New Releases
+/-
(Plus/Minus)
Self-Titled Debut DVD
PS, US Debut DVD from +/- (Plus/Minus) features 14 professionally
produced videos compiled by Chris Deaner (+/- & KELLY CLARKSON
drummer & video director). Incl. vids from an animated short to
a horror film to live performance. Incl. videos by Chris Deaner, Patryk
Rebisz, Rik Cordero, Doug Spice, Orrin Anderson, Paul Kloss, Myactivedriveway.
NTSC Region = 0. +/- (PLUS/MINUS) is the band started by Versus members
James Baluyut and Patrick Ramos in 2001. Chris Deaner joined them
shortly thereafter. They still plan to conquer the world with their
electronic dreamy pop meets teeth crunching rock. They hail from a
city in New York state aptly named New York.
TeenBeat-403
DVD
$16.25
Aceyalone
Lightning Strikes
PS, US Produced by Bionik / feat.Chali (JURASSIC 5) & Jah Orah.The
LA legend,a former member of Freestyle Fellowship, is back w/ his
1st new concept album in a series of albums inspired by other genres,
this is the dancehall record.
Decon-060
CD
$15.00
Aceyalone
Lightning Strikes
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Decon-060
LP
$16.00
Aesop Rock
None Shall Pass
PS, US This documents a vast amount of personal change that he experienced
over the last 2 yrs, but also deftly depicts scenes & stories
relative to all ages of life. Production by BLOCKHEAD, also feat.
EL-P & ROB SONIC
DefinitiveJux-144
CD
$15.00
Ainotamenishis
Live '418
PS, US A loud,heavy guitar group from Tokyo who were birthed from
one oviduct marked "Velvet Underground" & a massive
salpinx marked "Gaseneta."Their brand of controlled panic
is sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about
the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie,harsh, & utterly essential.
HolyMountain-017
LP
$15.00
Akimbo
Navigating the Bronze
PS, US Their heaviest & most dynamic release to date. In addition
to a refreshed guitar sound, Weisnewski's token throat-shredding has
evolved into a deeper, more ferocious bellow, lending a primal quality
to the vocals as well as fueling the inferno w/ new melodies. This
has its cache of surprises for old fans, incl. a classical tribute
to Bach. At once their most varied & sonically mature record thus
far, it's certain to take the band to the next level.
Virus-378
CD
$12.75
Angeli, Paolo
Tessuti
PS, US Features compositions by Fred Frith & Bjork - all played
solo in real time on his highly customised & extended, electrified,
giant Sardinian folk guitar. A tour de force of technique & highly
musical; Dense enough that it rewards listening to a few songs at
a time, though you could also dance to it.
ReR
CD
$16.75
Animals
Let It Rock
PS, US 18 digitally remastered live covers of R&B standards from
legends such as Chuck Berry & John Lee Hooker, featuring a guest
appearance by Sonny Boy Williamson.
Snapper
CD
$11.50
Ashworth, Mark David
Viceroy EP
PS, US Viceroy is the debut album from San Francisco and Austin based
singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark David Ashworth. Born
out of several months of recording and traveling throughout Latin
America, Viceroy is based on the trials and pleasures of otherness
and the search for self in a foreign land. Latin-folk-influenced soundscapes
are fleshed out by guitars, pianos, programming, drums, charangos,
quenas, and nightstands.
Autobus-002
CD5
$9.00
Aural Planet
5ex Engine
PS, POLAND "...as Aural Planet orchestrates their advanced audio
systems in the development of 5 Ex Engine, we see this talented group
producing the finest in upbeat, bass-heavy electro with industrial
frequencies subtly punching away in the backdrop..." IGLOO::MAG
RECOMMENDED
Vivo-2002004
CD
$12.00
Bad Flirt
Head On
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FridgeEmber
45
$4.25
Bad Flirt
Head On
PS, US
FridgeEmber
CD5
$5.00
Bad Flirt
6 Ways To Break Your Heart
PS, US
BF-001
CD
$11.00
Baghiri, Amir
Yalda
PS, POLAND A fabulous album from Amir Baghiri displaying a captivating
virtuosity on a wide range of African, middle eastern and Asian percussion
instruments. Ambience comes from the field recordings and found sounds,
and everything's subtly processed to create a rich, exotic soundtrack
that recalls old school masters like Zakir Hussain as well as the
'fourth world' music of Sun City Girls, Muslimgauze or Jon Hassell.
Vivo-2003007
CD
$12.00
Bailiff, Jessica
Old Things
PS, BELGIUM Old things explains why it took Jessica Bailiff so long
to put out her third record. This album brings you a collection of
rarities and unreleased material, recorded between 1999 and 2002,
whilst also working on her critically acclaimed records on Kranky.
Some songs have the familiar sound of her first records (Alan Sparhawk
of Low still plays on one of them), but already hint in the direction
of the more folky current sound. track list: Your sounds make patterns
in my eyes Helpless Warren (Home version) Shadow Crush, version 2
Amethyst depression Maybe tomorrow Let time breathe Nicholson square
2 For April Figure eight (For Jonathan)
Morc-45
CD
$14.25
Barlow, Lou
Holding Back The Year b/w Refused
PS, UK
Domino
45
$5.50
Belott, Brian
Wipe That Clock Off Your Face
PS, US Brian Belott's first book is a compendium of all his disparate
artistic practices-including collage, drawing, found photography and
sound mixing-and it is also his first CD. The original CD/DVD included
here offers the acclaimed Found Images, a digital slideshow of over
2000 photos with an exclusive full-length soundtrack of original sound
collages. Assemblage permeates Belott's methods; he is a master of
using cast-off and neglected ephemera to create new and surprising
effects. The New York Times critic Holland Cotter calls the results
"imaginatively inviting," and the Times' Roberta Smith calls
them "radiant." The well-known painter Donald Baechler's
foreword speaks to Belott's place in the realm of creation from found
materials. Belott's world is like a trip through a funhouse of vernacular
art: enter at your own risk.
Picturebox
BOOK
$29.00
Ben & Bruno
100 Grim Reapers
PS, US Tons of vocal loops & chorus style singing, and no drums
anywhere on the record. Weird, sad, wonderful. B&B is a group
of songs based one character named Ben. The newest album focuses more
on his life a long while after his abduction by a religious fanatic
& has to do with his wife & two daughters. The album centers
around those relationships & Ben's inability to shake this past
impression he acquired. Hand screen printed 4 panel chipboard package
with 20 panel booklet.
Ben&Bruno
CD
$11.50
Black Angels
Better Off Alone
PS, US Single from forthcoming album. With its bluesy riffs &
pounding jungle drums, Better Off Alone finds the Angels bemoaning
woman troubles & whisky (or the lack Think of Austins other great
psychedelic band, The 13th Floor Elevators jamming with Jim Morrison,
and you might get an idea of how it sounds.
LightInTheAttic
CD5
$3.50
Black Angels
Better Off Alone
PS, US Single from forthcoming album. With its bluesy riffs &
pounding jungle drums, Better Off Alone finds the Angels bemoaning
woman troubles & whisky (or the lack thereof). Think of Austins
other great psychedelic band, The 13th Floor Elevators jamming with
Jim Morrison, and you might get an idea of how it sounds.
LightInTheAttic
45
$6.50
Blackshaw, James
Cloud of Unknowing
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TompkinsSquare
LP
$13.50
Blank Dogs
The First Two Weeks
PS, US I guess what you need to know is printed right on the cover.
"A Freedom School Records Production of Blank Dogs "The
First Two Weeks" featuring songs written and recorded from February
23rd 2007 until March 7th 2007" Six songs of fuzzed out snyth
bedroom damage. A really great, weird and msyterious record.
FreedomSchoolRecords
12
$8.50
Blues Control
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$14.00
Boca Chica
Transform Into Beasts
PS, US Easily one of the important local releases of the year."
-The Pittsburgh City Paper. BC's music shifts between lush, string
laden indie folk; quirky & wistful alt-alt country jams &
the occasional beery retro country romp. Pritts' loping, occasionally
surreal songs are best compared to other genre bending artists such
as Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine & Bright Eyes. Voted one of
the city's best bands by the '06 Pittsburgh City Paper poll, Boca
Chica has been garnering praises far & wide
BocaChica-002
CD
$11.75
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Bringing It All Back Home Again
PS, US BACK IN PRINT!!!
TCTKME
LP
$16.00
Brown, Greg
Yellow Dog
PS, US
Earthwork
CD
$15.00
Cave Singers, The
Seeds of Night b/w After the First Baptism
PS, US The first taste of what has quickly become one of my most listened
to records in ages. The Cave Singers are new band from Seattle and
their debut album Invitation Songs is out on September 25TH!
Matador
45
$3.75
Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz
Classical Katz
PS, UK Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz : Classical Katz along
with the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Chico Hamilton Quintet with Fred
Katz were the leading practitioners of chamber jazz, devoted to a
mid-century blend of classical and jazz music that called itself third
stream; it was the shape of things to come for progressive jazz. Eric
Dolphy and Gabor Szabo were amongst the figures who would eventually
work with Hamilton. Our set couples the entire, highly regarded album
"Zen" by cellist Fred Katz where he is backed by Hamilton
and the Quintet along with the highlights of the Quintet's own 1956
set. Both albums are highly sought after and long out of print. This
Hamilton-Katz line-up would feature famously the following year (1957)
in the Burt Lancaster- Tony Curtis film "The Sweet Smell Of Success";
a great cinematic moment in jazz. Lord Randall Suite For Horn / Allegro
/ Zen / Science- Fiction / Pluck It / Classical Katz / Loma / Granada
/ Katz-Up / Montuna The Chico Hamilton Quintet With Fred Katz, Paul
Horn, John Pisano, Carson Smith / I Know (Theme) No1 / Chanel No5
/ September Song / Siete-Cuatro / Mr. / Jo Jones / Satin Doll / Lillian
/ Reflections / Caravan / I Know (theme) NO3
FiveFour-024
CD
$15.00
Cinc
Polyphonic Poetry
PS, JAPAN Post folk (g, b, perc, f & m vo. rhythm machine) from
Belgrade.
Amorfon-008
CD
$15.75
Cinc
Shine Of Wot?
PS, JAPAN Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) praised, "Beguiling".
Amorfon-003
CD
$15.75
Clare & the Reasons
Movie
PS, US PREFIX MAG: "Between the new Edith Piaf biopic La Vie
en rose and the five hundred other current movies inexplicably relating
Paris) to romance, you'd think the world would have no need for another
bohemian fix. Yet, the members of Clare & the Reasons plead for
room with such earnestness on their debut that we must pause to take
listen. Led by a chick with chirping charm (and as the daughter of
folk/blues musician Geoff Muldaur, a distinguished musical lineage)
and filled out by a posse of Brooklyn's finest, the group tiptoes
lightly upon emotions and all that gushy stuff. On its sophisticated
takes on the neo-baroque and quasi-noir, the group is joined here
by such distinguished songwriting talent as Van Dyke Parks and Sufjan
Stevens." (Dan Nishimoto)
FrogStand
CD
$11.25
Coathangers
S-T
PS, US Imagine if you will a marriage of the Beastie Boys circa Some
Old Bullshit & the Slits when they were still a punk band &
you're in the right ballpark. They're newcomers to Atlanta's vibrant
punk, pop & experimental music scene, but the group has risen
quickly through the ranks to become one of the city's most talked
about acts. These women are real deal feminists, armed w/ a brash
& irreverent sense of humor. They're more likely to be caught
cracking jokes w/ Andrew W.K. than sharing tea & vegan cookies
with Kathleen Hannaha's crew!
Rob'sHouseRecords-030
CD
$12.50
Coathangers
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Rob'sHouse-030
LP
$12.50
Comics Comics
#3
PS, US The best issue yet. This jam packed issue leads off with a
cover by and conversation between Sammy (Kramers Ergot) Harkham and
Guy (Hellboy: BPRD) Davis. Then it's on to Kim Deitch's essay on the
meaning of life, and an illuminating discussion of autobiographical
comics with David Heatley and Lauren Weinstein, followed by T. Hodler's
final part of his epic examination of the work of Steve Gerber. Also
featured is a critique of the recent Masters of American Comics exhibitions,
book reviews, Marc Bell, comics by Renee French and Frank Santoro,
and much more.
ZINE
$4.00
Current 93
Inmost Light
PS, US Deluxe double lp reissue package includes "Where the Long
Shadows Fall", " All the Pretty LIttle Horses," &
"The Stars are Marching Sadly Home." Originally issued in
1995 as separate mini albums inspired by visionary painter Louis Wain
& author Thomas Ligotti.
DurtroJnana
DLP
$24.50
Deadbeat
Journeyman's Annual
PS, US NOW ON 2LP! This is modern bass music of an entirely unique
sort, crafted w/ the intention of moving asses as much as stimulating
minds. Easily his most diverse album to date, it's a far reaching
account of new creative connections & rhythmic inspirations drawn
from the four corners of the globe, & a spectacular sign of things
to come from one of electronic music's premier low-end prophets
Scape-046
DLP
$18.00
Dickies
Roadkill
PS, US REISSUE of this rare CD Single! Contains the song "Dead
Heat" not available on any Dickies album!
Nickel&Dime
CD5
$3.00
Earwig
Center Of The Earth
PS, US A smart mid-western 3 piece that works between studied lo-fi
ineptitude & infectious pop hookery. They are a high energy, stripped
down, underground-rock trio "An essential collection of bright
power-pop" The Big Takeover "Superbly crafted, the rhythm
section swings like a monster." - The Columbus Dispatch
LFM-023
CD
$10.75
Editors, The
End Has a Start
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Fader
LP
$16.00
Electro Group
Good Technology
PS, US Comprised of "three like minded and cautiously optimistic
gentlemen out to create and build songs culled from years of self-induced
isolationism, sexual regret, and audio experimentation", Electro
Group teamed up with local Sacramento imprint Omnibus Records (The
Shins, Mates of State, Flake Music) to issue their 2001 debut, A New
Pacifica. Its tracks surfaced on more than a few taste making college
and community radio stations, and even made it to the play list of
legendary BBC DJ John Peel. A slew of compilation appearances and
side projects followed: Electro Group recorded a series of split 7-
inches, teamed up with Pavement cofounder Gary Young for a cover of
Sonic Youth's "100%," and bassist Ian Hernandez formed Holy
Smokes with Pinback's Rob Crow and Hella's Zach Hill. Live appearances
with Sleater-Kinney, Quasi and The Swords Project followed, as did
a tour of the UK, and their next studio venture, the 2004 seven-track
mini-album Ummo. With their second proper full-length, Good Technology,
Electro Group had to destroy their conceptions of not only music,
but also modern life in general, and reconstruct them from square
one. While A New Pacifica explored a utopian society in the aftermath
of California falling into the sea and Ummo queried, "Are we
alone in the universe?" Good Technology finds Electro Group in
a deconstructionist mindset. As Hernandez reveals, "Good Technology
exhibits the natural songwriting and recording progression exhibited
in our previous self recorded endeavors. Since those releases, a better
understanding of multi-track recording and those techniques associated
with the capture of and replication of those sounds on audio disk,
helped provide a stronger foundation for the new record while still
retaining those familiar audio properties." It's a rapidly changing
world we live in, and the futuristic, guitar-driven fuzz-pop of Good
Technology provides an ideal soundtrack for it. What more lies ahead?
As guitarist/vocalist Tim Jacobson summarizes, "Great quality."
Not to mention good technology.
Clairecords-065
CD
$12.25
Even As We Speak
A Three Minute Pop Song is One Minute Too Long
PS, UK A 17 track compilation of the rare Australian singles. "Even
As We Speak relish life with a clutch of songs that evoke images of
bright summer mornings in leafy suburbia" - Melody Maker "Even
As We Speak are in possession of two qualities which set them apart
from you average guitar-pop band: firstly, a total lack of pretense
which gives them a decidedly casual, almost offhand stage presense
(rarely do they ever dress up, let alone pose) and secondly, the striking
songwriting talent of singer/guitaruist Matthew Love, the author of
neat pop sogs that manage to be emotive, offbeat and very appealing
in the classic sense". Tracklisting: 1 100 2 Pleasure Circles
3 Anybody Anyway 4 Brain 5 Outgrown 6 Goes So Slow 7 Nothing Ever
Happens 8 A Stranger Calls 9 Blue Suburban Skies 10 Bizarre Love Triangle
11 Looking Over Your Shoulder 12 By The Side Of The Road 13 I Can
Do Without You 14 Falling Down 15 I Won't Have To Think About You
16 Single To Central 17 Galveston.
Egg-018
CD
$15.00
Factums
Alien Native
PS, US A contempo 3 piece hailing out've Seattle feat.ex-members of
A FRAMES & THE INTELLIGENCE.Originally released as a CD in '04,
this shows a band burrowed deep in the mystery &menace of the
nascent gnarl of experimental art rock. It's a great swab of past-sounding
electro-junkoid rumble absorbed into the mind & matter of present
day pre-analog excavators.
Siltbreeze-087
LP
$14.25
Ferrari, Luc
Didascalies (CD/DVD)
PS, US Now packaged w/ a DVD feat. him at work on this, his last experiment.
He's considered one of the most legendary musical figures of the 20th
century, whose work & aesthetic continues to influence several
generations of contemporary composers. Right from the start, the idea
had been to release 3 very different CDs: one horspiel, one of concrete
music & one CD of instrumental works. Also documents the composition
of a new version of "Tautologos," his last recorded piece,
w/ woven piano & viola breaking down, starting anew in an opposite
direction w/ bandoneon, DX7 & books being closed every 2 &
a half min. About a month later, he passed away
SubRosa
CD/DVD
$16.25
Fitz Ellarald
The Very Air Seems Replete With Humming And Buzzing Melodies
PS, JAPAN Russian electornics, sounds like Fennesz by Russian sysths
& tapes.
Amorfon-001
CD
$15.75
Fizzies
Contest Popularity
PS, US With the aid of super producers ET THORNGREN (Grand Master
Flash, Bob Marley, Von Bondies), G MURDER (Eels, Ben Lee, Karen O)
& tag team duo TOM BANGHART & MOIRA MARQUIS (Rufus Wainright),
East Hollywood based trio have created an infectious & eclectic
power-pop gem. Ranging from 4-on-the-floor dance to lo-fi fuzz, this
album pervasively catchy. Currently 19th most added on CMJ!
Mariposa-030
CD
$8.50
Fourth of July
On the Plains
PS, US This is a Lawrence, Kansas band insofar as the signals sent
from coast to coast get filtered through their eyes & ears, leaving
them utterly clued-in yet carelessly left-out. The songs are full
of intimate interactions, cutting observations & dreamy, heartfelt
candor, but when brought to the band they explode into amplified urgency
& bold, bright heartland-pop
RangeLifeRecords-003
CD
$12.50
Francis, Robert
One By One
PS, US Recalls the voice of a simpler & more truthful era when
people were crazier & sang about shit that mattered. From the
time he was born, he was surrounded by music of all genres thanks
to his eccentric classical-record-producer & pianist father, a
Hari Krishna brother & 2 older sisters who were in various rock
bands (his sister Juliette Commagere is the singer of L.A. indie band
HELLO STRANGER in which Robert played bass)
Aeronaut-037
CD
$13.50
Fu Manchu
We Must Obey
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
CenturyMedia
LP
$14.00
Giant Robot
#49
PS, US Adrian Tomine, Rebel Alliance, Donuts & Chinese Food, Idol
Threat, The Cosplay Show, The Last Executioner, Ten Wimpy Robots,
High Tekkon, Big Bangkok & tons more about Asian pop culture &
beyond!
ZINE
$4.75
Giantess
S-T
PS, US Formerly known as Canada's "The Battles". Giantess
is a blistering exercise in profundity, veering wildly from accelerated
rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with
tongue planted firmly in cheek). Giantess delivers with the poetic
grandeur of Bryan Ferry or Graeme Downs at their absolute peak, and
with the muscle & pathos of The Soft Boys or Jesus of Cool-era
Nick Lowe. Giantess is first & foremost a relationship record
that relies on sentiments both ridiculously absurd & vastly astute.
A British influence looms large in Stephen Wood's brilliant songwriting-
comparisons to Ray Davies & John Lennon are commonplace -in much
the same way those pillars informed Robert Pollard's forays into songs.
Likewise, Giantess' erstwhile approach thrusts the genre forward with
liberal swaths of heart, wit, warmth, melody & raw power.
SoftAbuse-23
CD
$12.25
Golden Animals
Golden Animals EP
PS, US Brooklyn's Golden Animals deliver a meticulous recreation of
L.A. in 1970, when The Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" had
steeped in hipster consciousness and the counter-culture was embracing
country music with a vengeance. From the warm, natural recording quality
right down to the sepia-toned cover art dressed as (stoned) old west
dandies, these guys are living the life! They are entering the studio
in San Francisco with producer extraordinaire Chris Coady (Blonde
Redhead, Yeah Yeah Yeah¹s, T.V. On The Radio) in late October
to make a record for Happy Parts Recordings.
Happy Parts-777
CD
$5.50
Golden Dogs
Big Eye Little Eye
PS, US Skirting the line between ready-for-TV pop addictiveness &
grimy knife's-edge guitar bombast, the Canadian group seamlessly blends
hooks & crunch into a bright, art-conscious swirl as catchy as
it is cool. The band has torn a jagged rift through the clubs of Canada,
jumping off amps & pushing PA's to their limit from Toronto to
Vancouver. Hooky enough for the pop fiends, hard enough for the dope
fiends.
YepRoc
CD
$12.00
Gonzalez, Jose
Hand On Your Heart b/w Sensing Owls
PS, SWEDEN Two of my favorite Jose songs resting beautifully together
on heavy-weight wax.
Imperial
45
$7.50
Griefs
Throwing a Tempo Tantrum
PS, US NOW ON CD!!. Full length debut by great garage trio feat. ERIC
STEIN (GREENHORNES & HOLLY GOLIGHTLY). If the Kinks were born
in Kentucky, raised by the Everly Bros. & grew up on a steady
diet of Cinci's King Records you'd have the Griefs!
SpoonfulRecords-006
CD
$13.00
Halou
Wholeness + Separation
PS, US Atmospheric textures, inventive electronics, and heartfelt
vocals.
Dynamophone-006
CD
$13.00
Hawkwind
Space Ritual [collector's edition]
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Aside from Sun Ra, few artists captured that
sense of mind-warping, my-God-it's-full-of-stars astronomical mysticism
in their music like Hawkwind. With their tendency towards extended
jams full of disorienting electronic drones and drummer Simon King's
motorik rhythms, they had a certain creative kinship with their Krautrock
contemporaries. But their racket could also be as unrelentingly punchy
and violent as anything from the Stooges' Fun House, especially considering
guitarist Dave Brock's Ron Asheton-esque affinity for blistering,
wah-wah-drenched riffs and Nik Turner's freeform sax outbursts...
It was all put to good use by their lyrics and their philosophy, much
of which was inspired by the writing of sci-fi author and sometime
collaborator Michael Moorcock, and typically themed around interstellar
travel, metaphysics and Pythagoras' theory of celestial-mathematical
"music of the spheres." ...The set has been expanded from
its original "88 minutes of brain damage" (as a 1973 print
ad hilariously put it) to just over two hours, with most of the added
material devoted to a few alternate takes and the restoration of a
few minutes here and there that had to be cut for the original United
Artists double LP. (A bonus DVD includes the whole shebang in Dolby,
and despite it being in PAL format, North American viewers should
be able to hear it on their PCs or DVD players.)"
EMI
DCD/DVD
$30.00
Heavy Trash
Going Way Out with Heavy Trash
PS, US JON SPENCER & MATT VERTA-RAY. The bastard cousin to Spencer's
genre-demolishing Blues Explosion, this project drinks down the best
of roots, R&B & rock-a-billy. Also features Canada's THE SADIES,
members of Denmark's TREMOLO BEER GUT & POWERSOLO, & New York
City's SIMON CHARDIET & PHIL HERNANDEZ.
YepRoc
CD
$13.50
Heavy Trash
Going Way Out With Heavy Trash
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
LP
$14.50
Heavy Winged
Blacc Lust
PS, US A reissue of 2 long out-of-print parts of the band's discography
that originally came out in tiny short-lived CD-R micro editions.
Musically, they scratch that overdriven High Rise-style proto-metal-psych
noise itch in a nice, nice way. A little over an hour of good, heavy
times. Comes in an edition of 500 hand- numbered copies housed within
arigato paks bearing original artwork by Beverly Shana Palmer.
TLR-056
CD
$11.75
Hexstatic
When Robots Go Bad!
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
NinjaTune-134
DLP
$25.00
Hexstatic
When Robots Go Bad!
PS, US Taking their electro obsession to greater heights than ever
before, this finds Robin Brunson & Stuart Warren-Hill mashing
up sounds & influences in search of the ultimate machine groove.
They contrast the ways synths & drum boxes can be used to create
superb, funny, funky, driving dance music.
NinjaTune-134
CD
$15.50
Holloways, The
So This Is Great Britain? [expanded]
PS, US Expanded debut album from very British British act, huge in
England, planning assault on The Colonies.
TVT
CD
$12.25
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Assignment
PS, US
Usound
LP
$18.25
Japanther
Skuffed Up My Huffy
PS, US Five years, 1000 shows later, Japanther enters into legendary
territory, naturally combining catchy hooks, heart pounding beats
& frenetic energy with DIY aesthetics. Their 5th full length delivers
the goods: from the opening notes of the first track you realize that
Japanther have taken it now one step further & have delivered
an album that combine their studio promise with their razor live shows.
MenloPark-7046
CD
$11.50
Joan As Police Woman
Real Life
PS, US The album features ANTONY from ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS as
well as JOSEPH ARTHUR, & has been getting rave reviews & interviews/features
in various publications.
Cobraside
LP
$12.50
Kiefer, Christian
Dogs & Donkeys
PS, US Perhaps because of his interest in poetry & fiction, Kiefer's
latest project has a novelistic quality. This album is "about"
economics. The imagery bisects territory staked out by T.S. Eliot
& Saul Bellow & mixes w/the poetry of James Wright. Features
legendary keyboard man GARTH HUDSON of THE BAND, WILCO guitarist NELS
CLINE & the sweet vocal harmonies of LOW's ALAN SPARHAWK &
MIMI PARKER. The effect is a devastatingly beautiful musical journey
Undertow-036
CD
$11.75
Kings of Leon
Because of the Times
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TCG
LP
$15.00
KTL
2
PS, US VERY LIMITED!!! NO RETURNS!! O'Malley (SUNNO)))) & Rehberg
(PITA) are both innovators in their own rite & leaders of their
respective scenes; so this meeting is a truly heavy collaboration.
2 is presented in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jacket w/ artworked
inner sleeves & is pressed on 180 gram double vinyl. Strict edition
of 1500 for the world.
ThrillJockey
LP
$21.50
Laibach
Nova Akropola
PS, UK This popular Laibach album is available again in a limited
edition digi-pack. Also included for the first time is a bonus-enhanced
track of a four-minute film about this acclaimed band. Eastern European
industrial experimentalists with a heavy political leaning, Laibach
have often found themselves in conflict with authorities. Expressing
their views strongly through their music both here and on their continued
career with Mute records, they are still actively pursuing their own
unique agenda.
CherryRed-067
CD
$15.00
Lamps
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
InTheRed
LP
$10.00
Lee, Ben
Ripe
PS, US
NewWest
CD
$17.25
Levellers, The
Mouth to Mouth [expanded]
PS, US Expanded re-issue with bonus tracks.
WEA
CD
$15.25
Levellers, The
S-T [expanded]
PS, US Expanded re-issue with bonus tracks.
WEA
CD
$15.25
Levellers, The
Zeitgeist [expanded]
PS, US Expanded re-issue with bonus tracks.
WEA
CD
$15.25
Leviathan
Verrater
PS, US The tracks on this double album (1st CD "Schadenfreude,"
2nd CD "Krankheit") are culled from the 1st 13 Leviathan
discs. This offers an excellent into what Leviathan has to offer,
albeit one in which the project's faster songs are largely absent.
You also get a very finely packaged album. A definite must buy for
any black metal fan.
Tumult-088
DCD
$16.25
Liars
S-T
PS, US What do you expect from Liars? Noise? Concept? Both? This LP
delivers neither! Recorded on the heels of 2006's 'Drum's Not Dead'
somewhere between LA and Berlin, Liars' 4th album marks another bold
transition for Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross. For
the new album Liars have foregone theory for a more practical approach,
one based on traditional song structures and instrument usage. Even
mainman Angus is shocked! They've foregone theory for a more practical
approach,one based on traditional song structures &instrument
usage.An album that manages to balance the old, experimentally minded
Liars w/ an excitingly insidious new pop edge.
Mute
CD
$15.25
Liars
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
LP
$16.00
Line 47/Emotional Joystick
Meet Uptown
PS, US Meet Uptown is a mix of reggae, electro, and dub inspired by
the sounds of Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, and other dub pioneers.
Emotional Joystick and Line 47 drew from an extensive collection of
classic dubs to create an exclusive record that is alive with the
spirit of reggae.
TerminalDusk-3
12
$9.50
Lionheart, Ferraby
Catch the Brass Ring (ON SALE)
PS, US VENUS MAGAZINE: "There is a boy called Ferraby Lionheart
who lives in Los Angeles and plays songs that sound like early Rufus
Wainwright. The 19-year-old grew up in Nashville, where people had
a hard time pronouncing his name... [Later on,] in Los Angeles, Lionheart
toiled away in a rock band called Telecast, but soon, he became uninspired,
so he recorded some of the stripped-down, folk-inspired songs that
he'd been writing by himself... An album of airy and pretty songs
that perfectly soundtrack a day of playing in parks and on swings."
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Nettwerk
CD
$17.75
Madrugada
Live At Tralfamadore
PS, NORWAY Finally available at an OK price. Drawing on their landmark
concert in front of 8000 fans at the sold out Oslo Spektrum in December
2005 as well as cherry-picking tracks from spectacular headline appearances
at the Oya festival in Oslo and the Bodo Spektrum in August 2005 and
l'Ancienne Belgique in Brussels in March 2003, Madrugada have delivered
a stunning live album which was released in Norway in record time
- 12 days after the Spektrum event! - and went straight into the charts
there at Number 1 while selling Platinum within days! Features special
guest appearance by Kid Congo Powers on slide guitar.
EMI
CD
$20.00
Magic Carpathians Project
Sonic Suicide #1
PS, POLAND MAGIC CARPATHIANS PROJECT's new release, Sonic Suicide,
is as surprising and as challenging as every one of their previous
albums. The figure of suicide designates the moment of closure and
transformation, not far from orgasmic density and bodily pleasures
of sounds on the album. The music here creates intense, vibrating,
rhizomatic field of electric pulsations, drones and irregularities.
This time Magic Carpathians Project's line up has been scaled down
to just two of core members who have been establishing the name since
1998: ANNA NACHER (mistreated electric guitars, voice, lyrics, media
manipulation and bastardization, loops, field recordings) and MAREK
STYCZYNSKI (homemade analog sound modulator, field recordings, saxophone,
clarinet, flutes, gongs, percussions). A prototype version of analog
sound modulator--called badoog--which emits soundwaves of sinusoidal
amplitude and frequencies reaching out beyond the standard range audible
to human ear has been designed and built especially for this session.
Anna Nacher sings, screams and soars both in English and Polish, occasionally
inhabiting the space between languages or mixing up the dialects,
idioms and pronunciations. Field recordings taken by the duo during
their travels across Himalaya, Carpathians and Balkans are employed
as signs of hybridic soundscape of cultural nomads, far from overproduced
and colonized idioms of 'world music'. Only for the bravest of the
bravest!
Vivo-2005015
CD
$15.00
Mannequin Men
Private School b/w Sewer
PS, US Snotty, proto-punk, singing choruses about private school girls
& the new nowhere generation.
CriminalIQ-024
45
$4.75
Manning, Barbara
Don't Let It Bring You Down/Haze Is Free (Mounting A Broken Ladder)
PS, US From 1990 on Forced Exposure. 7" is in great shape!
ForcedExposure-021
45
$5.00
Manual
Lost Days, Open Skies and Streaming Tides
PS, US The long awaited Manual double-CD 'Lost Days, Open Skies and
Streaming Tides' - a collection of rarities, remixes, covers, unreleased
pieces and brand new tracks - including a new collaboration with Cocteau
Twins mainman Robin Guthrie. Spanning the period from 2002, around
Ascend, up to now, this is a collection that covers the entire spectrum
of Jonas Munks stylings; from the minimalist drone soundscapes, to
the over-the-top 1980s influenced shoegazing electronica à
la his masterpiece Azure Vista, from the sweet pop-influenced gems
to abstract blissed-out timeless ambient. Munk's trademarks are all
over the 19 pieces on this double disc set: the highly adventurous
sense of composition that is still so unheard of in electronic music
- always taking the listener on a colourful journey instead of relying
on repetitions like pretty much every other electronic artist -, the
mix of well-programmed beats and electronics against surreal, shimmering,
heavily treated guitars, and the sunbathed 1980s romantic melancholia
that has become Jonas Munk's signature sound. It is hard to think
of a more perfect introduction to Munk's music, and for fans of his
work this is simply a must!
Darla-165
DCD
$13.75
Michael Dracula
In the Red
PS, US RECOMMENDED! Driving rhythms on an out of tune piano, repetitive
drums w minimal fills, Motown & dub bass lines played by a white
girl from Ohio, 5 guitar parts all playing the same wrong note while
the ghost of an organ hums a tune on the periphery of your hearing,
& a chorus of backing vocals chant from the bathroom, all providing
the backing track for songs about the complexities of human relationships,
& getting fucked up.
ZeRecords-032
CD
$16.00
Midlake
Trials of Van Occupanther [Bonus Tracks]
PS, NZ Bonus tracks from Occupanther/Balloon Maker sessions. Amazing!!!
EtchNSketch
DCD
$27.00
Mighty Baby
S-T [expanded] (ON SALE)
PS, UK Yet another genius recording from post-Action late-60s, early
70s UK psychedelic pop group Mighty Baby, comparable to early-Who,
The Action (duh),The Creation, etc. Their original self-titled album
plus 5 additional tracks by The Action. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "This
hour-long CD is one of the best bodies of British psychedelia ever
released. It contains the complete Mighty Baby album from Head Records,
expanded to 13 tracks with the addition of five tracks cut by the
Action during its 1967 transition period... The beauty of the original
Mighty Baby album tracks is that they're psychedelia with a solid
beat, none of that noodle-rock that drugged-up Brits usually engaged
in...some of the most energetic psychedelia to come out of England,
and anyone who enjoys psychedelic guitar will love Martin Stone's
and Alan King's work on this album. A near perfect meld of garage
rock and psychedelic sensibilities." (Bruce Eder)
BigBeatUK
CD
$17.00
Milton & the Devil's Par
How Wicked We've Become
PS, US From Philadelphia - a rock band for thinking people. After
3 years of downplaying the fact that singer-songwriter-bassist DANIEL
ROBINSON & guitarist MARK GRAYBILL happen to be English professors,
the band has stopped apologizing for who they are. On their 2nd album,
they attracted producer Brian McTear ( APOLLO SUNSHINE, ESPERS, DANIELSON,
MATT POND PA, B.C. Camplight, Mazarin, and The A-Sides)
TransitofVenus
CD
$12.50
Mimir
Mimyriad
PS, US JIM O'ROURKE first joined Mimir for Mimyriad in 1992. It was
completed & released as the first Streamline CD in 1993. In 1998,
a radically remixed & reedited version was issued as a limited-edition
Streamline LP. This new CD release contains a remastered version of
the Mimyriad LP material & comes in a reworked & updated package.
Streamline
CD
$12.50
Modern Lovers
S-T + 8
PS, US Compiled from demos the band recorded w/ John Cale,this captures
an angst-ridden, minimalist form of art-punk derived from The Velvet
Underground. Released in '76. This reissue contains the original album
as well as 8 BONUS TRACKS!
Castle
CD
$13.50
Mojo
Classic: Hendrix & The Summer Of Love (Vol. 2 Issue #4)
PS, UK
ZINE
$14.75
Monster Movie
Last Night Something Happened
PS, US The debut album from Monster Movie - long out of print - has
been rebirthed. Artwork has been revamped, a new catalog number has
been assigned, and the bonus track from the long-OOP vinyl version
of the album, previously unavailable on CD in the US, has been added.
Written, performed & produced by Christian Savill & Sean Hewson,
Last Night Something Happened was a landmark follow-up to their self-titled
debut EP from early 2001. The album, recorded between March and August
2001 at The White House studio in Weston-Super-Mare with Martin Nichols
engineering (also the birthplace of their debut EP as well as Slowdive's
'Souvlaki'), shows a move away from the layered guitars and strong
vocals of the EP to a more somber, subdued & warm sound. Here
the vocals are more often layered with Martin Wheeler & Louise
Hewson, adding their vocals to those of the band, to create a ghostly,
disembodied effect. The instrumentation is more varied here as well,
with cheap keyboards and acoustic guitars mixing with radios, feedback
& broken effects pedals to create a warm hum. As with the debut
EP, the songwriting is still a strong point but Monster Movie have
moved forwards, investigating instrumental songs (witness the cinematic
'Star City') and structure (a la the Faust-like sudden change in 'Winter
Is Coming'). Everything on here has a great tune even when it is layers
of noise, but the most obvious pop songs are 'Waiting', 'Shortwave',
'Take Me Away', '4th & Pine' & 'Home' with 'Sleeping On A
Train' providing a change of pace & some rock action. Last Night
Something Happened was a phenomenal precursor to the subsequent years
of Monster Movie magic - and as such, remains their best work to date.
Monster Movie were known to be collectively fond of Grandaddy, Air,
Yo La Tengo & the Super Furry Animals during the recording of
this album. They were also more likely to be influenced by their intense
and occasionally psychotic dislike of most other rock music. Their
individual tastes are not considered 'sexy' enough to be listed.
Clairecords-026
CD
$12.25
Moonlit
#2
PS, US MoonLit is a new arts journal whose inaugural issue is a knockout
combination of writing and artwork including crossover talents from
the new music scene along with poetry's rising stars. MoonLit is the
brainchild of two Naropa University writing program alums, poets Lisa
Janssen and Claire McMahon. Not finding anything they liked in the
existing crop of "new" journals, they decided to take matters
into their own hands.
BOOK
$7.00
Moore, Thurston
Trees Outside the Academy
PS, US
EcstaticPeace
CD
$12.25
Morrison, Travis & The Hellfighters
All Y'all
PS, US Travis is back w/a brand new album recorded w/ the now solid
lineup of
his art/punk/dance band Hellfighters & working for the 1st time
since The Plan's break up w/ his old bandmate, producer Jason Caddell.
Barsuk-067
CD
$11.75
Motorpsycho
Blissard
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Stickman
DLP
$19.00
Mum
They Made Frogs Smoke 'Til They Exploded
PS, US 1st single from long anticipated new album, "Go Go Smear
The Poison Ivy. Colored vinyl (clear w/ red "haze") 7"
is North America only & ltd. to 1000 copies.
FatCat
45
$5.00
Nadja
Guilted By The Sun
PS, US Toronto's Nadja (just one dude really) kicks it with this bottom
heavy, blown out E.P. Def. a good time. Both of these Elevation releases
are limited and will not be around long so do not miss out. Good stuff.
Elevation
CD5
$8.50
National
Mistaken For Strangers b/w Blank Slate
PS, UK Back at the end of May the National freaked out the whole city
by booking five nights of shows at the Bowery Ballroom AND selling
out every show well in advance. For the shows we made an exclusive
version of the UK "Mistaken For Strangers" 7" with
a unique sleeve and labels. There were some left over so here they
are for your buying pleasure.
BeggarsBanquet
45
$3.75
New Young Pony Club
Fantastic Playroom
PS, US It's a singular chemistry between front woman Tahita Bulmer
and Andy Spence that's marked New Young Pony Club as one of 2007's
most talked-about, must-hear, must-see bands. NYPC singles "Ice
Cream" (used in a recent Intel commercial campaign) and "The
Bomb" have already proved irresistible. And they have made good
on Tahita and Andy's hopes: to put the fun back in music, and get
people dancing. Now NYPC have done more than perhaps would be reasonably
expected of a great singles band: they've made a great album, Fantastic
Playroom. It's everything you hope every album is going to be. Packed
with tunes, yes - but literate, funny, sad, just-weird-enough, crazy,
sexy and cool to boot. (Sometimes, dancebased music forgets it's allowed
to be all these things.) From an undeniable "Get Lucky"/"Hiding
On The Staircase"/"Ice Cream"/"The Bomb"
opening salvo to the potential-future-NYPC-direction and quite Grace
Jones-y "FAN" via the overtly pop "Grey", it gets
everything right.
Modular/Interscope
CD
$11.00
Newell, Martin
A Summer Tamarind
PS, UK Martin Newell - The last English pop eccentric, brings out
his first solo album for several years. Many people try for an authentic
60s sound, Newell actually lives it. This sunny-days mixture wears
its Beatles / Kinks influences like a double-breasted paisley jacket
is also surprisingly modern though. Contained herein are eleven bomb-proof
three and a half-minute pop songs dressed with chiming Rickenbacker
12-string guitars, great garden-shed drumming and the type of gorgeous
harmonies that no-one else bothers doing anymore. A Summer Tamarind
is nothing less than a post-punk Rubber Soul and probably the best
thing that Martin Newell has done since his Andy Partridge-produced
Greatest Living Englishman album.
CherryRed-323
CD
$15.00
No Age
Weirdo Rippers
PS, US PITCHFORK: "A loud duo with art credibility, a massive
touring schedule, and a one-man label in its ranks brings Lightning
Bolt to mind; but No Age have a softer surf-psychedelic side that
conjures another twosome: old Olympia favorites Kicking Giant. Or,
as another Pitchfork staffer pointed out, the best K Records fuzz-rock
band of all time, Lync. No Age, though, goes into an even airier,
bedroom-pretty realm, with a punk rawness to their delivery. Their
oft-chanted hooks (see "Boy Void" or "Every Artist
Needs A Tragedy") are out-of-phase, the approach sloppy and spastic.
At the same time, these songs come off soporific, restful, and totally
in control. Nothing grates. It all feels soft and up-close."
FatCat
CD
$14.25
Northern State
Can I Keep This Pen
PS, US Electro hip-hop fun ride from ex-Sony artists finally free
of their deal with The Man. Produced by Chuck Brody of SHITAKE MONKEY
(WU TANG CLAN, YOKO ONO), & ADROCK of BEASTIE BOYS. Pushing the
limits of their classic old school hip hop w/new electro currents.
Ipecac-092
CD
$15.00
Odd Nosdam
Level Live Wires
PS, US 8-track cassettes, samplers, synths & Dictaphones, lost
records & found sounds, field recordings & happy accidents
are brought to stirring life by this humble collagist. His fascination
w/ these odd moments gives this its enveloping draw. Each bit that
becomes a part of a song is an otherwise static & eventually staid
sound that could have become mere memory.
Anticon-074
CD
$15.00
Paper Rad
Cartoon Workshop/Pig Tales
PS, US Cartoon Workshop/Pig Tales is the follow up to Paper Rad's
acclaimed Paper Rad, B.J. and da Dogs is both a return to form and
a move forward for the group. Focusing on their joke-oriented side,
they've produces a book of exuberant fun. Bringing together funny
comic strips, psychedelic imagery, and their lo-fi digital wizardry,
this new volume is a great sampling of what the group can accomplish
as entertainers. This is book-as-variety show, as the energetic collective
bounces from longer stories like Patrick and Catrick to suites of
gag cartoons like Pig Tales, to drawings of Alf, and Miss Piggy and
pixilated creatures. Throughout, Paper Rad brings both silly humor
and serious satire, bringing their unique blend of cartoon absurdism
to new heights.
PaperRad
BOOK
$12.50
Pelican
City of Echoes
PS, US Vinyl for their new album.Tip-on gatefold with high gloss spot-varnish
finish with heavy-stock inner sleeve.
HydraHead
LP
$17.00
Perishers
Let There Be Morning
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Nettwerk
LP
$13.75
Perishers
Victorious (ON SALE)
PS, US New album of soft-pop melancholies and majesties from excellent
Swedish mopes. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With their third album Victorious,
The Perishers should finally put an end to the hackneyed references
to their Swedish homeland, and the cliched use of such modifiers as
"icy," "glacial," "glassy," et al. For
this set is imbued with such warmth, its sound so glowing, that reviewers
will have no choice but to look elsewhere for their adjectives. The
Perishers can thank Per Sunding for that, his production bathing their
music in luminescent, highlighting their fragile, exquisite atmospheres,
and throwing into relief their sublime instrumental interplay... Victorious'
true glory is found in the richness of the sound, the iridescent melodies,
shimmering atmospheres, and Ola Kluft's introspective, yet universal
lyrics. With Victorious, The Perishers truly conquer all." (Jo-Ann
Greene)
Nettwerk
CD
$16.00
Pink Floyd
Piper at the Gates of Dawn [40th Anniversary 2-CD Edition]
PS, US
Capitol
DCD
$27.25
Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn [40th Anniversary 3-CD Deluxe Edition]
PS, US
Capitol
3CD
$42.00
Po
The Sound of Summer Silence
PS, US Delicate Danish screengaze, infused with strings, bells, and
alluring daydreams.
Dynamophone-007
CD
$13.00
Prinzhorn Dance School
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks/DFA
LP
$16.00
Prinzhorn Dance School
S/T
PS, US They deliver a torrent of edgy, single riff, bare bones, DIY
rock that sounds like if The Fall were to jam w/The White Stripes
& then fire half the members. Sparse, idiosyncratic outsider rock
& a fresh rush of honest noise. PITCHFORK: "The latest finding
from [DFA honchos] James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy is the Portsmouth,
England group Prinzhorn Dance School. The duo of Tobin and Suzi Horn
make sharp, stripped-down post-punk recalling the best of Young Marble
Giants, only without any hint of cuteness."
Astralwerks/DFA
CD
$13.00
Psychic Paramount
Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural
PS, US VERY LIMITED! Limited vinyl pressing of the speaker-melting
debut album. They play heavy, wall of sound psych-rock.
NoQuarter-007
LP
$11.50
Pygmy Lush
Bitter River
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoboticEmpire-062
LP
$16.00
Pygmy Lush
Bitter River
PS, US These 14 songs span nearly the entire underground/independent
music spectrum, ranging from tracks that sound like The Black Heart
Procession to Born Against to Tom Waits to The Jesus Lizard to Bob
Dylan to One-Eyed God Prophesy to Nirvana to...you get the picture,right?
Members & ex-members of PG.99, MAJORITY RULE, Malady, City of
Caterpillar, Crestfallen, Hissing Choir, & more.The CD version
comes w/a 16-page lyric bk & 2 bonus tracks.
RoboticEmpire-062
CD
$10.00
RE: UP
Issue #14
PS, US THE PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE (w/ classic Grace Jones portrait on cover):
Jean-Paul Goude, Glen E. Friedman, Anthony Goicolea, Corey Arnold,
Justin Theroux, Blind Photographers, The Cinematic Orchestra, Spinna's
Picture Discs, Bobbito Garcias, Mike Watt, Hot Chip.
REUP-014
ZINE
$5.50
Real Tuesday Weld, The
London Book of The Dead
PS, US New album.
SixDegrees
CD
$17.25
Residual Echoes
First EP
PS, US California's Residual Echoes (full length on Holy Mountain)
kicks it in a sort of desert spastastic way that you hoped the Meat
Puppets would have stuck with. A total surprise and highly recommended.
Elevaton
CD5
$8.50
Riddle, Nelson
We Love Nelson Riddle
PS, UK Nelson Riddle is simply the greatest orchestral arranger of
popular music and an American institution. He was responsible for
the careers of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and alongside Henry
Mancini dominated the era. Riddle's incredible reputation is due to
the utmost refinement of his work and involvement in such successes
as the Batman TV show and Stanley Kubrick's controversial film "Lolita".
Our set collates rare solo recordings made when Nelson was working
with Sinatra at the very top; his work is the sound of mid-century
America.
El-118
CD
$15.00
Riggs, Dax
We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
PS, US The album feat. members of the last incarnation of deadboy
& the Elephantmen: Alex Bergeron (bass), Adam Clement (drums),
& Sean Keating Produced by Matt Sweeney, who also contributed
guitar to some tracks. The final track, "Dethbryte", was
remixed by Andrew W.K. 1st album to be released by Dax Riggs (ACID
BATH, etc) under his own name.
FatPossum
CD
$15.50
Satie, Erik
Avant-Dernières Pensées: Selected Piano Works v.1
PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie
(1866-1925), following the success of previous releases including
Vexations, Socrate and Dada Works, which present selected Satie recordings
with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde.
Avant-Dernières Pensées: Selected Piano Works features
several of Satie's best known compositions, including the famously
poised Trois Gymnopédies, all six haunting Gnossiennes and
Je te veux, as well as more experimental pieces such as Descriptions
automatiques, Avant-dernières pensées and Sports et
divertissements, an extraordinary collection of 21 miniatures from
1914 with illustrations by Charles Martin. Also included is Satie's
single-act, neo-Dada lyric comedy Le Piège de Médusa,
and comprising 'seven tiny dances for Jonah the Monkey' and illustrated
by the Cubist painter Georges Braque. The 46 pieces on this 72 minute
CD are performed by pianist Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive
images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2501
CD
$17.00
Severed Heads
ComMerz
PS, UK 30 tracks. The latest CD release by Severed Heads, the eclectic
Australian electro pioneers who have recorded some ten studio albums
since the early 1980s. ComMerz offers a definitive overview of Severed
Heads' work between 1982 and 2006. Compiled and mastered by head Head
Tom Ellard, the double disc set runs for 140 minutes and includes
the dance hits Dead Eyes Opened, Greater Reward and All Saint's Day,
as well as earlier singles such as Goodbye Tonsils, Petrol, Hot With
Fleas and Big Car plus selected album tracks.
LTM-2493
DCD
$17.75
Shock Cinema
Our Way is Revenge
PS, US The debut includes 6 original angular, punk, though still largely
"pop" tracks & 2 remixes. JAY CLARK (PRETTY GIRLS MAKE
GRAVES) reworks "Howling Door" & GIOVANNI MARKS (aka
SUBTITLE) remixes the all-in-French "Art of Noir." Collective
influences include Can, David Lynch, Barrington Levy, Ghostface Killah
& Os Mutantes.
KanineRecords-262
CD
$9.25
Softboiled Eggies
Egg Soliders
PS, US This record ranges from 2 minute pop songs to love ballads,
experimental sound collages, angular dance songs & dubbed out
haunted tracks layered w/ Janet & Ben's dreamy vocals about suicide,
drug abuse,existentialism & broken hearts. From classically trained
musician Janet Kim's mind influenced by Gogogo Airheart ex-member
Benjamin White's record collection, this record takes it's history
lesson from the Fall, the Raincoats, Felt, the Smiths, the Stranglers,
John Cage, etc. A refreshing sound that looks forward as well as backward,
somehow loveable, backed by doers & thinkers of LA's underground
music
& art scene.
TinyCreatures
12
$10.00
Strate Coats, The
EP
PS, US Greg Ashley's (Gris Gris, The Mirrors (Tx.) and solo artist)
teenage rip off records/KBD styled punk band from 1998 finally sees
a release. Had it come out back then there'd be tons of potential
glue-sniffers forgoing weeks of huffing to afford an original copy.
8 songs (including a cover of the KBD classic "Bummer Bitch"
by Freestone). As dumb and fun as teenage records can be.
HookorCrook
45
$5.25
Sunroof!
Panzer Division Lou Reed
PS, US Feat. Mick Flower (VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA) on guitar &
John Moloney (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN) on drums. This live shot
of electricity gradually ramps up from their dueling guitars to the
point where the drums come crashing in after about 6 min., leading
to a furious crescendo that lasts for the remainder of the 19-min.
track. Absolutely blistering demolition work, which, in spite of their
visceral impact, reach a state of zen-like stasis after a couple of
minutes.
VHF-105
CD
$13.25
Tamborines, The
Sally O'Gannon
PS, US "Debut single from these London-based Brazilians...Insanely
catchy chorus + Incredibly Loud guitars + perfect pop music."
- New Musical Express, UK The Tamborines are a Brazilian born London
based fuzz rock band. Their debut US release, "Sally O'Gannon"
EP (PSRCD-042) has been a long awaited affair but one you will agree
was well worth the wait. The CD contains four adventurous tracks -
the fuzzy guitar intro and thumping drums make "Sally O'Gannon"
an instant pop classic. The soft acoustics and sweet melodies of the
AA-side "Be Around" show you The Tamborines aren't just
about noisy guitars. The psychedelic garage pop atmospheres of "Come
Together" drift throughout - capping it off with a hip mid 60's
guitar break. The EP was self produced and recorded in Oxford, England
with Mark Gardener (Ride), Frank "Teardrop" Emerson (The
Brian Jonestown Massacre), and mastered at RPM studios, London.
PlantingSeeds-042
CD5
$7.50
Tickley Feather/Serpents of Wisdom
Split
PS, US Tickley Feather side is dosed w/all the lush space whisper
'n ache of Gilli Smyth or Helen Johnstone pasted & cut over an
aural veneer of determined instrumentation that has become a hallmark
amongst the finest in the Finnish underground.-Siltbreeze Rec's.Touring
w/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE in the fall. The Serpents Of Wisdom side is an
obscure psych monster. Limited to 300 copies
Badmaster-006
45
$6.75
Torngat
You Could Be
PS, US A formidable instrumental trio, hailing from the fertile &
diverse musical community of Montreal, made up primarily of drums,
keyboards & French horn. The music could be construed as post
rock in that it exuces a strong cinematic quality, but it is less
dark & melancholic.
Alien8-071
CD
$12.75
Touch Me Nots, The
Sheldon Munn
PS, US One of my favorite new bands by a long shot, the Touch-Me-Nots
are an Oakland, CA. Duo that specialize in tear it up style rock'n'roll
that isn't far off from the legendary Gibson Brothers. Highly recommended.
Yakisakana
10
$10.50
Touch Me Nots, The/Red Rockets
Split
PS, US Yet another split 7" from one of my current favorite bands
the Touch-Me-Nots. Here they square off against the Red Rockets with
two songs apiece. The Touch-Me-Nots cover Jonathan Richman's "This
Kind Of Music". Recommended.
RoachandSquirrel
45
$5.25
Tough & Lovely
Teardrops
PS, US Arguably much cleaner & more structured than their 2001
debut, these songs find the band focusing on seamless melodic interplay,
capturing the dynamic of their kinetic live show & opening up
the range of influence to include nods towards the girl groups of
Motown & the proto-metal of Iron Butterfly. linked w/ the timeless
pop of the Everly Brothers, the Zombies & Del Shannon
SpoonfulRecords-008
CD
$13.00
Tough & Lovely
Teardrops
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SpoonfulRecords-008
LP
$12.50
Under the Radar
#18
PS, US Bands, bands & more bands! Tegan & Sara Cover. Features
on Spoon, The New Pornographers, Rilo Kiley, Patrick Wolf, Iron &
Wine, new release reviews & more.
ZINE
$3.75
Utility Sketchbook
S-T
PS, US This anonymous book is the product of a lone late 1990's genius
from Providence RI, and it channels all that scene's energy into comedy
gold. 64 pages of hilarious cartoons about dogs, people, money, and
fashion. This is like Bloom County for peace punks. Not to be underestimated.
Picturebox
BOOK
$5.75
Van Zandt, Townes
Be Here To Love Me
PS, US The soundtrack to the documentary feat. many of the finest
recordings by the revered Texas singer/songwriter, who passed away
in 1997. This 2-disc collection draws primarily from his work on the
Tomato label &showcases his distinctively melancholy country/folk
narratives.
FatPossum
DCD
$20.00
Various
Delirium Of The Senses: Psychedelia In Italian Cinema
PS, UK This album demonstrates the incredible aptitude of Ennio Morricone's
golden generation of Italian composers for psychedelia. That most
hallucinogenic of all films, Fellini's "Toby Dammit" is
featured with a selection from Nino Rota's famous score along with
a panorama of superlative performances and rare recordings from such
masters as Morricone, Piero Piccioni and Umiliani, Berto Pisano and
Claudio Gizzi (former music director for the films of Andy Warhol)
who's main title for Roman Polanski's notorious "What?"
is included here in digital format for the first time. TRACKLISTING:
Ennio Morricone- Forza G (Psichedelico Jazzistico) From Forza G, Berto
Pisano-High Altar From Sissingnore, Berto Pisano-Sidestep From Sissingnore,
Piero Piccioni- Due Maschi Per Alexa (Psychedelic Dream) From Due
Maschi Per Alexa, Piero Piccioni-I Giovanni Tigre (Track 8) From I
Giovanni Tigre, Piero Piccioni The Redcoat (New Edit) From Sacco Alla
Regina, Nino Rota-The Awards From Fellini Toby Dammit, Armando Trovajoli-Il
Filo Dei Giorni From L'arcidiavolo, Armando Trovajoli-L'attesa From
L'arcidiavolo, Ennio Morricone-Queimada Seconda From Queimada, Ennio
Morricone-Venta Del Mar (Vii) From Ecce Homo-I Sopravvissuti, Ennio
Morricone-Astratto 1 From Verushka, Ennio Morricone-Le Fotografie
From Verushka, Ennio Morricone-Ric Happening From Metti Una sera a
Cena, Ennio Morricone-Beat N.3 From Theorem, Antón García
Abril-4 3 2 1...Morte! (Psychedelic Scene), Piero Umiliani-Le Isole
Dell'amore (Shake) From Le Isole Dell'amore, Piero Umiliani-Bambola
Omicida From 5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto, Piero Umiliani Danza
Citar Free From 5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto, Piero Piccioni-Katmandu'
From Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Piero Piccioni-Inventions From
Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Piero Piccioni-Inventions (# 2) From
Katmandu' Il Dio Sotto La Pelle, Luis Bacalov-Rebus (Sequence 1) From
Rebus, Armando Trovajoli-Abbiamo Capito (Tema D'amore-Raga Indiano)
From Il Profeta, Armando Trovajoli-Abbiamo Capito (Tema D'amore- Variazioni)
From il profeta, claudio gizzi-what ? From che? (what?).
BellaCasa-07
CD
$15.00
Various
Kindermusik: Improvised Music By Babies
PS, JAPAN EYE (Bordoms) praised, real babies performances without
editings.
Amorfon-005
CD
$15.75
Various
Music For Baby!
PS, JAPAN Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, DAT Politics, Cftpa,
Ryoichi Kurokawa, Toshiya Tunoda, etc.
Amorfon-004
CD
$15.75
Various
Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
PS, US This 16th record in Numero's Library of the Lost, looks at
the unknown side of the early 70s kid soul revolution. Beyond the
Osmonds, the Five Stairsteps & the Brighter Side Of Darkness lay
hundreds of aspiring children (or parents) bent on becoming the next
Michael. Incl. a detailed & photo stuffed bk that breaks down
the phenomena, while the disc straddles that line between historical
artifact & wild mix tape.
Numero-016
DCD
$16.00
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 4
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 1
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 2
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various
Happy Happy Birthday To Me Volume 4
PS, US Almost all exclusive tracks, will only be a physical release,
no digital release available. only 500 copies made. Ads running in
Big Takeover, Magnet, Skyscraper, & Bottlerocket. Only 200 copies
are left for distribution. Happy Happy Birthday to Me Vol 4 is the
4th installment in them long line of Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records
label comps. This compilation series features half the HHBTM roster
and includes lots of friends new and old. The compilation is limited
to 500 copies and features mostly exclusive tracks. (* after the band
name means exclusive track) Sarandon * Baby Calendar * the Passerines
* Ocelots * Boyracer * Poison Control Center * Ideal Free Distribution
Gazetteers * Casper & the Cookies * the Melody Function * Patience
Please * Keith John Adams * Baskervilles * Faintest Ideas * Russian
Spy Camera * Fishboy * Ryan Anderson * Mytty Archer * the Snow Fairies
the Hat Company * Titans of Filth Cars Can be Blue * Bunnygrunt *
the Velcro Stars * Visitations * Red Pony Clock * Half Handed Cloud
* Men in Fur * Helper T-Cells *
HHBTM-088
CD
$12.25
Various
Road To Nowhere
PS, US Incredible indie-rock comp with NICK OLIVERI, FU MANCHU, THE
DWARVES, BURNING BRIDES, WINNEBAGO DEAL, BRANT BJORK, BABY WOODROSE,
& more, plus a debut track from "THE FREAKS" (Ruben
Romano of Nebula, John McBain of Monster Magnet, Scott Reeder of Kyuss,
Isaiha Mitchell of Earthless, and Jack Endino famed engineer)
PoisonTree-004
CD
$10.25
Various
Twistin Rumble Vol. 3
PS, US It's been a while, but these are worth the wait. Four hot new
LPs in the fine tradition of comps like "Stompin'", "Black
Rock 'n' Roll" and more. Greasy R&B and trashy intrumentals
both known and unknown all wrapped up in wonderfully ludicrous (thanks
Karl) sleeves. Good times to found in each volume. Get 'em all.
TwistinRumble
LP
$11.25
Various Artists
Nowe:Le
PS, POLAND A electronic compilation from Poland's Vivo label, Nowe:le
has tagged itself as being psychedelically ambient, coldly computerized,
ethnical experimentronic, and heat addled by a passage through the
Texan desert. "Nowele" is Polish for "short stories"
and the seven artists represented here (hailing from Japan, Poland,
and the United States) offer eleven sonic shorts, which are meant
to unfold behind your eyes. Nowe:le starts off with a bubbling glitch
track from Maciek Szymczuk. "Uruk" simmers with electrical
signals, some popping and crackling like exploding molecules, while
other currents string themselves together into swirling, darting melodies.
"Uruk" is a petri dish dance party seen through an electron
microscope.
Vivo-2002006
CD
$12.00
Venture Lift
Futuretoreal
PS, UK Beautiful debut album from Woodstock, NY native Stanton Warren.
12 songs of guitar driven gems with a 60's psychedelia feel. highly
recommended to fans of the Pink Floyd, Mojave 3, Fuxa, Mercury Rev,
Spiritualized & Azusa Plane. Prepare to be amazed. space rock
is back! First appeared on the highly praised Mind Expansion Compilation.
LIMITED to 1000, only 400 for distribution!
MindExpansion-2014
CD
$12.75
VHS or Beta
Bring on the Comets
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks
DLP
$19.00
VHS or Beta
Bring on the Comets
PS, US Louisville's VHS OR BETA makes its boldest move yet with the
release of their third full-length album, Bring On The Comets. Bring
On The Comets provides heartfelt anthems with a newfound discovery
of musical freedom, a shedding of previous expectation and boundary,
and an undeniable return to pop music. The first single, "Can't
Believe A Single Word," is a storming piano-driven mini-epic,
with Pfunder's soaring, dramatic vocals swelling to a fist-pumping
chorus. The title track, is a grand, slide-guitar infused larger-than-life
adventure."Fall Down Lightly," vitally captures every element
of VHS OR BETA's revamped new sound: here, discordant punk-funk mutates
into a classic filter-disco groove, giving way to a startlingly catchy
chorus describing a relationship's tumble into l'amour fou. VHS OR
BETA-today a trio comprising core members vocalist/guitarist Craig
Pfunder, bassist Mark Palgy and drummer Mark Guidry- recorded Bring
On The Comets with up-and-coming producer Brendan Mason (Secret Machines,
David Bowie) in Asheville, NC and Nashville, TN.
Astralwerks
CD
$12.50
Walk With The Penguin
Steal A Spoon For You
PS, JAPAN Mutatation of "POP" post-rock by Japanese steelpanist/sound
artist, "Yoshio Machida" & a post-folk band, "Cinc".
So far Machida played at some festivals like ISEA2004, MAERZ Musik,
Sonar Tokyo, etc. and his albums were released from Softl Music, Amorfon,
Sub Rosa... Cinc is an alternative band that leads Serbian alternative
scene. 2 albums are already released from Amorfon, praised by Simon
Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) as "Beguiling". This album includes
female & male vocals, guitar, bass, violin, steelpan and electronics.Beautiful
melody by Steel Pan (tr1), singing comical mind of a girl waiting
(tr2), a hero is active in moon night (tr8), Balkan's 11 time with
vocorder (tr9), reminiscent of the 80s cool New Wave (tr10), grandma
became grandpa?(tr11)... Acoustic, 8bit, steel pan, kitschy, electronics
to orchestral & grunge... Cross over genre from post-rock to electronica
like: Hanne Hukkelberg, Peter, Bjorn and John, Yo La Tengo, Leaf,
Morr Music.
Amorfon-009
CD
$15.75
Warhorse
Priestess
PS, US Warhorse successfully pick up where bands like Sleep left off,
knocking out three tracks of riff laden sludge rock clocking in at
over thirty minutes long.
Elllington
LP
$13.50
Warm In the Wake
American Prehistoric
PS, US An epic 15 track song cycle that leads the listener into a
land of sonic adventure.An eclectic mix of analog soundscapes,cosmic
harmonies &understated yet impeccable balladry.
Livewire
CD
$15.00
White Rainbow
Prints of Eternal Now
PS, US After years of outer space exploration in YUME BITSU &
SURFACE OF ECEYON, as well as stints as a hired gun for a multitude
of artists incl. Dirty Projectors, Jackie-O Motherfucker & Devendra
Banhart, he decided to turn his focus inward & began to record
solo material. At a somewhat brief 71 min., this pulses & flows
w /mantric chants,clattering percussions, sighing sustains & guitar
leads unashamed of their scorching transcendence. He breathes new
life into archaic sub-genres such as progrock, new age,& hippie
folk incantations, while never stooping to the negative aspects of
any of them, & remaining a step ahead of the technologically crippled
& virtuosuo-less looper pedal scene.
Kranky-110
CD
$12.25
Wolfington, John
American Dreamsicle
PS, US As on his previous full-length, Steve Shelley (of SONIC YOUTH)
& Tim Foljahn (of TWO DOLLAR GUITAR) contribute drums & bass
to the bulk of this album. Recorded at New York's Magic Shop w/ Brian
Thorn, this shimmers with a more direct sound a la Plastic Ono Band
& After the Gold Rush era Neil Young.
SmellsLikeRecords
CD
$10.00
Woods
At Rear House
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TMU
LP
$13.00
Yura Yura Teikoku
Sweet Spot
PS, US Finally a domestic release. Released two years ago in Japan
"Sweet Spot" just might be Yura Yura Teikoku's crowning
achievment containing some of their most out and most accesible moments.
If you were wondering what the fuss was about this is the perfect
place to find out. Highly recommended.
MeshKey
CD
$11.50
Zenial
Reworked
PS, POLAND The very fact that Polish digi-sound explorer Lukasz Szalankiewicz's
debut release (beyond the few compilation appearances so far garnered)
amounts to a collection of reworkings of his material by artists whom
he either respects or shares his mission with appears to make far
more sense than going it alone to try and stake out his position.
As such, collaborative pieces with Kasper T. Toeplitz, Andrew Duke
and others run alongside remixes by Kazuyuki K. Null, Vidna Obmana,
Andrew Lagowski, Amir Baghiri, Tetsuo Furudate, Zbigniew Karkowski
and Zenial himself. Most of these, in turn, subscribe to the notion
of exorcising new glacial shapes from the material sourced, but it's
actually during the more rhythmic settings of Vidna Obmana's "Palsecam
Theme (Recycled)' and Amir Baghiri's 'Ilustracja#1/E-nimalic' that
things take on a more muscular life of their own.
Vivo-2004008
CD
$12.00
Z-Trip
Shifting Gears
PS, US
Hollywood
LP
$10.50
Forthcoming
Releases
Aarktica
Matchless Years (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 13TH)
PS, US Pop/rock/experimental group lead by New York's Jon DeRosa featuring
Mascott's Kendall Meade and Drum Corps' Aaron Spectre as well as other
musicians known for their own work. As with previous records Matchless
Years was recorded by Charles Newman at Mother West Studio, NYC. On
Matchless Years Aarktica embraces the spirit of the best works of
brethren Jesus And Mary Chain, Spiritualized, and Magnetic Fields,
as well as a progression toward "dark disco" and a meshing
of 1950's vocal pop sensibilities atop Aarktica's established atmospheric
sound. The tradition of moody pop aural heroin has never sounded so
comfortable. Matchless Years is by far Aarktica's strongest and most
accessible work to date and is sure to gain them new fans. Personell:
Jon DeRosa - vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, pump organ, harmonium,
gamelan bells. Aaron Spectre (Drumcorps) - drum programs, Chris Carrico
(ex-Crucifer) - electric guitar, Charles Newman (Magnetic Fields,
Stephin Merritt producer)- organ, keyboard, Mike Pride - drums, percussion,
Seth Misterka - alto saxophone, James Duncan - trumpet, Gretta Cohn
(ex-Bright Eyes/Cursive)- cello, Kendall Jane Meade (Mascott) - backing
vocals, Ernie Adzentoivich - electric & upright bass. Produced
by Charles Newman. Tracklisting: 1. Seventy Jane, 2. I Name You Sleep,
3. Intro to Arms, 4. Arms, 5. Summer Tabla Dub, 6. Happiness Boys,
7. Matchless, 8. Slow Sorrow, Oh. Also Available: AARKTICA -Bleeding
Light CD (Darla: DRL-155), AARKTICA-Or You Could Just Go Through Your
Whole Life And Be Happy Anyway/Bliss Out v.18 CD (Darla: DRL121),
AARKTICA-Pure Tone Audiometry CD (Silber: sil026), AARKTICA-No Solace
In Sleep CD (Silber: sil012). PRESS: "Aarktica is cold, pure,
and almost inescapably tranquil." -PITCHFORK.
Darla-177
CD
$12.25
Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Psychedelic Navigator (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US AcidMothersGuruGuru features Mani Neumeier from the legendary
and influential German Krautrock group Guru Guru as well as Kawabata
Makoto and Atsushi Tsuyama from Japan's holy Acid Mothers Temple.
The result is a fiery fantasy filled, loud/soft, colorful trans-generational
psychedelic collaboration. The Acid Mothers Guru Guru started in a
spontaneous session in March of 2006 in Nagoya, Japan. When the improvisation
commenced the passionate excitement was clear to all in the room and
it was then that this special psychedelic trio began. A Japanese tour
was planned, an album was recorded and this recording is the fruit
of this mutual musical admiration. While all involved will admit that
this is a dream of collaborations it was the Acid Mothers Temple guys
who were worshipping Guru Guru in their teens. The Acid Mothers Guru
Guru is two generations of psychedelic rock joining forces for the
21st century.
Important-160
CD
$12.25
Adams, Ryan
Heartbreaker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US REISSUE of this classic first album in a gatefold sleeve. Remastered
from the original analog tapes Bonus photos & lyrics not included
w/ the Cooking Vinyl version.
Cobraside
LP
$12.50
Allen, Daevid
Good Morning! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK In 1975, following his departure from GONG, the highly influential
group he had founded, Daevid Allen sought musical solace in the village
of Deja on the island of Mallorca. Here he encountered a group of
Catalan musicians, Euterpe, with whom Allen began collaborating. Recorded
in Mallorca, the album "GOOD MORNING" was released by Virgin
Records in 1976 to great acclaim, being a unique work that was regarded
by fans and critics as being equally as good as anything he recorded
with GONG, if not better. Filled with Allen's startling original musical
observations, "GOOD MORNING" appeared briefly on CD in the
early 1990's and vanished quickly. Long sought after by the legions
of GONG / DAEVID ALLEN followers, ESOTERIC RECORDINGS is proud to
announce the reissue of this album with fully restored artwork and
superb 24-bit digitally remastered sound. THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL
CD RELEASE FOR THIS CLASSIC ALBUM IN SIXTEEN YEARS.
EsotericRecordings-2004
CD
$15.00
Angels Of Light
We Are Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US
YoungGod-35
LP
$18.75
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$17.50
Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Strawberry Jam" feels like space dust and radar
falling on the desert and making it bloom. It's the sound of a band
spinning wildly and intoxicated, at the cusp of their powers, as thick
and rich and sweet and colorful as it sounds.
Domino
CD
$14.00
Apparat
Walls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US ON DOUBLE VINYL! It describes a circle that pulls many elements
together into a protected, enclosed space where they jostle &
roam free: strings & mallet instruments; rock guitar & gravelly
sawtooth synths; stuttering digital percussion & muscular studio
drumming. What might be most striking about is the way it creates
a kind of single,sustained mood; this is an album for listening to
all in one go, front to back. This is one of those road-trip records,
one of those coming-down records, one of those bedding-down records.
Shitkatapult
DLP
$18.00
A-Sides
Silver Storms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Brian McTear (Mazarin,Danielson,Espers) produced new album
runs the gamut from reflective numbers to all our burnders.A big sound
w/a heap of tenderness.
Vagrant
CD
$12.25
Askew, Ed
Little Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Recorded in one continuous take in NYC, 1970. Made with little
more than magnetic tape, Ed's voice, and the stunningly modern arrangements
of his beloved Martin Tiple, "Little Eyes" is as grand,
sad, and beautiful a statement as can be expressed. His off-key lilt
hangs like a seductive pink mist, and settles deeply; you'll hear
these songs long after they're over. Attempting to publicize an unreleased
record, Ed did a string of radio gigs between NY and New Haven, and
the best of them are collected here. Lovely and wild.
DeStijl
CD
$12.50
Ateleia
Nightly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US With "Nightly," ATELEIA's JAMES ELLIOTT artfully
evokes the humid krautrock of POPOL VUH within a whirlpool of lush
minimalism, nimble electronica and digital psychedelia. It is a voyage
up a primeval river of sound within a steaming jungle of invisible
detail -- where the ultimate destination is forever out of reach.
TableoftheElements-808
CD5
$9.00
Athlete
Beyond the Neighbourhood [CD/DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Limnited Edition w/ DVD.
Astralwerks
CD/DVD
$21.75
Athlete
Beyond the Neighbourhood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album.
Astralwerks
CD
$14.25
Axe Riverboy
Tutu To Tango (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Tahiti 80's frontman and principle songwriter, Xavier Boyer,
one of the most distinctive and loved voices in indie rock, further
propels French rock on its upward spiral with this long awaited solo
record, recorded under the name Axe Riverboy, (an anagram of Xavier's
name). A blend of superb songwriting, sing-a-long choruses, ringing
guitars, and compressed pianos. A warm rediscovery of rock and pop
with folk overtones, brilliantly drawn from the sounds upon which
early Tahiti 80 thrived.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Band Of Horses
Cease to Begin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.25
Band Of Horses
Cease to Begin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US These songs are strikingly beautiful, if less elliptical and
more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the
last record, 2006's "Everything All The Time" (scanned nearly
85K). Produced by Phil Ek.
Subpop
CD
$14.00
Banhart, Devendra
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Recorded in Topanga Canyon in the Santa Monica mountains. Neil
Young lived there while recording "After The Gold Rush"
and the area has also been home to Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Joni
Mitchell, Mick Fleetwood, and members of The Doors. Those ghosts inhabit
the sound and vibe of these recording sessions. Banhart's whole "freak
folk" tag is gone, replaced with this classic, gorgeous rock
album. Some songs are fragile and solipsistic, others have a pronounced
tropicalia influence, and
still others are wildly electric and epic.
XL
CD
$13.25
Basalt Fingers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This one is two side-long triple electric guitar jams by BEN
CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Comets on Fire), Elisa Ambrogio
(MAGIK MARKERS) & Brian Sullivan (MOUTHUS, Eskimo King, White
Rock). Extremely dense & crunchy -hold this one back to set the
mood at your next summer of love party.Pressed on 180g black vinyl
& will come from an edition of around 800 hand-numbered copies.Look
out for the beautiful wrap-around multi-colored silkscreened cover.Incl.a
pressed CD (not CD-R) of the same material-not available separately.
TLR-039
LP
$22.00
Beirut
Flying Club Cup (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US The orkestar has solidified into a core group of 8 & has
grand plans for replicating this album live. Recording was done w/
Owen Pallet (FINAL FANTASY) at the Masonic church studio owned by
The Arcade Fire. W/ in the spectacle & intimacy,you can hear a
love letter to the joie de vivre that defines our existence.Listen
closer, & you also hear the emergence of a singular musical talent-Mr.Zachary
F.Condon, at present living in Paris-unbounded by cultural borders
& by where his heart travels.
BaDaBing!-055
CD
$13.25
Besnard Lakes, The
Casino Nanaimo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US In early 2007, THE BESNARD LAKES released a full-length album
on JAGJAGUWAR that quickly made it onto numerous and budding best-albums-of-the-year
short-lists by a whole range of music-listening pedigree. Now these
inspired Montrealers continue what they've started, re-stoking the
flames and releasing two additional tracks. Side A is "Casino
Nanaimo", a place where repetitive sound and lights engulf addicted
gamblers all vying for space on the eternal wheel of fortune. And
then there is side B, "Devastation (alternate version)",
the unedited and original straight-to-two-track nine-minute version,
recorded live-off-the-floor at Breakglass Studios.
Jagjaguwar-116
12
$9.00
Black Cab
Jesus East [2007] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, GERMANY New album from Australian psych-o-nauts. Jesus East is
something of an antidote to the fear and loathing of their debut album,
Altamont Diary, blending late '60's and early '70's rock sounds with
loops and subtle electronica over pulsing percussion and driving guitars
reminiscent of some of the great German rock bands of the '70's. Jesus
East evokes ghosts of the Velvet Underground, Can, Neu and coolest
Beatle George Harrison's fascination with eastern sounds.UNCUT MAGAZINE
(4 STARS): "The dark side of hippie-dom, updated and energised...
Two years ago this Melbourne duo - Andrew Coates and James Lee - delivered
a dark-horse diamond with Altamont Diary, their compelling, sinister
concept album inspired by The Stones' dread day of '69. Their second
sticks to no strict storyline but advances their mix of psyched-out
60s guitars/sitars and late 70s Teutonic rhythms to heart-stopping
effect. It's accumulatively epic: it begins as a fine Spacemen 3/Neu
pastiche, but by the roaring climax its pulse-rockets are firing way
beyond genre. As a finale Sam Cutler, M.C. at Altamont and Stones/Grateful
Dead manager, drawls a languidly poetic memoir over "Valiant",
while guitars mentally creep. Utterly riveting." (CR)
Stickman
CD
$17.75
Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This debut succinctly epitomizes all that's special about Atlanta's
favorite flower punk sons: the uncontained energy, undeniable songcraft,
and unrivaled showmanship are all on full display, as is a newfound
sense of the world around them. Songs like "Katrina" and
"Bad Kids" spare none of the Black Lips' trademark smirk
and smear, but also demonstrate a purpose and perspective not always
at the forefront of the band's music. "Good Bad Not Evil"
traffics in the kind of ragged rock harmony missing from record stores
for so long.
Vice
CD
$12.50
Blind WIllie Johnson
Nobody's Fault But Mine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK "Blind" Willie Johnson straddled that spooky border
between blues and spirituals. Among musicians, he is considered one
of the greatest slide or bottleneck guitarists, as well as one of
the most revered figures of depression-era gospel music. Covered by
everyone from Peter, Paul and Mary to Led Zeppelin to Fairport Convention
to Bob Dylan to Beck to The White Stripes, he is one of those almost
secret figures who seemingly influence everything. Ry Coooder's soundtrack
to "Paris, Texas" was conceived as a distillation of his
work and spirit. Willie Johnson's life in itself reads like an early
blues, blinded at age seven by his own mother in a fight with his
errant father, living as an itinerant preacher and singer, having
to live in the burnt out ruin of his ramshackle house after a fire,
on a wet mattress, which eventually helped kill him, pneumonia, malarial
fever and syphilis being a powerful combo. A major figure in the "eerie
voiced" blues genre typified by Robert Johnson, Skip James and
others, that sense-of dread hellhound on my trail atmosphere which
makes great movies...Here is a collection of Blind Willie Johnson's
finest, with his slashing 12 string and scary slide all over them...Blind
Willie's song Dark Was The Night, Cold Was the Ground was included
on the Voyager Golden Record, sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft
in 1977. Out there, there may be life forms hearing the sounds of
Blind Willie Johnson. Are you ready for it? A rich, strange, and wonderful
collection of Blind Willie Johnson's best! Lovingly packaged with
wonderful memorabilia and detailed notes by our man in the world of
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Mr. Vic Templar! Beautifully remastered
in RevOla-sonic sound by Joe Foster and Norman Blake at the secretly
located Studio 3! A must for ANYONE who likes the magical, eerie and
scary sound of all the people mentioned above..."adapted"
by Led Zep, launched into space, covered by The White Stripes...surely
you have to check out Willie's scary world of black cat bones and
revelators and cold, cold graves!
Rev-Ola-224
CD
$15.00
Blow, The
Parentheses (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US THE BLOW's smash hit from "Paper Television" is finally
available on an attractive 7" with a fine selection of remixes
from some talented friends. Lille, France based trio DAT POLITICS
have taken the mellow, springlike love song on a bouncy rollercoaster
ride. A hyperactive beat mashup has replaced the original beat, while
keeping singer KHAELA MARICICH's sweet voice safely belted through
the loops. London's new premiere resident DJ RORY PHILLIPS is one
of the heroes of The End's Trash (now Durr) Club fame. Fresh off of
remixes for FRANZ FERDINAND and LES GEORGES LENINGRAD, Phillips has
given "Parenthesis" a more sensitive treatment, transforming
the rhythm into a static, repetitive, but cool house beat. Rounding
out this single is the previously unreleased "Get Around,"
a frantic, dynamic gem from the "Paper Television" sessions
that you shouldn't miss!
Tomlab-083
45
$5.50
Broken Social Scene
Spirit If (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, CANADA
Arts&Crafts
CD
$15.25
Bryars, Gavin
Hommages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 13TH)
PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques
du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981
and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The
album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers,
which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav
Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger
(Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah,
Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson,
as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album
is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars'
early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well
as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new
63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks
composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise,
and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features
extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all
six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc
Borgers.
LTM-2503
CD
$16.25
C.O.C.O
Play Drums + Bass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Up from the swamps of the death disco comes a new offering
from the minimalist soul group all the heads call C.O.C.O. OLIVIA
NESS (bass, drums, vocals) and CHRIS SUTTON (drums, bass, vocals)
have been tapping the primal groove for a while now using only the
most basic of instrumentation, but this time our explorers have decided
to travel to the outer limits of the beat. C.O.C.O.'s mission is simple:
"Play Drums + Bass" and that credo was the inspiration for
their third - without a doubt their best - record. The musical spectrum
continues to expand into the nether regions of dub reggae (for a tribute
to the late great TAMARA DOBSON) all the way to the sunny side of
surf rock.
Krecords-183
LP
$10.25
C.O.C.O.
Play Drums + Bass (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Up from the swamps of the death disco comes a new offering
from the minimalist soul group all the heads call C.O.C.O. OLIVIA
NESS (bass, drums, vocals) and CHRIS SUTTON (drums, bass, vocals)
have been tapping the primal groove for a while now using only the
most basic of instrumentation, but this time our explorers have decided
to travel to the outer limits of the beat. C.O.C.O.'s mission is simple:
"Play Drums + Bass" and that credo was the inspiration for
their third - without a doubt their best - record. The musical spectrum
continues to expand into the nether regions of dub reggae (for a tribute
to the late great TAMARA DOBSON) all the way to the sunny side of
surf rock.
Krecords-183
CD
$11.50
Cake, The
Cream Of The Cake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK What links New Orleans Maestro Harold Battiste, Dr. John, The
Soft Machine, The Daily Flash, Tiny Tim, Jack Nitsche, Sonny and Cher,
Traffic, Jimi Hendrix and Ginger Baker's Airforce? THE CAKE. The last
of the classic girl groups, whose two 1967/68 albums are as they say
a game of two (sometimes three!) halves, classic girlgroupisms mixed
with Baroque Pop, Wyrd Folk, Psychpop and club R&B, all with a
wonderful good humour. Fans of the esoteric might care to know that
Kevin Ayers' song "Eleanor's Cake Which Ate Her" is about
the group...that they sang backing vocals on Electric Ladyland and
the first Soft Machine album...and that Eleanor herself sang 'I Got
You Babe' with Tiny Tim (backed by The Band) in the cult movie "You
Are What You Eat". And are the albums any good? Yes, by yiminy,
they are! A wonderful snapshot of the Sunset Strip, with a wonderfully
decadent atmosphere for three such innocent girls...you'll just love
it! The Cake recently reformed to play the prestigious launch party
for the forthcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic, and who knows - they may
come to your town soon... At great personal cost, RevOla presents
THE CAKE! Never previously on CD cult artists...and they look hot
in pictures too! Wonderfully re-mastered by Mr. Nick Robbins and with
gorgeous packaging featuring wonderful pictures provided by THE CAKE
and legendary rock photographer Ed Caraeff (The Cake took the shy
young Ed to Monterey, where he took his first famous photos of Jimi
Hendrix). There's also more than extensive liner notes by Tiny Tim
biographer Chris Campion...at last, the full story can be told! Interviews
with Harold Battiste, Kim Fowley, Rodney Bingenheimer, Kevin Ayers,
you name them, they are here! A must for all girl group and Northern
Soul fans, lovers of Baroque Pop, Psychpop and Wyrd Folk...you know
the drill!
Rev-Ola-222
CD
$15.00
Cave Singers, The
Invitation Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00
Cave Singers, The
Invitation Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Seattle's Cave Singers debut with a rural blend of homespun
mystery and "folk music approached by way of punk rock, or an
updated version of the 'Anthology Of American Folk Music" - Seattle
Weekly. You might hear bits of Calexico, Iron & Wine, Devendra,
or Lindsey Buckingham in their dense and eerie sound. Singer Pete
Quirk's appealingly nasal voice simultaneously echoes Arlo Guthrie
and a mosquito's buzz.
Matador
CD
$13.25
Chesnutt, Vic
North Star Deserter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US One of the finest songsmiths of today. His words will knock
you out, his voice is like no other, and the two combined deliver
lyrical phrases that echo in your brain forever. The songs on this
release are among his most bracing & intense. Stripped down songs
are juxtaposed with explosive rockers. The broad cast of players include
all 7 members of THEE SILVER MT. ZION, along with Guy Picciotto (FUGAZI),
Chad Jones & Nadia Moss (FRANKIE SPARO), Eric Craven *Genevieve
Heistek (HANGEDUP), Bruce awdron(GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR) and T.Griffin
(The Quavers). This record is unlike any other in his substantial
discography.Macabre & fearless, playful & funny, deeply personal
and incongrously hopeful.
Constellation-046
CD
$14.25
Circle
Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
NoQuarter
LP
$11.50
Circle
Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Finland's Circle are one of the leading psych-rock bands playing
today, releasing records and touring for over a decade now. Founding
member Jussi Lehtisalo handles the majority of vocal duties with a
gruff, low-end growl. The music is heavy and atmospheric with repetitive
riffs and haunted keyboards which create a twisted, spooky mood. Influenced
by equal parts 60s psychedelia and venom, "Katapult" is
perhaps the most diverse, groundbreaking, dark, and primitive Circle
album yet.
NoQuarter
CD
$14.00
Cloak/Dagger
We Are (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US A bombastic, rough around the edges approach to minimalist
hardcore. Combining the jagged aggression of bands like Swiz &
Black Flag w/ the spastic urgency of Drive Like Jehu,this embraces
a lyrically raw directness that transcends the false conceptions &misgivings
of modern punk. They embrace the long lost art of disposability, steering
away from the culture of celebratory fake aggression,into a new era
of raw, incendiary punk music.
JadeTree-125
CD
$13.25
Cloud Cult
Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Re-release of CC's 2005 album with 25 tracks. ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
"Minnesota's Cloud Cult may use Odelay as a touchstone on Advice
from the Happy Hippopotamus but the outfit's experimental beats and
hip-hop junk are far more out there than that influence could ever
be. Lyrically and vocally removed from the Beck Hansen school of thought,
the group evokes strains of the Polyphonic Spree and the Flaming Lips..."
RebelGroup
CD
$15.00
Coral, The
Roots & Echoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK New import-only album from Brit Pop messiahs gone totally retro.
RedInk
CD
$15.75
Cranes
Forever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK First time reissue of this unsung classic of contemporary British
music. Originally released in 1993 on Dedicated Records, Cranes continued
their pioneering form with this self-produced offering. Led by the
charismatic Alison Shaw, the band forged a niche with a fan base that
still exists to this day. The CD features 7 bonus tracks bringing
together for the first time, all the tracks from all the various limited
edition versions of the original release. Also included is The Cure
front man Robert Smith's remix of the single 'Jewel' which is taken
from the album "Jewel". The band's full UK Dedicated Records
discography is included featuring many of the band's rare sleeves
and extensive liner notes. The artwork features the brilliant original
sleeve design but has been expanded to incorporate all the new elements
to the CD booklet.
CherryRed-330
CD
$15.00
Cranes
Wings Of Joy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK The first reissue of this seminal debut album since it's original
release in 1991 by Portsmouth's most important band, Cranes. The album
features 7 bonus tracks that accompanied the original release, 4 of
which were on a limited edition CD and 3 that were available only
as a limited edition 12" with the vinyl version. These are now
all gathered together for the first time. The CD booklet includes
the band's UK Discography from their most productive period when signed
to the Dedicated label. The artwork features the original sleeve and
new liner notes telling the story of the band's creation, to signing
their deal with Dedicated and includes excerpts of the original press
reviews of the album from the NME and Melody Maker. Cranes remain
a unique band in the modern history of the UK's serious music scene.
They were an antidote to bland, contrived acts that peppered the charts
at the time. Their experimental approach to making music still has
a lasting credibility today.
CherryRed-329
CD
$15.00
Crescent
Little Waves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK New album from British psych-ambienteers.
FatCat
CD
$12.50
Creteens
4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA)
PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound
garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are
definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover &
a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty
rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl.
Contaminated-009
45
$6.00
Crow, Rob
Up (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS. US Still living well, ROB CROW returns with the second single
from his breakthrough album, "Living Well." Primarily known
as the frontman for indie pop darlings PINBACK, Crow has established
himself as a brilliant solo artist with tracks like "I Hate You,
Rob Crow," and this new single, "Up." Also featured
here are three (count 'em) previously unreleased tracks, including
the obscenely catchy "Forced Letter."
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-125
CD5
$3.50
Davis, Ben Forrest
Roughs (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2007)
PS, US Re-release of 'Roughs' (on Velvet Crusher Ric Menck's Bird
Song label) by former and founding member of the Los Angeles rock
band Sugarcult. Here, Ben's doing his very own laid-back soft-rock
thing, with a little dab of country & western, quite a departure
from Sugarcult's highly-toughted tautness. Leaving behind a life of
rock-n-roll excess, this enigmatic album qualifies as emancipation
and exorcism, a collection of intimate, personal songs about love
and self-destruction. Not so far afield from singer-songwriterly,
orch-popping Parasol faves like Ken Stringfellow and his Posies, Kevin
Tihista and his Red Terror, Jack Logan & Bob Kimbell, June &
The Exit Wounds, and The Velvet Crush.
BirdSong-105
CD
$10.00
Dead Or Alive
Sophisticated Boom Boom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK "Sophisticated Boom Boom" was the debut album from
UK synth pop/new wave act Dead Or Alive, released in 1984. Fronted
by the imposing figure of Pete Burns, latterly a fixture on UK television
-not least through his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother - it gave
the band its first UK Top 40 single, with a re-make of KC & The
Sunshine Band's 'That's The Way I Like It'. That single, as well as
'Misty Circles', were also hits on the US Hot Dance and Club Play
charts - when the latter was reissued as the b-side to 'You Spin Me
Round (Like A Record)'. 'Misty Circles' and further single 'What I
Want' were cowritten by later Sisters Of Mercy and Mission guitarist
Wayne Hussey, but it was Burns' confrontational press image that generated
column inches. Dead Or Alive were embraced by the New Romantics as
well as clubbers, and Burns engaged in a series of entertaining press
spats with Boy George about who minted that image of extravagant gay
frontman, outrageous dresser first. This re-release, on CD for the
first time in the UK, includes a slew of bonus tracks as well as detailed
liners notes about the band's history.
CherryPop-4
CD
$15.00
Deadly Syndrome, The
The Ortolan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US There's a distinctive west coast signature in each of their
glorious tunes, reminiscent of rock forefathers such as Neil Young,
Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Frampton, The Doobie Brothers, Tim and Jeff
Buckley, Elliott Smith, Wilco, and The Eagles, to name a few. An upbeat
pop-tinged album with larger than life percussion, jangling guitars,
and heart wrenching vocals that still maintains the crucial darkness
that so often taints the west coast folk and rock sound. Upbeat tales
of longing, loving, suicide, and loss. "Unbridled euphoria"
- LA Times.
DimMak
CD
$11.50
Deerhoof
Matchbook Seeks Maniac (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This picture disc 7" feat. the "Dedication"
mix of the song. Think Phil Spector & Deerhoof melding in a perfect
reverb-y daydream of a song about the corrupting influence of power.
B-side is "Makko Shobu" & original art by Scottish artist
David Shrigley.
KillRockStars
45
$4.75
Dell'orso, Edda
Voice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK Edda Dell'Orso is the sound of Italian cinema. Her astonishing
voice recognizable to anyone who has experienced the landmark spaghetti
western films made by Sergio Leone; films that were in the mid sixties
scored by a young whippersnapper called Ennio Morricone. The recent
revival of interest in mid-century post-modern art and the restoration
of so many wonderful Morricone scores has led many to discover Edda
Dell'Orso. Her work is the epitome of intelligence and sophistication.
It is utopian in its scope and its potential is vast. TRACK LISTING
1/ Roberto Pregadio - Eva's Beguine-MAIN TITLES FROM EVA, LA VENERE
SELVAGGIA 2/ Piero Piccioni - CON O SENZA SOLE FROM SCACCO ALLA REGINA
3/ Ennio Morricone - UNA VOCE ALLO SPECCHIO FROM LA STAGIONE DEI SENSI
4/ Ennio Morricone - UN ALTRO MARE FROM VERGOGNA SCHIFOSI 5/ Ennio
Morricone - EL PRIMO BASO FROM CHI L'HA VISTA MORIRE? 6/ Armando Trovajoli
- MADDALENA FROM L'ARCIDIAVOLO 7/ Ennio Morricone - OCEANO FROM OCEANO
8/ Roberto Pregadio - EVA'S BEGUINE FROM EVA, LA VENERE SELVAGGIA
9/ Ennio Morricone - LA RAGIONE, IL CUORE, L'AMORE FROM IL DIAVOLO
NEL CERVELLO 10/ Ennio Morricone - FACCIA A FACCIA (INTERMEZZO) FROM
FACCIA A FACCIA 11/ Ennio Morricone - UNO CHE GRIDA AMORE FROM METTI,
UNA SERA A CENA 12/ Ennio Morricone - I SOGNI DELL'ARTISTA FROM UN
TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA 13/ Ennio Morricone - DELIRIO SECONDO
FROM UN TRANQUILLO POSTO DI CAMPAGNA 14/ Ennio Morricone - COME MADDELENA
FROM MADDELENA 15/ Armando Trovajoli - ANGELO E GIUDITTA FROM NELL'ANNO
DEL SIGNORE 16/ Ennio Morricone - GIU LA TESTA (VERSION 4) FROM GIU
LA TESTA 17/ Ennio Morricone - FINALE FROM I BAMBINI CI CHIEDONO PERCHE
BellaCasa-8
CD
$15.00
Dirty Projectors
Rise Above (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DeadOceans-001
LP
$10.25
Dirty Projectors
Rise Above (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Over three full lengths, an EP, and five different live bands
in four years, DAVID LONGSTRETH has created in DIRTY PROJECTORS a
body of music of original and variegated beauty. The breadth of his
talents as a songwriter, arranger, bandleader and singer call to mind
PRINCE, JONI MITCHELL, and BJÖRK. His constantly evolving sound
- both live and on record - the sheer intensity of the music, and
the originality of his voice set him apart. Among modern music makers,
he is a maverick: a loner and a rebel. From beginning to end, Dirty
Projectors' new offering, "Rise Above," is a reimagining
of BLACK FLAG's seminal 1981 record "Damaged." It is not
a covers record. Longstreth attempted to rewrite his favorite adolescent
album word for word, from memory. A concept so lofty might just be
hot wind if "Rise Above" weren't such a hell of a record
on its own terms. It resounds with a kind of elegant simplicity: beautiful
interlocking guitar parts, gorgeous three-part vocal harmonies, and
some great songwriting. CHRIS TAYLOR of GRIZZLY BEAR manned the knobs,
giving "Rise Above" the same rich sound that he brought
to his own band's acclaimed album "Yellow House." Longstreth
used the same musicians that appeared on the US tour on which he debuted
these songs, and "Rise Above" captures the inventiveness
and raw power of Dirty Projectors' live arrangements at long last.
DeadOceans-001
CD
$11.50
Donnas, The
Bitchin' (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album from hard-rockin' gals.
PurpleFeather
CD
$15.25
Dream Academy, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Remastered re-issue of this classic eighties album features
"Life In A Northern Town" and an album's worth of super-cinematic
pasiley-pop sumptuousness to boot.
WoundedBird
CD
$15.25
Echos Of The Whales
Echoes Of The Whales (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, ITALY If whales were able to make music how would it sound? We
can't be sure they would use the same resonance these two boy scouts
extracted from their instruments, yet we have good reasons for believing
whales music would probably be as minimal and ambient as this. Though
Populous and Pierpaolo Leo are such different musical figures (the
first best known for his two indie hip-hop records on Morr Music,
the latter for his long time experimentations in the avant-garde milieu),
they collaborated and recorded their EOTW album at home, helping themselves
with all but modern
technologies, aiming at the spirit of pioneers of electronic music
like Raymond Scott and psychedelic-rock heroes like United States
Of America. EOTW is a record of eerie folk with guitars (played by
Stefano Pilia and Jukka Riverberi of Giardini Di Mirò, among
others), Farfisa organs, feedbacks and digital grains merging to create
a fertile resounding ground: a real extension of the natural environment.
Actually, you may find listening to these echoes very fulfilling while
paddling in your kayak, cleaning up a shore or trying to photograph
penguins in Antarctica.
DisastersByChoice-015
CD
$15.00
Electric Six
I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being
The Master (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Every song here is, in one way or another, the result of excessive
access to excess. When all is said and done, Electric Six feel they've
done a good job at weaving fun, good times, and high-octane pleasure
into the fabric of this crazy world, damned by its excess.
Metropolis
CD
$14.00
Enon
Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Their long-awaited fifth album. Blasting through twelve tunes
chock full of topics all over the map, and the band isn't stopping
for border checks either. While this record is ever the rollercoaster
of moods that characterize much of Enon's output, this is their most
consistent and striking work.
TouchAndGo
CD
$14.00
Enon
Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TouchAndGo
LP
$14.00
Erase Errata
Alphabet Series - U (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US After last year's ecstatic album "Night Life", SF's
ERASE ERRATA return with two new and exclusive recordings for this
series. With "Clear Spot" they pay tribute with a genius
cover version of one of their heroes, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART. The flipside
brings you "Pass the Crimson", a dynamic and cutting new
song that follows EE's tradition - Ellie's sliding bass, Bianca's
tricky drums and vocalist Jenny's staccato singing.
Tomlab-103U
45
$5.50
Extra Golden
Hera Ma Nono (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Kenyan benga music & American rock first met w/a friendly
handshake in '06 & they're now fully integrated in a union that
represents the vanguard of both styles & transcends the very notion
of authenticity. Though they may have to cross seas & petition
governments just to play a few shows, they go about their work w/a
few simple goals in mind: to write songs that tell stories of life,love
&loss;to praise people & places that are dear to their hearts;
&, most of all, to create a sound that people of different backgrounds
& generations can enjoy Feat. Austin-based Dennis Rathnaw &
David Egan.
ThrillJockey-187
CD
$13.00
Extra Golden
Hera Ma Nono (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-187
LP
$13.00
Fall, The
Live at the Knitting Factory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US AMG: "Recorded during the Fall's visit to Los Angeles
in 2001, this remarkable album captures a remarkably unstable live
show, largely peopled by recent material -- but none the worse for
any of that. Most of the terms that are traditionally applied to a
Fall live show are applicable here, from raucous and rambunctious,
to seething and snarling. What renders this set so valuable, however,
is Smith's refusal to acknowledge anything remotely approaching a
comfort zone, neither for himself nor for his audience, and this set
expertly captures the ensuing dislocation..."
ZeitMedia
CD
$12.25
Favorita
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 30TH)
PS, CANADA Twelve years after it was recorded but never released,
Popsicle Recordings will present the sole album from Swedish indiepop
pioneers Favorita. The brainchild of former Beagle and current Metro
Jets frontman Magnus Borjeson, Favorita fell foul of record company
politics on the eve of this album's 1997 release and it never saw
the light of day. The band split up, the album was forgotten. Popsicle
Recordings didn't want Favorita to pass into obscurity. Sure, the
album has circulated as a bootleg among discerning music lovers for
five or six years, but an album this good deserves a shot at reaching
a wider audience. So they dusted off the master tapes, added eight
bonus cuts and both of the band's low-budget videos, unearthed photos
from the two promo shoots the band did and coaxed some inspired sleeve
notes from noted Swedish journalist and blogger (and former Beagle
drummer) Anders Mildner. The result is the definitive Favorita experience.
Everything you could want to know about this exceptional but criminally
short-lived band, there on one disc.
Popsicle
CD
$13.00
Fiery Furnaces
Widow City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-189
DLP
$13.25
Fiery Furnaces
Widow City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US These songs are precise, chaotic, & absolutely genius,anchored
by some of Eleanor's strongest vocal performances ever recorded.Once
you hear this record, we absolutely believe that you'll be hard-pressed
to find another album this fall as compelling, beautiful, strange,
dense & magical as this one. This is absolutely unlike any other
LP in their expansive & brilliant repertoire. Feat. some of their
finest, catchiest compositions to date.
ThrillJockey-189
CD
$12.50
Figurines
When the Deer Wore Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US
ControlGroup
CD
$15.00
Film School
Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Beggars
LP
$13.25
Film School
Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their second full-length builds on the band's pretty, shoegazer
pop and richly textured space rock soundscapes by emphasizing powerful
rhythms and beautiful melodies that take the songwriting to a new
level. "Hideout" is more like a sonic galaxy that engulfs
you from all angles. You're enveloped by layers of reverb, loops,
and the interplay of male/female voices. A driving, forceful rhythm
section fuels a propulsive energy that gives an urgent quality to
much of the album, whereas other tracks convey a wistful melancholy.
It's this combination of ethereal atmosphere and strong rhythm that
makes the album wholly compelling and promises a powerful live experience.
"Wonderfully off-kilter pop songs" - NME.
Beggars
CD
$11.00
Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings Rough Bunnies (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2007)
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase,
and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers
11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. Highly
recommended. The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf
Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a
covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown,
jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself
explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin
Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through
mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about
to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone
to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me
she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to
stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this
time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin,
along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played
it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession
that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase
to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs
as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with
the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle
Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical
love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the
pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin
group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this
side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them.
Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" - Gustaf Kjellvander
Adrian-051
CD
$15.00
Firefox AK
Madame, Madame! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Firefox AK is Andrea Kellerman, former singer for UK trip-hop
collective Anamorphic. This debut features twelve tracks of melodic
electronic pop that somehow both slam you hard and then softly and
inexplicably catch you as you fall. A whole blend of divergent influences
that'll leave you so gloriously lost you may choose not to come back.
The best electro pop since Kraftwerk released "Man Machine".
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50
Fisher, Jeremy
Goodbye Blue Monday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Jeremy Fisher ignited a massive amount
of interest with his home-made YouTube video for "Cigarette,"
a folksy, laid-back, self-deprecating number whose singalong chorus,
"I'll be your cigarette/Good or bad, I'm just your habit,"
resonated with anyone ever caught in a less than reciprocal relationship...
Echoes of Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan can be heard within
as well. Even better comparisons would focus on Fisher's Everly Brothers-like
ear for a memorable hook and his Buddy Holly-esque enthusiasm for
infectious choruses... Twinned with superb acoustic guitar, stellar
drumming, sensational melodies, and grand hooks, Fisher should be
waving goodbye to his blues for good."
WindUp
CD
$13.00
Flying
Faces of the Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 10TH)
PS, US There are moments when you simply see it, the future being
so bright & the chemistry being just right.Originally from Massachusetts,
the four youths are now in NYC, working on their music, an incredible
combinations of psych, experimental & pop, something we call Savant
Rock . FLYING have toured with such siblings as Deerhoof,and have
recently completed a US tour, with another pending US tour in the
fall & a European tour in the spring of '08
MenloPark
CD
$12.00
Fog
Ditherer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Fog started out as the project name
of Andrew Broder, part of the continuum of bedroom-ensconced D.I.Y.
savants making dense, loopy albums with a variety of electronic instruments.
But in the course of the intervening half-decade, Broder has slowly
introduced more traditional instruments into his previously sample-based
work, and after several albums balanced awkwardly between electronica,
turntablism (among his other affiliations, Broder is sort of an adjunct
member of the Anticon stable of underground hip-hoppers) and psychedelia,
Fog is now a full-on, old-fashioned indie rock trio...a sort of summation
of everything Fog has been in the past, thereby clearing the decks
for the trio's future... Guests Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low,
similarly eclectic multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird and Anticon's
Why? contribute to the album's general anything-goes sense, but the
remarkable aspect of Ditherer is that all of this seemingly impenetrable
mass of ideas has been streamlined into 11 relatively concise and
surprisingly accessible pop songs. In many ways, it's like an Upper
Midwest version of Badly Drawn Boy's similarly polyglot aesthetic."
(Stewart Mason)
Lex
CD
$14.25
For Against
In The Marshes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Signposts: New Order, Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal
Coil. IN THE MARSHES is Minneapolis record label WORDS ON MUSIC's
third in a series of album reissues by Lincoln, Nebraska's post-punk
pioneers FOR AGAINST. The record represents the darkest and most experimental
period in FOR AGAINST's nearly 25-year history. Primarily recorded
on 4-track in 1986 during a break from the recording sessions of their
debut album ECHELONS, six songs were eventually culled together to
comprise the EP later released by Independent Project Records in 1990
for their 10" Archive series. Two exclusive bonus tracks are
included on this CD reissue. IN THE MARSHES is reissued in a six-panel
digipack designed by two-time Grammy nominee BRUCE LICHER (SCENIC,
SAVAGE REPUBLIC).
WordsOnMusic-022
CD
$12.25
Four Freshman
Graduation Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK Believed to be one of the greatest vocal groups of all time;
one whose influence on both contemporary jazz and rock is impossible
to overestimate. The recordings on this very collection established
their unique style of harmonizing. It is well known that their beautiful
unique quality directly influenced Brian Wilson, so much so that one
can hear the Beach Boys (and indeed the burgeoning sixties) in any
one of these recordings.
El-122
CD
$15.00
Frank Black
Bluefinger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US
CookingVinyl
CD
$16.75
Funckarma
Refurbished Two (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Don and Roel Funcken in conjunction with n5MD compile more
remixes; old, new, unreleased and even some recently updated ones
for this second in Funckarma's Refurbished series of remix albums.
New reinterpretations of Run_Return and Landau sit a long side updated
versions of remixes the Funcken Brothers have done of Gridlock, Multiplex
and Labteks. In addition are 9 other remixes of artists like Ontaynso,
Strand & Tres, Machine Drum, EOG and Celine among others, some
of which have never been available on Compact Disc. A "must have"
for fans of the Funcken Brother's prolific body of work! TRACKLIST:
Céline - Here and now, Run_Return - Animals are beautiful people,
Labteks - Bluesmoke (instrumental remix), Gridlock - Estrella V2,
E.stonji - Con.trst, Strand & Tres - The way it was (ShadowHuntaz
Inst.mx), Machinedrum - Machinebong, Anthony B. - More Power, Multiplex
- Always within you, Strand & Tres - The way it was (Funckarma
Inst.mx), EOG vs Funckarma - Nevile, Ontayso - Score of an imaginary
Iceland, Spyweirdos - The Key, Landau vs Funckarma - Raued Daued.
n5MD-149
CD
$12.00
Gang Gang Dance
Rawwar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Rawwar" is the first glimpse of exactly what the
band have been up to over this prolific year. Clocking in at just
over twenty minutes and sprawled across three tracks, the release
plays like a GANG GANG DANCE sampler of sorts; a taster for what is
to come. "Rawwar" opens with "Nicoman": a live
favorite from the last few years which has been refined in the studio.bombastic
and dance-oriented it blends the bands affection for musical styles,
propelling the listener through the four minutes of audible tribal
chaos, while at the same time demonstrating GGD's talent for pop melody.
"Oxygen Demo Riddim" finds the band improvising and building
musical ideas into a dreamy hypnotic instrumental interlude. The final,
almost cinematic, track is a studio composition entitled "The
Earthquake That Frees Prisoners" which unfolds over ten minutes.
This was painstakingly assembled in the studio and incorporates conversational
dialog from their deceased band member Nathan Maddox interwoven into
the bands compositional structure.
SocialRegistry-030
CD5
$9.00
Go! Team
Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.25
Go! Team
Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US England's Go! Team play a fast and furious mix of 60s girl
groups, 70s car chase TV themes, 80s lady MCs, and 90s guitar squalor.
Their 2005 debut, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" was critically
lauded for its cheerleader anthems, syrupy string samples, and mad-as-a-hatter
horn arrangements. This release bombs melodies into the stone age
with its needle-in-the-red anti-production approach. It lurches from
bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. Contributors include
Chuck D, the original
Double Dutch Divas, Rapper's Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role,
Solex, and Washington, DC's Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team.
Subpop
CD
$14.00
Goatreign
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 27TH)
PS, US A pummelling collection of gut wrenching metal from Mike Hickey,
guitarist extreme metal acts VENOM, CARCASS, CRONOS & CATHEDRAL.
Crushing rhythms & searing lead guitar make this a solid slab
of classic metal. Recorded at the legendary Slaughterhouse.
Wabana
CD
$14.50
Gonzalez, Jose
In Our Nature (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Long-awaited second album from former Hidden Agenda artist
Jose Gonzalez. While working towards his PhD in biochemistry at the
University of Gothenburg, Jose González' music career began
to take shape, eventually forcing him to choose a career in music
over one in research. The foundation on which he builds his songs
is the same on which he built his studies - he attacks his music patiently,
methodically and with great interest in finding unexpected angles.
In Our Nature is about exploring these angels. In Our Nature was recorded
entirely on tape at a Gothenburg studio. Though González spent
a great deal of time writing these new songs - playing them over and
over into a voice recorder until he was confident in their arrangements
- the actual recording of the album happened very quickly, taking
less than two weeks in the studio to record ten songs. While it is
sonically similar to Veneer, In Our Nature shows González'
growth as a songwriter. Displaying a heightened emphasis on melody
and strong, focused lyrics - the album is a dark combination of softness
and anger that is at once mesmerizing, intimate and hauntingly epic.
Mute
CD
$13.00
Good Life, The
Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially
meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar,
member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to
describe moments of raw emotion more than chronicle a linear tale,
so the group kept them as close to their original incarnations as
possible, recording them true to form. The results are more stripped
down and threadbare than previous Good Life creations. Yet the songs
are also quite expansive, digging into deep emotional territory through
narrative and melody. Achingly beautiful and sharply astute, "Help
Wanted Nights" details human nature in the most honest
way possible - taking risks without regret.
SaddleCreek
CD
$11.50
Good Life, The
Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek
LP
$13.25
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Patio [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The earliest work of Welsh darlings
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci can be found on the Patio CD, which compiles
the band's 1991-1993 radio and studio sessions. For fans of the beauty
of their largely subdued recent work, it is revelatory and essential,
as it showcases the vocal and melodic gifts of Euros Childs and his
band in their teenage years, when his voice was much higher, and the
guitars were often much louder, but the reach for beautiful pop verses
and choruses proved no less fruitless. Mix in a burgeoning folk and
psychedelic sensibility characterized by keyboard smashing, plenty
of sound, vocal and violin effects, and you have a set that shows
just how much of a running start talentwise this group had prior to
the next 5 CDs and numerous EPs they'd record..."
Castle
CD
$14.25
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Tatay [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Highly regarded 1994 studio debut (it follopwed the Patio singles
collection) from Welsh mystic poppers.
Castle
CD
$14.25
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Bwyd Time [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The psychedelic pop/rock fusion that
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci created has never been better captured than
on this, the band's debut album. With obvious influences from Robert
Wyatt, the Kinks, and even the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, you know you're
in for an abnormal affair with Bwyd Time... With Gorky's, however,
abnormality can be made into greatness. Their amazingly original sound
is both fun and musically interesting..."
Castle
CD
$14.25
Grainer, Brian
Eight Thousander (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9th)
PS, US Attacknine Records is proud to present Brian Grainger's debut
solo release "Eight Thousander". The first solo release
from Brian Grainger (Milieu, Free Festival, VCV) comes in the form
of another set of eight warm, blissed-out pieces. Completely improvised
on guitar and organ with no overdubs, Eight Thousander is a hazy,
crackly record that evokes thoughts of a mountain hike towards the
end of the Summer. Melodic guitars overlap with still-life organs
in an aged collage wrapped with brittle paper - the sound that Brian's
music has come to be known for. Brian currently resides in South Carolina
and jointly runs the Second Sun Recordings label with David Tagg.
Track List: 1. Drowned, 2. Whitecaps, 3. Oceanic, 4. Above the Sky,
5. A Soft White Chamber, 6. Lost in the Woods, 7. Wind Calmly Bends
Our Hair, 8. Retuned Minor
Attack9-015
CD
$12.25
Grainger, Brian
Eight Thousander (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Attacknine Records is proud to present Brian Grainger's debut
solo release "Eight Thousander". The first solo release
from Brian Grainger (Milieu, Free Festival, VCV) comes in the form
of another set of eight warm, blissed-out pieces. Completely improvised
on guitar and organ with no overdubs, Eight Thousander is a hazy,
crackly record that evokes thoughts of a mountain hike towards the
end of the Summer. Melodic guitars overlap with still-life organs
in an aged collage wrapped with brittle paper - the sound that Brian's
music has come to be known for. Brian currently resides in South Carolina
and jointly runs the Second Sun Recordings label with David Tagg.
Track List: 1. Drowned, 2. Whitecaps, 3. Oceanic, 4. Above the Sky,
5. A Soft White Chamber, 6. Lost in the Woods, 7. Wind Calmly Bends
Our Hair, 8. Retuned Minor
Attack9-015
CD
$12.25
Gravenhurst
Western Lands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album from Warp label shoegaze heroes.
Warp
CD
$15.25
Grayskul
Bloody Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Born out of the Pacific Northwest's Oldominion hip-hop collective,
Onry Ozzborn and JFK emerged as Reason and Fiddleback Recluse in 2004,
forming the righteously eerie alliance known as Grayskul. Always reinventing
themselves, the two return as Count Draven (Onry) and Count Magnus
(JFK) to deliver this release; reverse brainwash music for today's
hip-hop listeners, typically force-fed imaginary genres. Grayskul
smashes these genres seamlessly into one while interweaving all with
message, substance, concepts, wittiness, opinion, and most of all,
honesty while still maintaining a sense of humor, imagination, and
originality.
Rhymesayers
CD
$12.50
Harper Lee
Go Back To Bed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Welcome repressing of the magnificent debut album from Matinée
favorites Harper Lee. Originally released in 2001, the album was an
early highlight of the Matinée catalog and received a bit of
attention from the late John Peel who played singles 'Dry Land' and
'Bug' on his legendary radio show. An English duo featuring Keris
Howard (Brighter, Hal, Trembling Blue Stars) on vocals and guitar,
and Laura Bridge (Hood, Kicker) on guitar, keyboards, and drums, Harper
Lee has proven to be one of Matinée's most popular artists.
Named after the famous American author of the classic novel 'To Kill
A Mockingbird', the duo formed in 1999 with a plan to release one
brilliant single, take the world by storm, and withdraw from the public
eye just as Lee did following the success of her single novel. Luckily,
the modest success of its debut did not afford the band an early retirement
so they continued creating classic releases through the brilliant
'He Holds A Flame' EP last year. The band has earned passionate reviews
of it's four singles and three albums 'Go Back To Bed' (2001), 'Everything's
Going To Be OK' (2002), and 'All Things Can Be Mended' (2004). Featuring
ten classic tracks of melancholy pop with beautifully layered keyboards
and guitars plus heartbreakingly earnest lyrics, 'Go Back To Bed'
is an essential release from the Matinée catalog in stock again
following years of unavailability.
Matinee-CD-009
CD
$12.25
Harris, Calvin
I Created Disco (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Scottish remixer, songwriter, former
bedroom artist, MySpace star, and finally major-label recording artist
on EMI, Calvin Harris released his debut album of electronic dance
music with snatches of the Human League, or maybe more accurately
the League Unlimited Orchestra, in the summer of 2007, including two
Top Ten singles, "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls."
The former track is a slice of tongue-in-cheek disco-pop for all those
born in the decade after dance music took over the world, and the
latter extols the virtues of all types of girls (even those carrying
a little bitty extra weight), with political correctness abounding
as he name-checks that he likes black, white, Asian, and mixed-race
girls along with at least half a dozen different nationalities..."
(Sharon Mawer)
Almost Gold
CD
$13.75
Hayseed Dixie
Weapons of Grass Destruction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 16TH)
PS, US Along with the Bad Livers,this is the world's foremost country
band devoted to covering hard-rock songs in classic bluegrass style.This
doesn't find these hard-rocking pickers &grinners any more sedate.Far
from it.Instead the boys take on assorted classics by the Sex Pistols,
the Beatles,Judas Priest, the Rolling Stones, &others, plucking
up a serious,head-banging storm.It's a silly good time any way you
slice it.
CookingVinyl-4888
CD
$15.25
Helios
Ayres (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US AMG: "What Helios' previous release on Type lacked in
character has been fixed by Ayres, no doubt about it. Eingya featured
pleasant and clever quasi post-rock, which this album now turns into
delightful electro-folk. It turns out that the previous album was
missing only one ingredient: vocals! For the first time here, Keith
Kenniff (the man behind the Helios moniker) sings, with a very nice,
quiet, and frail voice. The opening track, "A Rising Wind,"
with its multi-tracked looped vocals and aerial ambience, immediately
brings to mind Patrick Watson's sound world (minus the electric guitar)
crossed with Brian Eno's. This highly melodic, slow-paced song could
also be compared to Low, Barzin, or Uphill Racer..."
Type
CD
$14.25
Henry, Joe
Civilians (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Since the release of 2003's acclaimed "Tiny Voices",
singer/songwriter Henry has appeared mainly as a producer, working
on career defining releases by Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello,
Solomon Burke, and most recently as producer and co-writer of "Strange
Weirdos" (with Loudon Wainwright), the soundtrack to the film
"Knocked Up". Working with this generation's finest songwriters
inspired Joe to his strongest set of songs on "Civilians";
songs of a new warmth and directness and a bold sense of melody that
rides atop the cutting edge arrangements he's become known for. Features
legendary pianist/songwriter Van Dyke Parks (everyone from the Beach
Boys to U2) and jazz guitar pioneer Bill Frisell (Elvis Costello,
Norah Jones).
Anti
CD
$15.50
High Water Marks, The
Polar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Features members of Apples in Stereo, Oranger, Preston School
of Industry, ads in Magnet, Big Takeover, Skyscraper & Bottlerocket,
From the heights of deep volcanos, glowing like tangerines, the digital
watch counts down to magma display. What is the sound of volcanos
singing? Not the rumble you hear out your window, not the steam hissing
to the sky. What is the pitch of the radiant flame? You cannot put
your finger on it. You are afraid of catching fire. Then who will
point the way for others? Hailing from deep volcanos, the High Water
Marks will point the way, their fingers impervious. Who are these
volcanolisteners, these finger-pointers, these High Water Marks? Their
first names are Hilarie (guitar / vocal / drums / Moog / keyboard),
Per Ole (lead guitar / vocal), Jim (drums / vocal / piano / keyboard
/ percussion), and Michael (bass guitar). Their last names are Sidney
(Apples in stereo, Secret Square), Bratset (Palermo), Lindsay (Oranger,
Preston School of Industry), and Snowden (The Fakes), respectively.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-090
CD
$12.25
His Name Is Alive
Xmmer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album!
ReincarnateMusic
CD
$14.25
Hooker, William, Bill Horist and Evyind Kang
This Season's Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This all-star trio features William Hooker on drums, Eyvind
Kang on violin and guitar and Bill Horist on guitar. Sync'd up like
they've been playing together for eternity these recordings represent
a dramatic paradigm shift in the art of improvisation. These three
thoroughly modern artists scan jazz, new music and noise - stretching
it all out and putting it back together within the expansive boundaries
of these tremendously compelling high energy recordings. William Hooker
has performed as a leader of many ensembles of improvised and new
music. Accompanying musicians have included: Billy Bang, Thurston
Moore, David Murray, David S. Ware, William Parker, Melvin Gibbs,
Donald Miller, DJ Olive, Elliot Sharpe, Malachi Thompson, Zeena Parkins,
Lee Ranaldo, DJ Spooky, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Mark Hennen, Steven
Bernstein, Roy Nathanson, Jason Hwang, Glenn Spearman, Joseph Celli,
Ellen Christi and many more Eyvind Kang's introduction seems to have
come when he was still a student at Cornish College. At this time
he traveled to NYC to perform and tour with Zorn's Cobra game piece.
Kang has since recorded and toured with John Zorn, Mr. Bungle, Secret
Chiefs, Bill Frissel, Sun City Girls, Arto Lindsay, Wayne Horvitz
& many more. Bill Horist has played or recorded with members of
Larsen, Earth and The Boredoms as well as Bill Frisell,Wayne Horvitz,
KK Null, Matt Chamberlain, Trey Gunn, Chris Cutler, Kawabata Makoto,
Trey Spruance, Eugene Chadbourne, TatsuyaYoshida, Shazaad Ismaily,
Climax Golden Twins, Haco, Illusion of Safety, Saadet Tuerkoez, Planktonman,
Jack Wright, Steve Fisk, Anla Courtis (Reynols) and many more.
Important-133
CD
$12.25
Hot Hot Heat
Happiness LTD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US
Sire
CD
$14.25
Hot Hot Heat
Happiness LTD [special edition, CD+DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER
11TH)
PS, US The album plus 'Making of the Record: Harmonicas & Tambourines'
DVD.
Sire
CD/DVD
$21.50
Hoyston, Jenny
Isle Of (PRE-ORDER: SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US First full length from the guitar and singer of San Francisco's
ERASE ERRATA. Some songs sound like Joan Jett, if she were on the
Simple Machines label, some sound very contemporary electro, a la
Le Tigre or Tracy and the Plastics, and some are very new American
folk sounding.
Southern
CD
$13.25
Hoyston, Jenny
Isle Of (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$13.25
Hrsta
Ghosts Will Come And Kiss Our Eyes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER
25TH)
PS, US A collection of gently foreboding psych-folk,anchored as always
by Mike Maya's (GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR) unique guitar sound and
other worldly cracked vocals,with Brooke Crouser JACKIE-O-MOTHERFUCKER)
featured on Hammond and pump organ. Thick, saturated
sound with shifting tones, drones, and sustained chordings.
Constellation-048
CD
$14.25
Hunter, Jana
Carrion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Half of these six songs are unreleased hangers-on from the
writing sessions that produced her most recent full-length, while
the other half are alternate renditions of works that appeared on
that release. But this is no mere grab bag of remnants; it's a real
tight product, all around.
Gnomonsong-005
CD5
$8.00
Ielasi, Giuseppe
August (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US 12k presents the latest solo work from Italian composer Giuseppe
Ielasi. August is the 4th full-length cd from Ielasi following his
critically acclaimed debut Plans (Sedimental, 2003) and the stunning
Gesine and s/t (Häpna, 2005, 2006). August takes a more linear
approach to Ielasi's composing with sounds stretched like like layers
of gauze forming a thick, soft blanket. Utilizing piano, hammond organ,
guitars, dobro, synthesizers and shortwave radio, Ielasi creates deep,
warm drones and suspended, scratchy melodies with a hint of despair
and melancholy that make this a very introspective album. His trademark
guitar and live approach to instrumentation are in the forefront yet
set behind an expertly processed veil of subtle electronics. The textures
are unabashedly acoustic but buried and moody enough as to question
their origin. August is a haunting, but beautiful album that falls
neatly between the starkness of Gesine and the scattering rhythmic
complexity of s/t. LIke music for a farewell, an ending of ends, August
is moody, static, slow and emotional.
12K-1044
CD
$12.25
Irene
Long Gone Since Last Summer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, SWEDEN Less than one year after the debut "Apple bay"
the ten piece collective Irene returns with a new, wonderful album.
"Long gone since last summer" combines big arrangements,
crystal clear production and unsurpassed sing along-qualities in an
irresistibly elegant manner. The slightly unpolished, 60's influenced
sound found on the debut has cleared up. This time Irene aimed at
making an album that will be impossible to place in time when listened
to in the year 2025, and still sounds great. A big sound demands a
big band. Since last year Irene has expanded to a ten piece collective.
This could have made touring abroad impossible, but despite this they
managed to tour large parts of Europe including France, Germany, Spain
and the UK. They've already booked Germany, the UK and the US for
the fall and more shows are being planned. "Long Gone Since Last
Summer" is written, arranged and produced by Irene's own Tobias
Isaksson, aka Bobby, and recorded by Ulf Wederbrand at Studio Folkhemmet.
Irene has been as high as spot 16 on the top list of artists on Elbo.ws!
That means they've been one of the most blogged about bands in the
world of indie pop (this page has almost 2200 registered blogs). "The
new Irene track brims with jangly guitars, effervescent horns, and
plenty of backing singers to answer lead vocalist Bobby's playfully
referential words of adoration" - Pitchfork. "Sounds fantastic"
- Eardrums.
Labrador-104
CD
$14.75
Iron And Wine
The Shepherds Dog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.25
Iron And Wine
The Shepherds Dog (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Iron And Wine's most ambitious and accomplished recording to
date, and also the most satisfying. While many of us learned of Iron
And Wine by way of the tender and spare rendering of The Postal Service's
"Such Great Heights" on the "Garden State" soundtrack,
those who dug deeper discovered a classic American tunesmith with
a precocious musical signature. This whole album breathes. Its seductive
rhythms percolate and undulate. "The Shepherd's Dog" is
informed by a sensuality that brings a dreamscape to life.
Subpop
CD
$14.00
Japancakes
Giving Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Darla is proud to offer the fifth new record from Japancakes
- Athens, GA's incomparable instrumental Pop/Americana quintet. Giving
Machines features eight new trademark blissed-out yet solid as ever
compositions brought to life in Japancakes unique way with a signing
pedal steel guitar, cello, keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums. There's
even a cover of Cocteau Twins' "Heaven Or Las Vegas" with
pedal steel taking the place of Liz Frazer's vocals. Japancakes do
not record together like other bands. They do play together but when
they record in the studio they do so one at a time. Each player writes
their own part and adds it to the part(s) recorded previously by fellow
band members. The result of this practice is that the personality
of each individual player is often better captured. Each player's
individual performance is strengthened by it. Japancakes is Eric Berg,
rhythm guitar, Nick Belli, bass, Brant Rackey, drums, John Neff, pedal
steel, Heather McIntosh, cello, Andy Barker, production. RIYL: Dreamy,
lazy, stellar, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Electronica, Americana, Tortoise,
Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Hammock, Santo & Johnny. Tracklisting: 1. Double
Jointed, 2. Lalita, 3. Heaven Or Las Vegas, 4. Title, 5. The Enablers,
6. Recovering Australia, 7. Tracing Maps, 8. In Memory Of Honey. Total
run time 42:45. "...a roots-inspired, beautifully crafted pop
instrumental record that extracts feelings and emotions better than
that of most "intimate" singer-songwriters." --IN MUSIC
WE TRUST.
Darla-185
CD
$12.25
Japancakes
Loveless (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 13TH)
PS, US Athens, GA's experimental, instrumental, Americana group, Japancakes
cover My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless record from start to
finish with pedal steel and cello in place of vocal and lead melodies
-- and without any distortion. MBV's Loveless (Creation: 1991) remains
the defining record of the genre and completely unparalleled by any
artist since. This is super fun! Japancakes don't record together
like other bands. They do play together but when they record in studio
they do so one at a time. Each player writes their own part and adds
it to the part(s) recorded previously by fellow band members. The
result of this practice is that the personality of each individual
player is often better captured. Each player's individual performance
is strengthened by the technique. Japancakes is Eric Berg, rhythm
guitar, Nick Belli, bass, Brant Rackey, drums, John Neff, pedal steel,
Heather McIntosh, cello, Andy Barker, production. RIYL: My Bloody
Valentine, Shoegaze, Electronica, Americana, Tortoise, Mogwai, Sigur
Ros, Hammock, Santo & Johnny. TRACKLISTING: 1. Only Shallow, 2.
Loomer, 3. Touched, 4. To Here Knows When, 5. When You Sleep, 6. I
Only Said, 7. Come In Alone, 8. Sometimes, 9. Blown A Wish, 10. What
You Want, 11. Soon.
Darla-188
CD
$12.25
Jesu
Lifeline (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US "Lifeline" contains four of Justin K. Broadrick's
most refined tracks of shoegazed metallic abandon, one of which features
Swans diva of doom, Jarboe. Look for a headlining tour of the US.
"Broadrick's music comes over the stereo like its own weather
pattern, an experience with more layers and detail than even 10 or
20 listens can trace out" - Pitchfork. "Arguably the most
influential single figure in extreme music over the last two decades"
- Popmatters.
HydraHead
CD
$10.00
Johnossi
S-T [domestic version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Sweden's Johnossi are a great live act, and it's amazing how
much sound they can create only from a semi acoustic guitar and drums.
They've already taken over Europe and now it's time for North America
to surrender. "There isn't a weak tune on it. But what do they
sound like? A wall of sound, built by Taylor Hawkins, Johnny Cash,
and Kurt Cobain after vocal surgery? God knows. Just buy it"
- New Noise (UK).
TheControlGroup
CD
$12.50
June Panic
Songs From Purgatory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The material embodied on "Songs From Purgatory" was
recorded in vans, dank basements and tiny apartments in Grand Forks
& Fargo, North Dakota using crappy microphones on an even crappier
4-track machine. This body of work showcases a songwriting and producing
talent that perhaps was only commercially held back by its medium
- one which he initially embraced as a matter of necessity, but eventually
grew to deliberately embrace with the zeal of a lo-fi revolutionary.
According to JUNE, "Over time, I came to appreciate the sounds
I was getting, and it dawned on me that recording in an expensive
studio is not somehow inherently superior to 'lo-fi' recordings -
it is simply a different medium." Originally released as cassette-only
albums on his own label 3 Out Of 4 Records, June's master tapes were
almost destroyed in the Great Flood of 1997 that consumed Grand Forks.
Over 200 master tapes sat submerged under the murky Red River water
for several days in his parents' basement until saved through a painstaking
cleansing process that is hilariously documented in the liner notes
to this collection. Brought into this world by June, taken out by
the Flood, then brought back by June, these songs have been re-mastered
by the able hands of the iconic KRAMER.
SecretlyCanadian-095
3XCD
$13.00
Kent, Julia
Delay (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Julia Kent left Rasputina in 1999, after releasing two albums
on Columbia Records, and shortly thereafter became a member of Antony
and the Johnsons. She played on and contributed string arrangements
to the group's Mercury Prize-winning record I Am a Bird Now, and,
as a Johnson, has toured Europe, North America, and Australia; played
at Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall; and appeared on numerous
television shows, including the Late Show with David Letterman, Friday
Night with Jonathan Ross, and the BBC's Newsnight. In addition to
her ongoing participation in Antony and the Johnsons, she also has
performed and/or recorded with many other artists and ensembles, including
the Angels of Light, Burnt Sugar, Larsen, Angela McCluskey, Leona
Naess, Teddy Thompson, Devendra Banhart, Mi and L'au, and Rufus Wainwright.
Her debut solo effort, Delay, is a CD of multi-tracked cello and found
sounds. The CD was inspired by airports, by transitoriness, and by
the private emotional worlds that we create amid the disorientations
and disjunctions of travel. Delay was recorded over the course of
a year (or so) at home in between touring and traveling. After so
many years of playing with other people Julia felt that it was time
to do something entirely on her own. As a result she is the sole composer/performer
on all tracks. The title refers to both the effect, to traveling and
to the fact that it took so long to record. It is also homage to Arthur
Russell's World Of Echo - a masterpiece of (among other things) externalizing
the intimate.
Important-149
CD
$12.25
Kiefer, C & Pitcher, J
To All Dead Sailors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US A collection of songs, instrumentals & sonic experiments,
this is an album that explores the mystery of the sea: its violence,
its beauty, its grace. Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher collaborated,
trading harmonies & instruments on various tracks,and working
through various songwriting ideas as they floated to the surface.Acoustic
& electric instruments are combined with field recordings to create
a finished project that is reminiscent of Brian Eno's ambient projects,
the moody soundscapes of Sigur Ros, and the song-based work of Califone,
XIu Xiu & Damien Rice.
CameraObscura-081
CD
$13.25
Lannon, Nyles
Pressure (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US This former FILM SCHOOL member has been busy since his debut
album made many "Best Of"lists 3 yrs ago.Here,the lyrical
content is steeped in dark thought: denial, guilt, temptation, regret.
He choreographs his swirling emotions into a series of well-crafted,
intelligent pop songs.
Badman-938
CD
$13.25
Last Days
These Palaces Are Now Ruins (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Last Days' follow up to 2006's "Sea" "These
Places Are Now Ruins" is by the artist's admission a personal
journey about revisiting the past and accepting the present is something
we can all truly identify with. The album tells, strictly through
feelings, of expectations, disappointments, distance, and the futility
of attempting to reclaim lost memories. "These Places Are Now
Ruins" is not so much a concept as "Sea" but instead
a loosely chronological album documenting thoughts and emotions experienced
when returning home after having moved away. The result is often dark
and abstract when recalling fears or memories we can't forget but
also touching on moments when one explores hopes for the future and
the impact loved ones and special times have had on our lives. Last
Days' sound remains at times cinematic yet slightly lo-fi and now
features more live instrumentation giving "These Places Are Now
Ruins" a wider diversity and more fullness of sound. Few things
stay the same and those things we wish would change never do. "These
Places Are Now Ruins" examines theses themes and over its duration
accepts that it is sometimes best for us all to leave the past where
it is...
n5MD-151
CD
$12.00
Lavette, Bettye
The Scene Of The Crime (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$15.50
Lavette, Bettye
The Scene Of The Crime (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Her 2005 acclaimed release, "I've Got My Own Hell To Raise",
brought well-deserved recognition to this R&B maverick who's been
recording since the early 60s. Now comes the almost autobiographical
"Scene Of The Crime". To make music this raw and direct,
Bettye enlisted "dirty south" rockers The Drive By Truckers
as her backup band. With swampy guitars, slippery Wurlitzer piano,
and a driving backline, this record conjures up the spirit of great
loose 70s bands like the Faces while offering Bettye an urgent, vital
setting for her razor-sharp vocals. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, AL,
where she recorded "Child Of The Seventies" in 1972 - a
masterpiece that was shelved then released 30 years later. Returning
to Muscle Shoals was like returning to the scene of a crime; thus
the album title, and the intense, personal music within.
Anti
CD
$15.50
Le Concorde
Suite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 30TH)
PS, US Second release by Le Concorde - previously with March Records
- previous release charted on CMJ and received regular rotation on
XM Radio's modern rock channel XMU. The CD marks the return of Grammy
nominated synth maestro, David Gamson of Scritti Politti to the world
of indie-pop//Gamson co-wrote/co-produced/co-performed //multiple
tracks mixed by 80s mix-king John "Tokes" Potoker. Also
features duet with Ken Stringfellow tracked in Paris.
Fourchette/LeGrandeMagistrey-001
CD5
$7.50
Le Loup
The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General
Assembly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Created during a time of personal crisis, "The Throne"
is a cataclysm, an escape, and a journey. Inspired largely by Dante's
"Inferno", the complex themes of this record are characterized
by mounting tension and dramatic swells, coupled with an engaging
emotional resonance that lifts just as much as it illuminates. A collection
of rushing narratives that connect the individual struggle of each
of us to the death of the universe in a manner that's both intimate
and unshakably vital. "...Le Loup are going for the multi-layered
collage of instrumentation sound and the end result is a surprisingly
fun and danceable mix of music that can range from Arcade Fire to
Death Cab For
Cutie to even a smattering of Denali" - Pastepunk.
HardlyArt
CD
$11.00
Lekman, Jens
Night Falls Over Kortedala (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SecretlyCanadian
LP
$11.50
Lekman, Jens
Night Falls Over Kortedala (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Like a modern day Chet Baker, Jens loves to sing about heartache.
This is his first album in over three years, and Kortedala refers
to a neighborhood in his hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden - "a
depressing suburban hell". It also refers to a vague musical
pop sound with hints of tropicalia that has been coming out of Gothenburg's
clubs the last few years. "Night Falls Over Kortedala" features
cushy studio versions of many previously unreleased live favorites
and guest vocals from label-mate Frida Hyvonen and El Perro del Mar.
SecretlyCanadian
CD
$11.50
Leo
Nightmares (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Featuring fourteen songs written over the past six years, this
debut is a sonic diary; a confessional journey through a host of emotional
moments. Combining disillusionment, anger, strength, and hope, "Nightmares"
is a paradox ranging from the mild and melancholy to the bold and
thunderous. Influences include Led Zeppelin, Helmet, Jeff Buckley,
Ours, and Muse.
RockRidge
CD
$12.50
Les Savy Fav
Let's Stay Friends (PRE-ORDER: SDALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album.
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.75
Linfinity
Live at Marcata: Demos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US New York City-based LINFINITY had seemed a bit bottle-necked
for some time to frontman DYLAN VON WAGNER. Having written five volumes
of his John Cale-meets-Alan Vega series "The Manual For Free
Living" and having only recorded one full band album, he was
getting an itchy trigger finger. He had been playing new songs with
solo acoustic arrangements at live performances, and he liked the
sparse arrangements. When approached by ST IVES, it seemed like a
good opportunity to show some of his sketches that will appear on
future albums. Von Wagner recorded the album live in Marcata Studios,
a massive barn in upstate New York with producer Kevin McMahon. Perched
on a 30-foot balcony overlooking the barn, Von Wagner recorded the
album late in the evening, using a Marshall stack as a PA, giving
it a unique bite and space. Staying up for 24 hours straight, Kevin
McMahon did a quick mix and master of the proceedings. The result
is a raw and thrilling document that would rest nicely somewhere between
Cale's "Vintage Violence" and Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou"
demos.
St.Ives-23
LP
$11.50
Lucksmiths, The
Spring A Leak (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 9TH)
PS, US 45-track double CD. Double digipak w/ 12 page booklet. After
a notable two-year absence from the new-release racks, The Lucksmiths
return with a mighty "don't argue" in the shape of 'Spring
a Leak', their exhaustive new collection of lost treasures. No mere
greatest hits collection, 'Spring a Leak' compiles over a decade's
worth of great recordings that have never made it onto a Lucksmiths
full-length: b-sides, alternative versions (from 7" singles and
demos), songs recorded especially for compilations, live, radio and
TV sessions, cover versions, remixes, and various previously unreleased
ephemera. Forty-five songs in all, packaged in a deluxe double-CD
digipak with cover artwork by budding Melbourne illustrator Trudy
White. A major undertaking, both for the band and the mastering engineer
who had to sift through piles of CDs, old DATs and cassette tapes,
'Spring a Leak' is the first time many of these songs have turned
up on a digital format. The 'Macintyre' 7" (recorded in 1995
and originally limited to 500 highly sought-after copies) sits comfortably
amongst more recent work including cover versions of well-loved songs
by The Bee Gees, The Smiths, The Modern Lovers, and The Magnetic Fields,
as well as lesser-known tracks by some of The Lucksmiths' friends
such as The Simpletons, The Ladybug Transistor, and The Sugargliders
(cousins, incidentally, of Lucksmiths singer Tali White). Also included
are live tracks and radio sessions recorded in various corners of
the world, from Melbourne to Stockholm, Paris, Bellingham, the Los
Altos Hills (near San Francisco), and El Dorado (near, um, Wangaratta).
As ever, The Lucksmiths' somewhat minimalist sound is broadened by
a host of guests, from groups like US indiepop stars The Aislers Set,
Poundsign, Kissing Book, The Mosquitoes, and Still Flyin', as well
as artists closer to home such as Craig Pilkington of the Killjoys
(who recorded many of these tracks at his Audrey Studios), Pete Cohen
of Sodastream, Kellie Sutherland of Architecture in Helsinki, and
Darren Hanlon. Both Kellie and Darren played major roles on The Lucksmiths'
acclaimed 2000 album 'Why That Doesn't Surprise Me'. As on previous
compilations 'Happy Secret' (1998) and 'Where Were We?' (2001), The
Lucksmiths have done some tidying up around the archival recesses
a little spring cleaning, if you will and gathered these loose ends
into one neatly-knotted bundle more likely to satisfy the completists
than to win themselves an army of new fans. By the nitpickingly precious
Lucksmiths' own admission, the bar was lowered just a little on this
one (although a few tracks originally slated for inclusion were eventually
deemed unlistenable, and consequently omitted): there's the odd bum
note, and, inevitably, given the nature of the project, varying degrees
of quality across the recordings. In its entirety, however, 'Spring
a Leak' exhibits both the remarkable consistency and ongoing development
of one of this generation's most esteemed and distinctive pop groups.
Although occasionally misunderstood and underrated in their homeland
of Australia, The Lucksmiths have in the course of their 14-year career
amassed a devoted international fanbase as well as some deserved praise
from certain corners of the media. Of their 2005 album 'Warmer Corners',
Pitchfork Media described The Lucksmiths as "idiosyncratic but
accessible, literate but unpretentious, gentle but not weak, sincere
not so much in presentation(cf. Springsteen, Bruce; Confessional,
Dashboard) as in presence (cf. Richman, Jonathan; Comedy, Divine)".
Matinee-044
DCD
$15.50
Magnet
Simple Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album from Norwegian songsmith.
Filter
CD
$15.25
Maritime
Heresy & The Hotel Choir (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Vinyl for their new album on Flameshovel set for release two
weeks later. LIMITED HAND NUMBERED EL PEE plus 7" BONUS single
w/ 2 non-CD covers of Hot Chip & Snailhouse.
ForeignLeisure-006
LP
$12.50
Matt Pond PA
Last Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Last Light is matt pond PA's sixth album. This deluxe vinyl
edition is double 180 gram vinyl, packaged in a gatefold jacket with
an LP-only bonus track as well as a code inside for a free digital
download of the album. The CD version is also available through Altitude
Records. Over the course of six acclaimed and adored albums, Matt
Pond has composed a world of poetic characters and bittersweet melodies.
Each release presents a new emotional arc, drawing fans in closer
with personal lyrics and endearing hooks. Last Light offers the most
dynamic glimpse of this world yet. Set against Matt's pastoral imagery,
this collection of songs follows a path from hopeless longing to the
hope of new love - exploring all the delicate twists, turns, rifts,
and revelations in between.
Polyvinyl-143
DLP
$14.00
Matt Pond PA
Last Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Over the course of six acclaimed albums, Matt Pond has composed
a world of poetic characters and bittersweet melodies. Each release
presents a new emotional arc, drawing fans in closer with personal
lyrics and endearing hooks. "Last Light" offers the most
dynamic glimpse of this world yet. Set against Matt's pastoral imagery,
this collection of songs follows a path from hopeless longing to the
hope of new love - exploring all the delicate twists, turns, rifts,
and revelations in between.
Altitude
CD
$11.50
Mirah And Spectratone International
Share This Place: Stories and Observations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER
11TH)
PS, US In "Share This Place: Stories and Observations,"
LORI GOLDSTON and KYLE HANSON of BLACK CAT ORCHESTRA acclaim team
up with K RECORDS recording artist MIRAH to deliver a sweeping song
cycle inspired by the tragic and triumphant lives of insects. Inspired
in part by influential French scientist/poet J.HENRI FABRÉ,
Mirah's lyrics smartly humanize the trials and pleasures of the insect
world, touching on themes of villainy, seduction, self-sacrifice and
love. Shining a light on the epic complexity of the insect world,
the songs imply an inescapable comparison with our own.
Krecords-181
LP
$10.25
Mono
Gone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidence-121
3XLP
$21.00
Mono
Gone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Collecting all of MONO's rare and out-of-print non-album tracks,
"Gone" perfectly (and chronologically) displays their astounding
growth, from the modest opening notes of "Finlandia" to
the scorched finale of "Little Boy (1945-Future)." These
tracks are culled from a series of highly sought-after releases, including
the Japanese-only debut "Hey, You." EP, their split LP with
PELICAN, the CAMERON CROWE-commissioned "Memorie dal Futuro"
vinyl 10", and "The Phoenix Tree," their out-of-print
EP for the storied "Travels In Constants" series. All tracks
have been beautifully remastered from their original master tapes,
with both CD and 3xLP formats boasting absurdly beautiful deluxe packaging.
TemporaryResidence-121
CD
$9.00
Moore, Thurston
Trees Outside the Academy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New solo bluster from tallest Sonic Youth member.
EcstaticPeace
CD
$12.25
My Little Airport
Zoo Is Sad, People Are Cruel (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 12TH)
PS, SPAIN MY LITTLE AIRPORT is an indie-pop/electro-noise-pop band
from Hong Kong (the second Hong Kong artist in the Elefant Records
story, right after THE PANCAKES), formed by P and Nicole, college
classmates since 2001, and well known in the Hong Kong area thanks
to the big success they had with their debut album. "Zoo is sad,
people are cruel", is a fourteen-song album compiling the best
moments off their two albums. A sweetest selection that will make
you laugh and it will make you sigh, and above all it will fill you
with joy. Their lyrics are about relationships and stories between
P and his friends and acquaintances. Really, the lyrics are about
this. Just check out song titles like "Victor, fly me to Stafford",
"You don't wanna be my girlfriend, Phoebe" or "Leo,
are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?".
Their twee-pop sound shares the naïveté of the Sarah Records
bands, the simple chrams of CONFETTI and THE SOFTIES and the unaffected
intonations of HEAVENLY's Amelia Fletcher. Sometimes, their sound
tends more towards punk-pop à la HELEN LOVE (as in the short
pill that is "Gigi Leung is dead"), and they also openly
acknowledge their fondness for SLOWDIVE y MOJAVE 3, who might be a
big influence on the final track, "Dee, it may all end up tomorrow".
But, with a song titled "When I listen to The Field Mice",
what else could they be but an indie band?
Elefant-1124
CD
$14.00
Myracle Brah
Can You Hear the Myracle Brah? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album from power-pop razzle-dazzlers.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$16.25
Neumeier, Mani
Sketches (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Mani Neumeier has been at the helm of Germany's legendary Krautrock
group Guru Guru for over 35 years and for 20 of those years he's been
working on Sketches, his first solo album. Sketches is an absolutely
sacred collage of rare field recordings, tribal music, heavy drumming,
dreamlike nature sounds and even an electrical generator in Thailand
that inspired Mani in the middle of the night many years ago.
Important-161
CD
$12.25
Nowottny, Marianne
What Is She Doing? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Long-awaited release of the first album from the young savant
in over five years &her third for Abaton. After coming to the
attention of NY avant music & art circles in 1998 at sixteen,she
has since put out records with Camera Obscura, Foxy Digitalis, Barl
Fire & Celestial Jars. This project sprung from a desire to record
an album "as much Fleetwood Mac as Lil'Kim," so we have
ourselves a homemade R+B/pop CD packed w/ primitive electro beats,
low budget keyboards,spacey electronics & her own inimitable voice.
A travelogue of exotic themes, musical styles & textures. Features
Ben Miller (DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, THIRD BORDER) on sax.
Abaton-026
CD
$13.25
Oakley Hall
I'll Follow You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50
Oakley Hall
I'll Follow You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their fourth full-length and first for Merge Records is a crowning
moment. The band has toured with M. Ward, The Constantines, Calexico,
Bright Eyes, and Gillian Welch. "I'll Follow You" fully
captures the indelible sound that has inspired many to call Oakley
Hall one of NY's best live bands. "Americana they are not. The
Hall is onto a whole new thing, and that thing is pure American rock
music" - Seattle Weekly.
Merge
CD
$13.25
Octopus Project
Hello Avalanche (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US W/ ragged, furious, distorted guitars at one end of the spectrum
& the pure, luminescent tones of the Theremin at the other, this
mines a staggering variety of sounds in between, filling their songs
w/ brilliant contrasting colors & cascading waves of sonic bliss.
And if the instruments themselves weren't enough,many sounds on the
record were manipulated by the band to push them even further.
PeekABoo
CD
$13.50
Octopus Project
Hello Avalanche (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PeekABoo
LP
$14.25
Om
Pilgrimage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Feat.OM's unique use of riff, cadence & chant comprise
the duo's new album. Lyrical themes address the processes of mind,
psychic reality, astral & causal planes of being, & the nature
of the soul. Engineered by Steve Albini & produced by the band.
Motifs that were initiated on the previous album are continued here
unabated.
SouthernLord-086
CD
$14.00
Orange, Adrian & Her Band
Give to Love What Loves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This self-titled release could be considered ADRIAN ORANGE's
first 'deliberate' album. After touring the country in 2006 with a
massive band in two vans (including children and horn players and
official dancers) and inventing a new kind of music and living, the
band re-materialized in DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO in February 2007. The
studio is an amazing collection of equipment from an era when recordings
were made "live", everything happening on the spot, which
was perfect for this new kind of tidal wave. It's the perfect combination
of beautiful accident and deliberate symphony.
Krecords-185
LP
$10.25
Orange, Adrian & Her Band
Give to Love What Loves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This self-titled release could be considered ADRIAN ORANGE's
first 'deliberate' album. After touring the country in 2006 with a
massive band in two vans (including children and horn players and
official dancers) and inventing a new kind of music and living, the
band re-materialized in DUB NARCOTIC STUDIO in February 2007. The
studio is an amazing collection of equipment from an era when recordings
were made "live", everything happening on the spot, which
was perfect for this new kind of tidal wave. It's the perfect combination
of beautiful accident and deliberate symphony.
Krecords-185
CD
$11.50
Pelican
Pink Mammoth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Combines a new version of the song "Mammoth" (now
called "Pink Mammoth") & a remix of the song "End
of Seasons"by PREFUSE 73. Tip-on 10" jacket w/ heavy-weight
inner sleeve.
HydraHead
10
$14.00
Picastro
Whore Luck (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US An album of somber reflection and uneasy resolve. "Exudes
a sound seemingly tormented by sleep-deprivation, pain, and most pressingly
- fear...Caught between Elliott Smith and Godspeed You Black Emperor,
balancing pretty acoustic melodies with chillingly shrill clangs and
screeches" - Pitchforkmedia.com. Guest appearances include Jamie
Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy).
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.00
Pinback
Autumn of the Seraphs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Touch&Go
LP
$14.00
Pinback
Autumn of the Seraphs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their fourth full-length and second on Touch And Go contains
melodies that are more dynamic and aggressive. This record is tighter,
the drumming more immediate and crisp. "Autumn Of The Seraphs"
is for both rabbits and people, for good days and for bad. A bonus
disc will be packaged with the first pressing of the CD, featuring
three new studio songs not found on the LP.
Touch&Go
DCD
$14.00
Pollard, Robert
Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER
PS, US Pollard explores the punkier, Stones side of his musical personality
here. In the universe where Bob explains the Freudian divisions of
his psyche, he calls "Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love" his
id; "Standard Gargoyle Decisions" his ego' and himself his
Super Ego.
Merge
CD
$13.25
Pollard, Robert
Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
DLP
$15.50
Pollard, Robert
Standard Gargoyle Decisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50
Pollard, Robert
Standard Gargoyle Decisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US
Merge
CD
$13.25
Pollock, Emma
Watch The Fireworks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Pollack is a former member of Glasgow legends The Delgados,
and a founder of their pioneering Chemikal Underground record label.
This debut combines lyrical twists and radiant melodies into a gorgeous
and organic whole. The songs are fresh, modern, and personal, deftly
constructed and littered with great hooks. "Emma Pollock has
a terrific voice - slightly scuffed and casually soulful" - Time
Out London.
4AD
CD
$13.25
Polyphonic Spree, The
Live from Austin TX [DVD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Live concert of The P. Spree's Austin City Limits performance.
NewWest
DVD
$17.25
Polyphonic Spree, The
Live from Austin TX (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Live recordings from The P. Spree's Austin City Limits performance.
NewWest
CD
$17.00
Ramsey Lewis Trio, The
In Person v.1: 1960 - 65 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Ramsey Lewis straddled the boundary between bop-oriented jazz
and pop music. Most of his recordings (particularly by the mid-'60s)
were very accessible and attracted a large non-jazz audience. The
very epitome of groovy, finger poppin' soul/jazz/pop, perfect for
a party, yet eminently listenable in any circumstances...with personnel
including Ramsey himself, with his roots in BeBop, and Maurice White
(founder of Earth Wind and Fire) the Ramsey Lewis Trio sit squarely
in the very midst of soul, Jazz, funk and whatever history! As soon
as you hear The Ramsey Lewis Trio, you'll feel as if you always knew
them! With a whole load of amazing performances recorded live during
their record-breaking tours of the 1960s, this is THE Ramsey Lewis
Trio album you need...believe it! Amazing and timeless soul-jazz-pop-bossa-boogaloo
you'll love! Perfectly remastered by Mr. Nick Robbins of this parish...and
wonderfully packaged by Mr. Andy Morten in Zummerzet!
Rev-Ola-221
CD
$15.00
Ravens & Chimes
Reichenbach Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Grown from the halls of NYU, Ravens & Chimes' debut introduces
a youthful, optimistic lightness in the form of eclectic, ear-grabbing
tunes. CMJ called it "beautiful" and "unique",
evoking comparisons at times to either Wolf Parade or Voxtrot - a
sound urging youth to grow up to be young again - no justifications
necessary. Lead vocalist Asher Lack repeatedly asks himself, "Is
it possible to change without abandoning the person you were?"
"Reichenbach Falls" encompasses the raw quality of youth
in a split open-heart combination of first lust, disappointment, and
self-doubt.
BetterLooking
CD
$13.25
Red Pony Clock
God Made Dirt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US A psychadelic indie-pop band from San Diego, CA. Usually there's
a lot of junk going on in the songs due to there usually being a lot
of people playing the songs. Some of the people can play/sing really
well. Some can't seem to do anything very well. But they're all very
nice people, regardless. Some songs are sad. Some are happy. But we
try our best to make them all nice. We love making music!!! With that
great bit of information straight from the myspace out of the way
Red Pony Clock have been around for what seems forever, but never
seem to have had it together. One release after another thrown together
for their annual summer tour that was to mainly take them from California
to the Athens POPFEST and back. They found a home on Happy Happy Birthday
to Me Records back in 2000 when Gabe (rpc) met Mike (hhbtm) at the
Kindercore Expo in Athens, GA. Mike loved the song that Gabe presented
him for his next comp Happy Happy Birthday to Me Vol 2 that he instantly
told them he wanted to put out a single. The 7 inch single "Pete"
came shortly after in 2002. Red Pony Clock kept evolving adding and
subtracting members like an accountant. The next release was a 4 band
split CD with the bands Elekibass, Poison Control Center, & Ryan
Anderson released by both HHBTM & Bi-Fi Records. Another split
CD was to come shortly after with the fun Swedish band Cat & Dog
Dialogue released on Gabe's own label that he shared with his at the
time girlfriend Lizeth called Gabe & Lizeth Records. Each year
after Red Pony Clock would throw together a rushed EP on a cdr to
help fund their tour to popfest and back.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-094
CD
$12.25
Rene, Henri And His Orchestra
Music For Bachelors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Henri Rene...as a backroom music exec in the early modern period,
he's big news in the history of the biz. In our world he is more acclaimed
as one of the originators of innovations like what is today known
as Space Age Bachelor pad music. He was also as a producer, arranger,
and exec instrumental (see what I did there?) in creating RCA's legendary
LIVING STEREO and STEREO ACTION series! Rene was born in New York
City, but his parents moved back to Germany, and Rene grew up in Berlin,
studying at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin. Eventually he became
Musical Director for RCA's German affiliate Electrola, as well as
for the famed German movie studio, UFA. Returning to the U.S. in 1936
he became musical director for the international department of RCA
Victor. In 1941, he formed the first continental-styled small pop
orchestra in the US. In the 1950s, he returned to RCA as musical director
in International, backing a variety of singing stars, such as Harry
Belafonte and Eartha Kitt. This first collection of some of Rene's
finest 1950s work uses one of his most famous covers, which features
the lovely Jayne Mansfield posed seductively in a negligee, busy on
the telephone (presumably calling her favorite bachelor to come over
check out her hi-fi). Super collection of romantic sounds for your
rendezvous! Beautifully packaged as usual! Remastered in top RevOla
style by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the top secret Studio 3 (inside
an extinct volcano near
Crosshill) A must for all romantics!
Rev-Ola-223
CD
$15.00
Rogue Wave
Asleep at Heaven's Gate (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album!
BrushFire
CD
$14.00
Sarin Smoke
Smokescreen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 19TH)
PS, US A meditative dual guitar exploration from Pete Swanson (YELLOW
SWANS) & TOM CARTER (Charalambides). Totally gorgeous stuff that
is not to be missed -extremely chill & not at all bombastic. Pressed
on 180g black vinyl. 600 hand-numbered copies. Housed within heavy
letterpress sleeves.
TLR-004
LP
$21.00
School Of Seven Bells
Face to Face on High Places (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US From the breathing clouds of the living mountain emerge SCHOOL
OF SEVEN BELLS and their dazzling 12-inch debut, "Face to Face
on High Places." BENJAMIN CURTIS, formerly of SECRET MACHINES,
leads with heliospheric guitar invocations. Bassist JAMES ELILOTT
(ATELEIA) and drummer JOE STICKNEY (RHYS CHATHAM) provide the rhythm;
twin sisters ALEJANDRA DEHEZA (ON! AIR! LIBRARY!) and CLAUDIA DEHEZA
(On! Air! Library!, A CLOUD MIREYA) cast an irresistibly intense psychomagical
spell with celestial vocal arrangements, keyboards, and transcendental
songsmithing. Their sound is a dizzying whorl of pounding ecstasies,
mystic lyricism, lucid dreamscaping, and mesmeric grooves. Luminous
voices beckon from the far side of a mirage; whispered electronic
infernos are swept away by raging torrents of percussion. Submit to
School of Seven Bells, then ascend atop a thousand cyclones to a plain
of infinite bliss.
TableoftheElements-807
LP
$10.25
Shout Out Louds
Our Ill Wills (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50
Shout Out Louds
Our Ill Wills (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The Swedish band's sophomore effort and Merge debut is the
follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed "Howl Howl Gaff Gaff"
on Capitol. "Our Ill Wills" is a collaborative effort between
the group and producer Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn and John). This
band is all about the rush, the emotion, and the infectious melodies
that along with youth, good hair, and the endless pursuit of love,
make up the foundation of all great pop music.
Merge
CD
$13.25
Sixtoo
Jackals & Vipers in Envy of Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER
18TH)
PS, US He delves further into the solo electronics realm.His signature
drum-machine fury is combined w/ dark, melodic electronics to create
film-noir style paranoia pieced together into one suite w/ 13 different
movements. Aggressive, deep, complex, spatial, & most importantly,
tough as nails.
Truly a head-nodding affair of the highest order.
NinjaTune
CD
$15.00
Sky City
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Sky City features Tom Carter (Charalambides), Robert Horton,
Lisa Cameron & Lee Ann Cameron. Lisa Cameron is a drummer and
percussionist from Austin, Texas, whom Tom Carter has played with
in the past. Lisa creates exquisite noise by vibrating snares and
cymbals with feedback. When she heard Tom Carter and Robert Horton's
Lunar Eclipse, she wanted to record with them. Lisa and vocalist Lee
Ann Cameron drove from Austin to the Bay Area and a session was planned.
In the meantime, Tom was journeying in New Mexico and drove by a road
sign to Sky City, so he had found the name for the new group. The
day of the session, Lisa and Lee Ann drove from San Francisco, picked
up Tom in Oakland and arrived at the studio on the hill. Lisa had
somehow left her equipment in SF. As they drove up, I heard Tom say,
"That's so Texas." Then the magic started. Lisa asked, "Do
you have a cymbal?" "Yes" "An extra contact microphone?"
"Yes." "A snare?" "Yes." Some strips
of metal?" "Yes." Then we walked over the abyss together
into Sky City. Sky City is psychedelic space music with all the atoms
of surfaces freed to inter and counter react. Noise in the outer dimension.
Horton's homemade inventions, Carter's lyrical ebow guitar lines.
The walking on the moon vocals of Lee Ann Cameron. The vibration of
material planes by Lisa Cameron. The broken blues of the boot (Horton's
oldest instrument 4 strings on a piece of wood the shape of Italy).
Sun Ra ark and Neil Young's arc put through a digital blender and
reconstituted for space travel. The magical musical thing (MMT) a
toy synthesizer from the 70"s. A great drawing on the inside
cover by Natacha Robinson. A chance for music induced time travel
to parallel worlds and an opportunity to receive a collect call for
the future from Sky City.
Important-159
CD
$12.25
Songs of Green Pheasant
Gyllyng Street (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album from British lo-fi prince.
FatCat
CD
$14.25
Souixsie
Mantaray (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US New solo album from Goth High Priestess.
Decca
CD
$15.00
Speck Mountain
Summer Above (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Speck Mountain is where liquid organ drones & sacramental
guitar lines shimmer in a psychedelically corrupt gospel haze behind
Marie-Claire Balabanian's Stevie Nicks-on-downers/Hope Sandoval-on-uppers
vox. Filled in with slow-motion funk bass-lines, electric piano, blanched-out
sax, one lonely melodica & enough tape delay to stretch from Pacific
sea caves all the way to the Northern Lights-everything here echoes,
everything glows.
BurntBrownSounds-001
CD
$11.00
Springfields, The
On An Island Of Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Dusty's springboard to success was undoubtedly The Springfields.
It was the act that got Dusty on TV, got into the charts with productions
by her future studio stalwarts Johnny Franz and Ivor Raymonde and,
most importantly, got her to the States where she would eventually
base much of her later career. Looking back, the trio appear as a
welcome breath of fresh spring air in an early 1960s confused by an
autumnal mix of coffee bar rock'n'roll and cocktail bar easy listening.
In short, The Springfields were that unique moment in time before
Dusty finally decided her roots were no longer in silver threads and
golden needles but in the blonde peroxide bottle of sixties pop. Their
Folk Pop crossover scored many successes and the 12 singles, 5 EPs,
2 LPs , 1 Soundtrack (2 tracks) released on The Springfields by Philips
in the UK are all included here...
RPM-820
DCD
$17.75
Still Going
Still Going Theme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US The combination of 2 NYC dance music leaders: Eric "Dunks"
Duncan of Rub'n' Tug & Olivier Spencer of Manthraxx & Mr.
Negative. Even before its release,this has been hailed by many top
DJs around the world &featured in Prins Thomas' Essential Mix
for the BBC's Radio 1 as well as James Murphy and Pat Mahoney's (LCD
Soundsystem) Fabric Live mix.
DFA
12
$8.00
Strings of Consciousness
Our Moon Is Full (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "In experimental circles, electronica-related
and otherwise, the mid-2000s marked a slight return to the song format.
Call it the logical extension of the underground folk revival or more
simply a desire to apply experimental findings to genres of wider
appeal, the fact remains that noisy textures, electronic constructs,
and post-rock anthems permeated into the song realm, to a point where
some reviewers started writing about "electro-acoustic pop."
Strings of Consciousness' debut full-length marvelously illustrates
how artistically successful this approach can be... The group's lineup
features seasoned experimentalists Hervé Vincenti, Stefano
Tedesco, and Philippe Petit, Spaceheads/Pere Ubu's Andy Diagram, the
Sea and Cake's Alison Chesley -- and that's only part of the group's
core. Also present are the guest vocalists: Foetus' J.G. Thirlwell,
Girls Against Boys' Scott McCloud, and the almighty Barry Adamson,
again just to name a few. The music does not blend only sound sources
(acoustic/electronic), but genres, too: folk, industrial (the Current
93-tinged "Crystallize It"), even Western in "In Between,"
featuring a captivating recitation by Pete Simonelli... "Cleanliness
Is Next to Godliness," featuring Oxbow's Eugene Robinson, and
"While the Sun Burns Out Another Sun," with the post-beat
poetry of Black Sifichi... Its beauties are so numerous and subtle
that they take time to unfold. A serious contender for year-end lists
across the board." (François Couture)
CentralControl
CD
$15.75
Sun Ra Arkestra
Dance of the Living (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Lost Reel Collection Vol.4
Transparency-304
DCD
$16.25
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Fire Escape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SmalltownSuperjazz-134
LP
$14.50
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Fire Escape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Produced by FOUR TET with artwork by EYE. The relationship
between Four Tet & SHOTM began in August 2003 when Kieran Hebden,read
the cover story of The Wire, which touted SHOTM as leaders of the
"New Weird America. "That story sent Hebden on a search
for Sunburned records & he's been a fan ever since. In 2004, Hebden
asked Sunburned to tour with them. A couple of years later in March
2006, Hebden asked the band if they would like him to record them
with the idea that he would take the recordings & construct his
vision of a Sunburned record.
SmalltownSuperjazz-134
CD
$14.50
Taken By Trees
Open Field (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The new project from Victoria Bergsman (former vocalist for
The Concretes). You may also recognize her from one of the most popular
singles of last year - Peter, Bjorn and John's infectious "Young
Folks". Her solo debut was aided and abetted by fellow Peter,
Bjorn and John cohorts Bjorn Yttling on various instruments and string
arrangements, and John Eriksson on all percussion, marimba, and vibraphone.
Other contributors include Andreas Soderstrom on guitar and Verity
Susman (Electrelane) who provided piano arrangements and backing vocals.
"A ravishing song cycle that speaks of love, loss, and you might
have guessed it, trees" - Sun.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25
Takka Takka
We Feel Safer At Night (PRE-ORDER: SDALEABLE SEPTEMBER 29TH)
PS, US An eclectic, jubilant set of songs that has already gained
strong acclaim from the press & their peers. A set of matchless
pop tunes that acknowledge Gotham inspirations like Lou Reed, Bob
Dylan & Philip Glass while also owing a debt to 90's luminaries
including GBV & Pavement. The band spent '06 and early '07 touring
with Clap Your Hand Say Yeah and Architecture In Helsinki. EJRC version
includes three-track "Talk Faster EP" with the self-released
reissue.
ErnestJenning-034
CD
$12.25
Tunng
Good Arrows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The third album from this pastoral pop band is a totally immersive
record, enveloping the listener in Tunng's "wyrd" world.
Taking influences from Icelandic prog rock, choral music, and film
soundtracks, "Good Arrows" marks a significant development
for Tunng - they've expanded beyond the awkwardly applied folktronica
label to become a full-fledged (if experimentally skewed) pop band.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00
Tunng
Good Arrows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$12.00
Ugly
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Ugly features ex-members of Bridge and Outspoken. Their debut
is full of good, old-fashioned, in-your-face rock 'n' roll. These
guys know how to rock and they play with heart and soul.
RockRidge
CD
$11.00
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan/Ustad Vilayat Khan
Psychedelic Music Of India (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, UK Both regarded as absolute masters in their homeland Ustad Ali
Akbar Khan and Ustad Vilayat Khan, exact contemporaries and sarod
and sitar players respectively are in India spoken of with the same
reverence that is usually reserved for Ravi Shankar. Of course both
are familiar to students of the genre of Indian classical music in
the west (Vilayat Khan is known for his famous score to the merchant-ivory
film "The Guru") but the commercial potential of their incredible
art is only now beginning to be realized. Like Shankar, their work
is hypnotic and spellbinding realized by flawless technique through
a lifetime of devotion to their music.
El-121
CD
$15.00
Valentina
La Valentina (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, MEXICO Valentina González is probably one of Mexico's most
intriguing vocalists. A songstress who possesses a beautiful and soulful
voice that recalls the mannerisms of Jeff Buckley, Sidsel Endresen
or Camille. Her debut album takes Jazz, Gospel, Mexican Folkloric
influences and filters them through a minimal polyphonic prism. The
result merges the traditional influences into a contemporary sound
that is sparse and elegant - much like David Sylvian's Secrets of
the Beehive or Nico's The Marble Index updated old musical forms into
new ones. Singing in both English and Spanish, Valentina takes us
across a lush collection of songs that benefit from her exquisite
taste and adventurous foray into experimental song crafting. "La
Valentina" is the third release of the Mexican label Verdigris
a sub-label of Static Discos.
VerdiGris-03
CD
$12.25
Various
Kurt Cobain About A Son: Music From The Motion Picture (PRE-ORDER:
SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This film is an intimate and moving portrait of Kurt Cobain,
told entirely in his own voice. Based on more than 25 hours of never
before heard interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad
for his book "Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana". The
soundtrack does not contain Kurt or Nirvana's music. Says Azerrad,
"It's like a mixtape you'd give to a friend or lover to share
ideas, not just about music but about your whole point of view. It's
to try to show them what you're all about. So if watching 'About A
Son' is like seeing the world through Kurt's eyes, then listening
to this music is like hearing it through his ears." Artists include
Arlo Guthrie, Melvins, Bad Brains, CCR, Half Japanese, The Vaselines,
Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Mudhoney, Iggy Pop, Lead Belly, REM,
David Bowie, Mark Lanegan, and Benjamin Gibbard.
Barsuk
CD
$12.50
Various
B9 bis: Brussels Cold Wave 1979-82 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 6TH)
PS, UK 18 tracks. B9 bis, a definitive compilation CD tracing the
development of post-punk and new wave music in Belgium between 1979
and 1983. Originally released on indie label Sandwich Records in May
1981, the compilation album B9 featured ten exclusive tracks by a
range of diverse Belgian new wave, electronic and underground artists,
including Digital Dance, Polyphonic Size, Kid Montana, Pseudo Code
and Prothese - the latter the first recording project by Daniel B
of Front 242. Although Sandwich was destined to be overshadowed by
better-known Brussels labels such as Les Disques du Crepuscule and
Crammed Discs, founder Michel Lambot soon afterwards formed European
indie empire PIAS. Now digitally remastered and available on CD for
the first time, B9 now features an extra eight bonus tracks in order
to provide a more comprehensive snapshot of new wave music in Belgium
between 1979 and 1983. Mostly taken from rare singles, the extra tracks
include songs by The Names, Marine, Front 242, Siglo XX, Allez Allez,
Berntholer, Jung and Isolation Ward. As well as revised artwork, this
expanded 70 minute edition of B9 also includes detailed sleevenotes
and an assortment of period images and graphics.
LTM-2486
CD
$16.25
Various
Ghosts Of Christmas Past (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 20TH)
PS, UK 22 tracks. The first complete CD release of the classic compilation
album Ghosts of Christmas Past, first released on chic Belgian indie
label Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1981. Originally released as on
2 December 1981, Ghosts of Christmas Past (Chantons Noel) featured
13 exclusive festive tracks from the international avant garde and
new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records and Postcard rosters.
Then, as now, the contributing artists include The Durutti Column,
Aztec Camera, Paul Haig, Tuxedomoon, Wim Mertens, Cabaret Voltaire,
Michael Nyman, The Names, Thick Pigeon and Simon Topping of A Certain
Ratio. The original album now features nine bonus tracks drawn from
later editions of the album released between 1982 and 1986. These
include seasonal contributions from The Pale Fountains, Antena, The
French Impressionists, Winston Tong and The Arcadians (aka French
pop polymath Louis Philippe), as well as extra tracks from Paul Haig
and The Durutti Column. The booklet features original artwork by Benoit
Hennebert and Jean-François Octave, as well as a facsimile
of the insert featuring Christmas postcards, and detailed liner notes.
The original 'bauble' cover art by Hennebert is widely recognised
as one of his finest designs. This new CD edition has been digitally
remastered from the original master tapes, and features 74 minutes
of material. Most of the featured tracks remain unavailable elsewhere.
The CD follows on the great success of our 2006 re-release of the
1980 Crepuscule compilation From Brussels With Love.
LTM-2426
CD
$17.00
Various
One Five Zero (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Near The Parenthesis - Into The Green, Keef Baker - Never,
SubtractiveLAD - Back To You, Funckarma - Skaind, Vesna - Chaika,
Another Electronic Musician - Hilbert, Arc Lab - Flood Case, Quench
- Bud (Loess Remix), Proem - Recommizerate, Run_Return - Metro North
(Funckarma Remix), Proem - 3 Days (Near The Parenthesis mx), Tobias
Lilja - My Teacher Died, Another Electronic Musician - Green &
Olive (Near The Parenthesis mx), Tobias Lilja - Five Days, Bitcrush
- What Would Hope Be Without Disappointment, Lights Out Asia - Psiu!
Puxa!, Damiak - Field Lights, Arc Lab - The Several Song (SubtractiveLAD
remix), Last Days - Points Bridge, Near The Parenthesis - Trailing
(Bitcrush mx), Loess - Talus (Tobias Lilja remix), Bitcrush - In Distance
(Keef Baker rmx), Last Days - The Norwegian Sea (Arc Lab mix) Arc
Lab - Cornflake Girl, Tobias Lilja - My Authority (subtractiveLAD
remix). One Five Zero is the new double CD compilation from n5MD that
was commissioned to celebrate its 50th release. Those familiar with
n5MD's output both recent and past will take comfort in the exclusive
all new material, remixes and covers from the current roster of n5MD
artists as well as treats from its emotional experimental mafia alumni.
Another Electronic Musician, Arc Lab, Bitcrush, Damiak, Funckarma
(and as Quench) Last Days, Lights Out Asia, Loess, Near the Parenthesis,
Proem, Run_Return, SubtractiveLAD and Tobias Lilja all take part in
this excellent snapshot of n5MD as a label and stylistic presence.
Those unfamiliar with n5MD's output will find One Five Zero to be
a perfect jumping off point to get acquainted with n5MD's brand of
emotional experiments in music.
n5MD-150
DCD
$15.00
Various
Little Darla Has A Treat For You Volume 25: Endless Summer 2007 Edition
(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The World's most popular compilation series. 2xCD. 35 tracks
(32 exclusive tracks). The package/artwork layout features beautiful
rare fruit photos taken by members of the California Rare Fruit Growers
club. Only from Darla, the musical paradise in the garden of eden.
Features work by Darla family artists and labels. AARKTICA remixed
by AARON SPECTRE, ATONE, AZ-ROTATOR, CALIFORNIA ORANGES, KEITH CANISIUS,
CDATAKILL, COOPER, CORAZON, LINDA DRAPER, FOLLOW THE TRAIN, FRANK
& WALTERS, FUTURE CONDITIONAL, STAFRAENN HAKON, HELL ON WHEELS,
JAPANCAKES, JATUN, JUPITER APPLE, LAND OF ILL EARTHQUAKES, LIGHTS
OUT ASIA, LULLATONE, MAHOGANY remixed by ULRICH SCHNAUSS, MIAOU, MY
LITTLE AIRPORT, NUURO, PONIES IN THE SURF, PORT ROYAL, BLAINE REININGER,
RF & LILI DE LA MORA, SECTION 25, SPRITES, SUBMERGED, .tape.,
TREMBLING BLUE STARS, THE VOYCES, YELLOW6.
Darla-190
DCD
$9.50
Various
Summer Records Anthology 1974-1988 (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER
25TH)
PS, US First anthology of this legendary roots reggae label. Remastered
from the original tapes and housed in a limited edition digipak with
deluxe booklet. Contains crucial catalogue tracks, unreleased masters
& never heard before alternative takes.Highlights include Jerry
Brown's "Dreadlock Lady", Johnnie Osborne's "Warrior"
& Noel Ellis' "Reach My Destiny. "Multi-media Dual Disc
includes over 20 minutes of video documentary of archival film footage
of Jerry Brown, Jackie Mittoo & Willi Williams.
LightInTheAttic-029
CD
$16.50
Vells
Integretron (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US New album.
Imputor
CD
$14.75
Venetian Snares
My Downfall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US This is even more epic & bombastic than its predecessor,
but not w/ out those little humorous touches so beloved of Snares.
Most of the 14 tracks here are instrumental, & only 4 of these
tracks have any rhythm section whatsoever. Marked by themes of loss
& regret, but not w/ out touches of lightness.
PlanetMu-199
CD
$15.00
Venetian Snares
My Downfall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu-199
DLP
$18.00
Weakerthans
Reunion Tour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The Weakerthans hold deep roots in the indie scene with three
albums and over 90,000 sales. With literary lyrics that could stand
alongside a Raymond Carver or Russell Banks short story, and music
that channels the spirit of punk, alt-country, barroom rock, and folk,
this band is set to build on the critical acclaim that greeted 2003's
"Reconstruction Site" with a sound that bands like Bright
Eyes and Wilco are finally bringing into the top 10.
Epitaph
CD
$14.75
Weakerthans
Reunion Tour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epitaph
LP
$15.50
Wiley
Playtime is Over (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BigDada-104
DLP
$25.00
Wiley
Playtime is Over (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US A blazing return to the experimental crucible of the East London
music known as grime,this offers everything that is most brutal, cutting-edge,
funny, clever, terrifying, & moving about the sound & the
world which created it. He welds together screeching keyboards, elastic
bass drops, & pounding beats into instantly catchy, hugely more-ish
bursts of noise.If his retirement from MCing after this release happens,
the grime world will be an infinitely poorer place w/ out the many
stories &legends the man has inspired.
BigDada-104
CD
$15.00
Wooden Shjips
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 18TH)
PS, US Debut album? Might come with a bonus CD including all of the
group's early vinyl-only releases including a previously unreleased
unedited eight minute version of "Dance, California"? It
might! Wooden Shjips, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced
by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage
rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and
group improvisation... The band released two acclaimed records in
2006, beginning early in the year with a self-released 10-inch, Shrinking
Moon for You and a 7-inch on the Sick Thirst label, and received praise
from veteran scribe David Fricke in Rolling Stone: ""Wooden
Shjips are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the
freakouts on their two very-underground releases--a white-label ten-inch
EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single
("Dance, California")--arrives via the '70s Germanic-guitar
lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU."
HolyMountain
CD
$15.25
Wooden Shjips
Loose Lips b/w Start to Dreaming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Totally looking forward to this one! To date, this Bay Area
band has produced two very hard to find releases: the "Shrinking
Moon For You" 10-inch and the "Dance California" 7-inch.
"...the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground
releases...arrives via the 70s Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru
and the confrontational repetition of VU" -David Fricke.
Subpop
45
$3.50
Wyatt, Robert
Comicopera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US Wyatt's career began forty years ago drumming and singing for
Soft Machine, a post-psych outfit tied to the "Canterbury Scene"
of the late 60s that yielded Pink Floyd and Gong, among others. On
this, his ninth album, he collaborates with Brian Eno, Paul Weller,
Phil Manzanera, and a small orchestra of string, woodwind, brass,
and percussion players. Divided into three acts, "Comicopera"
is an epic genre-bending allegory told through Robert's fragile tenor
voice.
Domino
CD
$14.00
Wyatt, Robert
Comicopera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$18.00
Xasthur
Defective Epitaph (PRE-ORDER: SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Symphonic and scowling, steeped in contempt and white-hot hate,
this record is the crumbling tombstone resting atop black metal's
misshapen head, the last will and testament for the affliction that
keeps on afflicting. Leave blasphemy, Satanism, and false agony to
all those other humanist hacks; Xasthur is the noose at the end of
your rope. "It's so unnerving at times that it's easy to forget
that this is just one Californian, one human like any other...except
he hates everything he sees with a Nietzschean passion" - Decibel.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50
Yeasayer
2080/Sunrise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US 2080/Sunrise is the single for the forthcoming YEASAYER full-length
debut, due out the fall of 2007. Soothsayers, crystal-gazers, and
time travelersŠthey have all seen the future. Spilling words
of Armageddon, the apocalypse, and the second coming of Christ they
speak of man's impending doom. With countries on the warpath and our
decaying world growing inhabitable it is easy to succumb to the voices
of these scholars. YEASAYER have also been witness to the future.
"2080/Sunrise" documents their visions and experiences in
the years that lie ahead. Discern what you will from the lyrics, but
YEASAYER'S songs flow with posi-vibes that will make you dance and
trumpet. It is optimism, it is joy. "It's a new year, I'm glad
to be here, it's a fresh spring, so lets sing. In 2080 I will will
surely be dead, so don't look ahead, never look ahead."
WeAreFree-001
CD5
$4.75
Yoshio Machida
Infinite Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 4TH)
PS, JAPAN Hybrid, Steel Pan x Electronics with Fourcolor, member of
Minamo.
Amorfon-002
CD
$15.75
Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, UK Triple-CD re-issue for this 1980 UK indie classic. Young Marble
Giants appeared on the British music scene in the early 80s, releasing
one perfect album and a handful of tracks. All those songs, as well
as album demos, are collected here for the first time. A must-have
for fans of The Slits, Pere Ubu, Wire, Suicide, PiL, and the Pop Group.
Since 1980, YMG have influenced countless bands as disparate as Belle
& Sebastian and Hole (both of whom have covered the group's songs).
This deluxe 3xCD package is the definitive collection and includes
liner notes from Simon Reynolds, a bonus disc of an unreleased John
Peel Session, and a 32-page booklet of unpublished photos, old gig
posters, and other publicity memorabilia.
Domino
3CD
$19.75
Zombi
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 27TH)
PS, US First recording now re-issued on LIMITED vinyl. Originally
self relased as a CDR only, then released on cd with "Twilight
Sentinal. "The band's signature sound is achieved using only
electric bass, drums, & a collection of analog synthesizers.
Wabana
LP
$20.00
Zombi
Twilight Sentinal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 27TH)
PS, US Second recording now re-issued on LIMITED vinyl!!!
Wabana-052
LP
$20.00
Parasol
Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders
Back
Ted N Ted “Pop Animal” CD $9.50
Big
Business “Here Come the Waterworks” LP $17.00
Coliseum
“No Salvation” CD $13.25
Concentrick
“Aluminum Lake” CD $13.25
Dinosaur
L “24->24” CD $14.75
DoF
“Mine is May” CD $5.50
DoF
“Sun, Strength, and Shield” CD $9.50
Dolour
“The Years in the Wilderness” CD $13.00
Drag
the River/Dents “Found All the Parts [Split CD]” CD $11.00
Foreign
Born “On the Wing Now” CD $13.25
Gandalf
“S-T” CD $14.25
Glaxo
Babies “The Porlock Factor” CD $15.00
Howling
Hex “XI” LP $16.00
Howling
Hex “XI” CD $13.25
Kashiwa,
Daisuke “Progam Music 2007-08-24” CD $16.25
Kinderman,
William “Beethoven: The Diabelli Variations; piano” DCD
$16.00
Kinski
“Down Below It's Chaos” LP $13.00
Legrand,
Michel “Castles In Spain” CD $15.00
Leviathan/Crebain
“Split” CD $12.50
Low
Budgets “Leave Us a Loan” CD $10.75
Low
In The Sky “We Are All Counting On You, William” CD $9.50
M.
Ward “Duets for Guitars #2” LP $12.00
Mass
Shivers “Estatic Eyes Glow Glossy” CD $12.50
Mekons
“Natural” CD $14.25
Menomena
“Friend & Foe” LP $16.50
Minus
The Bear “Planet Of Ice [CD+bonus EP]” DCD $13.00
No
Depression “#71” ZINE $4.25
Norma
“Norma 1 EP” CD5 $7.00
Numbers
“Now You Are This” CD $13.25
Satanized
“Sickness & Health: The Secular Chansons of Satanized”
CD $10.00
Sleep
“Holy Mountain” CD $13.50
Stern,
Marnie “In Advance of the Broken Arm” LP $15.00
Swivel
Chairs “The Slow Transmission” CD $15.00
Trencher
“Lips” CD $12.50
Trencher
“Lips” LP $12.50
Various
“Kompakt Total 8” DCD $18.50
Various
“Assemblage Sessions 2” CD $9.50
Various
“Assemblage Session 1” CD $8.25
Vibert,
Luke “Lover's Acid” CD $5.00
We
Are Wolves “Fight and Kiss” 45 $4.75
Wooden
Wand “James & The Quiet” LP $11.25
