conscious lyrics and larger than life stage personality. TMSR's instrumental expertise is undeniable, both on stage and in live performance, and on recorded album. Produced by Dave Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Super Furry Animals, Los Campesinos!), ...And The Ever Expanding Universe shows The Most Serene Republic confidently striding forward with a more mature, diverse and exhilirating sound.
Arts&Crafts-044
CD
$15.25

Most Serene Republic
And The Ever Expanding Universe
PS, US Vinyl version
Arts&Crafts-044
LP
$15.25

Nadja & Black Boned Angel
S-T
PS, US Collaboration between Canada's prolific neo-doom duo (NADJA) & New Zealand's pitch black droners (BLACK BONED ANGEL - featuring Campbell Kneale of BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL). These two 20-plus-minute instrumental tracks have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year's Christ Send Light EP. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja's fuzzed-out, lurching, hazy dream-doom, & Black Boned Angel's razor-sharp, metallic riff-shards. Eventually, the whole thing collapses under the weight of its self-created black hole - the death throes of the whole damn genre. This is the end
20BuckSpin-028
CD
$10.00

Nerves
One Way Ticket
PS, US Repress on PURPLE vinyl, limited to 500
Alive-901
LP
$19.00

New Mellow Edwards
Big Choantza
PS, US Set of carefully shaped compositions that balance contrasting shapes & textures: languid funk, asymmetrical bebop marches, spacious pop w/ shattered orchestration & tense ambient sonics along w/ a cover of the Sonic Youth's Youth Against Fascism. Includes striking performances by NYC heavyweights Chris Speed (Human Feel, Bloodcount, yeah NO), Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, John Zorn, Madlove) & John Hollenbeck (Claudia Quintet, Meredith
Monk)
Skirl-010
CD
$13.50

Nilsen, BJ
Short Night
PS, US Vinyl version of the highly-acclaimed 2007 album.
Touch-075
LP
$16.25

No Comply
It's Getting Hot
PS, US Ferocious debut based in brutal '80s/'90s hardcore like Copout & Born Against
Goner-43
45
$6.25

Nodzzz
True to Life b/w Good Times Crowd
PS, US Fresh of the success of their self-titled debut last fall, "True to Life" finds Nodzzz in top jangly art-crit form. The B-side, "Good Times Crowd" is an ode to, well, the trials & tribulations of hanging with good times crowds. Some modern thoughts for these modern times. What could be better?
WhatsYourRupture-509
45
$6.25

Nurses
Apple's Acre
PS, US To immerse yourself in Nurses' Apple's Acre is to delight in a certain mental unraveling. These are songs where the vulnerability of pop with its heart on its sleeve engages in a double-dutch jumprope match with the euphoric surrender-to-the-weird that is essential to psychedelia. And Nurses is a band that scavenges beauty and wonder, uncovering Technicolor where others see somber hues. Their off-kilter psych-pop is driven by ever-swelling vocal harmonies, adventurous electronics, some serious wheelin' and dealin' on the Rhodes piano, and the kind of new-primitivist percussion that may or may not involve a standard drum kit.
An encyclopedic list of musical influences and sound-alikes won't necessarily cozy up your brain to the Nurses experience. Their compositions revel in the unexpected, and it creates music that's endlessly fascinating. Part of the allure is that the songs of Aaron Chapman and John Bowers-the cosmic troubadours and longtime best friends behind Nurses-are in a constant state of motion, as if they're evolving while you listen. Perhaps it's no surprise, since Chapman and Bowers themselves have spent the past five years in a state of transience, as friendly nomads who gave up the comforts of normalcy for the deeper satisfaction of total devotion to making music. If the two aren't rambling in their own sonic imaginations, they're not satisfied. Luckily for Portland, Ore., they settled down there for a while and unpacked their exhilarating playfulness in the attic of a Victorian house. It was in their attic fort that they recorded much of Apple's Acre. Now that the pair call Portland home, they have expanded to a trio and are joined by percussionist and visual artist James Mitchell.
Apple's Acre is a record full of dysfunctional, hushed love, laced with elegance and grace and without angst and regret. But the plain courage of their songs is the secret ingredient that's already turning heads and blowing minds all over the Northwest-and if you think about it, in pop music, courage is always at a premium.
DeadOceans-029
CD
$11.50

Nurses
Apple's Acre
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DeadOceans-029
LP
$12.25

O'Death
Underwater Nightmare EP
PS, US Featuring four new songs: "Underwater Nightmare", "Prince Of Beast", "Mongoloid" (Devo cover), and "Brothers" (Murder By Death cover). Taking their cues from old time folk and gypsy music, and giving it an original contemporary punk flavor that leaves audiences blown away and mesmerized. O'Death live is a rollercoaster and that vibe is captured on within these recordings. You can hear and feel the energy growing within each song. Limited to 500.
Kemado
45
$3.75

Oblivians, The
Never Enough
PS, US Features Greg Cartwright of REIGNING SOUND. Finally back in print!
SFTRI-304
10
$13.75

Ocean
Pantheon Of The Lesser
PS, US 2xLP to follow in about one month. Following their acclaimed breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Pantheon Of The Lesser was composed over a period of two years in Ocean's home studio in Portland, Maine. As the seasons passed each track was written, re-written, played and then re-played as layers were slowly stripped away until the true essence of the song was revealed. Once Ocean entered the studio it took another two years to deconstruct Pantheon Of The Lesser until they had found the essence of their writing. This disciplined deconstructionist approach to songwriting is how Pantheon Of The Lesser is how Ocean takes it to the next level of the abyss. The result of this compositional technique is over an hour of strictly bare instrumentation and a kind of natural heaviness that slowly rises and falls in a pure organic fashion. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like Schoenberg. While Ocean continues to explore and expand upon their "less is more" approach of profound musical minimalism and sheer heaviness, Pantheon Of The Lesser is a bit more musical than its predecessor. The Beacon, the opening track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, was played as Ocean's complete set on a recent US tour and on dates with Mono and Boris. Clocking in at 41 minutes on record and over an hour live; The Beacon evolves in 3 distinct movements with fleeting moments of hypnotic melody and earth shaking heavy dirges creating an all-encompassing tone of pure misanthropy. The second and final track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, titled Of The Lesser, carries a similar theme of misery. Written as an ode to distraction, chemical and otherwise, it is Ocean at their most personal: a pure sonic stream of consciousness in slow motion. Packaged in a deluxe foil printed heavy-duty cardboard jacket with art by renowned Maine illustrator Bruce Hutchison. The vinyl version is packaged in double 200 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe letter pressed covers and limted to 500 copies.
Important-219
CD
$13.00

Octopus Project
Golden Beds
PS, US Some of these 5 tracks are brand new, some represent fresh take on ideas from the past, but each explores a different facet of their omnivorous sonic creations - from big-riff rock to tiny electronics to blissful sing-alongs. Enhanced CD includes videos & live footage from the 2008 Austin City Lights festival
Peek-a-Boo-005
CD
$9.25

Om
Live Conference
PS, US Live Conference was recorded on 24 track remote audio and pressed at RTI in order to achieve the highest possible quality. Die cut super heavy duty tip-on style jackets by Stoughton. On this night Om performed their seminal album Conference of the Birds live in its entirety. Newly invoked energy resonates in the sound of the band. The dynamics between Emil Amos and Al Cisneros have rendered these songs, and Omâ€(tm)s sound into a higher evolution. Here we are given a proper documentation of Conference era Om.
Important-237
LP
$16.75

On
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
PS, US 2LP version
Type-050
DLP
$22.50

On
Your Naked Ghost Comes Back At Night
PS, US Reissue of debut release by the collaborative duo of Chicago-based percussionist STEVEN HESS (HAPTIC, PAN AMERICAN) & French composer/producer SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU. Produced by Helge Sten (Deathprod), whose characteristic smudged ambience is evident as he submerges Chauveau & Hess' compositions beneath a swamp of cavernous reverb & synthesized smoke
Type-050
CD
$15.50

Orsi, Fabio & Seaworthy
Near And Faraway
PS, UK 'Near And Faraway' marks the joint release by Italian ambient musician Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy, a three piece collective from Sydney, Australia. With the 51 minute running time divided equally into three parts, each artist contributes a solo track which in turn bookend a collaborative composition that forms the album's centerpiece. Originally from Naples, Italy, but now a resident of Berlin, Fabio Orsi's solo contribution to the album, "Evening By Evening" skillfully demonstrates why he is regarded as one of his home country's premier underground musicians. Utilizing layers of guitars, keyboards and found sounds, Orsi creates an atmospheric audio postcard with a tangible sense of time and place. Seaworthy, primarily the recording project of core member Cameron Webb, with additional instrumentation from Sam Shinazzi and Greg Bird, present "Branch And Stone" a minimalist soundscape of looped guitar, electronics and field recordings. Throughout the track pervades a highly refined sense of texture, creating something at once intimate yet panoramic.
The individual elements of both artists are brought together for the title track, "Near And Faraway". Through the long distance exchange of ideas and sound files, their shared experimental, yet melodic approach to composition are incorporated to form one unified whole. An album that is a perfect show of individuality, which is also able to represent itself as a greater cohesive entity.
LowPoint-026
CD
$15.00

Orsi, Fabio/Gianluca Becuzzi/(ETRE)
So Far
PS, US Three young Italian musicians w/ similar backgrounds in the field of experimental electronics. They blend electronics, field recordings, & acoustic instruments into a fracture tapestry of drones, folk music & sound collages
Porter-4031
CD
$14.75

Orso, Fabio/Gianluca Becuzzi/(ETRE)
So Far
PS, US Three young Italian musicians w/ similar backgrounds in the field of experimental electronics. They blend electronics, field recordings, & acoustic instruments into a fracture tapestry of drones, folk music & sound collages
Porter-031
CD
$14.75

Owen/Rutabega
Split
PS,US Mike Kinsella (AMERICAN FOOTBALL, CAP'N JAZZ, JOAN OF ARC) & his nom de guerre is joined by the RUTABEGA (aka Josh Hensley). OWEN side features an alternate version of "Poor Souls" which appears on "No Good for No One Now" & also includes a solo version of American Football's "Never Meant." 3 songs from each, now available on vinyl for the 1st time
Polyvinyl
12
$10.00

Owl City
Ocean Eyes
PS, US 2LP!
UniversalRepublic-02
DLP
$17.00

Owl City
Ocean Eyes
PS, US In the state of Minnesota lies a small town called Owatonna. Within that city is a quiet house and within those confines you'll find Adam Young of Owl City hard at work on his electronic and melodicaly infectious music. He has sold over 25,000 albums independently and is a huge hit on MySpace.
UniversalRepublic-02
CD
$12.25

Pansonic/Haino Keiji
Shall I Download A Black Hole And Offer It To You
PS, US Complete live concert recording of a musical duel/last waltz between stand-up Finnish electronic technicians PANSONIC & Japanese guitar shaman HAINO KEIJI. Drone & percussive rumbling vs. soaring guitar scrawl in a tooth-&-nail cage match
BlastFirstPetite-014
CD
$18.00

Parks, Cale
To Swift Mars EP
PS, US 6 track EP from drummer for ALOHA & WHITE WILLIAMS. Immediate, concise pop structures that weave together electronic elements w/ full-bodied percussion & influences ranging from the overlapping arpeggios of Philip Glass to the early solo work of Peter Gabriel
Polyvinyl-182
CD
$6.00

Pentemple
0))) Presents
PS, US VINYL!! In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly LIMITED to 3,000 numbered copies. It will NOT last long.
SouthernLord
LP
$18.75

Pentemple
0))) Presents
PS, US In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly limited to 3,000 machine
numbered copies. It will NOT last long.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Pepper, Gregory and His Problems
With Trumpets Flaring
PS, US Canadian one man band Gregory Pepper (and His Problems) debuts on Fake Four with a remarkable collection of tunes that takes listeners through his brand of super catchy but quirky experimental indie pop. Lush Brian Wilson influenced harmonies blend with electronic and hip hop elements for a truly unique listening experience. Pepper has toured with Islands, Born Ruffians, The Smoking Popes and others.
FakeFourInc.-009
CD
$10.50

Pernice, Joe
It Feels So Good When I Stop [novel soundtrack]
PS, US It Feels So Good When I Stop is a companion piece to Joe Pernice's debut novel It Feels So Good When I Stop. The book will be published August 6 by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin. According to Pernice, ''Though the book is not explicitly about music, there are quite a few cover and fictional songs mentioned, so I thought it would be a cool idea for me to record some of those songs and release them, as a soundtrack album to the novel.'' The album is performed by Joe Pernice, Peyton Pinkerton, Mike Belitsky, Bob Pernice, with James Walbourne and Ric Menck.
AshmontRecords-011
CD
$9.50

Pernice, Joe
It Feels So Good When I Stop [hardcover]
PS, US In the vein of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, author Joe Pernice's fiction debut is a coming-of-age tale for the modern-day slacker, and an unlikely love story with a masculine perspective - but with a mordant humor and unexpected warmth that will resonate with male and female readers alike. Set to a carefully curated soundtrack of Nick Drake, The Pogues and Peter Frampton, It Feels So Good When I Stop is the story of a deeply flawed but irrepressibly likeable hero stumbling towards adulthood, learning about heartbreak and redemption, and struggling to love and commit on his own terms.
Riverhead
BOOK
$23.00

Pictureplane
Dark Rift
PS, US 24-year-old weirdo performance artist Travis Egedy, a.k.a. Pictureplane, obsesses over the cosmos, 90s house music, collective consciousness, and mind-altering chemicals you've never heard of. Much like his interests, Pictureplane's music is strange and boundless and totally righteous. Having cut his teeth on raging tours with HEALTH, a collab with Beirut's Zach Condon and killer remixes for Crystal Castles, HEALTH, and Thieves Like Us, Pictureplane delivers his fi rst full-length for Lovepump, Dark Rift. Grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of Black Dice to forge a sound that's wholly unique and endlessly exciting. It's exceedlingly rare to fi nd dance music that transcends the cold and robotic, but on Dark Rift Pictureplane does just that: churning out intricate electronic jams out of his near-legendary Denver warehouse space Rhinoceropolis. The music feels at once personal and cosmically expansive. "Pictureplane combines all the burping, squeaking, farting synth sounds of your local DIY underground with r&b-tinged melodies and raw, expressive vocals" - PITCHFORK MEDIA
LovePumpUnited-029
CD
$10.50

Piles/Work
Split
PS, US Debut release by San Francisco bands WORK and PILES on upstart label Rad Key Records. Work is the bipolar spawn of Ohio drop-out SARAH BERNAT (16 BITCH PILE-UP) and Southern California's dancenoisepunk pioneer, ERIN ALLEN (CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, HIGH CASTLE). PIles is one-half Midwestern automaton work-ethic and one-half Northern California drug-fed nature-freedom. ERIC LANDMARK (formerly of NUMBERS, XEROBOT) churns out catchy hooks with stoic regularity on double keyboard synthesizers. Meanwhile, AMELIA RATDKE (formerly of TEA ELLES) flies primitive and wild on drums, all the while caterwauling about America's 20-something sex and drugs rites of passage. Pressing of 500; mastered by Bernat and Landmark, respectively; silk-screened covers and design by Allen.
RadKey-002
LP
$10.00

Pinhead Gunpowder
Kick Over The Traces
PS, US Kick Over the Traces is a collection of PINHEAD GUNPOWDER's (featuring BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG of GREEN DAY and AARON COMETBUS of THORNS OF LIFE) best songs, according to the band. Everyone will clock in, I'm sure, with their own favorites due to the fact that pretty much every Pinhead Gunpowder song is great!
Recess-120
CD
$12.75

Pisces
A Lovely Sight
PS, US FIRST 1000 COPIES INCL. LIMITED 45.
Numero
LP
$17.50

Plenti, Julian
Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Matador
LP
$17.50

Plenti, Julian
Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper
PS, US Mysterious NYC singer-songwriter JULIAN PLENTI returns from several years of hibernation with his debut album. Featuring Mike Stroud of Ratatat, Sam Fogarino of Interpol, Charles Burst of the Occasion and Striker Manley of Stiff Jesus, this incredibly varied album runs the gamut from gorgeous folk-tinged acoustic songs to huge, orchestral guitar anthems. The palette changes from black and white to color and back, from regal Eastern European synth sounds of "Only If You Run" to the sad but triumphant brass of "Unwind."
Matador
CD
$13.25

Police & Thieves
Amor Y Guerra
PS, US Police and Thieves carry on the tradition of melodic hardcore that DC put on the map; incredibly energetic and well played hardcore. This 13 song CD collects all of Police & Thieves recorded works to-date: Amor Y Guerra EP, S/T EP, unreleased tracks and the 2005 Demo. All meticulously compiled and mastered by West West Side Mastering.
YoungBlood-025
CD
$11.25

Polyamorous Affair
Bolshevik Disco
PS,US Gatefold LP w/lock groove.
ManimalVinyl-015
LP
$19.50

Polyamorous Affair
Bolshevik Disco
PS,US LA based electronic duo, consisting of singer/songwriter/producer Eddie Chacon (CHARLES & EDDIE) and the seductive front-woman Sissy Saint-Maire, churn out 10 electro-pop gems under the concept of "Bolshevik Disco." Together they deliver the inspired dance beats of Giorgio Moroder & the raw sexuality of Serge Gainsbourg. Give that a twist of Marc Bolan-esque hooks & Goldfrapp's technological pagan naturist ways & you get The Polyamorous Affair.
ManimalVinyl-015
CD
$11.50

Pop, Iggy
Iggy & Ziggy - Cleveland '77
PS, US Pop on vocals & Bowie on keyboards. Recorded live in 1977, the show includes wild performances of Iggy's classics such as "Raw Power," "I Wanna Be Your Dog," "TV Eye," & "1969"
Cleopatra-738
LP
$19.75

Poppets
Mini LP
PS, US Co-released with P.Trash records. POPPETS have made quite a name for themselves with a handful of singles over the past year or so. Now they are back with their first 12-inch. An eight-song just shy of 14 minutes, blast of lo-fi garage pop greatness. Limited to 1,000 copies.
Fdh-096
LP
$13.50

Portugal, The Man
Satanic Satanist
PS, US Wasilla, Alaska band! ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: "Portugal. The Man's fourth album, The Satanic Satanist, is perfect for summer: appealingly warm, even as they mine thematic turf in their hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Combining Motown falsettos and the best of late-'60s groove rock with spacey loops and hipster-art-collective sing-alongs, they deliver a sound that's friendly and familiar without being derivative; it's a sort of retrofitted make-out van on a club crawl. And in John Baldwin Gourley, they've got a vocalist whose sweet, fully committed tenor instantly makes you believe in his songs of northern disillusionment. Palin who?"
EqualVision
CD
$15.00

Pretend You're Happy
Pretend You're Happy
PS, US
FakeFourInc.-005
CD
$9.50

Priscillas, The
10,000 Volts
PS, US The Priscillas, 10,000 Volts are moving on and embracing a whole flavor of different influences with a change of tack from their last album. While respecting their "leader of the pack ethics", powerpop, disco, 70's New York, indie-pop and mariachi all collide to make a unique splash of genres that reveal an album of blazingly catchy pastiche and vibrancy. Singing about "Jimmy in a Dress" or "gonna rip up your photograph", these ladies know how girl/boy really works, and are prepared to take that message further. The album has been given the once over by producers Andy Chatter-ley (Kanye West, Pussycat Dolls, Kylie, The Kills) and Marc Waterman (Ash, Elastica) in the girl's mission to move into a myriad of different influences. Strong women know what they want and this time round, the girls are joined by of all things...a boy. Phil Martini, ex-Tokyo Dragons drummer, is a brave sticksman to deal with this cacophony of super heroines, cat-women, go-go dancers and superstars. Frontwoman Jenny Drag, a New Jersey feline panther of a chanteuse, prowls her stage protectively clad in a catsuit that would give Pussy Galore palpitations.
Nag'sHead-003
CD
$13.75

Pumice
Persevere
PS, US Limited to 500! Few available. Features cover versions of "Open Up" (Michael Hurley) and "Pacific Ocean" (The Axeman) as well as brand new song "The Dawn Chorus of Kina." Touring the West Coast in July & August
SoftAbuse-37
45
$5.75

Radio Dept.
David
PS, US Soul guitars, P-funk, cut/paste-beats & 70's futuristic orchestra sounds echoes between the speakers while glittering, distorted synthesizers seems to sweep through dark holes
Labrador-124
CD5
$7.25

Rainbow Arabia
Kabukimono
PS, US Color Vinyl EP.
ManimalVinyl-016
12
$18.25

Rainbow Arabia
Kabukimono
PS,US Second EP from LA duo features 5 new songs & 2 remixes of classics from their 2008 debut. Recorded between a grueling tour schedule with fellow exotic spice beat-makers, Gang Gang Dance, Rainbow Arabia kept themselves busy digging inspiration from Sublime Frequencies compilations & Neo-Gothic sub-culture. Kabukimono is fully committed to turn-on minds & ears to sounds from the outer territories of time, space & uncharted culture.
ManimalVinyl-016
CD5
$9.50

Rashanim
Gathering
PS, US Combines the intensity of rock w/ the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, & mystical Jewish melodies. For their 4th release they go unplugged, delivering a powerful acoustic recording that is perhaps their best to date
Tzadik-144
CD
$15.25

Record Collector
#366 (September 2009)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Renderers
Monsters & Miasmas
PS, US Brian Cook (TERMINALS) & wife Maryrose make up this long-running project who's releases on Ajax/3 Beads of Sweat & Siltbreeze have continued to tread a line between haunting country-esque ballads & the brand of noise-rock for which the Terminals is known.
LastVisibleDog-136
CD
$11.75

Rhodes, Emitt
Emitt Rhodes Recordings 1969-1973
PS, US **ESSENTIAL** A newly remastered, two CD, 48-song collection features the four albums Emitt Rhodes released between 1970 and 1973 - the three ABC/Dunhill albums Emitt Rhodes, Mirror and Farewell To Paradise, and his one A&M album, American Dream, along with the non-LP single "Tame The Lion," all showcasing Emitt's intricate melodies, harmonies, and arrangements. Among the cult legends that populate the margins of contemporary popular music, the story of Emitt Rhodes remains one of the most compelling. Compared by fans and critics favorably to the likes of Paul McCartney, Emitt Rhodes was arguably one of the most overlooked and underappreciated pop-rock singer-songwriters of the '60s/'70s. In the years since their release, these long-out-of-print recordings have taken on a mythic status among pop collectors. That mystique is, to some degree, a reflection of the sense of mystery that surrounds their creator. But the real source of the enduring fascination with Rhodes is the music itself! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Stacked back to back, the records Rhodes recorded in that short time stand up as one of the great. brief flashes of inspiration and greatness in pop music history."
Hip-O-Select
DCD
$29.75

Riverdales
Invasion USA
PS, US Fronted by Ben Weasel of SCREECHING WEASEL
AsianMan-184
LP
$12.75

Rodriguez
Cold Fact
PS, US REPRESS! No 7" included with this pressing. Deluxe 180gram LP.
LightInTheAttic-036
LP
$22.00

Rose, Jack & The Black Twigs
S-T
PS, US This raw & rocking collaboration features some of the most swinging, hard-hitting string music waxed in many a decade. Rose's solo playing has always had a rough edge, w/ his prodigious technique often employed to drop right-hand bombs. The front line of Rose & Gangloff's strings are joined by Howell's no-nonsense guitar & harmonica & Bowles' variety of expert percussion.
VHF-116
CD
$14.25

Royal Chord
Good Fight
PS, US Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, TAMMY HAIDER and ELIZA HISCOX make the music of ROYAL CHORD. Starting out in 2001 playing dusty alt-country with a crew that at one point swelled up to eight members, Tammy and Eliza now play primarily as a duo, replacing guitars with keyboards and band members with chopped drum breaks and sequenced bass lines. Their new record, The Good Fight, sees them combine electronics with their neurotic and melancholic sensibility, delivering songs that range from summer pop to funereal folk.
SupplyAndDemandMusic-004
CD
$12.00

Rural Alberta Advantage
Hometowns
PS, US
SaddleCreek-138
LP
$13.00

Saviours
F.G.T.
PS, US Saviours are an explosive, unbridged metal force. Possessing an extraordinary songwriting sense, lion-hearting innovation, world-class technical ability and a bottomless pool of raw talent and creativity. Formed in 2004 in Oakland, CA as an ipecac reaction to the current sate of heavy music, they aimed to assembly an epically heavy, crushingly loud band that would reinvigorate their love for excessive volume. These songs will only be available on this 7" format, limited to 500. "F.G.T." b/w "Running Wild" (Judas Priest cover), includes surprise promo piece!
Kemado
45
$6.50

Saviours
Burnin' Cross
PS, US Saviours are an explosive, unbridged metal force. Possessing an extraordinary songwriting sense, lion-hearting innovation, world-class technical ability and a bottomless pool of raw talent and creativity. Formed in 2004 in Oakland, CA as an ipecac reaction to the current sate of heavy music, they aimed to assembly an epically heavy, crushingly loud band that would reinvigorate their love for excessive volume. These songs will only be available on this 7" format, limited to 500. "Burnin Cross" b/w "Fire in the Sky" (Saxon cover), includes cool decal.
Kemado
45
$6.50

Saviours
Acid Hands
PS, US Saviours are an explosive, unbridged metal force. Possessing an extraordinary songwriting sense, lion-hearting innovation, world-class technical ability and a bottomless pool of raw talent and creativity. Formed in 2004 in Oakland, CA as an ipecac reaction to the current sate of heavy music, they aimed to assembly an epically heavy, crushingly loud band that would reinvigorate their love for excessive volume. These songs will only be available on this 7" format, limited to 500. "Acid Hands" b/w "Slave to the Hex" 7" plus iron-on patch.
Kemado
45
$6.50

Segall, Ty
Lemons
PS, US Burying '60s sing-alongs & dance crazes beneath waves of reverb & giddy thud, he has carved out his own shelf in the San Francisco neo-psych garage alongside local compatriots & collaborators Sic Alps & Thee Oh Sees. An exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz & atmospheric acoustic psych
Goner-46
CD
$14.25

Segall, Ty
Lemons
PS, US
Goner-46
LP
$16.00

Serengeti & Polyphonic
Terradactyl
PS, US Limited Edition!
Anticon-094
LP
$15.25

Sharpe, Edward & The Magnetic Zeros
Up from Below
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "40 Day Dream," the Motown-infused, OutKast-inspired, heavily orchestrated "Beatlesque" soul jam that opens Up from Below, serves as a pretty good litmus test for what follows. Listeners who are put off by the robe-wearing Polyphonic Spree's cultish glazed-eye self-help anthems or cringe when they hear the Mamas & the Papas' "Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon" would be advised to get off the magic bus early, as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros have crafted a love letter to Laurel Canyon and all of its quasi-mystic juju that is as infuriatingly contrived and retro as it is forward-thinking and majestic. Formed in 2007 by Ima Robot frontman Alex Ebert, the mammoth 11-piece outfit embraces "the Summer of Love" with enough period beards, fonts, and Eastern mysticism to launch a thousand "Magical Mystery Tours," but despite all of the analog equipment and peacenik grandstanding, standout tracks like "Home," "Desert Song," and the aforementioned "40 Day Dream" sweep you up in their grandeur like a patchouli tornado and dare you to take your clothes off and jump in the lake with them."
Vagrant-542
CD
$14.25

Shit Robot
Simple Things
PS, US The new tracks feature the perfectly haunting vocals of indie legend Ian Svenonius (THE MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES, WEIRD WAR)
DFA-214
12
$8.00

Sian Alice Group
Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
PS, US VINYL VERSION
TheSocialRegistry-074
LP
$14.25

Sian Alice Group
Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
PS, US "Sian Alice Group chart transformations from psychedelic rock, pastoral folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition. The beauty of Sian Alice Group is that the band is capable of creating highly effective music even when they stray far from traditional torch-song territory." - Pitchfork "Some artists walk a fine line between the abstract and the arranged, creating a sense of spontaneity without being overly rehearsed. Sian Alice Group accomplishes just this. What's more, it does so while simultaneously recalling great artists but sounding completely unique." - Filter Sian Alice Group (pronounced "Shahn") - a collective of UK musicians Sian Ahern, Rupert Clervaux and Ben Crook, amongst other collaborators - had quite the rookie season in 2008. From the epic 59.59 and The Dusk Line (a subdued piano and vocals only EP) to the wholeheartedly experimental Remix 12'', the band made the scene, built up stellar stats and positioned itself as a contender to be reckoned with. Now we lift the curtain on 2009. Sian Alice Group is back with Troubled, Shaken Etc. - their second album of lush, minimalist, panoramic torch songs for The Social Registry. Ben Crook relays: "The whole of 2008 was radically life changing personally, professionally and for all of the world. For me, it was the fin-de-siecle year that 2000 never was. The dire economic, social, political and environmental state of the world could no longer be ignored." This powerful, post-ironic conception of society and art thoroughly informs the more direct efforts of Troubled, Shaken Etc. The band hones in on a genre-busting combination of organic improvisation, process-driven experimentation and the focused strength earned from a year of extensive traveling and touring the world together. You get your minimalist trances, electronic exploration, techno thump, jazz motifs and Eastern music tropes in a joyous and complete listening experience. It's a snapshot (or more closely, a yearbook) from an eventful 2008 that is more raw, emotional and loud than anything they've released thus far. Let's put the songs under our trusty microscope and see what we find. Troubled, Shaken Etc. kicks off with "Love That Moves The Sun." It's a bouncy realization of minimalism set to the cosmos. Arpeggios (on both guitar and vibraphone) set a repetitive tone and Sian Ahern's powerful vocals resemble the sort of expansive clouds we learned about in a 7th grade science class. "Close To The Ground" begins with a Terry Riley meets Theo Parrish figure that slowly morphs into stomp-rock territory with organic four-to-thefloor rhythmic intensity. "Vanishing" provides a unique take on techno. Rupert Clervaux's drums are like a wild Elvin Jones who lived through the rave era, and the vocals provide angelic whole tones over the unhinged bounce. "White" is a surprise. It makes us want to re-enroll in college circa 1994, take naps on a grassy knoll and dream of the heartbreak awaiting us throughout the next two decades. Simply put the guitar interplay on this track is totally breathtaking. It's automatic mixtape fodder. Troubled, Shaken, Etc. reveals an extremely hardworking band that is focused on process, craft and how their interpersonal relationships can serve as a catalyst to document life in an honest, original and innovative manner. The band (led on these technical issues by Clervaux) masterfully handles the production, and we can't emphasize enough just how strong Sian Ahern's vocals have come through. As Clervaux reflects: "The developing solidity in Sian's voice naturally veered us away from using as much reverb as we did on 59.59, which makes the vocal much more immediate. The same can be said for the percussion, which is in abundance, as always, but is now much dryer and louder." With guest spots from live mainstays (Sasha Vine, Eben Bull and label-mate Mike Bones), as well as John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack) and Graham Barton, Troubled, Shaken Etc. is a varied record with tons of collaborative hands on deck. Everything is in place and poised to make 2009 a huge year for the band. So much stellar work in so little time... Maybe we should test Sian Alice Group for steroids.
TheSocialRegistry-074
CD
$11.50

Siena Root
A New Day Dawning
PS, US We are proud to be able to bring you the fantastic 2004 debut album from one of Sweden's most talented hard rock groups. Their finely honed sound is firmly planted in the classic heavy rock of the early '70s and draws on influences from groups like Led Zeppelin, Captain Beyond, Jethro Tull, Blind Faith and Deep Purple! These guys sound so convincing you'd be hard pressed to tell them apart from those that influence them or early '70s rock groups like Aunt Mary, November, Host, Kalevala, Young Flowers and others with that vintage Scandinavian heavy prog style. These guys are pure old school, right down to the fully analog recordings and tasteful use of organ and flute. Everything they release is of high quality, but this is probably their heaviest album overall and a good starting point because it just truly is a total and complete monster from start to finish! It's a no-brainer that fans of Witchcraft, Dead Man, Graveyard, Dungen, etc.. should check this out, but also just about anyone into classic '70s hard rock and prog would being doing themselves a disservice not to give this a listen. You'll be glad you did. This will be the band's first North American release!
Rockadrome
CD
$13.75

Sigur Ros
Takk
PS, US IMPORT VINYL! Repress of SR's 4th album, all written, performed & produced by the band w/Ken Thomas at their studio in Iceland. This time around comes pressed on audiophile 200gm DMM vinyl, and also features a bonus 10" of exclusive tracks.
Smekkleysa-119
3XLP
$59.50

Silk Flowers
Silk Flowers
PS, US Rough-textured electronic pop that sounds as though it has been pressed from a worn-out cassette tape. The lo-fi quality reinforces the bittersweet, emotional shadings of singer/multi-instrumentalist Aviram Cohen's baritone voice - suggesting Scott Walker fronting an early Mute Records group. A percolating grid of swelling, anthemic keyboards; analog-heaven tape echo; crackling, sometimes-dub-like rhythms; & carefully counterbalanced vocals.
PostPresentMedium-026
LP
$9.50

Sinking Ships
Disconnecting
PS, US Disconnecting, is a look at the trials and tribulations that we go through in everyday life. Weaving elements of melody and hard edge riffs, Sinking Ships are creating a sound all their own, somewhere between the familiar echoes of hardcore bands such as Bane and In My Eyes, but making their own unique, morose overtones a distinctly new addition to this sound.Never settling for less, Disconnecting is a record that grabs and challenges the listener to search for something more in their music. It's been a while since 7 Seconds reminded people that the message is as important as the music, and that sentiment resounds within this record. Sinking Ships have carved their own niche into the punk/hardcore realm, and it won't be long until this sound is lauded as one of the most unique to date. Climb aboard...
Revelation-136
LP
$11.25

Skygreen Leopards, The
Gorgeous Johnny
PS, US This maintains their singular aesthetic while managing to dabble w/ faux-folk, avant garde pop, reverb-drenched lo-fi psychedelia, plastic country & blurry ballads. Here they collaborate with Jason Quever (PAPERCUTS) to create a melancholy world overflowing w/ itinerant dandies, urban streets, suburban teens, & more girls' names than I care to count, all set to melodic shuffles featuring harmonies, frail piano, & romantic guitars.
Jagjaguwar-147
CD
$11.50

Slackers
An Afternoon In Dub
PS, US One of the greatest & best-loved ska bands of all time. Here is the vinyl release from this collection of remixes & after-hour studio takes
AsianMan-180
LP
$12.75

Smith Westerns
S-T
PS, US After a metamorphosis from sloppy teenage punk mess into full-fledged glam pop explosion, this is one incredible leap of progress. Straddling the fine line
between the misty-eyed feyness of Brett Smiley & Milk'n'Cookies, with the slithering macho grunt of Marc Bolan's silk pajamas tied around Alvin Stardust's throat, it's nothing short of a modern summer classic power pop album.
HoZac-040
CD
$12.00

Smog
Accumulation: None - Singles, Radio Sessions, and Previously Unreleased Material
PS, US A dozen hard-to-find tracks from the first decade of (Smog). Includes 6 songs which have never been available domestically and... a brand new song!
DragCity-200
CD
$12.50

Snake Trap/Transmography
Split
PS, US Snake Trap plays instrumental, groove oriented rock bordering on post-punk, dub, & metal. Transmography plays minimalist, electronic, groove oriented rock. This split is 45 rpm, orange-cream colored 12 inch vinyl & comes w/ a CD-R of the tracks on the record, plus secret bonus tracks from both bands. RIYL: Don Caballero, Health, Dub Trio, Mono, Slint
AustralianCattleGod-25
12
$13.50

Soul Junk
1960
PS, US It's only fitting that for Soul-Junk's auspicious 1960 release, the stylistically dizzying San Diego-based band has returned to the comfy confines of Sounds Familyre, home of their musically adventurous cross-continental kinfolk Danielson. Recorded at Danielson's New Jerusalem Recreation Room studio in South Jersey and co-produced by Glen Galloway and Daniel C. Smith, 1960 is S-J's eleventh album -- as in, counting upwards since their 1995 debut long-player 1950, and aside from the numerous EPs, singles and fruitful collaborations along the way. (Conveniently gathering their wide-ranging, wildly eclectic album catalog
under one label roof, Sounds Familyre also plans to digitally re-release S-J's 10 previous full-length salvos, 1950 through 1959.) But don't sweat the arithmetique. Although numbers have their significant role, the decidedly family affair that is 1960 ultimately concerns letters, which lead to words, which leads to The Word -- which, as it is written, came before the rest anyway... This indeed means actual Biblical text. Specifically, from The Book of Psalms (New King James Version). In the grand tradition of classical composers both older -- Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart -- and more recent -- Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein -- as well as a handful of discerning popular artists from U2 to the dubbed-out Prince Far I, Soul-Junk has returned to the rich inspiration of the Bible's "Songs of Praise." Soul-Junk's 1959 album (2007) featured group mainstay Glen Galaxy singing the first 23 of the book's 150 psalms, a solo outing except for a touch of vox from his four-year-old daughter Mila. Like past S-J fare, Galaxy voiced over a diverse collection of original instrumentation, tuneful delvings in off-kilter indie rock, lo-fi folk, and open-ended hip hop, all informed by a genre-transcending liberty. (From the very free-est of jazz to the most radical turntablism, Galaxy is a knowledgeable music fan.) 1960 pushes everything further while narrowing the scriptural focus: Psalm 119, the longest of all, 176 lines, eight for each of its 22 sections -- which are designated in order by, respectively, each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. (Further, it is an acrostic poem in the original Hebrew, with each successive letter of the alphabet leading off that respective namesake stanza; tradition holds that King David, largely credited as The Book of Psalms principal composer, used it to teach his son Solomon his ABC's, as it were, along with deeper instruction in joyfully observant worship.) The lyrics for each of 1960's 22 tracks are drawn verbatim from its respective part of Psalm 119. How Galaxy ardently phrases the verbiage in distinct melodic songcraft -- lingering on a line for its transitional capability, emphasizing another for its inherent catchy power-chorus effect -- this is where the creativity poured into each song begins to elevate all. (Even Galaxy's unique interpretive semantics get in the mix via secondary, oft-descriptive and occasionally enigmatic track titles: "screaming lobster" -- sounds like a hit! "scottish yak" -- perhaps striking an evocative chord in some, remembering "YakBoy=Nurturer" off Of Thick Tum, the John Peel-praised 1992 debut album from the influential indie "guitar-rock" band Galaxy fronted, Trumans Water ... perhaps.) Although repeatedly, massively, fervently rocking out more often than any Soul-Junk record in years, 1960's crystalline/inventively fuzzified electric guitars and pounding drums (courtesy of recurrent S-J stalwart Brian Cantrell, a Galaxy associate since 1980s high school days in SD) tell only part of the sound-story. Having enlisted over a dozen S-J members through the years, vocalist-guitarist Galaxy is joined by eight others here for a suitably large-scale Soul-Junk ensemble. Completing the core power-trio, there is thunderous bass from the moonlighting Emil Nikolaisen, guitar-playing front man for Norway's Serena Maneesh. There is spirited keyboard from Portland, OR's soulful Todd Fadel. There is ample cello from Jie Jin, a prized classical player active throughout the Delaware Valley and beyond. There is marimba and additional guitar from Joshua Stamper, a Danielson member whose overall charting/arranging skills were tellingly engaged. And there are those voices -- family voices. Danielson Famile ringleader Daniel Smith (whose sister is married to Galaxy's brother) is joined by his wife Elin Smith and father Lenny Smith in singing out/harmonizing along. And contributing some colorful album artwork, there is Glen's son Jude, who joins his dad on stage these days as an estimable teen trapsman The Word, sound, vision -- family: Soul-Junk's 1960.
SoundsFamilyre-22
CD
$11.50

Soundtrack of Our Lives, The
A Present From The Past
PS, SWEDEN Double-CD collection of non-album tracks, plus 9 previously unreleased songs, 1995-2005. Originally meant to be a B-Sides collection but this productive band has too much material in the vaults. Ended up as a 32 track double album including 9 completely unreleased songs, alternative takes, etc. DISC ONE: 01: Dog Days / 02: Galaxy Grammophone / 03: Can't Control Myself / 04: Infinite Zero / 05: The New Messiah / 06: Nobrainer / 07: Side Effects / 08: Not Kinda Worried / 09: It Aint Free (living In A Bubble) / 10: When Lightning Bugs Arrive / 11: To Somewhere Else / 12: Well Get By / 13: Avenger Hill Street Blues / 14: News Of The World / 15: Play Station Bordello / 16: Cleaning Session Raga DISC TWO 01: Down Jones Syndrome / 02: A Room Without A View / 03: Everyday Preacher / 04: Greatest Hits Providens / 05: Blind Date / 06: James Last Experience / 07: Tarde Sed Tut / 08: Hang Ten / 09: Lost Highway / 10: Pass Through Fear / 11: Four Ages (part 1) / 12: Slow Drift Away / 13: Still Get Around / 14: Were Gonna Get It Right / 15: World Bank / 16: Retired Teenage Angst.
WarnerMusicSweden
DCD
$20.50

Spiral Joy Band
Pleasure Is The Headlight
PS, US Featuring two members of the most excellent PELT, THE SPIRAL JOY BAND swells forth from Blacksburg, Virginia, with a follow up to their album Wake of the Dying Sun King on VHF Records. This double LP set features recordings from two eras of the Spiral Joy Band. The first is from 2005, the second 2007. A cacophony of gongs, bowls, bells, chimes, electronics, fiddle, bowed cymbals, esraj, harmonium, sruti and electronics played by MIKEL DIMMIK, MICHAEL GANGLOFF, AMY SHEA and NATHAN BOWLES, along with a guest or two, here and there. Pleasure Is The Headlight features five tracks in total spread over four sides. The first three being long trance inducing meditations recorded in Blacksburg and Ironto. The fourth side features unique recordings, the first is a solo wind chime performance recorded in a gift shop, featuring the murmur of confused patrons and what is likely some truly wonderful AM radio piped in over the store's stereo system. The second track is a slow hazy day at the beach, with gongs, seagulls, and the gentle roar of the ocean. Pressed on 180-gram black vinyl and limited to about 400 copies, this album comes in a custom gatefold jacket with letter pressed cover art and silk screened inside art.
UzuAudio-002
DLP
$26.00

Spirit
Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
PS, US Combining the experimental attitude of psychedelia w/ jazz, blues, R&B, folk & classical elements, their original lineup burned briefly but brightly to produce some of the most distinctive music of its time
Sundazed-277
DLP
$16.50

Spits
Fourth Self-Titled Album
PS, US The long awaited return of professional weirdos, The SPITS. Fresh from the studio with their fourth self-titled LP on Thriftstore Records, The Spits show no sign of slowing down with their latest effort, mixing equal parts Devo and Misfits into an aurally addictive, synth-inflected stew. The Spits have never shied away from esoteric subject matter musically. Previous records have contained themes of escaped Nazi war criminals, nuclear winters, commie spies, and terrorist attacks, coupled with back alley booze-fests, brain-bruising bong rips, skateboards, and fisticuffs. With songs about constable evasion, Huxley-esque visions of metropolitan horror and alien abduction, this album should prove to be just as desperately disparate and sonically sordid as previous salvos.
ThriftStore
LP
$12.00

St. John, Powell
On My Way To Houston
PS, US Harmonica player and long time Texas musician. This man has either written songs or played with the likes of Janis Joplin, Roky Erickson and Boz Scaggs. Digi pak also includes a mini-poster of one of Powell's psychedelic visual works, which have hung in the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture.
TompkinsSquare-2233
CD
$14.75

Starflyer 59
Ghosts of the Past (ON SALE)
PS, US 31 tracks of covers, b-sides, demos, and non-album versions of songs. Jason Martin's haunting vocal display perfectly accompanies the atmospheric mood set by the dreamy guitar lines, creating a sort of glimmering magic that could only come from one so gifted. Over 10 albums deep, over 15 years time, from the early guitar-heavy Shoegazing era to the ethereal moodiness of The Fashion Focus years to the latest incarnations and recreations of themselves as keyboard-driven masters of chorus, this is and always will be a band who will deliver great songs with new sounds. Ghosts Of The Past stands out as the perfect addition to a Starflyer 59 fan's collection, and also a perfect starting point for someone interested in diving into the bands impressive and extensive catalog. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "For the uninitiated, this odds-and-sods collection of B-sides and demos also does well as an introduction to the low-gloss, sleepily atmospheric new wave that Jason Martin has been doing so well since the mid-'90s. Many of the songs appeared in full-band form on the 2008 release Dial M; having the acoustic demos available for side-by-side comparisons opens the songs up in interesting new ways, driving home Martin's talent for strong melodies and trenchant lyrics. Respectful covers like the Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" and the Church's "Under the Milky Way" provide no new entrée into those songs, but sound perfectly at home in this context, and throw a light on Martin's influences."
Tooth&Nail
DCD
$17.00

Starlight Mints
Change Remains
PS, US Starlight Mints are a group of beautiful pop mutants: five singular musical minds whose love for archetypal pop music and AM radio has provided, over the course of three previous acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired uniqueness, all baked to perfection under the hot Oklahoma sun. Allan Vest (vocals/guitar), Marian Love Nunez (keyboards), Javier Gonzales (bass), Andy Nunez (drums), and Ryan Lindsey (keyboard / guitar) began jamming together in the '90s, giving birth to their own unusual brand of instrumentally complex, surrealistically worded pop sound.
Barsuk-089
CD
$10.50

Strawberry Alarm Clock
Incense & Peppermints
PS, US Combines catchy melodic flights w/ an edgy progressive sensibility that manifests itself in the trippy soundscapes, sophisticated harmonies & evocative lyrics of such memorable tracks as "The World's on Fire," "Birds in My Tree," "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow," & "Paxton's Back Street Carnival." A strangely compelling mix of psychedelia, sunshine pop, garage rock, & California harmony
Sundazed-308
DLP
$16.50

Summer Cats
Songs for Tuesdays
PS, US Vinyl version w/ free download
Slumberland-101
LP
$10.00

Summer Cats
Songs for Tuesdays
PS, US Upbeat pop songs in a Stereolab-meets-Go-Betweens style. Building on their single releases, including 7-inches on Cloudberry, Slumberland, and Knock Yr Socks Off, two 3-inch CDRs on Cloudberry and WeePOP!, and their Scratching Post EP on Popboomerang, Summer Cats' debut album delivers on the promise of their already impressive discography, not to mention the three-and-a-half-star review they garnered from indie bible Pitchfork, after only their second live performance.
Slumberland-101
CD
$14.25

Sun Araw
Heavy Deeds
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
NNF-169
LP
$15.75

Sunburned Hand of the Man
Tailwind
PS, US More live recordings edits the final leg of last autumn's tour. Locales include Chicago, Pontiac, Oberlin, Philly and more
BlueberryHoney-013
CDR
$10.50

Sunburned Hand of the Man
Cheap Blood
PS, US Culled from sound check& live performance recordings made at the NETMAGE 09 Festival in Bologna Italia this past January. A live soundtrack for a multi-screened video & film project
BlueberryHoney-012
CDR
$10.50

Sunny Day In Glasgow
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever: Vol. 1
PS, US 1st in the YCHYLF 7 inch series, which will also include Tussel, Tarentel, Landing, Psychic Powers, Soft Circle, Au Revoir Simone, Papercuts & Christopher Willits. A-side "(Cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version)" layers dreamy melodies w/ hauntingly beautiful delayed vocals which bring to mind bands like My Bloody Valentine, 14 Iced Bears & Cocteau Twins. B-side "Walking Pneumonia" ventures deeply into the realm of minimal techno, while still possessing a base in dreamy pop. 2 exclusive songs. Limited to 300 on blue vinyl
GeographicNorth-001
45
$9.00

Sweet, Matthew & Susanna Hoffs
Under the Covers Volume 2 (ON SALE)
PS, US A sequel to Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs' 2007 stroll through the '60s was perhaps inevitable, at least as inevitable as the decision to devote Under the Covers, Vol. 2 to the super sounds of the '70s. Sweet and Hoffs tend to pick '70s songs that are a bit more familiar than their '60s selections, never digging out a Me Decade equivalent of Marmalade's "I See the Rain" or the Zombies' "Care of Cell #44," but instead punctuating AM pop hits and FM rock staples like "Sugar Magnolia," "Second Hand News," "All the Young Dudes," "You're So Vain," "I've Seen All Good People," and "Maggie May" with power pop by the Raspberries ("Go All the Way"), Big Star ("Back of a Car"), and Todd Rundgren, who has no less than two songs from Something/Anything? featured here. The influence of that 1972 double LP can be heard in the similarly homespun production of Under the Covers, Vol. 2 but where Rundgren was open-ended, Sweet neatly ties up every loose end with the care of a pop fetishist, making sure all the harmonies and guitar licks are in place, never adding any untasteful elements. Sometimes, everything is a little bit too pat and pretty -- particularly on "Sugar Magnolia," whose processed guitars sparkle too brightly -- but the duo's enduring, endearing love for this music is evident, sometimes infectious, and, at its best, throws out some surprises, like Susanna's soulful reading of "Maggie May." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
ShoutFactory-
CD
$11.00

Talbot Tagora
Lessons In The Woods Or A City
PS, US Seattle 3-piece. Raw & rockin fuzzz. DUSTED: "Their blend of lurching mechanical grind and teasing, just-out-of-focus tunefulness evokes the Pixies early on, Sonic Youth later, Swell Maps intermittently, Ubu sometimes, yet really none of the current crop of lo-fi-ers. You can look all you want for fashionable references to Jesus & Mary Chain or C86, but this is a whole different animal."
HardlyArt-007
CD
$11.50

Talbot Tagora
Lessons In The Woods Or In A City
PS, US
HardlyArt-007
LP
$12.50

Tarentel
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever: Vol. 3
PS, US 3rd in the YCHYLF 7 inch series. "Space Junk A" brings about plummeting, tribal percussive rolls, whilst blasts of distortion & guitar feedback cut through each swelling kick drum. "Space Junk B" is a haunting piece based around shimmering guitar noises & disjointed electronic flourishes. Astoundingly tense & harrowing. 2 exclusive songs. Limited to 300 on mint green vinyl.
GeographicNorth-004
45
$9.00

Teepee
Heal
PS, US When he's not playing guitar in ELECTRIC BUNNIES or MELTED SUNGLASSES, ERIC LOPEZ is recording one-man drone punk mantras like the three contained on this 7-inch. In the short time he's been doing the project he's already put out three tapes, a CDR, and now two 7-inches (with another on the way from Sweet Rot and one more on the Hozac Hookup Club).
FloridasDying
45
$5.25

Teller, Jorgen & the Empty Stairs
Live at Daemon's Port
PS, US Mr. Teller's main operation is this combo featuring double bassist Soren Gorm. They are a band of highly charged experimental musicians who can dodge between solid rock and out-jazz, often without warning
BlueberryHoney-015
CDR
$10.50

Tetragon
Nature
PS, US An ecology-inspired Krautrock album (1971) from a short-lived group comprised of German school-chums, some of whom had recorded an LP as Trikolon. Groovy Hammond organ & very trippy, flanged wah-wah guitar, in various taut jamming modes that favored jazz/rock fusion a la Miles Davis with a small dose of classical music
LionProductions-632
CD
$15.00

thecocknbullkid
S/T EP
PS, US Resides firmly on the dark side of pop. There's an almost Trojan quality to it - Anita Blay's ever-expanding repertoire is a subversive, sometimes sinister, & always sublime mix of sex, death, ugliness, wit & depravity, found amidst The Everyday & pegged onto supremely inventive pop melodies
Iamsound-028
CD
$5.00

These Wonderful Evils
Parade Room
PS, US Limited to 500. "Zak Boerger whittles a small niche all his own out of the vast trunk of bedroom psych-rock, & it's a quite stirring slow burn of a record - a steady rippling of melodic noise that cascades on your emotions, like Richard Youngs re-imagining the Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk sessions" - Dusted
Sparrows&Wires
LP
$15.50

Thought Forms
Thought Forms
PS, US Thought Forms are Charlie Romijn (guitars / vocals), Deej Dhariwal (guitars / vocals) and Guy Metcalfe (drums). Hailing from England's rural South West, the trio were brought together amongst the leylines and ancient vibrations by a shared love of guitar abuse and pedal worship. With their self-titled debut album set for a May release, Thought Forms are a young band and this really shows in their genuine passion, exuberance and energy. They possess a musical proficiency and depth way beyond their years and in the relatively short lifetime of the band they've played alongside the likes of Bardo Pond, MV/EE, Acid Mother's Temple and Awesome Colour- not forgetting appearances at well respected festivals such as All Tomorrow's Parties (curated by Portishead) and Terrastock.
Invada-070
CD
$13.75

Throw Me The Statue
Creaturesque
PS, US Creaturesque is the new album from Seattle pop-rock outfit Throw Me The Statue. Originally the one-man project of multifaceted musician and songwriter Scott Reitherman, TMTS has since expanded to a quartet with drummer Jarred Grimes, and multi-instrumentalists Aaron Goldman and Charlie Smith. The album is produced by TMTS and Phil Ek (The Shins, Built To Spill, Band Of Horses), and while the band retains much of the lo-fi bliss found on their critically acclaimed debut Moonbeams, Phil Ek's mixing of Creaturesque brings the band's maximalist pop sensibilities to new heights. For starters, album opener, "Waving At The Shore," invites you to the party with lush organ/guitar lines, only to have the horn section and big multitracked keyboards burst into the chorus with all the glitz of 80's era Bowie. "Hi-Fi Goon" is a power pop jam, complete with buzzing synth and a sing-along chorus. On lead single "Ancestors," Reitherman spins a somber story into a pop song tour de force amidst gazing guitars, athletic fuzz-bass and a crystalline wall of synthesizers. Perhaps more sonically upbeat than its predecessor, Creaturesque's details are at times painted in both optimistic and sobering tones. Reitherman's scattershot poetics touch on an array of ideas; it's oppressive American machisimo and Suburbanite sexuality. It's soft drugs and convertible cars. It's the struggle for higher expectations within the mess of modern life, and when wrapped up in the structures of TMTS' sure-handed tunes it's an all too delicious
combination. Since late 2007, Throw Me The Statue has been touring North America, Europe and Japan in support of Moonbeams. Along the way the band made appearances at SXSW, Sasquatch, Pop
Montreal, Bumbershoot, Musicfest NW, Capitol Hill Block Party, and Noise Pop festivals. The band won over a slew of respected media outlets the world over including NPR, Paste,Magnet, Filter, The Onion, The Stranger, Under the Radar, Exclaim, The Fly, Stereogum, The Guardian, NME, MTV2 and more. TMTS released two well-received videos (Moonbeams standouts "Lolita" and "Yucatan Gold") and even found its music featured in two national TV campaigns.
SecretlyCanadian-201
LP
$12.25

Timber Timbre
S-T
PS, US Vinly version
Arts&Crafts-045
LP
$15.25

Timber Timbre
S-T
PS, US The elements are deceptively simple: a confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings & keyboard flourishes, & a subtle percussive beat. Taylor Kirk describes his music as "gothic rockabilly blues." His solo guitar, harmonica & looping pedals form a haunting resonance - a sound that is both raw & mystical
Arts&Crafts-045
CD
$15.25

Trashcan Sinatras
In The Music
PS, US Features vocals by Carly Simon on "Should I Pray"
Hensley-660
CD
$17.50

Turnquist, Alexander
As The Twilight Crane Dreams
PS, US A set of hypnotic epics that owe more to classic minimalism than current notions of solo guitar. Forgoing most of the extended techniques of his debut, Turnquist lays down a thick blanket of 12-string that sets up persistent, loop-like patterns in the music. Simple & lovely strings, piano, & percussion provide the melody, carrying most of the movement in the pieces
VHF-118
CD
$14.25

Tussle
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever: Vol. 2
PS, US 2nd in the YCHYLF 7 inch series. Spaced out dub that is one part Liquid Liquid & two parts PiL. Side A's "Animal Cop"
shows a more mature side of the group w/ a slow groove that departs from the disco heavy club tracks of yore. Side B features "Room 191" which continues in the realm of "Animal Cop" but stops short to leave you wanting more. 2 exclusive songs. Limited to 300 on yellow vinyl
GeographicNorth-002
45
$9.00

Uncut
#148 (September 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Usher, George
Yours & Not Yours
PS, US Moving between guitar and piano, NYC songsmith George Usher ("one of New York's best pop-craftsmen" -Village Voice)
has delivered his new album, Yours And Not Yours, his first solo recordings in over ten years and his fourth release for Parasol Records. Utilizing a more acoustic, folk-rock sound, highlighted by strings, brass and pedal steel guitars, Usher covers a lot of his usual "melodic pop" ground. All 12 of the album's songs are lyrically-rooted in the dynamics of romantic relationships, creating a song cycle that stays with the listener long after playing.
Parasol-CD-114
CD
$10.00

Vainio, Mika
Aineen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter)
PS, US 1/2 of PANSONIC. His solo works are akin to meditative sound installations - ruminations on the inner-working heart of machine-made music. Sometimes juxtaposing warm analog sounds w/ harsher electronics, or isolating diminishing sounds into ambient gauziness, he is an important technician who has firmly established himself in the cadre of minimal, carefully-sculpted electronics
Touch-072
CD
$15.50

Vampire Hands
Hannah In The Mansion
PS, US Born like bored bolt of lightning, Vampire Hands are a quintessential kind of midwestern band. All of the personality and insular weirdness present in so many other Minneapolis groups'music, VH has taken all of their combined winters and created a cold and isolated sound that is hard to pin down but still strangely familiar. Their latest release, "Hannah in theMansion," focusesmore on the band's collective obsession with the wilted calypso-cana of Mayo Thompson and the rickety blues of Neil Young than their previous four releases but still maintaining their swirling,modern psychedelic tendencies. Despite recording and touring at a break-neck pace since their inception in 2005, the band shows no signs of slowing down and only expanding exponentially on tapping into their idealized vision of classic American rock.
St.Ives-29
LP
$11.50

Various
Porno Groove: The Sound of 70's Adult Films
PS, US A collection of music from Fantasy Production's incredibly deep soundtrack library - funk from the 70's!
SecretStash-265
LP
$19.75

Various
Sound of Wonder
PS, US Rare electronic pop from the Lollywood Vaults, 1973-1980. 15 untravelled currents of Space-Age Cinematic Surf & Urdu Funk from M. ASHRAF, NAHID AKHTAR, NISAR BAZMI, NOOR JEHAN, AHMED RUSHDI, RUNA LAILA, KAMAL AHMED, A. NAYYAR, & NAZIR ALI. Fuzzy, scuzzy, twang-happy, spaced-out & funked up urdu-grooves complete w/ harmonium melodies & driven by some of the most random factor, freakish, finger-numbing, percussion that the South East Asian mainstream has ever had to offer
B-Music-012
CD
$16.50

Various
Twisted Nerve Mixed
PS, US 40 track masala of T.N. DIY classics, b-sides, rarities & remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism & workshop pop. This features VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS, SAMANDTHEPLANTS, the 1st ever release by BADLY DRAWN BOY, rare remixes from CHERRYSTONES & HOMELIFE & psyched-out side projects from Jane Weaver (MISTY DIXON), Clearspot (DUOPHONIC), Graham Massey (808 STATE)
B-Music-014
CD
$16.50

Various
New York City Hardcore: The Wa y It Is
PS, US The V/A New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is full-length is considered by many to be a classic, documenting NYHC as it was in 1988. More than just a straight-edge collection, it compiled bands from all facets of the hardcore scene including BOLD, NAUSEA, WARZONE, GORILLA BISCUITS, TRIP 6, BREAKDOWN, YOUTH OF TODAY, SICK OF IT ALL, KRAKDOWN, SIDE BY SIDE, YOUTH DEFENSE LEAGUE AND SUPERTOUCH. Comparable to Boston's This Is Boston Not LA or Washington, DC's Flex Your Head, New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is helped push New York to the forefront of the American hardcore scene. Now available again on vinyl.
Revelation-007
LP
$11.25

Various
500 Days of Summer
PS, US 1. A Story of Boy Meets Girl - 1:35 (Danna, Mychael / Simonsen, Ron)
2. Us - 4:49 (Spektor, Regina)
3. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - 4:03 (Smiths)
4. Bad Kids - 2:08 (Black Lips)
5. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - 1:52 (Smiths)
6. There Goes the Fear - 6:56 (Doves)
7. You Make My Dreams - 3:05 (Hall & Oates)
8. Sweet Disposition - 3:53 (Temper Trap)
9. Quelqu'un M'A Dit - 2:44 (Bruni, Carla)
10. Mushaboom - 3:44 (Feist)
11. Hero - 3:31 (Spektor, Regina)
12. Bookends - 1:20 (Simon & Garfunkel)
13. Vagabond - 3:47 (Wolfmother)
14. She's Got You High - 3:25 (Mumm-Ra)
15. Here Comes Your Man - 3:13 (Smith, Meaghan)
16. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - 2:12 (She & Him)
Sire-518909.2
CD
$14.25

Various
Carnival Music of E.Cuba
PS, US New label from the SOUL JAZZ folks set to focus on roots-based music from around the globe. First up is a collection of Afro-Cuban tracks featuring a corps of 50 drummers, bashing on everyinthing from drums to car brakes and frying pans! Comes with accompanying booklet and in a distinctive case
WorldAudioFoundation-001
CD
$16.25

Various
Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage Vol. 2
PS, PORTUGAL '60s garage rock and jerk out of South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Ghana, Madagascar and Cameroun! Yes guys, there's still much more to offer! If you were raving on Cazumbi Vol. 1, wait to hear the second. I swear, it's much, MUCH better than the first! Absolutely stunning collection of 21 tracks, ranging from the more sophisticatedly produced (but hell, WILD!!!!) fuzzy garage sounds of South African groups like The Gonks, Birds of a Feather, Them or The Invaders, to the primitive raw garage, beat and jerk of Tall Emma & His Skipper (from Ghana with their killer Hammatan), Vum Vum and Os Rocks from Angola, Les Kilts from Cameroun, Les Safari and Les Jokers from Madagascar, and a good number of Mozambique combos. This brilliant release comes with great artwork, and an insert is included with photos and information on some of the groups and the African '60s rock scene. Limited release of 500 papersleeve CDs. Fully remastered sound.
NoSmokeRecords
CD
$22.50

Various
Carry The Torch: A Tribute To Kid Dynamite
PS, US Kid Dynamite has become a staple band in our contemporary punk scene. Though breaking up almost a decade ago, the band continues to press their influence within the music scene. This tribute includes every recorded Kid Dynamite song by some of the biggest and up and coming names in the punk and hardcore scene. Featuring 39 tracks, bands like Broadway Calls, This Is Hell, No Trigger and Token Entry drummer and songwriter Ernie Parada all pay homage to Kid Dynamite by lending tracks. A must have for any Kid Dynamite fan.
GetOuttaTown-017
CD
$10.50

Various
Up All Night: 20 Heavy Nuggets From The Golden Age Of Hard Psych
PS, UK Anyone who thinks the hippie era was all about peace, love and flowers will have a rude awakening when they hear this blistering collection of frenetic proto-psych-metal. Culled from some of the best underground American hard rock albums of the late '60s and early '70s, it's a bone-shaking, blood-curdling trip from start to finish, featuring some of the toughest riffs and finest guitar solos you've never heard. Featuring "Kingdom Come" from Brooklyn's heavy-metal distortion progenitors Sir Lord Baltimore from their 1970 debut, Cleveland's Granicus with their 1973 screech-boogie proclamation, "You're In America," Detroit's Power Of Zeus with the loose-limbed organs and snaky guitars of "In The Night," and Euclid (from Maine!) with their absolutely chundering, fuzzed-out blues-troll version of "Gimme Some Lovin'" off 1970's Heavy Equipment, and so much more. Guitar stomp, brain-scrambling solos, aerial vocals, thudding bass, and thunderous drums satiate pretty much any craving for skull-pummeling rock heaviness. As one sleeve puts it: RECORDED LOUD TO BE PLAYED LOUDER. Other artists include: Liquid Smoke, Tin House, The Litter, The Finchley Boys, Highway Robbery, Damnation Of Adam Blessing, SRC, Bang, Dragonfly, Steeplechase, Jamul, Haystacks Balboa, Third Power, Yesterday's Children, Head Over Heels, and Landslide.
Past&Present
CD
$16.25

Various
Still Our Future You're Messing Up
PS, US Following Discharges "Disensitise" release, UK punk label Vile Re-cords continue with what could turn out to be one of the most important compilation albums of the year still Our future your messing up Album contains exclusive & never released tracks from such bands as Dis-charge,Varukers , English Dogs, Broken Bones, One Way System, Abrasive Wheels and Riot Squad.
VileArtRecords-002
CD
$13.75

Various
Polyphonic Voices of Georgia
PS, US New label from the SOUL JAZZ folks set to focus on roots-based music from around the globe. This second collection is an amazing set of chants from the Anchiskati choir, recorded in Georgian capital, Tblisi. Comes with accompanying booklet and in a distinctive case
WorldAudioFoundation-002
CD
$16.25

Various
26 Deranged & Smokin' Cool Cats: Dr. Boogie Presents
PS, US Vinyl version. 4th Vol. in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare & lost recordings from the '20s-'60s. This time he focuses on the rocketing rise & fast decline of rockabilly (1954-1959). Artists include: JOHNNY JAY, JIMMY EDWARDS, CURLY COLDIRON, DANNY VERNE, EDDIE CASH, CHUCK DALLIS, RONNIE HAIG & JIMMY EVANS
SubRosa
LP
$15.50

Various
26 Deranged & Smokin' Cool Cats: Dr. Boogie Presents...
PS, US 4th Vol. in Sub Rosa's collection devoted to rare & lost recordings from the '20s-'60s. This time he focuses on the rocketing rise & fast decline of rockabilly (1954-1959). Artists include: JOHNNY JAY, JIMMY EDWARDS, CURLY COLDIRON, DANNY VERNE, EDDIE CASH, CHUCK DALLIS, RONNIE HAIG & JIMMY EVANS
SubRosa
CD
$15.50

Voks
Astra & Knyst
PS, US While keeping his trademark style of hyperactive & nervous high-pitched twisted pop songs, a newborn interest in (italo-western) movie soundtracks seems to be evident. The sound of super fast surf guitars collides w/ what seems to be chinese opera samples, world music is combined w/ children's whistling tunes. Think Raymond Scott, Joe Meek, Ennio Morricone or Carl Stalling collaborating w/ the Residents & then getting an 8-bit remix by the Aphex Twin
Dekorder-033
LP
$15.00

Wheat
White Ink, Black Ink
PS, US With their shimmering new album, Taunton' MA's Wheat is back from an extended period of musical hibernation. Following the critical success of their first albums, 1998's "Medeiros" and 1999's "Hope And Adams", the band released their major label debut in 2003, followed a few years later by a home-recorded album; the latter allowing them to reconnect with the process of musical experimentation and improvisation. This, their latest release, contains some of the most concise, well-written songs of the band's career, and also features some of their most intriguing musical explorations.
RebelGroup
CD
$13.75

Wildbirds & Peacedrums
The Snake
PS, US Domestic release for avant-everything Swedish duo's bewitching second full-length. Sweden's extraordinary drums and vocals duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with The Snake, the fierce follow up to their intoxicating debut, Heartcore. In 2008 vocalist Mariam Wallentin and her percussionist husband Andreas Werliin were introduced to the world outside their lively Gothenburg scene and wound up as one of the year's hidden treasures. The pair has since toured extensively, thriving on international festival stages, equally at home alongside pop sensations like fellow Swede Lykke Li as free-improv outfit The Thing. PITCHFORK
ControlGroup
CD
$15.00

Williams III, Hank
Straight To Hell
PS, US Anyone hoping that Hank Williams III's "Hellbilly" metal band Assjack would finally make it onto one of his albums is still out of luck, but Hank III's third solo effort Straight to Hell comes close to getting their no-quarter spirit onto plastic, if not their sound. Taking the no-frills hard-country sound of 2002's Lovesick, Broke & Driftin' as a starting point, Straight to Hell pumps a good bit more darkness into the mix; mostly recorded at home on a digital portastudio, Straight to Hell begins with a sample of the Louvin Brothers' "Satan Is Real" interrupted by a burst of demonic laughter, which then segues into the title tune, a testimony to a life of cheap thrills and dangerous living that sounds like a classic string band rounding the corners at 90-miles-an-hour with empty bottles of bourbon propping open the windows. A similar mix of old-school country and chemically-fueled rebellion run through songs like "Pills I Took" and "Smoke and Wine," and even the less menacing tunes like "My Drinking Problem" and "Angel of Sin" boast too much swagger and grit to fit comfortably on the radio next to Toby Keith or Gretchen Wilson. While Hank III's self-mythologizing outlaw stance is not entirely unlike that of his father, there's a crazier and more sinister energy to Straight to Hell than Bocephus has ever conjured up on record, and numbers like "Country Heroes" and "D. Ray White" eloquently testify to his notion that bad craziness is a long and rich tradition along the margins of Nashville. (He also has a few things to say about Hank Jr. hanging out with Kid Rock on "Not Everybody Likes Us" to confirm he's most certainly not turning into his dad.) The album's most extreme departure point, however, is the bonus audio collage "Louisiana Stripes," which combines a handful of high-lonesome tunes with layers of ambient noise, bits of found dialogue, dub-wise echo and reverb effects, stray telephone messages, and sound effects ranging from thunderstorms to gurgling bong water. There's a pure and soulful musical vision at the heart of Straight to Hell no matter how much Hank III lashes out against the confines of current country music and messes with the form, and that's what makes him most valuable as an outlaw -- there's lots of long-haired dope-smoking rednecks out there, but not many that can tap into the sweet and dirty heart of American music the way Hank III does, and Straight to Hell proves he's got a whole lot to say on that particular subject. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
CRB78869
LP
$23.00

Wire Magazine
#306
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Work / Piles
Split LP
PS, US WORK is the bipolar spawn of Ohio drop-out Sarah Bernat (16 Bitch Pile-up) and Southern California's dance-noise-punk pioneer, Erin Allen (Child Pornography, High Castle).
Crawling out of the wreckage of the San Francisco noise scene, the duo began tearing apart pop music's bloody corpse, playing guitar with the agility and grace of the living dead, and beating drums through the burning ashes of way blown out distortion. A hate wave of deadpan vocal abuse glimmers through a cloud of sonic fumes, speckled with blinding moments of hi-end feedback. A schizophrenic edge emerges lyrically and emotionally as the songs veer back and forth between hate for government, god and self. The maniac redundancy of Face Me comes off like a violent outburst of inner vacillation and voices. Meanwhile, Work is obviously out for your ear-blood with tracks like Moleasses, about taking vengeance on an abusive lover, to the criminal confessional of Mistake. Boyd Rice fans will piss themselves in schoolgirl delight at Work's rendition of Total War. myspace.com/workishard PILES is one-half Midwestern automaton work-ethic and one-half Northern California drug-fed nature-freedom. Eric Landmark (formerly of Numbers, Xerobot) churns out catchy hooks with stoic regularity on double keyboard synthesizers. Meanwhile, Amelia Radtke (formerly of Tea Elles) flies primitive and wild on drums, all the while caterwauling about America's 20-something sex and drugs rites of passage.
As pop music, Piles does not disappoint. Yet they manage to convey a gritty, raw wildness that many pop bands unfortunately submerge in sap or forego for fluff. Instead, Piles brings it to you like 15 cats all tied to the same post and howling for release into the comfort of their dark, piss-filled alley. You want to hug it, but you also want to shoot it. Piles' side reveals an incurable addiction for dance-y pop. Whatcha Gotta is the perfect example of Amelia's adrenaline-fueled confusion, held together by the repetitive, underlying intensity and deep, insistent pulsing of Eric's Moog and Octave CAT. The second to last track Pressure draws you in immediately with the opening keyboard line, and holds tight and intoxicating like the best of the worst reality television shows as Amelia's vocals ratchet up the apathy syndrome. They wrap it up with an upbeat, naive ode to everybody's favorite street substance, Crystal Meth. myspace.com/pilessf
RadKeyRecords-002
LP
$9.75

Wye Oak
Knot
PS, US A set of songs that sway, stretch, and scream while always reaching outward for personal connection. As ever, Andy Stack's production layers his own multi-instrumental arrangements over Jenn Wasner's woozy compositions, but musically, too, things sound more precise. There's less squalling feedback than before, but lingering violin and pedal steel bring out the droning Americana that has always informed Wye Oak's sound.
Merge-346
CD
$13.25

Yacht
See Mystery Lights
PS, US YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA. All people are welcome to become members of YACHT. Accordingly, YACHT is and always will be what YACHT is when YACHT is standing before you. YACHT was formed in 2002 as Y.A.C.H.T., "Young Americans Challenging High Technology." Y.A.C.H.T. and, eventually, YACHT, has released four albums to date. What you are looking at is the first full-length release for DFA RECORDS. The current incarnation of YACHT began gestating in 2008 with the first introduction of Claire L. Evans, and at this point bears no resemblance to the previous versions. The YACHT of 2009 is the true form of YACHT. The 2009 form of YACHT is highly indebted to the "Mystery Lights," an unexplained optical phenomena native to the Far West Texas desert, where most of the new YACHT album, See Mystery Lights, was written and recorded. Strictly speaking, YACHT does "perform music." YACHT provides inspiring Teachings of constantly changing elements: PowerPoint presentations, immersive audio, live audience audits, and shamanistic video environments. The YACHT Performance is expressly designed to provide groups of people with catharsis and purification. YACHT is about group consciousness. YACHT is about the individual man or woman. If you believe these assertions to be contradictory, consider the Triangle: it is both a collection of points and a shape. YACHT IS NOT A CULT.
DFA-218
CD
$15.25

Yames, Yim
Tribute To
PS, US Jim James from MY MORNING JACKET. EP of George Harrison covers. Beautiful renditions of 4 cuts from Harrison's classic album All Things Pass as well as 2 of the Beatles tunes he penned. These 6 tracks have a raw, minimal feel - featuring little more than his vocals & acoustic guitar
ATO-667-2
CD5
$7.25

Yames, Yim
Tribute To
PS, US 180 gram - CD included
ATO-1
LP
$12.75

Yob
Great Cessation
PS, US One of the heaviest & most respected bands in metal, YOB are renowned for their unique brand of epic, crushing sludge doom. A time-stretching, timeless, & unearthly slab of monolithic doom metal art. Heavier, darker, & louder than ever. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Probably one of the greatest descriptions of the heaviness of doom metallists YOB comes in the press release for their 2009 release, Great Cessation: "Heavier than the world's entire elephant population." Hailing from Eugene, OR (not exactly primarily thought of as a doom metal mecca), YOB opted to call it a day in 2006, but two years later, the call of the recording studio had brought the lads back together, resulting in their fifth album overall (and first for the Profound Lore label). Expectedly, the songs are long, plodding, numbing, and oozing with riffage and screams -- take your pick of any of the album's five songs (which clock in at an hour total) to experience the doomsday charm of YOB."
ProfoundLore-047
CD
$14.25

Young Accuser
Unsound
PS, US Joe Pernice will be publishing his first novel, It Feels So Good When I Stop in August 2009. In that book ,the narrator, who is not Joe, is in a band called The Young Accuser for a short time. After the fictional narrator leaves this fictional band, they record a fictional song and send it to the non-fictional Sub Pop. This is the non-fiction version of that fictional single.
SubPop-848
45
$4.75

Young Governor
Hidden Love
PS, US From the Great White North and the twisted mind of a one time child actor comes Hidden Love the first 12-inch EP from YOUNG GOVERNOR. While no doubt people will jump to comparisons of Jay Retard, Home Blitz, and Kurt Vile, that is doing Young Governor a grave disservice. The perfect summer record just in time for summer, Hidden Love is the perfect blend of pop, singer songwriter, lo-fi, and dare we say folk. BEN COOK the mastermind behind it all has been a busy boy indeed. It's a wonder that he finds time to write and record not just Young Governor material but also releases music under the banner BITTERS, all the while being a full time member of the much heralded outfit FUCKED UP. Wonders will never cease and you will no doubt find yourself humming aloud the songs of pure pop class demonstrated here after just a few listens
PartsUnknown-039
LP
$11.00

Young Widows/My Disco
Young Widows Split Series Vol. 4
PS, US Fourth & final single in a split single series, featuring new unreleased jams from Young Widows, accompanied by a handful of their favorite friends & artists - this edition featuring MY DISCO.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-154
45
$4.75

Young, Neil
Harvest (Remastered)
PS, US
Reprise
CD
$12.25

Young, Neil
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Remastered)
PS, US
Reprise
CD
$12.25

Youngs, Richard
Like A Neuron
PS, US Even for someone w/ an extremely diverse output, a self-proclaimed all-electronic "ecstatic House record" comes somewhat unexpected. With a line of distinctive synthesizers often used for techno/house music he recreates the energy, euphoria & frenzy of these styles w/o ever trying to recreate the music note by note
Dekorder-034
LP
$15.00

Yppah
They Know What Ghost Know
PS, US "Fashioning a rockier sound than last time out, the album draws on a cultural heritage that took in My Bloody Valentine alongside hip hop and which is heavily influenced by various forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul and rock."
NinjaTune-147
CD
$13.00

Zak Sally's Fear Of Song
Why We Hide
PS, US This is the sound of one man clanging. That man, former bassist for LOW
SubPop-847
45
$5.25

ZAZA
Cameo EP
PS, US DAZED & CONFUSED: "Zaza are a name you need to know about...they have become one of New York's best kept secrets" RUMBLEFISH: "The New York-based three-piece let their echo-laden vocals wash over waves of gothy, post-punk-influenced guitars and muscular percussion for a sound that is, at once, sensual and suspenseful. Erotic thrillers would be well matched with these eerie, enticing songs, which can make crime scenes and sex scenes alike seem more mysterious." *** Special note one of the members of The Pains of Being Pure At Heart used to play in ZAZA and Jennifer of ZAZA used to play in The Warlocks. This is a six song debut release that is a 500 Limited edition one time vinyl/digital only pressing.
Kanine
12
$12.25

Zip Code Rapists
Sing And Play The Three Doctors And Other Sounds Of Today
PS, US At long last, the major works of the Zip Code Rapists are available again. From their supposed beginnings as a Doors cover band from Texas, to their shameful years of broken glass and bloated excess, to their acrimonious breakup and inevitable decade-later reunion, this CD details the hope and anger, the trauma and triumph, of this quintessentially American folk-punk duo featuring Gregg Turkington and John Singer.
In addition to the Zip Code Rapists' astonishing 1992 debut LP Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today, this 36-song CD compiles the overlong 7-inch The Man Can't Bust Our Music and the inexcusably short 12-inch 94124, all of which have been lovingly remastered for today's more discerning listener. This deluxe package also includes previously unheard outtakes and compilation tracks, four revelatory live songs from a 1993 show at CBGB, and a touching performance from a 2006 reunion show. The ZCR story comes to life in a 16-page booklet with insightful liner notes by official band historian Will York, and candid photos of the boys at the height, and nadir, of their careers. Best of all, each CD comes with a FREE RUB-ON ZCR TATTOO, which can be worn for a day, or cherished for a lifetime.
Eabla-102
CD
$13.25

Zola Jesus
Spoils
PS, US Hailing from the unsuspecting locale of Madison, WI, Zola Jesus (Nika Roza Danilova) occupy a sphere of sparse industrial rythms, no-fi drones, & ethereal femme vocals. For the uninitiated "The Spoils" may be the most fully realized representation of her sound. CD contains the entire "Soeur Sewer" 7" & the 3 songs from the Die Stasi single.
SacredBones-022
CD
$12.00

Zola Jesus
Spoils
PS, US Hailing from the unsuspecting locale of Madison, WI, Zola Jesus (Nika Roza Danilova) occupy a sphere of sparse industrial rythms, no-fi drones, & ethereal femme vocals. Those who have seen her handful of live shows, heard her WFMU set, or caught her sought-after releases already know. For the uninitiated "The Spoils" may be the most fully realized representation of her sound.
SacredBones-022
LP
$15.50

Zorn, John
O'o
PS, US The exotic follow up to "Dreamers." Featuring the same dynamic band of masters from Zorn's inner circle, this presents 12 more lyrical & adventurous instrumentals combining world music, surf, exotica, soundtracks, easy listening, minimalism & more into a fabulous & exciting new music
Tzadik-376
CD
$17.75

Forthcoming Releases

16 Horsepower
Secret South (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Reissue of difficult-to-find album. As rural gothic goes, one cannot do much better than David Eugene Edwards & company, w/ their use of acoustic old-time instruments mixed w/ the impassioned vocals & fire-&-brimstone lyrics. Includes surround-sound mix by Bob Ferbrache included on DVD-audio format
AlternativeTentacles-406
CD+DVD
$17.25

16 Horsepower
Secret South (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Vinyl version. Reissue of difficult-to-find album. As rural gothic goes, one cannot do much better than David Eugene Edwards & company, w/ their use of acoustic old-time instruments mixed w/ the impassioned vocals & fire-&-brimstone lyrics. Includes surround-sound mix by Bob Ferbrache included on DVD-audio format
AlternativeTentacles-406
LP+DVD
$17.25

39 Clocks
Pain It Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS,US Reissue of the 1981 debut. Their music can be seen as a futuristic, definitely urban, German form of U.S. '60s garage punk, w/ a referential nod to Suicide & Velvet Underground - sparse & gritty garage chord progressions, hypnotic rhythms & deadpan English lyrics delivered w/ the heaviest of German accents. Contains a previously-unreleased bonus track
BureauB
CD
$18.00

65 Days Of Static
Escape From New York (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th) (CD+DVD)
PS, US Escape From New York captures 65daysofstatic at a crossroads. With the last album behind them and their heads filling up with ideas, 65days move ever onwards. This is not just a sedge-way release. They have always shined their brightest as a live band and these recordings are the closest they have come so far to capturing that spark. Escape From New York is a gorgeous blend of glitch-laden beats soaring guitars, stunted breaks and harmonious strings. Their dance-influenced, post-rock symphonies are epic statements of individuality, centering on tense build-ups and ecstatic releases.
Monotreme-041
CD/DVD
$17.25

Action
Complete Punk Recordings 1977-1978 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US One of Canada's 1st punk bands, formed in Ottawa in 1977. Their style combined early American & English punk like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, & The Vibrators w/ rock influences such as The Rolling Stones' guitar attack & The Allman Brothers' dual-guitar & slide-guitar leads
SuddenDeath-079
CD
$16.00

Andrew W.K.
55 Cadillac (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Andrew has completed the final stages of producing his first ever instrumental solo piano album. The album is called 55 CADILLAC, and showcases Andrew's spontaneous piano improvisations, as well as the visualized manifestations of his car. The 55 CADILLAC recording process began in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, January 23rd, 2009. Andrew played his very own Steinway Concert D piano, set up for optimum tape recording by F.F.V., using a mobile triple cassette sound system.
SkyscraperMusicMaker-3939
CD
$13.75

Antlers
Hospice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US "The structures are like pop songs - verse/chorus, verse/chorus - but the sound is a little more shoegaze-y or post-rocky" - PETER SILBERMAN
FrenchKiss-041
CD
$13.25

Antlers
Hospice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Also on vinyl
FrenchKiss-041
LP
$17.50

Apers
You Are Only As Strong As The Tables You Dance On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Often compared to Screeching Weasel, because of frontman Kevin Aper's snotty vocal delivery, reminiscent of Ben Weasel. More fun pop punk in the Ramones 3 chord pop mastery
AsianMan-183
LP
$12.75

Apples In Stereo, The
#1 Hits Explosion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US The shiny pop centerpiece of the famed Elephant 6 collective, The Apples in stereo was born of Robert Schneider's infatuation with recording and his near-pathological compulsion to write the perfect pop song. Citing Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys as their root text a decade before it was en vogue, Schneider and former and future band members Hilarie Sidney, Jim McIntyre, Chris Parfitt, John Hill, Eric Allen, Chris McDuffie, Bill Doss, John Ferguson, John Dufilho, and others used their basement-D.I.Y. beginnings as a launching pad into a kaleidoscopic galaxy of sound. Constantly mutating from debut album Fun Trick Noisemaker through recent opus New Magnetic Wonder, that galaxy has expanded from 4-track recordings made in Schneider's bedroom to 100-track sonic experiments complete with new musical scales. Collecting the Apples' most well-known songs, #1 Hits Explosion reminds us that pop music is the art of the song, the art of sounds assembled in a pattern designed to give joy. For over fifteen years The Apples in stereo have taught us that three minutes can change your life. #1 Hits Explosion will make sure we don't forget it.
YepRoc-2631
CD
$12.00

Area C
The Planetarium Project (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1st)
PS, US In live collaboration with Black Forest/Black Sea, Eyes Like Saucers and Mudboy. Double full length CD release limited to 500 copies (less than 400 available for wholesale) housed in a stunning and uniquely designed handmade hand assembled letterpress cardstock sleeve by discerning artist Amy Borezo at her Shelter Bookworks studio in Western MA. We have been fans and have closely followed Providence's Area C project for several years. It was simply a matter of time before we would release something by this dynamic artist and these special recordings presented themselves as the obvious choice. AREA C's work has always appealed in its ability to be at once hypnotically accessible balanced by subtle and brooding dark elements under the surface. It recalls both post-rock elements as well as the more experimental works of classic 70â€(tm)s German space rock groups. The live collaborations with the other Providence based artists push Area C's distinctive sound in compelling directions. This document represents over two hours of carefully selected music taken from many evenings of performances. About The Planetarium Project: In 2007, Erik Carlson of AREA C came up with the alt-Space idea as a way to explore interactions between sound and space in environments that are not normally viewed or used as venues for art. Its intent is to serve as a medium through which AREA C and other like-minded musicians could create new music that is inspired by and engages with unique architectural locations. An obvious first choice was the Cormack Planetarium, hidden within the slightly threadbare, Victorian-era Museum of Natural History in Providence, RI. These live performances - collaborations between AREA C and Black Forest/Black Sea, Mudboy and Eyes Like Saucers - became the basis of the Planetarium Project. For each performance, AREA C and the collaborating artist composed a new, largely improvisational piece based on a visual score created by Carlson that corresponded to the planetarium display that he had designed with the planetarium staff, utilizing the planetarium's Zeiss projector and some of their more antique equipment. Recorded in almost total darkness, these live performances mix in a palette of live instrumentation with samples from of a range of cosmic phenomena, including whistlers, bow shock, and kilometric radiation: all forms of radio emission produced by the magnetic fields of planets and other cosmic bodies. The Planetarium Project weaves these sounds into a fabric that plays between three sets of extremes: analog + digital, electric + acoustic, high tech + low fi. The dome of the planetarium is filled with millions of tiny perforations. When projected light hits this surface, it produces a blurred effect, causing a slight optical shimmer: a low-fi way of mimicking the shimmer of distance we feel when viewing the real night sky. The music composed for the Planetarium Project was inspired by the way this domed room warps the sounds and images created here, while also wrapping the audience and performers within them. The alt-Space performances were funded through a grant from the Rhode Island State Council.
Sedimental-053
CD
$14.75

Arkhams, The
The Road To Arkham (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Breaking out from Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, The Road to Arkham chronicles the psychosis and insanity from these NYC mad-men. The Arkhams attract gawkers and shock rockers alike with their freak-show unique take on rock'n'roll. From schizophrenic garage rock to amphetamized psychobilly The Road To Arkham is a white knuckle ride into the type of rock depravity your mother warned you about.
AnalogArkives-001
CD
$10.50

Armstrong, Tom
Tom Armstrong Sings Heart Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US The whole CD sounds so much like '50s country music it's pretty unbelievable we're not listening to the lost recording session of one of our favorite country heroes from that era...highly recommended!
AnalogArkives-004
CD
$9.50

Armstrong, Tom
Songs That Make The Juke Box P lay (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Breaking out from Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, The Road to Arkham chronicles the psychosis and insanity from these NYC mad-men. The Arkhams attract gawkers and
shock rockers alike with their freak-show unique take on rock'n'roll. From schizophrenic garage rock to amphetamized psychobilly The Road To Arkham is a white knuckle ride into the type of rock depravity your mother warned you about.
AnalogArkives-005
CD
$10.50

Asobi Seksu
Transparence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION 4-song 10 inch featuring 2 unreleased songs from the "Hush" sessions. "Transparence" appears with a new introduction, & also as a remix by the hypnotic percussive group Aa. 1,000 copies on clear vinyl
Polyvinyl-186/10
10/45
$9.50

Aspidistrafly
I Hold A Wish For You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, JAPAN Aspidistrafly is a Singapore-based unit comprising of April Lee (vocal, programming) and Ricks Ang (guitar, programming). Their participations in media art installations & performances have gained attention for their sound and visual works. Aspidistrafly have been regarded as one of the new wave of artists to emerge from Asia other than from Japan. "I hold a wish for you" is their anticipated first full album. Drawing references to Banana Yoshimoto's literary classic "Moonlight Shadow", Aspidistrafly weaves through the solitary atmosphere of the novel with their own narratives inspired by several excursions outside the confines of their immediate surroundings. This latest release invokes delicate moments with nine tracks that combine acoustic instrumentation across April's warm vocal harmonies, soft floating textures and binaural field recordings.
"I hold a wish for you" is an invitation to travel with sound through lyrical melodies and pastoral sonic scapes, accompanied with artwork by April Lee and Kobe-based artist Rika M.
Packaged in Kitchen. Customized accordion photo album, "I hold a wish for you" also features a collaboration track with Japanese artist Haruka Nakamura.
Kitchen-002
CD
$17.00

Avett Brothers
I And Love And You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US
American-1
LP
$25.00

Baca, Susana
Seis Poemas (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US 2009 mini album from the Peruvian vocalist and songwriter. Seis Poemas is partly a tribute to Chabuca Granda, one of the great figures of Latin American song. Baca, who got her start spinning the poems of others into wistful melodies, also borrows from the verses of Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish avant-garde poet who was assassinated during his country's civil war, and in a nod to her ancestry she delves into Peru's overlooked, yet rich African legacy. Six tracks. Luaka Bop.
LuakaBop-5017
CD
$6.50

Batrider
Why We Can't Be Together (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 10TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Batrider was formed in 2002 in Wellington, NZ. We lived in Melbourne for 3.5 years, and are currently based in London. Few line up changes, currently Sarah Mary Chadwick, guitar vocals, Sam Featherstone, bass, Stephanie Crase, drums. Recorded 'why we cant be together' over two recording sessions totaling about 40 songs, with Kynan Lawlor (hit the jackpot) in Urtext, an old ballroom/bandplace in Adelaide. Batrider have toured heaps, all through NZ, Australia and Europe. We always try to make our recordings sound as 'live' as possible. Batrider do all their own artwork, produce their own albums, and book all their own gigs. We have never played at a wedding. but we would, if someone asked. The album is about lots of things, and inspired by lots of things, but all those things are in the album and not really to be spelled out. What do you say really? We tried to make something that we like, and we did. We are all over Facebook. Personally, not band-ally.
LowTransitIndustries-094
CD
$13.50

Bats, The
Don't You Rise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 22ND)
PS, US The Bats are legends of New Zealand music, standing tall alongside contemporaries The Clean and The Chills as linchpins of the Flying Nun label and the Dunedin/Christchurch scene. Over the course of 25 years, 7 albums and 4 world tours, the original line-up of Robert Scott, Malcolm Grant, Paul Kean and Kaye Woodward remains intact and still creating vital pastoral pop gems. Combining Robert's mantric-like guitar pick and strum, bouncing bass with a twist from Paul, melodic hooks from Kaye on guitar and Malcolm's snappy beats, the combination of musical ingredients works perfectly - effortlessly. The band's reputation is sterling; based on legendary albums like Daddy's Highway and Silverbeet and their energetic live shows, The Bats have an enthusiastic world-wide fanbase who treasure the band's continued excellence. The Don't You Rise EP gathers up four tunes from 1998 and 2003, helping to complete the discographical picture leading up to the release of their next album, The Guilty Office, in early 2009. Featuring the electric violin on Alastair Galbraith (who last featured on The Bats' Law of Things), "That's How You'll Find Me" would fit in perfectly on any classic Bats album and mesmerized with it's folk-pop groove. "You Don't Belong" is a moody gem, while "Don't You Rise"'s country-inflected strum is a live favorite. "Face Inside The Sun" rounds out the record in fine form, a mid-tempo sing-along that sounds straight off of Daddy's Highway. A pretty special EP then, and ample evidence that 25 years after forming, The Bats still earn their legendary status.
Slumberland
45
$3.75

Battlefields
Entourage Of The Archaic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Hardcore infused doom-metal. This limited edition vinyl release is a one-sided 12 inch of the Entourage Of The Archaic EP. One time pressing on colored vinyl packaged in a screen-printed heavy plastic sleeve & hand-numbered. Includes digital download card. Limited to 300!
Init-46
12
$12.75

Bazan, David
Curse Your Branches (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Bazan got his start playing to the Christian rock scene, but the narrative arc of his albums has traced his crisis of faith and his questioning of the Evangelical Christian world in which he was raised. Yet, this record is not a final statement, not a "breakup letter to G_d." It's the deepest and most explicit exploration of his struggles to date, and a meditation on all things passed between the generations, and for the first time in a while, Bazan seems actually interested in re-engaging in conversations with the Evangelical community about his doubts (for example, for the first time in years, he'll be playing huge Christian music festival Cornerstone this summer).
Curse Your Branches is a masterwork by a modern American poet (Paste called him one of the "100 best American songwriters" in a piece that followed the release of his solo EP Fewer Moving Parts) at the height of his powers.
Barsuk-083
LP
$13.75

Beaujolais
Admirations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US New album of garage-pop catharsis from former Wolfie/Like Young gent Joe Ziemba. The follow up to the harrowing 'Love At Thirty' finds our protagonist Joe in the midst of... moving on.
Parasol-CD-115
CD
$10.00

Benson, Brendan
My Old, Familiar Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US 4th solo album from RACONTEURS member
ATO-76-1
LP
$20.25

Between The Trees
Spain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US One of Alternative Press' "100 Bands You Need to Know," Between The Trees has been laying the groundwork hard since releasing their 2007 debut album "Store and the Song." On the Warped Tour 2009.
Bonded-005
CD
$12.25

Bifrost Arts
'Come O Spirit!' Anthology of Hymns and Spiritual Songs Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
PS, US "For more than 30 years, pop music has suffered from a God complex-attaching a scarlet letter to artists who include the
religious experience in their songs. But a new generation of musicians from across the spiritual spectrum is emerging, discarding the trappings of the Christianculture industry to reintroduce the transcendence, beauty and historical gravity of western scared music to the places where it
belongs: dinner parties, road trips and back porches. Come O Spirit brings together artists like Dave Bazan, Damien Jurado, Rosie Thomas, Denison Witmer, The Welcome Wagon (featuring Sufjan Stevens) and Leigh Nash to revive 400 years of long-forgotten melodies and liturgical music. The brainchild of producers Isaac Wardell and Mason Neely, Come O Spirit interprets hymnody through lush, cinematic arrangements and a drop of Southern gothic mystique. It's like a prayer.
SoundsFamilyre-001
CD
$11.50

Black Arrows Of Filth & Impurity
1984 (Eternal) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Equal parts metal & grind w/ a touch of noise from ex & current members of DEMIRICOUS, RACEBANNON, THE DREAM IS DEAD, & WORLD EATER. Features an exclusive noise track not available on the original 12 inch, released by Rifleman Records
GileadMedia-024
CD
$10.00

Black Mold
Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Debut album from electronic alter-ego of songwriter CHAD VANGAALEN. Here he explores the wildest tangents of his intrumental work, using a broad palette of glitches & noise married w/ the warm hues of acoustic instruments. Includes download code for an entire bonus album of glitchy oddities. BROWN VINYL
FlemishEye-019
DLP
$22.00

Black Sheep
Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse is the debut double-LP and 2 CD set from Julian Cope's brand new free action group Black Sheep. Black Sheep music is of the moment, beautiful as a princess one minute, hobbling like a smitten ditch-dweller the next. Songs are long and strung out, combining chanting and street protest with ambient meditations on the Culture Heroes of the Past. Eulogies to such revolutionaries as Che Guevara, Ulrike Meinhof, and one of the Cope's long time obsessions Leila Khaled, are offset by chanting and massed drum works outs and tripped out ambulant pieces such as the near-half hour long title track.
Invada-068
CD
$23.25

Blind Man's Colour
Season Dreaming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Two Florida 19 year olds make mature psych pop, receive blog love from Stereogum, I Guess I'm Floating, Indie Rock Cafe, & Kanye West, sign to Kanine Records & release this debut album. Limited to 500 copies, comes with download card.
KanineRecords-391
LP
$13.75

Blitzen Trapper
Black River Killer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Contains the disturbing & great song "Black River Killer" from 2008's "Furr" as well as 6 more songs that have been, up to now, only available on a tour CD-R.
Suppop
CD5
$5.50

Blk Jks
After Robots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
PS, US It's been too long since anyone was able to bring this much soul and heartblood to progressive rock, a medium that has been left cold and dry by a misguided focus on technical show-offery. But by entangling the music they love - township blues, fringe jazz and renegade dub - into the DNA of prog, BLK JKS have provocatively pulled afro-futurism into a new century. After Robots has all the ingredients of a party record but this is not party music. It's at times disorienting and overwhelming, but it always maintaining a cool, alluring mystique. In January 2009, BLK JKS set foot on US soil for just the second time, holing up with Brandon Curtis (SECRET MACHINES) in Bloomington, Indiana, to record the music that would become After Robots, their first proper album. To discuss certain musical passages for which there is no accurate English befit to describe, BLK JKS seamlessly shifted from accented English to their differing tribal languages. Then -giving up on words altogether - they'd dive back into a fine-tuned performance of a song. After Robots triumphs on its own strange set of genre-ending rules, and BLK JKS are undeniably a band of our times, embodying the duality of our violent and hopeful new world, these days of
mystery and wonder.
SecretlyCanadian-197
LP
$12.25

Bloody Panda
Summon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US This takes the nightmare they first explored on their split LP with experimentalists Kayo Dot even further into the depths. The album is a disturbing, cinematic vision of terror & frightening depravity that lurks within the dark chambers of doom metal horror
ProfoundLore-048
CD
$16.00

Blue Flames, The
Drivin' 'n' Dyin' In Texas (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Primal voodoo-crazed rock'n'roll swagger at its sleaziest, naughtiest, and most outrageously immoral- it's savage and untamed Texas-style psychobilly madness that's as evil, vile, indecent, and debauched as a sweat-soaked free-for-all orgy in Hell, but as sensual, sleek, and cool as a leather-jacketed Marlon Brando struttinâ€(tm) his stuff in the primitive black-and-white world of The Wild One. A must have for fans of the Gun Club, The Damned, The Cramps, and Patti Smith.
VoodooValleyRecords-001
CD
$10.50

Boduf Songs
Inviolate Projection Blood From Rome (Blankets) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 4th release in Blue Sanct's Art Vinyl series. 10 inch with an exclusive recording on one side, & a screenprinted image on the B side. Minstrels of misery from the UK, following 3 albums on Kranky, & a devastating EP on Southern. This 12 minute epic not only gives us the drones & hushed guitar they are known for, but also ventures into their (partially) suppressed doom underpinnings. The record is accompanied by specially commissioned artwork by Norwegian artist Johannes Hoie, whose apocalyptic scenes perfectly embody the yearning for the black sun that is Boduf Songs. Limited to 300
BlueSanct-10
10
$15.25

Boggs, Dock
Legendary Singer & Banjo Player (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1964, this is the 1st of 3 volumes recorded for Folkways after being rediscovered during the folk revival of the early 1960s. Incredible, sparse & haunting country blues featuring only Dock's banjo & voice. Absolutely essential Appalachian folk, lovingly reissued
Folkways-51
LP
$16.75

Boggs, The
Forts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Moving across genres and borders as easily as a dial moving up and down the AM band, The Boggs spent seven years defining, refining, building up, and breaking down with a one of a kind take on proto-post-folk-garage-punk-folk-punk-blues & disco.
Before their third (and final?) release, Forts, principle member Jason Friedman retreated to Berlin where he began demos using roughshod recording techniques in his kitchen. Over the next year and a half, Friedman added fresh layers to these tracks in a series of Berlin studios. Bringing in horn players, singers, and string players to apply the finishing touches before hauling the stacks of tracks back from Europe to mix in New York. As obsessive, delicate, and other worldly as Friedman's own drawings used on the album's cover, Forts is the kind of record that record collections were made for.
ArenaRock-068
LP
$13.75

Box Elders
Alice & Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Full-length of fuzzy, off-kilter pop from Omaha trio that follows their single on Grotto Records
Goner-48
CD
$14.25

Box Elders
Alice & Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US vinyl!
Goner-48
LP
$16.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Methodrone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Originally released on CD in 1995 now reissued on A Records, Anton Newcombe's own label. This is the first time on vinyl. Released on 180g blue vinyl. 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.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe.
Arecords-008
DLP
$34.25

Brown Recluse Sings
Soft Skin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Pastoral, psychedelic pop that draws influence from Brian Wilson, Belle & Sebastian, The Clientele, & the Elephant 6 collective
Slumberland-102
12
$8.00

Buckley, Tim
Live at the Folklore Center, NYC: March 6th, 1967 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US On August 25th, 2009, the Tompkins Square label will release 'Tim Buckley - Live at the Folklore Center, NYC - March 6th, 1967'. The unreleased recording was captured by folk impresario Izzy Young at his famed Folklore Center located at 321 Sixth Avenue, which served as a nexus for up-and-coming singer-songwriters during the folk boom of the late '60s. The entire night's concert, performed in front of about 35 people, is presented in its original running order of 16 songs, six of which are Tim Buckley compositions that have never appeared on any studio or live album. The CD package includes an unpublished interview with Buckley conducted by Izzy Young on March 17th & 18th, 1967, along with new notes from Young. The album was produced for release by Tompkins Square label's Josh Rosenthal in cooperation with Buckley's Estate, and mastered from the original tapes by Grammy-winning engineers Steve Rosenthal, Warren Russell-Smith and Jamie Howarth.
Tim Buckley (1947-1975) was among the most adventurous and influential singer-songwriters of the '60's and '70's, releasing nine studio albums in his career. Buckley's music continues to deeply inspire new fans and artists with each passing year. 'Live at the Folklore Center', the earliest live recording among seven others commercially available, showcases Buckley in an intimate, solo acoustic setting, highlighting his magical guitar playing and soaring vocal style.
Track listing (* indicates previously unreleased Tim Buckley composition, unavailable on any studio or live album): 1. SONG FOR JAINIE 2. I NEVER ASKED TO BE YOUR MOUNTAIN 3. WINGS 4. PHANTASMAGORIA IN TWO 5. JUST PLEASE LEAVE ME * 6. DOLPHINS 7. I CAN'T SEE YOU 8. TROUBADOUR 9. AREN'T YOU THE GIRL 10. WHAT DO YOU DO (HE NEVER SAW YOU) * 11. NO MAN CAN FIND THE WAR 12. CARNIVAL SONG 13. CRIPPLES CRY * 14. IF THE RAIN COMES * 15. COUNTRY BOY * 16. I CAN'T LEAVE YOU LOVING ME *
TompkinsSquare-2189.2
CD
$16.25

Burnt By The Sun
Heart Of Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Final studio release
Relapse-046
CD
$13.25

Cable
Failed Convict (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US These veteran noisy rockers have released records on labels such as Hydra Head & Translation Loss & have toured alongside bands like Isis, Today is the Day, & 5ive
TheEnd-138
CD
$13.00

Calamity, The
TBA (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US
BlackbirdMusic-1301
CD
$8.75

Canyons
Fire Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Strikes a balance between psych & acid house, pop & disco, fiction & fact. Upcoming full-length on Modular
DFA-2222
12
$8.00

Casio, Joey
Debtor's Prism b/w Artists in Times of War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
PS, US In the latest installment of K's legendary International Pop Underground series, longtime Olympian Joey Casio supplies two songs that further illuminate the lost connections between the manic energy of punk and the body-moving rhythms of
electronic dance music. This is truly house punk for punk houses. "Debtor's Prism" is propelled by a deep hypnotic bass line that draws from Jamaica as much as it does Detroit. Interlocked with a percolating matrix of percussion, the soapbox from which Casio yelps is a cutting indictment of the mindless logic of capitalism. The commitment to lyrical content is also reflected in "Artists in Times of War," which draws its name from a Howard Zinn essay. Initially inspired by seeing military shipments leave from the piers of Olympia for Iraq, and the efforts of his peers to stop
them, this song is a call to the creative-minded to use their abilities for a common good. The tempo is urgent and the vocal delivery is snarling. This track takes the futuristic staccato sounds of acid house and presents them as politico-hardcore.
"Mr. Casio [is a] one-man party starting machine." - The Stranger
Krecords-125
45
$3.75

Cave Singers, The
Welcome Joy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US The second album from Seattle's CAVE SINGERS is a gorgeous, rich folky stew hitting musical touchstones from Led Zeppelin III (think Bron Yr Aur Stomp) to Iron and Wine, CCR, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, and Will Oldham. With a healthy dollopof the more mournful Stevie Nicks songs from Fleetwood Mac's mid-'70s period.Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Destroyer, Ladyhawk), the album is far richer and more interestingsounding than their debut. The band perform their dramatic, forlorn and occasionally triumphant music in a wonderfullyautumnal haze.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Cave Singers, The
Welcome Joy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Matador
LP
$17.50

Choir of Young Believers
This Is For The White In Your Eyes + Burn The Flag (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Even though this the full-length debut by Danish collective Choir of Young Believers, is teeming with instrumentsÑvoices, pianos, synthesizers, banjos, an orchestra?s ransom in strings & French hornsÑit?s not the arrangements that dominate so much as the images they conjure. Snow-ßecked mountaintops, deserted city streets, ghost-Þlled churches, a Þnal kiss between estranged loversÑthis is the emotional terrain trod by Jannis Joya Makrigiannis & his Choir of Young Believers. This Is for the Whites in Your Eyes is an album of orchestral indie-pop, but its artistic scope extends beyond melody & harmony: Choir of Young Believers paint cinematic tableaux, with Jannis cast as the silvery- voiced narrator.
GhostlyInternational-089
DCD
$11.00

Circulatory System
Signal Morning (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Seven and a half years in the making, culled from hours of recorded material sculpted in at least seven different studios, the new Circulatory System album is an absolutely stellar document of song and sound. Still concerned with matters of the inner / the outer, the incomprehensibly huge and the very, very small. An imperative blast of kinetic motion, composed by W. Cullen Hart while in the midst of battling Multiple Sclerosis
within his own system - broadcasting his urgent pleas to the world(s) to evolve into a higher dimension, or for existing patterns to reveal themselves at peace within the natural order of the universe. Featuring all the members of The Olivia Tremor Control, as well as Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster of Neutral Milk Hotel. The first song, "Woodpecker", is highlighted by Will Hart and Bill Doss singing in harmony. Thick with
textures, layered percussion, angular guitars, vibrating strings, woodwinds, and brass. Eagerly anticipated since the first record, with mounting excitement enhanced by tours with the Elephant 6 Orchestra, the Instruments, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, the New Sound of Numbers, Need New Body, and
the Sea & Cake. The new tracks that were posted on the Circulatory System myspace page were immediately reviewed positively by Pitchfork and National Public Radio. The band plans on major touring when the album
comes out. With the release of Circulatory System, one of the greatest minds in pop music turned inward. Will Cullen Hart, who had explored the farthest reaches of chopped-up, texturally sophisticated pop music with the Olivia Tremor Control, brought a new level of emotion and beauty to his work, resulting in the most affecting album he's released to date. The beautiful, lush orchestration, inventive instrumentation, and fanatical attention to sonic nuances are still in full form, but now serve as extensions
of Hart's inner quest to discover the nature of time, existence, and the universe. Rather than addressing these topics with far reaching metaphors and generalizations, Hart shares his observations candidly and gracefully,
resulting in an album every bit as sincere as it is profound." -Matt LeMay, Pitchforkmedia.com (listed at #5 in Top Albums from 2001)
Cloud-010
CD
$11.50

Cloudland Canyon
Silver Tongued Sisyphus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Vinyl reissue of 2007 LP originally pressed in a limited edition of 96 copies. The album's secular calls to prayer with humming, looping, loping ambient passages are interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy & agitated guitar lines. Pulling influences from the foggy ether of generations past, the band stakes their claim to the shadows of the cult musical culture of the late 1960s & early 1970s German underground scene
HolyMountain-111
LP
$16.00

Collisions
Villain's Spirit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Hailing from the Los Angeles, CA. Collisions are the newest band to emerge from the club Smell scene. Fresh out of high school, these four lads create a sound similar to Joy Division meets Empire.
SAFRecords-024
CD
$10.50

Connelly, Chris
Pentland Firth Howl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Very little from this refined affair (besides the emotion) resembles the industrial-disco of his past: MINISTRY, PIGFACE, REVOLTING COCKS, etc. So quiet, so austere. His Scottish accent flicks the end of each line, alveolar trills elongated into soothing vibratos. The incessantly rhythmic acoustic guitar that has driven the latter half of his career is still present & continues to shade his nocturnal vocal tone with a monochromatically shimmering shadow
BustedFlat-021
CD
$16.00

Copeland, Eric
Alien In A Garbage Dump (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US With Alien In A Garbage Dump, Brooklyn's Eric Copeland emerges from his underground bunker, having sifted through the constant stimulation found everywhere in this 21st Century, discovering connections within our united co-existence while avoiding the prejudices we are relentlessly force-fed from the powers that be. The result is a coll-ection of songs at once uniquely urban but still strangely universal in language. Fifteen years strong in the game and somehow it's easier to see where his music is going as opposed to where it's been.
PawTracks
CD
$12.50

Cougar
Patriot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Conceived in Madison, Wisconsin, Cougar's instrumental arrangements fall somewhere between Four Tet, Fugazi, and Nick Drake's guitar work, albeit optimistic as opposed to morose. The band's singular sound is rooted in a keen sensibility of form and texture, more in line with sample-based music and modern classical than indie rock - which isn't to say this is rock-as-academia" Cougar also invoke the roaring riff monster, the fist-in-the-air, anthemic head-banger to which so many groups give only an ironic nod.
Cougar's second album, the forthcoming Patriot, is an aggressive, narrative affair that sees the band reach even greater extremes than on their debut, "Law." The epic, sparkling counterpoint of the first record crops up, but "Patriot" firmly establishes itself as a different music, one that shreds the lines between electronic, rock and modern, but never forgets to pay allegiance to the hook. From the nuanced drive of opener "Stay Famous", through the widescreen propulsion of "Florida Logic," the choral sweep and electronic/organic beats of "Rhinelander" and the space logic of "Pelourinho," the band lay out their stall early. The hard-rocking, polyrhythmic assault of "Thundersnow," the fuzzed out "Heavy Into Jeff," the melodic build and final explosion of "Endings," the summer melancholy of "Appomattox," and the Hammond-led uplift of "Daunte v. Armada" culminates in the final beauty of "Absaroka". It's a record which sounds completely consistent and of a piece, yet manages to range widely across musical genres and style.
CounterRecords-
CD
$13.00

Cream
Waiting So Long The Ultimate Collector's Boxset (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 4LP boxset. Includes Fresh Cream on clear red vinyl, Wheels of Fire (studio) on white vinyl, Wheels of Fire (live) on white vinyl, & Goodbye on picture disc
Lilith-401
4XLP
$85.50

Crippled Black Phoenix
200 Tons Of Bad Luck (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US After releasing the underground classic -A Love if Shared Disasters- Crippled Black Phoenix have re-grouped and spent the best part of a year recording -200 tons of bad luck-. Although not strictly a concept recording the thoughts and moods of founding member Justin Greaves re-occur throughout and link the songs in a film like way. Once again CBP have crafted the songs at Geoff Barrows Portishead state of the art studio.
The end result will no doubt have folk scrambling for descriptives and in the midst of the relative chaos Crippled Black Phoenix will be oblivious to it all again giving you 200 tons of music that if you let yourself have time to be immersed in you shall be rewarded. Think of these albums like the moment when your life flashes before your eyes just before the inevitable conclusion.
InvadaRecords-076
LP
$17.25

Crooked Fingers
Forfeit/Fortune Here We Stand (Deluxe CD+DVD )(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US Crooked Fingers will release their fifth LP titled Forfeit/Fortune. Forfeit/Fortune features the fullest and most eclectic orchestration on a Crooked Fingers release to date, enlisting an all-star cast of players to perform. Brian Kotzer (Silver Jews) lent his talents to the project in Nashville, while Tom Hagerman (Devotchka) laid down string parts in Denver. Frequent Crooked Fingers touring mate Neko Case sang the brilliant album-closing duet "Your Control" with Bachmann in Tucson. Bachmann, a noted composer in his own right, wrote and arranged the string and horn parts on the record.
ConstantArtists-002
CD/DVD
$16.25

Cult
Love (Expanded Edition) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US To celebrate Love, The Cult will be performing the entire album on the 'Love Live' USA tour running mid-August thru September. A consistent seller over nearly 25 years, Love has sold over a million in North America. The expanded edition is a 2 disc set featuring the album re-mastered for the first time from the original studio digital tapes alonside a bonus disc featuring all the tracks from their 1985 UK singles, many of which were only previously available in the USA on the limited Rare Cult box set issued in 2000. Also included are all the 1985 remixes of "She Sells Sanctuary".
BeggarsBanquet
DCD
$16.50

Cure
Into The Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US This 4LP box set features special versions of the first four albums: Three Imaginary Boys on picture disc, Seventeen Seconds on white vinyl, Faith on grey vinyl & Pornography on clear red vinyl
Lilith-402
4XLP
$85.50

Current 93
Alpeh at Hallucinatory Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 2LP version
Coptic
DLP
$21.50

Daniell, David & Douglas McCombs
Sycamore (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.25

Daniell, David & Douglas McCombs
Sycamore (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Sycamore is the first album from the duo of David Daniell (San Agustin, Rhys Chatham) and Douglas McCombs (Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, Pullman). The album was recorded by Jeremy Lemos (Semaphore Recordings) and mixed with John McEntire at SOMA Studios. Sycamore is a delicate tapestry of spacious and ethereal guitar lines woven into abstract, slow-burning and multi-layered textural improvisations. The sounds blend and overlap to create richly faceted and thickly psychedelic passages, unveiling new layers of detail with each and every listen.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.25

Davis, On Ka'a
Djoukoujou! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Raw, wild & untainted, this is a new world envisioned, produced & realized by the mystical DAVIS. Drawing inspiration from the outer realms of Blackness, ON KA'A channels Sun Ra, P-Funk, Hendrix, Fela, & more into the squat politics of an East Village basement jam. Accompanied by a wild array of stylish zanies, freedom rings with poetry, polyrhythmic complexity & primal passions
Tzadik
CD
$15.25

De Castro, Terry
A Casa Verde (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Terry de Castro takes a novel approach to her solo debut, A Casa Verde, one that is especially charming, likable, and well, curious. She's chosen to take a wonderfully unusual course and recorded an album comprised entirely of cover versions, but these are not necessarily well-known songs by famous artists. Each songwriter on A Casa Verde is a personal friend and musical collaborator of Terry de Castro. There is a warm, inviting humility in the basic premise of devoting a record to the telling of stories by your friends, and it informs the entire endeavor, setting a tone of intimacy and empathy. Each song is a story unto itself, and all of the songs hang together in a vivid and illuminating way. De Castro's maturity as an artist is apparent from the first track.
ScopitonesNorthAmerica-026
CD
$13.75

Deadnotes
Orange Trumpet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Vinyl only release, limited to 400! Armed with an arsenal of trumpet, guitar, drums & casio, the trio make a glorious, semi-spontaneous sort of eccentric pop music thatÕs drawn comparisons (rightly or wrongly) to the likes of Ennio Morricone, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, The Magic Band, Moondog & even The Minutemen. The 30 tracks that comprise Orange Trumpet, the trio's defining statement, are amongst their earliest creations. Orange Trumpet plays like a minimalist, mariachi-esque version of Grow-UpÕs The Best Thing; itÕs brimming with ideas & presented with loose abandon. A jaunty melancholy, with echoes of Tori Kudo & Tenniscoats, is present throughout, regardless if the boys are shuffling thru haunted dirges, garage-y workouts, or other points in between
SoftAbuse-34
LP
$12.50

Disrupt
The Bass Has Left The Building (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US The Bass Has Left The Building is the long-awaited sequel to Disrupt's debut album Foundation Bit, which appeared on the wonderful Werk Discs in 2007 and quickly became one of the classic works of modern bass culture. On this new epic voyage Disrupt pushes the genre boundaries of 8Bit-ChipHop, roots dub and old-school gaming soundtracks into one big swirling black hole of low end mayhem. Raw, ultra-shuffling drum machine action and re-wired skanks create the gateway for a mind bending reference network of retro-SciFi movies, arcade classics and dub soundscapes in infinite loop mode. All riding on a non-stop wave of subsonic bass blasts to ensure an intense outah space blip-trip for all the 21st Century Planet Smashas out there.
Jahtari-003
CD
$15.50

DJ Spooky & Matthew Shipp Trio
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US A sophisticated, untamed blend of free jazz & hip hop
LaHuit-16
DVD
$20.25

Doiron, Julie/Okkervil River
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, SPAIN Reissue. Listening to this split CD is like watching someone rise, naked, from bed in the morning, laze around the house for a few hours, gradually don formal dress, walk outside, and get hit by a car. It traverses, in a leisurely 39 minutes, the distance between the softest whispers and the loudest screams, encompassing at either pole the lullaby and the murder ballad. It also displays modern folk music in both contemplative and ecstatic modes, as a soft tracery of whispers and strums and as a ragged tapestry of trembling strings, simmering organ, and tumultuous gusts of distortion. Julie Doiron, who starts things off, began her career as the 18-year-old bassist for Canadian lo-fi darlings Eric's Trip, with whom she recorded three acclaimed albums for Sub Pop before striking out on her own after the groups demise in 1996. Doiron's second solo outing, Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars, netted Doiron Canada's prestigious Juno award in 2000; since then, she has published a book of her photographs with New Brunswick's Broken Jaw Press and released three subsequent albums on Jagjaguwar. Doiron's half of this split - five solo performances recorded at her home in the mornings and evenings of December 2002 -represents her most startlingly intimate and unguarded work yet. Where in the past she has either carefully draped her songs in rainy cascades of electric guitars and shimmering keyboards or presented them elegantly spare and immaculately recorded, here Doiron casually sketches out her songs, leaving in fumbling fingers, missed lines, and sounds from the next room (including those of her four children). These new songs find their writer more content than she has perhaps ever appeared on record, singing lullabies to her family, love-songs about sleeping in on snowy November mornings, and affectionate tributes to her favorite musicians. Where Doiron's approach to modern songwriter-based folk is homey and uncluttered, her Jagjaguwar brethren Okkervil River offer instead something more far turbulent. Building on the sound of their critically praised Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See, this Austin, TX group here mixes skeletal folk, lush chamber pop, and supple rock and roll in service of the literate, uncompromising songs of frontman Will Sheff. "He Passes Number Thirty-Three" a sidelong tribute to missed chances, starts off as delicately as Doiron's whisper-quietest moments before turning into a contemplative ballad and, just as quickly, a towering prog-soul singalong. And then, once the distortion subsides, the paired murder songs hit and Okkervil River promptly steer this split out of the sunroom and onto the chopping block. Coming so quickly on the heels of Doiron's intimate strummings, these songs (one of them a version of the American traditional "Omie Wise) are an alarming but aesthetically bracing change, the kind of weird and welcome surprise that only a split CD can fully deliver. But don't worry, the detour is only brief; and the album's last track, "Blackest Coat," quickly ushers the listener, shaken but unharmed, into a tranquil bedroom where moonlight streams through the window, brighter and brighter until everything inside is finally smothered in warmth.
Acuarela-1033
CD
$11.00

Dr. Israel feat. Killah Priest
Gangsta N' Police (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Red vinyl. Limited to 1000. "Gangsta n Police" is a vivid depiction of urban life; a painting illustrated with the brush stroke of reality...Gangstas with knowledge run the streets. Questionable actions and intentions are sometimes a requirement for urban survival, and urban warfare against the corrupt police forces is often times un-avoidable. One does what one must in order to survive...As corporate imperialism manifests itself in a rapidly expanding prison industrial complex, crime is encouraged, security disbanded, and overt police corruption and greed is rewarded every bit as much as it is ignored." - Dr. Israel Dubstep bounces to life in the hands of Dr. Israel and Wu-Tang Clan alumnus Killah Priest, as a gritty street tale unfolds over stomping beats and singularly destructive bass. The single is sure to spring to life on both urban radio and in the modern dubstep craze, with Killah Priest dropping science with a memorable verse. The version utilizes the spacey, classic 70s method of dub technique, and the Submerged remix powers the club floor tailoring in the finer threads of dubstep mastercraft.Tracks:A1) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N PoliceA2) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N Police [Version] dubbed out byDr. Israel and Bill LaswellB1) Dr. Israel & Killah Priest - Gangsta N Police [Submerged Remix]B2) Accapella [unlisted]
OhmResistance-01
12
$8.25

Dragon Turtle/Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US This split 12" is an examination of the celestial, the intangible experience within the physical world, & the willing acceptance of the
impermanence of seasons. The depth of field is adjusted by GOODNIGHT STARS GOODNIGHT AIR (DAVID KRESGE) & DRAGON TURTLE (TOM ASSELIN & BRIAN LIGHTBODY). The journey drifts from background to foreground, darkness to light.
LaSocieteExpedionnaire-014
LP
$10.00

Drakkar Sauna
20009 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US JEFF STOLTZ plays the harmophone & piano, the drums & guitar, he whistles, he harmonizes, he wears a tamborine on his left foot. WALLACE COCHRAN writes the lyrics and sings. Their new album is pronounced "two thousand-ousand nine." It's about different kinds of love & the astronauts who feel it
Marriage-057
LP
$11.00

Explode Into Colors
Eyes Hands Mouth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US
KillRockStars-509
45
$5.25

Fahey, John
America (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971, this is one of the artistic high points of his career. And yet, for nearly 30 years it was not heard in its entirety, as what was originally intended as a double album was pared down to a single LP. Now, thanks to 4 Men With Beards, the complete double album is available on vinyl for the first time
4MenwithBeards-117
DLP
$27.00

Farmer Dave Scher
Flash Forward To The Good Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Smooth as a can of Frankies 457, we are proud to salute and present the first solo album from Farmer Dave Scher of Beachwoods Sparks and All Night Radio fame. In addition to his previously starry bands, pedal steel master Scher is known for his strong appearances, production, and performances that include the likes of Jenny Lewis, Interpol, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Rice, and Vetiver. The pedigree of Dave's projects comes close in hand with this golden debut, filled with gorgeous lush arrangements and jams that reflect sunny JJ Cale meets Motown lovin. A sweet West Coast journey and good times from start to finish. There's something so quality about Dave's honest marriage of nostalgia and now, with gems like "Bab'lone Nights". Scher keeps country minded and blends it properly with psych, soul, surf, and tinge of B. Bacharach. Special guests on the trip include members of Entrance, VietNam, Jonathan Wilson, and Devendra Banhart producer Thom Monahan.
Kemado-097
CD
$12.25

Farmer Dave Scher
Flash Forward To The Good Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Also on vinyl.
Kemado-098
LP
$13.75

Feelies, The
The Good Earth [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Original 1986 album (produced by Feelies fan Peter Buck) remastered on limited 180g LP vinyl, comes with a download ticket for album tracks and bonus tracks.
BarNone
LP
$19.00

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Bar/None is proud to release two classic albums by the Feelies that much loved group of hyper active indie rockers that did much to influence the sound of college radio in the 1980s. Their debut album Crazy Rhythms is a masterwork of perfectly honed minimalist rock 'n' roll that leaps and darts into the corners of the listeners consciousness a true sonic achievement that Rolling Stone called one of the 100 Best albums of the 1980s. Fans of the Velvet Underground, Wire and Brian Eno's early solo albums will surely appreciate their forces at work. Original 1980 debut album remastered on CD, comes with a download ticket for bonus tracks. This time we think it will actually happen!
BarNone
CD
$15.00

Feelies, The
The Good Earth [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Bar/None is proud to release two classic albums by the Feelies that much loved group of hyper active indie rockers that did much to influence the sound of college radio in the 1980s. Their debut album Crazy Rhythms is a masterwork of perfectly honed minimalist rock 'n' roll that leaps and darts into the corners of the listeners consciousness a true sonic achievement that Rolling Stone called one of the 100 Best albums of the 1980s. Fans of the Velvet Underground, Wire and Brian Eno's early solo albums will surely appreciate their forces at work. Original 1986 album (produced by Feelies fan Peter Buck) remastered on CD, comes with a download ticket for bonus tracks.
BarNone
CD
$15.00

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Original 1980 debut album remastered on limited 180g LP vinyl, comes with a download ticket for the album and bonus tracks.
BarNone
LP
$19.00

Fell
Incoherent Lullabies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US On their second album, Fell have replaced the dark, post-Joy Division, post Disintegration-era Cure tonalities of their debut with a shimmering, gorgeously-melodic trip that recall the more blissed out moments of bands like the Telescopes & Josh Wambeke's earlier space-pop project PHINEAS GAGE. Recorded without expensive studios, name producers or extravagant budgets just a dedication to achieving sublime sonics at the intersection of post-rock, dream-pop & psychedelia
CameraObscura-086
CD
$13.25

Final
Reading All the Right (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Justin Broadrick (GODFLESH, JESU) has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Themes of urban decay, corporate greed, & post-modern malaise often set the bleak tone. CD version contains 4 additional tracks, and is presented in mini tip-on gatefold jacket
NoQuarter-018
CD
$12.25

Fink
Sort Of Revolution (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Following the 2006 release of debut LP Biscuits for Breakfast, and 2007's Distance and Time, singer songwriter Fin Greenall, aka Fink, returns in 2009 with the self-produced Sort of Revolution. A beautiful fusion of jazz, blues and soulful acoustic rhythms.
NinjaTune-146
CD
$13.00

Fink
Sort Of Revolution LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Following the 2006 release of debut LP Biscuits for Breakfast, and 2007's Distance and Time, singer songwriter Fin Greenall, aka Fink, returns in 2009 with the self-produced Sort of Revolution. A beautiful fusion of jazz, blues and soulful acoustic rhythms.
NinjaTune-146
LP
$14.75

Finn, Liam
Champagne In Seashells EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US The follow up to last year's critically lauded I'll Be Lightning, Liam Finn's new EP Champagne in Seashells might have a tongue-twisting title but the songs that comprise it are some of the best of Liam's meteoric career. Since the release of Liam's first full length he's toured with Eddie Vedder, the Black Keys and recorded the 7 Worlds Collide album with members of Radiohead, Wilco, The Smiths and Modest Mouse. A constant member of Liam's touring act, Eliza-Jane Barnes takes a more prominent role here singing lead on "On Your Side." The sonic stepsister to Lightning, Champagne in Seashells once again exhibits Finn's melody rich DNA through hooks so meaty they reliably rise through Liam's signature production atmospherics. Pop music through a Hesse-ian lens, Champagne in Seashells is just as its title suggests - refined yet accessible, high brow and low fi.
YepRoc-2134
CD5
$5.25

Fjorden
The Setting Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, JAPAN "THE SETTING SUN" is FJORDNE's 4th album since the succession of 3 albums released in 2008 by Ryoondo Tea (Japan), Dynamophone Records (US) and U-Cover (Belgium), which received rave reviews mainly in the European community for his visually concoctive compositions. FJORDNE is also known as Shunichiro Fujimoto (b.1980). Born in Japan, he grew up in South East Asia and America before moving back to Tokyo, where he is currently based. In the winter of early 2009, FJORDNE worked on "THE SETTING SUN" inspired by the evocative descriptions of simple things in Dazai Osamu's novel of the same name (Shayo), a story of an aristocratic family in decline and the moral lapses of its members. Sidestepping the novel's content, FJORDNE recreates through sound the introspection and pastoral lyricism of Dazai's language. "THE SETTING SUN" pushes FJORDNE's work into a more classical domain compared to his previous works, underlining his mastery of melody and dissonance through an ensemble of acoustic instruments such as piano, guitars and strings embodied in layers of dense sonic textures and disorder, transforming his sounds into a new time span. Packaged in Kitchen. Customized 6 fold accordion photo album, the essence of "THE SETTING SUN" is made visible by artwork provided by April Lee (one half of Aspidistrafly and artist for Kitchen.). Employing the progression and pause of time, the flow of the images gently echo FJORDNE's interpretation to reveal this carefully hidden world.
Kitchen-003
CD
$17.00

Flipper
Fight (Live) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 180 grams of live Flipper. FIGHT was recorded in 2007 at Dante's in Portland and The Funhouse in Seattle. Both were recorded and mixed by Seattle's legendary Jack Endino. This album includes classic Flipper songs as well as songs from Flipper's new studio album, entitled LOVE. FIGHT, along with LOVE, are bookends that encapsulate time spent recording in the studio and playing live shows with former Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic. FIGHT is the live companion to LOVE and serves as a perfect balance to the studio album experience. LOVE and FIGHT should exist side by side in your album collection. The return of Flipper, just in time. 180 gram vinyl edition.
Flipper-4899
LP
$17.00

Flipper
Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US 180 grams of LOVE! LOVE, the brand new studio album from the incredible Flipper was recorded with the great Jack Endino at the helm, known for having recorded many of Seattle's greatest grunge albums, including Nirvana's Bleach. Recording took place at the Murky Slough Studios, on Krist Novoselic's property in Washington. Bruce Loose, Ted Falconi, and Steve DePace would regularly travel to Krist's for writing and recording sessions, and affectionately referred to it as 'Band Camp." With Krist providing bass, the band dug in and recorded one of their best efforts yet combing noisy guitars with that perfect low-end bass and the grind of life and love. LOVE was designed to be a twin and companion to FIGHT. A well-balanced experience from the one and only FLIPPER. Gorgeous cover and artwork house the 180-gram vinyl version of this incredible album.
Flipper-4898
LP
$17.00

Flipron
Gravity Calling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US This album gives you blues, glam-tinged rock'n'roll, 60's psychedelia and a whole lot more, all subtly woven around Flipron's unique brand of pop from another planet. Gravity Calling is produced by legendary Damned drummer Rat Scabies, and mixed by David M Allen, producer of some of The Cure's biggest hits. All the shows will be supporting Bobby Long (he of the Twilight song) and all gigs will be sold out.
TinyDog/CargoUK-016
CD
$13.75

Forty Winters
The Honor Campaign EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US The Honor Campaign EP is FORTY WINTERS' first offering to the world. The EP was self financed and produced in true DIY style. The band originally self released The Honor Campaign EP in late 2008 and is now being distributed by Dead Truth Recordings. FORTY plans on finishing up songs for their full-length Dead Truth debut and touring their asses off. Dead Truth Recordings explain, "The main reason we had an interest in FORTY is their work ethic, in true DIY fashion, and always with smiles on their faces and good attitudes. We want to work with bands that put in as much as we do, that work hard to be where they want to be, and push to the next level. FORTY is definitely one of those bands. We are very excited to work with them, and can't wait to see what they come up with."
DeadTruthRecordings-008
CD
$5.00

Gano, Gordon & The Ryans
Under The Sun LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Gordon Gano, co-founder of and songwriter for alt-rock monoliths The Violent Femmes returns to the scene he helped spawn with Under the Sun. Film-scoring brothers and Bogmen members Brendan and Billy Ryan join Gano for Gordon Gano & The Ryans' first collaboration and Gordon's first non-Femmes release as a front man. Gano's influence on alternative music is immeasurable and his latest work is sure to remind the music world of the force and presence with which he originally stormed onto the scene in 1983, paving the way for the commercial explosion of alternative music a decade later. Gano's signature emotionalism is present in full force on razor-edged ballads like title track "Under the Sun" and the gorgeously unfurling "Still Suddenly Here." Tense propulsion underpin "Wave and Water" and "Man in the Sand." His most cohesive collaboration yet, Under the Sun marks the beginning of a promising partnership with The Ryans' and the return of a musical heavyweight.
YepRoc-221
LP
$15.50

Gano, Gordon & The Ryans
Under The Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Gordon Gano, co-founder of and songwriter for alt-rock monoliths The Violent Femmes returns to the scene he helped spawn with Under the Sun. Film-scoring brothers and Bogmen members Brendan and Billy Ryan join Gano for Gordon Gano & The Ryans' first collaboration and Gordon's first non-Femmes release as a front man. Gano's influence on alternative music is immeasurable and his latest work is sure to remind the music world of the force and presence with which he originally stormed onto the scene in 1983, paving the way for the commercial explosion of alternative music a decade later. Gano's signature emotionalism is present in full force on razor-edged ballads like title track "Under the Sun" and the gorgeously unfurling "Still Suddenly Here." Tense propulsion underpin "Wave and Water" and "Man in the Sand." His most cohesive collaboration yet, Under the Sun marks the beginning of a promising partnership with The Ryans' and the return of a musical heavyweight.
YepRoc-221
CD
$13.75

Garwood, Duke
The Sand That Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US
Fire-132
LP
$15.50

Gary Go
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Vinyl release precedes 9/15 release. Bonafide pop hits and just toured with Take That and Lady Gaga. First single "Wonderful" is already climbing Hot AC pop charts.
Decca-01
LP
$19.00

Gary Go
Wonderful (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US A/w "Wonderful." B/w "Give Me A Reason."
Decca-21
45
$4.25

Germano, Lisa
Magic Neighbor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 22ND)
PS, US "For some reason, her music reminds me of early Disney songs - fuzzy & dreamy. Thinking about it today, I also thought of the great - & neglected - music that Tom Waits did w/ Crystal Gayle for the movie "One from the Heart" - Michael Gira / Young God
YoungGod-039
CD
$16.00

Germano, Lisa
Magic Neighbor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 22ND)
PS, US LP+CD
YoungGod-039
LP/CD
$17.25

Ginger
Great White Monkey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Great White Monkey is an acoustic live album that was available to buy at Ginger's acoustic shows as a single disc. The Round Records version features both sets that were played on the night and is now 26 tracks over two discs. The album was recorded at the Rugeley Rose Theatre in Staffordshire England on September 23, 2003.
RoundRecords-017
CD
$20.75

Giving Tree Band, The
Great Possessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US The Giving Tree Band's Great Possessions has been called the "greenest of albums" in the Chicago Sun-Times because of it's carbon neutral production. The eco-folk rockers camped outdoors and commuted more than 500 miles by bicycle during a month-long, solar-powered recording session.
CrookedCreekRecords-1134
CD
$13.75

Grief No Absolution
Eurostopodus Argus/Crypsis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Short sharp hateful stabs of sound versus the withered dry bones of aridÊfurnace-like slabs. Grief No Absolution is a crushing abandonment of frilly technique that has seeped into the darkest edges of metal, a reversion to a harrowing, bleak sound - decayed, scorched - and utterly unredeemed. Includes download code, yay!
FlingcoSoundSystem-006
10/45
$23.00

Guthrie, Robin
Carousel (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Carousel is the follow up to the critically acclaimed instrumental albums Continental and Imperial. We have a few words to describe Carousel - uplifting, summery, opulent, dreamlike, exquisite, moving - with Guthrie quietly coaxing beauty out of layers of echoes and always-inventive soundscaping. Guthrie has been a massive influence on everyone from My Bloody Valentine through to Antony and the Johnsons, new 4AD Act The Big Pink and M83. In recent years he's worked with School Of Seven Bells, John Foxx (on this year's Mirrorball album, described by Q Magazine as 'full of myriad charms . . . encompassing the best of both artists'), Ulrich Schnauss, Harold Budd (with whom he made two albums in 2007, Before The Day Breaks and After The Night Falls) and Brooklyn's Mahogany and Apollo Heights. Given the quality of Carousel, it's not surprising that as a guitarist and producer, though most people know about his work as the Cocteau Twins principal sound designer, his defining role in the now vogue-ishly fashionable early '90s shoegazing scene with his productions for the likes of Lush and Chapterhouse shouldn't go un-noticed. Guthrie is also developing an impressive reputation as a composer of film soundtracks and in the visual arts. He's scored two movies - Greg Araki's Mysterious Skin and the Dany Saadia directed 3:19 - for both of which he released a soundtrack album, and has performed extensively with Lumire, and its recently premiered successor Galerie, both films that he has created as backdrops for his atmospheric, hypnotic guitar-based instrumental concerts.
Darla-226
CD
$12.25

Guthrie, Robin
Songs to Help My Children Sleep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US New four song EP by former Cocteau Twins guitarist. Limited to 1000. Digipak. Tracks: 1. Laughter in the Dark 2. Fireflies 3. White Bear in Honolulu 4. Misty
Darla-228
CD5
$7.00

Hapshash & The Coloured Coat
Feat. The Human Host & The Heavy Metal Kids (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US One of the most sought-after of all '60s cult LPs, this 1967 record could only have emerged during the psychedelic era as a vibrant manifestation of that period's freewheeling, boundary-breaking spirit of musical adventure. Out-of-print for decades & never before reissued domestically. High quality audiophile vinyl, feat. complete original cover art
Sundazed-5272
LP
$16.50

Hardkiss, Scott
Technicolor Dreamer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Technicolor Dreamer, is Scott Hardkiss' highly anticipated first first full-length album. A perfect summer album with booty-shakin' dance grooves which take his signature psychedelic fusion sound to the next level. Technicolor Dreamer, brings together a kaleidoscopic spectrum of musicians, artists and genres to create an album that can be perfectly summed up as a celebratory dance pop funk-fest.
GodWithinRecordings-001
LP
$25.75

Health
Get Color (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
VINYL VERSION
Lovepumpunited-028
LP
$10.25

Health
Get Color (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
HEALTH are the new frontier of noise rock. Formed in 2005, HEALTH self-recorded their debut album over the course of 9 months at Los Angeles D.I.Y. venue The Smell, birthing an urgent and extraordinary album which seethed with ghostly, epic pop and spurts of chaotic noise.Their shows grew wild, kids danced & moshed, blogs freaked out, critics raved, and everyone wondered how in God's name HEALTH was going to follow it up. While the anticipation grew, HEALTH released a critically-acclaimed remix record HEALTH//DISCO, toured with the likes of Crystal Castles, Nine Inch Nails, and Of Montreal and played over 400 shows!t
On September 8th 2009, HEALTH answer the call and release their second album GET COLOR. Recorded in an especially gnarly part of Lincoln Heights, LA, GET COLOR is an exuberant proclamation of noise, rock and electronic splendor. It's a celebration of sound; pretty, harsh, soft and basked in a blanket of ethereal vocals. GET COLOR is the manifesto HEALTH have been promising since their inception. HEALTH are the band.
GET COLOR is the record. NOW is the time. "Best New Music" PITCHFORK MEDIA on DIE SLOW "HEALTH: Dance, noise? Neither? Both?" - NEW YORK TIMES "LA's premier ear-splitters: the purveyors of strangely dancable grindcore...The Future of Noise!" -NME
LovepumpUnited-028
CD
$10.50

Henry, Joe
Blood From Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US With his work as both producer and a songwriter overlapping and informing one another, it is only natural that the blues found their way onto Henry's latest album "Blood From Stars" after most recently producing albums for Allen Toussaint and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. The album features veteran musicians like guitarist Marc Ribot and pianist Jason Moran. Joe Henry has produced and written with Loudon Wainwright, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Ornette Coleman, Solomon Burke, Madonna, ani DiFranco, Don Byron, T-Bone Burnett and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
Anti
CD
$15.50

Hewhocorrupts/Phoenix Bodies
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Split 10 inch of Midwest-spazzing-thrash-grind-nudeness between HEWHOCORRUPTS & PHOENIX BODIES
GileadMedia-10
10
$17.25

Higher Giant
The First Five (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US PS, US Colored Vinyl! The members of this band have previously player for: Token Entry, Kid Dynamite, Grey Area, Lifetime, Black Train Jack, Paint it Black, None More Black, Good Riddance Warzone, The Arsons, and qutie a few others. Jason and Al are some of those memebers. Depiste popular belief, Ernie was not one of Frankie Valli's Four Seasons.
Creep-110
45
$5.25

Hillage, Steve
Live At Deeply Vale (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Live At Deeply Vale Festival 1978 transports the listener back to one of the last truly great festivals staged in the UK that decade, a weekend's worth of music that fearlessly ranged across both the traditional rock range and the upcoming punk movement, before climaxing with a Hillage set that the guitarist himself reflects, "...(sounds) as exciting now as Live Herald was back then." Goldmine Magazine USA. "A must have for any and all fans of Hillage, Gong, Canterbury, Avant Garde and just good British psych in general."
Ozit-8007
DLP
$34.25

Holcomb, Roscoe
High Lonesome Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1965, this is his 1st full album for Folkways. Appalachian folk music both beautiful & harsh, harrowing & tender
Folkways-368
LP
$16.75

Jay Reatard
Watch Me Fall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Matador Singles compilation scanned 9K. HQ 120 RTI vinyl LP in heavy duty Stoughton jacket, printed innersleeve, and MP3 coupon. 4-panel digipak CD. Cost to coast touring with The Oh Sees and TV Smith in June and July.Documentary about Jay's eventful career to date coming in August. "A songwriter hitting an unstoppable stride" - Pitchfork. "Snarky, snarling, and soaring, this kind of derangement rarely sounds so sweet" - Dusted.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Jega
Variance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US 2CD set. Disc 1 is the light, w/ beautiful synth arpeggios battling w/ sampled flutes & organic hip-hop & soul inspired breaks. Disc 2 is the darkness, altogether starker, starting w/ "Tensor," an electro-acoustic sound sculpture, & building up into the dystopian melodies, electro beats, & dubstep bass of "Shibuya"
PlanetMu-024
DCD
$17.75

Jega
Variance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US 2LP version
PlanetMu-024
DLP
$19.25

Jeniferever
Choose A Bright Morning (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Choose A Bright Morning was first released in 2006 by Drowned In Sound Recordings in the UK. Its shimmering blend of melodic ambient indie rock, post-rock and shoe gaze won many fans for the band and earned them favorable comparisons with bands such as Appleseed Cast and Sigur Ros. It is probably the most carefully arranged, delicately mastered, and exquisitely performed collection of music that youâ€(tm)ll encounter this year.
MonotremeRecords-042
CD
$13.75

Jeremy Jay
Breaking the Ice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8th)
PS, US 3 Songs: Side A: Breaking The Ice, Side B: Winter Wonder , Words Of Love "Breaking the Ice" is another candid single from Jeremy Jay. This single, the latest volume in our International Pop Underground series of 7" 45 rpm records, appeared on Slow Dance [KLP197] in the springtime of 2009. With shiny synths,
noble guitars, and a strong will - it is another chance at romance. The single also includes an alternate version of "Winter Wonder" with icy and unsettled synthesizers, and a sincere and effective cover of the innocent 50s song "Words of Love" by Buddy Holly.
2009, followed by stretches of the USA in November. The glide on ice transfers to the dance floor with ease "Slow Dance uses crisp garage-rock and frigid post-punk as a backdrop for [a] romanticized pop fantasy ... It's the most weirdly mesmerizing in a series of promising singles, EPs and full
length-length releases [by Jeremy Jay]." - Pitchfork "Jeremy Jay has become one of the most oddly compelling pop songwriters of recent memory."
Krecords-126
45
$3.75

Johnson, Blind Willie
If I Had My Way, I'd Tear The Building Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US One of the most talented bottleneck guitar players to have ever lived. Blues that often borders on spiritual, this compilation was taken from his 1927-1930 recording sessions
Monk-310
LP
$22.75

June, The
Magic Circles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US This energetic Italian trio carved an original repertoire influenced by the Beatles, Byrds, Stooges, Sex Pistols, Jam, Oasis, and Kula Shaker. Their sound conjures the energy of labelmates Rock Four, The High Dials and Sidonie with a garage-y freakbeat psychedelia brought into the 21st century.
RainbowQuartz-159
CD
$13.00

Keelhaul
Keelhaul's Triumphant Return T o Obscurity (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Basically, this guy Keelhaul is a solid dude and maybe part of you wants to be him, no shame in it...most people are susceptible to societal pressures...you wanted to be an adult and you thought you ken what that meant...trips to the wine store...you should kick you own ass. Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity, is not just a clever name for an album title marking a band's return from obscurity. The record picks up on the band's progression as if they were steadily releasing records throughout their six year hiatus. The pace is precise, the instrumentation is masterful and the guitar tones are absolutely appropriate. Keelhaul knows what he's doing and he has no clue what pitchfork is, so he feels no need to overcompensate by adding strings, vibes, horns, boners, jew's harps and/or electric flutes to his compositions.
HydraHead-185
CD
$13.00

Krallice
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 11TH)
PS, US Limited to 800. An overwhelming amalgam of epic time-stretching visceral black metal that recalls the spirit brought forth w/ such acts as Buzum, Weakling, Gorgoroth, & Ulver
GileadMedia-023
DLP
$20.25

Laplanine, Anne
Little May Time Be (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1st)
PS, GERMANY Since Anne Laplantine has not released a new record for a few years, Ahornfelder is proud to announce the release of a new album by this outstanding French artist. Over the last years Anne moved between Vienna, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and Paris where she currently lives. This journey reflects her artistic personality - like an explorer she is constantly searching for the ideal solution and the right thing to say artistically. She uncompromisingly follows her artistic intuition and each step of this ongoing search is never well prepared or calculated. The destination of her journey is not a safe spot somewhere in the music world. She is not interested in finding her musical home or in marking her territory, rather she seems to be most interested in the promising struggle of a new start.
Maybe that's why Anne confused her audience by releasing records on different labels under many different guises: As Michiko Kusaki she had a release on the label Angelika Kohlermann (Vienna), for Tomlab (Cologne) she recorded as Angelika Kohlermann and Anne Hamburg, and on Emphase Records (Berlin) she released a wonderful album under her given name. Besides her musical projects, which also involve a variety of impressive collaborations, she is also involved in an all sorts of art projects in the cities she lives in.
On her latest releases Anne developed her very own way of composing electronic pop music. Concerning structure and harmony her music owes more to baroque polyphony than to the standard track format. Little lo-fi sound samples of flute, guitar, etc. are arranged to create fragile polyphonic miniature-masterpieces. This fascinating and friendly way of composing is further developed on her album for Ahornfelder. But this record offers much more to discover: Concentrated experiments with structure and sound, beautiful songs which are sparsely orchestrated with guitars and an old school drum computer, and additionally an incorporated art project. The album contains 58 tracks, 34 of which are nothing but silence in between 4 to 20 seconds. But these silences' are not totally silent. In these short passages you can either hear the first few seconds after a recording is finished, or you can listen to the the stage setting of the next recording to come. You do not hear the recorded music itself. Anne again seems more interested in the promising struggles of new beginnings - where so far nothing is said, but everything could be said - than in fixed results or answers. It speaks in favour of Anne's focused musical sensibility that this "silences'" experiment does not dissipate her album into incoherent pieces. The dramaturgy of the album is conclusive and each little piece of silence helps to bundle the attention of the listener all over again. I love this record and so will you. --Jochen Briesen
Ahornfelder-014
CD
$16.25

Laudanum
Coronation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Punishing, bruised sludge doom & bleak industrial noise experiments are fused ever more tightly together into a cohesive soundtrack for the slow collapse of modern life & culture
20BuckSpin-032
CD
$10.00

Lauderdale, Jim
Could We Get Any Closer? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18th)
PS, US Could We Get Any Closer? is Jim's long awaited follow-up to his Grammy award winning album Bluegrass Diaries.
SkyCrunch-442
CD
$13.00

Lee, Arthur
Acoustic Demos 1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US Sonic archaeology! Sundazed has
unearthed an unissued 1971 album by ARTHUR LEE & LOVE, as well as a marvelous batch of acoustic demos feat. just the magical voice of Lee & his acoustic guitar. As a precursor to the release of this breathtaking record (to be called "Love Lost") this 7" incl. 2 knockout tracks from the demo side. "Sad Song" will only appear on this single!
Sundazed
45
$8.50

Liturgy
Renihilation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 25TH)
PS, US With a style similar to that of Krallice as well as the earlier works of Ulver, they represent the seeping of black metal into the consciousness of the indie music world at large
20BuckSpin-031
CD
$10.00

Lokai
Transition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Lokai is the duo of Stefan Németh (Radian) and Florian Kmet who are both major players in the avant-electronic music scene and have a cultish underground following. They operate with only guitar and electronics to create an album with a strong feeling of space and depth. It is expansive and yet detailed.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.25

Lokai
Transition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.25

Longet, Claudine
Sugar Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US Includes 2 bonus tracks from her 1971 single "Canta En Espanol." The 1st 1,000 copies will be pressed on high quality transparent yellow virgin vinyl
Lilith-155
LP
$23.50

Lords Of The Highway
Rarities (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US All the singles, one-offs, previously vinyl only and other unreleased material from Ohio legends, Lords of The Highway. Greasy and revved up! A must have for soundtrack for burning up miles on the road.
SharkAttack-001
CD
$10.50

Lovely Eggs, The
If You Were Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 1st)
PS, US The Lovely Eggs are David and Holly. The pair started playing music together in Paris when they discovered a pigeon had laid two lovely egg in an abandoned nest on Holly's windowsill. When the eggs finally hatched, Holly and David traveled to live above a jewelry shop in Lancaster in the North West of England, where they formed their new band The Lovely Eggs! The Lovely Eggs played their first ever gig in New York in 2006 and since then they have attracted quite a following! BBC DJs Huw Stephens, Marc Riley, Rob Da Bank, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq as well as legendary music journalist Everett True are all fans of The Lovely Eggs quirky lo-fi, DIY sound. Last year the band was invited by Huw Stephens to perform at Swn Festival in Cardiff and recorded a Radio One session at BBC Maida Vale for Huw's 'Introducing' show. The pair has also performed a live session on Marc Riley's BBC 6 Music show, as well as for XFM as part of Manchester's international music convention 'In The City'. The Lovely Eggs have played all over the world from Amsterdam squats and Los Angeles scrap yards to steam trains in Ripley and tea parties in Manchester! David plays a unique drumcycle with handlebars on the front so he can drum and bike at the same time. He also plays the bicycle bell and squeaky horn, the glockenspiel, ukelele and slightly wonky recorders. Holly sings and plays the guitar. And sometimes she hits a drum with a wooden stick with wool tied around the end. David made it for her because he likes making things. The band also have a wide internet fan base and were voted "Best Band of 2008" by blogsite The Devil Has The Best Tuna. Their first single and international radio hit "I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too" was voted "Best track of 2008" and the title track of their latest EP "Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion?" was ranked #11 by listeners of the popular internet radio station Dandelion Radio in their 2008 Peel inspired Festive 50 chart. Holly used to be in the all-girl indiepop band Angelica, who received widespread critical acclaim and extensive airplay on Radio 1 with songs like "Why Did You Let My Kitten Die" and "Bring Back Her Head" which is featured in the film Malice in Wonderland, to be released later this year. The Lovely eggs released their 14 track debut album 'If You Were Fruit' on Cherryade Records in the UK in June 2009 and wowed fans on a recent tour of the UK, including a number of one off unusual performances in charity shops, on beaches and in a fan's garage! 'If You Were Fruit' will see its American release in August by Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, featuring new artwork from Oakland artist Jon Carling and an additional five bonus tracks from the band's first two UK EPs. The band will then go on to perform a string of west coast dates and embark on an American tour with label mates Cars Can Be Blue. Look out for The Lovely Eggs near you!
HappyHappyBirthdaytoMe-114
CD
$11.50

Lovely Feathers
Fantasy Of The Lot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US The Lovely Feathers have remerged. Bearing the laborious fruit of hours spent at Montreal's Studio Plateau, with the consummate Dan Legace manning knobs and such, Kupfert and company find themselves armed to the teeth with a new label (Sparks Music), a new record, a new tour, new everything!!! The aforementioned fruit? Think of it as a detonation of synth-pop, twee, shanty rock and polite-electrocalled Fantasy of the Lot.
Sparks
CD
$12.50

Lowlights
Further/Free (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US This time the group is more The Band than The Church & more Gram Parsons than Spiritualized. Still melancholy, rock solid, earthy country-rock
Darla-229
CD
$12.25

Lusine
Certain Distance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US
GhostlyInternational-087
DLP
$23.00

Lusine
Certain Distance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 8TH)
PS, US A Certain Distance sees McIlwain employing human vocals & pop structures, hooks & melodies in the service of something warmer & more welcoming than the Lusine of old. Mapping human emotions via technology may be an insurmountable task, but this album brings McIlwain closer than most to achieving the impossible. Each track is a world unto itself, as McIlwain's careful touch lends the album a depth that goes on for days.
GhostlyInternational-087
CD
$11.75

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

Madness
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 18TH)
PS, US UK ska pop band Madness first made noise in England as part of the burgeoning 2 Tone/Second Wa