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New Releases

18th Dye
Amorine Queen
PS, DENMARK New album, their first in 13 years, from awesome Danish/German outfit who had several amazing albums released by Matador in the 90s. Half the album's up on their myspace page, check it out. With their groundbreaking, catchy and consistently explosive rock 18TH DYE earned great recognition in the international music press during the 90s. They toured all over the US and Europe and left a name, which has inspired a vast number of bands. With Amorine Queen 18TH DYE continue their intensive work during the 90s. 18TH DYE doesn't just thrill the fans from ten years ago, but also carry away a new audience - a fact that's hard to miss at their recent concerts.
CrunchyFrog
CD
$16.25

Acid Mothers Temple & THe Cosmic Inferno
Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno
PS, UK "Though we shall henceforth be Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, the new group will also be known in short as Acid Mothers Temple and this will no doubt sow confusion in the minds of many. But the true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple are many - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple SWR. The future may see yet other groups bearing similar names. But each and all of them will be true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple. Thus, on this the tenth anniversary of the founding of Acid Mothers Temple, I announce the birth of the hellchild, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno" - Kawabata Makoto. First studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. A churning psychedelic mandala driven by Pikachu and Koji Shimura's (ex Mainliner, ex High Rise, ex Nagisa Ni Te) explosive twin drum assault. The original super-heavy AMT & TCI groove is blended with Pikachu's wild and spontaneous power. Against a background of ultra-loud fuzz-wah guitar and swooping space sounds, Pikachu and Tabata's (Zeni Geva, ex Boredoms) twin vocals beckon you on an endless journey through the cosmic inferno! Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno are : Tabata Mitsuru : bass, voice, maratab Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king Shimura Koji : drums, latino cool Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru Pikachu : drums, cosmic shaman (from Afrirampo) Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno
VeryFriendly-046
CD
$17.75

AIDS Wolf
Cities of Glass
PS, US "Easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Discordance still rules their roost, but more prog is rearing its head--that both teases & startles" - Montreal Mirror
SkinGraft
CD
$14.25

AIDS Wolf
Cities of Glass
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LovePumpUnited
DLP
$18.75

Alvarez, Lesser, Gonzalez
Why Is Bear Billowing
PS, US A couple years ago, Baltimore's Alvarez was playing stripped down electro-pop (60s French chanteuse style) in the band Cache Cache. Other projects include playing guitar in the drone-tinged country-folk group The Tall Grass, as well as an electronic side project called The Ruby Stallion Ensemble. On this release, Lesser and his acoustic guitar craft some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year. He delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan.
Carpark
CD
$13.00

Beach Boys
Pet Sounds
PS, US Get 'em while you can!
Capitol
LP
$20.00

Believer
September 2008
PS, US Interviews w/ TIM & ERIC, RICHARD DAWKINS, & RICHARD MCCANN, a new monthly column by GREIL MARCUS, features by PAUL COLLINS, ROLF POTTS, & ANDER MONSON.
ZINE
$9.25

Bird Show
Untitled
PS, US All Music Written & Performed by Ben Vida (Central Falls and Town & Country), with Greg Davis, Robert Lowe, Adam Vida and Michael Zerang. Recorded in Chicago, IL & Burlington, VT 2007-2008. Ben Vida; Hammond XB-2, microKorg, Moog Voyager, Gibson SG, Berinbau, Shona Mbira, Slit Drum, Pan Pipes, Shakers, Vietnamese Jaw Harp, Tambourines, Ride Cymbal, Congas, Wood Flute, Ring Modulator, Elephant Bells, Violin, Qraqeb, Zither, Voice, Ten String Harp, Frame Drum, Finger Cymbals, Triangle.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Bitch
#41
PS, US Feminist response to pop culture. The Loud Issue. Making a racket: metal maidens, laughing ladies, ambitious authors, and much more.
ZINE
$5.50

Black Nielson
Current Sunlight
PS, AUSTRALIA Beautiful 2005 album from now defunct British troubadours. Mike now plays in LTI band Co-pilgrim. At just under 5 years since the inception of the band, Black Nielson has established an impressive reputation, both on record and as a live act. The modest level of success achieved by the band can be traced in a steady trajectory from noble beginnings on the south coast of England, formed by principle songwriter Michael Gale... And that trajectory shows no sign of abating.
LowTransitIndustries-022
CD
$13.50

Bloody Panda
Pheromone
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LevelPlane
LP
$13.50

Boat
Topps
PS, US The new 7" EP by Seattle's BOAT comes with five hand-drawn baseball cards, a piece of "crunchy/sugary/pink" bubblegum, & a ticket to download all the EP's four songs (plus a bonus track) as mp3s.
MagicMarker
45
$6.00

Boddicker
Big Lionhearted & The Galant Man
PS, AUSTRALIA Quirky debut album from teen prodigy co-written & recorded by Brain Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine). "A rambling, rollicking and spikey vision of Americana, indie-rock and blues... brilliant" ROLLING STONE - 3 1/2 stars "Touched by a beautiful naievity and innocence, this is where all pop music originated from. Worth seeing where Boddicker can go with it" THE CITY HUB
LowTransitIndustries-059
CD
$13.50

Bound Stems
Family Afloat
PS, US This expresses a crucial personal transition & a collective one. While BOUND STEMS quit their day-jobs to tour relentlessly throughout 2006 in support of their previous album (one that garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Alternative Press, URB & Chicago Tribune), the band returned home ready for new challenges, & made the communal decision to return to the more stable life of work weeks & strong roots. It was a choice that also ultimately made the concept of home central to this 2008 album. The songs sound like preparation: the family has grown now, to include new ones being formed in Chicago. But there's no settling down in these songs: family life is raw & confusing, as uncomfortable & unexpected & rewarding as crucial.
Flameshovel
CD
$13.25

Bound Stems
Family Afloat
PS, US LTD ED 180gm LP vinyl. 500 total pressing (250 black/250 orange). Includes digital download code.
Flameshovel
LP
$13.25

Braid
Frame & Canvas
PS, US These guys toured so much they should be the poster boys for Rand McNally. Seminal album that defined a genre and cemented Braid's legacy - Frame and Canvas has been out of print on LP for several years. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and
includes a digital download code.
Polyvinyl-018
LP
$12.50

Broken West
Now Or Heaven
PS, US Their sophomore full-length originates from home - the longing to get there and all that comes from being there. Each song is a maturation from the band's debut. The familiar catchy melodies are still there, as are the sublime harmonies and wry guitars, but "Now Or Heaven" is infused with a deeper, more serious perspective of the world.
Merge
CD
$14.00

Bubblegum Lemonade
Susan's in the Sky EP
PS, US Scottish wonderkids Bubblegum Lemonade debuted early this year with an outstanding single 'Ten Years Younger' that earned song of the day honors on influential radio station KEXP and amassed countless positive reviews in the music press including favorable comparisons to influential 60's popstars (The Velvet Underground, The Monkees, The Byrds) and 80's indie legends (Jesus and Mary Chain, Razorcuts, Biff Bang Pow!). Before delivering the all important debut album, the band pause for a moment to release a spectacular second EP! Title track 'Susan's In The Sky' is an everyday tale of an airhostess and her slacker boyfriend caught up in a Romeo and Juliet type scenario. It's another sunshine wall of pop with Rickenbacker guitars, tambourines and nice organ bits. A short dose of California sunshine perfect for all seasons. Among the EP's exclusive extra tracks, the cleverly titled 'Surfin' USB' is a proper jangle with fuzzy guitars and a nice Beach Boys coda, while 'Just Like You' continues the California theme in a 150 bpm mini classic drenched in Mary Chain feedback with a mix of fuzz and surf guitars. Closing track 'Holocaust' is a superb cover of the legendary Big Star classic featuring a mix of Rickenbacker and acoustic guitars. Once described as "the perfect C86 pop band that just happened to turn up 22 years behind schedule," Bubblegum Lemonade deliver instantly memorable songs with brilliant pop melodies. 'Susan's In The Sky' is another remarkable success for Matinée and a vibrant reminder of the essential new pop coming out of Scotland. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve.
Matinee-069
CD5
$6.50

Calexico
Carried to Dust
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Quarterstick
LP
$14.00

Calexico
Carried to Dust
PS, US There's always been intrigue & adventure at the heart of CALEXICO. Since the beginning (now 18 yrs together), they have constantly imbued their music w/ an unparalleled sense of drama, calling upon the myths & iconography of the American West & its Spanish speaking neighbor Mexico. Equal parts Sergio Leone, Larry McMurtry, Carlos Fuentes & Cormac McCarthy. Their most varied & strongest work to date. Guest appearances by SAM BEAM (IRON & WINE), DOUG MCCOMBS (TORTOISE), & PIETA BROWN. Tons of press slated from Uncut, Spin, Paste, Filter, tons more. Digipak CD.
Quarterstick
CD
$14.25

Callers
Fortune
PS, US The 11 songs here channel a temporal sense of place & hope over despair. W/the wounded perseverance of Karen Carpenter & the vulnerable, tough-as-nails courage of Heart's Ann Wilson, SARA LUCAS' voice is rich & unforgettable. RYAN SEATON's guitar work is equally engaging, as he masterfully delivers beautiful & unusual chords, gritty distortion, & even intricate flourishes that call to mind the ever-impressive Tinariwen.
WesternVinyl-52
CD
$11.50

Camp, Greg
Defektor
PS, US Camp is best known as the Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum songwriter/guitarist of Smash Mouth. He pulls out all the stops on his new solo album with fourteen shiny new songs, spanning such influences as 60s pop, surf, garage, spaghetti western soundtracks, rock 'n' roll, new wave, and funk.
BarNone
CD
$12.50

Carr, Derek
The Digital Space Race
PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record.
Psychonavigation-025
CD
$15.50

Carter, Tom
Shots At Infinity
PS, US Comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern US from late 2007. Steering away from the more delicate string environments & modal folk improvisations of previous CDs, the disc features maximum loop delay drone overload stretched over long, densely harmonic tracks, retaining the melodic content & flow of earlier releases. His solo work covers a lot of territory, but latter-day sightings show him concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely stacked beauty, w/heaps of psychedelic melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise & drone bands.
Important-202
CD
$13.00

Chambers, Don & Goat
Zebulon
PS, US Don Chambers and Goat dispenses with gimmickry, but its lyrics and arrangements are well prepared for a level field...it marks Chambers as a dukes-up purveyor of eerie sincerity" - Flagpole Magazine. "...sounds like Tom Waits if he'd grown up in the north Georgia mountains" - Nashville Scene.
WarmElectronic
CD
$12.00

Chemical Brothers
Brotherhood [deluxe expanded retrospective]
PS, US Fifteen-track "Best Of", includes two new tracks. Second disc is ten tracks from their series of DJ test pressings called Electronic Battle Weapon.
Astralwerks
DCD
$25.00

Chemical Brothers
Brotherhood [retrospective]
PS, US Fifteen-track Best Of includes more recent offerings and two new tracks, block rockin' beats galore.
Astralwerks
CD
$17.75

Child Bite
Fantastic Gusts of Blood
PS, US Latest 10 song endeavor is the Band's contribution to evolutions of 2 great art forms: human superstition & pop music. This record is odd yet catchy, perfectly blending modern pop music w/the more abstract. Ambitious, yes. Satisfying to your ears, oh god yes.
SuburbanSprawl
CD
$12.75

Chunklet
#20
PS, US The final installment in a trilogy of EP's recorded for Acuarela. This is the most commercial & (shockingly) danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light & shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is the group as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colours; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque.
ZINE
$10.00

Clientele, The
That Night, A Forest Grew
PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque.
Acuarela-067
CD5
$8.25

Coltrane, John
Love Supreme (Remastered)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Impulse
LP
$13.50

Cornelius
Sensurround & B-Sides
PS, US DVD version of the wonderful Sensuous, including videos that have been used in the live shows of the latest tour, short films directed by Tsujikawa Koichiro, Takagi Masakatsu and Groovisions. Additionally, a bonus audio CD is included, bringing you the b-sides & remixes from the Sensuous project. Includes a rare collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, remixes by Prefuse 73 and The Books, plus a capella versions by Petra Haden.
Everloving
DVD/CD
$24.50

D+
What is Doubt For?
PS, US KARL BLAU, Phil Elverum (MT. EERIE/MICROPHONES) & Bret Lunsford (BEAT HAPPENING) return w/their 6th proper release that continues further down their path of minimalism.
Knw-Yr-Own
CD
$14.75

Dawson, Kimya
Alphabutt
PS, US K is proud to announce the release of KIMYA DAWSON'S new studio album, "Alphabutt". Set for a September 9th release, "Alphabutt" is a collection of children's songs written by Dawson along with a number of her musical friends and their children. Hailed by the likes of Rolling Stone, NPR, Blender and Pitchfork, as a seriously talented wordsmith, Dawson successfully leads a group of children in this sunny and energetic batch of songs with plenty of fun in the form of snapping fingers, clapping hands and stamping feet. "Alphabutt" follows up the highly successful soundtrack, "JUNO", which featured many of Dawson's songs. Like Dawson's previous releases, "Alphabutt", succeeds by being tender and vulnerable, silly and raw while maintaining the intimacy and sense of community that has become so special to both fans and critics. Clocking in at 27 minutes, "Alphabutt" effortlessly showcases Dawson's powerful talent for storytelling.
Krecords-193
CD
$11.50

Dead Science
Villainaire
PS, US A majestic, ornate & soaring collection of pos-ounk avant-pop. A brilliant song cycle driven by layers fo vibrato-laden voice, dark lyricism & sterling guitar work. Guest vocals by Craig Wredren (SHUDDER TO THINK).
Constellation
CD
$15.25

Dean & Britta
L'Avventura [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Originally released in 2003, this was conceived as a side project for LUNA bandmates (now husband & wife) Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips. The album is a mix of duets, originals & covers (songs by Opal, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Madonna, The Doors, & Silver Jews. Includes 4 remixed tracks by Sonic Boom, originally released on the Sonic Souvenirs EP.
DoubleFeature
CD
$13.75

Desveaux, Angela
Mighty Ship
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Desveaux, Angela
Mighty Ship
PS, US Follow up release to her 2006 debut. This album borrows its title from a traditional folk ballad about the Titanic, but it also refers to DESVEAUX's Grandmother, which whom she is very close & who sadly lost her 1st husband at sea. Ever since the release of her debut album & after much touring w/ Bruce Cockburn, Archer Prewitt, Califone & Howe Gelb - Desveaux is now a much more confident bandleader, which is apparent on this album. It is a bold step for her - the song writing is assured &, as always, her voice & range takes center stage - very much influenced & informed by artists like Chrissy Hynde, Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, Gillian Welch & Lucinda Williams.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Die Kreuzen
S-T [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Their self-titled debut is considered one of the most seminal hardcore records of the early 80s and has been unavailable on vinyl for thirteen years.
TouchAndGo
LP
$11.00

Die Kreuzen
October File [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Remember that flannel shirt movement in the 90s? This is what those guys were listening to.
TouchAndGo
LP
$11.00

Dissard, Marianne
L'Entredeux
PS, US Chanson meets Americana in a beautifully orchestrated and sensual album by Marianne Dissard and Joey Burns of Calexico. Made in Tucson, Arizona with Burns and John Convertino (Calexico) Naïm Amor (Amor Belhom Duo, ABBC), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio, Tadzik), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) and scores of Tucson collaborators.
TropExpresMusic
CD
$12.00

Donkeys, The
Living On The Other Side
PS, US If THE DONKEYS' backstory contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopian surf tableaus, it also contains the malaise and the escape fantasies familiar to all suburban kids of the 80s and 90s. Part of this magic comes from the fact that there's no artifice to the Donkeys' songs, from the matter-of-fact breakup blues of "Boot on the Seat" to the playful recollections of a late, drunken night narrated on "Nice Train." These are everyday lives in the postmodern world expressed with a deep respect for classic songs from the 70s through the 90s -- for spacey grooves and soulful, jangly swagger -- that elevates the subject matter beyond the ordinary. "Living on the Other Side", the band's second album, is not meant to hit you over the head with a flamboyant single - instead, imagine Ray Davies jamming with the Byrds, or a Gene Clark-fronted Buffalo Springfield -- and you'll get a sense of the tradition that informs this band.
DeadOceans-14
LP
$11.50

Dreadful Yawns
Take Shape
PS, US Also available in LIMITED LP w/ hand screened covers & free digital download code.
ExitStencil
LP
$10.00

Dreadful Yawns
Take Shape
PS, US After 3 albums of sublime, blessed-out country folk rock, "Take Shape" displays a grittier Yawns w/o abandoning the pop sensibilities that made them a "Band to Watch" according to Spin. Comparisons to the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd & Sonic Youth mixed w/ environmental influences of living amongst a vibrant arts scene in a Midwestern rest belt town.
ExitStencil
CD
$10.00

Duchess Says
Anthologie des 3
PS, US New Wave intensity meets punk rock fury: screaming guitars, moaning bass and relentless drumming fused with keyboards & explosively sexy vocals. Punked out electronic music that recalls the likes of more-or-less contemporaries like Six Finger Satellite, Lesbians On Ecstacy, Glass Candy and the Chromatics (and Peaches, believe it or not), while harkening back to Missing Persons and Flock of Seagulls for nostalgic purposes.
Alien8
CD
$12.75

Dungen
Satt Att Se [LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL]
PS. SWEDEN Dungen presents a brand new 12" that extends the acclaimed Swedish outfit's sound even further. Beats surging forth, stirring orchestration with cinematic undertones and atmospheric changes that highlight their trademark evolutionary sound. This lush pop portrait laced with orange sunshine guitar flash stands as one of the most fully-realized moments of Dungen's career. 1,000 copies in a hand-numbered, vinyl-only limited edition release.
SubliminalSounds
12
$15.00

Durrett, Liz
Outside Our Gates
PS, US Produced and arranged by indie rock icon, Eric Bachmann (Archers Of Loaf, Crooked Fingers, Azure Ray), "Outside Our Gates" represents a sonic leap forward for Liz Durrett. Her spare, acoustic downbeats have been supplanted by a more textured and diverse orchestra of sounds. A virtual cacophony of instruments are here (strings, wurlitzers, accordions, grand space pianos, and marching drums) and Bachmann's score somehow harmonizes them seamlessly to provide the perfect setting for Liz's near stream of consciousness writings and soft, pitch-perfect voice. Additional performances by Vic Chesnutt, Brian Causey (Man Or Astro-Man?), Amanda Kapousouz (Tin Cup Phrophette), and members of Ham1.
WarmElectronic
CD
$13.00

Enablers
End Note
PS, US The debut full-length from this new San Francisco combo comprised of some indie journeymen who've done time in OUT IN WORSHIP, SWANS, TOILING MIDGETS, HIM, NICE STRONG ARM, TIMCO, TARNATION, BROKEN HORSE, and others. Led by underground literary journalist PETE SIMONELLI, the band deliver ten tracks of spoken vocals, backed by powerful noise rock sounds. Visceral. CD version released by Neurot.
Midmarch
LP
$16.00

Free Blood
Royal Family
PS, US ONLY A HANDFUL IN STOCK - ORDER ASAP! Released on the RONG MUSIC label (DFA offshoot label)... the 2nd in a series of 3 12''s from this new Brooklyn 2 piece consisting of MADELINE DAVY (Octopi NYC) & JOHN PUGH (formerly of !!!). The flip, "Grumpy," incl. tuff cello stabs & screeching vocal effects over a raucous disco break. Warped & funky is one way to describe it. UK disco DJ & re-edit legend GREG WILSON closes the single w/ his own take on the track.
Rong/DFA
12
$8.00

Giant Sand
Provisions
PS, US The musical family tree of the group is long & illustrious, spawning bands like Calexico & The Friends of Dean Martinez. Howe Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots & lo-fi. This is cinematic Americana at its most aching, an album of tremolo soaked guitars, moody piano & secrets whispered over desert winds. Features talented friends/collaborators such as Neko Case, M. Ward & Isobell
Campbell.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50

Giant Sand
Provisions
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
DLP
$18.25

Giants
Old Stories
PS, US "Mixing the best of Explosions in the Sky, The Appleseed Cast, & Unwed Sailor, these midwesterners are making uptempo, melodic instrumental music perfect for any vacation flight, late night drive, or early morning walk" - Mammoth Press. RIYL: EITS, Caspian & Mono.
CavityRecords
CD
$13.50

Girls Against Boys
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. "Avoiding the clichés of early-90s indie rock for its own surly, charismatic edge, Girls Against Boys here kicked out the jams like nobody's business...A comparison to Flipper could be made, but instead of the generally slow, death-march tempos of that act, Girls Against Boys always keep moving a dark death dance" - All Music Guide.
TouchAndGo
LP
$11.00

Great Depression
Forever Altered
PS, US A lush & well-produced psychedelic-tinged intricate beauty. Layered, rich structures support well-crafted melodies & a warm & embracing sound. The tone is still generally blissful & sombre, though w/a definite injection of melodic pop energy, particularly on the charging title track. Their chamber-pop & shoegaze influences lend them comparisons to early Spiritualized, MBV & Radiohead, though pop sensibilities & Todd Casper's own impressive production talents make their varied approach entirely cohesive.
Fire
CD
$14.50

Greater Than One
G-Force
PS, US G-Force marks a clear transitionary period from the post-industrial sounds of London to the techno sounds of Tricky Disco and GTO. The package includes all the music from both singles "I Don't Need God" and "Utopia" plus the Index EP, various compilation tracks, and music from the Japanese-only VHS tape Video Drug 1, available on CD for the first time ever.
BrainwashedArchives
3XCD
$14.00

Greater Than One
London (2XCD/DVD)
PS, US London was the introduction of Greater Than One to the blossoming post-industrial culture as spearheaded by Chicago-based WaxTrax! Records. It was released in July of 1989 as a double LP/single CD collection of music recorded from 1987-1988 on Greater Than One's London-based label, K=K Recordings, and includes the entire LP of Dance of the Cowards. The recordings here have been digitally remastered by the legendary Jeff Lipton (Numero Group, Rykodisc, the list goes on forever) of Peerless Mastering and sound stunning. Bonus material includes the music from the Duty + Trust cassette, originally issued in 1991 by ROIR as well as other compilation tracks recorded at the time. Enhanced CD content includes photos, cover images, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and words from Michael Wells and many others. DVD includes the music videos for "I Don't Need God," "Utopia," and "Pure," as well as three lengthy projections from their performances (featuring user-selectable soundtrack) and an "art reel."
BrainwashedArchives
DCD/DVD
$15.50

Greater Than One
All The Masters Licked Me
PS, US This was Greater Than One's first "proper" LP, issued originally in 1987 by Graeme Revell (SPK) and Brian (Lustmord) Williams on their Side Effects Records label. Here it is paired with Trust, their first attempt at the album's recording but released in 1990 on We Never Sleep (LP) and in 1991 by ROIR (CS). While the popular world knows more about Lee Newman and Michael Wells as Technohead, GTO, or Tricky Disco, All The Masters Licked Me is their first fully realized concept of weaving samples into a vivid aural tapestry. From the original press release: "The music is devised from sampling sounds which are programmed via a computer system to form strong and powerful pieces of aural art: mixing noises from the underground system with ethnic chanting, heavy metal & hip hop beats with military drumming and classical orchestration. The album contains 9 tracks on each side, with pieces referring to rioting 'The Sweet Smell of a Supermarket On Fire' to ' The Rape of Sam the Fox,' a track that evokes gallery slaves, masturbation and physical brutality. Each track is carefully constructed to convey the intentions and meaning contained within the titles." The album was recorded and digitally mastered by Greater Than One. To make the CD the original betamax studio master tape was baked for 72 hours at a special audio house in the UK. The DAT for Trust was generously donated by Lucas Cooper of ROIR. Enhanced CD content includes MP3s of the entire album, unbroken, photos, cover images, an art book, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and words from Michael Wells and others.
BrainwashedArchives
CD
$14.00

Growing
All The Way
PS, US "All The Way", the debut full-length from GROWING on THE SOCIAL REGISTRY, concludes a epic trip. Through six tracks Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, "Color Wheel". If we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you'll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. Recorded by Barry London at his Ocropolis Studio during the 2007-08 winter, "All The Way" sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "With their new LP, All the Way, Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria plum their synthetic musical logic - you know, the one they developed with the help of Black Dice, Spacemen 3, and a lot of time in the wilderness and on the road - more thoroughly than they ever have before. Growing's melodic and rhythmic interplay is the accomplishment to look out for here, a mellow treat that makes one wonder if the emphasis on the transcendence of their live show misses just how successful a headphone band Growing is."
TheSocialRegistry-065
CD
$11.50

Gutz
S-T
PS, US Analog 8-track recording captures their artistic vision and the energy indicative of their live shows. This band started with a shared love of the Jam and the Stranglers, and ended up with a 3-piece horn section, soulful backing vocals, Moog, Wurlitzer, & pipe organs adding warmth to tightly-crafted bounce.
BNSSessions
CD
$8.75

Hacienda
Loud is the Night
PS, US This Mexican-American quartet blends a raw yet sophisticated style of pop music w/harmonies reminiscent of the Beatles & Beach Boys. A beautiful collection of songs played w/integrity & soul to spare, & while the band is aware of its 60's influences, the music here is far from derivative, & the finished product is modern pop music performed w/ genuineness & taste.
Alive
CD
$13.50

Hold Steady
Stay Positive
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Vagrant
DLP
$22.00

Holy Ghost
Hold On (Mock & Toof Remixes)
PS, US This is 2 individuals, Nicholas Millhiser & Alexander Frankel (AUTOMATO), & is a product of their obsessions w/ analog synthesizers, rare disco, & ancient production techniques. A brief hello while they complete their debut album & prep a new single for DFA. Label-mates MOCK & TOOF hold up their end of the remix trade w/ two mixes- a playful stab at minimal techno & psychedelic disco funk!
DFA
12
$8.00

Horse Feathers
House With No Home
PS, US 2nd album from HORSE FEATHERS and w/ this they have distilled their sound into a brilliant statement of minimalist Americana. Precisely arranged strings & acoustic guitar step cautiously in & around Justin's haunting vocal lines. An album infused w/ rare power & emotion. His previous, debut release received an enthusiastic respone, incl. a nomination for the Plug Awards 'Americana Album of the Year.' Fans of Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Nick Drake, etc.
should take note.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.25

Horse Feathers
House With No Home
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars
LP
$13.25

I Am Robot And Proud
Uphill City
PS, US I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Shawn-han says the theme of the new record is that of struggle and achievement in the big city. IARAP is syncopated multi-instrumental rhythms and playful, repetitive multi-dimensional melodies -- just the elixir your head needs. Shaw-Han mixes acoustic instrumentation; piano, guitar and drums seamlessly with his unique electronic keyboard sounds and percussive elements. This isn't difficult, experimental IDM that pulls the listener off the left side of the dial. This is complex composition that manages to simply delight. It's an exciting sound that gives one the feeling of flying fast & free through a heavenly modern green world of pop, beauty, and sunshine. Your brain chemicals are sure to be balanced after the first minute into the title track. "Since the 2006 album, i have done some traveling and playing shows around the world and visiting many cities. Its interesting for me to see how everyone is living in different ways but there are still similarities. In English, the word "Uphill" has a kind of a double meaning. It can be positive like "things are looking up", or it can mean something is very difficult like "uphill battle". I thought the city was like a symbol for the challenges that happen in your life." --Shaw-han Liem
Darla-215
CD
$12.25

Ices, Lia
Necima
PS, US Debut album from singer/pianist featured in the LIVING BRIDGE compilation. A release from her classical training matched w/ her long love of prose, literature and letter writing. Featuring instrumentation such as gems horn, Columbian hand drum, and White-album era electric guitar. Appearances by David Miller (FIERY FURNACES), Andy Macleod (WHITE MAGIC) and Robbie Lee (LOVE AS LAUGHTER).
RareBookRoom
CD
$12.75

I'm Not Jim
You Are All My People
PS, US A collaboration between Walter Salas-Humara of the SILOS and lyrics by author JONATHAN LETHEM. "You Are All My People floats through a woozy middle ground between The Mountain Goats' storytelling economy and art-pop's habit of letting convention loose with the wind. Wandering through a forest of burned-out pop songwriting, folk simplicity and avant-garde stretches, I'm Not Jim hangs together not from a tightly built central idea, but by its ability to have so much fun playing around." -Aversion
Bloodshot
CD
$12.75

Isis
Not in Rivers But in Drops
PS, US Another single culled from the 2006 release "In the Absence of Truth." This single will feature a live version, recorded in Sept. of '06 at in Washington DC, a music video and a remix version of the song.
Ipecac
CD5
$6.00

Jackie-O Motherfucker
Freedomland
PS, UK In the late summer of 2006, Jackie-O Motherfucker- the infamous, shape-shifting, free rock constellation- were in their hometown of Portland OR. Preparing for a cross-country tour of the USA when it was discovered that two of the four touring members, at the time, could not make the trip, due to financial situations, and problems getting away from jobs and domesticity. After some discussion, and re-grouping, they decided to continue on with the tour, and placed a call to Eva Salens (Inca Ore) who was doing agricultural work in the hills of Humboldt County, Ca. She eagerly accepted the challenge of conspiring with the group, lending her considerable skills as a vocalist, and it was decided that they would all meet at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, where the group were scheduled for their first appearance supporting the Dirty Three. There they would begin- unrehearsed in this formation, and in front of a large audience. The plans to perform material from their newest release "flags of the sacred harp" were scraped, and the band launched into a free form set of improvised trance inducing, punk inspired, psychedelic rock, which became the framework of the new music they would develop together over the next few years. With a backpack full of California's finest, the newly created touring group- consisting now of Eva Salens, Tom Greenwood, Danny Sasaki, and Nick Bindeman, continued on to Los Angeles, over the deserts, and through America. Freedomland, is a document of this trip, as well as another American tour, which the same band set off on the following spring... the record consists of location recordings, captured live, and mastered in the UK. The songs were created from the spirit of improvisation- and honed true by performing nightly in dive bars, music halls, and art galleries across America. The music is a testament to creation, brave and searching, and an endorsement of the abstraction that lies hidden in the footprints of all great music... Salens' vocal delivery is raw and honest, the words flow from conversations, to streams of sub-conscious conjuring, and prayer. Guitars alternately soar into cloud-scapes, and battle like free-jazz saxophones, propelling the group into new terrain nightly, while the percussion of Danny Sasaki alternates between exploratory and dead-solid motoric. The collection was edited by Tom Greenwood, from dozens of live recordings, and captures a rare moment in the bands long, and confusing history. It is truly the music of everyday life- birthed each night in a new form, from musicians who put great faith in each other, under awesome strain at times, to project modern music, with soul.
VeryFriendly-045
CD
$17.75

Jem
Down to Earth
PS, US The album reflects the singer/songwriters far-ranging influences including Brazilian percussion on the title track, a hip shacking track complete w/funky banjos on "Crazy", the tempestuous Latin-flavored track "I Want You To...", a dance-pop tune "Aciid!" in which she sings in Japanese, & a moving collaboration w/South African singer-songwriter & poet-activist VUSI MAHLASELA on the track "You Will Make it"
ATO
CD
$12.50

Jesu
Why Are We Not Perfect?
PS, US On this five track EP, Justin Broadrick has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past recordings and brought to the fore elements of texture and melody. "...Broadrick has layered so many blurps, wooshes, and digital gnarls throughout each song, they take on a life of their own" - Decibel. "Dripping heavy, cascading walls of sound" - Spin.
HydraHead
CD5
$10.00

Jurado, Damien
Caught In The Trees
PS, US "Caught In the Trees" marks the dawn of a new era for DAMIEN JURADO. It may not be a huge departure from some of his past albums musically, but lyrically Jurado has taken a giant leap forward and there is no turning back. Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Jurado took a full year to make this record, longer than ever before, as he ran away from and eventually found himself in his own songs. He subsequently found refuge in sharing the songs with his closest friends and bandmates, Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad. Having walked alongside him through this most challenging journey, the songs that came out of it are as much theirs as his. Jurado, Fisher, and Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some much more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but ever as intense - and pulled in producers Kory Kruckenberg and Casey Foubert to contribute their own unique stylings. Recording started in the summer months and the sweltering heat, and wrapped in the freezing temps of winter. (It is clear on first listen that two distinct seasons are represented through "Caught In the Trees" - an accidental metaphor perhaps?) There was laughter and there was introspection, and the result is a record that Jurado loyalists will find was worth the wait. And perhaps a reason to listen for those who have yet to give this bedraggled storyteller a chance.
SecretlyCanadian-175
LP
$11.50

Killdozer
Twelve Point Buck [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Killdozer began an epic thirteen-year career in the early 80s, starting out as a harsh underground trio combining elements of primitive country blues with distorted Birthday Party style antics. By 1991, they had evolved into a slower, more experimental style of musical drudgery, still always keeping with their wrong side of town meets Communist Manifesto lyrics.
TouchAndGo
LP
$11.00

LA JR
17 Animales
PS, SPAIN The best unheralded Spanish (or European?) band of all times, LA JR, are led as usual by Frank, Rafa and Borja as the ultimate Dadaist-pop ensemble. There is no exact definition for the word 'dada' and there are no exact words to describe the multifariousness of LA JR. "17 animales" is a work of dark atmospheric lounge, trance Kraut-Rock groove or just anti-jazz-folk, as we like to name it: THIS is to music what assemblage is to art; an overlaying of diverse, motley materials; it sounds like porcelain, wood, glass and it squeaks even though it doesn't sound like squeaking. Pendulum-like piano playing, husky basses, humming from the tide of the keyboards, every element bursts into bubbles. "17 animales" an ultra contemporary album about Death, Sex and the slight possibility of turning Life into Art and back again.
Acuarela-1088
CD
$13.50

Lair of the Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master
PS, US Uncensored video loaded with special features & live performances. Warning: contains graphic violence & nudity.
SouthernLord
DVD
$13.50

Lights Bane
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
20BuckSpin
LP
$17.25

Little Teeth
Child Bearing Man
PS, US A record of growls, squeaks, sing-along choruses, complex wordplay, and made-up words, tied together with bluegrass mandolin, banjo, accordion, rock 'n' roll drums, guitar, and the wildcat snarls of female vocalist Dannie Murrie. "Child Bearing Man" is commanding, emotionally and musically conflicted, and utterly moving. RIYL: Black Dice, Deerhoof, The Muppets, The Carter Family.
AbsolutelyKosher
CD
$13.25

Lopez, Francisco
Technocalyps
PS, US The original soundtrack to the film by Frank Theys. Francisco's ability to utilize everyday sounds tht most people barely even notice, and transform them into sound art is quiet astonishing and complements the film.
Alien8
CD
$13.50

Lovely Sparrows
Bury The Cynics
PS, US "Top-notch, tastefully polished indie-pop might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the hip little oasis that is Austin; The Lovely Sparrows are working to change this" - Harp. "[Shawn Jones'] thoughtful observations about the fiery - yet oftentimes suppressed - manner in which we wrestle with our emotions is Cat Stevens-y and blissfully rakish" - Daytrotter. RIYL: Paul Simon, Belle And Sebastian, Destroyer, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Stevens, The Microphones.
RebelGroup
CD
$13.00

Low Lows, The
Shining Violence
PS, US
Misra
CD
$15.00

Maquiladora
St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited
PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F.
Acuarela-1083
DCD
$15.00

Maserati
Inventions Remixes
PS, US Last year Georgia's MASERATI ended a four-year absence with "Inventions For The New Season", a delirious soundtrack for late-night cityscapes and never-ending car chases. The first album featuring new drummer Jerry Fuchs (LCD Soundsystem, !!!, The Juan Maclean), Inventions quite literally reinvented Maserati as a motorik psych-rock band with a disco ball for a kick drum. It makes sense, then, that Maserati have commissioned a pair of remixes by two producers most likely to shove their songs onto the dancefloor feet-first. Side A finds THEE LOVING HAND (Tim Goldsworthy of The DFA, Hercules and Love Affair) stripping "The World Outside" to almost nothing, reimagining it as a vintage European disco track from the ground up. Starting with a steady, far-off kick drum and a rogue, in-your-face hi hat, the song's seemingly disparate parts eventually lock into the kind of dirty disco that has made Goldsworthy a club legend. Equally club-friendly, !!!'s JUSTIN VAN DER VOLGEN brushes away the grit of the original "Inventions" and painstakingly buffs it to a shine as slick as black ice. The side-long trance mix maintains the sweaty atmosphere of the original, but removes the top-down drive in favor of a midnight jog. Strictly limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, "Inventions Remixes" is both an addendum to the successful reboot of Inventions For The New Season, as well as a testament to the broad spectrum of influences that flow in and out of Maserati's music.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-136
12
$11.50

Mates Of State
My Solo Project
PS, US The LP version of My Solo Project has been out of print for many years and is a must have for any Mates of State fan with a turntable. Originally released in 2000, My Solo Project remains the definitive Mates of State album to own. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and includes a digital download code.
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50

McArdle, Shannon
Summer of the Whore [import version]
PS, AUSTRALIA Beautiful a slightly uncomfortable country pop bliss from ex Mendoza Line singer/song writer.
LowTransitIndustries-062
CD
$13.50

Mendoza Line, The
30 Year Low / Final Reflections Of The Legendary Malcontent [import version]
PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded just before the split of lead songwriters Shannon McArdle & Timothy Bracy's marriage, 30 Year Low marks the end of their relationship, the band & is their most crushingly beautiful record to date. Includes a second disc full of rarities, live tracks & covers from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Arab Strap & Bob Dylan. "A cracker of an album... The New York-based southerners feel lived in yet ripple with freshness" Sydney Morning Herald "The Mendoza Line add another impressive release to their stable" Xpress "Full of Light and Full of Fire is their first release to absolutely nail it - with just the right balance between passion and power... This is an album soaked in American history both musical and political, fuelled by a burning flame and a desire for something more" Rolling Stone "This is the sweet sad music of humanity my dear, the beguiling melody heard in the distance while the whole shithouse goes up in flames" Inpress "Full Of Light And Full of Fire is The Mendoza Line's most consistent, poignant and rewarding album to date and, if you haven't heard them before, a damn good place to start" dB "The tender, cigarettes and alcohol soaked voices of Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy suggest that their hearts have often been tentatively stuck back together, and their sorrow is perfectly underpinned throughout the album by a soulful mixture of acoustica and synth" BMA "Clutch Bright Eyes in one hand, Holly Golightly in another, smoosh in a bunch of other particularly arty, indie-country swaggers and voila! The Mendoza Line. They'll awaken your eyes to much light; a skerrick of hope may be left in your ignorant, cynical adolescent blood after listening to them" Tearaway.
LowTransitIndustries-045
DCD
$13.50

Mendoza Line, The
Full Of Light And Full Of Fire [import version]
PS, AUSTRALIA Their 8th & most critically acclaimed record, from the Georgia via New York alt. country band. Full Of Light & Full Of Fire saw The Mendoza Line hit their stride & balance the perfect mix of rock, pop & beauty.
LowTransitIndustries-033
CD
$13.50

Merzbow
Dolphin Sonar
PS, US Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition, & physical arts-especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau-Akita has created a musical language all his own. This is his full-length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts, & broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied water.
Important-205
CD
$13.25

Mogwai
Batcat
PS, US A taster from the upcoming full-length, "The Hawk Is Howling", and Mogwai's first album in nearly three years. Limited edition, specially packaged EP containing the song "Batcat" from the album, plus two non-album B-sides: "Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend" and "Devil Rides". The latter features the vocals of legendary psychedelic Texan Roky Erickson. "A sonically cinematic experience that will leave the listener feeling at once elated and emotionally drained" - Alternative Press.
Matador
12
$9.00

Mojo
#179 (October 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK FREE CD!: THE WHITE ALBUM RECOVERED - DISC #2. The Beatles' 1968 masterpiece re-imagined by the likes of The Neil Cowley Trio, Sarabeth Tucek, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, The Ruby Suns, My Brightest Diamond and Gemma Ray. PLUS! A bonus track from a very, very special guest indeed! QUEEN: As they gear up for the release of their first new studio album since the death of Freddie Mercury, MOJO's Mark Blake looks back on Queen's globe-conquering late-'70s/early-'80s reinvention. Cue extreme decadence, endless hit singles, that disco album and some of the most iconic facial furniture in rock history. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS: Alex Turner and Miles Kane have put their day jobs on hold in order to pursue a new symphonic sound that has wowed listeners everywhere. MOJO's Tom Doyle catches up with the dynamic duo of British pop to discover exactly where it all went right. DAVID GILMOUR: In this month's MOJO Interview, we head to the Sussex farmhouse of one of Britain's bona fide guitar geniuses to talk solo endeavours, early influences and his current thoughts on that band Pink Floyd. BON IVER: With one of the albums of the year already under his belt, Justin Vernon has found himself delivering his version of Old, Weird America to an increasingly devoted audience. MOJO's Gabe Soria travels to Wisconsin to meet 2008's most celebrated wandering minstrel. THE FUGS: Rock 'n' roll deviants, political warriors, peddlers of smut and unrelenting in their quest for truth and the justice, Ed Sanders and his band of idealistic troubadours were on a mission to set '60s America on fire. Michael Simmons dives into their treacherous tale.
ZINE
$10.50

Mommyheads, The
You're Not a Dream
PS, US
BladenCountry
CD
$15.75

Morrissey
Greatest Hits
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Decca
LP
$17.00

Muslims
S-T
PS, US Hot new garage-rock 4-piece out of San Diego drawing comparisons to Modern Lovers and Velvet Underground. This 7-song 12"" includes a CD copy of the album featuring bonus tracks "Nightlife", "Bright Side," & "Extinction." The vinyl jackets & sleeves were silk screened by the band & the jackets were shot by a former NYC Police Officer. Wild. RIYL: Black Lips LIMITED!
1928Recordings
12
$12.00

Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight
Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight
PS, US This group formed in 1996 as an instrumental side project led by Jimmy Bower and Joe Lacaze of the New Orleans sludge metal group Eyehategod, and also included members of fellow Big Easy metal units Crowbar and Down. The goal was to separate the pummeling nihilistic dirge of Eyehategod and create an outlet for the improv music they absorbed growing up in New Orleans, whether it be jazz, soul, funk, or rock. This is their self-titled debut, originally released in 2000, back in print for a limited time on purple vinyl. "Down to earth southern soul blues mixed with prog rock the likes of Crimson, early Yes, and some seriously fast runs" - Stoner Rock.
TeePee
LP
$13.25

New Estate
Is It Real?
PS, AUSTRALIA 2005 album from Melbourne indie elite featuring members of Sleepy Township & Jaguar is Jaguar.
LowTransitIndustries-056
CD
$13.50

New Year
New Year
PS, US Feat. ex-members of BEDHEAD. This is the culmination of 4 yrs of song-writing & a year of recording. Lyrically, these 10 songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. For a band that made innovative use of 3 guitars, almost half the songs here are built around piano - it is the careful sequence of the songs that brings the story the lyrics tell together. Jewel box CD w/ obi sleeve.
Quarterstick
CD
$14.25

New Year
New Year
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Quarterstick
LP
$15.00

Northern Portrait
Napoleon Sweetheart EP
PS, US Stunning second single from new Matinée favorites Northern Portrait! Upon release of their debut 'The Fallen Aristocracy' EP earlier this year, the accolades started pouring in for this new Danish band: "as perfect as jangling guitar pop can get"... "an instant classic"... "the bar has been set very high indeed"..."these songs are second to none"... "outstanding is an understatement"..."a modern pop classic"..."single of the year!" The EP has topped the Matinée best sellers chart every month since its release with good reason. On the highly anticipated 'Napoleon Sweetheart' EP, the band worked to expand its sound slightly while retaining the classic appeal of its debut. The brilliant lead track 'I Give You Two Seconds To Entertain Me' was the second song ever recorded by the band but has been completely remixed and remastered for this EP. Featuring jangling guitars, keyboards, superb vocals and bright melodies, the song is a three-minute classic inspired by the feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 'Sporting A Scar' is the first of three additional tracks on the EP-thematically close but more self-reflective than the lead track, with especially superb lyrics and more breezy keyboards. It's another gem! 'In An Empty Hotel' is a short and catchy tune about the clash between hopeful dreams and the practical problems that can occur, while the nearly epic 'Our Lambrusco Days' is a slightly sentimental and warm ballad with relatively simple instrumentation and open guitar tuning giving the song a special sound. Reviewers of the first EP rightly questioned how Northern Portrait could possibly follow such a strong debut single. The band has responded in brilliant fashion, as 'Napoleon Sweetheart' is another solid contender for single of the year. The bar has been set very high indeed. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve.
Matinee-070
CD5
$6.50

Of Montreal
Id Engager
PS, US Of Montreal's critical breakthrough Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? catapulted the band to the upper echelon of indie stardom. The album landed on over 30 major year-end lists including Paste, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Associated Press. A year later, of Montreal are back with Skeletal Lamping. "Id Engager," the debut single from Skeletal Lamping, provides an early sneak peak to one of 2008's most anticipated albums. This limited pressing 7" includes an exclusive non-album B-side as well as a free digital download of the songs.
Polyvinyl-161
45
$3.50

Okkervil River
The Stand Ins
PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "Šone of the year's best," and The New York Times proclaimed, "This band's musical arsenal keeps getting fuller." "The Stand Ins" was recorded in Austin and produced by longtime collaborator Brian Beattie and Okkervil River. The album features 11 songs and includes the track "Lost Coastlines," on which SHEFF and recently departed JONATHAN MEIBURG of Shearwater share a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Of the process Will Sheff explains, "We had so many songs we were excited about that we briefly threw around the idea of just putting out a double record. Instead, we decided to take a group of songs that fit with each other and turn that into "The Stage Names", setting the rest aside for a future release, a "The Stage Names" sequel." "The Stand Ins" is that sequel, part two of a staggered double album. Like artist William Schaff's embroidered artwork, which depicts what's happening underneath The Stage Names' front-cover quicksand hand,The Stand Ins picks up exactly where Part One left off but also delves deeper into the story and theme of "The Stage Names". It is a full-length, fleshed-out, deeply ambitious labor of love.
Jagjaguwar-124
CD
$11.50

Orso
Ask Your Neighbor
PS, US Building on the success of their previous release, which earned nearly universal acclaim & saw the band support Califone on extended domestic & Italian tours, their hypnotic mix of tenor banjos, soft organs, muted brass, & calm harmonies are in full force on the majestic new album.
Contraphonic
CD
$14.75

Owl Service, The And Alison O'Donnell
The Fabric of Folk
PS, UK If you thought social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were just devices which sucked you into an unstoppable vortex of wasted time, then think again. A chance discussion between Steven Collins and Alison O'Donnell, formerly of legendary Irish prog-folk troupe Mellow Candle, took place on such a website and out of that conversation came the first fruits of this collaboration. The Fabric of Folk is a 5-track EP featuring Collins' in his guise as main man of the Owl Service, one generation of folk-rock crashing head-long into an earlier, glorious era represented here by the considerable vocal talents of Alison O'Donnell. Capturing the many different faces of folk-rock, the five songs here - two are original compositions by the pair, one of which was written with the Straw Bear Band's Dominic Cooper - are perfectly formed, heartfelt and touching but with more than a hint of darkness. This follows on from the Owl Service's previous release for Static Caravan, the Cine 3" CD (VAN 140), and arrives alongside their debut album A Garland of Song, which is being released on Southern Records. Meanwhile, Alison's former band Mellow Candle have returned to prominence on the back of the newly repackaged Swaddling Songs - their solitary album release - which has been remastered and reissued by Esoteric/Cherry Red. Inspired by a mutual recognition and respect, the pairing of Collins' band with O'Donnell is a dreamy combination. Imbued with a sense of revivalism, The Fabric of Folk is far from backward-looking and instead concocts something incredibly new which, while referencing the production techniques and masterful storytelling of Brit-folk's heyday, is bubbling with new ideas and an inherent knack for crafting sublime arrangements.
StaticCaravan-142
CD
$16.00

Palms
It's Midnight in Honolulu
PS, US Debut album from group featured in the LIVING BRIDGE compilation. A worldly boy/girl duo that live in New York and Berlin, respectively, met first in London to colaborate. The music echoes of German artists like Faust and Klaus Schulze, as well as traces of the Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine.
RareBookRoom
CD
$12.75

Parenthetical Girls
Entanglements
PS, US ((LP has been postponed)) Portand, Oregon's PARENTHETICAL GIRLS have traded in their small-screen sincerity for a bold and blustering Technicolour - a lush, longing and lusty celluloid schmaltz they call "Entanglements". An orchestral song-cycle of grand sonic ambition, "Entanglements" is an eleven-song, linear narrative of ascendancy, adolescent sexuality, quantum mechanics, consent and other moral ambiguities! Borrowing string-swept sentimentality from the likes of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, "Entanglements" draws colourful lines across the expanse between these orchestral pop antiquities and the more formidable strains of modern classical composers - its hues distantly reminiscent of names like Krzystof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars.
Tomlab-120
CD
$12.25

Pegboy
Strong Reaction [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. This is such an amazing album. Total summer jams that never go bad. Griptape cuttin' music for sure.
Quarterstick
LP
$11.00

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

Pontiak
Sun on Sun
PS, US 2nd album from PONTIAK, following up their debut 'Valley of the Cats' released on their Fireproof label. This also follows close on the heels of their great split LP w/ Arbouretum. The band is made up of 3 brothers from the Blue Ridge farm country of Virginia - their music is swaggering guitar rock that staddles the line between power trio & something far more expansive in sound & scope. "(Their) ominous, portentous music straddles a wide sonic rift valley, w/ references that stretch from the southern latitudes fo Spain's Viaje A800 to the northern majesty of Black Sabbath & Harvey Milk via the Doors"-Julian Cope. CD version comes in 4 panel digipack.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Pontiak
Sun on Sun
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Portastatic
Some Small History
PS, US A double-disc of rarities, collecting B-sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl, and previously unreleased material recorded between 1990 and 2007.
Merge
DCD
$14.00

Praveen & Benoit
Songs Spun Simla
PS, US It's all in the wires. Praveen Sharma and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have met only a handful of times and have never resided in the same city, but over the course of two-plus years they have been quietly assembling Songs Spun Simla, a brief but luminescent collection of pieces driven by Praveen's inventive arrangements and Benoît's lush vocal harmonizing. Praveen released his remarkable debut Backed by Spirits on the now-defunct Neo Ouija imprint just as Benoît emerged with the Enge EP on Michigan's Moodgadget label in early 2005. Through mutual contacts they found that each was an admirer of the other's work, and the seeds for a casual collaboration were sown. Not long after, Praveen returned from a profound journey through his family's native India with a minidisk full of field recordings and voices, forming the basis of opener "The Tunnel is Still There". As he continued creating new songs with an ever-expanding palette of instruments and digital effects, Benoît arranged lyrics and harmonies, driven by the unfamiliarity and excitement of the process. Various ideas arose concerning the fate of these works, but once a record's worth had been amassed, their friends at Music Related expressed interest in a proper release. Songs Spun Simla is named in honor of the village in India from which Praveen's family originates - it's inseparable from his musical inspirations yet still distant and shaped largely by memory. His compositions exist on a fitting scale, then; from the stunning, expansive lead-in of "Death as a Man" to the incredibly detailed percussion of "To Scale", there's a sense of worldliness, history and nostalgia placed in a crucible with technology and innovation. Much like a travelogue, the six movements of Songs Spun Simla abut soaring highs with passages of quiet, intimate beauty to create a deeply affecting whole. Praveen Sharma has been making music for most of his life, and has contributed releases to AI, Neo Ouija, and Expanding Records. He also runs Percussion Lab, a hub for underground electronic music and exclusive DJ sets, in addition to being an avid live performer and event organizer in New York City. Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) began playing piano at age five and has been recording music and field sounds with various devices for nearly as long. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he recently finished the follow-up album to the highly acclaimed Précis (2006) for the indie stalwarts at Chicago's Kranky.
MusicRelated-021
CD
$11.50

PRE/AIDS Wolf
Live Dates
PS, US Uncovered at Austrian customs, this bootleg 7" single has been seized by Skin Graft Records for lawful distribution. Originated in Russia by the rogue record label Sinraft Records, this comes in a full color 8-page calendar of compromising band photos.
SkinGraft
45
$7.00

Prussia
Dear Emily, Best Wishes, Molly
PS, US Debut from Detroit group. Ten tracks laid on analog tape capturing reverb-laden vocals, thick timpani-style drumming that will leave you amiable and maybe a little sweaty. LP is hand-screened w/ numbered art and comes w/ a free digital download. "...punk artists that sound like Pavement breaking into Hitsville USA in the middle of the night to record 60s psych & drug music" - Detour Magazine.
CommonCloud
LP
$12.00

Radiohead
O.K. Computer
PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP!
Capitol
DLP
$25.25

Radiohead
Hail To the Theif
PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP!
Capitol
DLP
$25.25

Radiohead
Kid A (2X10")
PS, US
Capitol
10
$25.25

Radiohead
Pablo Honey
PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP!
Capitol
LP
$20.00

Rafter
Sweaty Magic
PS, US "Sweaty Magic" is the ultimate booty cap to Summer Oh-Eight's globally-warmed love-exhaust festival. Listeners taking a break from the floor to get another organic mojito-flavored energy drink might hear swirls of Tom Zé, Prince, Clipse, Zapp & Roger, Mr. Fingers, and D'Angelo staying up late in some non-exclusive beach rave with glowing extraterrestrial energy spheres.
AsthmaticKitty-43
CD5
$5.50

Raglani
Of Sirens Born
PS, US Beginning tentatively & uneasily, these 5 pieces progress through expansive phases of grandeur & menace, shipwrecking before washing ashore on a new world. At the core of the work is the idea of the imaginary vista; high, keening drones issue from the heart of unknown rivers, populated on all sides by fantastically twittering creatures & alien flora, drawing the listener on with the hint of exotic treasure, hidden w/in forbidding & impossible jungles.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Rainer Maria
Look Now Look Again
PS, US This Polyvinyl classic has been out of print on LP for nearly a decade. Look Now Look Again set the high standard for which Rainer Maria will always be viewed. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and includes a digital download code.
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50

RE: UP
Issue #16
PS, US Inside the mind of Hunter S. Thompson, Boom box bike gangs, Fashion for the ages, Swedish rap supreme, Mapei's first U.S. interview, more!
REUP-016
ZINE
$5.50

Report Suspicious Activity
Destroy All Evidence
PS, US Their 2nd album to date, VIC BIONDI (Articles of Faith, Alloy, Jones Very) began this project as a productive mTeenatnasc tloe schannel his political rage: a one-off project that grew into a band as musicians were recruited, songs written, & shows played. The band now boasts an impressive lineup w/ J. ROBBINS (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), DARREN ZENTEK (Kerosene 454), & ERIK DENNO (Kerosene 454). In terms of songcraft & political heft, they can duke it out w/ the best of Reaganera political punk. "This isn't just a political hardcore record: there is a sense of melody & honesty that is lacking in music these days." -WEEKLY DIG
AlternativeTentacles
CD
$14.25

Rhinos
In Rhi-Fi
PS, US Sweden's supreme masters of jangle pop.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.50

Sabu
The World Of Sabu
PS, UK Selar Shaik Sabu made his first film appearance in 1937 as a 12-year-old orphan, having landed the title role in Elephant Boy purely by chance after being plucked from Indian obscurity by a British location crew. His rise to international stardom was swift and dramatic with leading roles in Alexander Korda's productions The Thief of Bagdad and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. But by the time he appeared in Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus in 1947 that stardom was already guttering, and during the remaining 16 years of his tragically short life he was obliged to accept increasingly minor roles that mostly traded on former glories. Yet during those ten extraordinary years Sabu illuminated the screen in a way that remains without precedent. The renowned Hungarian film composer Miklos Rozsa wrote the scores for The Thief of Bagdad and Kipling's Jungle Book. Our edition restores them to the catalogue for the first time in decades. Sabu narrates the Jungle book to Rozsa's music in character as Mowgli. The result is charming. The recordings were originally released as a set of four 78 rpm discs in 1940. The first ever film soundtrack album Black Narcissus is classic Powell and Pressburger; The Archers at the height of their powers. A triumph of artistry in cinema to which Sabu contributes the memorable role of the young general.
El-151
CD
$15.50

Sailboats Are White
Turbo
PS, AUSTRALIA As completely incidental as it may seem, the acronym for Sailboats Are White is in fact SAW. Coincidence? Perhaps, but it's also a pretty accurate musical description. You see, saws are used to cut through things like bone, metal and possibly wood, likewise though, Sailboats' music is just as fierce, cutting and destructive to the senses as say, a lumberjack's saw would be to a maple tree.
LowTransitIndustries-040
CD
$13.50

Scorces
I Turn Into You
PS, US "Most musical matters seem to cycle through rise/crash wave patterns of popularity and lately it seems that the duo formation is for some reason at the crest of its particular prevalence/relevance. Perhaps it has something to do with the faster psychic communion that births between a pair (versus a 5+ gang-style band). Or maybe it's just to save on gas money. Either way, very few fringe duos have succeeded in so fully utilizing the witchy, wordless, and wondrous bond of the twosome formation as Scorces' twin figureheads Christina Carter (also of Charalambides, Bastard Wing, etc.) and Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula, CEO of Volcanic Tongue, more). Their early incarnation as East Texas fried-folk loners instantly struck a chord in clued-in heads for both its bold formless experimental moods as well its instantly gripping emotional power. Their 2003 masterpiece on Eclipse, Vivre Avec La Bete, captured their magic craft perfectly, and in retrospect has definitely cast a heavy influence over a whole host of today's underground's voice-based lonesome drifters. So it is with amplified honor that we offer up this latest tome of spells unearthed from the Scorces' vaults: I Turn Into You. Nearly 70 minutes of pedal-steel guitar tendrils, basement dust, whispered melodies, enchanted strings thrummed against the quiet, and possibly the planet's single most intense dual free-crooning chemistry sprawled across four spectral sides of black vinyl. All tracks were recorded several years ago back at Charalambides HQ in Houston, TX by psych-guitar journeyman Tom Carter, and they've aged like oil paintings (cracking, majestic, immense). Housed in embossed, metallic ink jackets designed by Marcia Bassett (with a racy poem by the Scorces' ladies on the back), plus an 11x11 insert with info and a live shot. Edition of 500."
NotNotFun
DLP
$24.00

Shaky Hands
Lunglight
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars
LP
$13.25

Shaky Hands
Lunglight
PS, US In their hometown of Portland, Oregon, the SHAKY HANDS are the one band that virtually everyone agrees on. Well respected & critically adored for their instantly recognizable, earthy-meets-explosive sound & for putting on really good shows. Their 2nd album here proves them to be evolving at remarkable speed, at times reminiscent of Talking Heads & the Doors. In a world of throwaway pop, this quintet has built itself from the ground up, naturally & beautifully.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.25

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 6 Sept-Oct 2008
PS, UK "Cover: Marc Bolan 1969-70 -- Egos, unicorns and jugband psychedelia, the early years of Marc Bolan and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Rikki Rooksby looks at their involvement with the Notting Hill Gate hippie scene and Bolan's final pre-fame recordings. The Youngbloods -- The New York folk-rockers who soundtracked the hippie dream. Slade -- Drummer Don Powell answers 20 questions and Ian O'Sullivan reappraises the 1974 movie Slade In Flame. John Kongos -- Adventures in pop-psych. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- Part two of our in-depth story. Buffalo -- Hard rock '70s band from Australia. Freak Rock -- A-Z of weird and heavy sounds from the early '70s."
ZINE
$8.25

Social Junk
Concussion Summer
PS, US "The greater Midwest 'hood is responsible for so much of the U.S.'s most living music it seems like lately. Out here on the West we tend to get a bit blissed and burnt and, conversely, Eastern sea-boarders can fall into a condensed consciousness that sometimes doesn't translate well to those outside their bubble. But in the middle country, there's often a rawness that's honest and real and really clears the ears/mind, and for our tastes Ashland, Kentucky's Social Junk are champs of this direct, red-blooded approach. Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. And right on the eve of both a behemoth bi-coastal tour (six weeks long!) and a brave re-location to CA's Bay Area, we are amped-as-shit to announce their vinyl debut after a million killer limited tapes and splits. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young's co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK. High-time, and fully worth the wait. See them soon. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Hair Police's Robert Beatty. Edition of 435."
NotNotFun
LP
$15.50

Subaudible Hum
In Time for Spring, On Came the Snow
PS, AUSTRALIA Critically acclaimed sophomore album from Melbourne experimental pop outfit. Features hit singles "Sugarcoat", "All For The Caspian" & "Aaron's Western Assault".
LowTransitIndustries-044
CD
$13.50

Subaudible Hum
Everything You Heard is True
PS, AUSTRALIA Dark & brooding debut alt. rock masterpiece from this critically acclaimed Melbourne band. In late 2005 SubAudible Hum released their debut full-length album entitled "Everything You Heard Is True". It was a dark, venomous abrasion on the guitar format that also managed to make time for sprawling sonic scenery and downbeat, melancholic intricacy. The record gained SubAudible Hum immediate national radio rotation including a spot on Triple J's Next Crop campaign. SubAudible Hum write from that mysterious void between emotive art and didactic thesis. The subject matter is always of paramount importance but never at the expense of listening pleasure, in fact SubAudible Hum may just have found the harmonious middle ground between the two. Any modern day themes of global politics, dirty economics, fundamental agendas, and social degradation are always communicated with music, never using it as a soapbox. Stepping into 2006 SubAudible Hum have a whole new take. Having purged much of their structural and self-imposed stylistic constraints the SubAudible Hum sound is now less definable than ever. Their sophomore effort "In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow" swings from drawn-out orchestral opuses to quasi-UK indie trash to dam bursting, almost trip hop anthems. With this release, as always, SubAudible Hum are exploring every crevasse of their musical ambitions. "An extremely impressive Melbourne debut" Beat - Andrew Ramadge. "21st century disillusionment expressed in the form of grinding guitars, marching drums, an astounding, impassioned voice, and a bass tone that can only be classified as heave machinery, this is the sound Fritz Lang surely had in mind when he created his Metropolis" Beat - Today is the day "Single Of The Week" - Daniel Z "Describing the voice as a mash of Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke & Iggy Pop. SubAudible Hum, big, deep and melancholic without ever crossing over into self-indulgence" Lucky - Matty B "A profoundly eclectic first release fluently melding the emotional with the intellectual... a work of undeniable brilliance" Inpress - Shane O'Donohue
LowTransitIndustries-017
CD
$13.50

Subaudible Hum
All for the Caspian
PS, AUSTRALIA Deluxe single feating radio faves "Sugarcoat" & "All For The Caspian". Features a live track & remixes from New Yorks Secret Frequency Crew & Gordon McQ from The Avalanches. In late 2005 SubAudible Hum released their debut full-length album entitled "Everything You Heard Is True". It was a dark, venomous abrasion on the guitar format that also managed to make time for sprawling sonic scenery and downbeat, melancholic intricacy. The record gained SubAudible Hum immediate national radio rotation including a spot on Triple J's Next Crop campaign. SubAudible Hum write from that mysterious void between emotive art and didactic thesis. The subject matter is always of paramount importance but never at the expense of listening pleasure, in fact SubAudible Hum may just have found the harmonious middle ground between the two. Any modern day themes of global politics, dirty economics, fundamental agendas, and social degradation are always communicated with music, never using it as a soapbox. Stepping into 2006 SubAudible Hum have a whole new take. Having purged much of their structural and self-imposed stylistic constraints the SubAudible Hum sound is now less definable than ever.
LowTransitIndustries-043
CD5
$8.25

Tex La Homa
Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea
PS, SPAIN Departing from the more electronic oriented sounds on previous albums by Tex la Homa, Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea is a collection of eleven acoustic songs featuring Matt Shaw on every instrument, mainly guitar and piano. After releasing six exclusive tracks (which were a prelude to the sound of this last record) entitled Into Timeless Shadows a couple of years ago, Acuarela is proud to present the fourth album by Tex la Homa, an approach towards a more intimate and personal side of his music.
Acuarela-1087
CD
$13.50

Torrini, Emiliana
Me And Armini
PS, US hugely ambitious pop record with Emiliana's soaring voice center stage, bolstered by a rich gamut of musical styles. From the summery skank of the title track to the surging, breathless single "Jungle Drum" to the yearning, spine-tingling "Big Jumps", "Me And Armini" is a truly sublime album. Torrini sings the song at the end credits for "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers", and she wrote two #1 hits for Kylie Minogue. Produced by Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip). "Ms. Torrini's voice is warm and whispery and appealingly unpredictable" - NY Times.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Trad Gras och Stenar
Gardet 12.6.1970
PS, US 1996 reissue. The first in our new series called Swedish Underground Archives. The series will focus on classic yet mostly unreleased recordings by known and unknown to mythical Swedish progressive/psychedelic groups from the 1960s/70s. First out is the best ever recording from the legendary Trad Gras & Stenar (Trees Grass & Stones) recorded at the first ever Swedish outdoors summer hippie festival in 1970. The sound is just amazing: a stoned lysergic wall of acid guitars jamming away and never letting up, pounding bass, furious drums and mystical howling vocals. A true landmark in psychedelic/progressive history.
SubliminalSounds
CD
$14.25
Trees

Tricky
Knowle West Boy
PS, US Tricky is back with an album named after the Bristol neighborhood where he grew up. It details the travels and travails of his youth, resulting in an eclectic aural history of his diverse upbringing. He reaches into post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop, and pop, twisting them into surreal songscapes. Tricky uses his astonishingly eclectic band and a host of great undiscovered singers to create the most varied and accessible set of his career.
Domino
CD
$13.00

Tricky
Knowle West Boy
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$16.50

Unborn Unicorn
S-T
PS, US Bay Arean AARON COYES (MUMMERS EYPE, HEART OF SNOW, GROMSKULL, HISSEATERS and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets.
HeardWorse
LP
$16.50

Uncut
#137 (October 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

United Nations
S-T
PS, US Masked thrashers make metal presidential again. United Nations is a power-violence grind-core band reminiscent of mid- nineties groups such as Orchid and Reversal of Man. The group features prominent members of two bands you love, one band you hate and a few you never heard of.
Eyeball
CD
$15.00

VanGaalen, Chad
Soft Airplane (ON SALE)
PS, US Recalling Neil Young at his most fragile and plaintive, and Thurston Moore at his most resolved and vital, Chad's emotive vocals anchor these songs while tackling the pervasive themes of death and dreams with an unexpected air of certainty and hope that is far from ominous - instead, it's luminous. Through a complex interplay of guitar, drum beats, loops, samples, found sounds, unorthodox percussion, xylophones, distortion, synthesizers, accordions, and more, Chad has made an album that sounds bigger than one man. CALGARY FFWD: "Local favourite Chad VanGaalen hasn't left his bedroom on his latest album, Soft Airplane, but it sounds like he might have moved out of the basement. Make no mistake, Soft Airplane is still thoroughly a Chad VanGaalen album - his usual lo-fi esthetic is in full force, his signature falsetto still hauntingly wavers and he's still obsessed with death, dreaming and '90s nostalgia - it's just more fully formed than anything he's done before."
Subpop
CD
$12.00

Various
Mister Foe Original Soundtrack
PS, US "Mister Foe" is a magical story of redemptive love, loss, and life on the rooftops of Edinburgh. Young Hallam (Jamie Bell from "Billy Elliot") is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his stepmother may have had a hand in her death. Fleeing his family for Edinburgh, his obsessions take a dangerous (and comic) turn as he falls in love with a girl who happens to look like his mother. The soundtrack is comprised entirely of music from the Domino Records roster of artists and features an exclusive Franz Ferdinand track, "Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow". Other stars include Sophia Myles ("Extras"), Ciaran Hinds ("There Will Be Blood"), Ewen Bremner ("Trainspotting"), and Claire Forlani ("For Your Consideration").
Domino
CD
$8.00

Various
Notwave
PS, US RONG MUSIC (sub-label of DFA) has compiled a (somewhat) new take on the early 80s underground of New York City's No Wave sound. They've even coined a new sub-genre: "Notwave" documenting an updated version of one of the most influential periods in New York's musical history alongside some early classics. Feat. new, angular underground pop bands QUAD THROW SALCHOW, STRIPLIGHT & CIRCUITS, sinister techno & funk from NYC's WELCOME STRANGER & FREE BLOOD, acid rock from LA's NON-STOP, No Wave gems from the legendary JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS & THE RESEARCH, disco not disco from FRESHRO, abstract minimal funk from Rong's own SCOTTY COATS, & rhythm-heavy dance music from MR. CHIN.
Rong/DFA
CD
$14.25

Various
Girls Rock!
PS, US CD release will coincide w/the release of the DVD of the film - a docmentary that captures the Rock & Roll CamFepm fomr eGirls that has revolutionized the way that girls & young women encounter & participate in music. Music from artists including PALACE, SONIC YOUTH, SLEATER-KINEEY, GOSSIP, LOW, RAINER MARIA & VIVA VOCE.
CherchezLa
CD
$13.75

Verdure
Cross & Satellite Station [re-issue]
PS, AUSTRALIA An official reissue of the Cross & Satellite Station CDR from Bay Area psychster DONOVAN QUINN (SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVE). An eclectic blend of acid-folk sounds and ideas, delivered with strong songwriting, great pop hooks, aching, lo-fi vocals, strummed guitars, loops, organ, scattered percussion and samples, and an occasional burst of fuzzed-guitar. For fans of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Skip Spence's Oar, Nikki Sudden/Epic Soundtracks, Jandek, and the like. Australian import.
LexiconDevil
CD
$14.25

Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Nonetto (An Impression Of The Whole Of Brazil)
PS, UK Precocious and full of wonderment, the Nonetto and Quatuor, written by Villa-Lobos in 1924 and 1921 respectively, are surely two of the unsung minor masterpieces of the early 20th Century. In its fusion of pagan rhythms and chanting with the brittle harmonies of the avant-garde, Nonetto brings to mind Stravinsky's Les Noces and Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. Yet the piece is also characterized by a freewheeling playfulness more suggestive of jazz and folk music than the concert hall. Those coming at the piece from a rock perspective are also likely to hear an uncanny foreshadowing of the more considered music of Frank Zappa. Quatuor (for flute, harp, celesta, alto saxophone and women¹s voices) is a thoroughly magical work also; a combination of dense, even knotty, harmonies and unashamed sensuality: Heitor Villa-Lobos is one of the best-kept secrets in music. This edition restores to print two historic performances of the Nonetto and Quatuor from 1941 and 1957 combining them with a set of exquisite Villa-Lobos guitar works performed by the great masters Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream and Laurindo Almeida.
El-150
CD
$15.50

Vivian Girls
Tell The World
PS, US Irresistible mix of shoegaze, punk, and '60s girl-group sounds with beautiful reverb-drenched vocals. Features three self-recorded tracks of lo-fi goodness. PICTHFORK: "Brooklyn noise-pop band Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set, C86s-ers the Shop Assistants, and the Manhattan Love Suicides have done with female vocalists. Vivian Girls keep the Shangri-Las' melodrama, too. "Tell the World" is rebellion in the form of romance, kids casting off their chains for a kiss like the protagonists in "I Think We're Alone Now". It's more harmony-oriented than are some of the groups' peers, and the tunes can take a more speech-like, punk-edged turn via groups like the Wipers, whom Vivian Girls have covered."
Woodsist
45
$5.25

Webb, TK & The Visions
Ancestors
PS, US TK Webb & The Visions Ancestor Following the release of TK Webb's second solo LP, Phantom Parade (Social Registry, 2006), dubbed by Rolling Stone Magazine as a four-star, oddly gripping effort, it was evident that Webb's songwriting was beginning to outgrow the sound that had peppered his solo efforts. The new songs that would go on to comprise the Ancestor record referenced the rock music that Webb had grown up on. This sparked his decision to form The Visions in the summer of 2007. Joining Webb in the new band on second guitar is Brian Hale (ex-Love As Laughter), who had previously been accompanying Webb on bass following the release of Phantom Parade, Nic Gonzales (The Comas, Love As Laughter, Blood on the Wall) on drums, and Jordan Gable rounding out the line up on bass. This new cast helps take TK's acoustic visions and plugs them in through the Marshall, making for a heavier, more cohesive listen than Webb's previous work. Produced by Matt Boynton at his Vacation Islands Studios in Brooklyn, Ancestor speaks of modern day paranoia, love, and a host of other human emotions many of us face in our day-to-day, making for not only an amazingly heavy, but also a sincerely beautiful recording. TIME OUT NY: "As good as TK Webb is as a whiskey-stained country-blues troubadour, we're glad he's got a rhythm section behind him now. Together, the outfit is one of NYC's hottest rock bands, a ragged but staggeringly powerful outfit that triangulates Zeppelin, David Allan Coe & Spacemen 3."
Kemado
CD
$13.75

Wilson, Brian
That Lucky Old Sun
PS, US
Capitol
CD
$16.50

Wilson, Brian
That Lucky Old Sun [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD]
(With DVD, Limited Edition, 2PC)
PS, US
Capitol
CD/DVD
$24.50

Wilson, Brian
That Lucky Old Sun
PS, US
Capitol
LP
$21.50

Woodhands
Heart Attack
PS, US An electro-pop duo w/ a retlentlessly energetic live show & a total disdain for anything but balls to the wall, dirty, sexy dance parties. The buzz has been built almost entirely on their live show, and have been dubbed "as close to a two-headed indie Timberlake as it gets.
PaperBag
CD
$13.75

Woodhands
Heart Attack
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PaperBag
DLP
$22.00

Woven Hand
Ten Stones
PS, US In the words of Robert Browning, WOVENHAND heralds "another greater, wilder country" on "Ten Stones". From the jarring folk of "White Knuckle Grip", to the eerie bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", to the fiery foot-stomper "Not One Stone", the album forms a song-cycle that is singular in its breadth and eclecticism. Flanked by the haunting strains of the bandoneón and the drones of the double bass, Edwards' lyrical inversions stitch symbols into a tapestry of peaceable and hellish imagery-horsetails, honeybees, and bird wings meet flaming battles and barbed wire to proclaim sin's devastation and the sweetness of redemption. The music of Wovenhand is utterly unique, dizzying those who encounter it, with turnings and lashings of shadow and light.
SoundsFamilyre-20
LP
$11.50

Woven Hand
Ten Stones
PS, US New Woven Hand album from David Eugene Edwards, former leader for 16 Horsepower. In the words of Robert Browning, WOVENHAND heralds "another greater, wilder country" on "Ten Stones". From the jarring folk of "White Knuckle Grip", to the eerie bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", to the fiery foot-stomper "Not One Stone", the album forms a song-cycle that is singular in its breadth and eclecticism. Flanked by the haunting strains of the bandoneón and the drones of the double bass, Edwards' lyrical inversions stitch symbols into a tapestry of peaceable and hellish imagery-horsetails, honeybees, and bird wings meet flaming battles and barbed wire to proclaim sin's devastation and the sweetness of redemption. The music of Wovenhand is utterly unique, dizzying those who encounter it, with turnings and lashings of shadow and light. AVERSION: "The thirtysomething singer returns with a sound so world-weary and cunningly insightful, you'd swear Edwards had been honing his craft since that whale barfed up Jonah. Returning to the dark and unwieldy matters of sin, redemption and Man's struggle to stay on the straight and narrow, Ten Stones is spiritual without being expressly religious. Edwards wraps his ten tales of mankind's struggle with his own nature in everything from nearly iconic semi-Biblical imagery (bees, birds) and an almost voodoo-like appropriation of symbology from the modern world (barbed wire, cast-off feathers). Every note he sings is borne of equal parts fire and brimstone, high plains dust and Denver smog, electric guitar and church organ."
SoundsFamilyre-20
CD
$11.50

Young Widows
Old Wounds
PS, US Arriving two years after their debut, Settle Down City, "Old Wounds" completes YOUNG WIDOWS' transformation into a top-shelf rock band firing on all cylinders. Forging the best parts of Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Fugazi and The Melvins, "Old Wounds" is a series of dynamic, thoughtful tunes anchored by cavernous that will certainly push most speakers to their breaking point. For the unique production, the band reunited with uber-producer friend (and Converge guitarist) Kurt Ballou, who had been eager to experiment with recording the band in multiple environments, with the intent of capturing the definitive take of each song for the final cut of the album. Feeling most at home when they're not at home, they brought Ballou along on tour to record all of their live shows. In addition, they recorded multiple sets in their rehearsal space, and another set at Ballou's Godcity Studios in Boston, MA. After tediously combing through a dozen hours of recordings, they compiled and mixed the album. The result is a bonafide classic, overflowing with the sweaty euphoria of a great live show, and the high replay value of a perfectly sequenced, well-produced rock record.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-138
CD
$11.50

Forthcoming Releases

All Girl Summer Fun Band
Looking Into It (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US A stunning NEW pop album filled w/the band's signature crunch-fuzz guitars & dead-on melodic sense.
AGSFBMusic
CD
$13.75

Amplifier Machine
Her Mouth Is An Outlaw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Amplifier Machine began in 2002 with James Dixon (Swordfish, Supagroop, James Dixon) on guitar, Korg & piano, Seth Rees (The Spheres, This Is Your Captain Speaking, I Want A Hovercraft, Seth Rees) on drums, violin, samples, piano & guitar and Alex Jarvis (Automatic, Black Cab, Registered Nurse, Alex Jarvis) on guitar & drums, with the intention of combining their songwriting talents. Something about getting three solo artists together, or maybe something about what rehearsing for so long in a freezing Collingwood warehouse does to the brain, caused the pop-bred members of Amplifier Machine to spiral out into a peculiar music of inquisitive, atmospheric, half-improvised mini-epics. Amplifier Machine is a self-described experiment inanemocratic process and near-improvisation (anemocracy = rule by whim or the wind). Through earnest discussion and endless unending jams, Amplifier Machine came upon The Rule: that when the other two members have settled, it's your turn to change. The Rule was found to be useful, not only in musical terms, but also as a strategy in discussion, advocacy for the devil, and reducto absurdums. Each members' musical approach is informed by knowledge of various artistic processes, including: visual art, drama, the written word, carpentry and car maintenance. Thus, in music and in discussion, Amplifier Machine tends to start with a thesis, then to spiral out into varying antitheses, to arrive at some sort of synthesis. At least, that's the idea. Somewhat of a departure, in terms of sound, for 12k, Her Mouth Is An Outlaw breezes darkly languid chords over a post-rock-meets-experimental structure that is decidedly lacking in micro-electronics. These echoes reach for new 12k-heights while the spirit of ambience and space remain familiar.
12K-1049
CD
$12.25

Arab On Radar
Sunshine for Shady People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US This is a document, alive & rootless, showing a band that has no semblance to daddy's "Rock 'n' Roll"
ThreeOneG
DVD
$15.75

Asteroid #4
These Flowers of Ours (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Rooted deep in psychedelic music, specifically that of the 1960's & early 1990's British bands, A4 has never shied away from wearing their influences firmly on their sleeves. Dabbling in everything from Anglo-induced guitar pop to the "Cosmic American" sounds of vintage L.A. country.
CommitteetoKeepMusicEvil
CD
$14.50

Bass Communion & Pig
Live In Mexico City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16th)
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop, andres solis - turntables, rogelio sosa - voice, daniel goldaracena - devices. Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously.
Important-194
LP
$23.00

Belle And Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Repress! Double-LP in gatefold sleeve.
RoughTrade
DLP
$26.00

Blau, Karl
Nature's Got Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US "Nature's Got Away" made it to tape fresh off of a tour in Spring 2007 where KARL BLAU traveled to Japan and performed with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats, and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan (Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore, Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson; with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))).
Krecords-192
LP
$10.25

Blitzen Trapper
Furr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US The fourth record by this Portland, OR sextet is the follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed "Wild Mountain Nation".
Subpop
CD
$13.00

Blitzen Trapper
Furr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.00

Brimstone Howl
We Came in Peace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Described by NME as "Beatles-headed psych-nerds w/a taste for razor sharp snake-rock". Despite it's cryptic title this is another fun explosion of fuzz & American-gothic chit-chatter, w/"weird fictional adventure stories, & beginner blues guitar lessons from mongoloids," as they like to describe it. Includes bonus track not on the vinyl.
Alive
CD
$13.50

Brimstone Howl
We Came in Peace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Alive
LP
$13.50

California Oranges
Imperial Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Our Sacramento, CA indie-pop all stars return with a gem of a pop/rock album full of hooky choruses, call and response guitars and a super tight power-pop rhythm section. A pow-pow-powerful good good feeling! Just as you'd expect from this seasoned music family. Bask in the summer sun with the fourth album from the golden state's California Oranges and a healthy dose of the sunshine power pop they're known for. Underlying the power is a healthy dose of pop: Delicately concocted, contemplative songs exploring life's ups and downs. The quintet has hit their stride on Imperial Hearts. The record features the same line up as their 2005 release Souvenirs: John Conley (Holiday Flyer), Verna Brock (Rocketship, Beanpole, Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), Ross Levine (Sinking Ships), Katie Haley (Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), and Matt Levine (Sinking Ships). The album was jointly produced by the California Oranges and Dana Gumbiner (Night Night, Deathray). Imperial Hearts was mixed by long time friend of the band, producer/engineer, Eric Stenman (Saves the Day, The Comas, The Cab). The California Oranges construct songs filled with, "soaring boy/girl harmonies, rapid-fire licks of squeaky clean and buzz saw dirty guitar work, consistently up-tempo beats, and melodies that would make tone deaf kitten haters want to sing along" --Popmatters. "Power pop has rarely sounded as sweet." --Treblezine. TRACK LIST: 1. Brand New Spine, 2. We've Got Time, 3. Travel Writer, 4. Anywhere USA, 5. I Still Hold On, 6. Silver Shoes, 7. Feel Better, 8. Waiting Is Slow, 9. I Told Grace, 10. Matter Of Consequence, 11. I Won't Let You Back In, 12. When I Sleep.
Darla-193
CD
$12.25

Carter, Christina
Original Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as
well as the words she sings.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Town Topic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US The "Town Topic" EP is the soundtrack to video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate's debut feature film, "Stay The Same Never Change." Laurel commissioned CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE'S Owen Ashworth to proved all of the music for "Stay The Same Never Change", right down to the character's ring tones. The "Town Topic" EP consists of thirteen short instrumental pieces, book-ended by tow vocal tracks that were recorded specifically for the film. This EP also collects tracks from two limited, vinyl-only EPs (the "Town Topic" 7", released by OIB Records in Brighton, England, and STSNC Instrumentals 7", released by People In A Position To Know Recordings, Inc. in Olympia, WA), plus one bonus track, the previously unreleased "Lesley Gore on the Tami Show (instrumental)."
Tomlab-122
CD5
$7.50

Chisel, Cory & the Wandering Sons
Cabin Ghosts EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Major-label debut for awesome Midwest band featuring Parasol duo Elanors. Six songs serve as a teaser to their upcoming full-length. Recommended roots, rock, pop.
Red
CD5
$5.25

Coil/The New Blockaders/Vortex Campaign
The Melancholy Mad Tennant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16th)
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. Limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl. Originally released on cassette in 1984 and then on cd in an edition of 500. In 1984 Vortex Campaign invited Coil and The New Blockaders to collaborate. The result, unofficially referred to as "Dolbied", was released on cassette in an edition of 50. The release has since gone on to become legendary, showcasing two of the most influential groups in the scene at the early stages of their development. "The Melancholy Mad Tenant" is an authorized release, sanctioned by all three groups. Formed in 1983 the output of Coil has ranged from the avant-garde, to experimental neoclassical, to extended excursions into pure electronica. Many bands and composers have cited Coil as an influence. Coil were mainly a studio group, but in 2000 they commenced a successful series of tours that proved to be extremely remarkable events. The New Blockaders began in 1982 with the release of the debut LP "Changez Les Blockeurs" which is cited by many as a defining moment in the history of noise music. TNB have gone on to influence a generation of artists from Japanese noise-maestro Merzbow to noise punks Wolf Eyes.
Important-189
LP
$25.75

Conifer
Crown Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With "Crown Fire", Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, kraut-rock, metal and pschychedlia they have created this relentlessly driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Crown Fire's only vocals are from Oxbow's Eugene Robinson fronting the albums final 13 minute epic. Conifer has been writing primarily instrumental music with a lawless take on the styles from which they've taken cue. New content is found by way of augmenting brutality and suspense with time. Conifer seems to reckon with the notions of bands like Enemymine, Mogwai, or Grails while taking an approach toward their music that's entirely meditative (as opposed to premeditated). Minimal, ethereal passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to by many of their peers.
Important-209
CD
$13.00

Co-Pilgrim
Pucker Up Buttercup (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Sparkling & beautiful down beat pop gem from British troubadour Mike Gale. Co-Pilgrim was started in August of 2005 by Mike Gale following the demise of his former band Black Nielson. 'Pucker Up Buttercup was released on Low Transit Industries across Australia in March of 2007. The album received glowing reviews and substantial airplay. Gale had been toying with the idea of adding a female vocalist/guitarist for a while so when he met Alysia Manceau at one of her former bands shows in Melbourne he decided to ask if she'd be interested in joining Co-Pilgrim. Alysia Manceau is a self taught musician who began playing guitar at the age of five. After Studying film and television at RMIT in Melbourne she realised that her true passion in life was music. Writing and performing locally in Melbourne since 2000 as a solo artist, Her formidable underground reputation as one of Melbournes most unique singers and guitarists led to her becoming a founding member in Alternative Country/Rock and Roll band Ned And The Meds. Luckily for Gale, Manceau agreed to take up his offer of joining Co-Pilgrim formally and the two have been working together since, indeed, such was the pairs belief in their new found unison that Gale moved into Manceau's sharehouse in order to live and breath together with the music they create, which is a beautiful blend of folk and country, with emphasis on space and harmonies. The newly strengthened Co-Pilgrim have been performing frequently around Melbourne for the past six months as well as recording a demo CD of future single and album material.
LowTransitIndustries-039
CD
$13.50

Cotton Jones Basket Ride
The River Strumming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US COTTON JONES BASKET RIDE is the new band fronted by singer-songwriter Michael Nau (former frontman of PAGE FRANCE). "The River Strumming" is a delightful slab of fuzzed-out dream folk that thumps with a musical heartbeat in a manner not dissimilar to that of forward thinking modern-day shamen like Will Hart and Brightblack Morning Light. This album completed itself, so to speak, forming in pieces over a six month span while the band was working on its debut full-length "Paranoid Cocoon" (to be released in late 2008). Nau and company initially set out to make a cohesive record, and made just the opposite. Some songs were recorded on one machine in December, finished on another machine in March, destroyed in April, then attached to another song in May. Likewise, it fits so well with the sort of records that ST. IVES is in love with releasing - the three-legged dogs of the world, the records that don't quite fit elsewhere, barely even within an artist's own body of work. "The River Strumming" is limited to 300 vinyl copies in hand-made packaging - each LP hand-wrought (as all St. Ives releases are) by the band itself - and is not expected to remain in stock long.
St.Ives-19
LP
$11.50

Danielson Famile
Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US September marks the beginning of a season in which we look back upon and celebrate some of our favorite DANIELSON titles from a rich back catalog that has spanned over a decade. This epic journey of retrospection begins with the vinyl reissues of "Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block" and "Fetch The Compass Kids" (both being released on SECRETLY CANADIAN) and "Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)" (being released on SOUNDS FAMILYRE). In addition to being back in print for the first time since 2001, these reissues have some unique attributes such as: "Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block" is now available as a 2x12" LP format (as opposed to the 2x10" format in which it debuted) and includes 4 bonus songs from a live WFMU session from 1996. "Tri Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)" has been partially remixed and fully remastered and makes its vinyl return dressed up in a brilliant new gatefold jacket along with a very special bonus track. Remember this is just the kick off of a busy season for Danielson, so stay tuned...
SoundsFamilyre
DLP
$14.25

Danielson Famile
Fetch the Compass Kids (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US
SecretlyCanadian-045
LP
$11.50

Danielson Famile
Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US
SecretlyCanadian-042
DLP
$14.25

Darling Downs
From One to Another (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
CarrotTop
LP
$11.50

Darling Downs
From One to Another (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US "A record of spare, tender songcraft, whose delicate shifts in tone make the simple alt.country tag inadequate. A brave move for both, brilliantly pulled off. 4 stars."-Uncut. The DDs stand out as the most unlikely of collaborations between longtime members of the fertile Australian rock scene. While it is not at alll insane to imagine the driving force behind SCIENTISTS, BEASTS OF BOURBON & SURREALISTS, KIM SALMON, working with DIED PRETTY's energetic frontman and songwriter RON PENO, the improbable happens when you consider the result that might flow from such a teaming. What are the odds that these two towering figures of Australian music, famous for swaggering, noisy, swampy punk rock (Salmon) & soaring pop rock (Peno) would concoct such a perfect loveletter to American country folk? Armed only with Kim Salmon's custom Cole Clark acoustic guitar and Peno's singular voice & vision, The Darling Downs crafted an almost impossible album: a record of nuanced beauty, a subtle masterpiece that unfolds like a dahlia with each successive spin, giving the listener something new & unexpected at every helping. All from two guys & one pristine guitar. At times Peno channels the spirit of Appalachian folk's high lonesome sound, complete with yips, yelps & howls, while elsewhere his (improvised?!) vocals are hypnotically understated, almost delicate--threatening to disappear into thin air before crashing down like thunder. Supporting Peno's acrobatic vocal brilliance is Salmon's equally understated, elegant guitar
playing, perhaps the most restrained of his career, made all the more stunning when you know the fireworks & growl of which he is capable & for which he is famous. Salmon showcases not only his versatility but playing of such surprisingly refined grace that it defines the album as one of the best listens of 2006. An album of profound subtlety. "With Salmon often infusing the guitar lines with deft lilts & melodies, grasping each song is sometimes as difficult as interpreting a smoke signal in a storm, the ever-shifting qualities of the music making it difficult to categorize. The experience mesmerizes."-The Age (AU).
CarrotTop
CD
$11.50

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kranky
LP
$11.50

Deerhunter
Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly".
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Dressy Bessy
Holler and Stomp (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US New album!
Transdreamer
CD
$14.25

Dressy Bessy
Holler and Stomp (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Transdreamer
LP
$15.75

Eleh
Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Deluxe pressing of 500 copies packaged in letterpressed covers designed by Important and printed by 23rd Parallel. Mastered by James Plotkin. Hand numbered/hand assembled. Eleh's Intuitive Synthesis/Floating Frequencies Volume 3 is the third release in their Intuitive Synthesis series (Volume 2 was released over a year ago) and it is being released simultaneously with an Eleh/Pauline Oliveros split release. Both are limited edition and LP only. Meticulously minimal analog drone. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. Using an enormous vintage modular analog synthesizer, a battery of glowing HP tube test oscillators and occasionally guitar/piano, Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. This engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and to be heard/felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away from the speakers. Volume reveals detail.
Important-207
LP
$18.00

Eleh/Pauline Oliveros
Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Eleh: The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton Pauline Oliveros: Drifting Depths Important Records quite pleased to be presenting this split release consisting of two new drone works from Pauline Oliveros and Eleh. Oliveros, an early American minimalist who has pioneered the technique of Deep Listening, has created a new work exlcusively for this release. Drifting Depths is a new improvised piece made on a harmonica being processed through Pauline's Expanded Instrument System. Eleh's side, also exclusive to this vinyl only release, is super slow melodic drone full of stillness, tension & relief. Vinyl only, handmade and handassembled letterpressed jackets. Limited edition. A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, and Anthony Martin), which was the resource on the U.S. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros often improvises with the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recording. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. Using an enormous vintage modular analog synthesizer, a battery of glowing HP tube test oscillators and occasionally guitar/piano, Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. This engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and to be heard/felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away from the speakers. Volume reveals detail.
Important-206
LP
$18.00

Ergs
Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Mammoth, monstrous 33 song singles comp from one of the most beloved bands in today's pop underground. Many tracks appear here properly mixed/mastered for the first time.
Dirtnap
CD
$12.00

Ergs
Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Dirtnap
DLP
$17.25

Ewers, Suki
Kind of Hazy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, UK Former member of Opal and Mazzy Star. After performing for several years with Anemone, a band once touted as the missing link in the country music/dream pop connection, Suki spent the last couple of years in the studio working with Joe Kennedy on a set of nine songs. These were eventually sent off to be mixed & masterd by Kramer. The result is hazy, bittersweet pop in the vein of Galaxie 500 & Felt. The songs are at once dreamy & enigmatic yet immediately accessible. Suki manages to evoke much of the same delicately pretty gloominess as Opal while adding her own serenely melodic warmth. "A female-fronted The Clientele with a slightly more American brand of melancholy." -Filter Magazine.
MindExpansion-2020
CD
$13.00

Flaherty, Paul
Aria Nativa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US "Aria Nativa" is more than PAUL FLAHERTY'S third solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio, visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances, its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free power blues dips into the well of wretchedness and raises with fists of mirth. It's the sorta record that splays naked the artist for all: equal parts wise ass and universal vision. From his early 1970s woodshedding through a dozen plus albums each with drum buddies Randall Colburne and Chris Corsano, and collaborators Bill Nace, Wally Shoup and Sunburned Man of the Hand, Flaherty remains a total wildcat - on and off the alto/tenor horns. For this LP his massive tonal craft is equally matched by Ken Hill's gorgeous cover shot of a snow blown grave and "No More America" - Ken DelPonte's epic poem that spans nearly five decades and fills the back jacket, framing the atmosphere the music was recorded under. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album that includes a bonus track of "No More America" read by the author.
FamilyVineyard-57
LP
$12.50

Genghis Tron
Board Up the House Remixes Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US The inaugural album in the ambitious "Board Up The House Remixes" SERIES opens with ZOMBI'S Steve Moore expanding the very beginning of "Board Up The House" into a sprawling European film noir soundtrack; Jesu's Justin K Broadrick takes the schizophrenic grind of "Colony Collapse" and transforms it into a dirty booty-bass track just screaming for a Missy Elliott hook; Rob Crow incidentally pioneers Mariachi-core by adding some Spanish guitar and festive vocals to "Things Don't Look Good"; and Eluvium reimagines the 10-minute closer "Ergot" as an outer space funeral dirge for the 24th Century. Packaged in a jacket featuring "remixed" album art by Jon Beasley, this pressing is a limited edition of 1,000 copies on a special colored vinyl that corresponds to the artwork. Future volumes in this series will be released by Lovepump United, Anticon, Crucial Blast and Relapse Records.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-142
12
$11.50

Girl Talk
Feed The Animals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST)
PS, US Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing. Girl Talk has been known to underground audiences for several years, but it wasn't until 2006 that Gillis crossed over and caught the attention of a larger audience. With Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and even Beck including Night Ripper in their "best albums of 2006" lists, Girl Talk has gone on to be booked by major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Virgin, All Points West, Pitchfork, DEMF, etc.), and solicited for remixes (Beck, Thrill Jockey, Tokyo Police Club, Grizzly Bear, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn & John, TeddyBears, and Of Montreal). And with roughly 200 live shows over the last couple of years, Gillis has consistently played larger venues to capacity crowds (every date on his 2007 North American tour with Dan Deacon sold out). PRESS QUOTES: "One endlessly entertaining mega mash-up" - Rolling Stone "Gillis' craft is stunning and his tastes are exquisitely diverse" - Blender "A masterpiece that employs an estimated 300 samples" - SPIN "Massively recommended ... the voracious music fan's dream" --- Pitchfork "Media assassins Illegal Art come forth with yet another brilliant Girl Talk record." - XLR8R "Sounds like your favorite mash-up DJ after about 11 espressos" - Entertainment Weekly "Mashes together booty-shaking rap, iconic indie rock, and, uh, ABBA" - MTV.com.
IllegalArt-117
CD
$14.25

Girls
Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Dirtnap
LP
$11.00

Girls
Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US 10 more tracks of twitchy, keyboard driven poppy post punk!
Dirtnap
CD
$12.00

Grubbs, David
Optimist Notes The Dusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US "A step into the void" is how Grubbs (GASTR DEL SOL) describes his first solo album since 2004. Here Grubb's presents five longish songs & one eleven-minute instrumental floor rumbler, and the album can't be said to fall in either a pop or experimental genre. Much like Gastr Del Sol's recordings, arrangements take their own sweet, otherworldly time to unfold, and you're likely to discover that the undertow is stronger than you reckoned & that you wind up a
disorienting distance from where you began.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Grubbs, David
Optimist Notes The Dusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Guthrie, Robin
3:19 Bande Originale Du Film (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 3000 in digipak. 3:19 is the title of the original soundtrack recording by Robin Guthrie for the acclaimed Spanish film of the same name. This is the former Cocteau Twins Guitarist's second soundtrack following Mysterious Skin and it features all the trademark Guthrie, ethereal soundscape you'd expect. This time, however, Robin has added piano, just a bit a strings and a few sound effects that nicely communicate the film's mood.
Darla-213
CD
$13.00

High Places
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.25

High Places
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US The debut album following on the heels of their singles CD collection on Thrill Jockey Recs, which was highlighted as 'Best New Music' by PITCHFORK. HIGH PLACES is MARY PEARSON & ROB BARBER. The duo has an "exquisite corpse" style of songwriting where they exchange ideas back & forth, challenging one another's expectations, pushing songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. They gravitate toward the organic over the electronic, and that natural aesthetic adds warmth & intimacy to the recordings. Huge press buzz from New York Times, Tokion, Fader, Plan B, Tiny Mix Tapes, Stereogum, Paste, Venus, etc. Both the CD & LP versions are presented in old-style tip-on gatefold jackets
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Hototogisu
Pale Fatal Sister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release.
Important-210
DLP
$24.50

Howling Hex
Earth Junk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US All-new, all-different record. An electric country-pop hoedown for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal & repetitive as all rock & roll while creating a bit of curiosity and perplexity, Howling Hex are convinced that they owe the audience something of value for their money - Earth Junk! This album is a ramble in the dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Howling Hex
Earth Junk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

I Am Robot And Proud
Uphill City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 1000 color vinyl with free album download. I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing.
Darla-215
LP
$15.00

I Heart Lung
Interoceans (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US On 'Interoceans", I HEART LUNG blends first-take methods with Oblique Strategies: carefully composed, meticulously recorded pieces rooted in improvisation, revised and augmented over time. The results are a compelling vision of chaos and beauty as Chris Schlarb's electric guitar drones and Tom Steck's free-jazz drumming hold and flutter with shimmering acoustic guitars, soaring pedal steel and beautifully captured field recordings. When Kris Tiner's trumpet follows Nels Cline's electric sitar three minutes into "Interoceans II," it's like Don Cherry's loving spirit doting on universal music drones.
AsthmaticKitty-408
CD
$11.50

James
Hey Ma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US New album! AMG: "Hey Ma is such an extension of the band's signature sound that it's possible to think no time has passed at all, yet that isn't quite accurate. Not that the band went out on a low note, but James do sound revitalized, energized by the time apart and, perhaps more importantly, sounding connected to the time at hand, making music for a world in turmoil that needs more voices of protest and hope."
Decca
CD
$14.25

Jarboe
Mahakali (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US Featuring Phil Anselmo (PANTERA), Attila (MAYHEM), Colin Marston (BYLA), Kevin Hufnagel (BYLA) & Josh Graham (NEUROSIS,
A STORM OF LIGHT).
TheEnd
CD
$14.50

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008)
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Kalinich, Stephen John
A World Of Peace Must Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US Long lost psych poetry album by legendary Beach Boys song-writer, and co-produced by Brian Wilson at his home in 1969. Deluxe booklet features liner notes by Beach Boys archivist Alan Boyd, unseen photos, archival material, and full lyrics.
LightInTheAttic-039
CD
$14.75

Kool DJ Dust
The Disco Opera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, SWEDEN The unbelievable Disco Opera, starring Kool Dj Dust. Dust has sampled and edited together super obscure material into perfect disco rocks, which he dramaturgically arranges into a galactic drama, visualized as a comic strip. Bringing to mind Idjut Boys, Pilooski, Rune Lindbaek and Radio Soulwax, Dust's just as unique, crate digging genius and party manic but with a disco flavor to it that will roll like a mirror ball around the globe. A Kool Dj Dust mix will be on Beats In Space in September. Support from Tim Sweeney (DFA), Erol Alkan, Aeroplane, Tode Terje, Tensnake, Skull Juice, Rune Lindbaek etc.
Service-033
CD
$17.25

Laika & the Cosmonauts
Cosmopolis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Praised equally by surf god Dick Dale & Ministry's Al Jourgensen, they are some of modern music's most vibrant explorers. This is a surf, rock & jazz fueled trip through the past 20 years of Laika's career & includes material never before released in the U.S. Renowned for the technical prowess of their fuzz-drenched, tremolo-happy surf rock, this sounds like a 50s sci-fi film soundtrack interpreted by David Gilmour.
YepRoc
CD
$12.00

Lewis, Jenny
Acid Tongue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US New album from Rilo Kiley lady on a major label.
WB/WEA
CD
$14.25

Lewis, Jenny
Acid Tongue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DLP with CD.
WB/WEA
DLP/CD
$23.75

Lindstrom
Where You Go I Go Too (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US VINYL!! LP edits done by PRINS THOMAS. Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic.
SmalltownSupersound
DLP
$18.75

Lineland
Logos For Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST)
PS, US For a split second the actuality of language stood only to bear witness and inspire the sonic structures of love being erected around me, and in this moment I believed in principle of purpose. Only when English was interjected did I sense the imposing future and separate out the soundscape of this melodic passing clan from the music streaming through the speakers. Logos for Love presenting a variety of acoustic instrumentation pressed into each other with modern blips and squiggles like a structure of so much brightly colored modeling clay with an illuminated jeweled interior, embracing the ancient rhythms and language over the impeding future. Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, Hüsker Dü to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial fourtrack Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion (Audio Dregs 2003) over a three-year period, during which Felder expanded the material using music software on the home-built Dynavox 2000 computer and a growing array of vintage keyboards and novelty instruments. Songs have appeared on a few compilations and in several short independent films, including Back and Forthby James and Jeff Israel.
AudioDregsRecordings-070
CD
$12.25

Lymbyc Systym
Love Your Abuser Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US LYMBYC SYSTYM'S has made many new friends in the last year and a half as they've toured in support of their MUSH RECORDS debut, "Love Your Abuser". They've asked some of those friends - The Album Leaf, The One AM Radio, Daedelus, This Will Destroy You, and Back Ted-N-Ted - to remix some of the material from their album. In addition Mush Records' Black Country Bibio and Austinite Reference turn in masterful reworkings. Each artist adds their unique touches to Lymbyc Systym's already epic source material, Working simultaneously as a companion piece to 2007's Love Your Abuser and as a compelling album on its own, Love Your Abuser Remixed is further testament to Lymbyc Systym's powerful presence in the instrumental music scene.
Mush-261
CD
$9.00

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

Marmoset
Record In Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US MARMOSET'S "Record In Red" is full of apples and cherries. With this, their second full-length, Marmoset have released a near masterwork of pop pleasure. Indeed, the 13 songs on "Record In Red" vary widely in style and sound, ranging from the Church-like acoustic stylings of "Golden Cloak" and "Torn Cup, Fly Up Above", the FAITH-era Cure tone of "Walking Thru The Lake", the moody pop melodies resembling Richard Davies' work with the Moles, the haunting confessional of "December 4th", the epic dementia of "Summertime Is Easy", to the Kim Deal inspired "Frendamine". Every song is decidedly different than the one before, but the album hangs together with a neurotic thread so fine that it's completely invisible to the gallery.
SecretlyCanadian/JoyfulNoise-035
LP
$12.25

Melodium
Cerebro Spin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST)
PS, US Melodium speaks; there starts a romantically slow game of pong between the hemispheres of brain. The sound speeds. I listen, and there is harmony now between the players, and reluctance towards competition. They play on. Melodically Melodium speaks. Faster, onward towards the polyrhythmic rally! All praise repetitive motion, be stilling thus Zen. The tones of play fashion an energetic path, a melodic relation of right and left. Only when Melodium pauses for a breath do I remember moments can be filled with splitting silence; that I am here and this is somewhere other then the pong game of my mind. Keep speaking. Melodium is the moniker of Laurent Girard, a rather prolific electronic musician from Nantes, France with an obsession for melodies. Weaving bits of guitar, piano, synthesizer, flute or bits of voice and texture to create patterns in sound and small personal soundtracks that are at once somber, while retaining a feeling of sunny optimism. Golden waves of sound with rough-hewn edges that sound both dreamy and melancholic and simultaneously warm and shiny.
AudioDregsRecordings-071
CD
$12.25

Mental Overdrive
You Are Being Manipulated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Norwegian producer/DJ/live act Per Martinsen is back in the studio hot seat with a new album under his Mental Overdrive alias. Already a long time part of the Norwegian dance sound his new opus 'You Are Being Manipulated' sees him develop even more with a melody driven electro/acid/disco/house sound all of his own. Featuring his anthemic cover version of Iron Maiden's 'Run to the Hills', the much hyped art/ebay experiment of 'Elephantastic' which was originally planned as a one bid buys the masters sale & recent singles 'The Rage' & 'Spooks' Per Martinsen is back to show us how its done.
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Mercury Rev
Snowflake Midnight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury Rev's newest work Snowflake Midnight. Recorded almost exclusively in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, Snowflake Midnight sees MR continue experiments with laser harps, ad-hoc computer programs and random note generators resulting in a record that moves with grace between avant garde and traditional pop sensibilities. Standout tracks "Butterfly's Wing" and "Senses on Fire" exhibit the emphasis on letting the music define itself, as free as possible from human interference. Zooming in at nearly any magnification, Snowflake Midnight appears to be a resplendent fractal folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet so subtly self-aware, that it never fails to resemble itself as a whole.
YepRoc
CD
$14.75

Mercury Rev
Snowflake Midnight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
DLP
$18.25

Michna
Magic Monday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Adrian Michna found his way as a DJ under his EGG FOO YOUNG alias, earning him an URB "Next 100" nod in the process. Production gigs for Bonde do Role & Diplo followed, allowing Michna to put his deftness at both the drum machine & the trombone to good use, creating tracks out of dense
blankets of sound & texture. Apart from the tightly woven musical amalgam of hip-hop, booty & electro, it's the detailed process that makes Michna's debut album move. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the album is its rich element of musicality; in an era when hip-hop tracks have devolved into two-note keyboard loops, songs like "Skunk Walk" live up to their name with full-bodied funk & live horns. When Ghostly owner, Sam Valenti IV, asked Adrian which samples to clear, Adrian replied, "What samples?"
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.50

Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely layered guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a new array of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before at their electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain masters of the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also expanded the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound.
Matador
CD
$13.50

Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling {Deluxe CD/DVD} (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Limited deluxe CD+DVD in gatefold digipak includes video for "Batcat", directed by Dominic Hailstone (Aphex Twin), plus the Vincent Moon (The National) short film about Mogwai, "Before It Sounds". Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely layered guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a new array of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before at their electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain masters of the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also expanded the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound.
Matador
DCD
$17.00

Mogwai
The Hawk Is Howling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HQ 180 vinyl in gatefold sleeve with MP3 coupon.
Matador
LP
$20.00

Moonbabies, The
Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover".
Startracks/Hidden Agenda
CD5
$2.00

Nagisa Ni Te
Yosuga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US It's been four years since the release of NAGISA NI TE'S previous album "Dream Sounds", and now - after much work - their seventh album "Yosuga" has been completed. JAGJAGUWAR is once again very proud to deliver the band's most recent work to North America and Europe. "Yosuga" also marks the first time that Jagjaguwar has released a Nagisa Ni Te title on vinyl (not to mention the still popular compact disc format!). The Japanese duo of Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda deliver an album that consists of both beautiful arrangements and soft melodies. Yosuga - the meaning of which refers to the source or grounds upon which the body and mind rely - is one of Nagisa Ni Te's finest efforts.
Jagjaguwar-129
CD
$11.50

Nebulo
Avutma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, GERMANY Avutma is the latest release by Nebulo after the album Kolia, two remixes for architect and Hecq, and even freely available Nebulo ringtones. The outstanding French artist Thomas P. with this CD has created a closed opus that might be seen as a concept album in which the listener has to decide what the concept is. Nebulo's subtle approach forms a complex fictitious scenery by using seemingly minimal resources that are more visible than ever. Electronically treated instruments like organ and piano, combined with synth layers and modified beats generate tempers that range from surreal to melancholic or even nearly frightening. Listening to 'Avutma' is like walking in a dimly lit basement never knowing what's behind the next curve, and who or what is actually casting these shadows on the walls... Nebulo's trademark, a connection between ambience, idm, clicks'n'cuts and postmusique- concrète collages is presented here once again. As a reviewer wrote: 'surreal dreamscapes painted with tears and sometimes even blood' - Avutma might be the soundtrack of today's grand guignol.
Hymen-68
CD
$16.25

New Radiant Storm Kings
Drinking In The Moonlight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Northampton, MA/New York city indie rockers New Radiant Storm King deliver the tightest, hookiest and most diverse record in their distinguished career. Recorded over six months in deep, rural Massachusetts, Drinking in the Moonlight proves once again that guitarists/vocalists Peyton Pinkerton and Matt Hunter along with bassist Caleb Wetmore and drummer J.J. O'Connell write some of the most imaginative and memorable American rock. Approaching their twentieth year as a band, NRSK have gracefully matured as song smiths while retaining their prowess at crafting unconventional yet infectious melodies. Drinking in the Moonlight is a sonic mix of urban and rural, sporting distorted yet wiry pop with a marked focus on narrative within their song writing -- trademarks gratifying to longtime fans. Time spent in other bands (Pinkerton in The Silver Jews and The Pernice Brothers; Hunter in J. Mascis & The Fog and The Wharton Tiers Ensemble) has honed the Pinkerton/Hunter attack musically and lyrically. Over the course of thirteen songs, Drinking in the Moonlight addresses topics as varied as random street violence, infidelity and subsequent pregnancy, exorbitant winter heat bills and even an open condemnation of organized religion (Thank God -Ed). Drinking in the Moonlight was recorded with longtime NRSK engineer Mark Alan Miller (Cordelia's Dad, J. Mascis & The Fog) at his Slaughterhouse Studios in Westhampton, MA. NRSK will tour Fall 2008. TRACKS: 1) Soporific Slump - A few more pints and then back to your place on 1st Avenue. 2) Undignified - Hopefully you can convince everyone that you actually are being your natural self - and have been lying up until just now. 3) Senseless - If a random act of brutal violence changed your life for the better, how would you explain it to anyone? To yourself, even? 4) Islander - She could never handle the mainland for more than a few days at any given time. 5) Little Ice Age - Sometimes the idea of summer seems both impossible and absurd. 6) Anything Can Happen - And usually does, if you're lucky (or not). 7) New Paltz Waltz - Instrumental levity. 8) Eight Steps Closer - Slouching towards Echo Park, with a cosmo in her hand. 9) After the After Hours - Guns, drugs and hipsters - in way over their heads. 10) Midnight Comes - Time horizons always seem to stretch into forever on a first date. 11) Eraser - Lick your wounds and don't look back for a second. 12) Clouds Cover Everything - Are you really sure that your memories are totally your own? 13) Fall Prey - The world is flat. The sun revolves around it. We've progressed on so many fronts save one.
Darla-201
CD
$12.25

Noyes Brothers, The
Sheep From Goats (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever CD reissue of Sheep From Goats by The Noyes Brothers, originally released in 1980 on the highly collectible Object Music label. The Noyes Brothers were Steve Solamar of cult band Spherical Objects and Steve Miro, who also recorded as a solo artist for Object. The album (a double set) as recorded between October 1979 and May 1980 at Graveyard Studios, and contain 100 minutes of experiments and improvisations, ranging from Eno-esque electronics to improvisation and side-long excursions such as A Good Question and It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. Released in July 1980 in a limited edition of 1000 copies, it sounds like little else recorded before or since. Pioneering Manchester label Object Music ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own master tapes, and since then the Object catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity (with the exception of The Passage). However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, as well as the complete Spherical Objects back catalogue on CD. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life. Steve Miro resides in Glastonbury.
Boutique-6615
DCD
$18.50

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US Skeletal Lamping absolutely delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. It's unpredictable, completely unique, and epic. And while of Montreal's albums have always been epic, Skeletal Lamping is an unprecedented achievement that will be talked about for years.
Polyvinyl
CD
$14.00

Of Montreal
Skeletal Lamping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$21.75

Ovo
Croce Via (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$12.50

Ovo
Croce Via (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US A darker slant than their previous full length, OvO's guitars scrape & drums pound but the organic crunch & high fidelity of this release will convince you that this is music taken further & harder. An avant masterpiece, it takes cues from the tar covered hordes wearing jean jackets & introduces a very natural middle finger of wigginess. Stefania Pendretti's vocals soar for the sky & rest like a golden piece of corn in the steaming morass of dunt. Guitar undulates like a wriggling eel, with Bruno Dorella's drums providing crunching headburn.
Load
CD
$12.50

Paramount Styles
Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound.
Konkurrent
CD
$13.25

Park Hotell
Free For Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2008)
PS, SWEDEN Park Hotell come from Luleå in Northern Sweden and they've been sneaking around the indie-scene for a while now. The members have played with both Mattias Alkberg BD and The Bear Quartet. In October Park Hotell will release their debut album. It was recorded in the Hives' Studio Gröndahl earlier this year. Demon producer Jari Haapalainen (Bear Quartet guitarist and producer for Ed Harcourt, Concretes and Camera Obscura) produced and played the drums, and the twin sisters Johanna and Miriam E. Berhan from Taxi Taxi! sang the backing-vocals. A bit less fuzzy-wuzzy and a bit more streamlined and jet-propelled these new recordings offer guitars that recalls Kevin Shields riding tempos stolen from The Wedding Present.
UltraRadio
CD
$14.00

Peter Bjorn And John
Seaside Rock (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD
PS, US *VERY*LIMITED* vinyl-only release, we'll do our damnedest! Includes coupon to download the tracks for free. As homage to Peter Bjorn and John's respective Swedish hometowns, they wanted to feature the voice and dialect from each of the three areas they grew up in. So, apart from the instrumental soundtrack to the lonely childhood of northern Scandinavia, you can also hear three monologues about some sort of seaside. The stories are read by a real saxophone player from Norsjo, a grandfather from Vika and the hairdresser Siw from Pitea.
AlmostGold
LP
$20.50

Pioulard, Benoit
Temper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US The double LP vinyl version of this release also includes the Precis album, issued on vinyl for the first time.
Kranky
DLP
$14.75

Pioulard, Benoit
Temper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US Composed throughout a yr that involved graduation from university & a cross-continental relocation, its 16 tracks arose in specific periods of intense creative energy. W/ soft-edged vocals & a broad palette of instruments that lately incl. harmonium & cello, he constructs diverse arrangements that skirt the borders of pop w/ beautiful, detailed atmospheres.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Pivot
O Soundtrack My Heart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Pivot is a rare combination of the emotive and cerebral, harnessing the raw garage energy of three explosive musicians along-side intensive studio production. Part prog-warrior, part slacker geek, the band's music and approach provide something much needed in the world of music. Pivot's sound exudes an omnipresent sense of melodrama and what can only be described as a sort of 'apocalyptic joy.' For fans of The Talking Heads and Vangelis.
Warp
CD
$13.75

Pop Levi
Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks.
Counter
CD
$15.25

Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Donovan's steadily growing reputation as a first rate darkly romantic penman (thanks to contributions to The Skygreen Leopards & solo as Verdure) has culminated with his latest endeavor. Rather than aping or ducking genres, Quinn has crafted a bright spectrum of songs best described as 'American.' Xian folk, languid indie pop, VU cool, loner country & west coast psych are touchstones, with Quinn's singular lyrical abilities & taste for sun-baked song steadily at the fore. Ever the flower bed romantic, Quinn has - at the risk of over-simplification - written a classic "break-up record;" albeit filtered through surrealistic tenderness & riddled with red herrings & feelings of betrothal. Though not exactly lost in a sea of scarves, Quinn is indebted to the vulnerability, humor & bitterness present in the works of Ronnie Lane, Skip Spence, Nikki Sudden & Basement Tapes-era Dylan.
SoftAbuse-028
CD
$11.50

Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION, includes CD too.
SoftAbuse-028
LP
$13.75

Replacements, The
Don't Tell A Soul [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US The band's third album for Sire features three-quarters of the legendary founding line-up of lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass) - Slim Dunlap replaces original guitarist Bob Stinson, who departed after 1985's Tim. Rhino's new edition of this 1989 classic - which Rolling Stone called "an audacious album"- features the original 11-song set remastered plus 8 bonus tracks, including three previously unreleased rarities. Highlights include "I'll Be You," a #1 Billboard modern rock track and the band's first single to chart on the Hot 100, along with album opener "Talent Show," "Achin' To Be" and "Back To Back." Among the 8 bonus tracks are "Date To Church" with Tom Waits and previously unissued finds including a demo for "Talent Show" and an alternate mix of "We'll Inherit The Earth."
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75

Replacements, The
Please To Meet Me [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Their fifth full-length and second for a major label, Pleased To Meet Me was also the band's first following the official departure of guitarist Bob Stinson, part of the legendary founding line-up that also included lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass). Rhino's newly REMASTERED & EXPANDED edition of this 1987 album classic features the original 11-song set plus 12 rare bonus tracks, half of them previously unreleased. The album was recorded in Memphis, TN with producer Jim Dickinson (whose association with Big Star forged the connection with the 'Mats). Memorable tracks include "Alex Chilton," "The Ledge," "I Don't Know," "Red Red Wine" and "Can't Hardly Wait." Among the dozen bonus rarities are a previously unreleased alternative version of "Alex Chilton" and previously unissued demos for "Valentine," "Bundle Up," "Empty As My Heart," "Time Is Killing Us" and "Kick It In."
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75

Replacements, The
Tim [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US After emerging from and defining the Minneapolis music scene of the early 1980s and issuing a series of seminal releases on Twin/Tone, The Replacements signed to Sire Records mid-decade. The first of their four now-classic full-lengths for the label, TIM was also the band's last album fueled by the legendary original line-up of lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (guitar and bass, respectively). Rhino's newly edition of this 1985 tour de force features the original 11-song set remastered plus 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Produced by original Ramones drummer Tommy Erdelyi, TIM is #136 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". Highlights include "Bastards Of Young," "Hold My Life," "Kiss Me On The Bus" and "Left Of The Dial." Previously unissued bonus rarities include three tracks recorded at a 1985 session with Westerberg's idol, Alex Chilton, among them an electric outtake of "Can't Hardly Wait."
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75

Replacements, The
All Shook Down [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US A stripped-down, largely acoustic set first released in 1990, was their last album for the label, and proved to be their final one as a band as well. While it features lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg still making music with his fellow founding members Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass), the album is generally considered to be essentially Westerberg's inaugural solo effort. Rhino's new edition features the original 13-song set remastered plus 11 bonus tracks, including 8 previously unreleased rarities. Stand-out tracks include "Sadly Beautiful," "Merry Go Round" and the title track. Among the 11 bonus cuts are 8 previously unissued demos, including ones for "Sadly Beautiful," "Happy Town," "When It Began" and "One Wink At A Time."
Rhino/Ryko
CD
$17.75

Rev, Martin
Les Nymphes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US Instrumentalist in the legendary duo SUICIDE.
File13
CD
$13.50

Richter, Max
24 Postcards in Full Colour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US With his fourth album, Berlin-based MAX RICHTER further cements his status as one of the leading lights of modern composition. "24 Postcards In Full Colour" is a dazzling conceptual exercise of great beauty and emotional resonance. Each of the album's 24 tracks is a classically-composed ringtone, an evocative miniature whose theme, though fully developed, hints at a larger piece; thus Richter explores the fugitive nature of memory through reprises and repetition throughout this intriguing album. With a sonic pallette consisting of string quintet, solo piano, 16-track 2-inch tape, transistors, found shortwave radio, vinyl clicks, dust, scratches and rumble, and acoustic guitars, Richter's latest effort is both beautifully detailed and sonically rich.
FatCatRecords-1307
CD
$11.50

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

School of Seven Bells
Alpinisms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music.
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.50

Serena-Maneesh
S-M Backwards (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, NORWAY While working on their new album, Serena-Maneesh & Smalltown Supersound wanted to give you a glimpses of the early days. Tweaked & all beautifully pushed to the red. Most of the material on this double album was released as two EPs prior to the self titled debut; "Zuruck" & "Fixxations", both on Honeymilk, covering the time 1999-2003. This is the first time the material has been released outside of Norway. In addition to the original EP material this double album also contains new re-wrappings/mixes, videos & much more, over 80 minutes of Serena-Maneesh.
SmalltownSupersound-143
DCD
$21.75

Shedd, Tracy
Cigarettes & Smoke Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Tracy's helpful reminder on the opening track from her latest album of smart, pointed pop is a direct & economic assertion backed by sharp musicianship & just the right amount of reverb. Cigarettes & Smoke Machines, is Shedd's most accomplished record in a career that has now spanned four full-lengths. A fan of artists that drape their vocals in various shrouds (My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus & Mary Chain), Tracy decided that she never really wanted her vocals up front, an edict that permeated her previous recordings. Now, Shedd lets go & we benefit from vocal performances that establish the arresting emotional core of her latest record.
Teenbeat-442-1
LP
$13.75

Silver Jews
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US From behind closed doors since 1992, the Silver Jews released a series of popular music records that earned the group dedicated fans all over the world. But being a Silver Jews fan always meant accepting you'd never live to see the day your favorite band would take the stage. Then in 2006, after five
albums & fifteen years, David Berman decided to change all that. The band toured across America & Europe, all the way to Israel, playing these, their first forty shows, to a widespread outpouring of joy. SILVER JEW is a simple document of one of those stops, whereupon the band played two shows in Tel Aviv, and spent a profound afternoon in Jerusalem. All Region.
DragCity
DVD
$14.75

Smithson, Dawn
Earth Machine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, UK Former bassist & vocalist with space-rockers JESSAMINE, Dawn returns with her second solo album. Guests Ray Raposa (Castanets), Bill Herzog (SUNN O))), Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter), David Farrell (Southerning, Locate, Module), & Jussi Brightmore (Chrome Hoof, 1000 Pets,) add extra grit, grain & space, creating a heady cocktail of sounds. Where Smithson's first album was wounded & tentative in it's approach, Earth Machine is strong & sure of it's footing. Where there was deep melancholy with a glimmer of hope in the former, the latter reaches it's winding paths out to further hills & valleys, encompassing a wide range of emotion. Songs seem to tell one long story as they segue into one another. From the rounded nylon string guitar picking & gurgling synths to the pure feedback drones & sometimes Floydian electric guitar, Earth Machine has real continuity & a strong sense of being a true "album".
MindExpansion-2030
CD
$11.75

Soares, Tony
Native Clays (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Featuring the art of Tony Soares, this film is a beautiful journey through the ancient Native American process of paddle and anvil pot making. Every step is documented from digging the clay, making the pot, painting the pot and finally firing the pot in an open pit. The resulting images are a unique learning tool for the students of this lost art. Tony proudly builds pots using authentic methods right down to creating fire with a stick and working in a Native American environment. Features music throughout by Carl Roessler, Clive Wright and Harold Budd with narration by Anna LaCazio. Run time 1 hour 18 minutes.
DesertSkyMusic-007
DVD
$19.50

Spherical Objects
Past & Parcel / Elliptical Optimism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever reissues by cult Manchester band Spherical Objects, active between 1978 and 1981 and the core group on the highly collectible Object Music label. Formed by singer, songwriter and dj Steve Solamar in 1978, Spherical Objects produced a unique brand of what early champion Paul Morley termed 'existentialist psychedelia'. Their first album, Past & Parcel, appeared in August 1978 and predated releases on other Manchester post-punk labels such as Factory. The second album, Elliptical Optimism, was released on Object in October 1979. The band only played occasional live gigs, and preferred instead to concentrate on recording albums, releasing no less than four in as many years. Spherical Objects (and the Object label) ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own master tapes. Since then his music has rarely been heard, and the Object(s) catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity. However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, which includes rare non-album singles by Spherical Objects and its members. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life.
Boutique-6614
CD
$17.00

Spherical Objects
Further Ellipses / No Man's Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever reissues by cult Manchester band Spherical Objects, active between 1978 and 1981 and the core group on the highly collectible Object Music label. Formed by singer, songwriter and dj Steve Solamar in 1978, Spherical Objects produced a unique brand of what early champion Paul Morley termed 'existentialist psychedelia'. Their third album, Further Ellipses, appeared in 1980 and featured a new, short-lived line-up of the group. The fourth and final album, No Man's Land, was released on Object in October 1981. The band only played occasional live gigs, and preferred instead to concentrate on recording albums, releasing no less than four in as many years. Spherical Objects (and the Object label) ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own mastertapes. Since then his music has rarely been heard, and the Object(s) catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity. However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, which includes rare non-album singles by Spherical Objects and its members. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life.
Boutique-6616
CD
$17.00

Steinbruchel
Mit Ohne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US Limited edition: 500. Order now as this is limited and will not be reissued. Mit Ohne is a sound documentation of an audio/visual installation by Yves Netzhammer and Steinbrüchel. The installation entitled "The feeling of precise instability when holding things" was part of the group exhibition "Wohnträume/Wohnräume" exhibited from 26.07. to 28.09.2003 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, Switzerland. The audio sections by Steinbrüchel where composed in sync with the visuals by Yves Netzhammer and succeed in translating and supporting the poetic vibrancy and slow morphing movements of the 3d rendered animation. For the exhibition an atmospheric fragile and detailed work was created involving a three-part projection and multichannel sound that conveys an abstract audio and visual approach to the environment surrounding us and the concept of a room itself. Each audio track takes the listener into a new form of "room" and simple patterns of single tones are layered into dense movements surrounding the listener's space. The crystalline polished sounds form a highly precise environment that interacts with particles of melodies searching for space to breathe. Between the tracks there are no pauses that give the dedicated listener the feeling of being moved suddenly from one room to the other. Space and silence are sensitively woven into each other while forming an atmospheric and organic surrounding. Through the sound the feeling in every room changes from dark to bright, from large to small, from lonely to crowded, from silent to loud. Ralph Steinbrüchel, born in 1969, studied Communication Design at Central Saint Martins School in London, where he acquired a Masters of Arts and Design with distinction. He now lives and works as a musician and graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2002 his composition "zwischen.raum" [Domizil, Zurich, 2002] was distinguished with the Max Brand Award for Electronic Music [phonoTAKTIK.02 Festival, New York].
12K-2010
CD5
$9.00

Submerged
Violence As First Nature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH)
PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more.
OhmResistance
CD
$12.25

Swarm
Still At War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US Philly's premier drum n' bass crew steps up to the plate with this double CD album and mix, combining hip hop, dancehall and old skool jungle influences into a melting pot of dynamic beats. Created by Mason, DStar, Trust, MC Armanni, and MC Sharpness, Gasm's Still at War is a powerful collection of urban anthems, Philly street-style. TRACKLIST: CD 1: ALBUM 1. Mason & Dstar feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 2. Trust - Saving Grace 3. Mason & Noah D - The Product 4. Dstar - Roll Callz 5. Dstar - Just How Blind 6. Mason - Devil's Poem 7. Dstar - 2Rude! 8. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 9. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 10. Dstar - Fist Extra Artillery 11. Trust feat. Mental Sharp - P.H.I.L.L.Y VIP 12. Mason feat. MC
Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 13. Noah D - Cool and Deadly CD2: MIX 1. Swarm - Intro 2. Mason & Dstar Feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 3. Perpetuum - Fate of a Legend 4. Mason - Devil's Poem 5. Dstar - Evilution 6. Ixis - Smash to Bits 7. Dstar - Marshal Law 8. Mason - Rada 9. Dstar - 2Rude! 10. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata & Focus - Burgandy 11. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 12. Dstar - Ya Sexy Gal 13. Mason - A&B 14. Dstar - 40K 15. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata - Ricochet 16. Mason feat. Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 17. Dstar - Fist (A Special Dedication) 18. Chino - Rush 19. Perpetuum - 10s 20. Mason & Dstar vs. Focus - The Big Shutdown 21. Mason & Noah D -The Product 22. Dstar - Just How Blind 23. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Breakout 24. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 25. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Only You 26. Noah D - Cool and Deadly 27. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Saving Grace 28. Dstar - Roll Callz
Gasm/OhmResistance-001
DCD
$13.75

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA)
PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

Technical Itch
You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH)
PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy.
OhmResistance-9M
CD
$13.00

Tecumseh
Avalanche & Inundation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, US The LP version of Tecumseh's Avalanche And Inundation is pressed in an edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds. Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and their listeners in a warm sonic meditative slow motion blanket woven from their skilled use of sound and space. Avalanche And Inundation was recorded in the winter of 2008 with Jeremy Romagna (Yellow Swans, Trees, Silentist). " This is the perfect metallic drifting off music, almost like they've discovered some new genre, sludge-ambient, doom-age, whatever you decide to call it, it's pretty amazing, and fans of all things slow motion,downtuned and yes, heavy will dig this big time." Aquarius "The sound is sludgy and the pace snail-like but subtle. Within its monochrome scheme of blackness, and yet more blackness as its slow, slow, riffs unfurl there are small variations in tone. Such is the hermetically sealed inwardly directed feel of Tecumseh's sound thatthese tiny variations are like tiny rafts in an otherwise empty sea. And in the end the listening experience isn't some feat of endurance but strangely calming, it's blackness like a vast lake of crude oil with only the faintest of ripples disturbing it's surface." The Wire
Important-211
CD
$13.00

Ten Kens
Ten Kens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US TEN KENS combine raw vocal delivery, driving rhythms, and heavy, reverb-laden guitars with idiosyncratic song structures, creating a fresh, immediate sound. Like avant-indie contemporaries Liars and Black Heart Procession, or predecessors like Sonic Youth or Mudhoney, Ten Kens' sonic ambition never comes at the expense of songcraft; layers of noise bolster, rather than undermine, their memorable melodies.
FatCatRecords-069
CD
$11.50

Tough Alliance, The
New Chance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US New album from Swedish duo, deconstructing pop from the brains down. PREFIX MAG: "The Tough Alliance's glowing sophomore full-length, A New Chance, opens with a brief call to prayer, which frames the rest of the album in the proper context: Band members Eric Berglund (who handles the singing) and Henning Fürst (who does the music) view pop music as totemic as religion. But that doesn't mean they're not above screwing with the formula. A New Chance is as much about deconstructing and reassembling great pop music as it is worshipping it."
Modular
CD
$11.00

U2
Under A Blood Red Sky [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US The band's legendary 1983 live album remastered plus a bonus DVD of the entire Red Rocks concert with 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix. First time on DVD! Housed in a book like the other deluxe re-issues.
Island
CD/DVD
$30.00

Unbunny
Sensory Underload: Uncertain Trks 1996-2008 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2008)
PS, US Cohesive and near-comprehensive new collection of Unbunny EPs, singles, rarities and unreleased including their outtaprint Typist EP originally released by Important Recs. Many tracks appear on CD for the very first time. TRACKLIST: 1. "The Path" from Typist EP / 2. "Queen of Nothing" from Book and Roll EP / 3. "Water and the Spanish Tongue" (unreleased version) / 4. "Versatech" from Book and Roll EP / 5. "untitled" from Book and Roll EP / 6. "X" from Typist EP / 7. "untitled" from Book and Roll EP / 8. "Mandi" from split 7" w/Milkweed / 9. "Landscape Typing" from Typist EP / 10. "Every Saturday" from For Nervous Plants EP / 11. "Now or Never" from For Nervous Plants EP / 12. "Emily" (unreleased) / 13. "Dental Hygienist" from Awful Bliss comp / 14. "Ginger Tussle" from Typist EP / 15. "We're All Gonna Die" from Potown records comp / 16. "She'll Bring You Down" from Book and Roll EP / 17. "Viva la White Bread" (unreleased) / 18. "untitled" from Typist EP
AHiddenAgendaRecord-091
CD
$9.00

USA Is A Monster
Space Program (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$12.50

USA Is A Monster
Space Program (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, US Buttery synth & elaborate vocal harmonies combine to levitate hairpieces at least a little bit. This is the perfect synthesis of their pastoral wanderings circe their second record & the punk spunk of the first & third full lengths. The band is still a NY two piece tribe of Native American obsessed truth salesmen. Their take on rock embraces proggy synth tones, elaborate harmonies & jaw dropping drum & guitar that is no accident, and can be seen in ragged glory when they come to your local rock hole this fall.
Load
CD
$12.50

Various
Auteur Labels: Object Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH)
PS, UK 27 tracks. LTM present a new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Manchester imprint Object Music. Active between 1978 and 1981, pioneering Manchester post-punk label Object Music was founded by songwriter and deejay Steve Solamar to release records by his own group, Spherical Objects. Their first album, Past & Parcel, arrived in August 1978. Object soon began releasing records by other artists, many of them active in the Manchester Musicians' Collective. After singles by Spherical Objects, the Passage, Steve Miro, Grow Up, Contact and others, in 1979 the label took the unusual step of concentrating on albums, releasing 7 in 12 months. However Object Music ceased operations in 1981 after Steve Solamar corrected a lifelong contradiction and became a woman. Auteur Labels: Object Music compiles tracks from singles released between September 1978 and July 1980, as well as select album tracks. Tracklist: SPHERICAL OBJECTS the kill; SPHERICAL OBJECTS the knot; STEVE MIRO & THE EYES dreams of desire; STEVE MIRO & THE EYES queen of the sea; GROW UP river; GROW UP stay awake; GROW UP 10 minutes; ALTERNOMEN UNLIMITED façade; WARRIORS martial time/martial law; STEVE MIRO up and about; STEVE MIRO smiling in reverse; SPHERICAL OBJECTS seventies romance; SPHERICAL OBJECTS sweet tooth; CONTACT fascinated by time; CONTACT nite time; THE PASSAGE troops out; THE PASSAGE my one request; MANCHESTER MEKON the cake shop device; IQ ZERO insects; GROW UP joanne; GROW UP swept away; GROW UP GGGDADGADADAD; STEVE SOLAMAR forewarned; THE NOYES BROTHERS the mutant; THE NOYES BROTHERS decision time; ALTERNOMEN UNLIMITED connections.
LTM-2527
CD
$17.00

Various
Teaism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH)
PS, UK Teaism is a compilation featuring a diverse range of artists, who each created a unique song based around the theme of music inspired by the art and culture of tea. An idea conceived and curated by Stefan Panczak (aka Inch-time), Teaism binds together 15 disparate tracks by a hand-picked selection of artists. From the opening gambit of Max de Wardener's Kettle Song, which chimes and charms, through to Cibelle's sashaying Mr & Ms Grey, the pivotal theme evokes a sense of reverie; a kaleidoscopic gamut of ideas brewed to concoct a heady mix of electronica, jazz, musique concrete-style cut-ups, cinematic tones and avant-garde composition. These all contribute towards what is a glistening patchwork of sounds and atmospheres; each of them different, yet with thematic and sonic undercurrents which unite them. Contained within are stately melodies from the likes of Lord Jim, spooky sound collages from Serafina Steer, the fresh-faced ambience of Inch-time and the shadowy electronic sounds of the Break-ups. There's also a digital folk-pop nugget from Tunng, nestling comfortably in the middle of the tracklisting, which embodies their lust for samples and found sounds, forged into absorbingly twisted shapes. This is immediately contrasted with root70's freewheeling jazz, while the likes of Carlos y Gaby and Oblong provide elegant and slow-building melodies, with AM/PM and Qua throwing glitches, clicks and whirs into the mix. Tying all of these strands together, Teaism takes the differing outlooks and arrangements and coaxes them into a cohesive whole, where a multitude of patterns and textures rub shoulders with each other and never sound out of place. Tea is capable of doing so many things: you can drink it to relax or inject much-needed impetus at the start of the day; it can accompany deep thought or fervent chat. It's this array of contradictions, or multiple purposes, which offers so many appealing possibilities. Likewise, the myriad sounds collected on Teaism represent their fair share of contrasts as well. At times warm and delicate, followed by moments of brooding intensity, this electronica-led compilation flits between different nuances, all the while remaining deft and magical. Teaism is available as a limited edition CD and features original artwork by Roy Ananda.
StaticCaravan-154
CD
$15.50

Vivian Girls
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
InTheRed
LP
$10.50

Vivian Girls
S-T (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 3RD)
PS, US Breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade who dish out seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven w/ chest-pounding waves of beautiful feedback. RIYL the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Vaselines and the Shop Assistants. Pitchfork recommended.
InTheRed
CD
$13.00

Week That Was, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music.
MemphisIndustries
CD
$15.25

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

Windy & Carl
Songs For the Broken Hearted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kranky
DLP
$15.00

Windy & Carl
Songs For the Broken Hearted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH)
PS, US Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. These 10 songs are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger & longing, to warmth, admiration & joy. This fall, they will have been together for 19 yrs. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, & trouble in any paradise, the highs & the lows, the reality of time & depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long.
Kranky
CD
$12.25

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Albertans “Sex With An Angel” 45 $5.50
Auffenberg, Ryan “Marigolds” CD $13.25
Baseball Project “Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails” CD $13.75
Believer “June/July 2006” ZINE $7.25
Believer “February 2004” ZINE $7.25
Bjork “Minuscule” DVD $12.50
Black Kids “I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You” 12 $9.25
Bonus “On Earth” CD $13.25
Byrds “Live In Holland 1971” 45 $5.50
Byrds “Lazy Days b/w Reputation” 45 $5.50
Cars Can Be Blue “Doubly Unbeatable” CD $12.25
Coltrane, John “Dakar” CD $11.00
Days “S-T [re-issue]” CD $19.00
Disappears “2008” 45 $4.50
Earlimart “Hymn & Her” CD $14.25
Farflung “A Wound In Eternity [deluxe edition]” CD $14.00
Freeks, The “S-T” CD $17.75
Genghis Tron “Board Up The House” DLP $21.25
Hexlove/Faulouah “Free Jazz From Slavery” DLP $18.50
Hot Cha Cha “Rifle, I Knew You When You Where Just A Pistol” CD5 $4.25
Hull, Scott “Requiem” CD $14.75
Ides of March, The “Ideology” CD $15.50
Ides of March, The “Gonna Say My Prayers + 1” 45 $5.50
International Submarine Band “Blue Eyes/Luxury Liner” 45 $5.50
Johnson, Robert “King of the Delta Blues Singers [Bonus Track]” CD $12.25
Justine “S-T” CD $16.25
Knife The Symphony “Crawler” CD $9.00
Magnet “#79” ZINE $3.00
Nada Surf “Lucky” LP $13.50
One In A Million “Double Sight” CD $21.75
Pink Skull “Zeppelin 3” CD $13.50
Pocahaunted “Mirror Mics” LP $15.25
Polar “Feedback (CD + DVD)” CD/DVD $21.75
Rain “S-T” CD $16.25
Rayne “S-T” CD $18.00
Siena Root “Far from the Sun” CD $19.00
Smittens, The “The Coolest Thing About Love” CD $12.25
Studio “Yearbook 2” CD $16.25
Taj Mahal Travellers “July 15, 1972” CD $26.00
Them “Them In Reality” CD $16.25
Them “S-T” CD $16.00
Trees “Lights Bane” CD $13.75
Various “Psychedelic Schlemiels 2: More Lost Sounds From The Britpsych Scene 1967-1969” CD $21.75
Various “Home Front, The” DCD $18.50
Various “Eccentric Soul: Tragar & Note Labels” DCD $24.75
Wombats “A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation” CD $14.00
Women “S-T” CD $13.50
Woodentops “Hypno Beat Live [Bonus Tracks]” CD $17.25

Parasol New Arrivals • September 09, 2008
Hi friends, Welcome back to yet another Tuesday and man, oh man, do we ever have some righteous releases for you. Here are a few key examples to get your ears all hot 'n bothered: New Year, Calexico, Dungen, Chad VanGaalen, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Social Junk, and Scorces. With that said, take a look at look at the rest of the list and give us a holler if anything catches your eye. The sure shelter, Roy
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Parasol Mail Order Pick of the Week
	Chad VanGaalen "Soft Airplane" CD $13.00 (Sub Pop) O Canada, you have bequeathed upon us artiste, skateboardiste and bedroom/backyard recording savant Chad VanGaalen and we couldn’t be happier. Dude gets his Neil Young on and we get goosebumps; guy finds a fresh funky beat on his Casio to exploit and we get euphoric; and we’re getting giddier with every pluck of his trusty banjo, with each cosmic synth line he amiably births. A big thanks to our our Neighbor to the North, thanks for Chad. And Neil. Oh, and Rush. Sound samples on the front page.
You spin me right round Roy's Vinyl Pick of the Week
	Dungen "Satt Att Se [LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL]" 12 $15.00 (Subliminal Sounds) Dungen presents a brand new 12" that extends the acclaimed Swedish outfit's sound even further. Beats surging forth, stirring orchestration with cinematic undertones and atmospheric changes that highlight their trademark evolutionary sound. This lush pop portrait laced with orange sunshine guitar flash stands as one of the most fully-realized moments of Dungen's career. 1,000 copies in a hand-numbered, vinyl-only limited edition release.
New Releases 18th Dye Amorine Queen PS, DENMARK New album, their first in 13 years, from awesome Danish/German outfit who had several amazing albums released by Matador in the 90s. Half the album's up on their myspace page, check it out. With their groundbreaking, catchy and consistently explosive rock 18TH DYE earned great recognition in the international music press during the 90s. They toured all over the US and Europe and left a name, which has inspired a vast number of bands. With Amorine Queen 18TH DYE continue their intensive work during the 90s. 18TH DYE doesn't just thrill the fans from ten years ago, but also carry away a new audience - a fact that's hard to miss at their recent concerts. CrunchyFrog CD $16.25 Acid Mothers Temple & THe Cosmic Inferno Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno PS, UK "Though we shall henceforth be Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, the new group will also be known in short as Acid Mothers Temple and this will no doubt sow confusion in the minds of many. But the true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple are many - Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple SWR. The future may see yet other groups bearing similar names. But each and all of them will be true manifestations of Acid Mothers Temple. Thus, on this the tenth anniversary of the founding of Acid Mothers Temple, I announce the birth of the hellchild, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno" - Kawabata Makoto. First studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. A churning psychedelic mandala driven by Pikachu and Koji Shimura's (ex Mainliner, ex High Rise, ex Nagisa Ni Te) explosive twin drum assault. The original super-heavy AMT & TCI groove is blended with Pikachu's wild and spontaneous power. Against a background of ultra-loud fuzz-wah guitar and swooping space sounds, Pikachu and Tabata's (Zeni Geva, ex Boredoms) twin vocals beckon you on an endless journey through the cosmic inferno! Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno are : Tabata Mitsuru : bass, voice, maratab Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king Shimura Koji : drums, latino cool Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru Pikachu : drums, cosmic shaman (from Afrirampo) Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno VeryFriendly-046 CD $17.75 AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass PS, US "Easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Discordance still rules their roost, but more prog is rearing its head--that both teases & startles" - Montreal Mirror SkinGraft CD $14.25 AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LovePumpUnited DLP $18.75 Alvarez, Lesser, Gonzalez Why Is Bear Billowing PS, US A couple years ago, Baltimore's Alvarez was playing stripped down electro-pop (60s French chanteuse style) in the band Cache Cache. Other projects include playing guitar in the drone-tinged country-folk group The Tall Grass, as well as an electronic side project called The Ruby Stallion Ensemble. On this release, Lesser and his acoustic guitar craft some of the prettiest folk tunes you'll hear this year. He delivers his songs with a sense of whimsical earnestness, and has garnered comparisons to Nick Drake, John Fahey, and Donovan. Carpark CD $13.00 Beach Boys Pet Sounds PS, US Get 'em while you can! Capitol LP $20.00 Believer September 2008 PS, US Interviews w/ TIM & ERIC, RICHARD DAWKINS, & RICHARD MCCANN, a new monthly column by GREIL MARCUS, features by PAUL COLLINS, ROLF POTTS, & ANDER MONSON. ZINE $9.25 Bird Show Untitled PS, US All Music Written & Performed by Ben Vida (Central Falls and Town & Country), with Greg Davis, Robert Lowe, Adam Vida and Michael Zerang. Recorded in Chicago, IL & Burlington, VT 2007-2008. Ben Vida; Hammond XB-2, microKorg, Moog Voyager, Gibson SG, Berinbau, Shona Mbira, Slit Drum, Pan Pipes, Shakers, Vietnamese Jaw Harp, Tambourines, Ride Cymbal, Congas, Wood Flute, Ring Modulator, Elephant Bells, Violin, Qraqeb, Zither, Voice, Ten String Harp, Frame Drum, Finger Cymbals, Triangle. Kranky CD $12.25 Bitch #41 PS, US Feminist response to pop culture. The Loud Issue. Making a racket: metal maidens, laughing ladies, ambitious authors, and much more. ZINE $5.50 Black Nielson Current Sunlight PS, AUSTRALIA Beautiful 2005 album from now defunct British troubadours. Mike now plays in LTI band Co-pilgrim. At just under 5 years since the inception of the band, Black Nielson has established an impressive reputation, both on record and as a live act. The modest level of success achieved by the band can be traced in a steady trajectory from noble beginnings on the south coast of England, formed by principle songwriter Michael Gale... And that trajectory shows no sign of abating. LowTransitIndustries-022 CD $13.50 Bloody Panda Pheromone PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LevelPlane LP $13.50 Boat Topps PS, US The new 7" EP by Seattle's BOAT comes with five hand-drawn baseball cards, a piece of "crunchy/sugary/pink" bubblegum, & a ticket to download all the EP's four songs (plus a bonus track) as mp3s. MagicMarker 45 $6.00 Boddicker Big Lionhearted & The Galant Man PS, AUSTRALIA Quirky debut album from teen prodigy co-written & recorded by Brain Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine). "A rambling, rollicking and spikey vision of Americana, indie-rock and blues... brilliant" ROLLING STONE - 3 1/2 stars "Touched by a beautiful naievity and innocence, this is where all pop music originated from. Worth seeing where Boddicker can go with it" THE CITY HUB LowTransitIndustries-059 CD $13.50 Bound Stems Family Afloat PS, US This expresses a crucial personal transition & a collective one. While BOUND STEMS quit their day-jobs to tour relentlessly throughout 2006 in support of their previous album (one that garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Alternative Press, URB & Chicago Tribune), the band returned home ready for new challenges, & made the communal decision to return to the more stable life of work weeks & strong roots. It was a choice that also ultimately made the concept of home central to this 2008 album. The songs sound like preparation: the family has grown now, to include new ones being formed in Chicago. But there's no settling down in these songs: family life is raw & confusing, as uncomfortable & unexpected & rewarding as crucial. Flameshovel CD $13.25 Bound Stems Family Afloat PS, US LTD ED 180gm LP vinyl. 500 total pressing (250 black/250 orange). Includes digital download code. Flameshovel LP $13.25 Braid Frame & Canvas PS, US These guys toured so much they should be the poster boys for Rand McNally. Seminal album that defined a genre and cemented Braid's legacy - Frame and Canvas has been out of print on LP for several years. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and includes a digital download code. Polyvinyl-018 LP $12.50 Broken West Now Or Heaven PS, US Their sophomore full-length originates from home - the longing to get there and all that comes from being there. Each song is a maturation from the band's debut. The familiar catchy melodies are still there, as are the sublime harmonies and wry guitars, but "Now Or Heaven" is infused with a deeper, more serious perspective of the world. Merge CD $14.00 Bubblegum Lemonade Susan's in the Sky EP PS, US Scottish wonderkids Bubblegum Lemonade debuted early this year with an outstanding single 'Ten Years Younger' that earned song of the day honors on influential radio station KEXP and amassed countless positive reviews in the music press including favorable comparisons to influential 60's popstars (The Velvet Underground, The Monkees, The Byrds) and 80's indie legends (Jesus and Mary Chain, Razorcuts, Biff Bang Pow!). Before delivering the all important debut album, the band pause for a moment to release a spectacular second EP! Title track 'Susan's In The Sky' is an everyday tale of an airhostess and her slacker boyfriend caught up in a Romeo and Juliet type scenario. It's another sunshine wall of pop with Rickenbacker guitars, tambourines and nice organ bits. A short dose of California sunshine perfect for all seasons. Among the EP's exclusive extra tracks, the cleverly titled 'Surfin' USB' is a proper jangle with fuzzy guitars and a nice Beach Boys coda, while 'Just Like You' continues the California theme in a 150 bpm mini classic drenched in Mary Chain feedback with a mix of fuzz and surf guitars. Closing track 'Holocaust' is a superb cover of the legendary Big Star classic featuring a mix of Rickenbacker and acoustic guitars. Once described as "the perfect C86 pop band that just happened to turn up 22 years behind schedule," Bubblegum Lemonade deliver instantly memorable songs with brilliant pop melodies. 'Susan's In The Sky' is another remarkable success for Matinée and a vibrant reminder of the essential new pop coming out of Scotland. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve. Matinee-069 CD5 $6.50 Calexico Carried to Dust PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Quarterstick LP $14.00 Calexico Carried to Dust PS, US There's always been intrigue & adventure at the heart of CALEXICO. Since the beginning (now 18 yrs together), they have constantly imbued their music w/ an unparalleled sense of drama, calling upon the myths & iconography of the American West & its Spanish speaking neighbor Mexico. Equal parts Sergio Leone, Larry McMurtry, Carlos Fuentes & Cormac McCarthy. Their most varied & strongest work to date. Guest appearances by SAM BEAM (IRON & WINE), DOUG MCCOMBS (TORTOISE), & PIETA BROWN. Tons of press slated from Uncut, Spin, Paste, Filter, tons more. Digipak CD. Quarterstick CD $14.25 Callers Fortune PS, US The 11 songs here channel a temporal sense of place & hope over despair. W/the wounded perseverance of Karen Carpenter & the vulnerable, tough-as-nails courage of Heart's Ann Wilson, SARA LUCAS' voice is rich & unforgettable. RYAN SEATON's guitar work is equally engaging, as he masterfully delivers beautiful & unusual chords, gritty distortion, & even intricate flourishes that call to mind the ever-impressive Tinariwen. WesternVinyl-52 CD $11.50 Camp, Greg Defektor PS, US Camp is best known as the Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum songwriter/guitarist of Smash Mouth. He pulls out all the stops on his new solo album with fourteen shiny new songs, spanning such influences as 60s pop, surf, garage, spaghetti western soundtracks, rock 'n' roll, new wave, and funk. BarNone CD $12.50 Carr, Derek The Digital Space Race PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record. Psychonavigation-025 CD $15.50 Carter, Tom Shots At Infinity PS, US Comprised of recordings from various basements in the northeastern US from late 2007. Steering away from the more delicate string environments & modal folk improvisations of previous CDs, the disc features maximum loop delay drone overload stretched over long, densely harmonic tracks, retaining the melodic content & flow of earlier releases. His solo work covers a lot of territory, but latter-day sightings show him concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely stacked beauty, w/heaps of psychedelic melodic content missing from the repertoires of many noise & drone bands. Important-202 CD $13.00 Chambers, Don & Goat Zebulon PS, US Don Chambers and Goat dispenses with gimmickry, but its lyrics and arrangements are well prepared for a level field...it marks Chambers as a dukes-up purveyor of eerie sincerity" - Flagpole Magazine. "...sounds like Tom Waits if he'd grown up in the north Georgia mountains" - Nashville Scene. WarmElectronic CD $12.00 Chemical Brothers Brotherhood [deluxe expanded retrospective] PS, US Fifteen-track "Best Of", includes two new tracks. Second disc is ten tracks from their series of DJ test pressings called Electronic Battle Weapon. Astralwerks DCD $25.00 Chemical Brothers Brotherhood [retrospective] PS, US Fifteen-track Best Of includes more recent offerings and two new tracks, block rockin' beats galore. Astralwerks CD $17.75 Child Bite Fantastic Gusts of Blood PS, US Latest 10 song endeavor is the Band's contribution to evolutions of 2 great art forms: human superstition & pop music. This record is odd yet catchy, perfectly blending modern pop music w/the more abstract. Ambitious, yes. Satisfying to your ears, oh god yes. SuburbanSprawl CD $12.75 Chunklet #20 PS, US The final installment in a trilogy of EP's recorded for Acuarela. This is the most commercial & (shockingly) danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light & shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is the group as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colours; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque. ZINE $10.00 Clientele, The That Night, A Forest Grew PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque. Acuarela-067 CD5 $8.25 Coltrane, John Love Supreme (Remastered) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Impulse LP $13.50 Cornelius Sensurround & B-Sides PS, US DVD version of the wonderful Sensuous, including videos that have been used in the live shows of the latest tour, short films directed by Tsujikawa Koichiro, Takagi Masakatsu and Groovisions. Additionally, a bonus audio CD is included, bringing you the b-sides & remixes from the Sensuous project. Includes a rare collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto, remixes by Prefuse 73 and The Books, plus a capella versions by Petra Haden. Everloving DVD/CD $24.50 D+ What is Doubt For? PS, US KARL BLAU, Phil Elverum (MT. EERIE/MICROPHONES) & Bret Lunsford (BEAT HAPPENING) return w/their 6th proper release that continues further down their path of minimalism. Knw-Yr-Own CD $14.75 Dawson, Kimya Alphabutt PS, US K is proud to announce the release of KIMYA DAWSON'S new studio album, "Alphabutt". Set for a September 9th release, "Alphabutt" is a collection of children's songs written by Dawson along with a number of her musical friends and their children. Hailed by the likes of Rolling Stone, NPR, Blender and Pitchfork, as a seriously talented wordsmith, Dawson successfully leads a group of children in this sunny and energetic batch of songs with plenty of fun in the form of snapping fingers, clapping hands and stamping feet. "Alphabutt" follows up the highly successful soundtrack, "JUNO", which featured many of Dawson's songs. Like Dawson's previous releases, "Alphabutt", succeeds by being tender and vulnerable, silly and raw while maintaining the intimacy and sense of community that has become so special to both fans and critics. Clocking in at 27 minutes, "Alphabutt" effortlessly showcases Dawson's powerful talent for storytelling. Krecords-193 CD $11.50 Dawson, Kimya Alphabutt PS, US K is proud to announce the release of KIMYA DAWSON'S new studio album, "Alphabutt". Set for a September 9th release, "Alphabutt" is a collection of children's songs written by Dawson along with a number of her musical friends and their children. Hailed by the likes of Rolling Stone, NPR, Blender and Pitchfork, as a seriously talented wordsmith, Dawson successfully leads a group of children in this sunny and energetic batch of songs with plenty of fun in the form of snapping fingers, clapping hands and stamping feet. "Alphabutt" follows up the highly successful soundtrack, "JUNO", which featured many of Dawson's songs. Like Dawson's previous releases, "Alphabutt", succeeds by being tender and vulnerable, silly and raw while maintaining the intimacy and sense of community that has become so special to both fans and critics. Clocking in at 27 minutes, "Alphabutt" effortlessly showcases Dawson's powerful talent for storytelling. Krecords-193 LP $10.25 Dead Science Villainaire PS, US A majestic, ornate & soaring collection of pos-ounk avant-pop. A brilliant song cycle driven by layers fo vibrato-laden voice, dark lyricism & sterling guitar work. Guest vocals by Craig Wredren (SHUDDER TO THINK). Constellation CD $15.25 Dean & Britta L'Avventura [expanded re-issue] PS, US Originally released in 2003, this was conceived as a side project for LUNA bandmates (now husband & wife) Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips. The album is a mix of duets, originals & covers (songs by Opal, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Madonna, The Doors, & Silver Jews. Includes 4 remixed tracks by Sonic Boom, originally released on the Sonic Souvenirs EP. DoubleFeature CD $13.75 Desveaux, Angela Mighty Ship PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Desveaux, Angela Mighty Ship PS, US Follow up release to her 2006 debut. This album borrows its title from a traditional folk ballad about the Titanic, but it also refers to DESVEAUX's Grandmother, which whom she is very close & who sadly lost her 1st husband at sea. Ever since the release of her debut album & after much touring w/ Bruce Cockburn, Archer Prewitt, Califone & Howe Gelb - Desveaux is now a much more confident bandleader, which is apparent on this album. It is a bold step for her - the song writing is assured &, as always, her voice & range takes center stage - very much influenced & informed by artists like Chrissy Hynde, Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, Gillian Welch & Lucinda Williams. ThrillJockey CD $14.00 Die Kreuzen S-T [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Their self-titled debut is considered one of the most seminal hardcore records of the early 80s and has been unavailable on vinyl for thirteen years. TouchAndGo LP $11.00 Die Kreuzen October File [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Remember that flannel shirt movement in the 90s? This is what those guys were listening to. TouchAndGo LP $11.00 Dissard, Marianne L'Entredeux PS, US Chanson meets Americana in a beautifully orchestrated and sensual album by Marianne Dissard and Joey Burns of Calexico. Made in Tucson, Arizona with Burns and John Convertino (Calexico) Naïm Amor (Amor Belhom Duo, ABBC), Rob Burger (Tin Hat Trio, Tadzik), Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) and scores of Tucson collaborators. TropExpresMusic CD $12.00 Donkeys, The Living On The Other Side PS, US If THE DONKEYS' backstory contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopian surf tableaus, it also contains the malaise and the escape fantasies familiar to all suburban kids of the 80s and 90s. Part of this magic comes from the fact that there's no artifice to the Donkeys' songs, from the matter-of-fact breakup blues of "Boot on the Seat" to the playful recollections of a late, drunken night narrated on "Nice Train." These are everyday lives in the postmodern world expressed with a deep respect for classic songs from the 70s through the 90s -- for spacey grooves and soulful, jangly swagger -- that elevates the subject matter beyond the ordinary. "Living on the Other Side", the band's second album, is not meant to hit you over the head with a flamboyant single - instead, imagine Ray Davies jamming with the Byrds, or a Gene Clark-fronted Buffalo Springfield -- and you'll get a sense of the tradition that informs this band. DeadOceans-14 LP $11.50 Donkeys, The Living On The Other Side PS, US If THE DONKEYS' backstory contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopian surf tableaus, it also contains the malaise and the escape fantasies familiar to all suburban kids of the 80s and 90s. Part of this magic comes from the fact that there's no artifice to the Donkeys' songs, from the matter-of-fact breakup blues of "Boot on the Seat" to the playful recollections of a late, drunken night narrated on "Nice Train." These are everyday lives in the postmodern world expressed with a deep respect for classic songs from the 70s through the 90s -- for spacey grooves and soulful, jangly swagger -- that elevates the subject matter beyond the ordinary. "Living on the Other Side", the band's second album, is not meant to hit you over the head with a flamboyant single - instead, imagine Ray Davies jamming with the Byrds, or a Gene Clark-fronted Buffalo Springfield -- and you'll get a sense of the tradition that informs this band. DeadOceans-14CD CD $11.50 Dreadful Yawns Take Shape PS, US Also available in LIMITED LP w/ hand screened covers & free digital download code. ExitStencil LP $10.00 Dreadful Yawns Take Shape PS, US After 3 albums of sublime, blessed-out country folk rock, "Take Shape" displays a grittier Yawns w/o abandoning the pop sensibilities that made them a "Band to Watch" according to Spin. Comparisons to the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd & Sonic Youth mixed w/ environmental influences of living amongst a vibrant arts scene in a Midwestern rest belt town. ExitStencil CD $10.00 Duchess Says Anthologie des 3 PS, US New Wave intensity meets punk rock fury: screaming guitars, moaning bass and relentless drumming fused with keyboards & explosively sexy vocals. Punked out electronic music that recalls the likes of more-or-less contemporaries like Six Finger Satellite, Lesbians On Ecstacy, Glass Candy and the Chromatics (and Peaches, believe it or not), while harkening back to Missing Persons and Flock of Seagulls for nostalgic purposes. Alien8 CD $12.75 Dungen Satt Att Se [LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL] PS. SWEDEN Dungen presents a brand new 12" that extends the acclaimed Swedish outfit's sound even further. Beats surging forth, stirring orchestration with cinematic undertones and atmospheric changes that highlight their trademark evolutionary sound. This lush pop portrait laced with orange sunshine guitar flash stands as one of the most fully-realized moments of Dungen's career. 1,000 copies in a hand-numbered, vinyl-only limited edition release. SubliminalSounds 12 $15.00 Durrett, Liz Outside Our Gates PS, US Produced and arranged by indie rock icon, Eric Bachmann (Archers Of Loaf, Crooked Fingers, Azure Ray), "Outside Our Gates" represents a sonic leap forward for Liz Durrett. Her spare, acoustic downbeats have been supplanted by a more textured and diverse orchestra of sounds. A virtual cacophony of instruments are here (strings, wurlitzers, accordions, grand space pianos, and marching drums) and Bachmann's score somehow harmonizes them seamlessly to provide the perfect setting for Liz's near stream of consciousness writings and soft, pitch-perfect voice. Additional performances by Vic Chesnutt, Brian Causey (Man Or Astro-Man?), Amanda Kapousouz (Tin Cup Phrophette), and members of Ham1. WarmElectronic CD $13.00 Enablers End Note PS, US The debut full-length from this new San Francisco combo comprised of some indie journeymen who've done time in OUT IN WORSHIP, SWANS, TOILING MIDGETS, HIM, NICE STRONG ARM, TIMCO, TARNATION, BROKEN HORSE, and others. Led by underground literary journalist PETE SIMONELLI, the band deliver ten tracks of spoken vocals, backed by powerful noise rock sounds. Visceral. CD version released by Neurot. Midmarch LP $16.00 Free Blood Royal Family PS, US ONLY A HANDFUL IN STOCK - ORDER ASAP! Released on the RONG MUSIC label (DFA offshoot label)... the 2nd in a series of 3 12''s from this new Brooklyn 2 piece consisting of MADELINE DAVY (Octopi NYC) & JOHN PUGH (formerly of !!!). The flip, "Grumpy," incl. tuff cello stabs & screeching vocal effects over a raucous disco break. Warped & funky is one way to describe it. UK disco DJ & re-edit legend GREG WILSON closes the single w/ his own take on the track. Rong/DFA 12 $8.00 Giant Sand Provisions PS, US The musical family tree of the group is long & illustrious, spawning bands like Calexico & The Friends of Dean Martinez. Howe Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots & lo-fi. This is cinematic Americana at its most aching, an album of tremolo soaked guitars, moody piano & secrets whispered over desert winds. Features talented friends/collaborators such as Neko Case, M. Ward & Isobell Campbell. YepRoc CD $14.50 Giant Sand Provisions PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc DLP $18.25 Giants Old Stories PS, US "Mixing the best of Explosions in the Sky, The Appleseed Cast, & Unwed Sailor, these midwesterners are making uptempo, melodic instrumental music perfect for any vacation flight, late night drive, or early morning walk" - Mammoth Press. RIYL: EITS, Caspian & Mono. CavityRecords CD $13.50 Girls Against Boys Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. "Avoiding the clichés of early-90s indie rock for its own surly, charismatic edge, Girls Against Boys here kicked out the jams like nobody's business...A comparison to Flipper could be made, but instead of the generally slow, death-march tempos of that act, Girls Against Boys always keep moving a dark death dance" - All Music Guide. TouchAndGo LP $11.00 Great Depression Forever Altered PS, US A lush & well-produced psychedelic-tinged intricate beauty. Layered, rich structures support well-crafted melodies & a warm & embracing sound. The tone is still generally blissful & sombre, though w/a definite injection of melodic pop energy, particularly on the charging title track. Their chamber-pop & shoegaze influences lend them comparisons to early Spiritualized, MBV & Radiohead, though pop sensibilities & Todd Casper's own impressive production talents make their varied approach entirely cohesive. Fire CD $14.50 Greater Than One G-Force PS, US G-Force marks a clear transitionary period from the post-industrial sounds of London to the techno sounds of Tricky Disco and GTO. The package includes all the music from both singles "I Don't Need God" and "Utopia" plus the Index EP, various compilation tracks, and music from the Japanese-only VHS tape Video Drug 1, available on CD for the first time ever. BrainwashedArchives 3XCD $14.00 Greater Than One London (2XCD/DVD) PS, US London was the introduction of Greater Than One to the blossoming post-industrial culture as spearheaded by Chicago-based WaxTrax! Records. It was released in July of 1989 as a double LP/single CD collection of music recorded from 1987-1988 on Greater Than One's London-based label, K=K Recordings, and includes the entire LP of Dance of the Cowards. The recordings here have been digitally remastered by the legendary Jeff Lipton (Numero Group, Rykodisc, the list goes on forever) of Peerless Mastering and sound stunning. Bonus material includes the music from the Duty + Trust cassette, originally issued in 1991 by ROIR as well as other compilation tracks recorded at the time. Enhanced CD content includes photos, cover images, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and words from Michael Wells and many others. DVD includes the music videos for "I Don't Need God," "Utopia," and "Pure," as well as three lengthy projections from their performances (featuring user-selectable soundtrack) and an "art reel." BrainwashedArchives DCD/DVD $15.50 Greater Than One All The Masters Licked Me PS, US This was Greater Than One's first "proper" LP, issued originally in 1987 by Graeme Revell (SPK) and Brian (Lustmord) Williams on their Side Effects Records label. Here it is paired with Trust, their first attempt at the album's recording but released in 1990 on We Never Sleep (LP) and in 1991 by ROIR (CS). While the popular world knows more about Lee Newman and Michael Wells as Technohead, GTO, or Tricky Disco, All The Masters Licked Me is their first fully realized concept of weaving samples into a vivid aural tapestry. From the original press release: "The music is devised from sampling sounds which are programmed via a computer system to form strong and powerful pieces of aural art: mixing noises from the underground system with ethnic chanting, heavy metal & hip hop beats with military drumming and classical orchestration. The album contains 9 tracks on each side, with pieces referring to rioting 'The Sweet Smell of a Supermarket On Fire' to ' The Rape of Sam the Fox,' a track that evokes gallery slaves, masturbation and physical brutality. Each track is carefully constructed to convey the intentions and meaning contained within the titles." The album was recorded and digitally mastered by Greater Than One. To make the CD the original betamax studio master tape was baked for 72 hours at a special audio house in the UK. The DAT for Trust was generously donated by Lucas Cooper of ROIR. Enhanced CD content includes MP3s of the entire album, unbroken, photos, cover images, an art book, and an extensive book with articles and press clippings and words from Michael Wells and others. BrainwashedArchives CD $14.00 Growing All The Way PS, US "All The Way", the debut full-length from GROWING on THE SOCIAL REGISTRY, concludes a epic trip. Through six tracks Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, "Color Wheel". If we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you'll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. Recorded by Barry London at his Ocropolis Studio during the 2007-08 winter, "All The Way" sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet. TheSocialRegistry-065 LP $12.25 Growing All The Way PS, US "All The Way", the debut full-length from GROWING on THE SOCIAL REGISTRY, concludes a epic trip. Through six tracks Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, "Color Wheel". If we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you'll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. Recorded by Barry London at his Ocropolis Studio during the 2007-08 winter, "All The Way" sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "With their new LP, All the Way, Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria plum their synthetic musical logic - you know, the one they developed with the help of Black Dice, Spacemen 3, and a lot of time in the wilderness and on the road - more thoroughly than they ever have before. Growing's melodic and rhythmic interplay is the accomplishment to look out for here, a mellow treat that makes one wonder if the emphasis on the transcendence of their live show misses just how successful a headphone band Growing is." TheSocialRegistry-065 CD $11.50 Gutz S-T PS, US Analog 8-track recording captures their artistic vision and the energy indicative of their live shows. This band started with a shared love of the Jam and the Stranglers, and ended up with a 3-piece horn section, soulful backing vocals, Moog, Wurlitzer, & pipe organs adding warmth to tightly-crafted bounce. BNSSessions CD $8.75 Hacienda Loud is the Night PS, US This Mexican-American quartet blends a raw yet sophisticated style of pop music w/harmonies reminiscent of the Beatles & Beach Boys. A beautiful collection of songs played w/integrity & soul to spare, & while the band is aware of its 60's influences, the music here is far from derivative, & the finished product is modern pop music performed w/ genuineness & taste. Alive CD $13.50 Hold Steady Stay Positive PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Vagrant DLP $22.00 Holy Ghost Hold On (Mock & Toof Remixes) PS, US This is 2 individuals, Nicholas Millhiser & Alexander Frankel (AUTOMATO), & is a product of their obsessions w/ analog synthesizers, rare disco, & ancient production techniques. A brief hello while they complete their debut album & prep a new single for DFA. Label-mates MOCK & TOOF hold up their end of the remix trade w/ two mixes- a playful stab at minimal techno & psychedelic disco funk! DFA 12 $8.00 Horse Feathers House With No Home PS, US 2nd album from HORSE FEATHERS and w/ this they have distilled their sound into a brilliant statement of minimalist Americana. Precisely arranged strings & acoustic guitar step cautiously in & around Justin's haunting vocal lines. An album infused w/ rare power & emotion. His previous, debut release received an enthusiastic respone, incl. a nomination for the Plug Awards 'Americana Album of the Year.' Fans of Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Nick Drake, etc. should take note. KillRockStars CD $13.25 Horse Feathers House With No Home PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! KillRockStars LP $13.25 I Am Robot And Proud Uphill City PS, US I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Shawn-han says the theme of the new record is that of struggle and achievement in the big city. IARAP is syncopated multi-instrumental rhythms and playful, repetitive multi-dimensional melodies -- just the elixir your head needs. Shaw-Han mixes acoustic instrumentation; piano, guitar and drums seamlessly with his unique electronic keyboard sounds and percussive elements. This isn't difficult, experimental IDM that pulls the listener off the left side of the dial. This is complex composition that manages to simply delight. It's an exciting sound that gives one the feeling of flying fast & free through a heavenly modern green world of pop, beauty, and sunshine. Your brain chemicals are sure to be balanced after the first minute into the title track. "Since the 2006 album, i have done some traveling and playing shows around the world and visiting many cities. Its interesting for me to see how everyone is living in different ways but there are still similarities. In English, the word "Uphill" has a kind of a double meaning. It can be positive like "things are looking up", or it can mean something is very difficult like "uphill battle". I thought the city was like a symbol for the challenges that happen in your life." --Shaw-han Liem Darla-215 CD $12.25 Ices, Lia Necima PS, US Debut album from singer/pianist featured in the LIVING BRIDGE compilation. A release from her classical training matched w/ her long love of prose, literature and letter writing. Featuring instrumentation such as gems horn, Columbian hand drum, and White-album era electric guitar. Appearances by David Miller (FIERY FURNACES), Andy Macleod (WHITE MAGIC) and Robbie Lee (LOVE AS LAUGHTER). RareBookRoom CD $12.75 I'm Not Jim You Are All My People PS, US A collaboration between Walter Salas-Humara of the SILOS and lyrics by author JONATHAN LETHEM. "You Are All My People floats through a woozy middle ground between The Mountain Goats' storytelling economy and art-pop's habit of letting convention loose with the wind. Wandering through a forest of burned-out pop songwriting, folk simplicity and avant-garde stretches, I'm Not Jim hangs together not from a tightly built central idea, but by its ability to have so much fun playing around." -Aversion Bloodshot CD $12.75 Isis Not in Rivers But in Drops PS, US Another single culled from the 2006 release "In the Absence of Truth." This single will feature a live version, recorded in Sept. of '06 at in Washington DC, a music video and a remix version of the song. Ipecac CD5 $6.00 Jackie-O Motherfucker Freedomland PS, UK In the late summer of 2006, Jackie-O Motherfucker- the infamous, shape-shifting, free rock constellation- were in their hometown of Portland OR. Preparing for a cross-country tour of the USA when it was discovered that two of the four touring members, at the time, could not make the trip, due to financial situations, and problems getting away from jobs and domesticity. After some discussion, and re-grouping, they decided to continue on with the tour, and placed a call to Eva Salens (Inca Ore) who was doing agricultural work in the hills of Humboldt County, Ca. She eagerly accepted the challenge of conspiring with the group, lending her considerable skills as a vocalist, and it was decided that they would all meet at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, where the group were scheduled for their first appearance supporting the Dirty Three. There they would begin- unrehearsed in this formation, and in front of a large audience. The plans to perform material from their newest release "flags of the sacred harp" were scraped, and the band launched into a free form set of improvised trance inducing, punk inspired, psychedelic rock, which became the framework of the new music they would develop together over the next few years. With a backpack full of California's finest, the newly created touring group- consisting now of Eva Salens, Tom Greenwood, Danny Sasaki, and Nick Bindeman, continued on to Los Angeles, over the deserts, and through America. Freedomland, is a document of this trip, as well as another American tour, which the same band set off on the following spring... the record consists of location recordings, captured live, and mastered in the UK. The songs were created from the spirit of improvisation- and honed true by performing nightly in dive bars, music halls, and art galleries across America. The music is a testament to creation, brave and searching, and an endorsement of the abstraction that lies hidden in the footprints of all great music... Salens' vocal delivery is raw and honest, the words flow from conversations, to streams of sub-conscious conjuring, and prayer. Guitars alternately soar into cloud-scapes, and battle like free-jazz saxophones, propelling the group into new terrain nightly, while the percussion of Danny Sasaki alternates between exploratory and dead-solid motoric. The collection was edited by Tom Greenwood, from dozens of live recordings, and captures a rare moment in the bands long, and confusing history. It is truly the music of everyday life- birthed each night in a new form, from musicians who put great faith in each other, under awesome strain at times, to project modern music, with soul. VeryFriendly-045 CD $17.75 Jem Down to Earth PS, US The album reflects the singer/songwriters far-ranging influences including Brazilian percussion on the title track, a hip shacking track complete w/funky banjos on "Crazy", the tempestuous Latin-flavored track "I Want You To...", a dance-pop tune "Aciid!" in which she sings in Japanese, & a moving collaboration w/South African singer-songwriter & poet-activist VUSI MAHLASELA on the track "You Will Make it" ATO CD $12.50 Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? PS, US On this five track EP, Justin Broadrick has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past recordings and brought to the fore elements of texture and melody. "...Broadrick has layered so many blurps, wooshes, and digital gnarls throughout each song, they take on a life of their own" - Decibel. "Dripping heavy, cascading walls of sound" - Spin. HydraHead CD5 $10.00 Jurado, Damien Caught In The Trees PS, US "Caught In the Trees" marks the dawn of a new era for DAMIEN JURADO. It may not be a huge departure from some of his past albums musically, but lyrically Jurado has taken a giant leap forward and there is no turning back. Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Jurado took a full year to make this record, longer than ever before, as he ran away from and eventually found himself in his own songs. He subsequently found refuge in sharing the songs with his closest friends and bandmates, Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad. Having walked alongside him through this most challenging journey, the songs that came out of it are as much theirs as his. Jurado, Fisher, and Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some much more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but ever as intense - and pulled in producers Kory Kruckenberg and Casey Foubert to contribute their own unique stylings. Recording started in the summer months and the sweltering heat, and wrapped in the freezing temps of winter. (It is clear on first listen that two distinct seasons are represented through "Caught In the Trees" - an accidental metaphor perhaps?) There was laughter and there was introspection, and the result is a record that Jurado loyalists will find was worth the wait. And perhaps a reason to listen for those who have yet to give this bedraggled storyteller a chance. SecretlyCanadian-175 LP $11.50 Jurado, Damien Caught In The Trees PS, US "Caught In the Trees" marks the dawn of a new era for DAMIEN JURADO. It may not be a huge departure from some of his past albums musically, but lyrically Jurado has taken a giant leap forward and there is no turning back. Best known for his dark yet fragile first person fictional tales, Jurado now unlocks the door and invites us into his own enigmatic world with an energy and intensity that is all consuming. Jurado took a full year to make this record, longer than ever before, as he ran away from and eventually found himself in his own songs. He subsequently found refuge in sharing the songs with his closest friends and bandmates, Eric Fisher and Jenna Conrad. Having walked alongside him through this most challenging journey, the songs that came out of it are as much theirs as his. Jurado, Fisher, and Conrad collaborated on the compositions - some much more rocking than Jurado fans are used to, but ever as intense - and pulled in producers Kory Kruckenberg and Casey Foubert to contribute their own unique stylings. Recording started in the summer months and the sweltering heat, and wrapped in the freezing temps of winter. (It is clear on first listen that two distinct seasons are represented through "Caught In the Trees" - an accidental metaphor perhaps?) There was laughter and there was introspection, and the result is a record that Jurado loyalists will find was worth the wait. And perhaps a reason to listen for those who have yet to give this bedraggled storyteller a chance. SecretlyCanadian-175 CD $11.50 Killdozer Twelve Point Buck [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. Killdozer began an epic thirteen-year career in the early 80s, starting out as a harsh underground trio combining elements of primitive country blues with distorted Birthday Party style antics. By 1991, they had evolved into a slower, more experimental style of musical drudgery, still always keeping with their wrong side of town meets Communist Manifesto lyrics. TouchAndGo LP $11.00 LA JR 17 Animales PS, SPAIN The best unheralded Spanish (or European?) band of all times, LA JR, are led as usual by Frank, Rafa and Borja as the ultimate Dadaist-pop ensemble. There is no exact definition for the word 'dada' and there are no exact words to describe the multifariousness of LA JR. "17 animales" is a work of dark atmospheric lounge, trance Kraut-Rock groove or just anti-jazz-folk, as we like to name it: THIS is to music what assemblage is to art; an overlaying of diverse, motley materials; it sounds like porcelain, wood, glass and it squeaks even though it doesn't sound like squeaking. Pendulum-like piano playing, husky basses, humming from the tide of the keyboards, every element bursts into bubbles. "17 animales" an ultra contemporary album about Death, Sex and the slight possibility of turning Life into Art and back again. Acuarela-1088 CD $13.50 Lair of the Minotaur War Metal Battle Master PS, US Uncensored video loaded with special features & live performances. Warning: contains graphic violence & nudity. SouthernLord DVD $13.50 Lights Bane PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 20BuckSpin LP $17.25 Little Teeth Child Bearing Man PS, US A record of growls, squeaks, sing-along choruses, complex wordplay, and made-up words, tied together with bluegrass mandolin, banjo, accordion, rock 'n' roll drums, guitar, and the wildcat snarls of female vocalist Dannie Murrie. "Child Bearing Man" is commanding, emotionally and musically conflicted, and utterly moving. RIYL: Black Dice, Deerhoof, The Muppets, The Carter Family. AbsolutelyKosher CD $13.25 Lopez, Francisco Technocalyps PS, US The original soundtrack to the film by Frank Theys. Francisco's ability to utilize everyday sounds tht most people barely even notice, and transform them into sound art is quiet astonishing and complements the film. Alien8 CD $13.50 Lovely Sparrows Bury The Cynics PS, US "Top-notch, tastefully polished indie-pop might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the hip little oasis that is Austin; The Lovely Sparrows are working to change this" - Harp. "[Shawn Jones'] thoughtful observations about the fiery - yet oftentimes suppressed - manner in which we wrestle with our emotions is Cat Stevens-y and blissfully rakish" - Daytrotter. RIYL: Paul Simon, Belle And Sebastian, Destroyer, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Stevens, The Microphones. RebelGroup CD $13.00 Low Lows, The Shining Violence PS, US Misra CD $15.00 Maquiladora St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F. Acuarela-1083 DCD $15.00 Maserati Inventions Remixes PS, US Last year Georgia's MASERATI ended a four-year absence with "Inventions For The New Season", a delirious soundtrack for late-night cityscapes and never-ending car chases. The first album featuring new drummer Jerry Fuchs (LCD Soundsystem, !!!, The Juan Maclean), Inventions quite literally reinvented Maserati as a motorik psych-rock band with a disco ball for a kick drum. It makes sense, then, that Maserati have commissioned a pair of remixes by two producers most likely to shove their songs onto the dancefloor feet-first. Side A finds THEE LOVING HAND (Tim Goldsworthy of The DFA, Hercules and Love Affair) stripping "The World Outside" to almost nothing, reimagining it as a vintage European disco track from the ground up. Starting with a steady, far-off kick drum and a rogue, in-your-face hi hat, the song's seemingly disparate parts eventually lock into the kind of dirty disco that has made Goldsworthy a club legend. Equally club-friendly, !!!'s JUSTIN VAN DER VOLGEN brushes away the grit of the original "Inventions" and painstakingly buffs it to a shine as slick as black ice. The side-long trance mix maintains the sweaty atmosphere of the original, but removes the top-down drive in favor of a midnight jog. Strictly limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, "Inventions Remixes" is both an addendum to the successful reboot of Inventions For The New Season, as well as a testament to the broad spectrum of influences that flow in and out of Maserati's music. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-136 12 $11.50 Mates Of State My Solo Project PS, US The LP version of My Solo Project has been out of print for many years and is a must have for any Mates of State fan with a turntable. Originally released in 2000, My Solo Project remains the definitive Mates of State album to own. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and includes a digital download code. Polyvinyl LP $12.50 McArdle, Shannon Summer of the Whore [import version] PS, AUSTRALIA Beautiful a slightly uncomfortable country pop bliss from ex Mendoza Line singer/song writer. LowTransitIndustries-062 CD $13.50 Mendoza Line, The 30 Year Low / Final Reflections Of The Legendary Malcontent [import version] PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded just before the split of lead songwriters Shannon McArdle & Timothy Bracy's marriage, 30 Year Low marks the end of their relationship, the band & is their most crushingly beautiful record to date. Includes a second disc full of rarities, live tracks & covers from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Arab Strap & Bob Dylan. "A cracker of an album... The New York-based southerners feel lived in yet ripple with freshness" Sydney Morning Herald "The Mendoza Line add another impressive release to their stable" Xpress "Full of Light and Full of Fire is their first release to absolutely nail it - with just the right balance between passion and power... This is an album soaked in American history both musical and political, fuelled by a burning flame and a desire for something more" Rolling Stone "This is the sweet sad music of humanity my dear, the beguiling melody heard in the distance while the whole shithouse goes up in flames" Inpress "Full Of Light And Full of Fire is The Mendoza Line's most consistent, poignant and rewarding album to date and, if you haven't heard them before, a damn good place to start" dB "The tender, cigarettes and alcohol soaked voices of Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy suggest that their hearts have often been tentatively stuck back together, and their sorrow is perfectly underpinned throughout the album by a soulful mixture of acoustica and synth" BMA "Clutch Bright Eyes in one hand, Holly Golightly in another, smoosh in a bunch of other particularly arty, indie-country swaggers and voila! The Mendoza Line. They'll awaken your eyes to much light; a skerrick of hope may be left in your ignorant, cynical adolescent blood after listening to them" Tearaway. LowTransitIndustries-045 DCD $13.50 Mendoza Line, The Full Of Light And Full Of Fire [import version] PS, AUSTRALIA Their 8th & most critically acclaimed record, from the Georgia via New York alt. country band. Full Of Light & Full Of Fire saw The Mendoza Line hit their stride & balance the perfect mix of rock, pop & beauty. LowTransitIndustries-033 CD $13.50 Merzbow Dolphin Sonar PS, US Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition, & physical arts-especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau-Akita has created a musical language all his own. This is his full-length protest album against the annual brutal slaughtering of some 2,500 dolphins in Japan. This is an angry album full of beats, blasts, & broken glass. Clattering smashes are pursued by pulsing analog whirls like the heart of a dolphin being chased through the bloodied water. Important-205 CD $13.25 Mogwai Batcat PS, US A taster from the upcoming full-length, "The Hawk Is Howling", and Mogwai's first album in nearly three years. Limited edition, specially packaged EP containing the song "Batcat" from the album, plus two non-album B-sides: "Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend" and "Devil Rides". The latter features the vocals of legendary psychedelic Texan Roky Erickson. "A sonically cinematic experience that will leave the listener feeling at once elated and emotionally drained" - Alternative Press. Matador 12 $9.00 Mojo #179 (October 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK FREE CD!: THE WHITE ALBUM RECOVERED - DISC #2. The Beatles' 1968 masterpiece re-imagined by the likes of The Neil Cowley Trio, Sarabeth Tucek, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, The Ruby Suns, My Brightest Diamond and Gemma Ray. PLUS! A bonus track from a very, very special guest indeed! QUEEN: As they gear up for the release of their first new studio album since the death of Freddie Mercury, MOJO's Mark Blake looks back on Queen's globe-conquering late-'70s/early-'80s reinvention. Cue extreme decadence, endless hit singles, that disco album and some of the most iconic facial furniture in rock history. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS: Alex Turner and Miles Kane have put their day jobs on hold in order to pursue a new symphonic sound that has wowed listeners everywhere. MOJO's Tom Doyle catches up with the dynamic duo of British pop to discover exactly where it all went right. DAVID GILMOUR: In this month's MOJO Interview, we head to the Sussex farmhouse of one of Britain's bona fide guitar geniuses to talk solo endeavours, early influences and his current thoughts on that band Pink Floyd. BON IVER: With one of the albums of the year already under his belt, Justin Vernon has found himself delivering his version of Old, Weird America to an increasingly devoted audience. MOJO's Gabe Soria travels to Wisconsin to meet 2008's most celebrated wandering minstrel. THE FUGS: Rock 'n' roll deviants, political warriors, peddlers of smut and unrelenting in their quest for truth and the justice, Ed Sanders and his band of idealistic troubadours were on a mission to set '60s America on fire. Michael Simmons dives into their treacherous tale. ZINE $10.50 Mommyheads, The You're Not a Dream PS, US BladenCountry CD $15.75 Morrissey Greatest Hits PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!! Decca LP $17.00 Muslims S-T PS, US Hot new garage-rock 4-piece out of San Diego drawing comparisons to Modern Lovers and Velvet Underground. This 7-song 12"" includes a CD copy of the album featuring bonus tracks "Nightlife", "Bright Side," & "Extinction." The vinyl jackets & sleeves were silk screened by the band & the jackets were shot by a former NYC Police Officer. Wild. RIYL: Black Lips LIMITED! 1928Recordings 12 $12.00 Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight PS, US This group formed in 1996 as an instrumental side project led by Jimmy Bower and Joe Lacaze of the New Orleans sludge metal group Eyehategod, and also included members of fellow Big Easy metal units Crowbar and Down. The goal was to separate the pummeling nihilistic dirge of Eyehategod and create an outlet for the improv music they absorbed growing up in New Orleans, whether it be jazz, soul, funk, or rock. This is their self-titled debut, originally released in 2000, back in print for a limited time on purple vinyl. "Down to earth southern soul blues mixed with prog rock the likes of Crimson, early Yes, and some seriously fast runs" - Stoner Rock. TeePee LP $13.25 New Estate Is It Real? PS, AUSTRALIA 2005 album from Melbourne indie elite featuring members of Sleepy Township & Jaguar is Jaguar. LowTransitIndustries-056 CD $13.50 New Year New Year PS, US Feat. ex-members of BEDHEAD. This is the culmination of 4 yrs of song-writing & a year of recording. Lyrically, these 10 songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. For a band that made innovative use of 3 guitars, almost half the songs here are built around piano - it is the careful sequence of the songs that brings the story the lyrics tell together. Jewel box CD w/ obi sleeve. Quarterstick CD $14.25 New Year New Year PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Quarterstick LP $15.00 Northern Portrait Napoleon Sweetheart EP PS, US Stunning second single from new Matinée favorites Northern Portrait! Upon release of their debut 'The Fallen Aristocracy' EP earlier this year, the accolades started pouring in for this new Danish band: "as perfect as jangling guitar pop can get"... "an instant classic"... "the bar has been set very high indeed"..."these songs are second to none"... "outstanding is an understatement"..."a modern pop classic"..."single of the year!" The EP has topped the Matinée best sellers chart every month since its release with good reason. On the highly anticipated 'Napoleon Sweetheart' EP, the band worked to expand its sound slightly while retaining the classic appeal of its debut. The brilliant lead track 'I Give You Two Seconds To Entertain Me' was the second song ever recorded by the band but has been completely remixed and remastered for this EP. Featuring jangling guitars, keyboards, superb vocals and bright melodies, the song is a three-minute classic inspired by the feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 'Sporting A Scar' is the first of three additional tracks on the EP-thematically close but more self-reflective than the lead track, with especially superb lyrics and more breezy keyboards. It's another gem! 'In An Empty Hotel' is a short and catchy tune about the clash between hopeful dreams and the practical problems that can occur, while the nearly epic 'Our Lambrusco Days' is a slightly sentimental and warm ballad with relatively simple instrumentation and open guitar tuning giving the song a special sound. Reviewers of the first EP rightly questioned how Northern Portrait could possibly follow such a strong debut single. The band has responded in brilliant fashion, as 'Napoleon Sweetheart' is another solid contender for single of the year. The bar has been set very high indeed. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve. Matinee-070 CD5 $6.50 Of Montreal Id Engager PS, US Of Montreal's critical breakthrough Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? catapulted the band to the upper echelon of indie stardom. The album landed on over 30 major year-end lists including Paste, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Associated Press. A year later, of Montreal are back with Skeletal Lamping. "Id Engager," the debut single from Skeletal Lamping, provides an early sneak peak to one of 2008's most anticipated albums. This limited pressing 7" includes an exclusive non-album B-side as well as a free digital download of the songs. Polyvinyl-161 45 $3.50 Okkervil River The Stand Ins PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "Šone of the year's best," and The New York Times proclaimed, "This band's musical arsenal keeps getting fuller." "The Stand Ins" was recorded in Austin and produced by longtime collaborator Brian Beattie and Okkervil River. The album features 11 songs and includes the track "Lost Coastlines," on which SHEFF and recently departed JONATHAN MEIBURG of Shearwater share a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Of the process Will Sheff explains, "We had so many songs we were excited about that we briefly threw around the idea of just putting out a double record. Instead, we decided to take a group of songs that fit with each other and turn that into "The Stage Names", setting the rest aside for a future release, a "The Stage Names" sequel." "The Stand Ins" is that sequel, part two of a staggered double album. Like artist William Schaff's embroidered artwork, which depicts what's happening underneath The Stage Names' front-cover quicksand hand,The Stand Ins picks up exactly where Part One left off but also delves deeper into the story and theme of "The Stage Names". It is a full-length, fleshed-out, deeply ambitious labor of love. Jagjaguwar-124 CD $11.50 Okkervil River The Stand Ins PS, US OKKERVIL RIVER's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "Šone of the year's best," and The New York Times proclaimed, "This band's musical arsenal keeps getting fuller." "The Stand Ins" was recorded in Austin and produced by longtime collaborator Brian Beattie and Okkervil River. The album features 11 songs and includes the track "Lost Coastlines," on which SHEFF and recently departed JONATHAN MEIBURG of Shearwater share a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Of the process Will Sheff explains, "We had so many songs we were excited about that we briefly threw around the idea of just putting out a double record. Instead, we decided to take a group of songs that fit with each other and turn that into "The Stage Names", setting the rest aside for a future release, a "The Stage Names" sequel." "The Stand Ins" is that sequel, part two of a staggered double album. Like artist William Schaff's embroidered artwork, which depicts what's happening underneath The Stage Names' front-cover quicksand hand,The Stand Ins picks up exactly where Part One left off but also delves deeper into the story and theme of "The Stage Names". It is a full-length, fleshed-out, deeply ambitious labor of love. Jagjaguwar-124 LP $11.50 Orso Ask Your Neighbor PS, US Building on the success of their previous release, which earned nearly universal acclaim & saw the band support Califone on extended domestic & Italian tours, their hypnotic mix of tenor banjos, soft organs, muted brass, & calm harmonies are in full force on the majestic new album. Contraphonic CD $14.75 Owl Service, The And Alison O'Donnell The Fabric of Folk PS, UK If you thought social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook were just devices which sucked you into an unstoppable vortex of wasted time, then think again. A chance discussion between Steven Collins and Alison O'Donnell, formerly of legendary Irish prog-folk troupe Mellow Candle, took place on such a website and out of that conversation came the first fruits of this collaboration. The Fabric of Folk is a 5-track EP featuring Collins' in his guise as main man of the Owl Service, one generation of folk-rock crashing head-long into an earlier, glorious era represented here by the considerable vocal talents of Alison O'Donnell. Capturing the many different faces of folk-rock, the five songs here - two are original compositions by the pair, one of which was written with the Straw Bear Band's Dominic Cooper - are perfectly formed, heartfelt and touching but with more than a hint of darkness. This follows on from the Owl Service's previous release for Static Caravan, the Cine 3" CD (VAN 140), and arrives alongside their debut album A Garland of Song, which is being released on Southern Records. Meanwhile, Alison's former band Mellow Candle have returned to prominence on the back of the newly repackaged Swaddling Songs - their solitary album release - which has been remastered and reissued by Esoteric/Cherry Red. Inspired by a mutual recognition and respect, the pairing of Collins' band with O'Donnell is a dreamy combination. Imbued with a sense of revivalism, The Fabric of Folk is far from backward-looking and instead concocts something incredibly new which, while referencing the production techniques and masterful storytelling of Brit-folk's heyday, is bubbling with new ideas and an inherent knack for crafting sublime arrangements. StaticCaravan-142 CD $16.00 Palms It's Midnight in Honolulu PS, US Debut album from group featured in the LIVING BRIDGE compilation. A worldly boy/girl duo that live in New York and Berlin, respectively, met first in London to colaborate. The music echoes of German artists like Faust and Klaus Schulze, as well as traces of the Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine. RareBookRoom CD $12.75 Parenthetical Girls Entanglements PS, US ((LP has been postponed)) Portand, Oregon's PARENTHETICAL GIRLS have traded in their small-screen sincerity for a bold and blustering Technicolour - a lush, longing and lusty celluloid schmaltz they call "Entanglements". An orchestral song-cycle of grand sonic ambition, "Entanglements" is an eleven-song, linear narrative of ascendancy, adolescent sexuality, quantum mechanics, consent and other moral ambiguities! Borrowing string-swept sentimentality from the likes of Van Dyke Parks, Scott Walker, Jack Nitzsche, and Burt Bacharach, "Entanglements" draws colourful lines across the expanse between these orchestral pop antiquities and the more formidable strains of modern classical composers - its hues distantly reminiscent of names like Krzystof Penderecki, Philip Glass, and Gavin Bryars. Tomlab-120 CD $12.25 Pegboy Strong Reaction [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Vinyl version of this classic Touch and Go release, incl. MP3 download code. This is such an amazing album. Total summer jams that never go bad. Griptape cuttin' music for sure. Quarterstick LP $11.00 Pentemple 0))) Presents PS, US VINYL!! In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly LIMITED to 3,000 numbered copies. It will NOT last long. SouthernLord LP $18.75 Pontiak Sun on Sun PS, US 2nd album from PONTIAK, following up their debut 'Valley of the Cats' released on their Fireproof label. This also follows close on the heels of their great split LP w/ Arbouretum. The band is made up of 3 brothers from the Blue Ridge farm country of Virginia - their music is swaggering guitar rock that staddles the line between power trio & something far more expansive in sound & scope. "(Their) ominous, portentous music straddles a wide sonic rift valley, w/ references that stretch from the southern latitudes fo Spain's Viaje A800 to the northern majesty of Black Sabbath & Harvey Milk via the Doors"-Julian Cope. CD version comes in 4 panel digipack. ThrillJockey CD $13.00 Pontiak Sun on Sun PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Portastatic Some Small History PS, US A double-disc of rarities, collecting B-sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl, and previously unreleased material recorded between 1990 and 2007. Merge DCD $14.00 Praveen & Benoit Songs Spun Simla PS, US It's all in the wires. Praveen Sharma and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have met only a handful of times and have never resided in the same city, but over the course of two-plus years they have been quietly assembling Songs Spun Simla, a brief but luminescent collection of pieces driven by Praveen's inventive arrangements and Benoît's lush vocal harmonizing. Praveen released his remarkable debut Backed by Spirits on the now-defunct Neo Ouija imprint just as Benoît emerged with the Enge EP on Michigan's Moodgadget label in early 2005. Through mutual contacts they found that each was an admirer of the other's work, and the seeds for a casual collaboration were sown. Not long after, Praveen returned from a profound journey through his family's native India with a minidisk full of field recordings and voices, forming the basis of opener "The Tunnel is Still There". As he continued creating new songs with an ever-expanding palette of instruments and digital effects, Benoît arranged lyrics and harmonies, driven by the unfamiliarity and excitement of the process. Various ideas arose concerning the fate of these works, but once a record's worth had been amassed, their friends at Music Related expressed interest in a proper release. Songs Spun Simla is named in honor of the village in India from which Praveen's family originates - it's inseparable from his musical inspirations yet still distant and shaped largely by memory. His compositions exist on a fitting scale, then; from the stunning, expansive lead-in of "Death as a Man" to the incredibly detailed percussion of "To Scale", there's a sense of worldliness, history and nostalgia placed in a crucible with technology and innovation. Much like a travelogue, the six movements of Songs Spun Simla abut soaring highs with passages of quiet, intimate beauty to create a deeply affecting whole. Praveen Sharma has been making music for most of his life, and has contributed releases to AI, Neo Ouija, and Expanding Records. He also runs Percussion Lab, a hub for underground electronic music and exclusive DJ sets, in addition to being an avid live performer and event organizer in New York City. Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) began playing piano at age five and has been recording music and field sounds with various devices for nearly as long. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he recently finished the follow-up album to the highly acclaimed Précis (2006) for the indie stalwarts at Chicago's Kranky. MusicRelated-021 CD $11.50 PRE/AIDS Wolf Live Dates PS, US Uncovered at Austrian customs, this bootleg 7" single has been seized by Skin Graft Records for lawful distribution. Originated in Russia by the rogue record label Sinraft Records, this comes in a full color 8-page calendar of compromising band photos. SkinGraft 45 $7.00 Prussia Dear Emily, Best Wishes, Molly PS, US Debut from Detroit group. Ten tracks laid on analog tape capturing reverb-laden vocals, thick timpani-style drumming that will leave you amiable and maybe a little sweaty. LP is hand-screened w/ numbered art and comes w/ a free digital download. "...punk artists that sound like Pavement breaking into Hitsville USA in the middle of the night to record 60s psych & drug music" - Detour Magazine. CommonCloud LP $12.00 Radiohead O.K. Computer PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP! Capitol DLP $25.25 Radiohead Hail To the Theif PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP! Capitol DLP $25.25 Radiohead Kid A (2X10") PS, US Capitol 10 $25.25 Radiohead Pablo Honey PS, US Only a few in stock, order ASAP! Capitol LP $20.00 Rafter Sweaty Magic PS, US "Sweaty Magic" is the ultimate booty cap to Summer Oh-Eight's globally-warmed love-exhaust festival. Listeners taking a break from the floor to get another organic mojito-flavored energy drink might hear swirls of Tom Zé, Prince, Clipse, Zapp & Roger, Mr. Fingers, and D'Angelo staying up late in some non-exclusive beach rave with glowing extraterrestrial energy spheres. AsthmaticKitty-43 CD5 $5.50 Raglani Of Sirens Born PS, US Beginning tentatively & uneasily, these 5 pieces progress through expansive phases of grandeur & menace, shipwrecking before washing ashore on a new world. At the core of the work is the idea of the imaginary vista; high, keening drones issue from the heart of unknown rivers, populated on all sides by fantastically twittering creatures & alien flora, drawing the listener on with the hint of exotic treasure, hidden w/in forbidding & impossible jungles. Kranky CD $12.25 Rainer Maria Look Now Look Again PS, US This Polyvinyl classic has been out of print on LP for nearly a decade. Look Now Look Again set the high standard for which Rainer Maria will always be viewed. LP is on premium 180 gram vinyl and includes a digital download code. Polyvinyl LP $12.50 RE: UP Issue #16 PS, US Inside the mind of Hunter S. Thompson, Boom box bike gangs, Fashion for the ages, Swedish rap supreme, Mapei's first U.S. interview, more! REUP-016 ZINE $5.50 Report Suspicious Activity Destroy All Evidence PS, US Their 2nd album to date, VIC BIONDI (Articles of Faith, Alloy, Jones Very) began this project as a productive mTeenatnasc tloe schannel his political rage: a one-off project that grew into a band as musicians were recruited, songs written, & shows played. The band now boasts an impressive lineup w/ J. ROBBINS (Jawbox, Burning Airlines), DARREN ZENTEK (Kerosene 454), & ERIK DENNO (Kerosene 454). In terms of songcraft & political heft, they can duke it out w/ the best of Reaganera political punk. "This isn't just a political hardcore record: there is a sense of melody & honesty that is lacking in music these days." -WEEKLY DIG AlternativeTentacles CD $14.25 Rhinos In Rhi-Fi PS, US Sweden's supreme masters of jangle pop. RainbowQuartz CD $13.50 Sabu The World Of Sabu PS, UK Selar Shaik Sabu made his first film appearance in 1937 as a 12-year-old orphan, having landed the title role in Elephant Boy purely by chance after being plucked from Indian obscurity by a British location crew. His rise to international stardom was swift and dramatic with leading roles in Alexander Korda's productions The Thief of Bagdad and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. But by the time he appeared in Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus in 1947 that stardom was already guttering, and during the remaining 16 years of his tragically short life he was obliged to accept increasingly minor roles that mostly traded on former glories. Yet during those ten extraordinary years Sabu illuminated the screen in a way that remains without precedent. The renowned Hungarian film composer Miklos Rozsa wrote the scores for The Thief of Bagdad and Kipling's Jungle Book. Our edition restores them to the catalogue for the first time in decades. Sabu narrates the Jungle book to Rozsa's music in character as Mowgli. The result is charming. The recordings were originally released as a set of four 78 rpm discs in 1940. The first ever film soundtrack album Black Narcissus is classic Powell and Pressburger; The Archers at the height of their powers. A triumph of artistry in cinema to which Sabu contributes the memorable role of the young general. El-151 CD $15.50 Sailboats Are White Turbo PS, AUSTRALIA As completely incidental as it may seem, the acronym for Sailboats Are White is in fact SAW. Coincidence? Perhaps, but it's also a pretty accurate musical description. You see, saws are used to cut through things like bone, metal and possibly wood, likewise though, Sailboats' music is just as fierce, cutting and destructive to the senses as say, a lumberjack's saw would be to a maple tree. LowTransitIndustries-040 CD $13.50 Scorces I Turn Into You PS, US "Most musical matters seem to cycle through rise/crash wave patterns of popularity and lately it seems that the duo formation is for some reason at the crest of its particular prevalence/relevance. Perhaps it has something to do with the faster psychic communion that births between a pair (versus a 5+ gang-style band). Or maybe it's just to save on gas money. Either way, very few fringe duos have succeeded in so fully utilizing the witchy, wordless, and wondrous bond of the twosome formation as Scorces' twin figureheads Christina Carter (also of Charalambides, Bastard Wing, etc.) and Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula, CEO of Volcanic Tongue, more). Their early incarnation as East Texas fried-folk loners instantly struck a chord in clued-in heads for both its bold formless experimental moods as well its instantly gripping emotional power. Their 2003 masterpiece on Eclipse, Vivre Avec La Bete, captured their magic craft perfectly, and in retrospect has definitely cast a heavy influence over a whole host of today's underground's voice-based lonesome drifters. So it is with amplified honor that we offer up this latest tome of spells unearthed from the Scorces' vaults: I Turn Into You. Nearly 70 minutes of pedal-steel guitar tendrils, basement dust, whispered melodies, enchanted strings thrummed against the quiet, and possibly the planet's single most intense dual free-crooning chemistry sprawled across four spectral sides of black vinyl. All tracks were recorded several years ago back at Charalambides HQ in Houston, TX by psych-guitar journeyman Tom Carter, and they've aged like oil paintings (cracking, majestic, immense). Housed in embossed, metallic ink jackets designed by Marcia Bassett (with a racy poem by the Scorces' ladies on the back), plus an 11x11 insert with info and a live shot. Edition of 500." NotNotFun DLP $24.00 Shaky Hands Lunglight PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! KillRockStars LP $13.25 Shaky Hands Lunglight PS, US In their hometown of Portland, Oregon, the SHAKY HANDS are the one band that virtually everyone agrees on. Well respected & critically adored for their instantly recognizable, earthy-meets-explosive sound & for putting on really good shows. Their 2nd album here proves them to be evolving at remarkable speed, at times reminiscent of Talking Heads & the Doors. In a world of throwaway pop, this quintet has built itself from the ground up, naturally & beautifully. KillRockStars CD $13.25 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 6 Sept-Oct 2008 PS, UK "Cover: Marc Bolan 1969-70 -- Egos, unicorns and jugband psychedelia, the early years of Marc Bolan and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Rikki Rooksby looks at their involvement with the Notting Hill Gate hippie scene and Bolan's final pre-fame recordings. The Youngbloods -- The New York folk-rockers who soundtracked the hippie dream. Slade -- Drummer Don Powell answers 20 questions and Ian O'Sullivan reappraises the 1974 movie Slade In Flame. John Kongos -- Adventures in pop-psych. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- Part two of our in-depth story. Buffalo -- Hard rock '70s band from Australia. Freak Rock -- A-Z of weird and heavy sounds from the early '70s." ZINE $8.25 Social Junk Concussion Summer PS, US "The greater Midwest 'hood is responsible for so much of the U.S.'s most living music it seems like lately. Out here on the West we tend to get a bit blissed and burnt and, conversely, Eastern sea-boarders can fall into a condensed consciousness that sometimes doesn't translate well to those outside their bubble. But in the middle country, there's often a rawness that's honest and real and really clears the ears/mind, and for our tastes Ashland, Kentucky's Social Junk are champs of this direct, red-blooded approach. Somewhere between the Bible Belt brutality of Sword Heaven and Tusco Terror and the sticky southern electronics of Pax Titania or even recent Wet Hair, SJ navigate an interesting interzone, boiling together ominous loops, mangled sax, heavy riffs, various vocal moods (pissed, lost, aggro, angelic), militant tribal drumming, and a mess of electric atmospheres into something genuinely gripping and wholly their own. And right on the eve of both a behemoth bi-coastal tour (six weeks long!) and a brave re-location to CA's Bay Area, we are amped-as-shit to announce their vinyl debut after a million killer limited tapes and splits. Concussion Summer rumbles through noisy drum circles, hypnotic thrash, and even a couple creepy ballads, with Noah Anthony and Heather Young's co-dependent chemistry channeled into eight concise hybrid pieces of perfect/classic JUNK. High-time, and fully worth the wait. See them soon. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Hair Police's Robert Beatty. Edition of 435." NotNotFun LP $15.50 Subaudible Hum In Time for Spring, On Came the Snow PS, AUSTRALIA Critically acclaimed sophomore album from Melbourne experimental pop outfit. Features hit singles "Sugarcoat", "All For The Caspian" & "Aaron's Western Assault". LowTransitIndustries-044 CD $13.50 Subaudible Hum Everything You Heard is True PS, AUSTRALIA Dark & brooding debut alt. rock masterpiece from this critically acclaimed Melbourne band. In late 2005 SubAudible Hum released their debut full-length album entitled "Everything You Heard Is True". It was a dark, venomous abrasion on the guitar format that also managed to make time for sprawling sonic scenery and downbeat, melancholic intricacy. The record gained SubAudible Hum immediate national radio rotation including a spot on Triple J's Next Crop campaign. SubAudible Hum write from that mysterious void between emotive art and didactic thesis. The subject matter is always of paramount importance but never at the expense of listening pleasure, in fact SubAudible Hum may just have found the harmonious middle ground between the two. Any modern day themes of global politics, dirty economics, fundamental agendas, and social degradation are always communicated with music, never using it as a soapbox. Stepping into 2006 SubAudible Hum have a whole new take. Having purged much of their structural and self-imposed stylistic constraints the SubAudible Hum sound is now less definable than ever. Their sophomore effort "In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow" swings from drawn-out orchestral opuses to quasi-UK indie trash to dam bursting, almost trip hop anthems. With this release, as always, SubAudible Hum are exploring every crevasse of their musical ambitions. "An extremely impressive Melbourne debut" Beat - Andrew Ramadge. "21st century disillusionment expressed in the form of grinding guitars, marching drums, an astounding, impassioned voice, and a bass tone that can only be classified as heave machinery, this is the sound Fritz Lang surely had in mind when he created his Metropolis" Beat - Today is the day "Single Of The Week" - Daniel Z "Describing the voice as a mash of Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke & Iggy Pop. SubAudible Hum, big, deep and melancholic without ever crossing over into self-indulgence" Lucky - Matty B "A profoundly eclectic first release fluently melding the emotional with the intellectual... a work of undeniable brilliance" Inpress - Shane O'Donohue LowTransitIndustries-017 CD $13.50 Subaudible Hum All for the Caspian PS, AUSTRALIA Deluxe single feating radio faves "Sugarcoat" & "All For The Caspian". Features a live track & remixes from New Yorks Secret Frequency Crew & Gordon McQ from The Avalanches. In late 2005 SubAudible Hum released their debut full-length album entitled "Everything You Heard Is True". It was a dark, venomous abrasion on the guitar format that also managed to make time for sprawling sonic scenery and downbeat, melancholic intricacy. The record gained SubAudible Hum immediate national radio rotation including a spot on Triple J's Next Crop campaign. SubAudible Hum write from that mysterious void between emotive art and didactic thesis. The subject matter is always of paramount importance but never at the expense of listening pleasure, in fact SubAudible Hum may just have found the harmonious middle ground between the two. Any modern day themes of global politics, dirty economics, fundamental agendas, and social degradation are always communicated with music, never using it as a soapbox. Stepping into 2006 SubAudible Hum have a whole new take. Having purged much of their structural and self-imposed stylistic constraints the SubAudible Hum sound is now less definable than ever. LowTransitIndustries-043 CD5 $8.25 Tex La Homa Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea PS, SPAIN Departing from the more electronic oriented sounds on previous albums by Tex la Homa, Little Flashes Of Sunlight On A Cold Dark Sea is a collection of eleven acoustic songs featuring Matt Shaw on every instrument, mainly guitar and piano. After releasing six exclusive tracks (which were a prelude to the sound of this last record) entitled Into Timeless Shadows a couple of years ago, Acuarela is proud to present the fourth album by Tex la Homa, an approach towards a more intimate and personal side of his music. Acuarela-1087 CD $13.50 Torrini, Emiliana Me And Armini PS, US hugely ambitious pop record with Emiliana's soaring voice center stage, bolstered by a rich gamut of musical styles. From the summery skank of the title track to the surging, breathless single "Jungle Drum" to the yearning, spine-tingling "Big Jumps", "Me And Armini" is a truly sublime album. Torrini sings the song at the end credits for "The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers", and she wrote two #1 hits for Kylie Minogue. Produced by Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip). "Ms. Torrini's voice is warm and whispery and appealingly unpredictable" - NY Times. RoughTrade CD $13.25 Trad Gras och Stenar Gardet 12.6.1970 PS, US 1996 reissue. The first in our new series called Swedish Underground Archives. The series will focus on classic yet mostly unreleased recordings by known and unknown to mythical Swedish progressive/psychedelic groups from the 1960s/70s. First out is the best ever recording from the legendary Trad Gras & Stenar (Trees Grass & Stones) recorded at the first ever Swedish outdoors summer hippie festival in 1970. The sound is just amazing: a stoned lysergic wall of acid guitars jamming away and never letting up, pounding bass, furious drums and mystical howling vocals. A true landmark in psychedelic/progressive history. SubliminalSounds CD $14.25 Trees Tricky Knowle West Boy PS, US Tricky is back with an album named after the Bristol neighborhood where he grew up. It details the travels and travails of his youth, resulting in an eclectic aural history of his diverse upbringing. He reaches into post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop, and pop, twisting them into surreal songscapes. Tricky uses his astonishingly eclectic band and a host of great undiscovered singers to create the most varied and accessible set of his career. Domino CD $13.00 Tricky Knowle West Boy PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $16.50 Unborn Unicorn S-T PS, US Bay Arean AARON COYES (MUMMERS EYPE, HEART OF SNOW, GROMSKULL, HISSEATERS and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets. HeardWorse LP $16.50 Uncut #137 (October 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.25 United Nations S-T PS, US Masked thrashers make metal presidential again. United Nations is a power-violence grind-core band reminiscent of mid- nineties groups such as Orchid and Reversal of Man. The group features prominent members of two bands you love, one band you hate and a few you never heard of. Eyeball CD $15.00 VanGaalen, Chad Soft Airplane (ON SALE) PS, US Recalling Neil Young at his most fragile and plaintive, and Thurston Moore at his most resolved and vital, Chad's emotive vocals anchor these songs while tackling the pervasive themes of death and dreams with an unexpected air of certainty and hope that is far from ominous - instead, it's luminous. Through a complex interplay of guitar, drum beats, loops, samples, found sounds, unorthodox percussion, xylophones, distortion, synthesizers, accordions, and more, Chad has made an album that sounds bigger than one man. CALGARY FFWD: "Local favourite Chad VanGaalen hasn't left his bedroom on his latest album, Soft Airplane, but it sounds like he might have moved out of the basement. Make no mistake, Soft Airplane is still thoroughly a Chad VanGaalen album - his usual lo-fi esthetic is in full force, his signature falsetto still hauntingly wavers and he's still obsessed with death, dreaming and '90s nostalgia - it's just more fully formed than anything he's done before." Subpop CD $12.00 Various Mister Foe Original Soundtrack PS, US "Mister Foe" is a magical story of redemptive love, loss, and life on the rooftops of Edinburgh. Young Hallam (Jamie Bell from "Billy Elliot") is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his stepmother may have had a hand in her death. Fleeing his family for Edinburgh, his obsessions take a dangerous (and comic) turn as he falls in love with a girl who happens to look like his mother. The soundtrack is comprised entirely of music from the Domino Records roster of artists and features an exclusive Franz Ferdinand track, "Hallam Foe Dandelion Blow". Other stars include Sophia Myles ("Extras"), Ciaran Hinds ("There Will Be Blood"), Ewen Bremner ("Trainspotting"), and Claire Forlani ("For Your Consideration"). Domino CD $8.00 Various Notwave PS, US RONG MUSIC (sub-label of DFA) has compiled a (somewhat) new take on the early 80s underground of New York City's No Wave sound. They've even coined a new sub-genre: "Notwave" documenting an updated version of one of the most influential periods in New York's musical history alongside some early classics. Feat. new, angular underground pop bands QUAD THROW SALCHOW, STRIPLIGHT & CIRCUITS, sinister techno & funk from NYC's WELCOME STRANGER & FREE BLOOD, acid rock from LA's NON-STOP, No Wave gems from the legendary JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS & THE RESEARCH, disco not disco from FRESHRO, abstract minimal funk from Rong's own SCOTTY COATS, & rhythm-heavy dance music from MR. CHIN. Rong/DFA CD $14.25 Various Girls Rock! PS, US CD release will coincide w/the release of the DVD of the film - a docmentary that captures the Rock & Roll CamFepm fomr eGirls that has revolutionized the way that girls & young women encounter & participate in music. Music from artists including PALACE, SONIC YOUTH, SLEATER-KINEEY, GOSSIP, LOW, RAINER MARIA & VIVA VOCE. CherchezLa CD $13.75 Verdure Cross & Satellite Station [re-issue] PS, AUSTRALIA An official reissue of the Cross & Satellite Station CDR from Bay Area psychster DONOVAN QUINN (SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, JEWELLED ANTLER COLLECTIVE). An eclectic blend of acid-folk sounds and ideas, delivered with strong songwriting, great pop hooks, aching, lo-fi vocals, strummed guitars, loops, organ, scattered percussion and samples, and an occasional burst of fuzzed-guitar. For fans of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Skip Spence's Oar, Nikki Sudden/Epic Soundtracks, Jandek, and the like. Australian import. LexiconDevil CD $14.25 Villa-Lobos, Heitor Nonetto (An Impression Of The Whole Of Brazil) PS, UK Precocious and full of wonderment, the Nonetto and Quatuor, written by Villa-Lobos in 1924 and 1921 respectively, are surely two of the unsung minor masterpieces of the early 20th Century. In its fusion of pagan rhythms and chanting with the brittle harmonies of the avant-garde, Nonetto brings to mind Stravinsky's Les Noces and Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. Yet the piece is also characterized by a freewheeling playfulness more suggestive of jazz and folk music than the concert hall. Those coming at the piece from a rock perspective are also likely to hear an uncanny foreshadowing of the more considered music of Frank Zappa. Quatuor (for flute, harp, celesta, alto saxophone and women¹s voices) is a thoroughly magical work also; a combination of dense, even knotty, harmonies and unashamed sensuality: Heitor Villa-Lobos is one of the best-kept secrets in music. This edition restores to print two historic performances of the Nonetto and Quatuor from 1941 and 1957 combining them with a set of exquisite Villa-Lobos guitar works performed by the great masters Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream and Laurindo Almeida. El-150 CD $15.50 Vivian Girls Tell The World PS, US Irresistible mix of shoegaze, punk, and '60s girl-group sounds with beautiful reverb-drenched vocals. Features three self-recorded tracks of lo-fi goodness. PICTHFORK: "Brooklyn noise-pop band Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set, C86s-ers the Shop Assistants, and the Manhattan Love Suicides have done with female vocalists. Vivian Girls keep the Shangri-Las' melodrama, too. "Tell the World" is rebellion in the form of romance, kids casting off their chains for a kiss like the protagonists in "I Think We're Alone Now". It's more harmony-oriented than are some of the groups' peers, and the tunes can take a more speech-like, punk-edged turn via groups like the Wipers, whom Vivian Girls have covered." Woodsist 45 $5.25 Webb, TK & The Visions Ancestors PS, US TK Webb & The Visions Ancestor Following the release of TK Webb's second solo LP, Phantom Parade (Social Registry, 2006), dubbed by Rolling Stone Magazine as a four-star, oddly gripping effort, it was evident that Webb's songwriting was beginning to outgrow the sound that had peppered his solo efforts. The new songs that would go on to comprise the Ancestor record referenced the rock music that Webb had grown up on. This sparked his decision to form The Visions in the summer of 2007. Joining Webb in the new band on second guitar is Brian Hale (ex-Love As Laughter), who had previously been accompanying Webb on bass following the release of Phantom Parade, Nic Gonzales (The Comas, Love As Laughter, Blood on the Wall) on drums, and Jordan Gable rounding out the line up on bass. This new cast helps take TK's acoustic visions and plugs them in through the Marshall, making for a heavier, more cohesive listen than Webb's previous work. Produced by Matt Boynton at his Vacation Islands Studios in Brooklyn, Ancestor speaks of modern day paranoia, love, and a host of other human emotions many of us face in our day-to-day, making for not only an amazingly heavy, but also a sincerely beautiful recording. TIME OUT NY: "As good as TK Webb is as a whiskey-stained country-blues troubadour, we're glad he's got a rhythm section behind him now. Together, the outfit is one of NYC's hottest rock bands, a ragged but staggeringly powerful outfit that triangulates Zeppelin, David Allan Coe & Spacemen 3." Kemado CD $13.75 Wilson, Brian That Lucky Old Sun PS, US Capitol CD $16.50 Wilson, Brian That Lucky Old Sun [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD] (With DVD, Limited Edition, 2PC) PS, US Capitol CD/DVD $24.50 Wilson, Brian That Lucky Old Sun PS, US Capitol LP $21.50 Woodhands Heart Attack PS, US An electro-pop duo w/ a retlentlessly energetic live show & a total disdain for anything but balls to the wall, dirty, sexy dance parties. The buzz has been built almost entirely on their live show, and have been dubbed "as close to a two-headed indie Timberlake as it gets. PaperBag CD $13.75 Woodhands Heart Attack PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PaperBag DLP $22.00 Woven Hand Ten Stones PS, US In the words of Robert Browning, WOVENHAND heralds "another greater, wilder country" on "Ten Stones". From the jarring folk of "White Knuckle Grip", to the eerie bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", to the fiery foot-stomper "Not One Stone", the album forms a song-cycle that is singular in its breadth and eclecticism. Flanked by the haunting strains of the bandoneón and the drones of the double bass, Edwards' lyrical inversions stitch symbols into a tapestry of peaceable and hellish imagery-horsetails, honeybees, and bird wings meet flaming battles and barbed wire to proclaim sin's devastation and the sweetness of redemption. The music of Wovenhand is utterly unique, dizzying those who encounter it, with turnings and lashings of shadow and light. SoundsFamilyre-20 LP $11.50 Woven Hand Ten Stones PS, US New Woven Hand album from David Eugene Edwards, former leader for 16 Horsepower. In the words of Robert Browning, WOVENHAND heralds "another greater, wilder country" on "Ten Stones". From the jarring folk of "White Knuckle Grip", to the eerie bossa nova of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars", to the fiery foot-stomper "Not One Stone", the album forms a song-cycle that is singular in its breadth and eclecticism. Flanked by the haunting strains of the bandoneón and the drones of the double bass, Edwards' lyrical inversions stitch symbols into a tapestry of peaceable and hellish imagery-horsetails, honeybees, and bird wings meet flaming battles and barbed wire to proclaim sin's devastation and the sweetness of redemption. The music of Wovenhand is utterly unique, dizzying those who encounter it, with turnings and lashings of shadow and light. AVERSION: "The thirtysomething singer returns with a sound so world-weary and cunningly insightful, you'd swear Edwards had been honing his craft since that whale barfed up Jonah. Returning to the dark and unwieldy matters of sin, redemption and Man's struggle to stay on the straight and narrow, Ten Stones is spiritual without being expressly religious. Edwards wraps his ten tales of mankind's struggle with his own nature in everything from nearly iconic semi-Biblical imagery (bees, birds) and an almost voodoo-like appropriation of symbology from the modern world (barbed wire, cast-off feathers). Every note he sings is borne of equal parts fire and brimstone, high plains dust and Denver smog, electric guitar and church organ." SoundsFamilyre-20 CD $11.50 Young Widows Old Wounds PS, US Arriving two years after their debut, Settle Down City, "Old Wounds" completes YOUNG WIDOWS' transformation into a top-shelf rock band firing on all cylinders. Forging the best parts of Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Fugazi and The Melvins, "Old Wounds" is a series of dynamic, thoughtful tunes anchored by cavernous that will certainly push most speakers to their breaking point. For the unique production, the band reunited with uber-producer friend (and Converge guitarist) Kurt Ballou, who had been eager to experiment with recording the band in multiple environments, with the intent of capturing the definitive take of each song for the final cut of the album. Feeling most at home when they're not at home, they brought Ballou along on tour to record all of their live shows. In addition, they recorded multiple sets in their rehearsal space, and another set at Ballou's Godcity Studios in Boston, MA. After tediously combing through a dozen hours of recordings, they compiled and mixed the album. The result is a bonafide classic, overflowing with the sweaty euphoria of a great live show, and the high replay value of a perfectly sequenced, well-produced rock record. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-138 CD $11.50 Young Widows Old Wounds PS, US Arriving two years after their debut, Settle Down City, "Old Wounds" completes YOUNG WIDOWS' transformation into a top-shelf rock band firing on all cylinders. Forging the best parts of Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Fugazi and The Melvins, "Old Wounds" is a series of dynamic, thoughtful tunes anchored by cavernous that will certainly push most speakers to their breaking point. For the unique production, the band reunited with uber-producer friend (and Converge guitarist) Kurt Ballou, who had been eager to experiment with recording the band in multiple environments, with the intent of capturing the definitive take of each song for the final cut of the album. Feeling most at home when they're not at home, they brought Ballou along on tour to record all of their live shows. In addition, they recorded multiple sets in their rehearsal space, and another set at Ballou's Godcity Studios in Boston, MA. After tediously combing through a dozen hours of recordings, they compiled and mixed the album. The result is a bonafide classic, overflowing with the sweaty euphoria of a great live show, and the high replay value of a perfectly sequenced, well-produced rock record. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-138 LP $11.50 Forthcoming Releases All Girl Summer Fun Band Looking Into It (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US A stunning NEW pop album filled w/the band's signature crunch-fuzz guitars & dead-on melodic sense. AGSFBMusic CD $13.75 Amplifier Machine Her Mouth Is An Outlaw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Amplifier Machine began in 2002 with James Dixon (Swordfish, Supagroop, James Dixon) on guitar, Korg & piano, Seth Rees (The Spheres, This Is Your Captain Speaking, I Want A Hovercraft, Seth Rees) on drums, violin, samples, piano & guitar and Alex Jarvis (Automatic, Black Cab, Registered Nurse, Alex Jarvis) on guitar & drums, with the intention of combining their songwriting talents. Something about getting three solo artists together, or maybe something about what rehearsing for so long in a freezing Collingwood warehouse does to the brain, caused the pop-bred members of Amplifier Machine to spiral out into a peculiar music of inquisitive, atmospheric, half-improvised mini-epics. Amplifier Machine is a self-described experiment inanemocratic process and near-improvisation (anemocracy = rule by whim or the wind). Through earnest discussion and endless unending jams, Amplifier Machine came upon The Rule: that when the other two members have settled, it's your turn to change. The Rule was found to be useful, not only in musical terms, but also as a strategy in discussion, advocacy for the devil, and reducto absurdums. Each members' musical approach is informed by knowledge of various artistic processes, including: visual art, drama, the written word, carpentry and car maintenance. Thus, in music and in discussion, Amplifier Machine tends to start with a thesis, then to spiral out into varying antitheses, to arrive at some sort of synthesis. At least, that's the idea. Somewhat of a departure, in terms of sound, for 12k, Her Mouth Is An Outlaw breezes darkly languid chords over a post-rock-meets-experimental structure that is decidedly lacking in micro-electronics. These echoes reach for new 12k-heights while the spirit of ambience and space remain familiar. 12K-1049 CD $12.25 Arab On Radar Sunshine for Shady People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US This is a document, alive & rootless, showing a band that has no semblance to daddy's "Rock 'n' Roll" ThreeOneG DVD $15.75 Asteroid #4 These Flowers of Ours (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Rooted deep in psychedelic music, specifically that of the 1960's & early 1990's British bands, A4 has never shied away from wearing their influences firmly on their sleeves. Dabbling in everything from Anglo-induced guitar pop to the "Cosmic American" sounds of vintage L.A. country. CommitteetoKeepMusicEvil CD $14.50 Bass Communion & Pig Live In Mexico City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16th) PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop, andres solis - turntables, rogelio sosa - voice, daniel goldaracena - devices. Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously. Important-194 LP $23.00 Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Repress! Double-LP in gatefold sleeve. RoughTrade DLP $26.00 Blau, Karl Nature's Got Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US "Nature's Got Away" made it to tape fresh off of a tour in Spring 2007 where KARL BLAU traveled to Japan and performed with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats, and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan (Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore, Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson; with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))). Krecords-192 LP $10.25 Blau, Karl Nature's Got Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US "Nature's Got Away" made it to tape fresh off of a tour in Spring 2007 where KARL BLAU traveled to Japan and performed with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats, and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan (Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore, Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson; with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))). Krecords-192 CD $11.50 Blitzen Trapper Furr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US The fourth record by this Portland, OR sextet is the follow-up to last year's highly acclaimed "Wild Mountain Nation". Subpop CD $13.00 Blitzen Trapper Furr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $13.00 Brimstone Howl We Came in Peace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Described by NME as "Beatles-headed psych-nerds w/a taste for razor sharp snake-rock". Despite it's cryptic title this is another fun explosion of fuzz & American-gothic chit-chatter, w/"weird fictional adventure stories, & beginner blues guitar lessons from mongoloids," as they like to describe it. Includes bonus track not on the vinyl. Alive CD $13.50 Brimstone Howl We Came in Peace (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Alive LP $13.50 California Oranges Imperial Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Our Sacramento, CA indie-pop all stars return with a gem of a pop/rock album full of hooky choruses, call and response guitars and a super tight power-pop rhythm section. A pow-pow-powerful good good feeling! Just as you'd expect from this seasoned music family. Bask in the summer sun with the fourth album from the golden state's California Oranges and a healthy dose of the sunshine power pop they're known for. Underlying the power is a healthy dose of pop: Delicately concocted, contemplative songs exploring life's ups and downs. The quintet has hit their stride on Imperial Hearts. The record features the same line up as their 2005 release Souvenirs: John Conley (Holiday Flyer), Verna Brock (Rocketship, Beanpole, Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), Ross Levine (Sinking Ships), Katie Haley (Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), and Matt Levine (Sinking Ships). The album was jointly produced by the California Oranges and Dana Gumbiner (Night Night, Deathray). Imperial Hearts was mixed by long time friend of the band, producer/engineer, Eric Stenman (Saves the Day, The Comas, The Cab). The California Oranges construct songs filled with, "soaring boy/girl harmonies, rapid-fire licks of squeaky clean and buzz saw dirty guitar work, consistently up-tempo beats, and melodies that would make tone deaf kitten haters want to sing along" --Popmatters. "Power pop has rarely sounded as sweet." --Treblezine. TRACK LIST: 1. Brand New Spine, 2. We've Got Time, 3. Travel Writer, 4. Anywhere USA, 5. I Still Hold On, 6. Silver Shoes, 7. Feel Better, 8. Waiting Is Slow, 9. I Told Grace, 10. Matter Of Consequence, 11. I Won't Let You Back In, 12. When I Sleep. Darla-193 CD $12.25 Carter, Christina Original Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Within the songs of Original Darkness, Carter confronts loneliness, self doubt, inadequacy & desire. She bares these emotions in a sometimes tender, sometimes forceful, sometimes pleading voice, a voice in which you can hear her vulnerability, her trepidation. Christina's words, and the mournful sound of them, stirs a melancholy that is supported & framed by her gently plucked guitar notes, notes that echo the sadness in the world she sings of, as well as the words she sings. Kranky CD $12.25 Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Town Topic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US The "Town Topic" EP is the soundtrack to video artist and photographer Laurel Nakadate's debut feature film, "Stay The Same Never Change." Laurel commissioned CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE'S Owen Ashworth to proved all of the music for "Stay The Same Never Change", right down to the character's ring tones. The "Town Topic" EP consists of thirteen short instrumental pieces, book-ended by tow vocal tracks that were recorded specifically for the film. This EP also collects tracks from two limited, vinyl-only EPs (the "Town Topic" 7", released by OIB Records in Brighton, England, and STSNC Instrumentals 7", released by People In A Position To Know Recordings, Inc. in Olympia, WA), plus one bonus track, the previously unreleased "Lesley Gore on the Tami Show (instrumental)." Tomlab-122 CD5 $7.50 Chisel, Cory & the Wandering Sons Cabin Ghosts EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Major-label debut for awesome Midwest band featuring Parasol duo Elanors. Six songs serve as a teaser to their upcoming full-length. Recommended roots, rock, pop. Red CD5 $5.25 Coil/The New Blockaders/Vortex Campaign The Melancholy Mad Tennant (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16th) PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies. Limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl. Originally released on cassette in 1984 and then on cd in an edition of 500. In 1984 Vortex Campaign invited Coil and The New Blockaders to collaborate. The result, unofficially referred to as "Dolbied", was released on cassette in an edition of 50. The release has since gone on to become legendary, showcasing two of the most influential groups in the scene at the early stages of their development. "The Melancholy Mad Tenant" is an authorized release, sanctioned by all three groups. Formed in 1983 the output of Coil has ranged from the avant-garde, to experimental neoclassical, to extended excursions into pure electronica. Many bands and composers have cited Coil as an influence. Coil were mainly a studio group, but in 2000 they commenced a successful series of tours that proved to be extremely remarkable events. The New Blockaders began in 1982 with the release of the debut LP "Changez Les Blockeurs" which is cited by many as a defining moment in the history of noise music. TNB have gone on to influence a generation of artists from Japanese noise-maestro Merzbow to noise punks Wolf Eyes. Important-189 LP $25.75 Conifer Crown Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise they've somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With "Crown Fire", Conifer is finally getting the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, kraut-rock, metal and pschychedlia they have created this relentlessly driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Crown Fire's only vocals are from Oxbow's Eugene Robinson fronting the albums final 13 minute epic. Conifer has been writing primarily instrumental music with a lawless take on the styles from which they've taken cue. New content is found by way of augmenting brutality and suspense with time. Conifer seems to reckon with the notions of bands like Enemymine, Mogwai, or Grails while taking an approach toward their music that's entirely meditative (as opposed to premeditated). Minimal, ethereal passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to by many of their peers. Important-209 CD $13.00 Co-Pilgrim Pucker Up Buttercup (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Sparkling & beautiful down beat pop gem from British troubadour Mike Gale. Co-Pilgrim was started in August of 2005 by Mike Gale following the demise of his former band Black Nielson. 'Pucker Up Buttercup was released on Low Transit Industries across Australia in March of 2007. The album received glowing reviews and substantial airplay. Gale had been toying with the idea of adding a female vocalist/guitarist for a while so when he met Alysia Manceau at one of her former bands shows in Melbourne he decided to ask if she'd be interested in joining Co-Pilgrim. Alysia Manceau is a self taught musician who began playing guitar at the age of five. After Studying film and television at RMIT in Melbourne she realised that her true passion in life was music. Writing and performing locally in Melbourne since 2000 as a solo artist, Her formidable underground reputation as one of Melbournes most unique singers and guitarists led to her becoming a founding member in Alternative Country/Rock and Roll band Ned And The Meds. Luckily for Gale, Manceau agreed to take up his offer of joining Co-Pilgrim formally and the two have been working together since, indeed, such was the pairs belief in their new found unison that Gale moved into Manceau's sharehouse in order to live and breath together with the music they create, which is a beautiful blend of folk and country, with emphasis on space and harmonies. The newly strengthened Co-Pilgrim have been performing frequently around Melbourne for the past six months as well as recording a demo CD of future single and album material. LowTransitIndustries-039 CD $13.50 Cotton Jones Basket Ride The River Strumming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US COTTON JONES BASKET RIDE is the new band fronted by singer-songwriter Michael Nau (former frontman of PAGE FRANCE). "The River Strumming" is a delightful slab of fuzzed-out dream folk that thumps with a musical heartbeat in a manner not dissimilar to that of forward thinking modern-day shamen like Will Hart and Brightblack Morning Light. This album completed itself, so to speak, forming in pieces over a six month span while the band was working on its debut full-length "Paranoid Cocoon" (to be released in late 2008). Nau and company initially set out to make a cohesive record, and made just the opposite. Some songs were recorded on one machine in December, finished on another machine in March, destroyed in April, then attached to another song in May. Likewise, it fits so well with the sort of records that ST. IVES is in love with releasing - the three-legged dogs of the world, the records that don't quite fit elsewhere, barely even within an artist's own body of work. "The River Strumming" is limited to 300 vinyl copies in hand-made packaging - each LP hand-wrought (as all St. Ives releases are) by the band itself - and is not expected to remain in stock long. St.Ives-19 LP $11.50 Danielson Famile Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US September marks the beginning of a season in which we look back upon and celebrate some of our favorite DANIELSON titles from a rich back catalog that has spanned over a decade. This epic journey of retrospection begins with the vinyl reissues of "Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block" and "Fetch The Compass Kids" (both being released on SECRETLY CANADIAN) and "Tri-Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)" (being released on SOUNDS FAMILYRE). In addition to being back in print for the first time since 2001, these reissues have some unique attributes such as: "Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block" is now available as a 2x12" LP format (as opposed to the 2x10" format in which it debuted) and includes 4 bonus songs from a live WFMU session from 1996. "Tri Danielson!!! (Alpha/Omega)" has been partially remixed and fully remastered and makes its vinyl return dressed up in a brilliant new gatefold jacket along with a very special bonus track. Remember this is just the kick off of a busy season for Danielson, so stay tuned... SoundsFamilyre DLP $14.25 Danielson Famile Fetch the Compass Kids (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US SecretlyCanadian-045 LP $11.50 Danielson Famile Tell Another Joke At The Ol' Choppin' Block (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US SecretlyCanadian-042 DLP $14.25 Darling Downs From One to Another (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! CarrotTop LP $11.50 Darling Downs From One to Another (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US "A record of spare, tender songcraft, whose delicate shifts in tone make the simple alt.country tag inadequate. A brave move for both, brilliantly pulled off. 4 stars."-Uncut. The DDs stand out as the most unlikely of collaborations between longtime members of the fertile Australian rock scene. While it is not at alll insane to imagine the driving force behind SCIENTISTS, BEASTS OF BOURBON & SURREALISTS, KIM SALMON, working with DIED PRETTY's energetic frontman and songwriter RON PENO, the improbable happens when you consider the result that might flow from such a teaming. What are the odds that these two towering figures of Australian music, famous for swaggering, noisy, swampy punk rock (Salmon) & soaring pop rock (Peno) would concoct such a perfect loveletter to American country folk? Armed only with Kim Salmon's custom Cole Clark acoustic guitar and Peno's singular voice & vision, The Darling Downs crafted an almost impossible album: a record of nuanced beauty, a subtle masterpiece that unfolds like a dahlia with each successive spin, giving the listener something new & unexpected at every helping. All from two guys & one pristine guitar. At times Peno channels the spirit of Appalachian folk's high lonesome sound, complete with yips, yelps & howls, while elsewhere his (improvised?!) vocals are hypnotically understated, almost delicate--threatening to disappear into thin air before crashing down like thunder. Supporting Peno's acrobatic vocal brilliance is Salmon's equally understated, elegant guitar playing, perhaps the most restrained of his career, made all the more stunning when you know the fireworks & growl of which he is capable & for which he is famous. Salmon showcases not only his versatility but playing of such surprisingly refined grace that it defines the album as one of the best listens of 2006. An album of profound subtlety. "With Salmon often infusing the guitar lines with deft lilts & melodies, grasping each song is sometimes as difficult as interpreting a smoke signal in a storm, the ever-shifting qualities of the music making it difficult to categorize. The experience mesmerizes."-The Age (AU). CarrotTop CD $11.50 Deerhunter Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kranky LP $11.50 Deerhunter Microcastle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Highly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Cryptograms album which launched the band into the stratosphere of hype. Microcastle was recorded over the course of a week at Rare Book Studios in Brooklyn, New York with Nicolas Verhes in April of '08. The album was recorded as a four-piece consisting of Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver & Moses Archuleta. "Saved by Old Times" features a vocal collage by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, and the album also features two songs with lead vocals by guitarist Lockett Pundt, "Agoraphobia," & "Neither of Us, Uncertainly". Kranky CD $12.25 Dressy Bessy Holler and Stomp (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US New album! Transdreamer CD $14.25 Dressy Bessy Holler and Stomp (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Transdreamer LP $15.75 Eleh Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Deluxe pressing of 500 copies packaged in letterpressed covers designed by Important and printed by 23rd Parallel. Mastered by James Plotkin. Hand numbered/hand assembled. Eleh's Intuitive Synthesis/Floating Frequencies Volume 3 is the third release in their Intuitive Synthesis series (Volume 2 was released over a year ago) and it is being released simultaneously with an Eleh/Pauline Oliveros split release. Both are limited edition and LP only. Meticulously minimal analog drone. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. Using an enormous vintage modular analog synthesizer, a battery of glowing HP tube test oscillators and occasionally guitar/piano, Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. This engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and to be heard/felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away from the speakers. Volume reveals detail. Important-207 LP $18.00 Eleh/Pauline Oliveros Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Eleh: The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton Pauline Oliveros: Drifting Depths Important Records quite pleased to be presenting this split release consisting of two new drone works from Pauline Oliveros and Eleh. Oliveros, an early American minimalist who has pioneered the technique of Deep Listening, has created a new work exlcusively for this release. Drifting Depths is a new improvised piece made on a harmonica being processed through Pauline's Expanded Instrument System. Eleh's side, also exclusive to this vinyl only release, is super slow melodic drone full of stillness, tension & relief. Vinyl only, handmade and handassembled letterpressed jackets. Limited edition. A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, and Anthony Martin), which was the resource on the U.S. west coast for electronic music during the 1960s. The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros often improvises with the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recording. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. Using an enormous vintage modular analog synthesizer, a battery of glowing HP tube test oscillators and occasionally guitar/piano, Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. This engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and to be heard/felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away from the speakers. Volume reveals detail. Important-206 LP $18.00 Ergs Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Mammoth, monstrous 33 song singles comp from one of the most beloved bands in today's pop underground. Many tracks appear here properly mixed/mastered for the first time. Dirtnap CD $12.00 Ergs Hindsight is 20/20, My Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Dirtnap DLP $17.25 Ewers, Suki Kind of Hazy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, UK Former member of Opal and Mazzy Star. After performing for several years with Anemone, a band once touted as the missing link in the country music/dream pop connection, Suki spent the last couple of years in the studio working with Joe Kennedy on a set of nine songs. These were eventually sent off to be mixed & masterd by Kramer. The result is hazy, bittersweet pop in the vein of Galaxie 500 & Felt. The songs are at once dreamy & enigmatic yet immediately accessible. Suki manages to evoke much of the same delicately pretty gloominess as Opal while adding her own serenely melodic warmth. "A female-fronted The Clientele with a slightly more American brand of melancholy." -Filter Magazine. MindExpansion-2020 CD $13.00 Flaherty, Paul Aria Nativa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US "Aria Nativa" is more than PAUL FLAHERTY'S third solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio, visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances, its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free power blues dips into the well of wretchedness and raises with fists of mirth. It's the sorta record that splays naked the artist for all: equal parts wise ass and universal vision. From his early 1970s woodshedding through a dozen plus albums each with drum buddies Randall Colburne and Chris Corsano, and collaborators Bill Nace, Wally Shoup and Sunburned Man of the Hand, Flaherty remains a total wildcat - on and off the alto/tenor horns. For this LP his massive tonal craft is equally matched by Ken Hill's gorgeous cover shot of a snow blown grave and "No More America" - Ken DelPonte's epic poem that spans nearly five decades and fills the back jacket, framing the atmosphere the music was recorded under. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album that includes a bonus track of "No More America" read by the author. FamilyVineyard-57 LP $12.50 Genghis Tron Board Up the House Remixes Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US The inaugural album in the ambitious "Board Up The House Remixes" SERIES opens with ZOMBI'S Steve Moore expanding the very beginning of "Board Up The House" into a sprawling European film noir soundtrack; Jesu's Justin K Broadrick takes the schizophrenic grind of "Colony Collapse" and transforms it into a dirty booty-bass track just screaming for a Missy Elliott hook; Rob Crow incidentally pioneers Mariachi-core by adding some Spanish guitar and festive vocals to "Things Don't Look Good"; and Eluvium reimagines the 10-minute closer "Ergot" as an outer space funeral dirge for the 24th Century. Packaged in a jacket featuring "remixed" album art by Jon Beasley, this pressing is a limited edition of 1,000 copies on a special colored vinyl that corresponds to the artwork. Future volumes in this series will be released by Lovepump United, Anticon, Crucial Blast and Relapse Records. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-142 12 $11.50 Girl Talk Feed The Animals (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST) PS, US Pittsburgh artist Gregg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk) has scrupulously created music from samples for over eight years. His fourth album on the Illegal Art label, Feed the Animals, continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live show and steps even closer towards a creation that is centered on pop musicality rather than attention-deficit sample splicing. Girl Talk has been known to underground audiences for several years, but it wasn't until 2006 that Gillis crossed over and caught the attention of a larger audience. With Rolling Stone, SPIN, Blender, Pitchfork, and even Beck including Night Ripper in their "best albums of 2006" lists, Girl Talk has gone on to be booked by major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Virgin, All Points West, Pitchfork, DEMF, etc.), and solicited for remixes (Beck, Thrill Jockey, Tokyo Police Club, Grizzly Bear, Simian Mobile Disco, Peter Bjorn & John, TeddyBears, and Of Montreal). And with roughly 200 live shows over the last couple of years, Gillis has consistently played larger venues to capacity crowds (every date on his 2007 North American tour with Dan Deacon sold out). PRESS QUOTES: "One endlessly entertaining mega mash-up" - Rolling Stone "Gillis' craft is stunning and his tastes are exquisitely diverse" - Blender "A masterpiece that employs an estimated 300 samples" - SPIN "Massively recommended ... the voracious music fan's dream" --- Pitchfork "Media assassins Illegal Art come forth with yet another brilliant Girl Talk record." - XLR8R "Sounds like your favorite mash-up DJ after about 11 espressos" - Entertainment Weekly "Mashes together booty-shaking rap, iconic indie rock, and, uh, ABBA" - MTV.com. IllegalArt-117 CD $14.25 Girls Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Dirtnap LP $11.00 Girls Yes, No, Yes, No, Yes, No (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US 10 more tracks of twitchy, keyboard driven poppy post punk! Dirtnap CD $12.00 Grubbs, David Optimist Notes The Dusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US "A step into the void" is how Grubbs (GASTR DEL SOL) describes his first solo album since 2004. Here Grubb's presents five longish songs & one eleven-minute instrumental floor rumbler, and the album can't be said to fall in either a pop or experimental genre. Much like Gastr Del Sol's recordings, arrangements take their own sweet, otherworldly time to unfold, and you're likely to discover that the undertow is stronger than you reckoned & that you wind up a disorienting distance from where you began. DragCity CD $13.25 Grubbs, David Optimist Notes The Dusk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 Guthrie, Robin 3:19 Bande Originale Du Film (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Limited edition of 3000 in digipak. 3:19 is the title of the original soundtrack recording by Robin Guthrie for the acclaimed Spanish film of the same name. This is the former Cocteau Twins Guitarist's second soundtrack following Mysterious Skin and it features all the trademark Guthrie, ethereal soundscape you'd expect. This time, however, Robin has added piano, just a bit a strings and a few sound effects that nicely communicate the film's mood. Darla-213 CD $13.00 High Places S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey LP $13.25 High Places S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US The debut album following on the heels of their singles CD collection on Thrill Jockey Recs, which was highlighted as 'Best New Music' by PITCHFORK. HIGH PLACES is MARY PEARSON & ROB BARBER. The duo has an "exquisite corpse" style of songwriting where they exchange ideas back & forth, challenging one another's expectations, pushing songs to new places, or more aptly, new heights. They gravitate toward the organic over the electronic, and that natural aesthetic adds warmth & intimacy to the recordings. Huge press buzz from New York Times, Tokion, Fader, Plan B, Tiny Mix Tapes, Stereogum, Paste, Venus, etc. Both the CD & LP versions are presented in old-style tip-on gatefold jackets ThrillJockey CD $14.00 Hototogisu Pale Fatal Sister (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release. Important-210 DLP $24.50 Howling Hex Earth Junk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US All-new, all-different record. An electric country-pop hoedown for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal & repetitive as all rock & roll while creating a bit of curiosity and perplexity, Howling Hex are convinced that they owe the audience something of value for their money - Earth Junk! This album is a ramble in the dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations. DragCity CD $13.25 Howling Hex Earth Junk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 I Am Robot And Proud Uphill City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US Limited edition of 1000 color vinyl with free album download. I Am Robot And Proud is the name Toronto native Shaw-han Liem works under to create his singular brand of hypnotic, beguiling electronic pop music. Uphill City is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up to his very popular 2006 album The Electricity in Your House Wants to Sing. Like the previous record, Uphill City is electronic pop music that energizes the listener and refreshes the ear yet Shaw-han's skill as clever pop composer has grown even more mesmerizing. Darla-215 LP $15.00 I Heart Lung Interoceans (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US On 'Interoceans", I HEART LUNG blends first-take methods with Oblique Strategies: carefully composed, meticulously recorded pieces rooted in improvisation, revised and augmented over time. The results are a compelling vision of chaos and beauty as Chris Schlarb's electric guitar drones and Tom Steck's free-jazz drumming hold and flutter with shimmering acoustic guitars, soaring pedal steel and beautifully captured field recordings. When Kris Tiner's trumpet follows Nels Cline's electric sitar three minutes into "Interoceans II," it's like Don Cherry's loving spirit doting on universal music drones. AsthmaticKitty-408 CD $11.50 James Hey Ma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US New album! AMG: "Hey Ma is such an extension of the band's signature sound that it's possible to think no time has passed at all, yet that isn't quite accurate. Not that the band went out on a low note, but James do sound revitalized, energized by the time apart and, perhaps more importantly, sounding connected to the time at hand, making music for a world in turmoil that needs more voices of protest and hope." Decca CD $14.25 Jarboe Mahakali (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US Featuring Phil Anselmo (PANTERA), Attila (MAYHEM), Colin Marston (BYLA), Kevin Hufnagel (BYLA) & Josh Graham (NEUROSIS, A STORM OF LIGHT). TheEnd CD $14.50 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Kalinich, Stephen John A World Of Peace Must Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US Long lost psych poetry album by legendary Beach Boys song-writer, and co-produced by Brian Wilson at his home in 1969. Deluxe booklet features liner notes by Beach Boys archivist Alan Boyd, unseen photos, archival material, and full lyrics. LightInTheAttic-039 CD $14.75 Kool DJ Dust The Disco Opera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, SWEDEN The unbelievable Disco Opera, starring Kool Dj Dust. Dust has sampled and edited together super obscure material into perfect disco rocks, which he dramaturgically arranges into a galactic drama, visualized as a comic strip. Bringing to mind Idjut Boys, Pilooski, Rune Lindbaek and Radio Soulwax, Dust's just as unique, crate digging genius and party manic but with a disco flavor to it that will roll like a mirror ball around the globe. A Kool Dj Dust mix will be on Beats In Space in September. Support from Tim Sweeney (DFA), Erol Alkan, Aeroplane, Tode Terje, Tensnake, Skull Juice, Rune Lindbaek etc. Service-033 CD $17.25 Laika & the Cosmonauts Cosmopolis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Praised equally by surf god Dick Dale & Ministry's Al Jourgensen, they are some of modern music's most vibrant explorers. This is a surf, rock & jazz fueled trip through the past 20 years of Laika's career & includes material never before released in the U.S. Renowned for the technical prowess of their fuzz-drenched, tremolo-happy surf rock, this sounds like a 50s sci-fi film soundtrack interpreted by David Gilmour. YepRoc CD $12.00 Lewis, Jenny Acid Tongue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US New album from Rilo Kiley lady on a major label. WB/WEA CD $14.25 Lewis, Jenny Acid Tongue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DLP with CD. WB/WEA DLP/CD $23.75 Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US VINYL!! LP edits done by PRINS THOMAS. Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic. SmalltownSupersound DLP $18.75 Lineland Logos For Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST) PS, US For a split second the actuality of language stood only to bear witness and inspire the sonic structures of love being erected around me, and in this moment I believed in principle of purpose. Only when English was interjected did I sense the imposing future and separate out the soundscape of this melodic passing clan from the music streaming through the speakers. Logos for Love presenting a variety of acoustic instrumentation pressed into each other with modern blips and squiggles like a structure of so much brightly colored modeling clay with an illuminated jeweled interior, embracing the ancient rhythms and language over the impeding future. Malcolm Felder creates streamlined, discretely layered electronic music informed by a taste for left-field pop ranging from Bruce Haack to Bollywood, Hüsker Dü to George Jones. After moving to Queens in 1998, he began composing as Lineland, borrowing the name of a one-dimensional realm described in Flatland, the Victorian sci-fi novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Initial fourtrack Casio recordings grew into the album Pavilion (Audio Dregs 2003) over a three-year period, during which Felder expanded the material using music software on the home-built Dynavox 2000 computer and a growing array of vintage keyboards and novelty instruments. Songs have appeared on a few compilations and in several short independent films, including Back and Forthby James and Jeff Israel. AudioDregsRecordings-070 CD $12.25 Lymbyc Systym Love Your Abuser Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US LYMBYC SYSTYM'S has made many new friends in the last year and a half as they've toured in support of their MUSH RECORDS debut, "Love Your Abuser". They've asked some of those friends - The Album Leaf, The One AM Radio, Daedelus, This Will Destroy You, and Back Ted-N-Ted - to remix some of the material from their album. In addition Mush Records' Black Country Bibio and Austinite Reference turn in masterful reworkings. Each artist adds their unique touches to Lymbyc Systym's already epic source material, Working simultaneously as a companion piece to 2007's Love Your Abuser and as a compelling album on its own, Love Your Abuser Remixed is further testament to Lymbyc Systym's powerful presence in the instrumental music scene. Mush-261 CD $9.00 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 Marmoset Record In Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US MARMOSET'S "Record In Red" is full of apples and cherries. With this, their second full-length, Marmoset have released a near masterwork of pop pleasure. Indeed, the 13 songs on "Record In Red" vary widely in style and sound, ranging from the Church-like acoustic stylings of "Golden Cloak" and "Torn Cup, Fly Up Above", the FAITH-era Cure tone of "Walking Thru The Lake", the moody pop melodies resembling Richard Davies' work with the Moles, the haunting confessional of "December 4th", the epic dementia of "Summertime Is Easy", to the Kim Deal inspired "Frendamine". Every song is decidedly different than the one before, but the album hangs together with a neurotic thread so fine that it's completely invisible to the gallery. SecretlyCanadian/JoyfulNoise-035 LP $12.25 Melodium Cerebro Spin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST) PS, US Melodium speaks; there starts a romantically slow game of pong between the hemispheres of brain. The sound speeds. I listen, and there is harmony now between the players, and reluctance towards competition. They play on. Melodically Melodium speaks. Faster, onward towards the polyrhythmic rally! All praise repetitive motion, be stilling thus Zen. The tones of play fashion an energetic path, a melodic relation of right and left. Only when Melodium pauses for a breath do I remember moments can be filled with splitting silence; that I am here and this is somewhere other then the pong game of my mind. Keep speaking. Melodium is the moniker of Laurent Girard, a rather prolific electronic musician from Nantes, France with an obsession for melodies. Weaving bits of guitar, piano, synthesizer, flute or bits of voice and texture to create patterns in sound and small personal soundtracks that are at once somber, while retaining a feeling of sunny optimism. Golden waves of sound with rough-hewn edges that sound both dreamy and melancholic and simultaneously warm and shiny. AudioDregsRecordings-071 CD $12.25 Mental Overdrive You Are Being Manipulated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Norwegian producer/DJ/live act Per Martinsen is back in the studio hot seat with a new album under his Mental Overdrive alias. Already a long time part of the Norwegian dance sound his new opus 'You Are Being Manipulated' sees him develop even more with a melody driven electro/acid/disco/house sound all of his own. Featuring his anthemic cover version of Iron Maiden's 'Run to the Hills', the much hyped art/ebay experiment of 'Elephantastic' which was originally planned as a one bid buys the masters sale & recent singles 'The Rage' & 'Spooks' Per Martinsen is back to show us how its done. SmalltownSupersound CD $14.50 Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury Rev's newest work Snowflake Midnight. Recorded almost exclusively in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, Snowflake Midnight sees MR continue experiments with laser harps, ad-hoc computer programs and random note generators resulting in a record that moves with grace between avant garde and traditional pop sensibilities. Standout tracks "Butterfly's Wing" and "Senses on Fire" exhibit the emphasis on letting the music define itself, as free as possible from human interference. Zooming in at nearly any magnification, Snowflake Midnight appears to be a resplendent fractal folding in upon itself, into something continually new, unpredictable and spontaneous, and yet so subtly self-aware, that it never fails to resemble itself as a whole. YepRoc CD $14.75 Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc DLP $18.25 Michna Magic Monday (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Adrian Michna found his way as a DJ under his EGG FOO YOUNG alias, earning him an URB "Next 100" nod in the process. Production gigs for Bonde do Role & Diplo followed, allowing Michna to put his deftness at both the drum machine & the trombone to good use, creating tracks out of dense blankets of sound & texture. Apart from the tightly woven musical amalgam of hip-hop, booty & electro, it's the detailed process that makes Michna's debut album move. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the album is its rich element of musicality; in an era when hip-hop tracks have devolved into two-note keyboard loops, songs like "Skunk Walk" live up to their name with full-bodied funk & live horns. When Ghostly owner, Sam Valenti IV, asked Adrian which samples to clear, Adrian replied, "What samples?" GhostlyInternational CD $10.50 Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely layered guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a new array of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before at their electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain masters of the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also expanded the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound. Matador CD $13.50 Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling {Deluxe CD/DVD} (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Limited deluxe CD+DVD in gatefold digipak includes video for "Batcat", directed by Dominic Hailstone (Aphex Twin), plus the Vincent Moon (The National) short film about Mogwai, "Before It Sounds". Mogwai's sixth album continues to showcase the fiercely layered guitars and dynamics of their classic work, and features a new array of rhythms and melodies. These hint more than ever before at their electronic and metal influences. Not only do they remain masters of the eloquently stretched guitar phrase, but they've also expanded the syntax to include a new, almost beat-driven sound. Matador DCD $17.00 Mogwai The Hawk Is Howling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HQ 180 vinyl in gatefold sleeve with MP3 coupon. Matador LP $20.00 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Nagisa Ni Te Yosuga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US It's been four years since the release of NAGISA NI TE'S previous album "Dream Sounds", and now - after much work - their seventh album "Yosuga" has been completed. JAGJAGUWAR is once again very proud to deliver the band's most recent work to North America and Europe. "Yosuga" also marks the first time that Jagjaguwar has released a Nagisa Ni Te title on vinyl (not to mention the still popular compact disc format!). The Japanese duo of Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda deliver an album that consists of both beautiful arrangements and soft melodies. Yosuga - the meaning of which refers to the source or grounds upon which the body and mind rely - is one of Nagisa Ni Te's finest efforts. Jagjaguwar-129 CD $11.50 Nagisa Ni Te Yosuga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US It's been four years since the release of NAGISA NI TE'S previous album "Dream Sounds", and now - after much work - their seventh album "Yosuga" has been completed. JAGJAGUWAR is once again very proud to deliver the band's most recent work to North America and Europe. "Yosuga" also marks the first time that Jagjaguwar has released a Nagisa Ni Te title on vinyl (not to mention the still popular compact disc format!). The Japanese duo of Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda deliver an album that consists of both beautiful arrangements and soft melodies. Yosuga - the meaning of which refers to the source or grounds upon which the body and mind rely - is one of Nagisa Ni Te's finest efforts. Jagjaguwar-129 LP $18.25 Nebulo Avutma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, GERMANY Avutma is the latest release by Nebulo after the album Kolia, two remixes for architect and Hecq, and even freely available Nebulo ringtones. The outstanding French artist Thomas P. with this CD has created a closed opus that might be seen as a concept album in which the listener has to decide what the concept is. Nebulo's subtle approach forms a complex fictitious scenery by using seemingly minimal resources that are more visible than ever. Electronically treated instruments like organ and piano, combined with synth layers and modified beats generate tempers that range from surreal to melancholic or even nearly frightening. Listening to 'Avutma' is like walking in a dimly lit basement never knowing what's behind the next curve, and who or what is actually casting these shadows on the walls... Nebulo's trademark, a connection between ambience, idm, clicks'n'cuts and postmusique- concrète collages is presented here once again. As a reviewer wrote: 'surreal dreamscapes painted with tears and sometimes even blood' - Avutma might be the soundtrack of today's grand guignol. Hymen-68 CD $16.25 New Radiant Storm Kings Drinking In The Moonlight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Northampton, MA/New York city indie rockers New Radiant Storm King deliver the tightest, hookiest and most diverse record in their distinguished career. Recorded over six months in deep, rural Massachusetts, Drinking in the Moonlight proves once again that guitarists/vocalists Peyton Pinkerton and Matt Hunter along with bassist Caleb Wetmore and drummer J.J. O'Connell write some of the most imaginative and memorable American rock. Approaching their twentieth year as a band, NRSK have gracefully matured as song smiths while retaining their prowess at crafting unconventional yet infectious melodies. Drinking in the Moonlight is a sonic mix of urban and rural, sporting distorted yet wiry pop with a marked focus on narrative within their song writing -- trademarks gratifying to longtime fans. Time spent in other bands (Pinkerton in The Silver Jews and The Pernice Brothers; Hunter in J. Mascis & The Fog and The Wharton Tiers Ensemble) has honed the Pinkerton/Hunter attack musically and lyrically. Over the course of thirteen songs, Drinking in the Moonlight addresses topics as varied as random street violence, infidelity and subsequent pregnancy, exorbitant winter heat bills and even an open condemnation of organized religion (Thank God -Ed). Drinking in the Moonlight was recorded with longtime NRSK engineer Mark Alan Miller (Cordelia's Dad, J. Mascis & The Fog) at his Slaughterhouse Studios in Westhampton, MA. NRSK will tour Fall 2008. TRACKS: 1) Soporific Slump - A few more pints and then back to your place on 1st Avenue. 2) Undignified - Hopefully you can convince everyone that you actually are being your natural self - and have been lying up until just now. 3) Senseless - If a random act of brutal violence changed your life for the better, how would you explain it to anyone? To yourself, even? 4) Islander - She could never handle the mainland for more than a few days at any given time. 5) Little Ice Age - Sometimes the idea of summer seems both impossible and absurd. 6) Anything Can Happen - And usually does, if you're lucky (or not). 7) New Paltz Waltz - Instrumental levity. 8) Eight Steps Closer - Slouching towards Echo Park, with a cosmo in her hand. 9) After the After Hours - Guns, drugs and hipsters - in way over their heads. 10) Midnight Comes - Time horizons always seem to stretch into forever on a first date. 11) Eraser - Lick your wounds and don't look back for a second. 12) Clouds Cover Everything - Are you really sure that your memories are totally your own? 13) Fall Prey - The world is flat. The sun revolves around it. We've progressed on so many fronts save one. Darla-201 CD $12.25 Noyes Brothers, The Sheep From Goats (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever CD reissue of Sheep From Goats by The Noyes Brothers, originally released in 1980 on the highly collectible Object Music label. The Noyes Brothers were Steve Solamar of cult band Spherical Objects and Steve Miro, who also recorded as a solo artist for Object. The album (a double set) as recorded between October 1979 and May 1980 at Graveyard Studios, and contain 100 minutes of experiments and improvisations, ranging from Eno-esque electronics to improvisation and side-long excursions such as A Good Question and It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time. Released in July 1980 in a limited edition of 1000 copies, it sounds like little else recorded before or since. Pioneering Manchester label Object Music ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own master tapes, and since then the Object catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity (with the exception of The Passage). However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, as well as the complete Spherical Objects back catalogue on CD. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life. Steve Miro resides in Glastonbury. Boutique-6615 DCD $18.50 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US Skeletal Lamping absolutely delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves that demand a physical response. It's unpredictable, completely unique, and epic. And while of Montreal's albums have always been epic, Skeletal Lamping is an unprecedented achievement that will be talked about for years. Polyvinyl CD $14.00 Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 7TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $21.75 Ovo Croce Via (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load LP $12.50 Ovo Croce Via (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US A darker slant than their previous full length, OvO's guitars scrape & drums pound but the organic crunch & high fidelity of this release will convince you that this is music taken further & harder. An avant masterpiece, it takes cues from the tar covered hordes wearing jean jackets & introduces a very natural middle finger of wigginess. Stefania Pendretti's vocals soar for the sky & rest like a golden piece of corn in the steaming morass of dunt. Guitar undulates like a wriggling eel, with Bruno Dorella's drums providing crunching headburn. Load CD $12.50 Paramount Styles Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound. Konkurrent CD $13.25 Park Hotell Free For Friends (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2008) PS, SWEDEN Park Hotell come from Luleå in Northern Sweden and they've been sneaking around the indie-scene for a while now. The members have played with both Mattias Alkberg BD and The Bear Quartet. In October Park Hotell will release their debut album. It was recorded in the Hives' Studio Gröndahl earlier this year. Demon producer Jari Haapalainen (Bear Quartet guitarist and producer for Ed Harcourt, Concretes and Camera Obscura) produced and played the drums, and the twin sisters Johanna and Miriam E. Berhan from Taxi Taxi! sang the backing-vocals. A bit less fuzzy-wuzzy and a bit more streamlined and jet-propelled these new recordings offer guitars that recalls Kevin Shields riding tempos stolen from The Wedding Present. UltraRadio CD $14.00 Peter Bjorn And John Seaside Rock (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD PS, US VERYLIMITED* vinyl-only release, we'll do our damnedest! Includes coupon to download the tracks for free. As homage to Peter Bjorn and John's respective Swedish hometowns, they wanted to feature the voice and dialect from each of the three areas they grew up in. So, apart from the instrumental soundtrack to the lonely childhood of northern Scandinavia, you can also hear three monologues about some sort of seaside. The stories are read by a real saxophone player from Norsjo, a grandfather from Vika and the hairdresser Siw from Pitea. AlmostGold LP $20.50 Pioulard, Benoit Temper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US The double LP vinyl version of this release also includes the Precis album, issued on vinyl for the first time. Kranky DLP $14.75 Pioulard, Benoit Temper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US Composed throughout a yr that involved graduation from university & a cross-continental relocation, its 16 tracks arose in specific periods of intense creative energy. W/ soft-edged vocals & a broad palette of instruments that lately incl. harmonium & cello, he constructs diverse arrangements that skirt the borders of pop w/ beautiful, detailed atmospheres. Kranky CD $12.25 Pivot O Soundtrack My Heart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Pivot is a rare combination of the emotive and cerebral, harnessing the raw garage energy of three explosive musicians along-side intensive studio production. Part prog-warrior, part slacker geek, the band's music and approach provide something much needed in the world of music. Pivot's sound exudes an omnipresent sense of melodrama and what can only be described as a sort of 'apocalyptic joy.' For fans of The Talking Heads and Vangelis. Warp CD $13.75 Pop Levi Never Never Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 sophomore album from this Pop (no pun intended) singer/songwriter and former Ladytron member, probably the only contemporary musician in the world beloved of both Jarvis Cocker and Noel Gallagher. Recorded entirely in Hollywood at Quincy Jones' old studio, Westlake, where both Thriller & Off The Wall were laid down, Mr. Levi has returned with an album about the madness of love - 100% autobiographical, 100% clever, 100% dumb, 100% unique. And that's giving 400% already. From transitional rockers like 'Wannamama' and 'Oh God,' Pop spreads his wings, relying on a production flare, which makes the record feel fresh and slick as well as charmingly hi-lo-fi. 'Never Never Love' shows that while he hasn't abandoned the dynamics of the Rock group he has also been steeping himself in contemporary R&B. Flamboyant, utterly self-confident, completely his own man and so uninterested in the back and forth of fashion that everything he makes is an instant classic, Pop Levi is in the building. Bow down and give thanks. Counter CD $15.25 Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Donovan's steadily growing reputation as a first rate darkly romantic penman (thanks to contributions to The Skygreen Leopards & solo as Verdure) has culminated with his latest endeavor. Rather than aping or ducking genres, Quinn has crafted a bright spectrum of songs best described as 'American.' Xian folk, languid indie pop, VU cool, loner country & west coast psych are touchstones, with Quinn's singular lyrical abilities & taste for sun-baked song steadily at the fore. Ever the flower bed romantic, Quinn has - at the risk of over-simplification - written a classic "break-up record;" albeit filtered through surrealistic tenderness & riddled with red herrings & feelings of betrothal. Though not exactly lost in a sea of scarves, Quinn is indebted to the vulnerability, humor & bitterness present in the works of Ronnie Lane, Skip Spence, Nikki Sudden & Basement Tapes-era Dylan. SoftAbuse-028 CD $11.50 Quinn, Donovan & The 13th Month S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 21ST) PS, US VINYL VERSION, includes CD too. SoftAbuse-028 LP $13.75 Replacements, The Don't Tell A Soul [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US The band's third album for Sire features three-quarters of the legendary founding line-up of lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass) - Slim Dunlap replaces original guitarist Bob Stinson, who departed after 1985's Tim. Rhino's new edition of this 1989 classic - which Rolling Stone called "an audacious album"- features the original 11-song set remastered plus 8 bonus tracks, including three previously unreleased rarities. Highlights include "I'll Be You," a #1 Billboard modern rock track and the band's first single to chart on the Hot 100, along with album opener "Talent Show," "Achin' To Be" and "Back To Back." Among the 8 bonus tracks are "Date To Church" with Tom Waits and previously unissued finds including a demo for "Talent Show" and an alternate mix of "We'll Inherit The Earth." Rhino/Ryko CD $17.75 Replacements, The Please To Meet Me [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Their fifth full-length and second for a major label, Pleased To Meet Me was also the band's first following the official departure of guitarist Bob Stinson, part of the legendary founding line-up that also included lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass). Rhino's newly REMASTERED & EXPANDED edition of this 1987 album classic features the original 11-song set plus 12 rare bonus tracks, half of them previously unreleased. The album was recorded in Memphis, TN with producer Jim Dickinson (whose association with Big Star forged the connection with the 'Mats). Memorable tracks include "Alex Chilton," "The Ledge," "I Don't Know," "Red Red Wine" and "Can't Hardly Wait." Among the dozen bonus rarities are a previously unreleased alternative version of "Alex Chilton" and previously unissued demos for "Valentine," "Bundle Up," "Empty As My Heart," "Time Is Killing Us" and "Kick It In." Rhino/Ryko CD $17.75 Replacements, The Tim [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US After emerging from and defining the Minneapolis music scene of the early 1980s and issuing a series of seminal releases on Twin/Tone, The Replacements signed to Sire Records mid-decade. The first of their four now-classic full-lengths for the label, TIM was also the band's last album fueled by the legendary original line-up of lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg, Chris Mars (drums) and brothers Bob and Tommy Stinson (guitar and bass, respectively). Rhino's newly edition of this 1985 tour de force features the original 11-song set remastered plus 6 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Produced by original Ramones drummer Tommy Erdelyi, TIM is #136 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". Highlights include "Bastards Of Young," "Hold My Life," "Kiss Me On The Bus" and "Left Of The Dial." Previously unissued bonus rarities include three tracks recorded at a 1985 session with Westerberg's idol, Alex Chilton, among them an electric outtake of "Can't Hardly Wait." Rhino/Ryko CD $17.75 Replacements, The All Shook Down [remaster, expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US A stripped-down, largely acoustic set first released in 1990, was their last album for the label, and proved to be their final one as a band as well. While it features lead singer and songwriter Paul Westerberg still making music with his fellow founding members Chris Mars (drums) and Tommy Stinson (bass), the album is generally considered to be essentially Westerberg's inaugural solo effort. Rhino's new edition features the original 13-song set remastered plus 11 bonus tracks, including 8 previously unreleased rarities. Stand-out tracks include "Sadly Beautiful," "Merry Go Round" and the title track. Among the 11 bonus cuts are 8 previously unissued demos, including ones for "Sadly Beautiful," "Happy Town," "When It Began" and "One Wink At A Time." Rhino/Ryko CD $17.75 Rev, Martin Les Nymphes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US Instrumentalist in the legendary duo SUICIDE. File13 CD $13.50 Richter, Max 24 Postcards in Full Colour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US With his fourth album, Berlin-based MAX RICHTER further cements his status as one of the leading lights of modern composition. "24 Postcards In Full Colour" is a dazzling conceptual exercise of great beauty and emotional resonance. Each of the album's 24 tracks is a classically-composed ringtone, an evocative miniature whose theme, though fully developed, hints at a larger piece; thus Richter explores the fugitive nature of memory through reprises and repetition throughout this intriguing album. With a sonic pallette consisting of string quintet, solo piano, 16-track 2-inch tape, transistors, found shortwave radio, vinyl clicks, dust, scratches and rumble, and acoustic guitars, Richter's latest effort is both beautifully detailed and sonically rich. FatCatRecords-1307 CD $11.50 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 School of Seven Bells Alpinisms (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Alpinism is an electronically enhanced pop record of dizzying highs & claustrophobic lows, whose painstaking conception shows in its detail-laden crevices. On the album's best tracks-the polyrhythmic dream-pop of "Face to Face in High Places," the nervous shimmer of "My Cabal," the menacing lilt of "Iamundernodisguise"-Curtis constructs layers of shoegazing, moire-patterned guitars, while Alejandra & Claudia Deheza intertwine their near-identical voices like the fingers of praying hands. Throughout, the whole heavenly affair is tethered to the ground with a glitchy, tribal thwomp. Technology collides with cryptic religious imagery and good, old-fashioned rock music. GhostlyInternational CD $10.50 Serena-Maneesh S-M Backwards (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, NORWAY While working on their new album, Serena-Maneesh & Smalltown Supersound wanted to give you a glimpses of the early days. Tweaked & all beautifully pushed to the red. Most of the material on this double album was released as two EPs prior to the self titled debut; "Zuruck" & "Fixxations", both on Honeymilk, covering the time 1999-2003. This is the first time the material has been released outside of Norway. In addition to the original EP material this double album also contains new re-wrappings/mixes, videos & much more, over 80 minutes of Serena-Maneesh. SmalltownSupersound-143 DCD $21.75 Shedd, Tracy Cigarettes & Smoke Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Tracy's helpful reminder on the opening track from her latest album of smart, pointed pop is a direct & economic assertion backed by sharp musicianship & just the right amount of reverb. Cigarettes & Smoke Machines, is Shedd's most accomplished record in a career that has now spanned four full-lengths. A fan of artists that drape their vocals in various shrouds (My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus & Mary Chain), Tracy decided that she never really wanted her vocals up front, an edict that permeated her previous recordings. Now, Shedd lets go & we benefit from vocal performances that establish the arresting emotional core of her latest record. Teenbeat-442-1 LP $13.75 Shedd, Tracy Cigarettes & Smoke Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US Tracy's helpful reminder on the opening track from her latest album of smart, pointed pop is a direct & economic assertion backed by sharp musicianship & just the right amount of reverb. Cigarettes & Smoke Machines, is Shedd's most accomplished record in a career that has now spanned four full-lengths. A fan of artists that drape their vocals in various shrouds (My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus & Mary Chain), Tracy decided that she never really wanted her vocals up front, an edict that permeated her previous recordings. Now, Shedd lets go & we benefit from vocal performances that establish the arresting emotional core of her latest record. Teenbeat-442-2 CD $11.50 Silver Jews S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US From behind closed doors since 1992, the Silver Jews released a series of popular music records that earned the group dedicated fans all over the world. But being a Silver Jews fan always meant accepting you'd never live to see the day your favorite band would take the stage. Then in 2006, after five albums & fifteen years, David Berman decided to change all that. The band toured across America & Europe, all the way to Israel, playing these, their first forty shows, to a widespread outpouring of joy. SILVER JEW is a simple document of one of those stops, whereupon the band played two shows in Tel Aviv, and spent a profound afternoon in Jerusalem. All Region. DragCity DVD $14.75 Smithson, Dawn Earth Machine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, UK Former bassist & vocalist with space-rockers JESSAMINE, Dawn returns with her second solo album. Guests Ray Raposa (Castanets), Bill Herzog (SUNN O))), Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter), David Farrell (Southerning, Locate, Module), & Jussi Brightmore (Chrome Hoof, 1000 Pets,) add extra grit, grain & space, creating a heady cocktail of sounds. Where Smithson's first album was wounded & tentative in it's approach, Earth Machine is strong & sure of it's footing. Where there was deep melancholy with a glimmer of hope in the former, the latter reaches it's winding paths out to further hills & valleys, encompassing a wide range of emotion. Songs seem to tell one long story as they segue into one another. From the rounded nylon string guitar picking & gurgling synths to the pure feedback drones & sometimes Floydian electric guitar, Earth Machine has real continuity & a strong sense of being a true "album". MindExpansion-2030 CD $11.75 Soares, Tony Native Clays (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Featuring the art of Tony Soares, this film is a beautiful journey through the ancient Native American process of paddle and anvil pot making. Every step is documented from digging the clay, making the pot, painting the pot and finally firing the pot in an open pit. The resulting images are a unique learning tool for the students of this lost art. Tony proudly builds pots using authentic methods right down to creating fire with a stick and working in a Native American environment. Features music throughout by Carl Roessler, Clive Wright and Harold Budd with narration by Anna LaCazio. Run time 1 hour 18 minutes. DesertSkyMusic-007 DVD $19.50 Spherical Objects Past & Parcel / Elliptical Optimism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever reissues by cult Manchester band Spherical Objects, active between 1978 and 1981 and the core group on the highly collectible Object Music label. Formed by singer, songwriter and dj Steve Solamar in 1978, Spherical Objects produced a unique brand of what early champion Paul Morley termed 'existentialist psychedelia'. Their first album, Past & Parcel, appeared in August 1978 and predated releases on other Manchester post-punk labels such as Factory. The second album, Elliptical Optimism, was released on Object in October 1979. The band only played occasional live gigs, and preferred instead to concentrate on recording albums, releasing no less than four in as many years. Spherical Objects (and the Object label) ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own master tapes. Since then his music has rarely been heard, and the Object(s) catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity. However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, which includes rare non-album singles by Spherical Objects and its members. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life. Boutique-6614 CD $17.00 Spherical Objects Further Ellipses / No Man's Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, UK The Boutique Label presents the first ever reissues by cult Manchester band Spherical Objects, active between 1978 and 1981 and the core group on the highly collectible Object Music label. Formed by singer, songwriter and dj Steve Solamar in 1978, Spherical Objects produced a unique brand of what early champion Paul Morley termed 'existentialist psychedelia'. Their third album, Further Ellipses, appeared in 1980 and featured a new, short-lived line-up of the group. The fourth and final album, No Man's Land, was released on Object in October 1981. The band only played occasional live gigs, and preferred instead to concentrate on recording albums, releasing no less than four in as many years. Spherical Objects (and the Object label) ceased operations in 1981, after Steve Solamar resolve a lifelong contradiction by becoming a woman. As part of this process Solamar even destroyed his own mastertapes. Since then his music has rarely been heard, and the Object(s) catalogue has languished in undeserved obscurity. However an Object anthology has now been released as part of the Auteur Labels series on LTM, which includes rare non-album singles by Spherical Objects and its members. The artist formerly known as Steve Solamar is alive and well, and lives a happy spiritual and musical life. Boutique-6616 CD $17.00 Steinbruchel Mit Ohne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US Limited edition: 500. Order now as this is limited and will not be reissued. Mit Ohne is a sound documentation of an audio/visual installation by Yves Netzhammer and Steinbrüchel. The installation entitled "The feeling of precise instability when holding things" was part of the group exhibition "Wohnträume/Wohnräume" exhibited from 26.07. to 28.09.2003 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, Switzerland. The audio sections by Steinbrüchel where composed in sync with the visuals by Yves Netzhammer and succeed in translating and supporting the poetic vibrancy and slow morphing movements of the 3d rendered animation. For the exhibition an atmospheric fragile and detailed work was created involving a three-part projection and multichannel sound that conveys an abstract audio and visual approach to the environment surrounding us and the concept of a room itself. Each audio track takes the listener into a new form of "room" and simple patterns of single tones are layered into dense movements surrounding the listener's space. The crystalline polished sounds form a highly precise environment that interacts with particles of melodies searching for space to breathe. Between the tracks there are no pauses that give the dedicated listener the feeling of being moved suddenly from one room to the other. Space and silence are sensitively woven into each other while forming an atmospheric and organic surrounding. Through the sound the feeling in every room changes from dark to bright, from large to small, from lonely to crowded, from silent to loud. Ralph Steinbrüchel, born in 1969, studied Communication Design at Central Saint Martins School in London, where he acquired a Masters of Arts and Design with distinction. He now lives and works as a musician and graphic designer in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2002 his composition "zwischen.raum" [Domizil, Zurich, 2002] was distinguished with the Max Brand Award for Electronic Music [phonoTAKTIK.02 Festival, New York]. 12K-2010 CD5 $9.00 Submerged Violence As First Nature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 28TH) PS, US Violence as First Nature delivers brutal new tracks (Homicide Bomber, Consciousness) alongside the best of Submerged on 12" vinyl (including Servant, Corrupt Souls, Dirty Bomb and more). Features collaborations with and remixes from Bill Laswell, Technical Itch, Scorn, and more. OhmResistance CD $12.25 Swarm Still At War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US Philly's premier drum n' bass crew steps up to the plate with this double CD album and mix, combining hip hop, dancehall and old skool jungle influences into a melting pot of dynamic beats. Created by Mason, DStar, Trust, MC Armanni, and MC Sharpness, Gasm's Still at War is a powerful collection of urban anthems, Philly street-style. TRACKLIST: CD 1: ALBUM 1. Mason & Dstar feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 2. Trust - Saving Grace 3. Mason & Noah D - The Product 4. Dstar - Roll Callz 5. Dstar - Just How Blind 6. Mason - Devil's Poem 7. Dstar - 2Rude! 8. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 9. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 10. Dstar - Fist Extra Artillery 11. Trust feat. Mental Sharp - P.H.I.L.L.Y VIP 12. Mason feat. MC Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 13. Noah D - Cool and Deadly CD2: MIX 1. Swarm - Intro 2. Mason & Dstar Feat. Mental Sharp - Still at War 3. Perpetuum - Fate of a Legend 4. Mason - Devil's Poem 5. Dstar - Evilution 6. Ixis - Smash to Bits 7. Dstar - Marshal Law 8. Mason - Rada 9. Dstar - 2Rude! 10. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata & Focus - Burgandy 11. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Premise 12. Dstar - Ya Sexy Gal 13. Mason - A&B 14. Dstar - 40K 15. Mason & Dstar vs. Infiltrata - Ricochet 16. Mason feat. Sharpness - Runnin' It Proper 17. Dstar - Fist (A Special Dedication) 18. Chino - Rush 19. Perpetuum - 10s 20. Mason & Dstar vs. Focus - The Big Shutdown 21. Mason & Noah D -The Product 22. Dstar - Just How Blind 23. Mason feat. Mental Sharp - Breakout 24. Mason - Jump the Fuck Up 25. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Only You 26. Noah D - Cool and Deadly 27. Trust feat. Audio Angel - Saving Grace 28. Dstar - Roll Callz Gasm/OhmResistance-001 DCD $13.75 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE TBA) PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Gravitation CD $13.00 Technical Itch You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH) PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy. OhmResistance-9M CD $13.00 Tecumseh Avalanche & Inundation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US The LP version of Tecumseh's Avalanche And Inundation is pressed in an edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds. Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and their listeners in a warm sonic meditative slow motion blanket woven from their skilled use of sound and space. Avalanche And Inundation was recorded in the winter of 2008 with Jeremy Romagna (Yellow Swans, Trees, Silentist). " This is the perfect metallic drifting off music, almost like they've discovered some new genre, sludge-ambient, doom-age, whatever you decide to call it, it's pretty amazing, and fans of all things slow motion,downtuned and yes, heavy will dig this big time." Aquarius "The sound is sludgy and the pace snail-like but subtle. Within its monochrome scheme of blackness, and yet more blackness as its slow, slow, riffs unfurl there are small variations in tone. Such is the hermetically sealed inwardly directed feel of Tecumseh's sound thatthese tiny variations are like tiny rafts in an otherwise empty sea. And in the end the listening experience isn't some feat of endurance but strangely calming, it's blackness like a vast lake of crude oil with only the faintest of ripples disturbing it's surface." The Wire Important-211 CD $13.00 Tecumseh Avalanche & Inundation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, US The LP version of Tecumseh's Avalanche And Inundation is pressed in an edition of 500 copies with the first 200 on color vinyl. Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds. Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using 2 basses, electronics, percussion and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and their listeners in a warm sonic meditative slow motion blanket woven from their skilled use of sound and space. Avalanche And Inundation was recorded in the winter of 2008 with Jeremy Romagna (Yellow Swans, Trees, Silentist). " This is the perfect metallic drifting off music, almost like they've discovered some new genre, sludge-ambient, doom-age, whatever you decide to call it, it's pretty amazing, and fans of all things slow motion,downtuned and yes, heavy will dig this big time." Aquarius "The sound is sludgy and the pace snail-like but subtle. Within its monochrome scheme of blackness, and yet more blackness as its slow, slow, riffs unfurl there are small variations in tone. Such is the hermetically sealed inwardly directed feel of Tecumseh's sound thatthese tiny variations are like tiny rafts in an otherwise empty sea. And in the end the listening experience isn't some feat of endurance but strangely calming, it's blackness like a vast lake of crude oil with only the faintest of ripples disturbing it's surface." The Wire Important-211 LP $16.25 Ten Kens Ten Kens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US TEN KENS combine raw vocal delivery, driving rhythms, and heavy, reverb-laden guitars with idiosyncratic song structures, creating a fresh, immediate sound. Like avant-indie contemporaries Liars and Black Heart Procession, or predecessors like Sonic Youth or Mudhoney, Ten Kens' sonic ambition never comes at the expense of songcraft; layers of noise bolster, rather than undermine, their memorable melodies. FatCatRecords-069 CD $11.50 Tough Alliance, The New Chance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD) PS, US New album from Swedish duo, deconstructing pop from the brains down. PREFIX MAG: "The Tough Alliance's glowing sophomore full-length, A New Chance, opens with a brief call to prayer, which frames the rest of the album in the proper context: Band members Eric Berglund (who handles the singing) and Henning Fürst (who does the music) view pop music as totemic as religion. But that doesn't mean they're not above screwing with the formula. A New Chance is as much about deconstructing and reassembling great pop music as it is worshipping it." Modular CD $11.00 U2 Under A Blood Red Sky [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US The band's legendary 1983 live album remastered plus a bonus DVD of the entire Red Rocks concert with 5 previously unreleased songs, a director's commentary, digitally re-graded pictures and a 5.1 mix. First time on DVD! Housed in a book like the other deluxe re-issues. Island CD/DVD $30.00 Unbunny Sensory Underload: Uncertain Trks 1996-2008 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2008) PS, US Cohesive and near-comprehensive new collection of Unbunny EPs, singles, rarities and unreleased including their outtaprint Typist EP originally released by Important Recs. Many tracks appear on CD for the very first time. TRACKLIST: 1. "The Path" from Typist EP / 2. "Queen of Nothing" from Book and Roll EP / 3. "Water and the Spanish Tongue" (unreleased version) / 4. "Versatech" from Book and Roll EP / 5. "untitled" from Book and Roll EP / 6. "X" from Typist EP / 7. "untitled" from Book and Roll EP / 8. "Mandi" from split 7" w/Milkweed / 9. "Landscape Typing" from Typist EP / 10. "Every Saturday" from For Nervous Plants EP / 11. "Now or Never" from For Nervous Plants EP / 12. "Emily" (unreleased) / 13. "Dental Hygienist" from Awful Bliss comp / 14. "Ginger Tussle" from Typist EP / 15. "We're All Gonna Die" from Potown records comp / 16. "She'll Bring You Down" from Book and Roll EP / 17. "Viva la White Bread" (unreleased) / 18. "untitled" from Typist EP AHiddenAgendaRecord-091 CD $9.00 USA Is A Monster Space Program (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load LP $12.50 USA Is A Monster Space Program (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, US Buttery synth & elaborate vocal harmonies combine to levitate hairpieces at least a little bit. This is the perfect synthesis of their pastoral wanderings circe their second record & the punk spunk of the first & third full lengths. The band is still a NY two piece tribe of Native American obsessed truth salesmen. Their take on rock embraces proggy synth tones, elaborate harmonies & jaw dropping drum & guitar that is no accident, and can be seen in ragged glory when they come to your local rock hole this fall. Load CD $12.50 Various Auteur Labels: Object Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 16TH) PS, UK 27 tracks. LTM present a new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Manchester imprint Object Music. Active between 1978 and 1981, pioneering Manchester post-punk label Object Music was founded by songwriter and deejay Steve Solamar to release records by his own group, Spherical Objects. Their first album, Past & Parcel, arrived in August 1978. Object soon began releasing records by other artists, many of them active in the Manchester Musicians' Collective. After singles by Spherical Objects, the Passage, Steve Miro, Grow Up, Contact and others, in 1979 the label took the unusual step of concentrating on albums, releasing 7 in 12 months. However Object Music ceased operations in 1981 after Steve Solamar corrected a lifelong contradiction and became a woman. Auteur Labels: Object Music compiles tracks from singles released between September 1978 and July 1980, as well as select album tracks. Tracklist: SPHERICAL OBJECTS the kill; SPHERICAL OBJECTS the knot; STEVE MIRO & THE EYES dreams of desire; STEVE MIRO & THE EYES queen of the sea; GROW UP river; GROW UP stay awake; GROW UP 10 minutes; ALTERNOMEN UNLIMITED façade; WARRIORS martial time/martial law; STEVE MIRO up and about; STEVE MIRO smiling in reverse; SPHERICAL OBJECTS seventies romance; SPHERICAL OBJECTS sweet tooth; CONTACT fascinated by time; CONTACT nite time; THE PASSAGE troops out; THE PASSAGE my one request; MANCHESTER MEKON the cake shop device; IQ ZERO insects; GROW UP joanne; GROW UP swept away; GROW UP GGGDADGADADAD; STEVE SOLAMAR forewarned; THE NOYES BROTHERS the mutant; THE NOYES BROTHERS decision time; ALTERNOMEN UNLIMITED connections. LTM-2527 CD $17.00 Various Teaism (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 30TH) PS, UK Teaism is a compilation featuring a diverse range of artists, who each created a unique song based around the theme of music inspired by the art and culture of tea. An idea conceived and curated by Stefan Panczak (aka Inch-time), Teaism binds together 15 disparate tracks by a hand-picked selection of artists. From the opening gambit of Max de Wardener's Kettle Song, which chimes and charms, through to Cibelle's sashaying Mr & Ms Grey, the pivotal theme evokes a sense of reverie; a kaleidoscopic gamut of ideas brewed to concoct a heady mix of electronica, jazz, musique concrete-style cut-ups, cinematic tones and avant-garde composition. These all contribute towards what is a glistening patchwork of sounds and atmospheres; each of them different, yet with thematic and sonic undercurrents which unite them. Contained within are stately melodies from the likes of Lord Jim, spooky sound collages from Serafina Steer, the fresh-faced ambience of Inch-time and the shadowy electronic sounds of the Break-ups. There's also a digital folk-pop nugget from Tunng, nestling comfortably in the middle of the tracklisting, which embodies their lust for samples and found sounds, forged into absorbingly twisted shapes. This is immediately contrasted with root70's freewheeling jazz, while the likes of Carlos y Gaby and Oblong provide elegant and slow-building melodies, with AM/PM and Qua throwing glitches, clicks and whirs into the mix. Tying all of these strands together, Teaism takes the differing outlooks and arrangements and coaxes them into a cohesive whole, where a multitude of patterns and textures rub shoulders with each other and never sound out of place. Tea is capable of doing so many things: you can drink it to relax or inject much-needed impetus at the start of the day; it can accompany deep thought or fervent chat. It's this array of contradictions, or multiple purposes, which offers so many appealing possibilities. Likewise, the myriad sounds collected on Teaism represent their fair share of contrasts as well. At times warm and delicate, followed by moments of brooding intensity, this electronica-led compilation flits between different nuances, all the while remaining deft and magical. Teaism is available as a limited edition CD and features original artwork by Roy Ananda. StaticCaravan-154 CD $15.50 Vivian Girls S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 3RD) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! InTheRed LP $10.50 Vivian Girls S-T (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 3RD) PS, US Breakout sirens of the New York loft-pop brigade who dish out seductive three-part vocal harmonies lushly interwoven w/ chest-pounding waves of beautiful feedback. RIYL the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Vaselines and the Shop Assistants. Pitchfork recommended. InTheRed CD $13.00 Week That Was, The S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US 2008 debut album from the British Electro Pop outfit, chiefly Field Music dude David Brewis' big brother, and featuring contributions from Field Music colleagues. Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and Tin Drum-era Japan. Fused with typically detailed arrangements and a sense of drama, this makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32-minute epic, straying far outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music. MemphisIndustries CD $15.25 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 Windy & Carl Songs For the Broken Hearted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Kranky DLP $15.00 Windy & Carl Songs For the Broken Hearted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 14TH) PS, US Most everyone has experienced love as well as heartbreak. These 10 songs are interpretations of those emotions that run the gamut from pain, anger & longing, to warmth, admiration & joy. This fall, they will have been together for 19 yrs. And in these sounds you get a sense of what love encompasses, how there can be bliss in any oasis, & trouble in any paradise, the highs & the lows, the reality of time & depth of emotion that go into any relationship that has lasted so long. Kranky CD $12.25 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Albertans “Sex With An Angel” 45 $5.50 Auffenberg, Ryan “Marigolds” CD $13.25 Baseball Project “Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails” CD $13.75 Believer “June/July 2006” ZINE $7.25 Believer “February 2004” ZINE $7.25 Bjork “Minuscule” DVD $12.50 Black Kids “I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You” 12 $9.25 Bonus “On Earth” CD $13.25 Byrds “Live In Holland 1971” 45 $5.50 Byrds “Lazy Days b/w Reputation” 45 $5.50 Cars Can Be Blue “Doubly Unbeatable” CD $12.25 Coltrane, John “Dakar” CD $11.00 Days “S-T [re-issue]” CD $19.00 Disappears “2008” 45 $4.50 Earlimart “Hymn & Her” CD $14.25 Farflung “A Wound In Eternity [deluxe edition]” CD $14.00 Freeks, The “S-T” CD $17.75 Genghis Tron “Board Up The House” DLP $21.25 Hexlove/Faulouah “Free Jazz From Slavery” DLP $18.50 Hot Cha Cha “Rifle, I Knew You When You Where Just A Pistol” CD5 $4.25 Hull, Scott “Requiem” CD $14.75 Ides of March, The “Ideology” CD $15.50 Ides of March, The “Gonna Say My Prayers + 1” 45 $5.50 International Submarine Band “Blue Eyes/Luxury Liner” 45 $5.50 Johnson, Robert “King of the Delta Blues Singers [Bonus Track]” CD $12.25 Justine “S-T” CD $16.25 Knife The Symphony “Crawler” CD $9.00 Magnet “#79” ZINE $3.00 Nada Surf “Lucky” LP $13.50 One In A Million “Double Sight” CD $21.75 Pink Skull “Zeppelin 3” CD $13.50 Pocahaunted “Mirror Mics” LP $15.25 Polar “Feedback (CD + DVD)” CD/DVD $21.75 Rain “S-T” CD $16.25 Rayne “S-T” CD $18.00 Siena Root “Far from the Sun” CD $19.00 Smittens, The “The Coolest Thing About Love” CD $12.25 Studio “Yearbook 2” CD $16.25 Taj Mahal Travellers “July 15, 1972” CD $26.00 Them “Them In Reality” CD $16.25 Them “S-T” CD $16.00 Trees “Lights Bane” CD $13.75 Various “Psychedelic Schlemiels 2: More Lost Sounds From The Britpsych Scene 1967-1969” CD $21.75 Various “Home Front, The” DCD $18.50 Various “Eccentric Soul: Tragar & Note Labels” DCD $24.75 Wombats “A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation” CD $14.00 Women “S-T” CD $13.50 Woodentops “Hypno Beat Live [Bonus Tracks]” CD $17.25