New Releases

13th Chime
Lost Album
PS, US Earlier this year Sacred Bones released the singles collection from 13TH CHIME, which collected the scant few recordings released during their brief lifetime as well as a handful of heretofore unheard demos and alternate recordings. With their blend of dark driving aggression and sparse arrangements for a brief moment in time the band seemed poised to breakout of the day to day of slogging it out in clubs and onto the international radar but through a series of mishaps ended up a footnote and dissolving into obscurity. Sacred Bones Records is now proud to bring to light the long lost LP. After languishing in the vaults for several decades the 13th Chime full-length finally sees the light of day.
SacredBones
LP
$20.00

A Grave With No Name
Mountain Debris
PS, US The group's brittle yet fluid vision of music combines ethnic nostalgia, avant garde interpretations of folk & sheer abstraction. Too eccentric to be deemed as pop, too strange to be pigeonholed as rock, the windswept opener sounds like Mark Linkous singing into a canyon, while "Ghosts & Stones" calls
to mind Daniel Johnston at his playfully melodic best
Lefse-002
CD
$13.25

Acid House Kings
Sing Along With
PS, SWEDEN Last copies. Singer/guitarist Niklas Angergård, his bassist brother Johan and guitarist Joakim Ödlund formed the Swedish twee-pop trio Acid House Kings in 1991, inspired by their shared disappointment over the breakup of Felt and common dissatisfaction with Morrissey's Kill Uncle album; signing to the German label Marsh Marigold, the group issued their debut EP Play Pop! in early 1992, followed later that year by the full-length Pop, Look & Listen! The group's rediscovery of childhood favorites the Pet Shop Boys informed 1994's Monaco G.P. EP; disappointed by the record's lack of chart success, Acid House Kings maintained a low profile for the next three years, finally resurfacing in 1997 with the single "Yes! You Love Me." Advantage Acid House Kings followed the next year, with the single "We're the Acid House Kings" closing out 1999. Niklas Angergård also played in the great Red Sleeping Beauty. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Labrador-075
LP
$13.75

Acoustic Family Creeps (A.K.A. The Woods)
Play Live In The Woods
PS, US At first I was all like: "how much do I need a four song live Woods record?" but the first song could be my favorite Woods moment yet. Really beautiful stuff in a crude, buy nice paste on sleeve.
CapturedTracks
12
$13.75

Adverts, The
Anthology
PS, UK 2003 release. The Devil's Own Jukebox -- a Fire Records sublabel -- presents an extensive double CD collection of 38 furious tracks by legendary British punk rockers The Adverts. On the first disc: Three years. Twenty-six songs. You'll hear them all on this crash course in the story of the Adverts, a band of one chord wonders who stormed into punk rock on a wave of disbelief at the beginning of 1977 and staggered out again on a wave of disinterest at the end of 1979. To show how they sounded live, there's a second disc with a recording of a 1978 concert, previously released as Live At The Roxy Club, but actually recorded at a different -- now unknown -- venue.
Fire/TheDevilsOwnJukebox
DCD
$14.25

Aguayo, Matias
Rollerskate
PS, US 1st single from Ay Ay Ay. It's easy to get drawn into the organic earthiness of Aguayo's musicianship - his voice is the source of the song, ingeniously layered & contextualized into what seems like an endless mantra. Remixes by MARCUS ROSSKNECHT, DIEGORS & THE DON, SANFUENTES & ALEX THUNDERS, & REBOLLEDO
Kompakt-204
12
$12.50

Amanaz
Africa
PS, GERMANY QDK Media releases an official reissue of Africa by Zambian heavy psych rockers Amanaz, licensed from band member Keith Kabwe. Amanaz was formed in 1973, and this record came out in 1975. Three of these songs are in the native language Bemba, and 9 songs are in English, recorded in Kitwe, the third biggest city in Zambia up North. Musically, it goes in the same direction as Blo, The Witch, and Question Mark, but this album is way cooler and more stoned with amazing fuzz guitar all over which sounds like an African version of early Cream. The cover makes it look very traditional, but after a few spins, you realize that this one is very special. It's sooo cool, sooo tightly-produced and easily comparable with UK underground albums with a touch of African beats. Still completely unknown, so this album has not been scored yet by the collector's scene. A real surprise -- extremely heavy yet extremely groovy in spots, too.
QDK-051
CD
$15.00

Amazing, The
Code 2 b/w To Ska & Back
PS, US Limited to 500, comes with DL codes. The Amazing make up two existing members of the well known Swedish band, Dungen. Like their fellow labelmates, they continue to make far out psych grooves, but this time around the singer signs in English making the song a bit more transferable across the continent.
MexicanSummer
10
$15.75

Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind
PS, US To close out an incredible 2009 for Animal Collective that saw the release of their most critically and commercially successful album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, comes the Fall Be Kind EP. The EP features 5 brand new studio tracks that are every bit as lush and beautiful as those found on Merriweather. The year of Animal Collective continues.
DominoRecordingCo
CD5
$8.75

Animal Collective
Fall Be Kind
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DominoRecordingCo
12
$10.75

Animal Hospital
Memory
PS, US NOW ON VINYL!! LTD TO 350.
BargeRecordings-007
DLP
$18.50

Asuna
Flowers
PS, US "How are you? I'm Asuna". Such a simple thought can say more then an essay on Asuna but let me try anyway.
Asuna is originally from Nagoya, Japan, and now lives in Ishikawa, away from the hustle and noise of the city. Since 1999, he has been making experimental music, when he first fell in love with the reed organ. Since then he has released CDs for such labels as Lucky Kitchen, Apestaartje, Autumn Records, and/OAR, Spekk, and Power Shovel Audio etc.
Music Related is very happy to releases his CD "Flowers". Composed of songs about flowers, field recordings, cell phone beeps, ambient drones, and lo-fi pop styles meet in Asuna's one of a kind style. "Flowers" starts with digital static, and cut and chopped toy drum machine beats. An invasion of modern life before smoothing out into a trip through the warm side, and escapist dreams of the small town Japan and the country. The digital attacks, much like the blaring streets of modern Japan, now gone. It's field trip through the parks, and country with Asuna as your tour guide. "An oddly pretty and strangely inviting album; sort of spooky, but in a way that a childhood memory can be spooky. A record which feels almost unintentionally overheard." - Ezekiel Honig
MusicRelated-22
CD
$10.25

Battletorn
Reflect The Filth
PS, US Very limited 12" of what will likely be the last BATTLETORN release. This 2-man band has always successfully channeled the early thrash & hardcore scenes, cut off any excess fat, & leave you w/ terse, streamlined bursts of thrashy punk. "Best Thrash-Punk band in the world" says Vice Magazine
MadAtTheWorld-1205
12
$11.25

Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique: 20th Anniversary Edition
PS, US Deluxe, remastered vinyl re-issue!
EMI
LP
$22.00

Beat
S-T
PS, US BACK IN PRINT! Fantastic 70's powerpop by The Nerves original member Paul Collins. A must-have for all pop fans. Features the classic powerpop hit
"Rock'n'Roll Girl". Toured w/Police, Jam & Joe Jackson before getting inked to Columbia in 1980
Sony/GetHip
CD
$16.25

Beck
Odelay [Limited Edition]
PS, US Limited Deluxe edition, 10th anniversary quad gatefold packaging. 180 GM 4 LP. Numbered and limited to 3000 copies only. Includes a high quality full-colour booklet.
Organica Records
4XLP
$69.00

Best Of Seth
Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout
PS, US BEST OF SETH is a one-man group made up of AKRON / FAMILY member SETH OLINSKY. More than a side project, more than just the best, Seth offers us all of himself on this first outing entitled Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout. Organized into three separate, thematic, full-length albums, Sparrow Trout Heart Sprout was written and recorded in the Winter of 2004/2005 between the recording of the first Akron/Family record and their first tour that Spring. Originally self-released as a run of 25 copies and loosely distributed to friends and tap dancers, Achord Recordings is now happy to reissue and release a remastered, handmade set of 500 lucent, tri-fold letter pressed packages, all stuffed with a lyric sized poster sheet. The music on Best of Seth shares Akron/Family's range of styles and influences, yet the overall effect of the forty-two songs together and to each other is something that is uniquely Best of Seth. It was recorded in a bedroom big enough for little more than a bed, and the resulting intimacy and silliness are all reflected in the chaotic and grandiose orchestrations, the loosely held together droning midi blues, and the early morning ruminations on heartbroken joy. The Sun album is characterized by ethereal atmospheres and experimental flares. The Trout flies high upon waves of gorgeous bedroom psych-rock and 'calling all your friends in the apartment building' harmonies. The Sparrow brings it back down with a collection of mostly acoustic, ambient-tinged introspective pieces.
Achord
3XCD
$20.00

Bipolar Bear/Hiroshima Rocks Around
Hiroshima Rocks Around / Bipolar Bear
PS, US HIROSHIMA ROCKS AROUND are from Italy and BI-POLAR BEAR is from Los Angeles. Two crazy loud bands with very different styles. BPB has releases on Kill Shaman, Mexican Summer, Deleted Art, Rococo, Yosada and more. HRA have 7-inches on S.S. and Avant.
KillShaman
12
$13.50

Birdman, Bobby
New Moods
PS, US Upbeat pop anthems jostle up against shimmering slow a cappella numbers, while New Orleans bounce, dancehall, & hyphy funnel noisily into each selfproduced
pop number. Sun-drenched guitars & his characteristic, unfuckwithable new-school croon wash over drumline weirdness & tyrannical sub bass, like a rogue wave on the Malibu beaches he frequently surfs
FrykBeat-004
CD
$13.25

Black Dahlia Murder, The
Deflorate
PS, US ombining death metal with anything resembling melody kinda defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it? Guess no one ever bothered to tell the Black Dahlia Murder this heavy metal golden rule, as evidenced by their fourth studio release overall, 2009's Deflorate. But don't be misled: it's not like they're going to be confused anytime soon as power pop champions when it comes to melodic content -- it's a tiny pinch of melody stirred into gallons of brutal extreme metal. The album signals the first appearance by new guitarist Ryan Knight, replacing John Kempainen, who played on all of the group's previous studio efforts. However, the slight lineup hiccup has not affected the ferocity of the Black Dahlia Murder's mighty metal attack, especially on such eardrum blasters as "Necropolis" and "Denounced, Disgraced." As with past Black Dahlia Murder releases, Trevor Strnad is one of the genre's most impressive vocalists, as he effortlessly alternates between screechy screams and guttural growls, without ever missing a beat. Some bands soften their approaches with experimentation as their discographies grow. Deflorate proves that the Black Dahlia Murder will not be listed in this category anytime soon. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
MetalBlade-14753.1
LP
$20.00

Bleeker, Alex & The Freaks
S-T
PS, US Group consists of Alex Bleeker (REAL ESTATE), Matt Mondanile (REAL ESTATE, DUCKTAILS), Martin Courtney IV (REAL ESTATE) & JULIAN LYNCH
UnderwaterPeoples-005
LP
$15.50

Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man
Bob Dey's Dream
PS, US The musical tale of Mr. Talent as he finds himself taking a night off from working by going to a party. At the party, he indulges in some "party cake" which disagrees with his stomach and sends him home to dream a frightful dream. This is the second album by Chicago's BDTEM which consists of writer Bob Dey and his employee-musician Mark Jumper (Mr. Talent)
Plustapes-023
CASS
$5.50

Bonny Billy & The Picket Line
Funtown Comedown
PS, US Vinyl only! Live recording of Bonnie and bluegrass band The Picket Line. The songs they play are music for an afternoon, an
evening, a night. Songs to echo off your head when you wake up the next morning - but songs for a finite place, like Funtown; a place that you must leave behind you & leave in your mind. Includes songs by the great Merle Haggard, Ralph Stanley & Palace Brothers.
SeaNote-017
LP
$16.50

Brown, James
The Singles, Vol. 8: 1972-1973
PS, US Several rarities give this package extra collectability: an unreleased vocal version of "Hot Pants Road"; the single version of "Honky Tonk"; the U.K.-only release "I Know It's True"; the rare mono promo mix of "Ants"; the rare single cover version of "Watermelon Man" by Wesley that features JB on drums; and a second re-cut of "Think."
All tracks have been newly remastered from the analog singles masters, sounding better than ever - and several of the original single mixes are now on CD for the first time. The set is accompanied, as with previous releases, by a booklet thick with detailed track annotations, track-by-track anecdotes that serve as a James Brown career timeline, rare photos and reproductions of memorabilia from back in the day, and a sessionography complete with recording dates and band personnel.
Hip-O Select
DCD
$28.00

Campfires
Stormy Late Fall
PS, US Limited to 500 with download codes. Campfires plays rugged, outdoorsy lo-fi pop anthems, tailor-made for sunny autumn days. Their songs are short to the point, sweet-bitter postcards from bored teenage boys at Summer Camp. These are the songs that were conjured up from somewhere in middle America, where you spend your nights loitering in your cabin smoking weed with a peeling Jim Morrison poster and faded 'Who banner, while your buddies try and banter our some tunes on home-made instruments.
MexicanSummer
45
$4.00

Can't/Arthur Russell
Ghosts b/w Come To Life
PS, US Can't is Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Terrible Records is a new label he's involved with. The Arthur Russell song is unreleased. Limited edition.
TerribleRecords
45
$7.25

Captain Marryat
S-T [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Captain Marryat were from Glasgow, Scotland and they recorded this demo album in 1974, released in a tiny pressing on the Thor label, hoping to get an EMI or Chrysalis deal, who both showed interest in the band at the time. They wanted to record only a single, but instead came up with a complete album of self-composed tracks. Since it was not that easy for a Scottish band to get attention down in London, this album was the only pressing ever done and was sold at band gigs only. Five musicians, great organ, vocals, extra heavy fuzz-guitar with drums and bass -- amazing underground songs, influenced by Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Beggars Opera -- a true lost classic. Dig on the truly tribal percussion, searing guitar leads and drugged-out keys on the fully-instrumental and galloping "Dance Of Thor." The band formed in the early '70s, around 1971 to 1975, generating quite a following while playing all around Scotland and the Borders at various venues including Burns Howff in Glasgow which was a very popular venue as other bands such as Alex Harvey Band, Nazareth and Beggars Opera also played there. Shadoks was lucky to find the band themselves to make a deal so this beauty can finally conquer the world of rock music. Members include: Jimmy Rorrison, Hugh Finnegan, Allan Bryce, Tommy Hendry, and Ian McEleny.
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Twinkle Echo
PS, US Back in print!
Tomlab-031
LP
$12.25

Cassette
Shining Like A New Dime
PS, US SAMANTHA JONES returns with new cast once again as CASSETTE to touch base with a new EP of beautiful compositions. Songs of simplicity, layers, folk, wisdom, reverb, melody, motherhood, string arrangements, and even a few electronic beats. Songs written by a woman who has given to more aggressive bands before such as VANBUILDERASS, CRUSTACEANS, BITCHIN', SLANG, RUMBLESEAT, and currently HONEST ARROW.
BakeryOutlet -027
CD
$8.75

Celer
Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all
PS, US Tender and touching, yet poignant and stirring, Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all is composed of 3 parts that encapsulate over an hour of music, and on-location field recordings. Part 1 creeps quietly through your room until its presence is felt, fading, and field recordings are bringing back distant memories. Part 2 starts on a melancholy note and ends in a sea of stunning ambience, drifting, and fizzling out. Part 3 embraces and carries you off to a distant, but strangely comforting world where it shares its secrets with you, and yet disappears at the peak of discovery.
SentientRecognitionArchive-014
CD
$14.75

Crushed Butler
Uncrushed
PS, US Many bands are called legendary, few are. Among those few are CRUSHED BUTLER, whose assualt on the UK rock scene in 1969-70 laid out the dynamics that were to follow in the best punk, glam and pub rock records of the seventies. From the anthemic R&B classic "High School Dropout" to the pure punk mayhem of "It's My Life" and "Factory Grime," and the heavy Sabbath-esque psych of "Love Is All Around Me," this has long been a record deserving of wider accessibility. This edition adds a second version of "High School Dropout" and an previously unreleased instrumental recording, "Let It Ring" to the six tracks first pressed on the Dig The Fuzz 10-inch in the '90s to make this the definitive vinyl release with original cover art, inner sleeve, cartoon and poster by AVI SPIVAK (Humanbeing Lawnmower) and Crushed Butler's DARRYL READ that contains the band's complete surviving recordings.
RadioHeartbeat-110
LP
$16.75

Dark Lingo
Little Black Glasses b/w Swimming Sun & Few, If Any
PS, US Dark Lingo is a Pittsburgh husband and wife duo of low end insanity that reminds me of the Melvins in a more fully realized way than any band in a long, long time. Like they aren't just doing a shitty job at one aspect of the Melvins but seem to really have taken that restless creativity and heaviness to heart and are "going for it" in the best possible way.
DearSkullRecords
45
$5.50

Derakushi
1st
PS, US Shun Suzuki (sax, voice), Luis Inage (bass), Norikazu Oziro (drum), Kuzuha (guitar). "Avant-garde, free jazz, psychedelic new group! (A. sax, guitar, bass, drums) Japanese Borbetomagus type."
PSF-192
CD
$19.25

Desire
If I Can't Hold You Tonight
PS, US A brand new disco 12-inch from this supergroup comprised of JOHNNY JEWEL of GLASS CANDY & CHROMATICS, NAT WALKER from Chromatics and Montreal-based vocalist MEGAN LOUISE. You get the cut "If I Can't Hold You Tonight" in both extended disco (8:37) and vocal (5:51) versions, backed with an instrumental version and the "8 Track Demo" version (both over eight minutes in length). All tracks are exclusive to this release.
ItaliansDoItBetter-020
12
$8.50

DJ Hidden
The Words Below Limited Editions Vinyl Series Vol. 3
PS, GERMANY This 12" is the third and last volume of DJ Hidden's "The Words Below's" limited vinyl edition, which contains two remixes of tracks from the album, by DJ Hidden himself and Eye-D, his partner in crime from The Outside Agency. These two tracks are not to be found on the CD version of the album.
AdNoiseam-124
12
$11.25

Dry Spells
Too Soon For Flowers
PS, US THE DRY SPELLS, a San Francisco-based, female-led ensemble, create a unique sound drawing from traditional folk ballads of lost loves, unimaginable sorrows, and nostalgia for a forgotten past, charged with an array of electric and acoustic instrumentation and intricate vocal harmonies Named Best Album of the Year by Bob Boilen on NPR's All Songs Considered.
AntennaFarm-529
CD
$12.00

Dry Spells
Too Soon For Flowers
PS, US VINYL VERSION
EmptyCellar-003
LP
$12.50

Duchess Says/Red Mass
Split
PS, US Includes DL codes. Duchess Says contributes a straight ahead post-punk no wave tune that recalls a more playful sounding Dead Kennedys, in other words, it's super energetic. Red Mass is a relatively new band assembeld from the ashes of CPC GANGBANGS. Their songs points in the direction of the blown out stoner rock vibes of vintage era Monster Magnet.
Alien 8
45
$7.75

Earth Opera
The Great American Eagle Tragedy
PS, US 180 gram exact repro reissue, manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1969, this is the second album by Boston-based group Earth Opera, featuring former bluegrass player Peter Rowan (later a member of Seatrain as well as a solo artist) and mandolinist David Grisman. A sprawling psych-tinged, folk-rock classic featuring the 10+ minute title track, one of the greatest songs ever written about the fall of the American empire.
Elektra
LP
$13.75

Einsturzende Neubauten
Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T./Drawings Of O.T.
PS, GERMANY 2002 release. Originally released in 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten's second album marks a radical progression in the band's sound as well as a revolutionary step forward in the realms of industrial and experimental music. Bassist Marc Chung (ex-Abwärts) and electronics engineer Alexander Hacke (later a member of Crime And The City Solution) joined the band during this time, and singer Blixa Bargeld also became a full-time member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Despite each members' background, Einstürzende Neubauten's ethos -- "Destruction is not negative, you must destroy to build" -- treaded on ground that was explicitly anti-music. Through their intuitive compositional approach and application of found, industrial objects into song forms, the band's sonic trajectory was intent on generating entirely alternate modes of music-making. In contrast to the all-out destructive barrage of their debut, however, Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. reveals an astonishing maturity in its varied and dynamic range of textures while still being no less uncompromising. From the gritty live wire pulse of opening track "Vanadium-I-Ching" to the disorienting field recording and jarring mechanical upheaval of "Hospitalistiche Kinder/Engel Der Vernichtung" to the panicked steel abrasions of "Neun Arme," this album is a masterpiece of what-the-fuck urban primitivism. Most effective of all is "Armenia," one of the most essential songs the band has ever made, with its subtle, slow-building tension and haunting Armenian orchestration taking Bargeld's signature inhuman screams to uncharted levels of psychological turmoil. This digitally-remastered reissue includes 3 bonus tracks and comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with an attached 16-page booklet of lyrics in German and English.
Potomak
CD
$15.00

Einsturzende Neubauten
Kollaps
PS, GERMANY 2003 release. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten (trans. "Collapsing New Buildings"). The band's use of junk metal, power drills, jackhammers and other surprising instrumentation would come to define their challenging and continually inventive career, making them not only one of the originators of industrial music, but one of the world's most influential and far-reaching forces at the intersection between avant-garde and rock music. Formed in 1980 in the wave of the Dadaist movement Die Geniale Dilletanten, after a series of devastating live performances and personnel changes (one of which briefly involving electronic musician Gudrun Gut), the band's line-up cemented itself with core members Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit (previously of Hamburg-based post-punk band Abwärts) and N.U. Unruh. On Kollaps, a violent collision of urban primitivism and punk sensibilities, the trio declared war on every conventional way of listening, combining an intense mess of atonal guitar drones with brutal scrap metal percussion. At a time in Germany in which the wall encircling West Berlin transformed the city into a state-subsidized, near-paradisiacal freak-enclave for artists, Einstürzende Neubauten offered cathartic cascades of noise, employing steel parts, tin drums, drills, hammers, saws and untuned electric guitars, all crowned by Bargeld's bloodcurdling screams and feverish, apocalyptic texts. Kollaps, with its atonal essence, embodied exactly what the title suggested: decay and destruction, illness, doom and death. Years later, with the fall of the Berlin wall behind it, Kollaps still sounds as radical and extreme an artistic statement as ever. This expanded digipack reissue includes 10 bonus tracks, including 9 tracks from Stahldubversions, a rare 1982 cassette release. CD comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with 23-page attached booklet.
Potomak
CD
$15.00

Estroe
Elemental Assets
PS, GERMANY This is the debut full-length release by hotly-tipped Rotterdam-based Estroe. The CD consists of tracks produced by Estroe over the span of a few years, in which she spent a lot of time enhancing her production techniques and developing her creativity. As the artist herself explains: "Some tracks were made in rough times, while others were made under happy circumstances, and perhaps you can tell. For me, music is an emotional vent allowing me to express my feelings and freeing me of my restlessness. This makes the album very personal and I am terribly excited to share it with the world and with you." Directly inspired by her recent life experiences and passions, "Flirtatious Concubine" was produced right after a particularly-inspiring booking in Tokyo, and "Inspirited Away" came to life thinking about two producers who really inspired Estroe: Steve Rachmad and John Beltran. Elemental Assets is reflective of her DJ-work -- full of versatile techno with room for deep undercurrents as well as pure dancefloor work. Her style is warm, subtle, but at the same time very energetic. Two guest vocalists, Miss Kittin and Sam Leigh-Brown, also help lift these delicately-crafted tech-house tracks to the next level.
Connaisseur-003
CD
$16.25

Ettinger, Dylan & The Heat
Smokin' b/w Miami Heat (The Stakeout)
PS, USSmoky synth themes, Corvette noir moods, echo dystopia, faded voices, & sleazy Miami sax. Ltd to 380
NotNotFun-177
45
$6.50

Explode Into Colors
Paper
PS, US A limited one time pressing of two new anthems from this epic Portland 3 piece. With a special embossed all-white sleeve, and full color art insert by Adee Roberson. This record completes the trilogy of 2009's uniform 7"s, the others by M'lady's and Kill Rock Stars. PITCHFORK: "This Northwest all-girl three-piece builds their songs like prickly, droning Jenga towers on a sturdy base of steady drums. The other instruments may make the tower wobble as they lay down off-kilter bursts of singing or a lopsided riff, but the even, tribal percussion keeps everything righted...the rhythmic heaviness is so pervasive that even Claudia Meza's singing is percussive...EIC's Lisa Schonberg is proof positive that women can be kick-ass drummers."
JustForTheHellOfIt-003
45
$7.00

Eyes
TAQN
PS, US This 10-inch compiles all of Los Angeles punk pioneers THE EYES' Dangerhouse studio recordings from 1979. Of the six songs on this 10-inch, two have NEVER been released before. First 500 copies on clear vinyl with a four-page insert.
Artifix
10
$10.25

Field, The
Yesterday & Today: Remixed
PS, US The Field's Yesterday & Today (KOM 193LP) is one of 2009's most celebrated releases. Now, the cycle is complete with a collection of interpretations picked from 3 of today's leading newcomers in crossover electronic/indie music. Gold Panda has been causing a massive stir with his remixes for Bloc Party and HEALTH, and here he elegantly samples the vinyl from "I Have The Moon, You Have The Internet" into a savvy dub-stepped Dilla-esque roller. Other remixes by Rainbow Arabia and Walls.
Kompakt-203
12
$11.50

Flashback Repository
S-T
PS, US "Remastered issue of an obscure tape from the mysterious Outer Limits Collective (Wingdings/Explorers/Matrix Metals/Foxy Baby/Yoga/90210/etc). Limited to 425 copies in pro-printed duo-tone sleeves with a 5-page essay booklet." "The flashback repository is a storehouse of collective waste consciousness from all beings of the universe, i.e. all unfiltered myth & material of the human/alien/animal mind, laying dormant in a hidden dimension resembling a disposal area or transfer station somewhere within our spectral plane. A vast depot for all universal race memory that passes beyond our mortal earthly cognition and subconscious apparatus. This reposited latent substance is available to all organisms within our particular sphere, all beings earthy and paranormal. The recordings here represent the three main stages of unconscious withdrawal: 'Glimpse', 'Recurrence', and 'Manifestation' - they are a blue print of sorts. There may be a possibility of the retrieval of materials - the recycling of this substance alongside the development of individual real-time understanding of eternal materials and impressions that are constantly escaping our sensory grip. The repository shows itself as what appears to be part of an undivided whole, a section manifested in our dimensional field through thin channels of emotion & vibration. These phenomena are the result of direct brain-repository contact, a glimpse into the infinite plenitude of energy and data housed by the repository. With each glimpse, each peek through these looking-glass channels, the mind gains a deeper insight into the potentials hibernating within the data-pool and the particular characteristics and movements of the repository. It is important to note that the usage of the word 'flashback' connotes not only the re-collection or re-existence of memory and dream data from the past, but also the future. For instance one can 'flash forward' just as easily and achieve the desired results." -- Outer Limits Inc.
OldeEnglishSpellingBee-030
LP
$18.75

Fleshies
Brown Flag (LP/CD)
PS, US Keep in mind that this is the closest FLESHIES can get to writing a genuine pop rock record, and we are damn proud of it. It is a true reflection of a decade of love between five men with all of the requisite ups and downs that implies. Life gets complicated and we are just trying to make sense of it. but we are talking about family here, ya know?"-John Geek
Recess-127
LP
$13.50

Frat Dad
Gred the Nerd/Freak In Nature
PS, US Punk, garage, psychedelic, reverb, & distortion. Clear vinyl w/ CD-R
UnderwaterPeoples-004
45
$7.50

Frontier Ruckus
Orion Songbook
PS, US Matthew Milia & crew bring 14 hair-raising songs about the dark stretches of thought within relationships & realizations of ones home. Milia's loquacious melodies are enhanced by the swelling saw & trumpet of Zachary Nichols, the stern percussion of Ryan Etzcorn, the soulful harmonies of Anna
Burch & the spidery banjo of David Jones. Sounds like Stephen C. Foster writing & producing the newest Neutral Milk Hotel record.
QuiteScientific
CD
$11.00

Ganglians
Blood On The Sand b/w Make It Up
PS, US Two new Ganglians tracks and they are two of the best ones yet.
CapturedTracks
45
$6.25

Gilbert, Bruce
Oblivio Agitatum
PS, UK Editions Mego proudly releases a new album by the UK's legendary experimental noise musician Bruce Gilbert, whose career stretches back to late-1960s British avant garde art and music scenes, and who has since played an important and influential role with his involvement in various rock-based formations (he is a former member of Wire), and choreographic projects and art installations. Oblivio Agitatum is Gilbert's first album-length release since Ordier (realized in 1996 and released in 2004), essentially making this his first album of the 21st century. A startling and mesmerizing work which recalls some of his mid-1980s works such as This Way and Shivering Man. An ever-shifting set of agitated and obscure tones, creating a sense of confusion while still being highly structured and concentrated. A stunning return.
EditionsMego-096
CD
$16.25

Glass Rock
Tall Firs Meet Soft Location
PS, US Glass Rock is a song, is a band, is a way of life. Glass Rock is the crystallized movement formed by the molten lava makeout of the two bands of the album title: Tall Firs meet Soft Location. It's a werewolf and a rhino on a first-date rampage of Korean Food and poppers, doing the Cabbage Patch on the boardwalk, kissing babies with beer breath, all with truthful love in their hearts. The core elements of the Soft Location sound are Kathy Leisen's haunting voice and boneyard guitar, and Matt Kantor's slo-mo jet fuel bass jamminating. Add Tall Firs: Ryan Sawyer's could-blow-your-pants-off-but-prefer-to-slowly-work-them-over-your-hips drumming and Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan's creamy dual-savant guitar stylings: two dudes who don't even know how the other guy's guitar is tuned but nonetheless have brought the tandem knockout reverb dropkick since 1991. The band actively refuses to discuss influences, even with one another. With two pairs of childhood friends in the band, the music just happens and the listener is left to speculate. The dilettante thinks Chan Marshall or an Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison caught an extra-rad time machine ride and now inhabits every moment from 1955-2013 simultaneously. The serious aficionado is thinking Martha Reeves, Amon Dull II, the Gories, Otis Redding. But Heads know: This thing is wigs, Pepsi commercials, Sam Cooke, hardcore festivals, and free stuff on craigslist. In reality, Glass Rock are a prisonyard football team: a motley collection of wizened lifers, small-time pimps, and the wrongly convicted. Leisen is their Burt Reynolds. A painter on the Outside, she woke up back in the huskau of a recording studio after Awesome Michael ratted her and Kantor out to Ecstatic Peace. In the yard Tall Firs were hanging around bench-pressing twice their body weight. This record documents their crushing and dramatic defeat of the prison guards, and their harrowing escape during the ensuing melee. There is nothing contrived about this band. Neither derivative nor hybridized, GnR II are truly Chimeric. This ain't reference-rock. This is the half man/half shark/half alligator sung of in days of yore, with inflatable Sasquatch feet and one popsicle arm. This thing will get bestial with you on the dancefloor, and will hold you tight on a pre-dawn canoe ride; staring at the stars crying at the wonder and terror of it all.
EcstaticPeace-088
LP
$15.00

Glitter Wizard
Black Lotus
PS, US The debut GLITTER WIZARD record is HEAVY-PSYCH at its finest. Boundless rhythms combined with whirlwind melodies take listeners on an impetuous ride though space and time. Hailing from Oakland, California, GLITTER WIZARD features members from Liquorball, Monoshock, Nothing People, and Residual Echoes.
Sansescape
45
$5.75

Grong Grong
To Hell N' Back
PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Adelaide, proto-grunge outfit Grong Grong bludgeoned Australian audiences throughout 1983-1984, with their dark and aggressive take on punk rock. The band filtered its influences of The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Flipper and Pere Ubu through a suburban Australian mindset, sounding like no one before or since. In 1983, they supported Dead Kennedys and impressed frontman Jello Biafra so much, they became the first and only Australian band to release an album on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. This deluxe reissue on the much-acclaimed Australian archival label, Memorandum features the band's posthumously-released 1986 self-titled LP, plus rare studio demos, expanded live cuts, and nugget-y rehearsal tapes. All tracks have been digitally-remastered from original source tapes and are available for the first time on CD. The package also contains a DVD with concert and rehearsal footage, displaying the band in all their noisy, chaotic glory. Presented in a deluxe gatefold wallet with a detailed booklet stuffed with liner notes, photos, and original art, this will be a highly-desirable package for fans of this extremely influential band and connoisseurs of the Australian underground scene of the '70s and '80s. DVD is all-region NTSC format.
Memorandum
CD/DVD
$17.75

Grong Grong
To Hell N' Back [expanded reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Adelaide, proto-grunge outfit Grong Grong bludgeoned Australian audiences throughout 1983-1984, with their dark and aggressive take on punk rock. The band filtered its influences of The Birthday Party, The Cramps, Flipper and Pere Ubu through a suburban Australian mindset, sounding like no one before or since. In 1983, they supported Dead Kennedys and impressed frontman Jello Biafra so much, they became the first and only Australian band to release an album on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. This deluxe reissue on the much-acclaimed Australian archival label, Memorandum features the band's posthumously-released 1986 self-titled LP, plus rare studio demos, expanded live cuts, and nugget-y rehearsal tapes. All tracks have been digitally-remastered from original source tapes and are available for the first time on CD. The package also contains a DVD with concert and rehearsal footage, displaying the band in all their noisy, chaotic glory. Presented in a deluxe gatefold wallet with a detailed booklet stuffed with liner notes, photos, and original art, this will be a highly-desirable package for fans of this extremely influential band and connoisseurs of the Australian underground scene of the '70s and '80s. DVD is all-region NTSC format.
Memorandum
CD/DVD
$17.75

Hawthorne, Mayer
Green Eyed Love
PS, US Following the release of his debut album A Strange Arrangement, Detroit's soul sensation MAYER HAWTHORNE brings the pulse of "Green Eyed Love" to this limited green vinyl 12-inch.
StonesThrow-2236
12
$10.00

Holopaw
Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness
PS, US Vinyl version!
Obscurist Press
LP
$12.00

House Boat
Delaware Octopus
PS, US VINYL VERSION
It'sAlive-041
LP
$12.75

House Boat
Delaware Octopus
PS, US What do you get when you take GRATH and AZEEM from the STEINWAYS and put them in a band with ZACK from OFF WITH THEIR HEADS and DEAR LANDLORD and MIKEY from THE ERGS? HOUSE BOAT, that's what you get! More specifically, The Delaware Octopus. And what's The Delaware Octopus? Who knows? But it's catchy, it's clever, it's cynical and it's one of the best pop punk albums you're going to hear! Short, sweet and the point.
It'sAlive-041
CD
$12.00

Hunger
Strictly From Hunger
PS, US HUNGER! (originally from Portland, Oregon), were full-fledged members of the LA psych scene of the late-sixties, and despite their opening for top-shelf acts like the Doors and The Strawberry Alarm Clock, their one and only album did not make much of a splash at the time, and the band dissolved soon after its release. However, the album has since become one of the most collectible in its genre and upon listening one can see why. This rhythm-heavy Doors-influenced hard psych is frequently referred to as "one of the best psychedelic albums of all time!" Band member ED KING went on to play with the STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK and LYNYRD SKYNYRD.
VinylLovers-900823
LP
$22.75

Jansch, Bert
L.A. Turnaround
PS, US Vinyl version
DragCity-413
LP
$16.50

Jansch, Bert
Rare Conundrum
PS, US Vinyl version
DragCity-415
LP
$16.50

Jansch, Bert
Santa Barbara Honeymoon
PS, US Vinyl version
DragCity-414
LP
$16.50

Johannsson, Johann
And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
PS, US An accompaniment to Marc Craste's animated film Varmints, this is a collection of achingly beautiful orchestral work balanced on a bed of Johannson's patented electronics
Type-064
LP
$19.75

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

JPLS
The Depths
PS, CANADA This is the second full-length album by JPLS for the M_nus label. The Depths is a collection of complex, challenging compositions that beam in from the depths of the M_nus universe. Fusing classic minimal techno with industrial electronica, he has created a brooding, deep-space opera that needs to be experienced in its epic entirety before individual aspects can be extracted to exploit their dancefloor potential. All JPLS releases are dominated by an underlying concept -- a self-imposed set of values that are stretched to their logical limits and beyond. 2007's Twilite set the tone, containing a set of tracks strictly conceived between the hours of 3 and 5 a.m. Then there was the application of delay and overlays to create a "non-standard" harmonic content and defeat the machines on the Combination EP. This time around, inspiration has been derived from theoretical physics, specifically the idea of sub-sub atomic movement and interaction. During the course of the album, JPLS explores continuous creation, the transformation of sound into energy and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. The collection begins with "Reset," a 12 and-a-half minute exercise in construction and deconstruction. The vast soundscape pulses with expectation before a host of mutated percussion starts scything its way across the stereo field. The electro-magnetism and gravitational pull of "Zero Point" creates more elegantly-hewn glaciers of sound that slowly disintegrate into white noise, reforming in different spatial arrangements while the melody slowly fractures into anti-melody. "Displacement" features a relentless kick that beats a path straight through the core of a spinning, turbulent vortex. "Basis" adopts a straighter structure modified by electrified percussion fills -- physical sounds vanish before reappearing in different forms, converting to energy, and then back again. The booming, broken electro of "Fold" twists an undulating bass line in on itself, adding an additional layer of random harmonics to the spectrum before the shuffling triplets of "Collapse" introduces an alien vocal. "Convolution" is a perfectly-executed marriage of stripped-down beats and deep harmonic percussion programming that underlines the unique way JPLS approaches electronic composition. "State" rounds it all off with bleeps and gentle melodies that draw ever closer until they reveal themselves as giants; their residual energy leaving imprints that linger long after disintegration. The album loops perfectly, maintaining its cyclical nature by utilizing the same pads for the end as the beginning. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Minus-084
CD
$14.25

Kali, Maitreya
Apache/Inca
PS, GERMANY Restocked, originally released 1999. First CD reissue of this strange late 60s set of artifacts (previously reissued as an elaborate 2LP set on Little Indians). ""California deep Psychedelic loner. Acid leads, mystical vocals, tons of effects, completely stoned feeling. Came out as 2 single albums and even more limited as a double album. Only 3 copies known. The music is outta space psychedelic with great songs and beautiful vocals. A real killer from beginning to end." This record is in Paul Major's "Top Five of Weird Underground Psych/Folk", as revealed in Vice magazine.
Shadoks
DCD
$17.75

Kawabata, Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke
Maru Sankaku Shikaku
PS, US ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE main man KAWABATA MAKOTO links up with LSD MARCH guitarist MICHISHITA SHINSUKE to create another amazing platter of fantastic sounds and vibes. Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) finds the duo moving on from the electric guitars of their previous duo releases to an all acoustic album featuring ethnic instruments from around the globe. Two side-long pieces mesh drone music with an ebb and a flow usually found on soundtracks or the soundtrack in one's head. New psychic territorial landscapes the cosmic cartographer mapped yesterday before tomorrow. Limited to 500 copies on swirled colored vinyl in gorgeous gatefold sleeves.
Prophase
LP
$24.00

Kryptonics
Rejectionville [anthology reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Rejectionville is the definitive 37-track anthology of this perennially under-appreciated garage power-pop outfit from Perth, Western Australia. Kryptonics emerged in 1985 from the same creative melting-pot that spawned The Stems and The Triffids. Over a 7-year period they recorded some fantastic garage-soaked tunes, with an array of line-ups that included future members of Lubricated Goat, You Am I, New Christs, Hard-Ons, The Chevelles, Challenger 7 and (the reformed) Radio Birdman. The Kryptonics existed in the pre-digital era and their vinyl catalog (which now demands high prices on eBay) has never previously been issued on CD. Subsequently, they have remained one of the more enigmatic bands to emerge from the much-celebrated '80s Australian garage-rock'n'roll scene. A band that many have heard of, rather than heard. Rejectionville includes the band's entire recorded output plus an extra CD of unreleased live and studio tracks. It documents the band's journey from young Scientists/Cramps wannabes to a more mature, Detroit rock-flecked power-pop sound. This 2CD is presented in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 28-page booklet full of liners, photos and a "Pete Frame"-style family tree that maps the band's extensive genome. This is an essential purchase for the Australian garage/rock'n'roll enthusiast as well as those already familiar with the band.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

La Casa, Eric
Zone Sensible 2/Dundee 2
PS, AUSTRALIA For the best part of a decade, Eric La Casa's attention to sonic phenomena has resulted in some of the finest contemporary Musique Concrete to emanate from France. A listener of the highest order, La Casa's methodology for sound recording allows for a versatile examination of both urban and natural environments and it is these interests that are captured on this new edition for Room40. With an ability to find unique perspectives on his sound subjects La Casa's site-specific works "Zone Sensible" and "Dundee" seek to draw a detailed focus and expose unfamiliar, incidental and previously unheard sound worlds. Zone Sensible, exclusively composed from recordings of bees in the Olivier Darne's hives, located in the Saint Denis suburb of Paris, reveals a chaotic, frenetic microcosm that speaks to the density of the real, whilst hinting at our ears to experience a dance of oscillations - wings beating with boundless energy. As a contrast to this microcosm, Dundee, composed with recordings of Dundee city (during a 10 days residency at DCA museum), sees La Casa turn his microphones outward. Rendering a captivating sound map of sorts, "Dundee" was developed in collaboration with USA Film experimentalist Ken Jacobs' "nervous magic lantern", on a 6 channels device. From these recordings LA Casa composed variations and movements in interaction with Ken Jacobs' processing - a contemplation from the real to abstracted life.
Room40-421
CD
$15.00

Larkin, Kenny
The Chronicles
PS, NETHERLANDS Originally released in 2008, this CD compilation gathers all of the tracks from Detroit-to-L.A. producer Kenny Larkin's The Chronicles 12" series. All tracks have been re-mastered for this release. This 2CD, which will be released as a limited-edition of 1,000 units, will come in a DVD packaging created by Newsgroup and includes a free download of a DJ-mix by Kenny Larkin himself. This CD gives a great retrospective overview of his work, including both the dancefloor burners and deeper material Kenny Larkin has released under different labels and aliases such as Pod and Dark Comedy. A winner for DJs and collectors alike.
RushHour-104
DCD
$18.75

Last Dinosaur, The
Hooray! For Happiness
PS, SPAIN The Last Dinosaur is Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden. This album was recorded on and off between December 2007 and March 2009. No computers were used in the recording of this music. All songs were recorded at home (Essex) on a multi-track recorder, usually late at night and often written as we recorded. All song were limited to 16-tracks, so to save tracks drums were recorded with two microphones (one in the bass drum, one overhead) and a looping pedal was used in instances where harmonizing parts were needed with a lack of tracks. A lot of parts in these songs were first take improvisations (for instance, the guitar solo in The Record Player, all the piano in Gusts Of Wind.., the piano flourishes in Home and I Found My Voice, the viola in The Song Playing.., most of the sax parts throughout the album and more). This music is by no means perfect, so if that's what you like perhaps find something a little more polished, this is raw, unplanned, home recorded, honest music with background noise, off-notes, hiss and mistakes and we wouldn't want it any other way. These songs were mastered by John Golden @ Golden Mastering (Sonic Youth, Rachel's, My Morning Jacket, Devendra Banhart etc).
Dearstereofan-05
CD
$16.25

Le Face
S-T
PS, US This long-awaited 7 song 12" EP adds a thicker wash of black to the pallette without obscuring any of their former records' degenerate charm. Le Face now return
with 7 new songs of hate and the innocence of 70's punk classics. Their sound is completely nihilistic and shambolic in sticking to the purity of old flavors. Hating
you like GG. Taunting you like Lee Ving. Hating themselves like Darby. This one brings out the best Le Face has kicked into our heads yet. Cover art by Gitane Demone (Christian Death)
TicTacTotally-032
LP
$11.75

Le Sang Song
S-T
PS, US If you've been following underground music of Seattle, you might have already heard music by CRAIG CHAMBERS before. If you haven't, you will now. Chambers is the creative force behind LE SANG SONG, the name for what originated as a solo recording project for songs that for the most part are quieter than those of his other excellent bands (THE LIGHTS, LOVE TAN). Le Sang Song's basic framework is simple: get a good rhythm going, a rolling bass line or laconic guitar strum, paint the corners with more rhythms and harmonies. The result is the same kind of late night living room vibe that I get from listening to heavies like Syd Barrett or Skip Spence. While Chambers draws from folk styles, he pushes his songwriting and varies Le Sang Song's instrumentation to include violin, thumb piano, and other noise makers. Chambers is also an excellent lyricist, something uncommon these days, when vapidity is standard fare. The lyrics are carried by a keen sense of vocal melody. Recorded in 2007, the album sat neglected. Determined to give Le Sang Song the audience it deserves, I dusted off Dragnet Records and decided to put it out myself. Live performances of Le Sang Song are Chambers accompanied by his lovely wife ADRIA GARCIA on guitar/vocals, MATTHEW FORD (Love Tan, FACTUMS, YVES SON ACE) on drums/percussion, a yours truly, MIN YEE (A FRAMES, AFCGT) on bass/vocals."-Min Yee. Edition of 660 copies.
Dragnet-007
LP
$14.00

Mad Dog's Hustle
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
PS, US In mid 2009 Secret Stash released a collection of Porno soundtrack material from the Fantasy Productions vault. After digging deeper they discovered hours of incredible unreleased music. The first thing to stand out was this soundtrack to a 1974 blaxploitation film entitled Mad Dog's Hustle. The film was only shown for less than 3 weeks in 6 theaters nationwide before disappearing into a baron wasteland of low-budget, poorly marketed cinema. Within a year Fantasy forfeited the rights to the film in a legal dispute with members of the cast and crew. Fortunately, the funky soundtrack recorded by THE UPSTROKE (the same band responsible for all of the Porno Groove material) has been salvaged. While staying true to the genre, the overall feel of the album is freer than most with lots of extended jams and improvisation. It features a mix of vocal and instrumental tracks. Also included are short musical cues and long narrations atop deep-funk grooves. This vinyl only release will be available for the first time ever only on white vinyl.
SecretStash-267
LP
$16.75

Mariachi El Bronx
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Swami-139
LP
$12.00

Mariachi El Bronx
S-T
PS, US Los Angeles-based punk band THE BRONX has for the last six years redefined what punk means, sounds, and doesn't look like. After three self-titled full-lengths and more singles and EPs than one can count, they return with their latest offering inspired by the inescapable Mariachi music that celebrates Mexican-American culture. MARIACHI EL BRONX features DAVID HIDALGO from LOS LOBOS and LATIN PLAYBOYS, as well as ALFREDO ORTIZ (BEASTIE BOYS). The self-titled album was produced by JOHN AVILA in Los Angeles.
Swami-139
CD
$12.00

Mayfair Set, The
Young One
PS, US Wow, I loved the 7", but I gotta say that they really take it up a notch here. Six songs, all great and few that could be classics. If you didn't get the memo the Mayfair Set is the collaboration between Mr. Blank Dog and Ms. Dum Dum Girl. They even play live which means that the weird punks will have a chance to be in the same room as girls.
CapturedTracks/Woodsist
CD
$12.50

Mayfair Set, The
Young One
PS, US VINYL VERSION
CapturedTracks/Woodsist
12
$13.75

McClure, Bruce
Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture: Fain Make Glories
PS, US Bruce McClure is well known on the international experimental film circuit for his unique projector performances that utilize film loops & modified 16mm projectors. But there is also an equally innovative sound element to his work and he has been embraced by the experimental music community as well. Bruce performed at the Chocolate Monk curated 'Colour Out of Space' festival in 2008 and was chosen as an opening act for Throbbing Gristle's reunion tour in the spring of 2009. During McClure's performances the optical sound signals from each projector are fed through banks of guitar pedals, manipulated live, and played at extremely high volumes through the p.a. system. The different loops phase in and out of each other resulting in what could be described as a power electronics version of the early tape experiments of Steve Reich and Terry Riley, while sparser sections have an off-kilter minimal techno feel reminiscent of Plastikman and the early works of Thomas Brinkmann. This album features four excerpts from a professionally recorded performance in early 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. Edition of 375 copies in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid.
OldeEnglishSpellingBee-036
LP
$20.50

Mebusas
Vol. 1: Blood Brothers
PS, US A large and multitalented group, THE MEBUSAS' Blood Brothers album (1973) reflects the diversity of its members. Elements of soul, funk and psychedelic rock as well as Latin, Caribbean and African music come together in a powerfully unique album recorded in Nigeria. This is the first ever reissue of their only LP.
Academy
LP
$18.25

Midnight Masses
Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body
PS, US Midnight Masses is an ever-expanding 4 to 14 member collective of mostly Brooklyn-based artists, led and formed by Autry Fulbright in the wake of his father's untimely death. Fulbright began the project with cathartic, marathon sessions in Austin, Texas, alongside long-time friend Jason Reece of Trail of Dead. "Lush and washy. If Billie Holiday were to sing with The Doors, the outcome might sound something like this" - Wired.com "As if the religiosity of down south collided with a full throttle rock band creating a haunting spiritually engrossing psychedelic rock experience" - The Tripwire
TeamLoveRecords
LP
$12.50

Minamo
Duree
PS, US "Back in 1999, on the forefront of the Japanese electronic/acoustic microsound scene, was the then two-piece live improvisation band Minamo (two more members were added in 2001 to make the current four-piece lineup). Their live concerts helped pioneer this hybrid of delicate and natural instrumentation with microscopic electronics and subtle digital processing bringing an organic richness to a genre that threatened to remain coldly digital. Fans of Minamo not lucky enough to see them create their music live have enjoyed their studio albums and collaborative releases which captured these performances and processed them into hypnotic drones and electro-acoustic soundscapes. Durée, their last studio work since 2007's collaboration with Tape, and their follow-up to Shining on 12k (12k1031, now out of print), takes influence from the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson's concept of 'pure durée,' an idea that one's consciousness is a constant flow and not something that can be divided, reversed, or measured. Minamo used these ideas in creating their music, despite the contradiction of the time-stamped CD format, to try to subvert the ideas of compartmentalized 'time' and 'space.' With a strong sense of non-linearity and flow taken from Bergson's ideas, Minamo have created a colorful, skittering wash of music, noise, and texture that embraces a sense of out-there-ness. Minamo are Yuichiro Iwashita (acoustic guitar, percussion), Namiko Sasamoto (keyboards, saxophone, percussion), Keiichi Sugimoto (electric guitar, computer, nintendo, bells, recording/mixing) and Tetsuro Yasunaga (percussion, harmonium, analog synthesizer, pedals, small instruments). Like all of their music, Durée was recording during long, live, improvisational sessions and later finessed and mixed in the studio for release. Their process this time around, however, was much more analog than before. While they have always incorporated guitars, computers and synthesizers into their work, Durée captured performances created with an abundance of acoustic and percussion instruments and analog synths, keeping digital effects to a minimum and preferring the dirty sound of guitar pedals. The process this time around came easier due to the natural musical communication built between the members over the past 10 years. Durée simply finds more playing and interaction than editing and programming as compared to previous releases and, according to Sugimoto, is finally the mark where Minamo wants to be, and a template for work to come."
12k-1058
CD
$12.50

Moebius
Tonspuren
PS, Germany Krautrock klassic! New re-issue of the 1983 first true Moebius (Harmonia/Cluster) solo album, Tonspuren, collects ten short electronic pop songs that coast along on lo-fi rhythms and an assortment of creaking, chirping and wheezing synthesizer lines. Although most feature rather simple melodies, Moebius stretches out a bit on "Contramio" and "Furbo." ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
BureauB
CD
$16.25

Moebius
Tonspuren
PS, Germany Krautrock klassic! New re-issue of the 1983 first true Moebius (Harmonia/Cluster) solo album, Tonspuren, collects ten short electronic pop songs that coast along on lo-fi rhythms and an assortment of creaking, chirping and wheezing synthesizer lines. Although most feature rather simple melodies, Moebius stretches out a bit on "Contramio" and "Furbo." ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
BureauB
LP
$16.25

Mojomatics
Another Cheat On Me
PS, US 2-piece from Italy, & they already have 3 LPs out in Europe. Despite only having 2 official members, MOJOMATIC'S records are anything but bare. At the end of the day they are a rock n' roll band, but they can be bluesy as hell without coming off at all swampish. If you're looking for a frame of reference, Mojomatics give a similar vibe to Goodnight Loving when GNL is doing their more upbeat stuff
Douchemaster-034
45
$6.00

Nervous Wreckords
Nailbighter
PS, US NERVOUS WRECKORDS is a collaboration between BRIAN KARSCIG of LOUIS XIV and ANTHONY SAFFERY of CORNERSHOP, two producers who met up at the famous Camp St. Studios (formerly Fort Apache) in Cambridge, MA, and then created Nailbighter. The album features contributions from members of THE KILLERS and a touring member of THE FLAMING LIPS. The band recently performed an amazing 10-date tour supporting The Killers at some of the best venues in the west such as Red Rocks and Shoreline Amphitheatre and look forward to more touring in support of this release.
Hi-SpeedSoul-1034
LP
$10.00

New Monuments
S-T
PS, US Limited to 500 copies. Featuring Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus), Ben Hall (Graveyards) & C Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core).
At Instal Fest '08 in Glasgow, Scotland, at David Keenan's suggestion, the idea for a trio of Don Dietrich, Ben Hall and himself was hatched. As the idea for the tour came together, Keenan unfortunately had to step out for personal reasons. CSY graciously accepted to take his place, and what was originally to be an acoustic Babi Music cover band became the electro-acoustic behemoth The New Monuments. Sharing a common head for so-called "abstract sound" constructions, the members come from related, though diverse, musical backgrounds. With saxophone, violin, and trapset, they attempt to soundtrack the maiden voyage of a luxury cruise ship constructed solely out of granite cement and ball bearings.
Important-276
LP
$14.75

Nirvana
In Utero
PS, US 180g remastered on yellow vinyl, limited to 4000.
OriginalRecordings-033
LP
$25.75

Nirvana
Live At Reading [vinyl version]
PS, US VINYL VERSION. "Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn't see it then it was something you pretended you saw."
Geffen
DLP
$29.75

No-Man
Mixtaped
PS, US 2 disc set that captures UK act No-man's complete concert at Bushhall, London in August 2008. it also includes a live photo gallery, including photos from all three of No-Man's first live concerts in 15 years, with an exclusive soundtrack of the song "Housekeeping." This set also features a 90 minute career-spanning documentary which includes previously unseen footage, photos and images, as well as in-depth interviews with every member of No-Man past and present (including Tim Bowness, Steven Wilson, Ben Coleman, Chris Maitland and Theo Travis). Extras include complete videos for several No-Man songs spanning 1990-2008.
Kscope
DVD
$20.00

Nowik, William
Pan Symphony In E Minor
PS, SPAIN Previously released on vinyl by Guerssen Records, now available on CD. One of the newest and most surprising discoveries in the '60s & '70s rock rarities field, William Nowik's Pan Symphony In E Minor caused a big hype among collectors. Certainly easy to understand, as it's an ace album no one had heard of before. Guitarist William Nowik recorded this obscure instrumental record back in 1974 somewhere in New York. It has such a deep feeling, and is nothing anyone could have done without really loving it aside of any commercial view. Psychedelic, progressive, very early Floyd-sounding at times, Crimson-esque, and a kind of sound that reminds of the early '70s British underground but with an experimental, trippy touch. Fourteen tracks in total, but played like suites. Seems only 200 copies were pressed and never distributed, so it needed 35 years to be discovered! This wonderful reissue comes with the intended original artwork (it came out in a green and black cover instead of the black and white that William wanted), has nice remastered sound and includes a booklet with rare, unseen photos and extended liner-notes.
Guerssen-029
CD
$16.25

Pearl Harbor
Something About the Chaparrals
PS, US Piper and Skylar (and live member Cody) make up the dreamy, peace-loving Los Angeles fuzz-pop band Pearl Harbor. They have a four-song 12" forthcoming on Mexican Summer, the label that also recently brought you releases by the similarly sandy Washed Out, Real Estate, etc. That's actually a nice place to start: Think about Washed Out's hazier ambiance combined with Real Estate's margarita-sipping Galaxie 500-isms. Or, take a listen to the collection's second track "Luv Goon." It opens with warm arpeggios and a tinny drum machine: When the vocals and a slippery guitar enter the picture, the bedroom's transformed into a wave pool.
MexicanSummer
12
$15.75

Petty, Tom & The Heartbreakers
The Live Anthology
PS, US The Live Anthology is a four-disc set of recordings drawn from thirty years of live performances. The collection brings together material from 1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordings covering every era of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' tours and represents the best tracks as chosen by producers Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate. The producers made no fixes or overdubs, letting the newly mixed original recordings showcase the invention, spontaneity, craft, and the musicianship that has made Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers among the most celebrated live performers of their time. Along with powerful interpretations of their own classic hits and originals, The Live Anthology features the band tackling some of their best-loved cover material, from classics to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations. The theme from Goldfinger, the Zombies' 'I Want You Back Again,' the Grateful Dead's 'Friend of the Devil,' early Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well,' Booker T. and the MGs' 'Green Onions,' James Brown's 'Good, Good Lovin' and many more. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers travel wide, paying their musical debts through song and showing just how confidently the band moves across genres and over time.
Reprise
CD-BOX
$24.50

Phantom Surfers
History of Lookout Records Vol. 1
PS, US A four-CD anthology of 100% previously released material from THE PHANTOM SURFERS and special guests. Includes four Lookout titles: Skater Hater (the skaterock classic featuring fuzz guitar legend DAVIE ALLAN), XXX Party (the adult comedy classic featuring RUDY RAY MOORE, BLOWFLY, NEIL HAMBURGER and DONNY DENIM), The Exciting Sounds of Model Road Racing (the Slot Car Music classic featuring the sounds of famed NSCR* DALE EARACHE in action on the tabletop speedway), and The Great Surf Crash of 97 (sorry, there's really nothing to recommend this one. But three out of four ain't bad). All packaged in a special Phantom Surfers sarcophagus with bonus Lookout Records voodoo doll inside.
Crookout-001
CD-BOX
$40.50

Points
Beat in Hell
PS, US A new 7-inch from Washington DC-based garage punk basher THE POINTS. Blistering guitar, brain-bashing percussion, and the lo-fi analog sonic storm of BLACK ICE's organ will be enough to melt the diamond off your needle. This record includes "Beat in Jell," a menacing two-and-a-half-minute song that has all of the elements you love about The Points-fuzzed out guitars, spitfire vocals, and minimalist drum patterns that will send you straight into a fit of hysteria. "F Dali" is the other A-side to this gem, with straight dspm, possible Guiness Book of World Records fastest 4/4 beat recorded by a human, and high end ear piercing scream of melody from the organ, it will satisify for your melted face. The B-side is the track "Shout." This song clocks in a bit over five minutes, so expect longer thrills and even more beer spills. There is also a nice theremin treatment, for you, the listener. Overall, melodies and structure, this one is sure to be an unforgetable sound."
Windian
45
$4.50

Pop, Iggy
Idiot
PS, US Vinyl Re-Issue! In 1976, the Stooges had been gone for two years, and Iggy Pop had developed a notorious reputation as one of rock & roll's most spectacular waste cases. After a self-imposed stay in a mental hospital, a significantly more functional Iggy was desperate to prove he could hold down a career in music, and he was given another chance by his longtime ally, David Bowie. Bowie co-wrote a batch of new songs with Iggy, put together a band, and produced The Idiot, which took Iggy in a new direction decidedly different from the guitar-fueled proto-punk of the Stooges. Musically, The Idiot is of a piece with the impressionistic music of Bowie's "Berlin Period" (such as Heroes and Low), with it's fragmented guitar figures, ominous basslines, and discordant, high-relief keyboard parts. Iggy's new music was cerebral and inward-looking, where his early work had been a glorious call to the id, and Iggy was in more subdued form than with the Stooges, with his voice sinking into a world-weary baritone that was a decided contrast to the harsh, defiant cry heard on "Search and Destroy." Iggy was exploring new territory as a lyricist, and his songs on The Idiot are self-referential and poetic in a way that his work had rarely been in the past; for the most part the results are impressive, especially "Dum Dum Boys," a paean to the glory days of his former band, and "Nightclubbing," a call to the joys of decadence. The Idiot introduced the world to a very different Iggy Pop, and if the results surprised anyone expecting a replay of the assault of Raw Power, it also made it clear that Iggy was older, wiser, and still had plenty to say; it's a flawed but powerful and emotionally absorbing work. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
4MenwithBeards
LP
$17.00

Pop, Iggy
Lust For Life
PS, US Vinyl Re-issue Released less than a year after "The Idiot," this is a return to the sloppy, sleazy, blues-y, swagger of the Stooges. Though the record is, again produced by David Bowie, he takes much more of a backseat musically, allowing for Pop to take center stage in his return to form. His best solo album & an absolute classic from this legend.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.59

Pussygutt
Gathering Strengths
PS, US Third full-length release from this Boise, Idaho duo following two critically acclaimed efforts - the Sea Of Sand double-LP on OESB and She Hid Behind Her Veil CD on 20 Buck Spin. PussyGutt continue to develop their unique brand of doom soundtrack heaviness on Gathering Strengths, which features two side-long compositions titled 'Silence Within' & 'Spirit Walker'. Clarinets, violin, and cello are all prominent - lending this album even more of an avant-classical feel than previous efforts. The band calls this album 'an esoteric meditation on soul and nature' and they cite Alvin Lucier, Henry Gorecki, and Arvo Part as primary influences for these recordings - along with the funeral doom of groups like Nortt, Catacombs, and Celestiial. Aquarius Records sums it up best in their review of the CD: 'This is some seriously sinister shit, sweeping and darkly cinematic, the soundtrack to the eventual collapse of the universe, the sound of dying stars, or of some long slumbering beast awakening after millennia... infused with a deep otherworldly beauty.' Packaged in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid, limited and numbered edition of 550 copies. With glossy insert.
OldeEnglishSpellingBee-019
LP
$20.50

Rev, Martin
Stigmata
PS, UK Martin Rev, the avant keyboard half of NYC punk pioneers Suicide, releases a solo album on the Blast First Petite label. Stigmata was recorded in New York City and features 14 tracks that heave with glitched-out, digitally-distorted, synthetic orchestral sounds -- quite unlike anything he has released before. A timely "flash-forward" of an album, it has already been described as "genius" by Spiritualized main man, Jason Pierce, and continues Rev's now four decades of eclectic electronic musicianship. And to further celebrate the album's release, Neu Galleries (London) showed a series of Rev's "abstract instinctive scores" throughout November 2009. Blast First Petite also continues to celebrate Martin Rev's partner, Alan Vega's 70th birthday with the release of their Suicide covers series with tracks from Bruce Springsteen, Primal Scream, Peaches, Sunn 0))), Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, Julian Cope, Vincent Gallo, and many more.
BlastFirstPetite-040
CD
$16.25

Rockmore, Clara
Art of the Theremin
PS, US This LP, originally recorded & released by Delos International in 1977, feat. the eerily beautiful theremin accompanied by piano. A record of stark simplicity & emotional intensity. First ever vinyl reissue of this material. Gatefold tip on cover with extensive liners detailing Clara Rockmore & the history & inner workings of the theremin
Mississippi-050
LP
$15.25

Roman Soldiers
Warmer b/w Yuppie Fires
PS, US Mr. Blank Dog can't stop and for now that is a good thing. This time he's putting heads together with Gary War (Just the dude, not the full band line up) and I'll leave it you to figure out whose voice is under all of those effects. Not a throw away project but the real deal that will please fans of both bands.
CapturedTracks
45
$6.50

Rue Royale
S-T
PS, SPAIN Folk-pop duo Rue Royale introduces their debut long-player, 10 tracks which will satisfy fans of Fleetwood Mac, Zero 7, Iron and Wine and Sufjan Stevens. Limited edition to 310 copies stamp-numbered.
AmericanTypewriter-003
LP
$21.75

Sandwitches
Back To The Sea
PS, US A new 7-inch from THE SANDWITCHES, who are based out of San Francisco and feature ex-members of THE FRESH & ONLYS. The 7-inch contains full-color artwork and has two songs of folk style garage with a little '60s girl group influence. First pressing of 250 copies.
Southpaw
45
$6.50

Schibbinz
Livin' Free
PS, SPAIN Previously released on vinyl, now available in a CD version. In 1967, a bunch of U.S. and Argentinean kids recorded a magical album which has remained unknown for many years due to its extreme rarity, with less than a handful of copies known to exist. Released in 1968 in Argentina by Phonexa, the Schibbinz album could be regarded as the ultimate teen garage folk-rock album, ever. An album of fragile beauty, full of teen charm, innocent vocals, jangly guitars, charming, lo-fi sound and a lost-in-time atmosphere. Guerssen Records is proud to present this mega-rare album to the world, with the production fully benefitting from the band's involvement and assistance. The original master tapes were lost, but the sound has been carefully-remastered from an original near-mint copy. Extensive, detailed liner-notes and lots of cool pictures from the band's archives are all included in a 4-page insert. Also includes 3 unreleased bonus tracks not available on the vinyl version.
Guerssen-028
CD
$16.25

Sea Lions
Let's Groove
PS, US Crooning songs of youthful longing.
Yay!Records-008
45
$3.50

Silk Flowers
As Above So Below
PS, US A new six-track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop from former members of SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS and CAR CLUTCH. Recent full-length album released by PPM.
CapturedTracks-032
LP
$12.00

Simmons, Carl
Honeysuckle Tendrils
PS, US Vinyl version! LP is an edited and slightly resequenced presentation; carefully curated, remastered for vinyl, and housed in a handmade jacket in the Folkways tradition. It includes a bonus 7-inch EP, including two alternate takes from the LP and two outstanding, and completely exclusive non-album tracks.
Sacred Bones
LP+45
$23.00

Simmons, Carl
Honeysuckle Tendrils
PS, US Recorded in 1999, handed out to friends, & perhaps sold at various open-mic nights, where SIMMONS would pass off his own songs as Dylan covers to an unsuspecting audience. Incorporating numerous collage elements -and very few guitar strings-Honeysuckle Tendrils weaves in & out of song in a spacey wash of psychedelic imagery by way of nursery rhymes & fairytales. Though perhaps best classified under the floppy umbrella of "outsider" music, it displays remarkably complex arrangements and a cinematic feel.
Sacred Bones
CD
$9.75

Sjob Movement
A Move In The Right Direction
PS, US Deep and spacy Afro-Funk rhythms from heavy weight Nigerian musicians SPARK, JONNIE, OTTAY and BOLLA. Veterans of SONNY OKOSUN's OZZIDI BAND, these artists branched out in 1974 in a heavier, more personal direction. First ever reissue of thse psychedelic Afro-Funk classic!
Academy
LP
$18.25

Smegma
Morass Live
PS, US In 1987, G.R.O.S.S. released Morass on cassette-one studio side, one live side. The former was re-released as bonus material on Harbinger Sound's CD reissue of Nattering Naybobs. Here is the latter, plus 15 minutes of extra astounding unreleased live recordings from 1985-87 for your trouble. "Free jazz firepower is to the fore," observes our comrades at Volcanic Tongue, "With Ayler-ized horns and Borbetomagus-scale form destruction battling against toy orchestras, power-punking loops, syrupy sludge-jams, garage band instrumentals and usurped avant garde modes. One of Smegma's wildest sides and some of the most fucked-up art-aggro to escape the gravity of the LAFMS." As John Hodgman would say, "You're welcome." Full color artwork and labels.
Tanzprocess-008
LP
$25.00

Soft Pack, The
S-T EP
PS, US Four amazing new tracks from this San Diego four-piece, who exploded onto the blogosphere under their original name, The Muslims. All of the attitude, dynamics and youthful energy that make rock and roll so exciting - this is the good stuff. Released in advance of their feverishly anticipated upcoming LP on Kemado and strictly limited to 500 pieces. We've already moved a ton of these in pre-orders, so get it while you can. All copies are pressed on high-quality vinyl and contain a free download card. The year of the Soft Pack starts here!
Kemado
12"
$14.00

Spacemen 3
Sound of Confusion (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Originally released on Glass in 1986, this is the debut album from the Spacemen 3 led by Sonic Boom (SPECTRUM) & Jason Pierce (SPIRITUALIZED). Featuring covers of 13th Floor Elevators, The Stooges, & Juicy Lucy amongst some originals, this is the band's 1st foray into the deep, stoned, trance-inducing, psychedelic sound they would master on later albums
Fire-015
LP
$17.00

Spacemen 3
Perfect Prescription (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US This is the album on which they perfected their woozy, psychedelic drone-pop, moving beyond mere tribute to their influences into a world all their own. A concept record about a drug trip, from the euphoric high of album opener "Take Me To The Other Side," to the drowsy, disturbed finish of "Call The Doctor," this is, arguably, the band's finest moment & the album that best represents the creative collaboration of main members SONIC BOOM & JASON PIERCE
Fire-016
LP
$17.00

Spacemen 3
Performance (DELAYED: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Recorded live in Amsterdam in 1988, on the Perfect Prescription tour, this is a fine document of their early, noisier sound, a hopped up version of the band's more woozy recorded output
Fire-040
LP
$17.00

Spacemen 3
Sound of Confusion [reissue]
PS, UK Originally released in 1986, Sound Of Confusion was the debut album by Spacemen 3, one of the most influential bands of the '80s British underground. The number of bands with a sonic debt to the Jason Kember/Peter Pierce partnership seems to grow every year. Having forged iconic status, they reinvented noise in music, although they were much more than a noisy guitar band. Spacemen 3's use of noise owed as much to the importance of harmonics, repetition, tone, distortion and some sort of higher aspiration, be it religious or opiate redemption or bliss. The feeling they aimed at with intensity makes it irrelevant if it's about heroin or a slightly pastiche idea of Jesus; it's the focus and intent that can suck you in and take you for a ride; it's music that believes in the primal and heavenly power of sound. Sound Of Confusion is a blistering, overdriven two-chord assault throughout, with a strange bleakness and despair creeping through the hypnotic sprawl. Their covers of The Stooges' "Little Doll" and The 13th Floor Elevators' "Rollercoaster" are absolutely devastating. This reissue comes housed in a gatefold cardboard sleeve, a miniature replica of the original LP.
Fire
CD
$14.25

Spectrals
Leave Me Be b/w Suit Yourself
PS, US Debut 7" by this English kid and it is nice, warm, fuzz pop. In one of those slightly oversized Captured Tracks envelope sleeves. Looking forward to more stuff.
CapturedTracks
45
$6.25

Stolen Hearts
Heart Collector
PS, US The ballad-esque intro to Heart Collector gives off a Spector-style vibe, but they quickly hasten the tempo to allow their 2 originals to come off as an awesome Teen Line style band. Ashley's vocals may be the star of the show. They sound experienced & even sultry at times while retaining the innocent charm that allows a band with this sort of pop sensibility to work....even if she is singing about lighting dudes on fire. A killer debut , super cool Sponsors cover on the flip side is a winner too.
Douchemaster-029
45
$6.00

Sunburned Hand of the Man
A
PS, US Second album with producer Kieran Hebden, a.k.a. Four Tet. Directed by Kieran like actors in a film, Sunburned is taken off the bandana smokestage of their previous collaboration -- Fire Escape -- and put onto a sweat-soaked 4am lysergic dance floor. Kieran uses the band like his live instrument laptop and sampler. The results are truly stunning which makes this record into one of the best moments of each artist's respective musical careers. With artwork by California visionary and band favorite Raymond Pettibon, A has looks that kill along with the sounds that thrill. Includes double-sided poster of Pettibon artwork.
EcstaticPeace
LP
$16.75

Super Vacations
Henry
PS, US A side featuring "Henry" and "The Void." b/w "Ten Second Freak Out." and "The Paradise"
Shadowplay
45
$6.25

Tactics
The Sound Of The Sound: Vol. 2 1984-1988 [anthology reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Sydney band Tactics existed for a decade from 1978 to 1988 during which time they helped define the Australian "new wave" sound. Along the way, they released five essential (and long-deleted) albums and a handful of now-collectible and impossibly rare singles and EPs. With influences ranging from The Velvet Underground and Television to Arthur Lee's Love and reggae, Tactics was difficult to categorize, and miles away stylistically from the identikit punk bands they often shared stages with. Lyrical themes of suburban displacement and uncertainty stemmed from singer Dave Studdert's awareness of existentialist writers like Rimbaud, Nietzsche and Foucault, as well as his appreciation and understanding of indigenous Australia, and in particular, Aboriginal song cycles. Sound Of The Sound Vol. 2 is a 42-track, 2CD compilation that focuses on the band's later output between 1984 and 1988, when they experienced their closest shave with Australian mainstream success. It features the Blue And White Future Whale album (1986), the previously-unheard demos for their final album, The Great Gusto (considered by the band to be far superior to the actual album), plus rare singles, B-sides and unreleased live tracks and demos. The package is presented in a handsome 6-panel wallet with a lush 20-page booklet stuffed with photos and Studdert's evocative liners.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

Talk Normal
Secret Cog EP
PS, US DUSTED MAGAZINE: "On this five-song E.P., Brooklyn-based duo Talk Normal -- drummer Andrya Ambro and guitarist Sarah Register -- create a nice racket that does a deft job of splitting the difference between harsh sonics and the essential song-oriented structures required of noise rock... Sure, there are some obvious touchstones here -- Sonic Youth, Magik Markers, Ut, Teenage Jesus -- but the songs never feel derivative. Though various sorts of processed sounds work their way in and out of the picture, the band's aesthetic is built on a basic foundation of guitars, drums and vocals. Talk Normal are making their music amidst an increasingly cluttered underground landscape, and the duos seeming intrepidness in the face of that fact shines through."
JustForTheHellOfIt-002
12"
$13.75

Teengenerate
Smash Hits
PS, US Repress of 15 doses of revved-up & raw punk fury from Japan's undisputed garage/punk overlords. The best of the best culled from their 7" singles & EPs.
Estrus-1222
CD
$11.50

Television Personalities
And Don't the Kids Just Love It [reissue]
PS, UK Originally released in 1981, this is Fire Records' 2002 digipack CD release of the debut album by Television Personalities. Television Personalities have over the years climbed up from the indie punk scene to their cult hero status today. For some, they have remained the quintessential punk band, whilst for others they have become the foremost exponents of post-sixties pop psychedelia and an indelible influence on many of the early Creation label and C-86 bands as well as the likes of Kurt Cobain, Evan Dando and many, many others. The Television Personalities were the brainchild of singer/songwriter Dan Treacy, who grew so inspired by the nascent punk movement. The first relatively stable TVP line-up consisted of Treacy, organist/vocalist Ed Ball and guitarist Joe Foster, who recorded the band's 1980 debut ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It. The cover of ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It -- a collage bringing together super-model Twiggy and The Avengers' John Steed -- is a strong indication of where Television Personalities are coming from: their debut is a loving ode to sixties-era pop and pop culture, referencing movies ("Look Back in Anger"), Kinks-like class commentary ("Geoffrey Ingram") and psychedelic casualties ("I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"). It's a perfect introduction to the band's jangling psychedelic pop punk and Dan Treacy's whispy tales of love and life.
Fire
CD
$14.25

Third Eye, The
Searching [reissue]
PS GERMANY Shadoks reissues the second album by South African heavy proggers The Third Eye. Searching shortly followed after their debut, originally released by Polydor in 1969. Today, originals of this album are rare as gold-dust and among 2 or 3 others, the most valuable collector's items from South Africa. Many collectors who have basically everything in their collection are missing this one. The music is heavier, the lyrics full of political statements, and it's more psychedelic and a bigger step down into the musical underground. The 14-minute track "Awakening" is really amazing with tons of great organ parts and extra heavy fuzz-guitar. Members include: Ron Selby (lead guitar), Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Dawn Selby (piano, Hammond organ), Robbie Pavid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Third Eye, The
Brother [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Shadoks reissues on CD the third and final album by South African heavy-prog outfit The Third Eye, which was originally released in 1970 on Polydor. The music is closer to the album Awakening..., without the brass arrangements, and with more organ-based compositions with beautiful vocals and guitars. The amazing drumming and bass holds the tracks firmly together and drives them forward. Comparable to bands from the U.S. and UK underground such as Electric Flag, Chicago and Keef Hartley Band. If bands from South Africa hadn't been banned in Europe and USA at the time, albums by The Third Eye would have become as popular as the previously-mentioned bands from U.S. and UK. All three Third Eye recordings are killer albums and you should not miss any of them. Members include: Ron Selby (lead guitar), Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Dawn Selby (piano, Hammond organ), Robbie Parvid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

Third Eye, The
Awakening... [reissue]
PS, GERMANY Shadoks presents the first of three albums reissued on CD by heavy prog/psych South African band The Third Eye. The original pressing came out on Polydor in 1969, and thanks to the cooperation of band members Dawn Selby (Hammond organ) and her brother Ron Selby (guitar), this project came to life again. The Third Eye started playing in 1968, based in Durban -- a coastal city several hundred miles away from the recording and musical hub of Johannesburg. Awakening... came out in 1969 when Dawn Selby was only 14 years old. Just imagine her age when you listen to the blistering organ and piano tracks. Followed by two more albums Searching (1969) and Brother (1970), The Third Eye produced a veritable volcano of work in a short period of time, even challenging fellow peers Freedoms Children for the title of heaviest band in South Africa. Awakening... is the most complex of all three of their albums, with great brass arrangements, piano, Hammond organ, fuzz-guitar and soul-infused vocals. Musically headed in the direction of bands such as Electric Flag, The Flock's Dinosaur Swamps, Chicago, The Nice, and Al Cooper, this is pure electric underground of the best sort. Other members include: Maurice Saul (vocals, lead guitar), Robbie Pavid (drums), and Mike Sauer (six-string bass).
Shadoks
CD
$16.25

This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
Convertible
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! The fourth full-length album from Pensacola/San Francisco-based underground tour de force THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB. Fourteen tracks pressed on colored vinyl. Includes a download code.
NoIdea-260
LP
$12.00

This Moment In Black History
Public Square
PS, US Newest, latest, and greatest from the current undeniable undisputed champs of Cleveland. Thirteen songs, no, explosions, that the band will be ripping through on tour this coming Spring. Multi-colored wax, full-color 2-sided insert, free download code included. Strictly limited to 1 and only 1 pressing, 450 available for distribution.
SmogVeil-089
LP
$10.25

Tokyo Electron
AZ 238
PS, US Its hard to believe its been five years since the first rumbles of TOKYO ELECTRON's desert rock were heard on the "Make Me Bleed" single. They followed strong in 2005 with a few more singles and the debut LP on Shattered records. Four years after the first LP, FDH is glad to announce the bands follow up LP AZ-238 is now available. A co-release between FDH records and Certified PR, AZ-238 features ten tracks from RYAN WONG, STEVE SLEEZE and company. Since the band's drummer moved away and Ryan started EARTHMEN AND STRANGERS (who released thier debut LP on FDH this past summer), Tokyo Electron has become a lot less active. And this record, recorded back in 2007/2008, could very possibly be their last release. First pressing is limited to 500 copies and is sure to go quick.
FDH
LP
$13.50

Topaz Rags
Capricorn Born Again
PS, US West coast lurk-jazz triad TOPAZ RAGS return to vinyl w/ their debut long player. Everything creaks & hisses, there's smoke in the air, players at the end of their ropes, lyrics washing over faded raga ballads, slinky electric piano bar depressions, shadow gauze cavern pop. Ltd to 400
NotNotFun-179
LP
$11.75

Tormentors, The
Hanging 'Round [reissue]
PS, US A truly experimental psych/rock/pop album from 1967. Featuring some very good garage, psych, and British Invasion sounds. Fuzzed out guitar, great vocal harmonies, and some really bizarre background sounds.
GearFab
CD
$12.50

Trago, Tom
Voyage Direct
PS, NETHERLANDS Tom Trago is part of the new school of Amsterdam producers. He is also an accomplished DJ and is the "Trago" in Yuro&Trago with Cinnaman (known from their 2007 debut Primary Roots, 2008). Voyage Direct is Tom Trago's long-awaited follow-up to his first EP on Rush Hour, 2006's Live With The BBQ. This 7-track mini-album shows his diversity within the genre of house, reaffirming that house music can still be sexy, deep, raw, emotional and passionate. The package includes the promo-released "Passion," plus a host of new tracks, and two bonus tracks. Highlights could be the piano-led schaffel-meditation of "Lost In The Streets Of NYC," the raw, almost motorik/disco rhythm of "On The Side," or the swing of "Brothers Of String," but in fact, every track is a highlight in its own right. A must-have for any house connoisseur or lover of Detroit-ish touches. Trago is a true original in the burgeoning Amsterdam scene, and an innovator in tiny touches that make everything fit perfectly to make your body move.
RushHour-025
CD
$16.25

Tubers
Anachronous
PS, US VINYL VERSION
NoIdea-262
LP
$12.00

Tubers
Anachronous
PS, US Organic creations, blooming beneath the soil while drawing nutrients from their surroundings, soon to be unearthed, cooked, and consumed by native populations. Also, Floridian slang for two populations. The first; those who float upon inflatable inner tubes in aimless, lackadaisical delight down the state's many freshwater springs. The second; those who seek adventure tucked away in the innermost furl of a wave just before it washes ashore. Finally, four longtime friends who make music for the purpose of challenging themselves and hopefully those around them. They draw inspiration from their namesakes and channel these feelings through guitars, throats, and drums. Angular riffs swerve throughout the mix atop surf-influenced rhythms, with the aggressive trappings of previous efforts remaining apparent but not overbearing. They speak in dialects and metaphors, fluctuating seamlessly amongst obtuse structures, shifting momentums, and rolling cascades. Features members of TWELVE HOUR TURN, TRUE NORTH, STRIKEFORCE DIABLO, ASSHOLEPARADE, WE MODERNS, and others. For fans of Obits, Rites of Spring, Wipers, Milemarker, and Fugazi.
NoIdea-262
CD
$12.00

tUnE-yArDs
Bird-Brains [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US Though tUnE-yArDs' debut album Bird-Brains was eventually released by the famed indie label 4AD, it began as truly independent music. Merrill Garbus (also of Sister Suvi) recorded the album at home with a digital voice recorder and shareware recording software, patching together artfully messy beats, ukulele, field recordings, and her surprisingly rich, almost androgynous voice into songs with folk purity and the boldness of mash-ups. Despite -- or more likely, because of -- the pared-down instrumentation, Bird-Brains is equally eclectic and personal. She ends the winding melody of "For You" with spoken word snippets of her and a child eating blueberries, then seamlessly shifts abruptly to "Sunlight"'s bludgeoning beats and high-strung guitars. Throughout, Garbus pulls off stunning contrasts, whether it's her torchy voice and lyrics like "tiny teenage cocks" giving "When You Tell the Lions"' simple melody a surprising worldliness, or "Jumping Jack"'s brittle percussion and massive bass lending a menacing edge to its nursery-rhyme chant. Best of all is "Hatari"'s exotic yet homespun pop, which layers Garbus' barbaric yawp over a beat that feels like a bhangrahip-hop hybrid. Even on the album's more straightforward songs, there's something surprising to be found, like the coughs used as percussion on "Jamaican." With all of Bird-Brains' sonic intricacy, it takes a little while to appreciate Garbus' equally smart and evocative lyrics, although "Synonym"'s "You remind me of when I didn't have to wear any clothes ... you remind me of the person you used to be" stand out immediately. Few debut albums are audacious enough to call to mind Odetta, M.I.A., and the Raincoats -- often all at the same time -- but this is just such a rare bird. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide
FOUR72928.2
CD
$14.00

TV On The Radio
Return To Cookie Mountain
PS, US 180g Vinyl Reissue!
Organica Records
DLP
$26.00

Under the Radar
#29
PS, US Best of the DECADE! Top 200 albums of the 00s. Artist surveys: Camera Obscura, The Dodos, El Perro Del Mar, Final Fantasy, The Hidden Cameras, The Horrors, The Invisible, Ladytron, Sondre Lerche, Jamie Lidell, Loney Dear, Los Campensinos, Mew, Midlake, Okkervil River, Stars, Telekinesis, The Twilight Sad & Vivian Girls. Plus more features!!
ZINE
$3.75

Useless Eaters
Sucked In
PS, US 3 tracks of lo-fi Killed By Death-inspired snotty punk rock.
Goner-052
45
$5.25

Various
Chamber Music (James Joyce)
PS, UK Originally released in 2008. The idea was simple: find contemporary artists influenced (however loosely) by James Joyce's style to finally turn the poems into musical works. The only directive was to not mess with the words! Five years in the making comes this epic 36 artist interpretation of James Joyce's 1907 collection of poems, Chamber Music, charting love from innocence to experience. Curated by James Nicholls from the Virgin Passages and with contributions from major established artists (Mercury Rev, Ed Harcourt, Minus 5, Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth with Text Of Light) and cult players (Jessica Bailiff, Gravenhurst, Mike Watt, Bardo Pond), this represents a sweeping but unified expression of Joyce's early, love-hungry verse. Beautifully packaged double slipcase CD and double gatefold vinyl with artwork by Stephanie Black. Other artists include Monica Queen, War Against Sleep, Venture Lift, HTRK, Califone, Owen Tromans, Airport Studies, Mary Lorson, Willy Mason, Noah John, Ian Kearey, David Hurn & Abigail Hopkins, Coldharbourstores, Lori Scacco, Great Depression, Puerto Muerto, Flying Saucer Attack, Sweet Trip, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta, Sphyr, Mountain Men Anonymous, Tenebrous Liar, Green Pajamas, Christian Kiefer, Duke Garwood, Lovetones and Kinski.
Fire
DCD
$20.50

Various
Zelphabet I
PS, US The ninth in Zelphabet's new series of 26 alphabetically oriented compilations of noise. Volume I makes its mark with cuts from heavyweights IDX1274, INCAPACITANTS, IRENE MOON and IF, BWANA.
Zelphabet-001
CD
$10.25

Various
The Perfumed Garden: 82 Rare Flowerings from the British Underground 1965-73
PS, US 5 Disc Box Set!
Past & Present
5XCD-BOX
$55.50

Various
Goner Fest 4
PS, US Insanity in Memphis, captured on audio and video tape. They said it couldn't be done! Live From Memphis' ace camera peoples and Rocket Science Audio's superb soundmen have actually captured all the beer-soaked rock n roll from Gonerfest 4. We're dealing with professionals here! Amazing line-up, amazing camera work, everyone involved deserved total combat pay! Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Marked Men, Jay Reatard, Lover!, Final Solutions, Busy Signals, Black Rose... so much more.
Goner
CD/DVD
$15.75

Vermillion Sands
Miss My Gun
PS, US The second installment in the Sacred Bones 12-inch EP series comes from Treviso, Italy's VERMILLION SANDS who sound like they could be the house band at the dystopian oceanside resort that features prominently in the JG Ballard short story collection from which the group takes their name. The Vermillion Sands' ramshackle female fronted country tinged garage rock gives off some serious Mekons-meets-Headcoatees vibes or a femme fronted counterpart to the records Dan Melchoir has been pumping out as of late. Reverbed whips and twangs and a little mouth harp underlie some serious hooks and melodies. Look out for the debut full length out soon of Fat Possum.
SacredBones-026
12
$13.50

Wade, Rick
Presents Harmonie Park Revisited
PS, NETHERLANDS Detroit house legend Rick Wade presents a best-of compilation of tracks issued from his very own Harmonie Park Records. This is Detroit house at its best --13 of his best tracks onto one deluxe packaged CD box, which is limited to 1,000 copies. The compilation touches on both his uplifting party grooves as well as his deeper tracks. Hard-to-get and out-of-print classics like "Fade Away," "Prime Time" and "Forgotten Track" are included as well as an exclusive soulful vocal track. Comes with a free download for a Rick Wade DJ mix. One track features a guest appearance by Evasoul. Pure, swirling Detroit house that is masterfully crafted by a living embodiment of the genre. Do not miss this.
RushHour-107
CD
$16.25

Weezer
S-T (Blue Album) [Rarities Edition]
PS, US 2010 stand-alone single disc release that contains all the bonus tracks featured on the second disc of the Deluxe Edition release of this album (ie: does NOT contain the original album, only the rarities associated with that release). Perfect for collectors who may have missed the double disc version or for those who are in search of all the great tracks that were initially exclusive to the Deluxe Edition. Commonly referred to as The Blue Album, Weezer's self-titled debut album from 1994 received the Deluxe Edition treatment in 2004. The bonus audio from that collection consisted of b-sides, live and acoustic performances, demos and rare studio recordings. Weezer is proud to release this material by itself in the 'Rarities Edition' series, allowing fans the opportunity to purchase just the bonus material related to one of the most important albums from the '90s.
Geffen
CD
$13.75

Weller, Paul
S-T [expanded deluxe reissue]
PS, UK His remastered 1992 debut solo album which comes with a bonus disc containing 25 bonus tracks, demos, b-sides, mixes, alternative versions & unreleased songs.
Island
DCD
$29.00

Whines, The
Insane OK
PS, US Upstart label Just For the Hell of It Records (based on one of the greatest films of all time, seriously) has unleashed the debut 4-song 7" EP with their mind-numbing VU-inspired twang and throb that just can't be denied. As a shambolic three-piece with Messthetically-pleasing loose ends sticking out from all sides, The Whines have that careless candor in their songs that proves to be that magical touch that so many other bands lack in their recordings. One of the many trappings most minimalist female-fronted modern bands get stuck with is the all-encompassing Kleenex/Liliput comparison, and despite being partially accurate on quite a few instances, it really can be chalked up to lazy journalism. The Whines effectively break free of this typical reference point, and have emerged with this debut 7" full of atypical song styles ranging from the distilled Velvet Underground ambiance on the title track, to the impeccably addictive innocent toe-curling guitar tones on 'Indian Homewrecker,' and pull it all together with a refreshing nonchalance that reiterates the serious potential this band has going.
JustForTheHellOfIt-001
45
$7.00

Wild Beasts
Two Dancers
PS, US
Domino
CD
$15.00

Willis, Wesley
Joy Rides
PS, US Despite the most impossible of odds, this Chicago native became a rock icon, revered artist, and unlikely hero to many until his untimely death in 2003. This 150-
minute package deocuments his rise from the streets and into the underground's hearts
MVDVisual-4927
DVD
$16.00

Willowz
Everyone
PS, US 4th album from Orange County rock quartet. The album is full of strongly crafted pop hooks, utter guitar fuzz mayhem and beat to death rhythm sections.
DimMak-140
CD
$13.25

Witch
Introduction
PS, GERMANY 2nd pressing on transparent blue vinyl, edition of 300 copies. LP reissue in heavy jacket, originally released in 1975. Another out-of-nowhere African 70's rock discovery in the Blo mold. "Completely unknown band from Zambia, privately pressed on a small local label, this five-piece electric band plays a strong electric African underground style. Tons of wah wah-fuzz guitar in every track, African-style beats and vocals and all original songs. If bands from Nigeria such as Blo and Ofege and bands from Zambia such as Rikki Ililonga and Chrissy Zebby are all travelling on the psychedelic highway at 100 mph, the Witch overtakes them with 120. On the cover we can read: if you're feeling depressed, low, disturbed, out-of-sorts, sad, frustrated or widely demented, then folks, we suggest you seek out a quiet place, indulge in some soothing meditation and cut away that headache by listening to this inspirational album."
Shadoks
LP
$37.00

Woodsman
Collages
PS, US Limited to 500, includes download codes. This is the seven song debut from the green forests of Denver, an instrumental quartet with roots in nature, post-rock of the mid-'90s Tortoise/Cerberus Shoal/A Minor Forest variety, and a sense of epic grandeur that ties the whole thing together. Killer from nose to nuts, with 19-minute monster "Mothershift" taking top honors; it reminds us that one ton of feathers is just as crushing as one ton of lead, if properly positioned.
MexicanSummer
LP
$17.00

Wreckery, The
Past Imperfect [retrospective reissue]
PS, AUSTRALIA Melbourne 5-piece The Wreckery were one of the most popular Australian underground acts of the 1980s. They played a darkly-hued, twisted form of gothic blues, and were greatly influenced by The Birthday Party -- a band with which they were to develop several future connections. This double CD features 24 key tracks selected from the band's large recorded output. All tracks have been completely remastered and are presented here in a deluxe gatefold card wallet with a 24-page booklet stuffed with photographs, artwork and entertaining liner-notes penned by band leader Hugo Race. Hugo Race was a founding member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds and has been based in Europe since 1990, where he pursues a successful solo career and is currently signed to Glitterhouse Records. Guitarist Ed Clayton-Jones has also performed with the Bad Seeds and collaborated with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey on the soundtrack to And The Ass Saw The Angel. Along with The Birthday Party, (and its many offshoots), The Scientists and Beasts Of Bourbon, The Wreckery helped pioneer the particularly Australian, "dirty-alternative blues" sound made popular again in recent years by other Australians like The Drones, The Stabs, The Devastations, Kill Devil Hills & Penny Ikinger.
Memorandum
DCD
$15.00

X
Wild Gift
PS, US Re-issue of their classic second LP on 180 gram vinyl!
Porterhouse
LP
$18.50

Forthcoming Releases

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

Aarktica/Various Artists
In Sea Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US A diverse collection of artists in genres ranging from noise to indie-pop to shoegaze and electronic remix and rework Aarktica's 2009 release In Sea. All tracks are exclusive to this release and unavailable elsewhere! Remixers include Ramses III, Landing, ThisQuietArmy, Mason Jones, Keith Canisus (Rumskib), Yellow6, Declining Winter (Richard of Hood), Suckers, Remora, and Summer Cats (Slumberland Records). CD is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies with art packaging by Starbage Hands Press in Portland, OR.
Silber-079
CD
$12.25

AFCGT
AFCGT (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US AFCGT (a convenient vernacular for A Frames and Climax Golden Twins) descends from a decrepit longhouse on the shores of a dark lake where the self-inflicted wounds from a windy forest of flailing, whipping branches gave birth to the white heat oddities from this their self-titled new album. Conjoined a little over two years ago, the group has already been dishing out vinyl; recording a 10-inch EP, a full-length LP, and appearing on a 7-inch compilation. AFCGT will be available as both a vinyl LP (with bonus 7-inch) and as a digital album (without bonus 7-inch), though not on CD.
Subpop
LP
$17.50

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

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

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Album Leaf
A Chorus Of Storytellers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US A Chorus of Storytellers was recorded by Ryan Hadlock in the frosty month of February 2009 at Bear Creek Studio just outside of Seattle. It was mixed in the decidedly warmer month of June in Reykjavik, Iceland by Birgir Jon Birgisson (of Sigur Ros). For the first time in five albums, The Album Leaf recorded as a whole band. In the past, almost every instrument was performed by principal songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle. This time the whole band was invited to participate and the result is their best record yet.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Algernon
Ghost Surveillance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Instrumental post-rock from Chicago. RIYL Tortoise, Can, Neu!
Cuneiform-297
CD
$13.75

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

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

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

Avengers
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents. 2CD
Water
DCD
$18.50

Avengers
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Though not released until 1983, their S/T record (aka Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. 180 gram vinyl reissue of one of punk rock's most important original documents
4MenWithBeards
LP
$17.00

Bardo Pond
Bufo Alvarius [expanded reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Fire presents as part of their Fire Records Embers series a deluxe remastered reissue of Bardo Pond's first album, Bufo Alvarius, originally released on Drunken Fish in 1995. Bardo Pond is a wide-eyed Philadelphian psychedelic rock unit that exists as a shining point on a graph. A scintillating cross drawn on a celestial arc, marking their place among the 13th Floor Elevators, Calico Wall, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, and, more recently, Jackie-O Motherfucker and MV & EE. Explicitly narcotic -- there's no room for coyness or prissiness in space rock! -- the band was initially an excuse for abyssal guitar drone exploration by brothers Michael and John Gibbons. But Bufo Alvarius (named after a potently hallucinogenic toad), their classic 1995 album, marked an important turning point. It was like the flickering cine-8 film of someone falling off a cliff played backwards. A hazy figure leaping out of the void, pausing at the second their foot touched terra firma. It was the juncture where their music clarified out of chaos and started to coalesce around formations of post-rock, shoegaze and psych structure while always threatening to dissolve into a blizzard of reverb, white noise, fuzz drone and echoplex. This was the album that saw them graduate from cult local concern to cult global passion, stepping out from the monolithic shadows cast by their influences. It is difficult to pick out individual high points on something so clearly designed to be listened to as a whole, but the lysergic ebb and flow of "Capillary River," the aqueous beauty of "Absence" and, of course, the half-hour long centerpiece of "Amen" demand full attention from the listener. The previously-unreleased "Fixed" rounds off an album that is transcendent in all the right meanings of the word.
Fire-137
CD
$14.25

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

Beach House
Teen Dream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months.
Subpop
CD
$14.00

Beach House
Teen Dream (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full universe of unbridled imagination, and the manifestation of Teen Dream has been a welcomed and all-consuming obsession for Beach House the past 9-12 months. Teen Dream will be packaged with a companion DVD featuring a video for each song on the album, each by a differe
SubPop
LP
$17.50

Big Sexy Noise
Big Sexy Noise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Big Sexy Noise follow up their vinyl mini album, released earlier this year, with a full blown Self Titled CD. The band, fronted by Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk alt-rockers James Johnston, Terry Edwards and Ian White, have recorded a further five Johnston/Lunch originals plus a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover to complement the original six tracks. Big Sexy Noise is the primaeval bump, grind and holler of White's thuggish drums, Johnston's moronic low-tuned riffing and Edwards' brutal organ and sax interventions led by Lunch's take-no-prisoners vocals.
Sartorial-044
CD
$13.75

Black Diamond Heavies
Alive As Fuck: Masonic Lodge,Covington, KY (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Now available on CD. Recorded live on a hot-ass night of July the 24th 2009 at Dr. Johnny Walker's (Soledad Brothers/Cut In the Hill Gang) flat in Covington, Kentucky, this is the BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES absolutely live and kicking out the jam Southern style. "When they hammer away at max. tempo, they sound like The Stooges, with the Asheton brothers replaced by a really really loud Fender Rhodes piano. When they slow it down and groove, they sound like a broken down Booker T & The MGs/the theme from 'Taxi' being run-over by a taxi. They are, in parts, genuinely funky, and as jazz as a rock concert gets these days. They swing." - Paul Fuzz/Electric Roulette
AliveRecords-0102
CD
$13.75

Blair
Die Young (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Blair's first full-length is a collection of songs written over the span of five years. Half of the record was written in New Orleans, and half while living in California. The songs have turbulent titles. It's a record about violence and daydreaming - it's the angst of heart, and dreamy escapism, of a 20 something girl all wrapped up in melodies.
AutumnToneRecords-009
CD
$11.25

Blind Man's Colour
Wooden Blankets (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US 6 song EP 12" from 2 Florida 19 year olds creating lucid psychedelic pop.
Kanine
12"
$12.25

Blockhead
The Music Scene (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
CD
$13.00

Blockhead
The Music Scene LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Blockhead has long made beautiful, emotive music based around the hip hop template, but on "The Music Scene" he elevates his craft to another level. Tony puts it down to the use of Ableton, which means that rather than working from "one basic beat and building off it" (the standard hip hop model), he has begun stringing together multiple beats and weaving them together into increasingly complex, surprising and satisfying pieces of music. As he himself puts it, "I made each song a little more of a musical journey than anything I have ever done before."
NinjaTune-149
LP
$14.75

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

Blue Rodeo
The Things We Left Behind (2xCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Blue Rodeo's The Things We left Behind is the real deal. Recorded at the band's Woodshed Studio in downtown Toronto, the album feels like an lp with a double gate-fold sleeve, two discs and four distinct sides programmed to take the listener on a trip. Upon first listen, it is immediately clear that you are listening to a Blue Rodeo album like no other.
TeleSoulRecords-003
CD
$14.75

Boesel, Jason
Hustler's Son (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Boesel headed into the studio in March of 2009 with a core group of collaborators: Mystic Valley Band member Nik Freitas, Blake Mills (Band of Horses), and producer Jonathan Wilson (Elvis Costello 'Momofuku' and Jenny Lewis 'Acid Tongue'). He eventually sought out the additional talents of Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Orenda Fink (O + S, Azure Ray), David Rawlings (Gillian Welch, Old Crow Medicine Show), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), and fellow Rilo Kiley member Blake Sennett. The results is an 11-song Americana album filled with powerful imagery and a sound that brings new colors to the sonic palette of country-folk greats like Townes Van Zandt, mid-'70s California rock, and the alt-country scene of today.
Team Love Records
CD
$13.00

Bolan, Marc & T. Rex
Spaceball: The American Radio Sessions (2XCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US The complete American radio recordings from Marc Bolan & T.Rex early 70's trips to try and break America, featuring acoustic versions of many T.Rex Hits. Original interviews and jingles have been added to this collection along with a complete, up until now, 'lost' radio session in Chicago. All the pictures in this package were taken on the road on the promotional tour of the USA. All the tracks on this collection have all been re-mastered.
Applebush-005
CD
$20.75

Boyd, C.J.
Aerial Roots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone... "Aerial Roots", the latest album from C.J. Boyd, contains three songs, and clocks in at just under 45 minutes. Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, CJ Boyd's bass playing builds upon a foundation of great bassists like Charles Mingus and Edgar Meyer. C.J. Boyd's aesthetic sensibility seeks to wed minimalism with a chamber-esque maximalism. Often flowing from singular, meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex walls of sound, CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. Utilizing only various bass instruments and some human-mouth-sounds, creating these lush arrangements is no small feat. Never suffering from the structure less experimentation so prevalent in improvised music, CJ Boyd's vision remains intact throughout the duration of "Aerial Roots".
JoyfulNoiseRecordings-041
LP
$120.00

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble
Three Christs of Ypsilanti (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US This barely organized enclave ingests & disgorges outsider free music a la Smegma & other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK's A Band, 5 Starcle Men, & the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk, Destijl, & Ultra Eczema
Siltbreeze-131
LP
$16.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Take It From The Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre's obsession with the Rolling Stones continues unabated on the bril-liant Take It From the Man!; where the group resurrected psychedelic-era excesses on the previous Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, here they jump further back in time to the Stones' mid-'60s period, with even more superlative results. From the opening "Vacuum Boots" onward, Take It From the Man! is gritty, swaggering R&B-influenced rock, delivered with remarkable assurance and atti-tude; singer Anton Newcombe is half madman and half shaman, and he commands each delirious moment with absolute mastery, emerging not so much a disciple of Mick Jagger but as a serious threat to the throne.
ARecords-005
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork . Truth in advertising: the Brian Jonestown Massacre's sophomore album does, as promised, spring forth from the Rolling Stones' long-underrated 1967 masterpiece Their Satanic Majesties Request, copping not only Mick and Keith's leering bad-boy attitude but also their their rock-and-roll-circus spirit. Opening with the brilliant "All Around You (Intro)," a tongue-in-cheek guide to the mind-altering journey ahead, the record is a kaleidoscopic, drug-fueled freakout - like the Stones' namesake album, Second Request is painted by Eastern drones and psychedelic tangents, each track bubbling with dozens of sound effects including sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels. Travelling through the past, darkly, the Massacre arrives on the other side unscathed; their music is too rich to be merely retro, and too knowing to be merely slavish - the Stones themselves haven't made a record this strong or entertaining in years.
Arecords-004
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Give It Back (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1997 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label with new artwork. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a psychedelic rock band originally from San Francisco, California, led by guitarist/singer Anton Newcombe. Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums, first for Bomp! Records, the label which gave them their start, and later for TVT and Tee Pee. BJM has been essential in the development of the modern U.S. garage scene, and many LA and SF musicians got their start playing with Newcombe, including Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Arecords-006
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Methodrone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1995 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Redolent with the spirit of such high priests of effects and delay as Loop, Spaceman 3, and My Bloody Valentine, not to mention a fair dollop of the Jesus and Mary Chain . Methodrone clearly is the sum of its influences. Thankfully BJM does a very solid job with them throughout the album's course of over 70 minutes.
Arecords-008
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Thank God For Mental Illness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. At the risk of further belaboring a rather obvious point, with Thank God for Mental Illness, their third collection of absolutely stunning music in 1996, the Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of the Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak; the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning - rarely are bands quite so productive, or quite so consistently amaz-ing. Thank God is the BJM's down-and-dirty country-blues outing, all 13-odd tracks supposedly re-corded on a single July day at a cost of just $17.36 .
Arecords-007
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Bravery, Repetition And Noise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 2001 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Bravery, Repetition and Noise is a dark dreamy album, rich in atmosphere, layered in waves of sound. The album's antecedents are clear, inspired by psychedelia as they were by punk's nihilism, pulling both strands into a doom-laden, experimental sound quite distinct from anything that had come before or since. BJM uses this as their touchstone, lovingly re-creating the moods and atmospheres of the past.
Arecords-003
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Spacegirl And Other Favorites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1996 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. The Brian Jonestown Massacre has been somewhat of a musical commune for many respected musicians over the years, a band from the 1990's that has spurned other great bands ever since. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, The Silver Rockets, The Black Angels, The Ravenettes, The Dilettantes (to name a few) are all part of this musical family tree.
Arecords-009
CD
$13.00

Brian Jonestown Massacre, The
Zero EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Originally released in 2000 now reissued on "a records" Anton Newcombe's own record label. Taking into consideration the last time we heard from the Brian Jonestown Massacre (1999's one-off EP of country-folk ramblings, Bringing It All Back Home Again), longtime fans of the BJM might still be a little taken aback by the songs on this 36-minute EP at first, as this is somewhat of a departure from what BJM shaman and group leader Anton Newcombe has previously written and recorded with a revolving-door membership of sidemen and -women. That is why the title and artwork (with its colorful pinwheel flowers) goes out of its way to imply that there are "zero" songs from the album Bravery included here.
Arecords-010
CD
$7.75

Budd, Harold & Clive Wright
Little Windows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 23RD)
PS, US Little Windows completes the trilogy begun with A Song for Lost Blossoms and carried through their previous album Candylion. Little Windows was recorded especially for John Diliberto's popular, syndicated ambient music radio show, Echoes Radio. These recordings were first heard on Echoes Radio in Fall 2009. Little Windows showcases these Artist's individual talents more so than their two previous albums. Only two of the nine tracks are collaborative Budd/Wright works. Four tracks are fully fleshed out Clive Wright solo compositions recorded at his Desert Sky Studio. Three tracks are Harold Budd solo at the piano -- just Harold with a beautiful sounding piano in a beautiful sounding room at Knobworld Studios, Silverlake.
Darla-234
CD
$12.25

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
RoughTrade
LP
$14.00

Bulat, Basia
Heart Of My Own (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Recorded with Howard Bilerman at the mighty Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal, Quebec, nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains,standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon.Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in theYukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

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

Burning Hearts
Night Animal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Finish musicians Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) & Jessika Rapo (Le Futur Pompiste) come together as Burning Hearts. It was
inevitable that this pair of bands, whose music shares a poise & sophistication rarely heard anywhere, never mind within the modest environs of Finland, would
find each other. Full of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring as a lover's
embrace, and a tone of intimacy that could only come from collaboration that is fully simpatico
Shelflife-065
45
$6.75

Cars & Trains
The Roots, The Leaves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US The Roots, The Leaves is the sophomore effort of Portland, Oregon based multi-instrumentalist cars & trains (Tom Filepp), a more personal and emotive foray than his 2007 full length debut Rusty String. Tom deftly mixes out-of-the-box electronics and found sounds seamlessly with a myriad of instruments-woodwinds, banjos, acoustic guitars, strings and glockenspiel-that situate "The Roots, The Leaves" at a curious intersection between more folk-oriented electronic groups like Tunng and the distinctive Pacific Northwest experimental folk sound of K Records/The Microphones/Mt. Eerie renown.
FakeFourInc.-014
CD
$10.50

Casino Versus Japan
Night On Tape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US While fans wait for the next official Casino Versus Japan album, Attacknine is happy to present Night On Tape, 20 previously unreleased tracks from Casino Versus Japan's recording archives. Casino Versus Japan is Erik Kowalski. His signature style of electronic songs have garnered enjoyment from fans the world over, as well as by other music figures such as; Ulrich Schnauss, Kid 606, Marumari and the folks at the luminary labels Morr Music, Carpark, Darla, & City Centre Offices. In late 2002, Erik sent Nick Huntington (co-founder of Attacknine Records and one half of the music group Freescha) five discs of his personal recordings. Erik is a fan of Freescha's music, and the discs were a gift, not meant for release to the public. But thinking that it wasn't fair that he was the only one enjoying these discs, that the music was too good, and that other people should be enjoying them too, Nick asked Erik if he would allow Attacknine to release it. The end result was Attacknine's 2004 release Hitori+Kaiso, which contained the majority of the music on discs two and three. But nothing from the first disc of music he sent was included in that collection. So here it is, "Night On Tape", Erik at his most nocturnal, his lush guitar and electronic instrumentals swelling and buzzing neon highlights through the darkness. "...Milwaukee's Erik Kowalski owns the sky, and the otherworldly buzzing sounds that could easily be alien transmissions" - Ghostly International "From needlepoint to loomwork, lumbering beats alongside ebbing/flowing keys make for an introspective body of work. Across his other projects, Erik has demonstrated the same keen awareness for downtime, the living room listening, and the lounge & the hi-fi" -Mod Magazine.
"What does the name mean? I have no idea" - Erik Nakamura, Giant Robot.
Attack9-018
CD
$12.25

Cave In
Planets Of Old (CD EP+DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US CAVE IN, The insurmountable Hydra Head all-star traveling team has... yep, you guessed it... officially un-disbanded! Unless you're the type to follow a band's wikipedia page closely enough to notice an update the moment it occurs, this news is of the breaking variety... and what's more, Hydra Head has got 4 brand new CAVE IN tracks for those of you, who after four years of radio silence, still wear your now rusted-over Jupiter pins with pride...
HydraHeadRecords-184
CD
$12.00

Cave, Nick & Warren Ellis
The Road [OST] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Soundtrack for the film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel. An evocative score featuring violin & piano w/ beautiful fleeting melodies & eerie sound loops filled w/ terror & suspense.
Mute
CD
$15.00

Ceremony
Someday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Before A Place To Bury Strangers there was Skywave, a 3-piece band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Ollie left to move to NYC and formed APTBS but John and Paul stayed behind and continued on under the name of Ceremony. Their Killer Pimp LP & CD "Rocket Fire" is due out early 2010 but it's being preceded by a HOT 7" single for the song "Someday." It's one of those songs that are so incredibly infectious numerous people have already reported repeating it over and over and over again! While there's no doubt comparisons to APTBS will be made (they are friends and were in the same band, after all), Ceremony are far more focused on making catchy pop tunes than blowing out your eardrums or speakers. Yes it is still loud.
KillerPimp-013
45
$4.25

Cinematic Orchestra, The
Man With A Movie Camera (DVD re-issue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Ninja Tune are proud to present the 'Man With A Movie Camera' DVD. Featuring the entire film soundtracked live in the studio by The Cinematic Orchestra, plus a short documentary about the making of the record (first aired on C4), the superb video to "All That You Give" (featuring Fontella Bass) and further extras, it's a great package. And not just for Cinematics fans or scholars of 30s documentaries, either!
NinjaTune-9078
DVD
$14.75

Clipd Beaks
To Realize (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
LovePumpUnited
LP
$16.50

Clipd Beaks
To Realize (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US After two woozy, psychedelic, and often-claustrophobic records that touched upon their great potential (2006's Preyers EP and 2007's Hoarse Lords), the Oakland-based Clipd Beaks have birthed something pretty damn amazing. 'To Realize' is a turning-point. A record of personal and artistic growth. Sonically expansive, lyrically profound, and deeply moving. It recalls the societal hangover depicted in the great California rock records of the early 70's, while sitting firmly in the noisy, chaotic present day. It's a tribute to love, to moving forward, to rejecting doom.
LovePumpUnited-
CD
$12.50

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Re-released, featuring 4 new, unreleased tracks.
Downtown
CD5
$6.25

Cold War Kids
Behave Yourself EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Downtown
12
$7.00

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

Curgenven, Robert
Oltre (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US "Transparence" resonating dubplate | turntable | field recordings | guitar feedback | ventilator/fan.
The "Transparence" dubplate, developed at O ' in Milan, Italy, works within the physical limitations of the vinyl medium, employing the object as sound source and also sound medium, to become an instrument in its own right. Using the non-linear acoustics of the gallery at O, the dubplate was recorded, and later cut to disc in Berlin, at very low volume. This ephemeral audio signal becomes present during playback only at high volume, which subsequently produces, by design, a unique physical response from the room, air and amplification - creating deep undertones and blossoming overtones via these manifold resonance's; simultaneously, the action of the stylus gently abrades the soft vinyl surface, causing the dubplate's sound to gradually disappear and evolve, successively losing higher frequencies whilst acquiring new artifacts and crackle. OLTRE documents this degradation and transformation over two months of live performances. The integrated system of subsonic feedback from ventilators, acoustically gated binaural microphones, modal micro-variations in guitar feedback, field-recordings from across remote areas of Australia and the live, physical interplay of the turntable, dubplate and stylus, combine to create a field which moves beyond the original recordings and their individual spaces.
Line-042
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

Dinowalrus
% (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US 3-person drum n' drone band out of Brooklyn. The band relies heavily on the use of self-sustaining electronic devices to push its sound into cosmic brain-melting freakouts, lush atmospheric haze, &/or juvenile twee-skronk. Didactic experiments in infinite reverb, uber- & anti- "dance-ability," delaytreated
xylophones, dime-store voice changers, deep-fried drum machines, pop-neo-orientalism, layered fuzz, & layered haircuts
KanineRecords-471
CD
$11.00

Dinowalrus
% (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
KanineRecords-471
LP
$13.75

Divide The Sea
Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US South Carolina has long served as a hotbed for innovative metallic hardcore, and DIVIDE THE SEA are no exception. Having cut their teeth playing in various forms together for years, these five southern gentlemen exhibit their familiarity with one another throughout their debut full length, simply entitled Man. Swaying between gut churning heaviness and potent emotional delivery, Man serves as a powerful introduction to DIVIDE THE SEA and the bright future ahead of them.
Blood&InkRecords-1036
CD
$12.25

Dunn, Kyle Bobby
A Young Person's Guide To (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Spread across two CDs with a total running time of nearly two hours, A Young Persons Guide To... is a stunning collection of recordings from New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn. Four tracks on the first disc originally appeared as the download only album Fervency, released by the Moodgadget label in 2009. Impressed by Dunn's sensitive and world-wise compositions, it was felt that the music deserved to be released on a physical format and expanded upon with a second disc containing an additional 60 minutes of music gathered from the same period as the Fervency recordings. Utilizing an instrumental palette of guitar, strings and brass, often played by classically trained musicians drafted in on the spur of the moment, the sounds of these sessions were recorded as Dunn dictated and then reworked via computer processing into spine-tingling sounds capes. Dunn's compositions here are fully rich in timbre, painterly, hopelessly romantic and haunting; balanced between a wash of pure sound and an ornate yet subtle dance of classical instrumentation. Occupying a truly cinematic scope, these pieces can transport the listener from the deepest and most forgotten landscapes to the furthest recesses of time.
LowPoint-033
DCD
$16.25

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

Eels
End Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Eels 8th studio album is the sound of an artist growing older in uncertain times. Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in E's LA basement, it's a "divorce album" with a modern twist. The artist equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity.
Vagrant
CD
$13.50

Ent
Welcome Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Ent is the solo musical project of Atsushi Horie who hails from Nagasaki in the south of Japan. Horie's main gig is of frontman of the BritPop influenced band STRAIGHTENER (EMI) that has a devoted and somewhat large following in their native Japan. However, Atsushi became attracted to Leftfield electronics and Post-rock which led him to start writing a solo album in 2006 that infused more of those genres' elements in an effort to make something more personal and deeply sentimental. Three years in the making this first album "Welcome Stranger" is a lush album of wide-eyed and unapologetic left of center pop somewhere between The Album Leaf and The Postal Service. Atsushi has succeeded in crafting an album that utilizes his newer influences with the more traditional style of song-craft his band STRAIGHTENER is known for. "Welcome Stranger" also features remixes from Kettel (Sending Orbs), Near The Parenthesis (n5MD) and Helios (Type).
n5MD-172
CD
$12.25

Final Fantasy
Heartland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Final Fantasy
Heartland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and voice.
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Folsom, Robert Lester
Music & Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010)
PS, US Limited to 500, includes DL codes. The first of many reissues on the Mexican Summer slate brings forth a 1976 private press affair from Georgia's Robert Lester Folsom, a high-quality and shimmering, unbuttoned-collar collection of marina rock and sunset ballads. Vaguely psychedelic and professionally rendered, this is a strong and consistent brace of soft rock, staid yet breezy.
MexicanSummer
LP
$19.00

Foster, Josephine
Graphic As A Star (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Josephine lays stair-steppy melodies beneath a collection of Emily Dickinson gems & sings them w/ a burnished soulfulness like the purple sunsets so often described in the poems. Massachusetts mountains, pearled spider-webs & folk hero William Tell, are all present in this unforgettable meeting of Dickinson's poesy & Foster's music, making a natural & inevitable whole
Fire-136
CD
$15.50

Four Tet
There Is Love In You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$19.25

Four Tet
There Is Love In You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US There Is Love In You is Four Tet's first full-length album in over four years and is his fifth album to date.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$13.25

Frankel
Anonymity Is The New Fame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US Anonymity is the New Fame is more than just a song and album title for Los Angeles songwriter/composer/multi-instrumentalist Michael Orendy. It's a working philosophy and a way to live an artist's and musician's life in a world of showboaters and technological exhibitionists. It's a way to stay yourself in a world where every sound and feeling shoved through the same narrow channels start to sound like a repetitive buzz of buzz.
AutumnToneRecords-008
CD
$11.25

Fraser, Brooke
What To Do With Daylight [Abridged] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US In anticipation of a brand-new solo album tentatively slated for the Spring of 2010, "What To Do With Daylight" is being released in the U.S. to reinforce the successes Brooke has experienced over the course of the last couple years. To date, the album has only been available as an import and, more recently, digitally. With the public demand at a high level for all things Brooke Fraser, this is a great catalog item which will prove to be an evergreen seller over the course of time.
WoodandBone-51882
CD
$7.75

Frost, Ben
By The Throat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Vinyl version. It's impossible to truly classify where he is coming from musically, but it would be safe to say his fans would also have records from Neurosis, Tim Hecker, Sunn O))) & Fennesz in their collection. Where "Theory of Machines" came sterilized in fluorescent light, "By The Throat" is blood red & cloaked in shadow.
BedroomCommunity-006
LP
$16.25

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US MID-PRICE 2 CD and 2 LP compilation of Fucked Up's many,many hard-to-find uncollected 7" and 12" tracks. Entitled Couple Tracks, it contains 25 songs.Couple Tracks spans an extraordinarily varied (and extraordinarily collectible) musical career that has mainly been documented on 7"singles released around the world on many labels in many countries.All songs on full-length CD and LP for the first time! Including 5totally unreleased tracks.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Fucked Up
Couple Tracks: Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Matador
DLP
$17.50

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

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

Gainsbourg, Charlotte
I.R.M. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US A musical collaboration between Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck. Over the course of a year and a half of writing and recording together, Beck's role grew to encompass all aspects of the creative process: He wrote all of the music and co-wrote the lyrics and produced and mixed the recording. Beck brought in many of his regular collaborators, including Joey Waronker and James Gadson on drums, Brian LeBarton on keyboards, David Ralicke on trumpet and Beck's father, David Campbell, for string arrangement. IRM is Gainsbourg's first album in nearly four years, following 5:55, which was released in 2006 to much acclaim.
Elektra/WEA
CD
$13.75

Ginsberg, Pepi
East Is East (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US In East is East, Pepi Ginsberg and her collaborators step into the golden hour of the day and embrace "The most ephemeral of seasons." A mood and a time where we "know that change is coming in the form of a cool wind; we hold on until we let go." The song 'Summer Sick as Love' accomplishes this feeling, with its mythical descriptions of gutter punks and wind ravaged stop-signs. Ginsberg, with arrangements expertly handled by her band, creates a world with East is East, that is "the season in between," and parts the waters, navigating change in the sea of these strange times.
ParkTheVan
LP
$12.50

Glossary
Feral Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Glossary's new album, Feral Fire, is its first for Lucero's Liberty and Lament label (Glossary's Todd Beene also plays in Lucero), and is marked by a testifying batch of R&B and country tinged rock songs that explores the band's dysfunctional relationship with time, religion,materialism, the universe and southern ideals.
RebelGroup
CD
$12.50

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

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

Hammill, Peter
Roaring Forties (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Cargo UK brings three remastered recordings from the 1990s that cover the period in which Peter worked with the pH quartet - Manny Elias on drums, Stuart Gordon violin and David Jackson saxes. The sequence began with Roaring Forties, a set which included not only a long-form piece, "A Headlong Stretch," which recalled much of Peter's earlier work in breadth, ambition and complexity, but also some very direct approaches to songwriting and playing in "Sharply Unclear" and "Your Tall Ship."
Fie!-9107
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
X My Heart (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US The pHQ undertook a number of tours after Roaring Forties and so it was natural that the (occasional) group was on Peter's mind when time came to record the next studio album. This was X My Heart. It might have been a blueprint for future work with the line-up, but in the event there were to be no more more live shows for this set-up. It features one of his most beautiful ballads, "Earthbound," which features heartfelt vocals and a gorgeous string accompaniment. "Narcissus (Bar & Grill)" will delight fans with its classic Hammill style, while "A Better Time" shows that he's one of the more underrated vocalists in rock music today. Definitely one of his finest, and a good place to start for newcomers to the unpredictable and challenging world of Peter Hammill.
Fie!-9111
CD
$13.75

Hammill, Peter
This (Remastered) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US A last hurrah for the Peter Hammill quartet came on This in 1998, though the contributions here were rather more individual than as a collective unit. One of Peter's most wide-ranging re-leases, this runs the gamut from an extended ambient piece, "The Light Continent", to some very direct near-pop songs.
Fie!-9118
CD
$13.75

Happy Hollows, The
Spells (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US The Happy Hollows' catchy yet dissonant sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90's college rock, garage punk, art rock, and 80's pop. Listening inspires visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious.
AutumnToneRecords-010
CD
$11.25

Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US You may know Harvey Milk's "s/t" release as the Bob Weston Sessions, an unreleased full-length that has been floating around the .blogspot world for some time. This limited Tour Edition is the first time this record has been made available on a physical format and the audio has been re-mastered for a more enjoyable listening experience.
HydraHeadRecords-181
CD
$12.00

Henry Clay People, The
For Cheap Or For Free (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US The Henry Clay People are a rock and roll band from Los Angeles. With common comparisons to Pavement and The Replacements they play a type of no-frills, pretension-free rock that has sorely been missing from LA.
AutumnToneRecords-005
CD
$11.25

Hexes & Ohs
Bedroom Madness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, CANADA The story behind the Montreal-based electro pop duo begins with a pair of high school sweethearts and spans a decade of couplehood, musical projects and everything in between. With the release of their debut full-length Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover (2005) on Noise Factory Records, Edmund and Heidi have crafted their best, most focused work to date in the form of infectious pop compositions driven by the interplay of charming, glitchy electronics with engaging, sharp melodies. Their dynamic and energetic live show has earned them invitations to CMJ, Pop Montreal, Canadian Music Week, North By North East, Ladyfest, Halifax Pop Explosion and the CBC radio 3 national tour, sharing stages with indie legends like Mates of State, Sloan, Ivy, Japanther, as well buzz making newcomers Tokyo Police Club, Pony Up! and Most Serene Republic. Hexes & Ohs' debut album topped the campus radio charts, reaching the #2 position nationally and remaining in the top 10 for several months. The album's single "Whadaya Know?" also made CBC radio 3's list of top 50 singles of 2005.
NoiseFactory-753
CD
$13.50

Hutchens, Daniel
Love Songs For Losers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US Drawing from the same well as the likes of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Hutchens grasps the duality of the American South and it's denizens -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
AutumnToneRecords-001
CD
$11.25

Ikonika
Sahara Michael / Fish (12") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Hyperdub's original female producer Ikonika comes with this long-awaited release that lives up to all expectations, presenting two brilliant tracks that set the scene for her de-but album due early in 2010.
Hyperdub-029
CD
$10.50

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

Kilbey, Steve & Martin Kennedy
Unseen Music/Unheard Words (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Steve Kilbey's silky evocative voice seductively narrates his dreamy lyrics over Kennedy's cooly opiated atmospheric song structures, recalling nothing so much as The Church at their most stately, subdued and grand. For fans of: Brian Eno, Thievery Corporation, All India Radio & The Church
SecondMotion-015
CD
$13.75

Kings Go Forth
Don't Take My Shadow (Tom Moulton Remixes) - EP 12" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Kings Go Forth pivot from a garage-y Curtis Mayfield sound to swooping male harmonies that hearken back to the glory days of The Esquires with interchanging leads and heart-stopping falsettos. The in-your-face stomp of the drums go the beat heavy route of rap and hiphop while the pulse and swing of the bass owes as much to two-tone and ska as it does to James Jamerson. "Don't Take My Shadow" contains the mixes from famed producer Tom Moulton (invented the 12" single, the remix and the breakdown section(!)).
LuakaBop-4508
CD
$8.75

Le Switch
And Now...Le Switch (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US Honky-tonk keyboards and fiddle ablaze, Le Switch give alt-country a riotous ragtime rip.
AutumnToneRecords-004
CD
$11.25

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Special limited edition (1000) version with bonus tracks, includes remixes by AEROPLANE, IDJUT BOYS, PRINS THOMAS & DOLLE JOLLE. Christabelle aka SOLALE teams with Lindstrom to create a disco-pop full length. An edgy pop album of structured chaos & hypnotic beats. Lindstrom provided the structure for Christabelle to let loose & improvise most of the lyrics on the spot while they jammed. "One of my most anticipated albums of 2010" -Tim Breihan, Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-159
CD
$14.50

Lindstrom & Christabelle
Real Life Is No Cool (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
SmalltownSupersound-159
LP
$15.00

Little Girls
Concepts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE... DELAYED)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Full length album on 180-gram vinyl. Previous release on Mexican Summer.
PaperBag
LP
$19.00

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

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

Magnetic Fields
Realism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Vinyl version!
Nonesuch-519594.1
LP
$19.00

Magnetic Fields
Realism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US With no synths, no drum kits, and every instrument unplugged, the pristine Realism is the flip-side to the brash noise-pop of The Magnetic Fields' 2008 Distortion. Singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt calls it "folk," but with is wide range of instrumentation and orchestrated arrangements, says Merritt, "Realism is a more kaleidoscopic approach to a genre."
Nonesuch-519594.2
CD
$15.50

Major Stars
Return To Form (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Drag City
LP
$14.50

Major Stars
Return To Form (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Major Stars atomized you to bits on the last record and only now are you returning to a fully formed entity. And here, Major Stars will blow you to pieces again: 8 pieces, all heavy rocks, a few of them come with power jams. The guitars trio of WAYNE ROGERS, KATE VILLAGE & TOM LEONARD is into their 3rd full album as the signature rock of the easties - more likened to the sounds of Motorpsycho than any of that psych-rock these days.
Drag City
CD
$12.50

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Malakai is Hebrew for 'angel.' It's also the name of the red-haired kid from Children Of The Corn. From which the band's name is derived. Why we're not exactly sure. Malakai, strictly speaking, are a duo. They're from Bristol, England. They aren't part of a scene, but they reflect the Bristol vibe these days: groups with dubstep running through their bones, hip hop in the fingers, '60s psychedelia in the heart. At times, the album sounds like a Jamaican garage rock band. Other time it sounds like Merseybeat if the beats were supplied by RZA. Or like Dick Dale surfing the River Severn.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

Malakai
Ugly Side Of Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DominoRecordingCo.
LP
$17.50

Manana
Interruptions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Powerful, stirring & epic soundscapes influenced by Mew & Sigur Ros.
Quince-076
CD
$14.25

Mas Rapido
Dumb Is King! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Third album under the Mas Rapido banner from Frank & Donna, the duo formerly known as Toothpaste 2000 and before that Cowboy & Spingirl. Guitar-pop supremo!
Parasol-CD-118
CD
$10.00

Maximum Penalty
Life & Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US As part of the original Hardcore movement, Maximum Penalty has been and still is, one of the most original hybrids of the New York Hardcore sound.
ReaperRecords-030
CD
$11.50

Mazzy Star
Among My Swan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 3rd & final album, originally released in 1996. Having built up a considerable reputation thanks to So Tonight That I Might See, Mazzy Star reappeared after three years with Among My Swan, only to receive widespread indifference. It's a touch surprising -- unlike, say, fellow 1993 breakthroughs the Cranberries, David Roback and Hope Sandoval didn't rapidly descend into self-parody crossed with delusions of grandeur. Instead, they kept on keeping on, proffering the same combination of psych, blues, folk, and art-pop touches that made their earlier releases so captivating. That said, though, at base Among My Swan just isn't as quietly involving as the earlier records, that magical fusion of styles somehow coming across as a little been-there, done-that here. There's nothing quite as immediate as "Fade Into You," nothing as awesomely delicate as "Five String Serenade," as woozy and powerful as "Mary of Silence." There are plenty of songs that try for that, though, and even if Among My Swan won't raise the dead or heal the sick, it's still pleasant enough listening, and sometimes the secret of success is in the details. Keep an ear out for the soft chimes that punctuate "Happy," for instance, or how William Reid from the Jesus and Mary Chain's guest guitar helps turn "Take Everything" into the slow-burning monster it is. Sandoval's singing is as drowsily intoxicating as before, while Roback's ability to create atmospheres is equally fine. Among the better moments: "Rhymes of an Hour," which carefully balances a quieter arrangement with sudden moments that almost but don't quite lead to a full-band jam; the acoustic-based mood-out "All Your Sisters," suggesting such earlier guitar/violin efforts as "Into Dust"; and the soft-landing conclusion, "Look On Down From the Bridge," a bit of a church hymn in its own way, thanks to the organ-led melody. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
Plain
LP
$16.75

Mazzy Star
So Tonight That I Might See (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US 2nd album, originally released in 1993. Thanks to the fluke hit "Fade Into You" -- one of the better beneficiaries of alt-rock's radio prominence in the early '90s, a gentle descent of a lead melody accompanied by piano, a steady beat, and above all else, Hope Sandoval's lovely lead vocal -- Mazzy Star's second album became something of a commercial success. All without changing much at all from where the band was before -- David Roback oversaw all the production, the core emphasis remained a nexus point between country, folk, psych, and classic rock all shrouded in mystery, and Sandoval's trademark drowsy drawl remained swathed in echo. But grand as She Hangs Brightly was, So Tonight That I Might See remains the group's undisputed high point, mixing in plenty of variety among its tracks without losing sight of what made the group so special to begin with. Though many songs work with full arrangements like "Fade Into You," a thick but never once overpowering combination, two heavily stripped-down songs demonstrate in different ways how Mazzy Star makes a virtue out of simplicity. "Mary of Silence" is an organ-led slow shuffle that easily ranks with the best of the Doors, strung-out and captivating all at once, Sandoval's singing and Roback's careful acid soloing perfect foils. "Wasted," meanwhile, revisits a classic blues riff slowed down to near-soporific levels, but the snarling crunch of Roback's guitar works wonders against Sandoval's vocals, a careful balance that holds. If there's a left-field standout, then unquestionably it's "Five String Serenade." A cover of an Arthur Lee song -- for once not a Love-era number, but a then-recent effort -- Roback's delicate acoustic guitar effortlessly brings out its simple beauty. Tambourine and violin add just enough to the arrangement here and there, and Sandoval's calm singing makes for the icing on the cake. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
Plain
LP
$16.75

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 12 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Volume 12 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 13 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Volume 13 of the 13 Japanese Birds series, limited to 1000.
Important
CD
$13.25

Midlake
The Courage Of Others (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, UK The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith's sweeping vocals. Recorded over the course of two years in their Denton, Texas studio, The Courage of Others is the result of the band's quest to create a complete work. It is an album in the classic sense, meant to be digested in a single sitting and given the opportunity to become more than its constituent parts. Here the band blends early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars to propel themselves toward new sounds and emotions. Creeping and epic, The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music's most unique torchbearers.
BellaUnion-00224
CD
$12.00

Midlake
The Courage Of Others (180g LP) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a novel world, but one that seems to have existed forever. Looms of intricately textured keyboards, flute, guitars and voice are woven into broad cloaks of sound, all riding the wave of songwriter Tim Smith's sweeping vocals. Recorded over the course of two years in their Denton, Texas studio, The Courage of Others is the result of the band's quest to create a complete work. It is an album in the classic sense, meant to be digested in a single sitting and given the opportunity to become more than its constituent parts. Here the band blends early Brit folk influences with thick-throated guitars to propel themselves toward new sounds and emotions. Creeping and epic, The Courage of Others is positioned to be the latest installment in the important and ever-evolving discography of one of modern music's most unique torchbearers.
BellaUnion-02224
LP
$15.50

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK VINYL VERSION Gatefold jacket.
Sunbeam-5064
DLP
$31.25

Mighty Baby
Tasting The Life: Live 1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, UK Mighty Baby are one of the best-loved bands to have emerged from Britain's late 1960s underground, and this is the fullest live record of them in existence. Taped as they opened for Quintessence at Malvern's Winter Gardens on February 20th, 1971, the set finds the quintet poised between the driving psychedelia of their 1969 debut and the more contemplative sound of their second and final album, A Jug Of Love. It's rounded off by two bonus tracks recorded at Glastonbury in June of the same year, and comes complete with a booklet featuring rare images and notes from band members Ian Whiteman and Mike Evans, making it an essential artIfact for the Babe's many admirers.
Sunbeam-5064
CD
$16.25

Miracle Condition
Miracle Condition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Vinyl with digital download
TizonaRecords-007
LP
$16.00

Miracle Condition
Miracle Condition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Formed in 2006 by Mark Shippy (Shorty, US Maple), Pat Samson (US Maple) and Matt Carson the group has carved out it's own genre of powerful, cinematic soundscapes reminiscent of the early 90's shoegaze movement. Miracle Condition proves to be quite a departure from Shippy & Samson's earlier group - trading in the mantle of rock deconstructionists for curators of the deep space soundtrack. Eliptical drones, charging percussion, fragile melodies &
below the surface vocal work from Shippy & Carson creates a calculated brand of beautiful tension
TizonaRecords-007
CD
$15.00

Mixtapes & Cellmates
Rox (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, JAPAN Stockholm combo Mixtapes & Cellmates return with "Rox," their highly anticipated second album. Previous albums and EPs were compared with The Radio Dept and Postal Service. The band is now a 5 piece with a new drummer and three lead singers. While the rock elements of guitar feedback, up-down rhythms, and judicious keyboard usage hint at the influence of Primal Scream's "Give Out But Don't Give Up", the group's distinct melodies and fantastic song writing are intact and better than ever. "Rox" was engineered by Johan Gustafsson (Last Days of April) and recorded at Studio Grondahl. The Japanese edition of "Rox" features two exclusive bonus tracks: "Summer" and "Apoidea."
QuinceRecords-77
CD
$14.75

Mondo Drag
New Rituals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
CD
$13.00

Mondo Drag
New Rituals LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Limited Edition LP on colored vinyl. Mondo Drag is flying head-first into the future, while channeling artists from the past; Pink Floyd, Pentagram, Blue Cheer, even Hendrix are part of their musical lexicon, while Sonic Youth, Dead Meadow, and Comets on Fire hint to their current references.
AliveRecords-0104
LP
$13.00

Motorpsycho
Heavy Metal Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2010)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Price TBC, might get better, won't get worse! The 180g vinyl DLP edition is a three sided affair with side one having great etched artwork by Kim Hiorthøy. The lavish sleeve comes as a triple gatefold with printed inner sleeves.
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$25.75

Motorpsycho
Heavy Metal Fruit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2010)
PS, US New album from Norwegian prog rock overlords! Price TBC, might get better, won't get worse! Their 3rd album in 2 years (back on schedule) features 6 songs, 62 minutes, includes a 22 minute spacerockopera. Features Matthias Eick from Jaga Jazzist on trumpet and Hanne Hukkelberg on vocals. Rune Grammofon says: "It´s quite extraordinary for a band twenty years into their career to deliver a string of three great albums in under two years, like Motorpsycho have done with "Little Lucid Moments", "Child Of The Future" and now "Heavy Metal Fruit". Together with Kåre Chr Vestrheim, who co-produced it with Bent Sæther, they have made a varied and dynamic album that shows the many sides of a band that has become an institution in Norwegian music without losing any of their vitality, creativity and integrity. Here we get metal, classic rock, moogs, mellotrons, prog, psychedelia, westcoast harmonies and jazzy instrumental parts before ending it all with the 20 minute majestic "Gullible´s Travails", quite possibly the finest piece of music they have ever commited to record. Guests are Jaga Jazzist trumpeter Mathias Eick and singer Hanne Hukkelberg."
RuneGrammofon
CD
$16.25

My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anthing [2010 remaster] (DELAYED... PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2010???)
PS, UK New, 2010 re-issue in a digipak, digitally remastered by Kevn Shields. Maybe. Maybe not.
SonyBMG
CD
$21.75

My Bloody Valentine
Loveless [2010 expanded remaster] (DELAYED... PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2010???)
PS, UK New, expanded, digipak version of MBV's otherworldly 1991 shoegaze classic, digitally remastered by MBV honcho Kevin Shields. Second disc is reported to be a alternate and previously unreleased version of Loveless remastered from original analog tapes. Maybe. Maybe not.
Sony
DCD
$23.00

Native
Wrestling Moves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US In April 2009, Native began recording their debut full-length, "Wrestling Moves" with producer Chris Common (Pelican, These Arms Are Snakes) at Red Room Studios in Seattle, WA. The album has already drawn comparisons to 90's post-hardcore acts like Braid, Jawbox, and At The Drive In
SargentHouse-027
CD
$8.75

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Her most tightly coiled long-player yet, a heavy handful of songs that are reaching for the ripe & the light. An intense devotional,
a determined spirit journey & a collection of great slow-dance songs. Throughout the album we see Scout in deep focus. She's in an empty space & her voice snaps
against the walls, behind weird shadows we can't make out. The songs string together, almost as one, her guitar growls & bites, and the black velvet of space hovers. Just when the tension in the room & the filament of guitar can't glow any brighter, suddenly a band erupts, accompaniment to her vision - and then back down to Scout & guitar.
DragCity-424
CD
$13.25

Niblett, Scout
Calcination of Scout Niblett (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-424
LP
$14.50

Oh No Ono
Eggs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Oh No Ono is an experimental pop quintet from the tiny Danish town of Aalborg. Their music, intricate and otherworldly, defies conventions and expectations (and sometimes gravity). The ten dense, hypertextured sour-sweet-sad opuses found on their US debut album, Eggs, are truly breathtaking to behold; the band creates bewitching pop symphonies that unfold themselves more with each successive listen.
FriendlyFireRecordings-015
CD
$13.75

OK Go
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it - a compelling follow-up to OK Go's acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No.
Capitol
CD
$12.00

Okapi
Love Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US On Love Him, Italian turntablist & sampling artist, okapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of
more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz composer Aldo Kapi (1896- 1952). Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolery
& slot- machine soundcards, lies the break-NOT- core, bubble-gum experimental turntablism of this new full-length from Italy's own "Daft Giraffe.
IllegalArt-020
CD
$13.00

Orkustra, The
Adventures In Experimental Electric Orchestra... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 2010)
PS, US '...From The San Francisco Psychedelic Underground' Limited to 1000, comes with DL codes. Greetings to everyone who craves an authentic Haight-Ashbury experience. Bobby BeauSoleil now has the pleasure of offering you the opportunity to hear these uncommon recordings from his past band. This will be the definitive Orkustra release, compiling almost all of the recordings the band made (on a 4 track in their rehearsal space) and will feature paintings and liner notes from composer of Lucifer Rising Soundtrack, Bobby BeauSoleil.
MexcianSummer
DLP
$19.00

Orton, Beth
Trailer Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Vinyl Re-issue! Orton's debut album is one of the most innovative & impressive records of the 90s. A beautifully inspired mix of folk & electronica. Absolutely cutting edge & w/ killer songwriting to boot, a pop album like no other before or since
Plain
LP
$16.50

Painted Hills
S-T (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2010)
PS, US Please welcome the self-titled debut album from Painted Hills, Painted Hills are led by former Beachwood Sparks guitarist/singer/songwriter/dude Josh Schwartz who was also a member of Further and more recently The Tyde. Think pastoral psych-pop and starry-eyed cosmic americana, influenced by the 70s Laurel Canyon scene and the 80s Paisley Underground in L.A. The band, who call Sierra Madre, California home, also features members of The Whispering Pines. This album will be released in March/April on Ric Menck's Bird Song imprint via Parasol as a digital download, a 11-song CD and as a 13-song vinyl 2LP in a gatefold jacket.
BirdSong-CD-106
CD
$10.00

Parenthetical Girls
The Scottish Play: Wherein the Group Parenthetical Girls Pay Well-intentioned (If Occasionally Misguided) Tribute to the Works of Ivor Cutler (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED)
PS, US 10" Vinyl! Features adaptations of 4 songs & 4 prose poems from across the dense Ivor Cutler discography. These sparse, meditative recordings are a far cry from the chamber pop bombast of their recent output, as the group continues to skirt sonic expectations w/ yet another creative 180.
Tomlab-130
10
$11.50

Phantogram
Eyelid Movies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Phantogram's music sounds like it's made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop - each finds its way into their songs.
BarsukRecords-094
CD
$8.75

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
ThrillJockey
LP
$14.00

Pit Er Pat
The Flexible Entertainer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US The Flexible Entertainer is Pit Er Pat's fourth full length album and their first as a completely re-imagined duo. The new material was mostly recorded live and incorporates electronic and acoustic drums seamlessly. The energy is high and exhilarating. Play it multiple times at high volume for the best listening results. The instrumentation is electric guitar, synthesizer, voices, kick drum, snare drum, crash cymbal, hi hat, MPC, melodica, conga and cuica. "Sharp like darts, [Pit Er Pat's] brightly kinetic songs soar, swoop and attack." - Time Out NY
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Pixies, The
Minotaur [Deluxe Limited Edition] (PRE-ORDER...DELAYED)
PS, US **SPECIAL ORDER ONLY** / **FREE UPS Ground SHIPPING** Deluxe, limited 5 LP, 6 CD, 6 Blueray, 6 DVD & 2 Books set! The definitive Pixies collector's piece. Minotaur is curated by legendary graphic designer, Vaughan Oliver with photographer Simon Larbalestier, created the album artwork for all five Pixies' studio albums. Oliver and Larbalestier have teamed up once again on Minotaur, to create their largest single body of Pixies work to date. Includes all five Pixies' studio albums (Come on Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova, and Trompe le Monde) in the following formats: 24k gold plated CD's; five 180 gram virgin vinyl LP's cut from the original analog tapes; Blu-ray audio mastered for 5.1 surround sound and 2 channel stereo at 24/192; DVD mastered for 5.1 surround sound and 2 channel stereo at 24/96. Also included is the previously unreleased Pixies 1991 live performance from Brixton, on both Blu-ray and DVD, mastered for 5.1 surround sound at 24/192 and 24/96, respectively. All discs are housed in a custom designed folio. In addition to reinterpreting all of the original album covers, Oliver's and Larbalestier's extensive work is featured in a 96-page fine art book, measuring 22" x 14" inches, and an additional 54-page book, measuring 7.75" x 8.25". Also included is a 12" x 19.5" giclee print of the duo's work, and two double-sided fold-out posters measuring 48" x 36." Each copy of the Limited Edition is individually numbered, and hand-signed by every member of the Pixies and Vaughan Oliver. Additionally, at random, 25 of the 3000 Limited Edition sets will include test pressings of the vinyl albums. Housed in an oversized clamshell case and weighing over 25 pounds.
ArtistInResidence
LP/DVD-BOX
$650.00

Pixies, The
Minotaur [Deluxe Edition] (PRE-ORDER...DELAYED)
PS, US ***FREE UPS Ground SHIPPING*** 5CD+6 Blu-Ray+6DVD+54 page book set. Curated by legendary graphic designer Vaughan Oliver w/ photographer Simon Larbalestier. Includes all 5 studio albums in the following formats: 24k gold plated CD's; Blu-ray audio mastered for 5.1 surround sound & 2 channel stereo at 24/192; DVD mastered for 5.1 surround sound & 2 channel stereo at 24/96. Unreleased 1991 live performance from Brixton, on both Blu-Ray & DVD. All discs are housed in a custom designed folio. Also included is a 7.75x8.25 inch, 54-page book featuring the duo's work.
ArtistInResidence
CD/DVD-BOX
$200.00

Point B
Suicide Beauty Spot (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Point B is the creation of Merseyside-born / London-based writer and producer Richard Bultitude. Having first established his name in 2005 with 12"s on Erratica and Orson, he soon found himself appearing alongside Boom Bip, Nathan Fake and Squarepusher on Time Out?s massive "The Other Side: London? compilation, while live performances billed him with the likes of Tim Exile and Andrew Weatherall at events across Europe.
CombatRecordings-024
CD
$13.75

Polysics
Absolute Polysics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US 8th studio album. Their unique brand of synth/guitar fueled punk rock nods to everyone from Devo, XTC and Melt-Banana. Fourteen high-energy tracks firing on all cylinders.
MySpace-10200
CD
$13.00

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

Puerto Muerto
Drumming For Pistols (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Equal parts sweet & sour, swagger & swoon, the album's 13 cuts range from the ragtag-circus chant-y "Beautiful Women With Shining Black Hair" to the delirious, bilingual stomper "Tanze," to the sinister swamp-dirge "Song Of The Moon"
Fire-135
CD
$16.25

Rauelsson
La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Features LAURA GIBSON. RIYL: Juana Molina, Bon Iver
Hush-090
LP
$19.25

Real Estate
Heights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 2010)
PS, US Limited to 750, comes w/DL codes. Real Estate's Martin Courtney (songwriter, vocals, guitar), Alex Beeker (bass) and Matthew Mondanile (guitar; also of Ducktails and Predator Vision) all hail from suburban New Jersey and their songs evoke the soft bliss of giving your formative, teenage years enough time to waste and beer upon which to glug. Joined now by suburban Massachusetts' Etienne Duguay on drums, the fact that Real Estate only ever sound like a gaggle of grown-up teenage pals is testament to the ease of carving out your own niche in a town that's the same as countless others across America.
MexicanSummer
12
$15.75

Reckless Kelly
Somewhere In Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US Somewhere In Time is the next installment in the legend of Reckless Kelly. The last, the inimitable Bulletproof, careened into the Billboard 200 and on up to the top 25 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It spent weeks at #1 on Americana and Texas radio and spoke to the continuing upward mobility of the band's craft and dedicated fan base. Now, in the midst of determined forward progression, Reckless takes a minute to look back at a time when the crowds weren't so big and the honky tonk floors a bit dirtier - and just maybe, a bit more real. Somewhere In Time looks back to the roots of brothers Cody and Willy Braun and their musical education at the hand of underground Americana forefather Pinto Bennett. Inspired to bring Pinto's songs to the world, Reckless Kelly turns up the pedal steel to eleven and offers a truly inspired take on the country music they cut their teeth on. Always seeking to expand the definition of their identity as artists and showmen, Somewhere In Time sheds light on yet another facet of their already brimming legend.
YepRoc-2209
CD
$13.75

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
DragCity-384
LP
$14.50

Red Krayola
Five American Portraits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US The five subjects in sequence of appearance are: Wile E. Coyote, the Warner Bros. cartoon character; George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, former presidents of the United States of America; John Wayne, the actor; and Ad Reinhardt, the artist. Their portraits in words & music will hang in the halls of
your mind, taking shape as their features are described against backdrops of familiar & characteristic music performed by Red Krayola (Alex Dower, Tom Rogerson, Q, Tom Watson, Jim O'Rourke, Mayo Thompson, Gina Birch). Songs include "Texas Our Texas," "Georgia on My Mind," "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Piano Sonata No. 6" and more.
DragCity-384
CD
$13.25

Refuse Resist
Socialized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US REFUSE RESIST was born in a garage just north of Boston with a goal to create music that they would want to listen to and sing along to.
ThorpRecords-81
CD
$12.25

Retribution Gospel Choir
2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. 2 is Retribution Gospel Choir's 2nd full-length and Sub Pop debut! Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Retribution Gospel Choir
2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Retribution Gospel Choir is a rock trio founded in 2007. The group features Alan Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, Steve Garrington on bass and Eric Pollard on drums and vocals. Alan also fronts the band Low with his wife, Mimi Parker, and Steve also plays bass in Low. 2 is Retribution Gospel Choir's 2nd full-length and Sub Pop debut! Eric Swanson recorded these performances at Sacred Heart Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, and Matt Beckley mixed the recordings at Faux Rock in Sherman Oaks, California.
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Roadside Graves, The
My Son's Home (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US Each song is unique in sound with exceptional lyrics that strike you between the eyes. For those unfamiliar with them, many liken their sound to a blend of Felice Brothers, Trainwreck Riders, Kris Kristofferson, and The Band with a sprinkling of Gaelic influence in the vein of The Waterboys.
AutumnTonesRecords-007
CD
$11.25

Roedelius
Wenn Der Sudwind Weht (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US Reissue of 7th solo album from CLUSTER/HARMONIA member, originally released in 1981 on Sky Records
BureauB-041
CD
$18.00

Roedelius
Wenn Der Sudwind Weht (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
BureauB-041
LP
$18.00

Schaeffer, Janek
Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have
been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again.
Line-036
CD
$12.25

Scratoa!
Live en San Anton (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Killer Pimp is excited to announce the release of first music to surface from Marc Ngyuen Tan since the last Colder album. Live en San Antón is the result of a three-day session of improvised music by Marc Nguyen and Guillaume Ollendorff recorded in the barrio San Antón, in the southern Spanish city of Alicante in April 2008. Marc & O. have known each other for 13 years: they once worked together for a company that sold missiles and celebrity magazines; they later played and toured together in Colder. Guillaume has made music here and there (Tsé, The Mainstream Ensemble, Dust and Chimes) and now, has a life as an independent publisher of Philosophy. After all these years, this is the first time they have actually recorded together. Says Marc, "The intent of Scratoa! should be understood at the very moment you press play. It sounds like it is named. As some kind of big musical lapsus, the kind of ones kids do everyday with toys. A Vomited and improvised - somehow elegant, sometimes not - non sense. A musical role playing game experiment in ten parts, where Tex Avery, Baruch Spinoza and Herbie Hancock's spirits have been called over three nights to conduct a crowd of gorillas, frogs, cats, birds and ducks in heat, forgotten cartoon characters, families of gypsies and guitars, local pagan marching bands, and drunk kids armed with fire crackers. Experiencing Scratoa! will probably not cure any disease nor it will help you improve some social skills either. But listening to this first session may however be recommended for all these tiny moments of your life when all you fancy is just a good old fix of primitive poetry."
KillerPimp-012
CD
$11.00

Seabear
Lion Faced Boy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, GERMANY This is the first single from the second Seabear album, We Built A Fire. While "Lion Face Boy" features the classic Seabear indie-folk-virtues, the flipside "Cold Summer" surprises with an intense and unsettling ballad that breaks new territory. Seabear started out as a one-man project of singer/guitarist Sindri Már Sigfússon, but grew into today's collective of 7 Icelanders with their 2007 debut album The Ghost That Carried Us Away.
Morr/ANumberOfSmallThings
45
$7.00

Seabear
The Ghost That Carried Us Away [reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, GERMANY Originally released by Morr Music in 2007, now re-released on vinyl by sub-label A Number Of Small Things, also including the sold-out 2007 Teenage Kicks vinyl 7". This is the debut release by Iceland's Seabear. The Ghost That Carried Us Away flatters in a rather unobtrusive way: fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by Sindri Már Sigfússon. Guitars, piano, his almost bashful and yet present voice -- themes of nature, mortality and love from Iceland's musical heartland, Reykjavik. Features members of Mum and Sigur Ros.
Morr/ANumberOfSmallThings
LP
$18.75

Secret History, The
The World That Never Was (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 16th)
PS, UK The Secret History was formed by cult songwriter Michael Grace Jr., vocalist Lisa Ronson, and Grace's long time collaborators from his previous project, the acclaimed indie-pop band My Favorite. Their upcoming full length was recorded with Josh Clarke (Beirut, New Pornographers) with a little transatlantic help from Woodie Taylor (Love Is All, Comet Gain) during much of a stormy 2009, and is being released by Le Grand Magistery. LGM has a decades long reputation for bringing literate and provocative songwriters and bands like Momus, Stars, Baxendale and PAS/CAL to American audiences for the first time, and that legacy continues with The Secret History. The songs of Michael Grace have made fans out of some of his own favorite artists, including Stuart Murdoch, and according to rumor (and his between acts tour music mix in 2006)...Morrissey. The last record these lads made together. My Favorite's "The Happiest Days of My Life" is considered a seminal indie pop record by those in the know, and was named "BEST OF DECADE" in Pitchfork Media's recent guest editors list. It was also prescient of much of the new wave/post punk revival that followed it, and was the focus of a Swedish National radio program. This new record is the realization of a group of songs Grace Jr. began right after that record, a much rumored "B-Movie Monster" album, where the fate of a generation is described through a series of horror vignettes & ghost stories featuring zombie hipsters, depressed vampires, flickering phantoms, and the occasional Sicilian saint. Grace's lyrics again create drive-in theaters out of bare bed-sit walls, while Ronson & Dermody sing like ghosts in the wires. Together as a band, they are creating a new form of continental art rock by drawing from the jangles of rainy Manchester, the buzz & stomp of glam, the innocence of the girl groups, and the anxiety of post-punk. They've picked through the trash of the 20th Century and found broken monuments besotted with bubble gum. "The World That Never Was" is a document of secret history, and monstrously beautiful record.
LeGrandMagistery-051
CD
$12.25

Skare
Solstice City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 30TH)
PS, ITALY Skare is the collaboration of Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse), Fredrik Olofsson and Per ...hlund -- all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and most of all the sound of this ever ongoing circle. Skare's first album, Solstice City, is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveler embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in "To the other shore", releases this pilgrim to further explore yet unchartered territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track "Through Wind and Broken Ice" takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track "The Snow Angel Factory"... The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments. All sound material has been digitally processed and arranged at Studio 3, EMS in Stockholm, Sweden.
GlacialMovements-005
CD
$16.25

Skelton, Richard
Landings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Imbued w/ a real sense of narrative - & of place - that is both epic in scale & yet intimate in feel. And so, we are taken on a literal journey across the threshold of "Noon Hill Wood," w/ its achingly-beautiful, interleaved bowed melodies, drifting through ranks of pine, larch & birch. "Greens Within
Brook" is a crushing Eno-esque ballad for concertina, recorded by the banks of a fledgling stream as the ice melted one wintry morning.
Type-055
CD
$15.50

Skelton, Richard
Landings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US DLP version contains an extra CD of bonus material.
Type-055
DLP
$25.25

Sonoi
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2ND)
PS, US Beautiful alt./jazz/pop from this new Chicago based band featuring members of Manishevitz, Califone, Edith Frost, Andrew Bird, and Smog. While the echoes of these past projects shine through in much of their work, what's most exciting is the depth of the sonic palette. This depth is evident in a song like "Sherry Fall." It starts off a straight-ahead pop song, punctuated by Busch's evocative phrasing, but in minutes transforms into a near motorik groove. Like many Sonoi songs, it makes one believe in pop music again. Even more adventurous is "Framed." Drifting into view with hovering guitar, lazy horns, and scattered snare drum, the song eventually meets up some sparse lyrical imagery before flute and horns quietly come to the fore, beautifully sketching the edges of a day lost to time. Wandering in the textures of sound and no redundant repetition, new discoveries in these songs are constantly made. One can hear traces of some of Cluster's more pastoral work (especially Sowiesoso). Starting as a collaborative recording project in late 2006 between Busch and Doerr, the unnamed group was joined by Hembrey a little less than a year later. Sonoi made its live debut in February 2008 at the Hideout (Chicago). Despite only operating as a live band for a little over a year, Sonoi have already shared the stage with The New Year, Destroyer, avant-folk leading lights MV & EE and legendary Czech rockers The Plastic People of the Universe. Adam Busch (Guitars and Vocals) and Ryan Hembrey (Bass guitar and Keyboards) are both veterans of the Chicago rock scene. Busch is best known for his group Manishevitz and their reformulation of English art-pop on such albums as City Life (2003) and East to East (2007). Hembrey, whose tenure in Manishevitz began in 2000, has also recorded and played with Califone, Edith Frost, Andrew Bird, and Smog. Relative newcomer Pierce Doerr, rounds out the trio on drums.Produced by, and featuring contributions by former Chicagoan Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble / Blues Oblique), Sonoi's eponymous debut was released to the world by UK/Australia based recording company Low Transit Industries 2nd of March 2010. "Featuring members of Manishevitz, Sonoi finds some middle ground among jazz, electro and rock while somehow skirting many of the cliches that sink so many similar conflagrations. It's intriguing experimental pop, with the potential to evolve into much more" Today's Critics' Picks - Time Out Chicago
LowTransitIndustries-099
CD
$13.50

Soundpool
But It's So (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Classic pop songwriting fused with hard driving disco backbeats... hooky bass lines... layered, shoegazey guitars and floating, atmospheric synths with Kim Field's unmistakably sincere and distinctively un-affected ethereal vocals. Both songs are from the forthcoming LP & CD Mirrors In Your Eyes, Soundpool's third full-length album, due early 2010 on Killer Pimp. This 7" is limited to 500 copies. "Soundpool. The best fucking band in the world!" - Ulrich Schnauss
KillerPimp-014
45
$4.25

SPC ECO
SPC ECO 3-D (Japanese Version) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, JAPAN Dean Garcia (Curve) returns with SPC ECO, a nu-gaze outfit whose singer is none other than Dean's daughter Rose Berlin. "SPC ECO 3-D" is their first album and features Rose's angelic vocals, heavy bass grooves, twinkling keyboards, guitar noise, and British styled electro beats. Joey Levenson (So Young) provides guitar fx, and the resulting amalgam is a colorful and shimmering shoegaze music of sugary pop goodness. The Japanese edition of the album includes three bonus tracks: two remixes plus "Silver Clouds," an exclusive track featuring Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis).
Quince-71
CD
$14.75

Spoon
Written In Reverse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Ltd edition, pink vinyl. "Written In Reverse" is the 1st single from Transference. Features an exclusive B-side "Mean Red Spider"
Merge-376
45
$4.50

Spoon
Transference (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Merge-365
LP
$16.50

Spoon
Transference (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Follow up to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. 11 new gems that honor the SPOON tradition while pushing the envelope of the band's sound ever further.
Merge-365
CD
$14.00

Stafraenn Hakon
Sanitas (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US Catchy melodies and euphoric compositions constitute Stafraenn Hakon's sixth album, Sanitas. The songs are yet intense and powerful and an adventurous continuation of Stafraenn Hakon's last release, Gummi that Gaz - eta described as a wild ride the band again took the listener on. Stafraenn Hakon has through the last years been described as a mix of post-rock, lo-fi, ambient guitar & electronica which still holds true to some extent though he with each album takes a giant leap and keeps growing as a musician. On Sanitas, Stafraenn Hakon travels to the other side of the sound spectrum, gradually moving further from electronica, subtle compositions and soothing melodies towards more straight forward, rock orientated compositions which the artist himself often describes as Power-Ambient, currently only audible to left handed polar bears. On Sanitas, Stafraenn Hakon continues his explorative journey, this time by taking another daring but natural step towards more pop oriented and sing along melodies, something that a few years ago sounded unlikely for the ambient post-rock/electronica band.
Darla-235
CD
$12.25

SubArachnoid Space
Eight Bells (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US 180 gram vinyl includes MP3 coupon. Gatefold featuring stunning new artwork from Stephen Kasner. The album continues in the same heavy, lysergic vein as their last couple of post-Release records, fusing wicked metallic crunch w/ ethereal, effects-laden guitar freakouts & some of their most narcotized jamming yet. Blazing luminous axe-howl over hypnotic heavy acid riffage & dense squalls of sound.
Strange Attractors
LP
$17.50

Subtractivelad
Life At The End Of The World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23RD)
PS, US In the beginning, it was impossible to predict subtractiveLAD's musical evolution. It was as if his first album 'Giving Up The Ghost' was the initial splash from a pebble thrown into a pond and each subsequent album a ripple which grew broader in scope, became less disruptive and more meditative. They have all had one key aspect in that Stephen Hummel, the man who records as subtractiveLAD, has always been genuine in the projection of emotions in his music. He does record for the ever emotionally driven n5MD imprint after all. On "Life At the End of the World," Hummel's 6th album, percussive elements, pretense of genre, and theoretical pollutants that could cloud the candid nature of this current ripple in Hummel's pond are a thing of the past. The result is one of subtractiveLad's most lush yet thread bare albums to date. Eno could be referenced, although Hummel now prefers the guitar as his main instrument. Further, "Life At the End of the World" is not all ambient movements and variations on a theme. At the three quarters point the album takes a tense turn with passages that would not be out of place on albums from Ben Frost or Jasper TX. One wonders what is really at the end of Hummel's world? "Life at the end of the world" is Hummel's catharsis, anxiety, and joy. We can hear that he is at a crossroads in his life and subsequently has created his largest most majestic ripple in the pond yet.
n5MD-173
CD
$12.25

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION, blue wax in a gatefold jacket.
KanineRecords-482
LP
$13.75

Surfer Blood
Astro Coast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Anthemic, bombastic, life-affirming indie pop! Debut full-length from buzzy Florida band praised by NY TIMES: "'Velvet Underground and punk riffs, reverberating textures, African-style guitar filigrees, grunge crescendos, power-pop choruses headed for anthems and, yes, some surf-rock twang." ROLLING STONE: "Giant-sized choruses, festooned in glitter and lit up with neon." PICTHFORK: "Lo-fi clangor, glo-fi harmonies, punchy retro-garage concision, never-out-of-style classic rock song-craft."
KanineRecords-482
CD
$11.00

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
Ps, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
CD
$13.00

T-Model Ford
The Ladies Man LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Hill Country blues legend James "T Model" Ford recorded in the studio in Wichita, KS with some newer young musician-friends. This is pure T-Model playing acoustic guitar and sounding better than ever.
AliveRecords-0103
LP
$13.00

Toro Y Moi
Causers Of This (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Carpark
LP
$14.00

Toro Y Moi
Causers Of This (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Toro Y Moi is the sound the world has been waiting for. This multi-cultural juggernaut gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe- R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica -and creates something-freaking-else! Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length "Causers Of This", Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi's funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination.
Carpark
CD
$12.50

Travel By Sea
Days Of My Escape (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, US An atmospheric and organic gallery of moody and rootsy vignettes.
AutumnToneRecords-003
CD
$11.25

Tyla And The Dogs
Bloody Hell Fire (2xCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Brand new 23 track 2 CD set from Tyla and The Dogs. The album features current liveb favourites "111", "Supreme Creator" and "The Rave" and includes some of Tyla's finest songs to date. This band were formed from the seminal Dogs D'Amour.
Houseof111
DCD
$20.75

Unbunny
Moon Food (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2010)
PS, US New Unbunny album in 2010....rejoice!
AHiddenAgendaRecord-097
CD
$10.00

Unbunny
Black Strawberries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US It took Unbunny's devoted fans to make this special release happen! Extremely limited-edition, only 300 pressed on 180g white vinyl.
CatbirdSpecialProjects
LP
$20.00

Uncle Tupelo
Anodyne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 1ST)
PS, US
Rhino
LP
$24.00

Vampire Weekend
Contra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
XLRecordings
LP
$14.75

Vampire Weekend
Contra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Like the first album, Contra was produced by keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and is the realization of a whole and unique musical vision that sees the band stretching out and adding new textures, instrumentation, and rhythms into their sound.Primarily recorded in New York with a springtime sojourn to Mexico, Contra feels altogether fresh, joyous, and like nothing else but is immediately recognizable as the sound of Vampire Weekend.
XLRecordings
CD
$14.00

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Double LP Version
World Psychedelic
DLP
$18.00

Various
Roots Uprising (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US 'Roots Uprising' is the first full length release on the newly-formed label from Reggae Roast Promotions, who have solidified their position at the top of UK roots and reggae over the last couple of years, running some of the most-talked about events in the south. Resident DJs Exel and Moodie have been joined by special guests of the calibre of Lee Perry, Collie Buddz, Sly & Robbie, Finley Quaye, Mad Professor, David Rodigan, Suggs, and many more, and to build on the strength of their ever-popular sessions, 'Roots Uprising' aims to realise and document the growing vitality of the UK roots music scene.
ReggaeRoast-002
CD
$13.75

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US 41+ members strong - the JOAN OF ARC extended family comes together for 18 exclusive songs curated by JOA frontman Tim Kinsella. Features new songs by TIM KINSELLA, OWEN, CALE PARKS (ALOHA), VACATIONS (ex-CHIN UP CHIN UP), GHOSTS & VODKA (ex-CAP'N JAZZ), EUPHONE, CAIRO GANG, DISAPPEARS, BIRDSHOW, A TUNDRA, WHITE/LIGHT
Polyvinyl-191
CD
$9.50

Various
Joan of Arc Presents: Don't Mind Control (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US 2LP version, ltd to 500 on orange vinyl
Polyvinyl-191
DLP
$16.00

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION
Numero-030
DLP
$19.00

Various
Casual Victim Pile (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Casual Victim Pile = an anagram of "Live Music Capital". You can safely assume that with all due respect to the City of Austin's attempts to promote itself as such. This compilation is only meant to reflect what I like in Austin circa 2008-2010 But there's something to be said for a highly arbitrary take on things...Whether or notthere's a genuine tie to the region's musical history is up for debate - Gerard Cosloy, Austin TX, 9/2009
Matador
CD
$11.00

Various
Dengue Fever Presents: Electic Cambodia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US 14 newly remastered 1960s surf garage psychedelic rockers never released outside Cambodia, chosen by the members of DENGUE FEVER from their collection of rare Cambodian cassettes
Minky
LP
$21.25

Various
Brasilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces, 1967-1976 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US The heaviest, rarest, best fuzz-funk-psych singles from Brazil, compiled on one CD.
World Psychedelic
CD
$16.75

Various
Private Space (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, JAPAN This compilation is made special to feature the most popular Japanese post-classical/electronica artists. It is easy to listen to and helps you relax, providing a much deeper listening experience after repeated listening. These bright sounds perfectly suit listening in your "Private Space" while dozing off and the precious melodies made by these Japanese artists will last forever, not just momentarily.
p*dis-6505
CD
$16.25

Various
Hyperdub 5.5 EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 23rd)
PS, US A series of five 12-inch EPs featuring a selection of the new tunes will be issued, one per week, leading up to the release of '5'. The initial pressing quantity of these EPs will be dictated by preorder demand, and none will be repressed, nor will they be made available digitally, before the complete CD collection is on sale.
HyperdubRecords-027
12
$10.50

Various
Si, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, Vol.2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 30TH)
PS, CANADA Volume 2 of the first ever fully licensed compilation of Cuban funk from Castro's golden years.
WaxingDeep-003
CD
$18.25

Various
Good God! Born Again Funk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US Four years after A Gospel Funk Hymnal, Numero returns with not quite a New Testament, rather a re-examintaion of a weighty tome. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers & performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration & invention. They were faithful to a spirit, not an ordained sound
Numero-030
CD
$15.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1 (LP) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
LP
$15.50

Various Artists
Unpiecing The Jigsaw: Velvet Underground Tribute (4xCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US The idea for this 4 cd set came from collecting together all the tribute tracks originally released on the 3 legendary Immagi-nary Records tribute albums in the early 90's and tying them up in one set along with the excellent incisive John Tobler audio interview with Lou Reed and along the way we found a couple of rare 1980's live tracks of Nico performing Velvet's material. The influence of The Velvet Underground on rock greatly exceeds their sales figures and chart numbers. They are one of the most important rock and roll bands of all time, laying the groundwork in the Sixties for many tangents rock music would take in ensuing decades. Features Nirvana, Echo & The Bunnymen, Swervedriver, Screaming Trees and more.
Ozit-16
CD
$25.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2 (2xLP) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
LP
$20.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Reissue of Volume 2 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, entering the vaults of De Wolfe, Amphonic and once again KPM. As with a bulk of Exclusive Blend 1, many of these tracks were receiving their first commercial airing on this album's release. Released in 1997, the album also introduced James Clarke's Wild Elephants to the world, which was subsequently picked up by Gap and used on the 1999, "Khaki A Go-Go" worldwide campaign. As a thank you from the writer it was re-titled "Blow Up A-Go-Go‟ and became the title track for the successful V2 / Blow Up compilation, "Blow Up A-Go-Go! Dancefloor Classics from The Legendary Blow Up Club." This album includes tracks from many great music library theme writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw and Syd Dale, and includes the Alan Moorhouse Hammond heavy classic "Soul Skimmer" and the spaced out tribal funk of Nick Ingman's "Tripwire."
BlowUpRecords-011
CD
$13.75

Various Artists
Exclusive Blend Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12th)
PS, US Reissue of Volume 1 from the classic groundbreaking Blow Up presents Exclusive Blend music library series sees Paul Tunkin, DJ & founder of legendary Blow Up club, taking us on a journey deep into the vaults of the KPM music library. The album features the cream of the KPM Music Library writers including Keith Mansfield, Alan Hawkshaw, Alan Parker and Johnny Pearson, From the pounding up-tempo of 'Move, Move, Move' through the Hammond-heavy 'Beat Me 'Til I'm Blue' and 'Rocky Mountain Runabout' (versions of both featuring on the legendary Mohawks 'The Champ' album) to the sitar 60s club sound of 'Delhi Discotheque' and 'Come here Calcutta'. Most of these tracks had never been commercially available before this release.
BlowUpRecords-006
CD
$13.75

Veirs, Laura
July Flame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
Ps, US Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls "the best album of 2010," explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and the realization that such things rarely exist.
RavenMarchingBand-006
LP
$13.75

Veirs, Laura
July Flame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 12TH)
PS, US Her seventh album explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, pastoral dales, fireworks and warm nights, her lyrics explore the dichotomy between one's desire for permanence and security and the realization that such things rarely exist. The album breaks from Veirs' previous full-band efforts, although many of the same players make appearances on the album, including longtime collaborators Karl Blau and Steve Moore. String arrangements are featured more on this album than on others; the brilliant improviser Eyvind Kang plays viola on many songs, and legendary arranger Stephen Barber composed hauntingly beautiful string quartet arrangements for three songs.
RavenMarchingBand-006
CD
$12.00

Venia
Frozen Hands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US Hailing from Minneapolis, MN, VENIA has a positive, multi-faceted message that stands in stark contrast to the nature of many of their hardcore contemporaries.
Blood&InkRecords-1034
CD
$12.25

Vibracathedral Orchestra
Smoke Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US Members of SUNROOF!, TOTAL, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN. Reminiscent of the best Spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse & riding it into organ & percussion fueled bliss
VHF-121
LP
$16.00

Volcano, I m Still Excited
Volcano, I m Still Excited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26TH)
PS, US 1st time on vinyl! Ltd to 2,000. Often sounding like a much more excited Spoon (w/ a Casio), these are loveably unconventional short pop songs.
Polyvinyl-067
LP
$12.75

Ween
Mollusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1997. After an exercise in country music on 12 Golden Country Greats, the duo returns to its usual genre jumping, though there is a heavy focus on prog-rock
Plain-143
LP
$17.00

Ween
White Pepper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Originally relased in 2000. The duo are outsider pop geniuses in the greatest sense of the term, brilliant musicians w/ a firm grasp on just about every popular genre in the last 50 years (brit-pop, prog, country, soul, new wave, & beyond) & a quirk streak a mile wide.
Plain-144
LP
$17.00

Ween
12 Golden Country Greats (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US 5th full-length, originally released in 1996. The group's classic sense of humor filtered through a distinct countrypolitan sound
Plain-142
LP
$17.00

Whisper in the Noise
Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music.
Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices.
ExileOnMainstream-030
CD
$13.50

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Hypnotic, defiantly psychedelic funk. Features members of the DAP KINGS, POETS OF RHYTHM & EL MICHELS AFFAIR.
Now Again
CD
$16.50

Whitefield Brothers
Earthology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US Vinyl Version!
Now Again
DLP
$17.50

Wolfmen, The
Married To The Eiffel Tower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 20TH)
PS, US MARCO PIRRONI and CHRIS CONSTANTINOU, are also known as WOLFMEN. MARRIED TO THE EIFFEL TOWER is an extraordinary record. Its leadoff single JACKIE, IS IT MY BIRTHDAY? features the great Sinead O'Connor duetting with Chris. (Wolfmen also back Sinead on her forthcoming album, which promises to be the crunchiest since Marco worked with her on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got).
Howl-008
CD
$13.75

Wonder Years, The
The Upsides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 26th)
PS, US The Upsides is a record about hope. In writing The Upsides, THE WONDER YEARS have created a soundtrack for the hopeful. Throughout the LP, the band continually sings, "I'm not sad anymore" in the hopes that everyone still feeling the weight of the past year can soon sing along.
NoSleepRecords-022
CD
$10.75

Worm Ouroboros
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19TH)
PS, US The doom-edged sound is reminiscent of classic 4AD acts like This Mortal Coil & Cocteau Twins. Delicately crafted structures counterbalance segments of distorted, down-tuned heaviness, resulting in an ethereal & atmospheric vibe that unfolds over the album's 9 tracks.
ProfoundLore-051
CD
$14.00

You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US After burning out and hitting an all-time low, You Say Party! We Say Die! (aka YSP!WSD!)emerged from conflict and strife all the stronger, with the motto that "the loving is the everything." They make their triumphant return with "XXXX", a slick, new-wave inspired record that still holds true to their original sound. With handmade covers, the vinyl is strictly limited to 300 copies.
PaperBag-045
LP
$16.25

You Say Party! We Say Die!
XXXX (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 9TH)
PS, US After burning out and hitting an all-time low, You Say Party! We Say Die! (aka YSP!WSD!)emerged from conflict and strife all the stronger, with the motto that "the loving is the everything." They make their triumphant return with "XXXX", a slick, new-wave inspired record that still holds true to their original sound.
PaperBag-045
CD
$13.75

Zurich & Ohs
Bedroom Madness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 19th)
PS, CANADA The story behind the Montreal-based electro pop duo begins with a pair of high school sweethearts and spans a decade of couplehood, musical projects and everything in between. With the release of their debut full-length Goodbye Friend, Welcome Lover (2005) on Noise Factory Records, Edmund and Heidi have crafted their best, most focused work to date in the form of infectious pop compositions driven by the interplay of charming, glitchy electronics with engaging, sharp melodies. Their dynamic and energetic live show has earned them invitations to CMJ, Pop Montreal, Canadian Music Week, North By North East, Ladyfest, Halifax Pop Explosion and the CBC radio 3 national tour, sharing stages with indie legends like Mates of State, Sloan, Ivy, Japanther, as well buzz making newcomers Tokyo Police Club, Pony Up! and Most Serene Republic. Hexes & Ohs' debut album topped the campus radio charts, reaching the #2 position nationally and remaining in the top 10 for several months. The album's single "Whadaya Know?" also made CBC radio 3's list of top 50 singles of 2005.
NoiseFactory-753
CD
$13.50