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New Releases

Army Of Me
Citizen
PS, US Army Of Me was named one of the top unsigned bands in America by Alternative Press, and the article started a barrage of major label interest for the Washington, DC-based band. On the surface, their music could fit snugly into the playlist of any mainstream radio station. The epic guitars and soaring vocals are more reminiscent of early Coldplay and U2 than of quirkily trendy indie pop. Below the surface, however, Army Of Me carries the self-starter scars of one of the hardest working bands in showbiz.
Doghouse
CD
$12.50

Basic
Splinters of the Cross
PS, US Features the long awaited single "Splinters of the Cross" w/ vocals
by DAVID J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets). Originally an iTunes exclusive release, the EP also features a remix by The FRIENDS OF JESUS SOUNDSYSTEM & a remix of "C404" by PLASTIC PERVERT. Formed in '99 & soon came to the attention of Bono & The Edge of U2, who released the band's debut single on their label 'Kitchen Recordings'. The dark & eclectic music video that accompanied became an MTV & SKY TV chill out favorite.
ReverbRecords-015
CD
$8.50

Bears
Shortest Day Of The Year
PS, US Brand spankin new 7-song EP. Where the first album was sunny and carefree, the Shortest Day Of The Year EP from Bears is obscured by clouds. The pop band from Cleveland has recorded a 7 song EP using slightly darker melodies and lyrics and, at times, minimal instrumentation. Maybe it was the Ohio winter that put them in this mood, or maybe it was the need to change something from the early songs, but the Shortest Day Of The Year EP takes the trademark Bears sound and adds something a little more personal, though not immediately identifiable.
Bears-002
CD5
$4.75

Blonde Redhead
23
PS, US As rich and densely layered as their last album, "Misery Is A Butterfly", but the overall mood of wistfulness, melancholy, and regret has been replaced by one of mystical wonder and renewed energy. "It's art music and heart music, with equal appeal to a Serge Gainsbourg fan as to a Sonic Youth fan, without ever sounding like either act" - LA Times. "An otherworldly, richly cinematic adventure" - Q Magazine.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Blonde Redhead
23
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$11.00

Bright Eyes
Cassadaga
PS, US A swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting w/ bombastic confidence & country swagger & at others loose-limbed & mesmeric. An album so full of soaring strings & female harmonies that it feels almost buoyant in comparison to previous releases. Feat. ANDY LEMASTER (NOW IT'S OVERHEAD), BEN KWELLER, JANET WEISS (EX-SLEATER-KINNEY), JASON BOESEL (RILO KILEY), JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE), M. WARD, MARIA TAYLOR & many others!
SaddleCreek-103
CD
$11.50

Bright Eyes
Cassadaga
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek-103
DLP
$16.50

Cap D
Return of the Renegade
PS, US As a Muslim hip-hop artist who truly lives & breathes the culture, he's in the vein of other Chicago Muslim MCs such as Lupe Fiasco & Rhymefest, who makes a cameo appearance here. Guest producers include J.Rawls & Maker & other guest MCs incl. ANIs Iomos Marad & OneBeLo, another fellow Muslim MC & veteran of the underground hip-hop circuit
AllNatural-050
CD
$11.50

Cap D
Return of the Renegade
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AllNatural-050
LP
$7.25

Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds
Abattoir Blues Tour [2CD/2DVD]
PS, US 17 live tracks from 2003/2004 tours, spread over two CDs. Two separate concerts on 2 DVDs plus bonus footage, short films, etc. By all accounts: incredible.
Mute
DCD
$29.00

Chinese Stars
Listen To Your Left Brain
PS, US Having honed their chaotic four-on-the-floor post-punk dance style into an unequivocal signature. Here, the Chinese Stars set in motion a tsunami of new waves, crafting an atmosphere of propulsive sonic escapism fueled by noodle-stringed guitar riffs, seat-of-your-pants lyrics, and hallucinatory synths. This is a fast-forward audio movement, taking music back to the base pleasures. Razor-sharp, aural pop art: the overblown are busted.
SkinGraft-086
LP
$14.50

Christ On Parade
Sounds of Nature
PS, US Reissue of the legendary 80's Bay area hardcore band's classic 1985 debut lp, with bonus tracks & a previously unreleased Avenger's cover.
Neurot-048
CD
$10.00

Clark, Gene
Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US The first solo album by an ex-Byrd, Gene Clark doesn't fly too far from the nest -- Byrds' Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke make up the rhythm section, while the Gosdin Brothers chime in with sweet harmony vocals. Add guitarists Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole and future Byrd Clarence White, and some beautiful orchestration by Leon Russell to Clark's melancholy melodies and the result is a forward-looking country-rock primer that sounded like nothing else in '67 and continues to astound and inspire today. With 3 bonus tracks and liner notes courtesy Sid Griffin. Bonus Tracks: The French Girl, Only Colombe, So You Say You Lost Your Baby (acoustic demo)
Sundazed
CD
$16.25

CocoRosie
Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn
PS, US Here the girls continue to experiment w/ their disparate voices & clashing personalities, juxtaposing devastating ballads w/ exhilarating tracks. This is a departure from their earlier obscured blur of stained glass rêve to what they describe as ""a more self-exploitive memoir."" A lush, orchestral array of sounds & beauty - A vaudevillian opera, if you will. W/ producer Valgeir Sigur?sson (Bjorks main studio conspirator since Dancer in the Dark).
TouchandGo-306
CD
$12.50

CocoRosie
Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TouchandGo-306
LP
$14.25

Dying Californian, The
Coarsegold
PS, US The sound of The Dying Californian is rooted in American tradition, influenced by country and folk as much as rock. With floating melodies and complex harmonies, it is difficult to place it into a genre. It is as much at home in a drunken hootenanny as in a late and lonesome night. It all just fits. The Dying Californian's third release on Turn Records is titled Coarsegold. Three years in the making, the album marks a jumping point in the bands signature style and sound, refined and redefined. The story of the album starts 3 years ago when Nathan Dalton, the primary songwriter for The Dying Californian found himself with a new job that had him traveling throughout California, staying in a variety of different places, often, for weeks as a time. On one lengthy trip, Dalton found himself holed up in the small town of Coarsegold, the geographic center of California. Neither northern or southern, western or eastern, simply Coarsegold, California - a town existing somewhere in between. It was here that Dalton found a new center for his own writing, influenced by the stark contrasts of California as well as the isolation and inspiration that only come from being on the road. He began to pen a new record; handheld tape recorders, lyrics on napkins, music on motel notepads, wherever he could find to write it down, he would. Coarsegold, the geographic center of California, the heart, also serves as the pinion for the record.
Turn-021
CD
$9.75

El Perro Del Mar
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TheControlGroup
LP
$14.00

Flying Luttenbachers
Destroy All Music
PS, US Fully re-mastered, extended edition of FL's landmark 1995 album. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter & renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. This comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter.
SkinGraft-085
CD
$14.50

Folkswingers
Raga Rock
PS, UK This heady blend of instrumental pop covers, fuzzed-up guitars & sitar is a kitsch blast from start to finish. Feat. the cream of L.A.'s session players alongside sitar virtuoso Harihar Rao (Ravi Shankar's senior disciple), it was originally released in 66 & makes its long-overdue CD debut here, showing itself to be the first & best "sitarsploitation" album ever recorded.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Gelfand, Dmitry + Evalina Domnitch + Various Artists
Camera Lucida
PS, US 12k/LINE are very happy to announce their first DVD release with groundbreaking visual artists Dmitry Gelfand + Evalina Domnitch. Their visual work is enhanced by a roster of musicians we are very proud to be working with including Alva Noto, Carter-Tutti (chris & cosey) and Matmos. Camera Lucida is a highly introspective immersive spatial art work creating a fleeting ephemeral materiality by intersecting ultrasound with hyperlight... in essence the creation of a sonic aurora. Domnitch and Gelfand's piece rejects any possibility to be fixed in space and time, but rather offers up the very definition of an unstable work of art, existing entirely for and within the perceptive realm of the viewer. Stephen Kovats, Director of Transmediale 2008. LINE is proud to announce the release of its first DVD, Camera Lucida. The project by Russian/American installation and video artists, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand and developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (chamber of light or lucidity) is a 3-dimensional sonic observatory that directly transforms sound into light by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence: ultrasound, propagating within a liquid, triggers the formation and implosion of micro-bubbles that reach temperatures as high as are found on the Sun, and emit light in the shape of sound waves. The authors of the installation, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, joined forces with multiple sound artists to create the sonochemical compositions presented on this DVD. This DVD also contains a data partition with uncompressed high resolution audio files of all the works. Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand's installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer's sensory envelope. Their works have been exhibited worldwide, including shows at V2 Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Nijo Castle (Kyoto, Japan), Museum of Dreams (St. Petersburg, Russia), I-20 Gallery (New York, USA), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy) and Tesla (Berlin, Germany). TRACKS/CHAPTERS: TAYLOR DEUPREE + RICHARD CHARTIER specification.sixteen 8:54 ALVA NOTO sonolumi (for camera lucida) 4:04 EVELINA DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND xenon wind 9:03 ALEXANDER KALINE analyzing turbulence 3:16 ASMUS TIETCHENS camera lucida 4:08 *KENNETH KIRSCHNER august 18, 2006 3:10 MATMOS photisms 6:48 COH not sweet without honey 3:04 CARTER TUTTI the noise of chance 4:35. Due to the detailed and subtle visual nature of this work and phenomenon the artists have chosen to use PAL over NTSC encoding to maintain the maximum resolution possible for the movie and sound files. This DVD is region free and can be played on any computer DVD drive. No region switching is necessary For television screen viewing, it can only playback on a PAL or multi-system DVD player. Playback in a darkened space with monitor brightness turned up is encouraged.
Line-030
DVD
$20.25

Giant Robot
#47
PS, US Mountain Man (animal planet), Paradorn City (white line fever), Back to the Future (TaroShoten talks), Invisible Waves (un-deconstructing art) & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond!
ZINE
$4.75

Goldrush
Heart Is The Only Place
PS, US Goldrush Heart is the Place Better Looking blr026cd 8 .1 9 CD STREET DATE 4/10. EXPORT ONLY!! For this new album, the band worked with James Rutledge (aka DJ Pedro on Mush Records). Goldrush had previously worked with the legendary David Fridmann, but Rutledge took a different approach and encouraged the band to be more sonically adventurous.
BetterLooking-026
CD
$11.25

Grinderman
S-T
PS, US Nick Cave sporting a scary mustache, playing music that is even leaner and meaner than his "usual" Bad Seeds stuff. In fact fans of The Birthday Party will be in ecstacy. Pitchfork calls it "An indulgent study in excess, sure, but the twist is that at every turn Cave keeps the chaos carefully in check, emphasizing messiness when need be but also showcasing the deceptively precise playing of his band as well as his loose and at times gloriously silly lyrics."
Anti-86861
CD
$14.00

Hentchmen
Form Follows Function
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TimesBeach-015
LP
$11.75

Hunter, Jana
There's No Home
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!
Gnomonsong-006
LP
$14.25

Hunter, Jana
There's No Home
PS, US second full-length formal release from Jana Hunter. Recorded over two consecutive weeks in Fall 2006 at a friend's home in Houston, TX (known locally as "Feagan House"), the album features Hunter writing, playing and producing throughout. As extroverted as Hunter's previous release "Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom" was introverted, "There's No Home" focuses on community involvement. While Hunter plays most of the instruments herself, she's aided and abetted here by her brother John (Inoculist, Dethro Skull), John Adams (Fatal Flying Guilloteens) and Matt Brownlie (Bring Back the Guns), among others. Released on Devendra B's Gnomonsong label.
Gnomonsong-006
CD
$13.25

Hynes, Nina
Staros
PS, US Dublin's Hynes sophomore album, released in 2002, was only available in the US as an Import. It was received extremely well by Irish an UK critics & audiences. The album was recorded in Studio Black Box in France & Produced by Nina & ex-Frames member David Odlum with many musicians including The Frames helping out. The first single from the album, Mono Prix, was mixed by the legendary Steve Osborne (Perfecto), whose recent work includes New Order, PJ Harvey & tracks by Doves, U2 & Placebo, among others.
ReverbRecords
CD
$10.00

Hynes, Nina
Creation
PS, US Originally released in 1999, the Irish artist's debut album got amazing reviews from all corners. Amazon.com voted it No. 44 in their 'Top 100 Releases Of The Year'. HITS Magazine called it "The last amazing find of the year." Ireland's HOT PRESS tipped her as "One of the country's most exciting new artists." She also ventured out on several U.S. tours in 2000/2001 w/ Nina's solo electro-alternative sound capturing new admirers at every turn.
ReverbRecords-001
CD
$10.00

Junior Boys
Dead Horse
PS, US This EP gathers a dizzying array of talents from the world of electronic music to bring a personal touch to the music of Junior Boys: Carl Craig's contribution is a subtle and brooding epic, Hot Chip's is a dreamy organic take, Tensnake shifts gears from minimalist house to four-on-the-floor electric dreams, and Kode 9 offers a deep space futurist dub, providing a ghostliness that's equal parts Eno and Fennesz.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$4.75

Karlzen, Mary
Wanderlust Diaries
PS, US Eclectic enough to cover both Tom Waits ("Heart of a Saturday Night") and Paul Westerberg (the touching "Skyway" has never sounded more lovely) without feeling forced, Mary Karlzen keeps both feet firmly in the folk-rock Americana that has always defined her work. Her girlish voice shifts between Juliana Hatfield, Beth Orton and Jewel, finding the innocence and longing in personal songs that are almost always sung in the first person. She's a singer/songwriter in the tradition of John Hiatt and early Joni Mitchell, serious and smart with an unerring eye for detail in her lyrics. Wanderlust Diaries is bookended by stripped-down tunes where Karlzen is joined only by John Deaderick's spartan piano. But the disc is dominated by strummy band tracks played with finesse by, among others, E Street Band bassist Garry Talent and ex-Wilco drummer Ken Coomer. Karlzen's acoustic guitar focuses the sound, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jansen Press adds just enough instruments and frills to underscore the singer's lyrics without ever overwhelming them. "Stupid or Something" is a terrific example of a song that takes flight with a folk-rock arrangement that leaps out of the speakers. Percussion and theatrical strings are added for drama on "Sixteen," a story-song that starts as a fond reminiscence of a summer but turns terribly dark in its final verse. It's a textbook example of what Karlzen does best as this album shifts from one highlight to the next on a journey through a scrapbook life, some of which might be based on personal experience. On her fourth release, all for different labels, Karlzen has delivered a gem that, in a perfect world, would generate a major Americana buzz. ~ Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide
Dualtone
CD
$14.00

Kite Operations
Heart Attacks, Back to Back
PS, US A thrashing, beautiful destructive collection of love songs from the end of the world. Singer JOSEPH KIM'S open-throated belting is contrasted by co-frontman DAVID YANG'S hushed delivery. As guitarists, they are both well versed in the vocabulary of noise, trading off abrasive & delicate passaged w/ ease.
KOA-006
CD
$10.25

Larsen & Friends
Abeceda (CD/DVD)
PS, US This CD/DVD set captures an extremely special evening for Larsen, one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective revealing more an a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino Italy. For one night only Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino Italy. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil and cultural radicalist Karel Teige and his Abeceda - a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva which minimalised text down to its basic components establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images. To Abeceda Larsen brings their minimalist beauty and melody with this live performance incorporating music, dance and projections. With Larsen are their close musical friends David Tibet (Current 93), Baby Dee ( Current 93 member and acclaimed solo performer), Johann Johannsson (Touch/4AD) The music swells in gentle pulses of soflty stated melody. Emotion clings to each note while glistening shimmers of electonics dance quietly in the mix. The DVD reminds us of what a rich visual experience Abeceda was and is. As The Wire so perfectly put it in a extensive write up of the evening, David Tibet's performance "Provides a vital link between the music and the visuals... At one point he connects beautifully connects perfectly with the dancer, breathing deeply into the microphone in time with her movements." Visual projections, created by Bellissimo, portray a woman in a 20's style bathing suit, much like Teige's original work, portraying letters of the alphabet which slowly become obscure by Teige's brilliant typography. Thanks to Larsen's definitive discipline and their kindred visual and musical collaborators. Abeceda is an event of great subtlety and complexity. It is truly a gift that this performance was so perfectly documented in both an audio and visual format. Where the work of Karel Teige was a tremendous gift for the eyes, Larsen & Friend's Abeceda is a gift for both the eyes and the ears. Hats off to Bellissimo, the design team responsible for Larsen's distinctive packaging, for putting the finishing touches on a perfect evening and a perfect package. "My dear friends Fabrizio and Larsen honoured me by asking me to interpret the alphabet for their project ABECEDA in the light of Nezval's verses for Karel Teige. Being neither an admirer of dada, surrealism or the avant-garde, I escaped from them all by taking a train from the seaside town of Hastings where I live, to London, after kissing my cats goodbye. I looked at the blurs of sheep, tree, hedge, sea, pond passing me like living clouds. I looked at each letter of the alphabet, and covered Nezval's text with my hand. I ordered the letter to tell me what it looked like. I disbelieved its answer. Letters always lie. So I peered at the shape of the letter and wrote down my immediate responses.
Important-129
CD/DVD
$14.75

Lesbians On Ecstasy
We Know You Know
PS, US The much anticipated sophomore release delves deeper into some of the cliches of iconic lesbian music. More melodic than the previous release with hooks that might remind you of campfire sing alongs at some mythical womyn's event in the 70's, with several tracks featuring a chorus backing. A danceable album that is at moments uplifting and at other moments very dark, but all with a sense of humor and fun . Their sound bridges the gap between electro/techno with punk rock.
Alien8-069
CD
$11.75

Lesbians On Ecstasy
We Know You Know
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Alien8-069
LP
$11.75

Limbeck
S/T
PS, US Their third full-length is equal parts rock, Americana, pop, and country. "Limbeck" proves that these four former punk rockers from Orange County and Milwaukee have finally grown into their cowboy boots and crafted a disc that everyone from The Bamboozle to Bonnaroo can appreciate. "This California indie band works a terrain similar to that of the Old 97's, who helped invent a more upbeat, carefree alt-country" - Rolling Stone. For fans of The Format, Wilco, The Replacements, The Beach Boys.
Doghouse
CD
$12.50

Loden
Valeen Hope
PS, US Debut full lenght of melodic electronica from up and coming Dutch producer. Shoegaze-inspired electronic work with rays of early 90's pop melody and layers of deconstructed beats and oceans of ambient synth noise.
Mush-251
CD
$10.00

Machine Go Boom
Music for Parents
PS, US A distorted pop invention that is a frighteningly good mix of acoustic folk balladry, amphetamine-lit punk & synth fed new wave. It has been generally agreed that the city of Cleveland deemed it the most welcomed musical event. The 3 year wait for a new album is definitely worth it!
CollectibleEscalators-013
CD
$11.00

Magnet
#75
PS, US
ZINE
$3.25

Manasyt
Filthdonor
PS, US Terminal Dusk Records is proud to present the sounds of Manasyt's Detroit electro-industrial hybrid LP, Filthdonor. Extensive production, attention to detail, and dark undertones define the other worldly realm Manasyt creates. Witness the brilliance of Petar Tassev with nine carefully chosen tracks of razor-sharp electro created from 2005 - 2006.
TerminalDusk-008
12
$9.50

Marcus, Joshua
Make/Believe
PS, US Featuring duet compositions for the banjo & upright bass, these songs are both easy to listen to & hard to forget, as the subtle melodies deliver potent lyrics in an inviting manner that inspires the listener to sing along. Marcuss songwriting is powerful & astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from lifes many juxtapositions. He has been the subject of considerable praise & has been featured on NPRs All Songs Considered.
Contraphonic-062
CD
$9.75

Merzbow
Merzbear
PS, US Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear is the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records. Merzbear pulses and pounds with distorted droning heavy guitar feedback, pulsing noise-blasts and swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Sythi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and reincorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days w/ his homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi & electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Cover art by Jenny Akita.
Important-136
CD
$12.25

Mojo
#162 (May 2007) [MAGAZINE+CD]
PS, UK New issue of the planet's best music magazine features extensive features on Arctic Monkeys, Clash legends Joe Strummer, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, the weird world of Tom Waits... The age of disco, in the studio with Dr Dre, Ian Brown and Dungen.. New psych meltdown with the Besnard Lakes' Bassekou Kouyaté, king of the n'goni (it's like a cricket bat with four strings)... Bloc Party's Kele Okerere on the record that changed his life... How to buy U2... The melancholy tale of Dr Feelgood... David Lynch's favourite band, Au Revoir Simone! Free CD features the best bands the UK has to offer: Field Music, The View, 1990s, Noisettes, Maps, Bat For Lashes, The Aliens, and more.
ZINE
$9.50

Moya, Raul
La Nueva Era Glacier
PS, SPAIN It is said that the Anglo-Saxons carry their memory in their hearts. And it seems that Raül Moya (who plays with élena, Miqui Puig, Sitcom, Romodance and Refree) has gone there to recover the memories which bring his solo debut to life. That is because "La Nueva Era Glaciar" sounds as if it had been made with his heart and memories. It also sounds Anglo-Saxon due to the dragging-tempo of his confessional folk-rock. However, the fact that the album is written in Spanish (and really well) and that it gets a Latin-Mediterranean touch by using accordions, toy percussions, and so on, moves him away from the Anglo cliché. From that cliché and from any other. This is a very personal album. The more you listen to it the more you cannot avoid comparing him with the Andrés Calamaro of "Honestidad Brutal": both albums share a lack of emotional reserve and have fed themselves with legends, but without being trapped inside caricature. Here you have more suspicions that Raül and Andrés have lived parallel lives: Raül has spent lots of hours looking at the sea, as near as possible to his so beloved Buenos Aires, and when he looks deep inside of him he finds the same as Andrés does, that is Bob Dylan. The album starts with an harmonica. That is reminiscent of "Come Pick Me Up", from the album "Heartbreaker" by Ryan Adams, which is another confessional ode. And there are more connections with that record: the guitar in "Rían Con Sentido" flickers just like Ryan's in "My Winding Wheel". That is not a coincidence. "Heartbreaker" and "Honestidad Brutal" are like swells for Raül and lighthouses for the seafarer who goes deeper into the album "La Nueva Era Glaciar". These are dangerous comparisons, but we make them. That is because we are not before a shy musician who looks at his feet, we are introducing you to someone who knows how to defend some lyrics that echo words that burn on your lips: "you", "forever", "life", "to go back". Promotional reserve tempt us not to say that this debut is a very especial album. But we say so. We know that writing something like "of course they are not precisely the same" next to the proper nouns and other albums that have been mentioned in this text, would have been a kind of defensive detail. And voluntarily we have not included any: with these songs we cannot be that fussy.
Rhonda/HoustonParty-11
CD
$14.75

Mystery Jets
Diamonds In The Dark
PS, US The beauty of it thus far: they've been born of paradoxical simplistic complexities, glorious sing alongs rise out of intriguing & technically mesmerizing verses. The epic synth-led solo on display here comprises few notes yet still manages to sound like the whole world is singing it. Enlisting the help of Brit-pop legend Stephen Street this debut is fed through the pop-aliser & comes out the other side polished, accessible & better.
DimMak-106
CD5
$6.25

Null, KK
Fertile
PS, US Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of seminal noise group Zeni Geva & electronic wizard. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica. His intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures & droning isolationist material could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism."
Touch-074
CD
$15.50

Panthers
The Trick
PS, US Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP "Things Are Strange" with a follow-up record so concisely intense it demands attention from all areas; from jaded riff-rock devotees to the most indifferent pop listener and everyone in between. Recorded in 2006 by renowned producer and engineer Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice), "The Trick" is the third full-length offering from this Brooklyn-based quartet and their second on Vice. Ten tracks of calculated abandon.
Vice
CD
$11.50

Peel, Julie / The Caulfield Sisters
Divine Candy
PS, US 7" Blue Vinyl Split featuring French indie-rocker JULIE PEEL covering The Breeders "Divine Hammer", and Brooklyn's favorite daughters THE CAULFIELD SISTERS covering The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Some Candy Talking" live. Mastering by Sean Glonek at SRG studios (Frank Black, Kristin Hersh, The Dresden Dolls, Matthew Sweet), and renowned rock poster designer Lon Unitus (Liz Phair, The Decemberists, The Shams, John Doe) created a custom sleeve just for this release. It's a very limited pressing (only 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide). For fans of The Breeders, The Amps, Juliana Hatfield, Galaxie 500, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Pixies.
AmericanLaundromat-0006
45
$5.50

Poem Rocket
Invasion!
PS, US A sumptuous smorgasbord of acoustic and amplified sonic delights, and their best album ever. An incredibly sophisticated, expansive, and densely layered double album. "This week's most beautiful pop record" - Melody Maker. "...a new type of organism...the songwriting is just too inventive to bog down in matchmaking" - Alternative Press.
Atavistic
CD
$17.50

Qua
Forgetabout
PS, US Thirteen tracks in a plethora of electronic sub-genres that mingle elements of world music, folk, rock and more. Cool keys, warm guitars & found sound recordings are heightend by pristine digital editing & expert musicianship.
Mush-210
CD
$10.00

Qua
Painting Monsters On Clouds
PS, US An unrepentent, gorgeous & nostalgic mix of sunlit electronics & guitars, buoyed by complex arrangements. Brings to mind the playfulness of Mouse on Mars, the sophistication of Ennio Morricone & the quirky pop of Architecture in Helsinki.
Mush-229
CD
$10.00

Rollins, Henry
Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4
PS, US This set documents his 2004 tour. This show happening at San Jose State in N. California. Disc 2 being the show at the University of California @ Bakersfield, Oct. 21, 2004.
2.13.61
DCD
$11.00

Rough Bunnies
Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken
PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available
only in Sweden.
Yipsilanti-032
LP
$15.00

Shaky Hands
S/T
PS, US Debut full-length from Portland jangly-pop wunderkinds. Sliding bouncy go-go beats under shambling guitars & reedy, swooning vocals, SH make the kind of catchy, soulful indie rock tailormade for brokedown car stereos & river-rat boomboxes. Sloppily romantic warmth thats equal parts summer sunshine & candlelit mellow, pre-party buzz & scruffy day-after fuzziness. The result is a fully formed and confident debut; a big-hearted, starry-eyed bear hug of a record full of youthful energy & tumbling vigor.
HoloceneMusic-005
CD
$15.25

Soft Machine
Third [Remastered/Bonus CD]
PS, US Soft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited The Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. The original vinyl release was a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition -- two by Mike Ratledge, and one each by Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt, with substantial help from new bandmember Elton Dean on saxophones and a number of backup musicians, including Canterbury mainstay Jimmy Hastings. The Ratledge songs come closest to jazz fusion, although this is fusion laced with tape loop effects and hypnotic, repetitive keyboard patterns. Hugh Hopper's "Facelift" recalls "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson, although it's more complex, with several quite dissimilar sections. The pulsing rhythms, chaotic horn and keyboard sounds, and dark drones on "Facelift" predate some of what Hopper did as a solo artist later (this song was actually culled from two live performances in 1970). On his capricious composition "Moon in June," Robert Wyatt draws on musical ideas from early 1967 demos done with producer Giorgio Gomelsky. Lyrically, "Moon in June" is a satirical alternative to the pretension displayed by a lot of rock writing of the era, and combined with the Softs' exotic instrumentation, it makes for quite a listen. Not exactly rock, Third nonetheless pushed the boundaries of rock into areas previously unexplored, and it managed to do so without sounding self-indulgent. A better introduction to the group's psychedelic pop side is Vols. 1 & 2, but once introduced, this is the place to go. [The 2007 remastered edition features the original two-disc vinyl set of Third on one CD plus a bonus live disc of the Softs' "classic quartet" -- Ratledge, Hopper, Dean, and Wyatt -- performing "Out-Bloody-Rageous," "Facelift," and "Esther's Nose Job" live at Royal Albert Hall in 1970; this live material (also remastered) was previously issued as the Live at the Proms 1970 CD.] ~ Peter Kurtz, All Music Guide
Sony / BMG Import SNYB687293.2
DCD
$11.50

Sons
Viracochas
PS, US Former members of Boston shoegaze/drone outfit SUNTAN (Kimchee) & 3 members of Chapel Hill by way of Arkansas spazz lunatics "A Problem of Alarming Dimensions." Deftly combines Swervedriver style shoegazing, Loop-esque drone, the haphazard psych of the 13th Floor Elevators & 90's staples Seam & Built to Spill. Charged guitars & rolling bass lines. Big rock fused w/elements of psych pop & indie rock quirkiness. RECOMMENDED
FracturedDiscs-009
CD
$9.75

Spiritualaires
Singing Songs of Praise
PS, US The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama are 1 of the very last still active gospel quartets w/origins in Gospel's Golden Age of the '50s. Weaving together influences from the blues & country & western, the Spiritualaires over the years have remained faithful to their ever distinct yet traditional sound. Drawn from recent studio recordings & live radio broadcasts, "Singing Songs of Praise" reveal the Spiritualaires as both a super fine harmony quartet & a unique blues guitar driven ensemble.
CaseQuarter-103
CD
$12.50

Sur La Mer
Prelude to the Sea
PS, US The brainchild of ATSU NAGAYAMA (Boredoms, Prescriptions), who wrote & arranged all of the material for this debut EP. Nagayama enlisted the help of friends Dino, Julie Liu (Rex, Tortoise), Jason McDermott, Kim Ambriz (Rabbit Rabbit), and Fred Erskine (June of '44, Hoover) when it came time to record. The results speak for themselves-provocative, captivating & ambient instrumental bliss.
ThirtyGhosts-004
CD5
$7.75

Ten Speed Racer
Eskimo Beach Boy
PS, US Debut album released in 2000 to critical acclaim. US College radio immediately took to it & amazing reviews began pouring in. Comparisons were made to The Stooges, The Dandy Warhols & even Spiritualized. At the heart of the band are 3 brothers; Dermot, Pat & John Barrett, w/ 2 other close mates, Terry Cullen & Joe Chester filling in the musical gaps. "A vivacious mix of sonically charged guitars, ethereal melodies and intelligent vocals."-Virtually Alternative
ReverbRecords-005
CD
$10.00

Torske, Bjorn
Kokt Kveite
PS, US Bjorn Torske delivers another killer 12". This one shows us more of the soundworld that Torske is in these days. With references to 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Residents, Idut Boy & Count Ossie and his unique blend of quirky, avant-garde, dubbed out, psychedelic sounds Torske creates a whole new genre; the free-disco. This 12" contains 3 tracks "Kokt Kveite" & "Soloppgang Over Yukigaya" (written by Torske togehter with Cato canari and Ole Andre Farstad) as well as the bonus "Yukigaya Bonus". 25 minutes of new music!
SmalltownSupersound-12912
12
$9.25

Uncut
#120 (May 2007)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Under The Radar
#17
PS, US Feist cover plus Bands on their favorite films, ,Jarvis Cocker, Gruff Rhys, Interpol, Charlotte Gainsburg, Bright Eyes, Klaxons, Yoko Ono, Deerhunter and much more.
ZINE
$3.75

Veirs, Laura
Saltbreakers
PS, US Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her third Nonesuch release is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic gospel choirs to fuzzed-out guitars, and driving alt-rock rhythms.
Nonesuch
CD
$14.00

Wreckless Eric
Big Smash [Deluxe Edition, Bonus Tracks]
PS, US One of the best songs ever, "Whole Wide World", plus 27 bonus tracks... ; )
Stiff
DCD
$12.50

XBXRX
Wars
PS, US Continuing to progress, they expand their musical horizons, incorporating a wider palette of textures, rhythm & structure as well as gaining a newfound clarity in the vocals. Never wishing to repeat themselves, they've made a conscious effort to move beyond the non-stop blastbeat/screaming assault of previous releases, while retaining the vigorous exhilaration that people expect from them.
Polyvinyl-129
CD
$12.00

XBXRX
Wars
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl-129
LP
$12.00

Xiu Xiu
Remixed & Covered
PS, US The 1st disc, a batch of covers, is an exercise in sisterly fan-domand inspired innovation. Feat. LARSON, OXBOW, MARISSA NADLER, WHY?, DEVENDRA BANHART & others!!! The remix half feat. GOLD CHAINS, SON, KID606, TO LIVE & SHAVE IN reach your arms into them & get pulled into their reality for awhile.You might not come back the same.
5RueChristine
DCD
$14.25

Forthcoming Releases

A&E
Oi! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Artists formerly known as AE. Pleasant ballads drift into daringly arranged pop songs. A meld of traditional Japanese singing, deft jazz guitar , gameboy chirping, junkshop keyboards & punk drums. Four of the tracks are electric interpretations of Japanese folk songs from the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
Sonig-060
CD
$15.00

Aa
gAame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US They've been honing their unique, intensely stylized brand of DIY maximalism in the lofts, clubs & parking lots of NYC since '02. Like an ADD-afflicted Boredoms or Aphex Twin re-imagined as a high school marching band, their polyrythmic sound synthesized elements of hardcore, ambient, pop, crunk, noise, dance, psych & dance filtered through their distinct, largely self-taught aesthetic.
GiganticMusic-017
CD
$14.50

Acrnym
Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, CANADA Genre: Electronic/Breakcore. Discovered by Bong-Ra for his Kriss record label, 20 year old Glasgow, Scotland artist Calum Gunn makes music under the moniker Acrnym, his debut album "Flowers" is 13 killer tracks tethering spastic rhythms and malfunctioning breaks with spellbinding melodic instrumentation. "Flowers" shows off some awesome technical exercises in speedy BPMs with a buzz-storm of frenetic break episodes and blazing synth lines. Think Venetian Snares meets Wisp i.e., Amazing breakcore with actual melodies.
Sublight-3401
CD
$12.25

Acute
Arms Around a Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US LA indie boy trio who place an emphasis on quality songwriting while playing both energetic hook-filled pop & reflective rock that ranges from Pavementy though practiced indie rock to Neutral Milk Hotel chewy goodness. Wonderful, subtle & surprising inflections of southwestern appeal like pedal steel, horns & tremeloed guitar sit next to dreamy cello, piano, occasional violin & even some Andrew Bird-esque whistling. RIYL: Magnetic Fields, Shins, Sea & Cake, Seam. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Help
CD
$11.00

Alchemist
Rapper's Best Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Decon-048
DLP
$16.75

Alchemist
Rapper's Best Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US One of the most celebrated producers in hip-hop today, he's been making hot beats for nearly 15 yrs. This is an instrumental CD comprising 14 finely chiselled jams, which feat. a combination of previously unreleased beats & recent studio work that he did for Mobb Deep, Jadakiss, Tony Yayo, Dilated Peoples & more!
Decon-048
CD
$15.75

Alex Delivery
Star Destroyer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-099
LP
$9.50

Alex Delivery
Star Destroyer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US ALEX DELIVERY have gleefully exposed their myriad gifts and influences with their debut full-length "Star Destroyer," almost two years in the making. On it the New York-based quintet have demonstrated their penchant for the electro-organic, seamlessly blending the sharp and gentle, like a chain-gang draped in organza. You can hear the chattering of insects resonating from the inside of a kettle drum, and you can imagine this colossal robo-beast wobbling and waltzing down an abandoned carnival boardwalk. Sylphs soar across strings, occasionally descending to enjoy some wiggle-worthy poly-rhythms. These and many more colorful characters have climbed aboard the "Star Destroyer."
JagJagWar-099
CD
$11.00

Alsace Lorraine
Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) (ON SALE)
PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well.
Darla-178
CD
$12.25

Amandine
Solace in Sore Hands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The sophmore album from Malmo, Sweden is 11 tracks of plaintiv, bittersweet songs that merge a newly extensive sonic palette w/ their poignant lyrical content. Though still centered around an Americana/roots axis, their songs have broadened in both scope & depth in addition to easy references like Rex & Songs:Ohia/Jason Molina.
FatCat-050
CD
$13.25

Antiguo Automata Mexicano
Kraut Slut (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine, a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas".
StaticDiscos-019
CD
$12.25

Arcade Fire
Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge-285
DLP
$17.50

Arcade Fire
Keep the Car Running (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Feat. single from Neon Bible. Youve probably heard the song by now - but its a hook laden affair w/ a driving Joy Division bass line & drum pattern held together by Win Butlers impassioned vocals! "Broken Window" is another mini epic building on a minor key acoustic gutar strum & insistent violin.
Merge-304
45
$5.00

Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US New full-length.
Domino
CD
$14.50

Arctic Monkeys
Brianstorm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US This pre-album single serves to prepare you for the coming onslaught that is the rocking brilliance of their new release, "Favourite Worst Nightmare". Like some cruel bait-and-switch, this record opens with a lovely string quartet before a rude intrusion of frantic drums and squealing guitars send them packing (apparently inspired by The Jesus Lizard no less). The second track, "Brianstorm" barrels out of the gate with an itchy energy. "Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend" is a taut, suspenseful track featuring a guest verse from Dizzee Rascal.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$4.75

Asa Irons & Swaan Miller
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US This record is forever. After listending to it you'll realise that it doesn't matter that Asa Irons plays in Witch with J Mascis as well as the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers. This record needs no associations and it's songs are so timeless that they feel as if they've been passed around for generations and hardly need any recording medium at all. This is the first release from Asa Irons and Swann Miller but it sounds like they've lived within each others voices for a million years. Asa's deep-breath-voice lays down a mossy hill for Swann's beautiful voice to tread upon. His guitar work is simply intricate and his fingerpicking perfectly suits the way their voices combine to become one. This record always has been and always will be. This record is forever. "After spending years in New Hampshire and often Nova Scotia, I began writing songs about my Northeastern window through which I view the world. Most of the pieces represent strong fundamentals in my life such as living without comfort resources like electricity and running water, the building trends of carpentry and masonry with which I make my living, and the slow paced rural life in which I grew up. The land of Northeastern North America is very important to me and compelled me to describe it in the form of music. Many people in my life were musicians - my father, cousins, friends - so I had plenty of good examples to pull from and think about. My style of song writing, I believe, comes from the influence of these loved ones combined with certain deep-rooted melodies or images from books that have stuck with me. (Such as sound tracks of old cinema and authors like Tolstoy and Carolyn Chute.) My older sister's art work has also had a tremendous effect on the way I see the world. Many of her primary subjects revolve around various representations of our own home place and the people who inhabited this and the other woods houses in which we grew up. One of the people connected to me through music and lifestyle is Swann Miller. She is the daughter of a man who was a good friend of my father's. Through the '70's our fathers built houses together around N.H. and also played a lot of music. So, I have known Swann my whole life and perhaps it was inevitable that we made music together. When I reached her house in the winter of 2003, I had just had my notebook of songs stolen along with other things. I decided to try to catalogue all I could remember by practicing them. Swann practiced with me. On a whim, her boyfriend - who works as a sound engineer - recorded the two of us singing in an abandoned yellow women's bathroom in the basement of the building where they lived. It all took about an hour and a half including set up of mics, recording, and breaking down. I borrowed a twenty year old Guild guitar from a friend of a friend which was very similar to my father's guitar that I grew up with. I am so happy to have had the opportunity to help capture Swann's beautiful voice and continue the music of our families. The album is a quick glimpse of a world view from Southern New Hampshire through the voices of two old friends whose fathers were friends before them." Asa Irons
Important-143
CD
$12.25

Badgerlore
We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US BADGERLORE is the great tribal council of the so-called "Freak Folk" movement. The supergroup features Rob Fisk (DEERHOOF, 7-YEAR RABBIT CYCLE) and Ben Chasny (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), with Tom Carter (CHARALAMBIDES), Pete Swanson (YELLOW SWANS), Glen Donaldson (BLITHE SONS, JEWELED ANTLER) and Liz Harris (GROUPER). Together they proceed with masterful nuance and inexorable tension; "We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits" is the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber.
TableoftheElements-114
CD
$12.25

Basement
Illicit Hugs Playground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Brit press darlings who live in the soup made from that late 60's wet spot left by Gram & the Flying Burritos, Dylan's albums w/The Band & Van Morrison's best work. From jangly footstomping romps to raucous twang & bittersweet laments. "Effortlessly charming folk-tinged tales."-The Sun.
Zealous-704
CD
$13.75

Bergraven
Dödsvisioner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US Bergraven turns the traditional blast-and-flay aesthetic of "frost bitten grimness" on its ear and comes at you with sweeping riff dirges, winding cinematic passages, melodic guitar interludes, tortured-yet-vaguely authoritarian and Germanic vocal overtones and - get this - ambient pedal steel excursions. All of which is enough to make your head spin, especially if you're down with weirdness. "Dodsvisioner" is not your typical black metal experience, and Bergraven is not your standard Swedish killing machine.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (B.R.M.C.)
Baby 81 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US New album, heard it's awesome.
RedInt/RedInk
CD
$14.25

Black Tie Revue
Code Fun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Their hooky keyboard driven power-pop has been drawing ravenous fans everywhere they play. Often compared to power pop bands likeThe Only Ones, The Wildhearts & The Records, the band is everything great about being young, geeky & American: adictively hooky, powerful, flagrantly irresponsible three-chord pop songs, loud guitars & new-wave keyboards, & a whole lot of jumping around.
Gearhead-074
CD
$11.50

Bloarzeyd
Delirious Insane Ventilator of Bloarzeyd (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US An explosion of joyful, eardrum shattering, wildly fun music by 2 guys from New England, Phil on bass & vocals and Mike on drums. If you like Shellac, LIghtning Bolt, Dionagah or old Batman reruns, you are sure to like these guys.
WoodedMan-008
CD
$8.50

Bloomfield, Mike
Junko Partner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of his era. A maestro of guitar, & an excellent composer & interpreter, he introduced young & old alike to a world of pure & authentic blues. This excellent album was released just after his death.
Akarma-376
CD
$15.75

Blow, The
Poor Aim: Love Songs (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US "Poor Aim: Love Songs" is resilient electro-pop music that can be lovingly devoured by people of all ages and coolness factors. Already, the songs have fallen into a beloved repeat-play position in many a heart (and cell phone, as ring tones!). In their experiment, the two challenged each other with stringent requirements: JONA insisted that the rhythms couldn't be redundant; KHAELA guaranteed that the lyrics held sentences worth repeating. They succeeded. The songs are catchy as hell, and rise to meet all of the duo's snobby music standards. With sing-along-when-you-think-you're-alone types of refrains, it's as if the oldies station on the car stereo is playing at the same time as the urban party music station, with the occasional interfering sonic sway of an eighties keyboard refrain. That mash of sounds would come closest to describing "Poor Aim's" productional pitch, the sound of feeling fun and desperate and bravely romantically unsuccessful all at once; easy listening for difficult feelings.
KLP167
CD
$11.00

Boonaraaas!!!
5 Steps Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SoundsOfSubterrania-083
LP
$16.50

Boonaraaas!!!
5 Steps Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US While most musical groups are taking two steps back, their thrust is most definitely forward. They bash out their heart & soulpoppin' sonic nuggets using vintage equipment but the noise they make is very much NOW! A treat for the ears & the eyes, no matter what your persuasion. Trich's sassy singing & bass attitude along w/ Christina's command of the big beat provides a rockin' solid foundation. Laura's Danelectro action blends w/ Tine's rhythm licks to create a fuzz-infused wall of sound that is so direct that you'll wonder what the heck just hit you.
SoundsOfSubterrania-083
CD
$17.00

Brown, Steven
Brown Plays Tenco + Live 1988 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, UK Steven Brown is a core member of cult avant garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music For Solo Piano (1983), Searching For Contact (1987), Half Out (1991), Nine Rain (1996) and Decade (2003). Brown Plays Tenco was recorded in Italy in 1987 and features Steven's own interpretations of five songs written by cult artist Luigi Tenco. Born in Cassine in 1938, Tenco scored many hits as a singer in Italy during the 1960s, but shot himself through the head at the San Remo Festival in 1967 after Ciao amore ciao (Hello, Love, Hello), failed to reach the final. The suicide note explained that his suicide was a gesture of protest against the jury's taste in music. Never available on CD before, Brown Plays Tenco has now been digitally remastered with twelve bonus tracks recorded live in Italy in 1988. These include in-concert renditions of songs by Luigi Tenco as well as solo material by both Brown (Besides All That, rwf) and Tuxedomoon (What Use?, Egypt , Lowlands Tone Poem). Artist Resume: Steven Brown was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Tuxedomoon formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd group albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Suite En Sous-Sol, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. The latest TM album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006.
LTM-2428
CD
$16.25

Camera Obscura
Tears For Affairs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, SPAIN "Tears for affairs" is the fourth song taken as a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA. Along with the title track, the CD-single format includes one new, previously unreleased track: "The last song", as well as a brand new video of "Lloyd, I´m ready to be heartbroken", directed by Victoria Bergsman (THE CONCRETES, TAKEN BY TREES) and filmed by Blair Young, the man behind most of the band's videos; the clip features artwork by François Marry, French designer and musician living in England.
Elefant-253
45
$6.25

Celestial
Dream On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty.

"Precious songs, in the Sarah Records vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo

"stay true to their roots and produce a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows no limits." - 4 Lighthouses

"wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice to JAMC in five songs" - Groove
SkippingStones-009
CD
$9.50

Clientele
God Save The Clientele (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Clientele
God Save The Clientele (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US On their third full-length, The Clientele are setting free their inner Monkees with a lovely blend of Big Star twisted powerpop, Byrdsian country achin', and flashes of The Beatles at their most joyful and upbeat. The ghosts, half-light, and uncertainties remain, but included in this music is a newfound optimism. With the addition of piano and violin, the band paints from a broader palette, adding splashes of pedal steel and slide guitar to their already lush songs.
Their most accomplished and triumphant record. Recorded in Nashville with Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Calexico, Silver Jews).
Merge
CD
$13.25

Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BYO-113
LP
$13.75

Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Third LP from Portland, OR popsters channels the 70's style LA punk attitude of brevity, urgency & punchy pop hooks. Produced by Pat Meares (EXPLODING HEARTS).
BYO-113
CD
$13.75

Cold Bleak Heat
Simitu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US "Simitu" is the second album from COLD BLEAK HEAT, the dream-team, east-coast avant jazz line-up of alto/tenor saxophonist PAUL FLAHERTY (DREAM/AKTION UNIT), drummer CHRIS CORSANO (VAMPIRE BELT, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE), trumpeter GREG KELLEY (NMPERIGN, HEATHEN SHAME), and acoustic bassist MATT HEYNER (NO NECK BLUES BAND, TEST). While explosive as their 2005 debut, "Simitu" brings a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. Yet, no need to worry about these four wipin' tears on their sleeves. CBH wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of Flaherty/Kelley and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while mainting the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Even as complex and multi-paced beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains the returning leader. Features liner notes and drawings by Christina Carter (CHARALAMBIDES).
FamilyVineyard-041
CD
$11.00

Comas, The
Spells (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US
Vagrant
CD
$12.25

Creteens
4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA)
PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl.
Contaminated-009
45
$6.00

Damiak
Micalavera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Abe Dichi who's musical works are released via the Damaik alias is what you would classify as a true cosmopolitan musical entity. Spending most of his life moving between Mexico, Europe and the United States somehow gives his debut album "Micalavera" for n5MD an undercurrent of international, almost globalized, method. Add in the mixing and mastering of Mio and Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Mum, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) at Greehouse Studios in Iceland and this compounds the borderless sense of musical place that Micalavera embodies. The album title which roughly translates to "my skeleton" utilizes guitars, melodium, harmodium, violin, piano, field recordings, and live drums as well as electronic elements and edits that may recall similar moments to Sigurdsson's copatriots Mum and Blindfold or even to the more delicate moments of Dntel. Micalavera is an absorbing mix of many musical styles interwoven into a bright, affectionate, yet cohesive whole that features 12 vignettes of multicultural instrumentation, technique, and raw wondrous emotion.
n5MD-147
CD
$12.00

Dead Meadow
Howls from the Hills (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Their new album of accomplished and mesmerizingly authentic psychedelic rock.
Xemu
CD
$15.00

Deerhunter
Flourescent Grey EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Four new songs recorded while mixing Cryptograms. A snapshot of what direction the band might explore next? Probably not. This EP arrives on the heels of a well received sophomore LP, Cryptograms. EP functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the LP and the accompanying well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future. Four songs plus video for "Strange Lights". DOA: "The Flourescent Grey EP basically picks up where the album left off, combining the droning atmospherics of space-rockers like Loop and Spacemen 3 with the kind of Martin Hannett style production and drumming of Unknown Pleasures-era Joy Division."
Kranky
CD5
$7.00

Dinosaur Jr.
Beyond (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Reunion album by all original members (J, Lou, and Murph, and all the accompanying disfunctional psychoses and neuroses) is one of the finest "comebacks" in the history of "comebacks". A triumphant return to form, highly recommended.
FatPossum
CD
$14.00

Drakes Hotel
Tell Me Everything (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US The married duo of Amy Drake and Chris Y make up the core & soul of Drakes Hotel. Having done away with live drummers altogether, they have taken the complex beats from their recordings and reimagined them for their live shows. Their use of countless older drum machines is now an integral & legendary part of their live appearances. They be will touring hard in 2007 to support their debut album & will also head out w/ label mates The High Violets later in 2007.
ReverbRecords-021
CD
$10.00

Draper, Linda
Keepsake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City. The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK)
PlantingSeeds-048
CD
$12.25

Dungen
Tio Bitar (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, US Vinyl version.
Kemado
LP
$12.00

Dungen
Tio Bitar (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, US New album! Over the past two years, the profile of Swedish psychedelic rockers Dungen has grown at an alarming rate, from a cult studio project into a worldwide musical phenomenon. And on Tio Bitar, we're hearing the end results of an outpouring of success and support - one which has, for once, inspired the creative processes at hand to make something wholly new and original, yet remaining within the same sphere of emotions that fostered Dungen's three previous albums. Gustav Ejstes, Dungen's founder and principal member, made Tio Bitar (translated, "Ten Pieces") - a bracing display of psychedelic rock, presented with a bright, avid confidence - largely by himself, with the assistance of guitarist Reine Fiske. Gustav wrote the songs, and played all of the instruments on his own, with Reine on many lead guitar and bass parts; his style of play puts him well within the top ranks of modern guitar heroes past and present.
Kemado
CD
$13.50

Eames Era
Heroes & Sheroes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US The bands sophomore record is so brazenly hooky, with songs that are so totally fleshed out with memorable sing-a-longable instantly familiar melodies, chugging guitars, ba-bas, harmonies & handclaps, you could forgive it for what it lacks in innovation. In fact, Heroes highlights are some of the best chick-pop, and wholeheartedly deserve to sit amongst your Go-Gos greatest hits CD, Blondies Parallel Lines & the last Mates of State record too. The first single, "When You were a Millionaire", is currently featured as the theme song on MTV's new show, "I'm from Rolling Stone". Also had a song featured on Grey's Anatomy soundtrack.
MDF-429
CD
$10.00

Electrelane
No Shouts, No Calls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Following "Rock It To The Moon" (2001), "Power Out" (2004), and "Axes" (2005), there seems to be a new kind of light shining on Electrelane that remains strong throughout this record, but the willingness to push the envelope hasn't left the band either. "No Shouts No Calls" is an album of enticingly irregular brilliance. "Electrelane effortlessly assimilate a wide cut of moods and influences - the off kilter harmony of the Velvet Underground, the droning insistence of Krautrock heroes Can, the bratty brashness of feminist popsters Le Tigre - into a heartfelt batch of art-pop that never sounds snobby" -Blender.
TooPure
CD
$13.25

Electrelane
No Shouts, No Calls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TooPure
DLP
$13.25

Elk City
New Believers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US New album from former Hidden Agenda artists, now on Friendly Fire. For 'New Beleivers' the band would recall the soul of Dusty Springfield, the power of Patti Smith, the big sound of Phil Spector and the warped-pop sensibilities of The Breeders on an album that brought vocalist Renée LoBue to the forefront. his new Elk City calls upon a wide palette of influences: 1960's psychedelic bands such as Love, the girl group sounds of classic Motown, 1970's proto-punk heroes John Cale and Television, and 1980's alternative rock such as The Smiths and The Pixies. Features guest appearances by Brother JT and former members of Luna.
FriendlyFire
CD
$15.00

Elope
9 Distilled Dreams (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL??? 2007)
PS, SWEDEN COMING SOON? Perhaps Elope's finest album to date...and that's saying something consideing how brilliant 'The No Name Record' and '3WD' are... It is also their very mellowest. '9 Distilled Dreams' is the mainly acoustic companion piece to the rocking '3WD' released earlier this year. Check out Jim's Pick page for a sound sample.
Gravitation-026
CD
$10.50

Fall of Troy
Manipulator (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Having built upon their reputation for lightning fast guitar riffs, raw screams, catchy choruses & a volatile rhythm section, this finds them combining metal w/ progressive, rock & blues, & past w/ present to once again push themselves beyond.
EqualVision-1402
CD
$15.50

Familjen
Det Snurrar I Min Skalle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN The music is joyus. Not to mention, deceptively simple. Run a three-note arpeggio through a phaser and there's your refrain. Naturally, there's a bit more to it than that, but the essence of Familjen's pop/electronica sound is uncomplicated fun. Perhaps the lyrics tell a completely different story, but hey - I don't speak Swedish so I don't really care. Familjen makes warm electronica. Sounds like the Hacienda in springtime, Mylo on downers, Rex the dogs soundsystem and A guy called geralds dreams. It makes us all fuzzy and fightable inside.
Hybris-047
CD
$13.50

Feist
Reminder (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US New album from Canadian electro-chantuese, the follow-up to 2005's 'Let It Die', which was very very popular. New album is s produced by Feist, Gonzales and Renaud Letang. VANITY FAIR: "A one-in-a-million voice that evokes both Astrud Gilberto's sexy cool and Billie Holiday's languorous quaver."
Interscope
CD
$11.00

Filip
Crane-Grief (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Second full length from Sweden's eccentric pop poet. Simple beautiful songs performed on guitar, piano, pump organ & auto harp. For fans of Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham & Tom Waits.
Filipsongs-001
CD
$16.75

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings The Rough Bunnies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2007)
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant 'Radiola'. Oddly enough a tribute record. TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. Highly recommended.
Adrian
CD
$15.00

Flying Burrito Bros
Definitive Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman (BYRDS) & the FBBs made country cool again when everybody else was into big rock sounds. They introduced the fuzztoned pedal steel and psychedelic nudie suits to a culture that was about as far from country cool as you could get. And God, "Hot Burrito No. 1" is one of the best vocal takes ever put to tape. 25 songs.
Hip-O
CD
$15.00

Francis, Sage
Human The Death Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epitaph
DLP
$15.50

Francis, Sage
Human The Death Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Rapper, activist, and cultural provocateur Sage Francis offers his most personal and fully realized work on his second Anti/Epitaph release. With topics ranging from 9 to 5 cubicle madness to addiction to sex and hip-hop, Francis delves into very real issues with wit and intensity. Equally comfortable in rap battle or a poetry slam, Francis will hit the road this spring with Buck 65 and Alias; a highly anticipated tour for fans of hip-hop and alternative alike.
Epitaph
CD
$14.75

Frog Eyes
Tears of Valedictorian (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US "An amazing monster."-PITCHFORK. Latest album from Vancouver quartet is "a dense work that breathes & seethes with an energy all its own...though bleak on the surface, at its core this is vital, hopeful music by a group of musicians seemingly playing with a single mind."
AbsolutelyKosher-053
CD
$14.50

Fursaxa
Alone in the Dark Wood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Recorded half in Pennsylvania, half in Finland, this evokes pale moonlight & deep shadows, where tree limbs bend to form cathedral arches over a procession of mystics. Disembodied female voices rise like sacral fire-smoke amongst the strum of mandolin, balalaika, & the piper's call of bells & flute- whistle. At some turns mournful & stark, at others a celebratory invocation, it displays her alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, & then into sheer psych & back again.
AllTomorrowsParties-026
CD
$15.50

Future Clouds And Radar
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Heavily influenced by cameras, the asterisk, loss of any kind, and Bill Monroe's falsetto, Future Clouds And Radar is the latest creation of Robert Harrison, best known as the leader of Austin cult-reggae-heroes Cotton Mather; hailed by NME as "the most exciting new guitar pop band since Supergrass", handpicked by Oasis to join them on tour, and most recently, featured on Little Steven Van Zandt's "Coolest Songs In The World Vol. 1". Paste Magazine hails this record as a "magnificent double-disc collection of Flaming Lips/13th Floor Elevators/ELO-inspired psychedelic pop gems. Move over, Robert Pollard."
StarAppleKingdom
CD
$15.25

Go Find, The
Stars On The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-075
LP
$15.75

Go Find, The
Stars On The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US An album full of pop music, rock music, dance music & songwriter music. Nonchalant, eloquent and elegant, it is softer and somehow more reduced than "Miami." This is a pop album that does not need to fear comparison w/ anything. 70s, 80s, reminiscences out of that great echo chamber named pop-music, but never sounding retro, not even for a second.
MorrMusic-075
CD
$16.75

Golden Smog
Blood on the Slacks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US GS delivers the follow up to their critically acclaimed LP "Another Fine Day," an 8 song mini-album incl. 6 new original songs plus covers of David Bowie's "Starman" & Dinosaur. Jr.
LostHighway
CD
$10.75

Golden Smog
Blood on the Slacks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LostHighway
LP
$10.75

Grails
Burning Off Impurities (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Following soon after the critically praised "Black Tar Prophecies" collection on IMPORTANT RECORDS, Portland, Oregon's GRAILS return with their first proper studio album since 2004 release of Redlight. "Burning Off Impurities" - their debut for TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. - makes good on the promise of those past releases in delivering an album that not only thrusts the group to new heights, but also pushes the instrumental rock genre forward for the first time in nearly a decade. An increased interest in psychedelic, ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for Grails' exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. Influenced in equal parts by ASH RA TEMPEL, ERKIN KORAY, POPOL VUH, BLACK SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest Grails will ever get to making a classic rock record; the kind of sprawling masterpiece that you savor for years before passing it on to your younger brother so he can repeat the process.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-118
DLP
$13.75

Grey, Nick
Thieves Among Thorns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US This new collection of songs, stripped bare of the Orchestras usual members, reveals a quieter, sadder aspect of their work, and was recorded after Nick dreamed of commiting suicide with a Bible in a Geneva first-class hotel. As a result, Thieves Among Thorns is all about forlorn piano lullabies, insecure percussions & torpid classical arrangements, eerie ballads & numbing rythms, terminological inexactitudes & sleepy hyperboles. Ten desolate tracks where Nicks laptop arrangements & quiet, inconsolable vocals interweave with pianist Jasmine Pinkertons eastern-Europe sensitivity & Nicholas Davis' precise guitar. A sound shaped by various failures, breakups & periods of intense doubt : perfect for heartbreaks & codeine addicts.
Hand/Eye-022
CD
$11.75

Guthrie, Robin & Harold Budd
Before the Day Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH)
PS, US A pair of companion piece CDs by two masters, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. Robin's signature guitar sound and Harold's signature piano sound first came together on The Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd -The Moon and the Melodies LP (4AD), 1986. Their playing and trademark sounds are absolutely made for each other, in heaven actually. Track list: 1. How Close Your Soul 2. A Formless Path 3. A minute, A Day, No More 4. She is My Weakness 5. Outside, Silence 6. Hidden Message 7. I Returned Her Glance 8. My Monochrome Vision 9. Turn on the Moon.
Darla-183
CD
$12.25

Guthrie, Robin & Harold Budd
After the Night Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH)
PS, US A pair of companion piece CDs by two masters, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. Robin's signature guitar sound and Harold's signature piano sound first came together on The Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd -The Moon and the Melodies LP (4AD), 1986. Their playing and trademark sounds are absolutely made for each other, in heaven actually. Track list: 1. How Distant Your Heart 2. Avenue of Shapes 3. Seven Thousand Sunny Years 4. She is My Strength 5. Inside, a Golden Echo 6. Open Book 7. And Then I Turned Away 8. The Girl with the Colorful Thoughts 9. Turn Off the Sun.
Darla-182
CD
$12.25

Handsome Furs
Plague Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US Dark and minimal while noisy and earnest, the point of this duo was to be as sparse and repetitive as possible with the help of little more than vocals, guitars, and a drum machine. Disenchanted vocals thinly resonate while cloaked in a frenzied undertone of fear and uncertainty, all punctuated by bare drum machine beats. Their debut is a record of melancholic tendency and heartfelt desire; a stripped down symphony relegated between city and country, and made for ears of either side.
SubPop
CD
$12.50

Handsome Furs
Plague Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$12.50

Hedrons
One More Won't Kill Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Equal parts Joan Jett, The Ramones, The Foo Fighters & Iggy Pop, these Scottish girl rockers have taken the UK by storm.
4West-40032
CD
$14.50

Heyman, Richard X.
Actual Sighs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Any Average Joe rock dude could reissue an out-of-print EP they recorded in 1986, and the same sort of guy could easily add a few bonus tracks to boost the value of the package. Richard X. Heyman, however, is no Average Joe -- he's perhaps America's greatest unsung hero of power pop, a songwriter of uncommon talent and intelligence, and a one-man rock band without peer. So when Heyman decided to resurrect his long-gone Actual Size EP twenty years after it first hit the racks, he went for the grand gesture -- Actual Sighs features the six tunes from that aged 12" in their original sequence, preceded by fourteen (yes, fourteen) previously unavailable songs, turning a fleshed-out single into an epic..." (Mark Deming)
TurnUp
CD
$13.50

Hope in Ghosts
All Your Departures (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US HIG is Ted Flynn, veteran of L.A. & Chicago indie-rock scenes and St. Petersburg, FL-based guitar anti-hero. His previous release garnered immediate comparisons with Slint & Seam. Debut full length is predominantly instrumental, using different guitar tones, layers & arrangements to sonically represent the cycle of emotions involved when losing someone, leaving, or being left. The album opens immediately showcasing Flynn's playing- from the gentlest of drones to wrenching, weeping walls of furious resonance. Guests appearances include vocal contributions from electro-pop wunderkind JON MONTEVERDE (XYZR_KK) & JARROD WHITTINGTON (AUTOHARP), along with the tremendous drumming of Chicago-based CHATTY CATHY'S ALAN TAKAOKA.
Actually,Records-009
CD
$12.50

Je Suis France
Afrikan Majik (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, US New album from majorly-hyped genre-splicers.
AntennaFarm-523
CD
$11.75

Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-180
LP
$9.50

Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US In 2003, K recording artists KHAELA MARICICH (THE BLOW) AND JASON ANDERSON had a vision. "What if Calvin Johnson played all his best songs from over the years, with a band of real music-making people?" This was their vision, and they decided to make it happen. Jason formed a band of other K music stalwarts that included KYLE FIELD (LITTLE WINGS) on bass with ADAM FORKNER (YUME BITSU, VERSION) and Jason sharing the guitar and drum playing duties. Dubbed by Jason the SONS OF THE SOIL, they set out to modernize the primitive. Khaela designed a graphic image that perfectly captured the Sons of the Soil's transcendental vibe. A tour was arranged that crossed paths with other fine Olympia types, including REBECCA PEARCY and MIRAH. Songs were chosen that spanned the years and various combos, including songs originally recorded by HALO BENDERS ("Love Travels Faster"), DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM ("Booty Run") and the GO TEAM ("Sand"). Rehearsals commenced, and then it was off across the Western United States for a rollicking, rockin' good time.
Krecords-180
CD
$11.00

Lavender Diamond
Imagine Our Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US The debut from this LA-based group is a tour-de-force of gorgeous folk-pop melody and uplifting sentiment. Produced by Tom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Devendra Banhart, Brightblack Morning Light), and featuring the incomparable soprano voice of Becky Stark, the album includes twelve new songs and original artwork by drummer and noted artist/cartoonist Ron Rege. The band's slightly tongue-in-cheek demands for world peace and harmony are subtly undercut by minor key modes and absurdist lyrics. The result is deeply entertaining and subversive.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Lavender Diamond
Imagine Our Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00

Lewis, Wyndham
The Enemy Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by WW1, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in penniless exile in America , yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. His many books include Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), Blasting & Bombardiering (1937), The Revenge for Love (1937) and the trilogy The Human Age. His artworks include Workshop (1913), A Battery Shelled (1919), Tyro (1920) Red Portrait (1937), The Surrender of Barcelona (1937) and Portrait of T.S. Eliot (1938), and are regularly exhibited by galleries including the Tate, Hayward, Imperial War Museum and others. The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy that so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in his dug-out near Ypres in 1917. The CD features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.
LTM-2411
CD
$15.25

Lichens
Omns (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US His 2nd long player, like his first, is an ascent to a higher plane. Rob Lowe's sound recordings are of a distinctly personal nature, works turned inward as much as they are projected outward. Conceived w/ the idea of it being a continuation of the first, while using slightly different techniques in recording & editing.The DVD contains a single live 28 min. performance from Chicago's Empty Bottle that was recorded in 2006.
Kranky-106
CD/DVD
$14.75

Lindt, Virna
Shiver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UKAn extended CD reissue of 'Shiver', the debut album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1983. Written and produced by Virna Lindt and Tot Taylor, the acclaimed Shiver album offers 12 slices of chic, Cold War pop informed by 1960s spy thriller soundtracks and musique concrete, including the singles Attention Stockholm and I Experienced Love. The album has been digitally remixed and re-modelled from the original mastertapes, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. The new edition of Shiver also features bonus track The Windmills of Your Mind, a rare Michel Legrand cover version from The Thomas Crown Affair originally recorded for the Crepuscule movie compilation Moving Soundtracks. Contemporary reviews for Shiver:"Intrepid undercover agent disguised as a top international fashion model sets out on a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, armed only with a firm sense of fair play and a gadget-filled powder compact" (NME); "Euro-eccentric. Virna Lindt casts herself as a mysterious blonde in a loving pastiche of Continental movie music" (Sounds); "Only the surly amongst you can fail to acknowledge the splendour of Virna Lindt's new single I Experienced Love, and the equally thrilling Shiver lp, the epitome of Compact's sleek, chic Sixties tease" (The Face); "Imagine a pastiche of all those old Sixties spy series, like Danger Man, The Avengers and The Man From Uncle. Well, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go with it" (London Evening Standard). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and detailed dossier on Virna Lindt. Also available: Virna Lindt: Play/Record (LTMCD 2489), V/a : A Young Person's Guide to Compact (LTMCD 2488).
LTM-2487
CD
$16.25

Lindt, Virna
Play/Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UK The first release on CD of 'Play/Record', the second album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organization in 1985. Written and produced by Virna Lindt during a three-week holiday in London, Play/Record tackles girls who cannot stand the colour red, the numbing effect of the new media, and subterfuge and skulduggery in her adopted home town (the single My Home Town). The album has been digitally remastered by close collaborator Tot Taylor, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. Unfortunately Virna abandoned music forever after creating Play/Record, leaving the world a poorer place. Contemporary reviews for Play/Record: "Ms Lindt deftly conveys a sense of breezy, delirious Sixties camp. Arch instrumentals such as the title track and Add It Up are nothing short of wondrous, and the album is a delightful and accurate evocation of a period when music was allowed to be fun" (Melody Maker); "A uniquely crafted voiceover masterpiece, the diverse tempo moves from the sunny waft of single My Home Town to the more sombre tones of Any Colour But Red" (Sounds); "Lush, intelligent and very, very sexy" (Underground). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and liner/recording notes.
LTM-2489
CD
$16.25

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant.
OtherElectricites-006
CD
$12.25

Magic Bullets
A Child but in Life Yet a Doctor in Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, US The astonishing debut album by the San Francisco sextet Magic Bullets. A tour-de-force with 10 songs that make friends with the rich traditions of post-punk (Gang of Four), new wave (early Talking Heads) and C86 (The Wedding Present), whilst introducing themselves to contemporaries influenced by these scenes (The Walkmen, French Kicks) with their own secret handshake. Singer Philip Benson's poised, dynamic croon towers over his contemporaries, yet does not overshadow his own band's intricate musicianship - a crafty layering of Felt-esque melodies onto Bizarro-era chords. "Yesterday's Seen Better Days" launches the record with a C86 meets "Ticket To Ride" guitar riff, coyly anticipating Benson's dramatic album entrance. Benson's voice - energetic, yet inconsolable - coaxes the listener into a world in which deceptively bright colors are used to draw bleak pictures. "Heatstroke" is an unforgettable renewal of the classic new wave territory paved by The Stranglers and Power, Corruption and Liesera New Order.
WordsOnMusic-021
CD
$12.25

Mando Daio
Ode to Ochrasy [Enhanced] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US New album from ballsy Swedish rockers.
Mute
CD
$15.00

Mardie, Montt
Clocks / Pretender (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN Montt Mardie has went from bedroom pop dreamer to being at the forefront of the burgeoning Swedish pop movement. His new record, the 2 cd set Clocks/Pretender (Hybris) is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the year. Clocks one contains 10 songs recorded with a string quartet and big band backing up Montt mardié in full crooner/motown style while disc two is full of duets with the likes of Hello Saferide, Jens Lekman, Andreas Mattsson and many more. Montt mardié brand of music wears it influences on the sleeves but never fails to be unique. Boombastic, danceable and always, always with the biggest heart. Montt mardié is one of the finest pop jewels ever found in Sweden.
Hybris-049
DCD
$15.00

Markel, Graig
Via Novella (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Graig layers acoustic & electric guitars, strings, pianos & organs along shimmering vocal melodies w/help from Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green, vocalist Jen Wood (POSTAL SERVICE, RACHELS), & members of TAGGING SATELLITES to create captivating, autobiographical short stores inside lush, haunting indie rock soundscapes. Produced by Aaron Prellwitz (SUN KIL MOON).
SonicBoom-024
CD
$12.25

Mary Onettes, The
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, SWEDEN Long awaited debut album from Sweden's best new band. These ten songs sound somewhat like a modern version of A-ha dressed in black mixed with early The Jesus and Mary Chain on an arena. We love every little second of it. It took them two years and three labels to get here, but if that's what they needed in order to produce what must be one of the finest Swedish debut album ever, it was worth all the wait. Everything about this album is just perfect. From the confident and obvious choice of simple calling it The Mary Onettes to the epic artwork. The classic ten songs format where each song has it's obvious place on the album. First-rate songs all the way dressed in production perfectly balancing between futuristic and timeless. Biography Although development are crucial for a band one thing have remained the same, the songs. The band revolves around Philip Ekströms song writing and although some songs have been stripped down, rebuilt or even thrown away they have kept coming. Things started happen for The Mary Onettes in spring 2004, signing with a brand new label the future couldn't look brighter. Six months later the band lost the deal without being given the chance to release anything. Eight months of despair followed until Sony/BMG decided to sign up the band up for an EP. The debut was released may 2005 and didn't make big fuzz to the main crowd, although it got great reviews. A couple of months later the band found themselves without a recording contract once again. Instead of splitting up or getting depressed they started building a music studio and plans took form to start an own label and release everything themselves. A demo cd to Swedish indie label Labrador changed those plans. For the first time the band felt that they had a label that understood them and their music. Signing for a full length album in spring 2006 led to more frequent studio sessions and recording in their new built studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. Humans don't believe in stagnation, it's in our nature to develop, evolve and invent. The Mary Onettes started out in 2000 and when looked at in retrospect, many things have changed. Starting out as a passionate, yet naive rock band from a small town and therefore a lot to prove, the band have managed to stay together because of their love for music and each other. It takes time for a band to develop a sound and to create that special bond between members in a rock group. Six years on, that development is still in progress.
Labrador-103
CD
$14.75

Mary Timony Band, The
The Shapes We Make (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Their Kill Rock Stars debut represents the latest stage in the evolution of one of the most important voices in underground music. Flowing from the mystic prog-laced veins that have informed her art for the past decade, this record builds upon the stark rebellious austerity of 2005's "Ex Hex" and imbues it with warmth and formidable urgency. Equal parts clairvoyance and virtuosity, Mary (formerly of Helium) and her musicians paint in broad strokes a vivid landscape of colorful musical shapes. Much more than a gifted crafter of melody, Timony is a talented multi-instrumentalist, recording among other things, intricately layered keyboards, banjos, analog synths, viola, the melotron, and a vintage Casio PT1.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.25

Maximo Park
Our Earthly Pleasures (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US
Warp-155
CD
$12.50

Melt Banana
Bambi's Dilemma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US On their sixth full-length studio release they exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. The band refuses to accommodate any pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!"
Azap-007
CD
$13.25

Melt Banana
Bambi's Dilemma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Azap-007
LP
$10.50

Merzbow & Carlos Giffoni
Synth Destruction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September of 2006. This is Sound Totalism and is as heavy as it comes: totally brutal, totally ugly, totally beautiful, totally intense, totally classic, totally analog, total synth and total destruction. Intense artwork by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especialy Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Carlos Giffoni, despite his young age, has been an in-demand Brooklyn collaborator for many years. He has worked with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Fe-Mail and many others. In 2005 he releases his first solo record titled Welcome Home on Important Records. This is Merzbow and Giffoni's first collaborative release.
Important-131
CD
$12.25

Mezzanine Owls
Slingshot Echoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Reference Points: Arcade Fire, Doves, Silversun Pickups, Interpol, Yo La Tengo, U2, Coldplay, JAMC. Selling Points: SXSW shows, full radio promotion with AAM, multiple reviews in national print, free downloads from spin.com. new media campaign with filter. Multiple US tours. Overview: Spring of 2006 saw Mezzanine Owls travel from Los Angeles to record with Andy LeMaster (Bright Eyes, Azure Ray, R.E.M.) in Athens, GA. These sessions produced Slingshot Echoes, a dreamy, noisy collection of songs featuring dense layers of guitars and keyboards washing over driving beats. Reviews: "A haunting Jesus and Mary Chain rattle filtered through an anthemic guitar line as driven as something from another avian outfit, Doves..." - Spin "this four piece builds luxuriant canopies of british heart racers doves and elbow but bearing the intriguing twist of wounded vocals landing somewhere between dean wareham and mercury rev." - San Francisco Guardian "the Pixies re-imagined by Lush" - bullz-eye "soaring pop melodies" - usounds "melodic, memorable pop music that is, at times, slightly reminiscent of The Tyde." (5/5) - babysue "Vocalist Jack Burnside recalls a softer, less dramatic Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes... a quiet stunner of a debut" - sound as language "These guys remind me a bit of what Interpol would sound like if they weren't trying to be Joy Division. It's a sort of shoegazey, downtempo'd post-punk" - I guess I'm floating "Indie Jayhawks meets shoegazer Ride/Jesus Mary Chain...your stereo will thank you." - The Tripwire"Also spent a lot of time with: the driving, layered guitars of Mezzanine Owls' "Slingshot Echoes..." - LA Times Best of 2006
Pehr-095
CD
$9.00

Mice Parade
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Their first self titled album & 7th full length release finds Adam Pierce continuing his trend of stellar collaborations w/ Laetitia Sadler of Stereolab, Kristin Anna Valtysdottir of Mum & many more! RIYL: Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Paco de Lucia.
FatCat-063
CD
$13.25

Midnight Movies
Lion the Girl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US
NewLine
CD
$14.00

Monotract
Trueno Oscuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load-108
LP
$14.50

Monotract
Trueno Oscuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Guitar drums & electronics lock together into a frightening miasma. They've recorded a record so unreal that it warps reality unto itself. Songs exist as pure sine wave terror, like long taffy pulled by tractors miles apart. Light bulbs explode, couch cushions swell, & nipples get hard. This is the new method, with new tools.
Load-108
CD
$14.50

My Midnight Creeps
Histamin [2007] (DELAYED...PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, NORWAY New album from Norwegian garagerock/psychblues supergroup featuring guitarists from Madrugada and Ricochets. Two years in the making 'Histamin' (Norwegian spelling for the chemical released into the human body's bloodstream during orgasm) is a result of living under the spell of the mighty garage demon. My Midnight Creeps' award nominated, self-titled first album was hinting at it, but now their gloomy universe of dark, dangerous psychedelic vibrations is laid bare in all its triumphant wonder. Norway's hardest hitting rock outfit not only delivers the goods with 'Histamin' - they lift themselves to a new, astonishing level, even by the bands own high standards. It's hard, heavy and angry; it's sweet melodies and vulnerable hearts, all driven ever edgeward by manic guitar riffs, bass from the hall of the mountain king, and drums straight out of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'. Murky, moody, hynotic rock'n'roll. Likened to Union Carbide Productions, The Stooges, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps, with a bluesier take on modern marvels like BRMC and Black Angels. . Totally.
EMI/MMC-002
CD
$15.00

Mystery Jets
Zoo Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US The Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous singles have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einsturzende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexy's can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present. With "ZooTime", be prepared to have your life forever enriched by a band relentless at breaking boundaries and enlightening one's soul with much of their own.
DimMak
CD
$14.00

Namelessnumberheadman
Wires Reply (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The three members of NAMELESSNUMBERHEADMAN grew up together in a small town in Oklahoma, but the three of them (Jason Lewis, Andrew Sallee and Chuck Whittington) ultimately settled in Kansas City and have been playing, writing and recording as NNHM for about six years. Having released two prior full-length albums since July 2002 that have been received well, but it's with this ST. IVES release that they make their grand statement as artists. With "Wires Reply," they join the afternoon drive between your ears where Sparklehorse covers Skylarking in its entirety, where Pinetop Seven and Tortoise make 4-track tapes as teenagers, and The Notwist backs up Robert Pollard in the beautiful headspace of blissful lo-fi stereo. Cohesive in sound and vision, "Wires Reply" is a dream that doesn't jump around and confuse you, but calms and guides you through a hazy panoramic photograph. This is a balmy summer in Midwestern America. This is the smell of the trees and the street at the end of the longest days. This is a genuine, honest celebration but, all the same, it is fighting the sinking feeling that there is no one left to believe anymore. The guitars buzz. The drums crack. The mellotrons whir. The three sing at the top of their lungs.

As with all St. Ives releases, "Wires Reply" is a VINYL LIMITED EDITION RELEASE (to just 300 copies). The artwork is lovingly hand-wrought by the band in a celebration of folk art and the return to care in record making.
St.Ives-20
LP
$11.00

Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band
EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-336
12
$11.00

Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band
EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US All new arrangements & performances of 2 already-classic Joanna songs & the debut of a brand-new song, its a solid short-play record at least & another inspiring slice of Newsom at best.
DragCity-336
CD
$11.00

Noisettes
What's the Time Mr. Wolf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US New album from London hipsters & one of Rolling Stone's 10 Bands to Watch. On tour supporting Bloc Party this spring. Yup.
Univeral
CD
$9.75

Ocean/Conifer
Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US This split 12" release is limited to 1000 copies and pressed on rust and grey color vinyl. It is packaged in a screen printed mylar jacket with a screen printed mylar insert and a screen printed paper insert. Cover artwork is of a 19th century statue located at the center of Portland Maine, the dramatic coastal home of both groups. This is the sound of a musical brotherhood entirely unique to Ocean & Conifer. Over the years Ocean and Conifer have shared vans, stages, members, practice spaces, apartments, beers, a city and a kindred musical spirit. In a lot of ways it's a shock that that split hasn't happened already but perhaps it was so obvious that nobody noticed that it needed to happen. Sometimes the truth is right beneath your nose. With their original drummer back in the line-up, since Eric Brackett left to focus his energy on Ocean, Conifer has re-enlisted their original drummer Nate Nadeau. With Nate back in the group they're heavier, tighter and more united than ever before. They've toured and player with Mono, Black Dice, High On Fire, Asva, Mouth Of The Architect and many more. Summer of 2006 saw them embark on an ambitious 26 city tour. Ocean's 20 minute epic was recorded in the same sessions that birthed their next album, currently untitled, for Important. Containing all of the epic minimalist intensity and robust heaviness that has gained them international attention, The Undoing is a whole new level.
Important-144
LP
$12.25

Olausson, Jakob
Moonlight Farm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Sweden's Olausson is a sugar beet farmer and his record of ten songs is somehow both comforting and unsettling, concerned with the classic subjects such as the garbage, the flowers, one's mother, and the love of them all. Laid thick with a vague dissonance, they possess a mask of fog/haze, but the trail between writer/performer/song is not often trodden in such a deftly crystalline manner. "From one loner to another, this is everything that the phrase 'private press' conjures up and more. A modern classic" - David Keenan, The Wire.
DeStijl
CD
$12.50

Oliveros, Pauline
Accordion & Voice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Pauline Oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in Just Intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. 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 recordings. "Accordion and Voice was the first of my recordings as a soloist. I was living in an A-frame house in a meadow just below Mount Tremper at Zen Mountain Center. I had a wonderful view of the graceful saddle mountain top. When away on a performance trip I would imagine the mountain as I played Rattlesnake Mountain. I followed the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain - the changing colors of the season, the breezes and winds blowing through the grasses and trees. Horse Sings From Cloud taught me to listen to the depth of a tone and to have patience. Rather than initiating musical impulses of motion, melody and harmony I wanted to hear the subtlety of a tone taking space and time to develop. The tones linger and resonate in the body, mind, instrument and performance space. My thanks to Important Music for bringing these pieces to be heard again." - Pauline Oliveros 2007
Important-140
CD
$12.25

Oliveros, Pauline
The Wanderer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The Wanderer is based on a single modal scale (B C# D D# E F# G#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of 3/4 and 3/8. Part I, Song, is intended to explore the unique resonant qualities of accordion reeds through long sounds. Subtle variations come about from differences in tuning and air pressure. Part II, Dance, demonstrates the sharp accenting power of the accordion bellows in a mixture of cross rhythms characteristic of jigs, reels, batucadas, Bulgars, klezmer forms, Cajun dances, and music of other diverse cultures. The Wanderer was composed in November, 1982 especially for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra, directed by Sam Falcetti. This recording documents The Wanderer's world premiere, as it was performed 27 January, 1983 at Marymount Manhattan Theatre. The orchestra consists of twenty accordions, two bass accordions, and five percussion, with Pauline Oliveros as soloist, Sam Falcetti conducting. Horse Sings From Cloud, written in 1975, is one of Oliveros' best known works. Like most of her Sonic Meditations, it can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally, solo or in collaboration. A solo version of Horse Sings From Cloud has been recorded on Accordion & Voice. An early version of the score reads, "Sustain a tone or sound until any desire to change it disappears. When there is no longer any desire to change the tone or sound, then change it." This time, Horse Sings From Cloud is performed in ensemble. Joining Pauline Oliveros on bandoneion are Heloise Gold on Harmonium, Julia Haines on accordion, and Linda Montano on concertina. This quartet version incorporates the microtonal differences in tuning of the selected instruments, creating shimmering reed sounds somewhat similar to the shimmering of a Balinese gamelan.
Important-141
CD
$12.25

OOIOO
Eye Remix (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-171
12
$5.75

OOIOO
Eye Remix (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Hot on the heels of their latest record of hard-hitting polyrhythmic skree, they've unleashed fellow sonic cohort EYE from BOREDOMS to dismember & reassemble 2 of their songs. UMO & UMA get the remix treatment here, resulting in 2 long tracks that reinvent Yoshimis jetpropelled psychedelic pep rallies as bass-driven dancefloor slammers. The CDEP comes in a full color digipak w/ deluxe spot-matte finishing & obi strip. CD has 2 extra tracks!
ThrillJockey-171
CD5
$4.50

Original Silence
First Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US A monster is born, a clash of the the titans! The new band of THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE, MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded live on the OS Italian tour, September 2005 in Teatro Arisoto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, to be more specific. This is the first in a series of recordings from OS. Musically one can hear the obvious influences from early Sonic Youth & The Ex mixed with the Scandinavia free-jazz. But you can hear their many influences from Black Flag, to drone rock, to Albert Ayler, to Boredoms, to noise, punk, Dead C, Merzbow & 60s minimalism. This is 100% improvised rock. A monumental, raw and harsh beautiful out- rock masterpiece. Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy
SmalltownSuperjazz-124
CD
$14.50

Ov
Noctilucent Valleys (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US There exists a sense of optimism in Ovs humming analog drones, a floating light within a pack of ominous clouds. Nocilucent Valleys takes Ov's expansive palette, blurrs & disguises instrumental thresholds & presents sheer sound augmented by mysterious & mesmerizing gentle clamor. Initial impressions slowly morph into demonstrative bliss, synthesizing the organic & the unknown. The new project from prolific, longtime collaborators Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards contributor) & Jewelled Antlers Loren Chasse. Ov pushes the duos established scopic pallette further into the void. Touching upon traditional minimalism & psychedelic free-form folk music, NV plays like the soundtrack to an otherworldly fairy tale, with foggy oscillations guiding the extrinsic myth.
SoftAbuse-018
CD
$11.50

Page France
Page France And The Family Telephone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$12.50

Page France
Page France And The Family Telephone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US The band's fifth release in four years is the product of many hands, but the work of one heart. Principle songwriter Michael Nau's lyrics call to mind Dylan or Nilsson ghostwriting for Margo Guryan, all well-accompanied by a range of upbeat instrumentation. "Rich in melody and rife with dreamy natural/biblical imagery...Michael Nau's adolescent voice sweetly floats over occasional female backing vocals and sparse instrumentation (organ, glockenspiel, acoustic guitar)" - Spin. "Delicate chamber folk" - CMJ. "Spiritual-folk auteurs" - Alternative Press. "Pillowing melodies and effervescent hooks" - DIW. "Nestled within Page France's languid sound are Ben Fold's earnestness and a melodic sensibility reminiscent of early Neutral Milk Hotel" -Baltimore City Paper.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$13.25

Paley, Tom
Beware Young Ladies! (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN New recordings from underground folk legend Tom Paley, with special guest Bert Deivert, recorded in Sweden in early 2006. Tom has been recordings since the 50s! Tom Paley was born and raised in NYC, where he first fell in love with old-time music. He began playing guitar and 5-string banjo and quickly excelled at both instruments. He briefly performed in a duo with the great folk musician Woody Guthrie in the late 50s. Later he helped form The New Lost City Ramblers, with Mike Seeger and John Cohen. This group inspired a greater mainstream interest in traditional music. The Ramblers considered their live concerts primarily as opportunities to share great old songs they had discovered with their fellow folk performers. After The Ramblers broke up Paley formed The Old Reliable String Band (with Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose). Tom moved to Sweden, where he lived from 1963 to 1965, before moving to England where he has resided ever since. Tom continues to tour in America and Europe both solo and with other musicians.
Gravitation-023
CD
$12.00

Part Chimp
CUP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Less than a year ago, PART CHIMP toured the United States bearing $99 guitars duct taped together, a ramshackle drumkit with pom poms, and stacks of junkyard amps...not really your optimum selection of rock gear. But, from the first click down on their octave pedals, Part Chimp laid into one of the most devastatingly awesome tours on which the MONITOR team has ever laid their eyes and ears. It was on this tour that we became aware that Part Chimp were the most under appreciated rock band active today. Who else plays this loud, with this much fury!?!? Part Chimp continues their course with their new Monitor release "CUP." A compilation only available in North America, "CUP" contains the new single "New Cross", rarities, alternative versions of past tracks, a previously unreleased cover of the BEATLES' "Wild Honey Pie", and two music videos. The album, just like the live show, is raw, raucous, and will just as easily rip your head off if the volume is adjusted correctly.
Monitor-029
CD
$11.00

Peter Bjorn And John
Writer's Block [U.S. vinyl pressing] (PRICE TBC, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, US Details, price forthcoming. Of course we will find the nicest price possible.
AlmostGold
LP
$0.00

Pjusk
Sart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Sart is the debut full-length cd from Norwegian duo Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik and Rune Sagevik, collectively known as Pjusk. First heard on 12k's Blueprints (12k1039) compilation, Pjusk's sound can be characterized as warm, dark, delicate, and wet. Sart builds a cavernous scape that listens like a surreal storybook, utilizing a combination of electronics, dub, rhythm, found sounds such as tape machine noise, fans, and ski lifts as well as field recordings from around the world. It is in their inspiration from very human events, such as private conversations, empty rooms, or smells that gives Pjusk's music a strangely familiar yet very disconnected and alien mood. They are very interested in the presence or disappearance of man and mankind's impact on nature, building on this dichotomy of tension as they create their work. Difficult to immediately classify, Pjusk carry on the organic and tonal tradition of 12k's recent output but twist it into darker and more narrative territory. Sart is a beautifully produced debut that clearly carves out the artists' own niche in electronic music. Pjusk is a duo from the westcoast of Norway. Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik started doing electronic music in the early nineties techno scene and layed live around the country with the Neural Network band. A dozen releases have since appeared both solo and in various bands. Most prominently the Circular project which relased several acclaimed albums on the same label as the Biosphere work of that era. Rune Andre Sagevik was an early party promoter way out in the vividly beautiful countryside in the deep fjords. He started doing electronic music a decade ago. The Pjusk project began when Jostein many years later heard one of these tracks on the radio. He liked it so much that he made contact with Rune and a fruitful, productive collaboration started in 2005. In the two years that have passed they have released work on compilations and their debut cd Sart, on 12k in New York.
12K-1042
CD
$12.25

Pollard, Robert
Silverfish Trivia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US New album from GBV/Budweiser guy.
PromIsComing
CD
$10.00

Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US
Atlantic/WEA
CD
$15.25

Port Royal
Afraid To Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 17TH)
PS, UK The second album from the band who injected new life into the post-rock scene with their breathtaking debut "Flares" in 2005. For those unfamiliar with their debut, port-royal are anything but just another generic epic instrumental outfit; utilising subtle electronics and almost classical arrangements, they create lengthy, expansive, melancholic compositions that often have movements within the individual tracks, constantly evolving and shifting in tempo. Though "Afraid To Dance" follows the formula that made "Flares" such a success, it also displays sufficient progression to be more than just "Flares pt2"; though the same components are evident, the emphasis has shifted towards the electronic beats and pure rhythm that underpin their sound, bringing them to the forefront while the hypnotic spacerock guitars and synth gently weave melodies beneath. Full press push on what could be the biggest album on the label to date; journalists have been asking for promo copies ever since the release was listed on the Resonant website, so expect a wave of support. First UK tour dates to follow in the summer, with European dates being finalised now.
Resonant-024
CD
$14.25

Proem
A Permanent Solution (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Richard Bailey and n5MD team up yet again, this time to release his 6th Proem studio album "A Permanent Solution". There is an undeniably classic IDM vibe to "A Permanent Solution", one that has been missing from the genre for some time. Ever present are the moments you have come to know, feel and respect of Bailey's music. However, Bailey tears the seam on the bag of atmospherics he's been hiding and pours the contents like thick syrup over every track. The Proem beatwork is intact but there is a much heavier emphasis on letting the backdrop propel the songs forward. There are people still superfluously creating this style of electronica but not with as much depth and style as Bailey projects into his music. "A Permanent Solution" is a perfect jump forward while still keeping true to the "Proem sound".
n5MD-145
CD
$12.00

Pterodactyl
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The songs on this record range from incessant and infectious ("Polio") to sparse and spacious ("Three Succeed") to epic and redemptive ("Esses"). Combining a noisy post-punk palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, PTERODACTYL'S first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound that is not easily forgotten. In 2006 Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau caught a performance of "Polio" at the tail end of Pterodactyl's set and ranked it the best "tail end" in a month of New York live shows, writing: "A 20-minute Dungen song deserved its 10-minute flute solo. The unknown Pterodactyl repeated the same climactic six-note riff for six minutes. This was so much better than that flute solo."
Jagjaguwar/BrahRecords-011
CD
$11.00

Puzzleweasel
Exo-Grid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH)
PS, CANADA Genre: Electronic/Breakcore. puzzleweasel's compositions are dense storms of, complex brain wave manipulating wonderment. Fusing breakcore and all things experimental and leaving your synapses tingling. puzzleweasel's music falls somewhere between Richard Devine and Otto Von Schirach, with an unabashed love of throbbing jungle basslines and futuresque electronic wizardry. Even though Exo-Grid is Puzzleweasel's debut full length album he has enjoyed the success of smaller releases on awesome labels like Tigerbeat6 and Violent Turd.
Sublight-3501
CD
$12.25

Reininger, Blaine L.
Elektra / Radio Moscow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece.
LTM-2482
CD
$16.25

Remate
No Land Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, SPAIN REMATE is a musician trained in classical music since was wearing short trousers and long socks. His first hero was a heroine, a skinny Bielorrusian piano teacher, who taught him how to play piano for hours without hurting his hands and wrists. The second hero was a Southafrican guitar teacher with a curly toupée, who instilled him the significance of the posture if you wish to turn into a good guitarist. After these pre-Olympics he became a singer-songwriter without limits: from folk to blues, from rock to gospel, from country to pop, always with the ambition of the one who knows that you must deserve your own influences, and that having style means much more than quoting other stylists. His distinctive features are, apart from playing piano avoiding pain, and having a good posture and/or a stance of defiance with the guitar... to be a very good singer, sometimes high-pitched ("Ballads Don't Change Things", 2004), and keen (also in person); at the beginning his voices sounded like a drunk Ry Cooder or between J. J. Cale and Neil Young; then (since "On Junk", 2005) a cocktail of Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Wagner without Kurt (he would have a voice as cavernous as his operas). Lately his singing has been non dissimilar to Bob Dylan yapping in a small town library. The process, of course, finally turns up to Remate's signing to Acuarela for a brand new ouvre created like a labour of love. "No land Recordings", his new double album with 25 songs, is jam-packed with clouds of latex, giant wings, toxic passion, dinosaurs, enemies, falls, one-eyed singers, pain in vain, kitties and beautiful ladies, love at first sight, howls, fireflies, propeller beanies, TV shows, sports, calls, Superman, glowing colours, bankruptcy, tenderness, mends. Whereabouts are the best songs being born? Where do they grow up like unhappy children? Which are the shops where you can buy propeller beanies?
Acuarela-1074
DCD
$16.25

Rockey, Lee
Lee Rockey Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Portland Oregon, art museum, early 1976. In the auditorium, drums electric violin & cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre-recorded electronic skronks, flutes, & off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a Paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary & funny & beautiful. This was the 2nd (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances.
Destijl-060
LP
$16.00

Rumskib
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Darla is proud to release the debut record by Danish nu-gaze group Rumskib. Rumskib is the Odense, Denmark duo of Keith Canisius (Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, Producer) and Tine Louise Kortermand (Singer). Keith produced the debut record with Jonas Munk (Manual), who programmed the beats, made the electronic sounds, and played synthesizer. Rumskib's debut record begins with a Simple Minds New Gold Dream style intro. A rough & repetitive MBV Loveless style guitar line kicks in. Next an aggressive baggy beat begins to pump making Rumskib sound nearly like Curve. Then a very lovely surprise: A very pretty, Lush style guitar change comes and simultaneously the wall of sound vocal harmonies begin - like Emma, Miki... and Bjork! There's no denying Rumskib are derivative, however, Rumskib has such command of all the genre's key sound elements and their own pop songs are so damn good the band gloriously claim the new shoegaze sound as their own. Rumskib's sound is at once modern and classic, blending a strong love for early 90s shoegazer bands such as Chapterhouse and Lush with the sensibilities of grand Scandinavian 80s pop such as A-Ha and Roxette, all flavored with harsh noise-rock guitars and crunchy micro-programmed beats. Sometimes their sound is up-tempo, almost danceable like The Cardigans meet St. Etienne. At other times their sound is thick, heavy, and romantic recalling The Cocteau Twins or Simple Minds. Rumskib manage to be both surrealist and accessible; complex but straight forward. Vocalist Tine Louise creates harmonies so beautiful one would think they came from some mysterious wonderland (or Victorialand?) and Keith Canisius' lyrical call & response guitar playing is intelligent and evocative. Combine all this with well crafted compositions and Jonas Munk's trademark head-spinning, multi-layered sound sculptures, and you've got a work of undeniable beauty. Track list: 01. Hearts On fire, 02. Springtime, 03. Dreampoppers Tribute, 04. Where Are The Flowers, 05. Ferris Wheel Blackout, 06. Think Eyes Away, 07. You're My Japan, 08. Sneak, 09. Crucial Love Games, 10. Ovation Outsiders, 11. Girl Afraid, 12. Love At First Sight. ""Re-evokes my dancing feet with the fragrance of Liz Fraser insanity there on top.. humm..There' s some serious celebration going on in Scandinavia now." -- SERENA MANEESH ""Springtime" kills, kills again, and then kills some more. And then bathes in in the blood of its own awesomeness." --JATUN
Darla-164
CD
$12.25

Run_Return
Sum of an Abstract (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Before they took the Metro North Run_return did a little math...Sum of an Abstract is their little known self released first album. Now repressed by n5MD after a few years of unavailability this time around remastered and repackaged complete with 3 bonus tracks. A shining album of "futures passed" still sounding current, relevant, and true to form, galvanizing Run_return as a band that is as distinctive as it is timeless. You do the math and come up with your own sum...
n5MD-146
CD
$12.00

Satie, Erik
Cubist Works 1913-1924 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), following the success of previous releases Vexations, Socrate, Musique de la Rose + Croix and Dada Works, on which we present selected Satie recordings with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde. Cubist Works offers four works composed by Satie between 1913 and 1924 for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as the seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). The 60 minute CD also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer and poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel and premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. The solo piano works on this CD are performed by Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2406
CD
$16.25

Scientists
Sedition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Ultra-high quality live recording from this legendary Australian garage-rock punk act. Recorded on May 11th, 2006 @ Shepherd's Bush Empire, London. Machine throb bass & drums w/ jagged car wreck guitars were their modus operandi. Fitting into no place or time, they spurned all but the most rudimentary & elemental of rock structures along w/ other people's modes of embellishment. Presented in super-deluxe souvenir packaging (like a moleskin book) w/ liner notes by Thurston Moore, Jon Spencer, Warren Ellis, Gareth Liddiard & Henry Rollins.
ATP-024
CD
$15.50

Sea And Cake
Everybody (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Their first full-length in over four years continues to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along propulsive percussion underscored by gently funky, introspective bass lines, all adorned by breathlessly delivered lines of lyrical poetry.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.00

Sea And Cake
Everybody (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Section 25
Communicants (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, UK NTSC Region 0 DVD. Multi-region format. LTM is proud to announce a new live DVD Communicants from cult post-punk group Section 25, previously with Factory Records, whose brand new studio album Part-Primitive is released in May 2007. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984). Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 across Europe. Communicants offers a professional multi-camera shoot of their triumphant homecoming show at Blackpool Empress Ballroom in October 2006 (as guests of New Order), as well as bonus performances from Brussels, Dublin, Athens, Paris, London and Poulton. The 70 minute DVD also features interview material with Larry and Vin, and footage shot on the road. As well as SXXV classics Dirty Disco, Friendly Fires, New Horizon and Looking From A Hilltop, new songs Gene and Can't Let Go are also featured. Section 25 will be promoting Communicants with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new studio album, Part-Primitiv, is also available (LTMCD 2500).
DVD
$18.00

Section 25
Part-Primitiv (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a brand new studio album from cult post-punk group Section 25, who previously recorded four studio albums with the celebrated Factory Records label. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984) with Martin Hannett and Bernard Sumner as the respective producers. Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 and have since visited France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Dublin, London and Poulton-le-Fylde. Part-Primitiv was produced by the band at West Orange Studio, Preston, in 2007. Stand-out tracks include Can't Let Go, Dream, Carbon and You Never Make Your Mind Up. As the title suggests, the new album combines raw post-punk power with retro-futurist electronics, including two tracks written and sung by Jenny. Section 25 will be promoting Part-Primitiv with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new live DVD, Communicants, is also available (LTMDVD 2496).
LTM-2500
CD
$13.50

Shout Out Louds
Tonight I Have To Leave It EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2007)
PS, SWEDEN Price might get better, it won't get worse. It could be this gets released here soon, will advise. Either way, this is the new single from the long-awaited new album, 'Our Ill Wills', produced by Peter Bjorn And John's Bjorn Yttling. EP features the title track, plus a Pogues cover with guest stars The Essex Green, along with remixes of the title by both Kleerup and The Russian Futurists.
BudFox
CD5
$8.00

Silver Daggers
New High & Ord (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$14.50

Silver Daggers
New High & Ord (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US They're a streamlined bullet to the brain from a unusually shaped pistol. W/ a new creep vibe running through the deserted subway tunnels of LA & emptying into ground zero center stages. They generate new sparks & suck you, the listener, into the tiny foam headphones. Indeed as a 6 piece band they operate as a single muscle. Future sound just in time for a culture caught in caustic feedback loops
Load
CD
$14.50

Smegma
33 1/3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US 33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups. Their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original and highly influential. 33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of Happy Holidays live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) as well as Grubsteak live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago. Smegma. Seriously. They've been at it for so long now that you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. You can only say that others sound like them. They're all here on 33 1/3: Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id. The core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions. . While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere their influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. However, it's essential to remember that Smegma has never been noise for noise's sake. While they've had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget their rock roots as well. For this reason alone they're bound to not fit in anywhere. Influences aside, not matter how much everyone else sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. Nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence or sound into their work. They may just be the greatest American band. Ever.
Important-145
CD
$12.25

Smegma
33 1/3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US This vinyl edition of 33 1/3 is limited to 1000 copies on black, red, red/black split and red & black splatter vinyl. Includes a bonus track only available on the vinyl version. 33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups. Their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original and highly influential. 33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of Happy Holidays live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) as well as Grubsteak live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago. Smegma. Seriously. They've been at it for so long now that you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. You can only say that others sound like them. They're all here on 33 1/3: Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id. The core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions. While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere their influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. However, it's essential to remember that Smegma has never been noise for noise's sake. While they've had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget their rock roots as well. For this reason alone they're bound to not fit in anywhere. Influences aside, not matter how much everyone else sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. Nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence or sound into their work. They may just be the greatest American band. Ever.
Important-145
LP
$13.00

Smith, Elliott
New Moon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Arguably the most gifted songwriter of his generation, Smith produced a large body of work that includes five solo albums and a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003. This double CD contains twenty-four songs recorded between 1994 and 1997, a prolific time in Elliott's career, when he recorded his self-titled album and "Either/Or". Like his other work, "New Moon" reflects the power of Smith's ability to integrate rich, melodic music with poetic, multi-layered lyrics.
KillRockStars
DCD
$16.50

Smith, Elliott
New Moon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars
DLP
$16.50

Snider, Todd
The Devil You Know (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US First DVD collection features tons of live footage, unreleased videos and bonus live rehearsal footage plus the short film "Come East to Nashville." The CD garnered year end Top 50s from Blender, Rolling Stone & No Depression.
NewDoor
DVD
$15.50

Stafraenn Hakon
Gummi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, UK Much-anticipated brand new full length from one of the leading lights of Iceland's burgeoning alternative music scene, following 2004's "Ventill/Poki" and the accompanying debut UK tour. Stafraenn Hakon is the pseudonym of Olafur Josephsson, and "Gummi" is his fourth album release for UK indie Resonant - the first two effectively being full releases for his bedroom recordings. While "Ventill/Poki" represented his first material recorded with a supporting cast - a progression that was very evident in comparison to his previous output - "Gummi" marks a further giant leap forward in every respect. Having established himself as a predominantly instrumental artist, Josephsson will surprise many with the inclusion of six full vocal tracks among the nine included here - featuring Birgir Hilmarsson (Blindfold/Ampop) on five tracks and Efterklang's Casper Clausen on one, alongside other guest musicians and collaborators. While recognising the need to constantly evolve in order to maintain and expand upon your audience, the key elements that have always marked out Stafraenn Hakon from the crowded post-rock platform are still very much in place; delicate, intricate instrumentation and atmospherics, building slowly and organically, drawing in the listener. Sure to be his biggest album to date, "Gummi" is housed in a full colour CD wallet featuring stunning hand-drawn artwork, and will be supported by UK tour dates around the release.
Resonant-023
CD
$15.00

Stevens, Sufjan
Seven Swans (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US When thinking about re-issuing the vinyl version of "Seven Swans," SUFJAN and I decided to look back at some of the unmixed tracks that didn't make the cut for the record. I went back to the 1/4" 8 track tapes and made rough mixes of these recordings to play for Sufjan. "Seven Swans" was actually recorded before "Michigan", so we had an early version of "Romulus" that Sufjan had decided didn't work with the album. Also we had a song "Borderline" which ended up on a Rough Trade 7". The two remaining songs, "I Went Dancing With My Sister" and "Waste Of What Your Kids Won't Have," were great fun to hear again. I put bass lines down on them and mixed them up for Sufjan to hear. We liked what we heard, but felt that they still belong separate from the album. So here we are with the vinyl re-issue of "Seven Swans." It's an album that I so proud to have been part of and still enjoy listening to. THE VINYL MASTERING IS BETTER, THE VINYL IS THICKER, THE COVER IS MATTE INSTEAD OF SHINY, AND IT'S GOT A BONUS 7" OF TWO SUFJAN SONGS FROM THE "SEVEN SWANS" SESSIONS THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY OTHER FORMAT. Get a new needle for your turntable and enjoy.
SoundsFamilyre-018
LP
$13.75

Submerged
Stars Lights The End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, CANADA SUBMERGED teams up with Grammy award winning producer BILL LASWELL, avant-garde Japanese trumpeter TOSHINORI KONDO and drummer GUY LICATA a second time to give us the follow up to last years Method of Defiance "The Only Way To Go Is Down" album and his first solo titled album SUBMERGED "STARS LIGHTS THE END". Once again we find bass arrangements of infinite complexity by Bill Laswell mashing with Kondo's horns while distorted guitars and abrasive synths battle against one another all the while producing a perfect fusion between instrumental and software generated music. "Guy Licata, is a monster, he has got the skills to compete with any software geek in beat mangling, reaching easily two hundred BPMs." - Igloo Magazine. Submerged "Stars Lights The End" keeps Method of Defiance's hard edged drum n bass blasts, experimental dub and jazz elements only this time leans slightly toward a more aggresive sound than "The Only Way to Go Is Down". Stars Lights The End features bruising sound edits and beat contributions from Corrupt Souls, D`nee and Mark Filip. Expect extreme high quality sound again courtesy of Michael Fossenkemper who also mastered Method Of Defiance's "The Only Way To Go is Down".
Sublight-3701
CD
$12.25

Svoy
Eclectric (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US Unique singer/songrwiter who mixes richly textured electronic sounds, yearning pop melodies & articulate poetry-Electronica from a romantic's point of view. CF Postal Service, Imogen Heap, Thom Yorke.
Rendezvous
CD
$13.75

Swan, Astrid
Poverina (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US Swan's piano-centric pop songs sometimes recall the confessional tones of Laura Nyro, Regina Spektor, and Rufus Wainwright, but comparisons still can't come close to describing her unique vision. With an appearance by Jimi Tenor (techno's first cabaret star), "Poverina" proves there's no limit to where Astrid or her music will go. "She gets the delicate, fluttery most out of the ebonies and ivories while spilling her non-metallic Finnish guts" - Harp.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50

Tare, Avey & Kria Brekkan
Pullhair Rubeye (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PawTracks-015
LP
$14.50

Tare, Avey & Kria Brekkan
Pullhair Rubeye (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US DAVE PORNER of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE & KRISTIN ANNA VALTYSDOTTIR of MUM met a few yrs back & started playing music together in the summer of '05. Recently they married & now live together in NYC. Recorded their debut collaboration w/ guitars & piano on an 8 track in their practice space in Brooklyn. This is a motley collection of fun & somber songs. Some of the tracks are instrumental, textured, & trancelike. They sound like they could come from another world. Other songs are lyrically based, calmer, more introspective.
PawTracks-015
CD
$14.50

Tears Run Rings
Question & An Answer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US It would be difficult to avoid comparing this dense, sweeping production to shoegaze veterans Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine-- but this is not imitation or ritual. TRR have artfully defined their sound with a subtly seldom expressed by their predecessors. The title track is guided by beautifully layered guitars & controlled noise, at times bursting with rich detail. It dazzles with emotions that swirl up into a crescendo of distortion & ambient sound. Elsewhere, the distinct poppiness of "Blur the Lines" & "Tomorrow" is underlined with a sadness fashioned of boy-girl harmonies. 5 song CDEP in digipak.
DisasterClub/Shelflife-001
CD5
$8.75

Teeth
You're My Lover Now (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US . While the studio sound of The Teeth has been compared to the Beatles, early Bowie & Elvis Costello, the band's live performance has been likened to the Minutemen, Pavement, & even the Stooges. Thunderous bass lines, roaring brass sections, hand claps, foot stomps, jangly guitars, growls, screams & of course those ever so beautiful harmonies that Teeth fans know & love, not to mention enough ideas to drive you insane.
ParkTheVan-014
CD
$13.75

Tennis, Whiting
Three Leaf Clover (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Like the end of a long road-trip with The Velvet Underground if Neil Young was in the drivers seat. Hypnotic yet grounded & perhaps a little dangerous, renowned visual-artist WTs music picks up in that middle-ground where those like Galaxie 500 & M. Ward have left off. WT takes simple, everyday events & concepts and turns them into exquisite moments while not falling into the trappings of dwelling on himself or looking for attention. These apartment recordings are somehow more potent, more stark & personal than live shows. The absence of drums on well over half of the record brings you closer to the songwriting. You can hear the empty room. The subtle noises & hums, the alarm bells, sudden crashes & simulated bird calls are all allowed to exist as part of the composition.
Tarnished-708
CD
$11.00

Thee More Shallows
Book of Bad Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Follow-up to 2005's well loved "More Deep Cuts." The band takes a minimalist approach to producer & arranger DEE KESLER'S precisely charted, near-orchestral post-pop & the result plays like a film, moving fluidly through rich pop atmospheres & epic proggy depths with slightly twanged lyrics.
Anticon-072
CD
$15.00

Toad
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Legendary first release by this 1970s power-rock blues band, considered a must have by fans & collectors alike. Originally released in 1971, this album (mixed by Martin Birch of Deep Purple and Iron Maiden fame) showed to the world the talent of three young musicians.
Akarma-083
CD
$15.75

Trembling Blue Stars
The Last Holy Writer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, SPAIN "The last holy writer" is the sixth album by TREMBLING BLUE STARS, thesecond one released worldwide through Elefant Records. This album is dark,intimate, melancholic and cloudy, but every now and then there are rays ofsunshine coming through the clouds, riding sunny melodic breezes. SLOWDIVE and THE CURE are still good references for this music, but they are toolimited to describe the unique sound of TREMBLING BLUE STARS, a sound that'sready to mingle melodic, sensitive pop with many electronic sounds,distortions, noises, static and even field recordings that envelope thesongs with a nostalgic halo. On one song, percussion is provided byfootsteps on dry branches and shingles, and on another song a recording of dawn on the Romney Marsh provides the backdrop. THE RAIN PARADE, MAZZY STAR and GALAXIE 500 come up here and there: on this album there's folk, andthere's electronica and 80's influences and avant country and, of course,there's the best pop music you can hear. There's no doubt you will fall inlove again with Bobby Wratten's music. They have hit the target again. "The last holy writer" is the proof that one of the most influential bands in indie-pop is at its most creative, daring and inspired, now more concentrated than ever in writing the most beautiful popsongs you've heard for ages. Highly recommended!
Elefant-1126
CD
$13.00

Trembling Blue Stars
The Last Holy Writer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) (2X10")
PS, SPAIN "The last holy writer" is the sixth album by TREMBLING BLUE STARS, thesecond one released worldwide through Elefant Records. This album is dark,intimate, melancholic and cloudy, but every now and then there are rays ofsunshine coming through the clouds, riding sunny melodic breezes. SLOWDIVE and THE CURE are still good references for this music, but they are toolimited to describe the unique sound of TREMBLING BLUE STARS, a sound that'sready to mingle melodic, sensitive pop with many electronic sounds,distortions, noises, static and even field recordings that envelope thesongs with a nostalgic halo. On one song, percussion is provided byfootsteps on dry branches and shingles, and on another song a recording of dawn on the Romney Marsh provides the backdrop. THE RAIN PARADE, MAZZY STAR and GALAXIE 500 come up here and there: on this album there's folk, andthere's electronica and 80's influences and avant country and, of course,there's the best pop music you can hear. There's no doubt you will fall inlove again with Bobby Wratten's music. They have hit the target again. "The last holy writer" is the proof that one of the most influential bands in indie-pop is at its most creative, daring and inspired, now more concentrated than ever in writing the most beautiful popsongs you've heard for ages.
Elefant-1126-1/2
10
$16.00

Two Bands & A Legend
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The meeting between THE THING & CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE started at the Kongsberg Jazz festival in Norway in 2004, when The Thing was offered the chance to invite their favorite rock band Cato Salsa Experience, for a special collaboration. The show was a success & this also led to the critically acclaimed EP "Sounds Like A Sandwich". It was immediately decided that the two bands & the legend should go into studio to record a full length album. On the album the bands do their own versions of tracks like "Who The Fuck" by PJ Harvey, "Baby Talk" by James Blood Ulmer among others. The CD is the perfect pairing of the dirty 60s influenced free-jazz that of The Thing and the raw & minimalistic garage rock of Cato Salsa Experience. Most tracks on this album was recorded in one take only with no overdubs.
SmalltownSuperjazz-104
CD
$14.50

Unrecognizable Now
In a Cave or a Coma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, US Reference Points: múm, lali puna, brian eno, the books, air, to rococo rot, tristeza, album leaf, boards of canada, fennesz, matmos, neu, tortoise, do make say think, bjork, aphex twin, dntel, languis. Overview: Unrecognizable Now is the duo of Marcus Fischer and Matthew Jones, two young men from North Portland who blend organic instruments and field recordings into an evolving collage of melodies and rhythms with their laptops. You may have seen or heard Marcus's work before: He has designed album covers for various bands on K Records out of Olympia, Washington; has handled live projections for Hovercraft (remember Eddie Vedder's ex-wife?); and has styled Adidas products for the past few years. You also may have seen him drumming in the Sleater Kinney side-project named Tommy, or one of many other Olympia bands. Unrecnow's live shows have hypnotized Portland residents with projected film paintings, layers of real-time xylophone, drums, guitar sinews, sine waves and glitches. Now you can enjoy this experience in your home. Enhanced CD also contains an ice-themed video directed by Rob Tyler. If you read Wire magazine, enjoy going to Cologne, or if you are a fan of music straddling post and electronic worlds, you will love in a cave or a coma.
Pehr-032
CD
$9.00

Van Doesburg, Petro
Repertoire De Stijl: Bauhaus: Dada (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK LTM are pleased to present an overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Pétro van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus soirees in Europe between 1920 and 1925. Born in Holland in 1899, Pétro met De Stijl movement founder and propagandist Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar (where Theo was associated with the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school) and then Paris. A Conservatory-trained pianist, Pétro accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany in 1922/23. Following Theo's death in 1931, Pétro established the De Stijl archive and was a buyer for Peggy Guggenheim. She died in 1975. The material on this 76 minute CD includes pieces by Erik Satie, Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-17) offers an application of Piet Mondrian's neo-plastic principles to musical composition. The music is performed by noted Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen. The CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2495
CD
$16.25

Vapnet
Något Dåligt Nytt Har Hänt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN Vapnet doesn't stray too far from the band's effervescent pop compositions, although it does sound like they've tidied up the arrangement for their guest Jens Lekman, that features on one of the tracks. Bells, flute, melodica, guitar, and that show-stealing sax blow kisses to one another over a percolating beat, goosing the stop/start melody to that exuberant filigree that leads so joyously into the chorus. Despite the exuberance of the music, an undercurrent of melancholy runs through it.
Hybris-048
CD
$9.50

Various
A Young Person's Guide To Compact (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM are pleased to announce a remastered CD edition of the highly collectible label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1982. Founded in London in 1981, The Compact Organisation was the brainchild of composer-svengali Tot Taylor. Chic, cheerful and redolent of hip New York label Ze, Compact's stylish and stylized roster included ice-cool Swedish model agent Virna Lindt, Neasden soul queen Mari Wilson, funk contenders Shake/Shake, American retro diva Miss Cynthia Scott and ironic pop artists The Beautiful Americans. All these and more are featured on the wonderful label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact. Originally released as a double album in a bespoke limited edition box (copies now sell for over £1000), the album rounds up early singles on the label as well as key album tracks. Rarities include the non-album singles Model Agent and Young & Hip by Virna Lindt, and a live version of Rave by Mari Wilson, recorded at a Compact showcase in London in October 1981. The remastered 71 minute CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and Compact ephemera from the box set, as well as detailed liner notes by Tot Taylor.
LTM-2488
CD
$16.25

Various
Thank You For Being You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 17TH)
PS, US A compilation of scottish independent labels - 1980 - present. Electric Honey, the label set up by students at Glasgow's Stow College, are set to release a unique compilation of tracks from Scottish Independent labels from 1980 to present on the 12th of May 2007. Featuring twelve tracks from the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Josef K, Fire Engines, Future Pilot AKA and relative new comers How To Swim, this compilation hopes to highlight the wealth and diversity of Scottish independent labels that have supported and nurtured the Scottish underground scene from 1980 to 2000 approx. From the first flourishes of post-punk activity from the legendary Postcard and Fast Product/Pop Aural labels, through to the present with labels as diverse as Chemikal Underground and Geographic, Scottish independents continue to receive international recognition. Belle & Sebastian came to public prominence with the release of their debut album, 'Tigermilk', released in 1996 on Stow College's Electric Honey label. 1,000 of the album were cut, with the vinyl - only release selling out before being deleted. This led to a bidding frenzy on internet auction-sites, with one American fan paying $1,200 Dollars for a copy On the back of the Electric Honey release, Belle & Sebastian were signed to Jeepster Records and their 2nd album, "If You're Feeling Sinister", cemented their critical reputation and proved to be a commercial success. Further albums on Jeepster resulted in the group building a massive international following, before singing to legendary London independent label Rough Trade for their 2003 album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress".Students on Glasgow's Stow College HND Music Business course are involved with three labels; Electric Honey, Gdansk, and Root8. Through their involvement, students gain invaluable knowledge and experience of the machinations of the music industry, covering all aspects from legal, artistic, to promotion. Tutored by Douglas MacIntyre, head of the Creeping Bent Organisation, itself an influential independent label over the last ten years, the course covers many grounds...culturally, musically and socially and thus Electric Honey is probably (almost certainly) the most successful College label in the world. Tracklisting: 1. Belle & Sebastian - 'She's Losing It' (Electric Honey) 2. Teenage Fanclub - 'Fallen Leaves' (Pema) 3. Josef K - 'It's Kinda Funny' (Postcard circa 1980) 4. King Creosote - 'King Bubbles In Sand' (Fence) 5. The Delgados - 'Monica Webster' (Chemikal Underground) 6. Fire Engines - 'Get Up & Use Me' (Codex / Fast / Pop Aural) 7. The Pastels - 'The Viaduct' (Domino/Geographic) 8. Frank Blake - 'Any Way The Wind Blows' (Shoeshine) 9. The Nectarine No9 - 'Saint Jack ' (Postcard circa 1995) 10. Future Pilot AKA - 'Eyes of Love' (Creeping Bent) 11. Bill Wells Trio - 'Singleton' (Geographic) 12. How To Swim - 'Logical Man' (Electric Honey)
ElectricHoney-702
CD
$16.25

Various
The Camp Burlesque Original Soundtrack Album [CD+DVD] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE EARLY 2007)
PS, US Features songs and performances by Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, Dave Alvin, Big Sandy, Peter Case, John Doe, Rick Vito, Tito & Tarantula, the Cruzados (featuring Bob Dylan), the Martini Kings, and many more. Initial pressing will include the movie on DVD.
BirdSong-102
CD
$11.00

Various
SC100 SC100 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US This is Secretly Canadian's 100th release, finally stamped and shipped out on its 11-year anniversary. All artists who issued recordings from SC01 (JUNE PANIC, "Glory Hole") to SC99 (SWEARING AT MOTORISTS, "Last Night Becomes This Morning") were up for inclusion to cover a song by a label mate via the ol' names-in-a-hat method. So step back a bit just a few years and settle in or dust off those old SC albums to refresh with the originals. While the pre-SC100 discography is packed with Indiana heavies, there have been extended stays and shack-ups in Bloomington by most of the SC roster, be it a few days, or monthly rates at the College Inn, or even more permanent. No one wants to get hokey here, but this is a communal gathering, a family jamboree where each takes a turn, fugs it up a smidge, and pays homage to tourmates of past, or in some takes, to personal strangers.
SecretlyCanadian-100
CD
$11.00

Veils
Nux Vomica [enhanced] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US
RoughTrade
CD
$15.25

Vibracathedral Orchestra
Wisdom Thunderbolt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US First widely available VCO release since 2003, and this is their most rocking ever!
VHF-102
CD
$13.25

Voxtrot
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlayLouder
LP
$13.25

Voxtrot
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US It's refreshing to find a band that's not terribly worried about being the next big thing. Over the five years of their existence, Voxtrot have released fewer than twenty songs spread across two hard to find 7-inch singles and three EPs. And it's on the strength of those literate, memorable songs, plus a series of increasingly tight and vibrant live shows, that they've built a devoted and passionate following. The twelve songs on this record are a powerful statement of intent: louder, harder, a little more complex, a more confident Voxtrot. "...a Texas band who could nudge the heights of soulful UK indie poppers like Aztec Camera and the Beautiful South" - Spin. "Voxtrot write whip-smart pop rock" - Pitchfork.
PlayLouder
CD
$13.25

Voyces, The
Kissing Like It's Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US After one listen to The Voyces Planting Seeds Records' debut -"Kissing Like It's Love" - and you'll be hooked to their glowing tuneful style. The band echoes the sounds of pop music's past as well as its ever so fervent future. Principal songwriter Brian Wurschum creates the well crafted pop song, recalling the mid 60's era of The Beatles, the folk rock of Simon & Garfunkel, and the 70's mini rock epics ala Pink Floyd. Their style maybe placed in a box and labeled anywhere from: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic Folk Rock, New York Folk, and everywhere in between. The sunny California shine of the title track "Kissing Like It's Love" launches the groups long awaited LP with it's sugary sweet chorus. The soft ballad "Hair Up High" follows with its elegant smooth guitar strums and the band's signature harmonies. The majestic beauty of "Call It Home" continues the album's melodic element, while the introspective acoustic interlude "Please Wash Away" appears with its stripped down heartfelt vocals, acoustic guitar and light piano taps. "Humming" chimes in with one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear this decade - instantly memorable. "Top Of My Lungs," showcases even more of the Wurschum magic: Jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and a song destined to be a classic. The album's closing number - the delicate "Where The Little Girls Still Throw Roses," features Brian's warm vocal, light guitar picking and makes for the perfect ending. Whether blending funky pop, epic rockers or near psychedelia, "Kissing Like It's Love" collects ten tracks of pure pop heaven you're sure to fall for. The Voyces are led by singer/songwriter Brian Wurschum (Guitar, Vocals) and also features Jude Kastle (Vocals), Frank Careno (Bass), Steve Dawson (Lead Guitar) and Eric Puente (Drums). The band was formed in 1999, with its origins in Southern California. Brian and company later moved east to New York City and was quickly embraced by the east villages' anti-folk scene. The Voyces have shared stages with acts as diverse as America, Cracker, and Regina Spektor among countless others - while frequenting venues (both in California and New York) such as the famed Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge, The Knitting Factory and The Roxy. Live dates are sure to follow in support of "Kissing Like It's Love." The Voyces have created an impressive catalog of music. Their first self released LP, 2003's "The Angels Of Fun" showcased their fine blend of folk rock and celestial harmonies. The acoustic gem "Relate To Me" was featured on Jack Johnson's Motion Picture Soundtrack, "Thicker Than Water" (2003) furthering the groups worldwide fan base. They followed in 2004 with an appearance on Planting Seeds Records critically acclaimed collection "Sunsets And Silhouettes," which also features amazing performances from Linda Draper, Camera Obscura, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Freeheat (Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus & Mary Chain) among the 18 tracks. In 2006 the band contributed the song "Poor Little Fool" to a loving tribute to rock legend and country rock pioneer Rick Nelson, titled "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" - with performances from pop Icons Marshall Crenshaw, Jeffrey Foskett (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson), John Beland (Flying Burrito Brothers), Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Primary 5 (ex Teenage Fanclub) and many more. The band also released "Love Arcade" in 2006 - a collection of the bands hits, demos, and fan favorites.
PlantingSeeds-049
CD
$12.25

Weatherbox
American Art (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Thirteen songs of swelling love and bear-like strength. A stunning first step from this San Diego band destined for greatness. Gigantic guitar hooks and earth-shattering drum work seem to burst through a cloud of smoke, all while the vocalist provides a hefty dose of eclectic melodies with lyrics that harkens back to a bygone psychedelic era. With equal parts prog-rock and symphonic guitar ambience, "American Art" makes an undeniable statement.
Doghouse
CD
$12.50

Wheat
Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, US Their fourth full-length marks a splendid return to the incandescent form that yielded Wheat's bumper crop of masterworks that included 1997's "Medeiros" and 1999's indie-pop gem, "Hope And Adams". They've shared the stage with everyone from Death Cab For Cutie to Oasis to The Flaming Lips and have toured all over the world, including back to back performances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Last Call With Carson Daly. Wheat are favorites among film and TV music supervisors and have had many high profile placements including on (Wheat fan) Cameron Crowe's highly visible "Elizabethtown", where the band was also featured on the soundtrack.
Empyrean
CD
$13.25

White/Lichens
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Collaboration between White/ Light's MATT CLARK & JEREMY LEMOS & Lichens' ROBERT LOWE. Improvisational feedback-drenched drone-jams.
HolyMountain-5645
CD
$13.25

Wolf, Patrick
The Magic Position (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST)
PS, US PITCHFORK 8.3! Our boy has grown up! Latest engaging violin, electronics, kitchen sink pastiche pop album from the wunderkind with roots stretching from PJ Harvey to Stockhausen & Chet Baker to English folk music. Digipak.
LowAltitude
CD
$11.25

Wright, Shannon
Let In The Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH)
PS, US Wright takes the clarity and artistic sensibility of Lou Reed, mixes them with the subdued simplicity of Erik Satie and the explosive abilities of Jimmy Page, and emerges as her own artist. On this, her first album in three years, Shannon finally lets herself go and allows the time and emotional space to create the record she really wanted to make. It's earnest and sympathetic, open and vulnerable, and her most revealing work yet.
Quarterstick
CD
$13.25

Young Galaxy
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US The creative confluence of kindred spirits, STEPHEN RAMSAY (vocals/guitar) & CATHERINE MCCANDLESS (vocals/keyboards). Their sound is kaleidoscopic, w/ heavy tones & hypnotic male/female vocals. Like their namesake, they have borne something concrete of something abstract & ephemeral.
Arts&Crafts-022
CD
$15.00

Young Gods
Super Ready/Fragmente (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US Ground breakers for 20 years, these Swiss music geniuses have been at the forefront of music & sampling technology since their inception, exploring organic experimentation, classical derivation (even covering Kurt Weil), & electronic excess--forever on the edge of creation. One of the few groups to remain consistently relevant, engaging & surprising for the last two decades. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Ipecac-088
CD
$16.00

ZMF Trio
Circle the Path (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH)
PS, US This straddles the lines somewhere between old-school free jazz, contemporary composition & improvisation. Despite its uncompromising & aggressive tendencies, it manages to reach moments of serene beauty & contemplation. The recording was created a mere 4 days after the groups first moments of making music together; a youthful & dangerous spirit is contained within.
DripAudio-21562
CD
$14.50

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Loeb, Lisa & Elizabeth Mitchell “Catch the Moon [re-issue CD+DVD]” CD $14.00

Shins “From Tugboats To Polar Bears: Short films by Matt McCormick” DVD $16.25

Parasol New Arrivals • April 10, 2007
Howdy all, Well, it’s Tuesday again and do we ever have some goodies in store for you. The frequencies didn’t seem to stop this week with the likes of Bright Eyes, Coco Rosie, Blonde Redhead and Xiu Xiu. Our ears will be busy today for sure. In other news, it seems like a lot of our Parasol pals are out and about either on tour or in the studio. For example, our buddy, Jeff, from the Lassie Foundation, is the new guitar player in the latest Smashing Pumpkins line-up and Sol, from Year Of The Rabbit, is now on tour with Morrissey. Both of these dudes are fucking talented beyond belief so do yourself a favor and make sure to catch their shows in a city near you. And now we’re on to the update. Like we said earlier, there is a heap of great new records out there so dig deep, friends. Until then, Roy & Paul
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	Panda Bear "Person Pitch" CD $9.00 (Paw Tracks) On his latest solo offering Animal Collective's Noah Lennox infuses his narcotic dream ditties with all manner of electronics and samplers, creating a deliciously twisted take on the Brian Wilson psychedelic canon, with a twirl of turntable-ism. Pitchfork graded this a 9.4/10 and called it "overwhelming and inspirational", and after several spins we are in no shape to argue. Quite recommended!
New Releases Army Of Me Citizen PS, US Army Of Me was named one of the top unsigned bands in America by Alternative Press, and the article started a barrage of major label interest for the Washington, DC-based band. On the surface, their music could fit snugly into the playlist of any mainstream radio station. The epic guitars and soaring vocals are more reminiscent of early Coldplay and U2 than of quirkily trendy indie pop. Below the surface, however, Army Of Me carries the self-starter scars of one of the hardest working bands in showbiz. Doghouse CD $12.50 Basic Splinters of the Cross PS, US Features the long awaited single "Splinters of the Cross" w/ vocals by DAVID J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets). Originally an iTunes exclusive release, the EP also features a remix by The FRIENDS OF JESUS SOUNDSYSTEM & a remix of "C404" by PLASTIC PERVERT. Formed in '99 & soon came to the attention of Bono & The Edge of U2, who released the band's debut single on their label 'Kitchen Recordings'. The dark & eclectic music video that accompanied became an MTV & SKY TV chill out favorite. ReverbRecords-015 CD $8.50 Bears Shortest Day Of The Year PS, US Brand spankin new 7-song EP. Where the first album was sunny and carefree, the Shortest Day Of The Year EP from Bears is obscured by clouds. The pop band from Cleveland has recorded a 7 song EP using slightly darker melodies and lyrics and, at times, minimal instrumentation. Maybe it was the Ohio winter that put them in this mood, or maybe it was the need to change something from the early songs, but the Shortest Day Of The Year EP takes the trademark Bears sound and adds something a little more personal, though not immediately identifiable. Bears-002 CD5 $4.75 Blonde Redhead 23 PS, US As rich and densely layered as their last album, "Misery Is A Butterfly", but the overall mood of wistfulness, melancholy, and regret has been replaced by one of mystical wonder and renewed energy. "It's art music and heart music, with equal appeal to a Serge Gainsbourg fan as to a Sonic Youth fan, without ever sounding like either act" - LA Times. "An otherworldly, richly cinematic adventure" - Q Magazine. 4AD CD $13.25 Blonde Redhead 23 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $11.00 Bright Eyes Cassadaga PS, US A swirling, euphonious record, at times bursting w/ bombastic confidence & country swagger & at others loose-limbed & mesmeric. An album so full of soaring strings & female harmonies that it feels almost buoyant in comparison to previous releases. Feat. ANDY LEMASTER (NOW IT'S OVERHEAD), BEN KWELLER, JANET WEISS (EX-SLEATER-KINNEY), JASON BOESEL (RILO KILEY), JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE), M. WARD, MARIA TAYLOR & many others! SaddleCreek-103 CD $11.50 Bright Eyes Cassadaga PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SaddleCreek-103 DLP $16.50 Cap D Return of the Renegade PS, US As a Muslim hip-hop artist who truly lives & breathes the culture, he's in the vein of other Chicago Muslim MCs such as Lupe Fiasco & Rhymefest, who makes a cameo appearance here. Guest producers include J.Rawls & Maker & other guest MCs incl. ANIs Iomos Marad & OneBeLo, another fellow Muslim MC & veteran of the underground hip-hop circuit AllNatural-050 CD $11.50 Cap D Return of the Renegade PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! AllNatural-050 LP $7.25 Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds Abattoir Blues Tour [2CD/2DVD] PS, US 17 live tracks from 2003/2004 tours, spread over two CDs. Two separate concerts on 2 DVDs plus bonus footage, short films, etc. By all accounts: incredible. Mute DCD $29.00 Chinese Stars Listen To Your Left Brain PS, US Having honed their chaotic four-on-the-floor post-punk dance style into an unequivocal signature. Here, the Chinese Stars set in motion a tsunami of new waves, crafting an atmosphere of propulsive sonic escapism fueled by noodle-stringed guitar riffs, seat-of-your-pants lyrics, and hallucinatory synths. This is a fast-forward audio movement, taking music back to the base pleasures. Razor-sharp, aural pop art: the overblown are busted. SkinGraft-086 LP $14.50 Christ On Parade Sounds of Nature PS, US Reissue of the legendary 80's Bay area hardcore band's classic 1985 debut lp, with bonus tracks & a previously unreleased Avenger's cover. Neurot-048 CD $10.00 Clark, Gene Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers [Bonus Tracks] PS, US The first solo album by an ex-Byrd, Gene Clark doesn't fly too far from the nest -- Byrds' Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke make up the rhythm section, while the Gosdin Brothers chime in with sweet harmony vocals. Add guitarists Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole and future Byrd Clarence White, and some beautiful orchestration by Leon Russell to Clark's melancholy melodies and the result is a forward-looking country-rock primer that sounded like nothing else in '67 and continues to astound and inspire today. With 3 bonus tracks and liner notes courtesy Sid Griffin. Bonus Tracks: The French Girl, Only Colombe, So You Say You Lost Your Baby (acoustic demo) Sundazed CD $16.25 CocoRosie Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn PS, US Here the girls continue to experiment w/ their disparate voices & clashing personalities, juxtaposing devastating ballads w/ exhilarating tracks. This is a departure from their earlier obscured blur of stained glass rêve to what they describe as ""a more self-exploitive memoir."" A lush, orchestral array of sounds & beauty - A vaudevillian opera, if you will. W/ producer Valgeir Sigur?sson (Bjorks main studio conspirator since Dancer in the Dark). TouchandGo-306 CD $12.50 CocoRosie Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TouchandGo-306 LP $14.25 Dying Californian, The Coarsegold PS, US The sound of The Dying Californian is rooted in American tradition, influenced by country and folk as much as rock. With floating melodies and complex harmonies, it is difficult to place it into a genre. It is as much at home in a drunken hootenanny as in a late and lonesome night. It all just fits. The Dying Californian's third release on Turn Records is titled Coarsegold. Three years in the making, the album marks a jumping point in the bands signature style and sound, refined and redefined. The story of the album starts 3 years ago when Nathan Dalton, the primary songwriter for The Dying Californian found himself with a new job that had him traveling throughout California, staying in a variety of different places, often, for weeks as a time. On one lengthy trip, Dalton found himself holed up in the small town of Coarsegold, the geographic center of California. Neither northern or southern, western or eastern, simply Coarsegold, California - a town existing somewhere in between. It was here that Dalton found a new center for his own writing, influenced by the stark contrasts of California as well as the isolation and inspiration that only come from being on the road. He began to pen a new record; handheld tape recorders, lyrics on napkins, music on motel notepads, wherever he could find to write it down, he would. Coarsegold, the geographic center of California, the heart, also serves as the pinion for the record. Turn-021 CD $9.75 El Perro Del Mar S/T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TheControlGroup LP $14.00 Flying Luttenbachers Destroy All Music PS, US Fully re-mastered, extended edition of FL's landmark 1995 album. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter & renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. This comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter. SkinGraft-085 CD $14.50 Folkswingers Raga Rock PS, UK This heady blend of instrumental pop covers, fuzzed-up guitars & sitar is a kitsch blast from start to finish. Feat. the cream of L.A.'s session players alongside sitar virtuoso Harihar Rao (Ravi Shankar's senior disciple), it was originally released in 66 & makes its long-overdue CD debut here, showing itself to be the first & best "sitarsploitation" album ever recorded. Fallout CD $16.25 Gelfand, Dmitry + Evalina Domnitch + Various Artists Camera Lucida PS, US 12k/LINE are very happy to announce their first DVD release with groundbreaking visual artists Dmitry Gelfand + Evalina Domnitch. Their visual work is enhanced by a roster of musicians we are very proud to be working with including Alva Noto, Carter-Tutti (chris & cosey) and Matmos. Camera Lucida is a highly introspective immersive spatial art work creating a fleeting ephemeral materiality by intersecting ultrasound with hyperlight... in essence the creation of a sonic aurora. Domnitch and Gelfand's piece rejects any possibility to be fixed in space and time, but rather offers up the very definition of an unstable work of art, existing entirely for and within the perceptive realm of the viewer. Stephen Kovats, Director of Transmediale 2008. LINE is proud to announce the release of its first DVD, Camera Lucida. The project by Russian/American installation and video artists, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand and developed in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Russia and Belgium, Camera Lucida (chamber of light or lucidity) is a 3-dimensional sonic observatory that directly transforms sound into light by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence: ultrasound, propagating within a liquid, triggers the formation and implosion of micro-bubbles that reach temperatures as high as are found on the Sun, and emit light in the shape of sound waves. The authors of the installation, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, joined forces with multiple sound artists to create the sonochemical compositions presented on this DVD. This DVD also contains a data partition with uncompressed high resolution audio files of all the works. Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand create sensory immersion environments that merge physics, chemistry and computer science with uncanny philosophical practices. Having dismissed all forms of fixative and recording media, Domnitch and Gelfand's installations exist as ever-transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen manifestations take place directly in front of the observer without being distorted and flattened onto a screen, they often serve to vastly extend the observer's sensory envelope. Their works have been exhibited worldwide, including shows at V2 Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Nijo Castle (Kyoto, Japan), Museum of Dreams (St. Petersburg, Russia), I-20 Gallery (New York, USA), Die Schachtel (Milan, Italy) and Tesla (Berlin, Germany). TRACKS/CHAPTERS: TAYLOR DEUPREE + RICHARD CHARTIER specification.sixteen 8:54 ALVA NOTO sonolumi (for camera lucida) 4:04 EVELINA DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND xenon wind 9:03 ALEXANDER KALINE analyzing turbulence 3:16 ASMUS TIETCHENS camera lucida 4:08 KENNETH KIRSCHNER august 18, 2006 3:10 MATMOS photisms 6:48 COH not sweet without honey 3:04 CARTER TUTTI the noise of chance 4:35. Due to the detailed and subtle visual nature of this work and phenomenon the artists have chosen to use PAL over NTSC encoding to maintain the maximum resolution possible for the movie and sound files. This DVD is region free and can be played on any computer DVD drive. No region switching is necessary For television screen viewing, it can only playback on a PAL or multi-system DVD player. Playback in a darkened space with monitor brightness turned up is encouraged. Line-030 DVD $20.25 Giant Robot #47 PS, US Mountain Man (animal planet), Paradorn City (white line fever), Back to the Future (TaroShoten talks), Invisible Waves (un-deconstructing art) & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond! ZINE $4.75 Goldrush Heart Is The Only Place PS, US Goldrush Heart is the Place Better Looking blr026cd 8 .1 9 CD STREET DATE 4/10. EXPORT ONLY!! For this new album, the band worked with James Rutledge (aka DJ Pedro on Mush Records). Goldrush had previously worked with the legendary David Fridmann, but Rutledge took a different approach and encouraged the band to be more sonically adventurous. BetterLooking-026 CD $11.25 Grinderman S-T PS, US Nick Cave sporting a scary mustache, playing music that is even leaner and meaner than his "usual" Bad Seeds stuff. In fact fans of The Birthday Party will be in ecstacy. Pitchfork calls it "An indulgent study in excess, sure, but the twist is that at every turn Cave keeps the chaos carefully in check, emphasizing messiness when need be but also showcasing the deceptively precise playing of his band as well as his loose and at times gloriously silly lyrics." Anti-86861 CD $14.00 Hentchmen Form Follows Function PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TimesBeach-015 LP $11.75 Hunter, Jana There's No Home PS, US VINYL VERSION!! Gnomonsong-006 LP $14.25 Hunter, Jana There's No Home PS, US second full-length formal release from Jana Hunter. Recorded over two consecutive weeks in Fall 2006 at a friend's home in Houston, TX (known locally as "Feagan House"), the album features Hunter writing, playing and producing throughout. As extroverted as Hunter's previous release "Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom" was introverted, "There's No Home" focuses on community involvement. While Hunter plays most of the instruments herself, she's aided and abetted here by her brother John (Inoculist, Dethro Skull), John Adams (Fatal Flying Guilloteens) and Matt Brownlie (Bring Back the Guns), among others. Released on Devendra B's Gnomonsong label. Gnomonsong-006 CD $13.25 Hynes, Nina Staros PS, US Dublin's Hynes sophomore album, released in 2002, was only available in the US as an Import. It was received extremely well by Irish an UK critics & audiences. The album was recorded in Studio Black Box in France & Produced by Nina & ex-Frames member David Odlum with many musicians including The Frames helping out. The first single from the album, Mono Prix, was mixed by the legendary Steve Osborne (Perfecto), whose recent work includes New Order, PJ Harvey & tracks by Doves, U2 & Placebo, among others. ReverbRecords CD $10.00 Hynes, Nina Creation PS, US Originally released in 1999, the Irish artist's debut album got amazing reviews from all corners. Amazon.com voted it No. 44 in their 'Top 100 Releases Of The Year'. HITS Magazine called it "The last amazing find of the year." Ireland's HOT PRESS tipped her as "One of the country's most exciting new artists." She also ventured out on several U.S. tours in 2000/2001 w/ Nina's solo electro-alternative sound capturing new admirers at every turn. ReverbRecords-001 CD $10.00 Junior Boys Dead Horse PS, US This EP gathers a dizzying array of talents from the world of electronic music to bring a personal touch to the music of Junior Boys: Carl Craig's contribution is a subtle and brooding epic, Hot Chip's is a dreamy organic take, Tensnake shifts gears from minimalist house to four-on-the-floor electric dreams, and Kode 9 offers a deep space futurist dub, providing a ghostliness that's equal parts Eno and Fennesz. DominoRecordingCo. CD5 $4.75 Karlzen, Mary Wanderlust Diaries PS, US Eclectic enough to cover both Tom Waits ("Heart of a Saturday Night") and Paul Westerberg (the touching "Skyway" has never sounded more lovely) without feeling forced, Mary Karlzen keeps both feet firmly in the folk-rock Americana that has always defined her work. Her girlish voice shifts between Juliana Hatfield, Beth Orton and Jewel, finding the innocence and longing in personal songs that are almost always sung in the first person. She's a singer/songwriter in the tradition of John Hiatt and early Joni Mitchell, serious and smart with an unerring eye for detail in her lyrics. Wanderlust Diaries is bookended by stripped-down tunes where Karlzen is joined only by John Deaderick's spartan piano. But the disc is dominated by strummy band tracks played with finesse by, among others, E Street Band bassist Garry Talent and ex-Wilco drummer Ken Coomer. Karlzen's acoustic guitar focuses the sound, and producer/multi-instrumentalist Jansen Press adds just enough instruments and frills to underscore the singer's lyrics without ever overwhelming them. "Stupid or Something" is a terrific example of a song that takes flight with a folk-rock arrangement that leaps out of the speakers. Percussion and theatrical strings are added for drama on "Sixteen," a story-song that starts as a fond reminiscence of a summer but turns terribly dark in its final verse. It's a textbook example of what Karlzen does best as this album shifts from one highlight to the next on a journey through a scrapbook life, some of which might be based on personal experience. On her fourth release, all for different labels, Karlzen has delivered a gem that, in a perfect world, would generate a major Americana buzz. ~ Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide Dualtone CD $14.00 Kite Operations Heart Attacks, Back to Back PS, US A thrashing, beautiful destructive collection of love songs from the end of the world. Singer JOSEPH KIM'S open-throated belting is contrasted by co-frontman DAVID YANG'S hushed delivery. As guitarists, they are both well versed in the vocabulary of noise, trading off abrasive & delicate passaged w/ ease. KOA-006 CD $10.25 Larsen & Friends Abeceda (CD/DVD) PS, US This CD/DVD set captures an extremely special evening for Larsen, one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective revealing more an a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino Italy. For one night only Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino Italy. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil and cultural radicalist Karel Teige and his Abeceda - a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva which minimalised text down to its basic components establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images. To Abeceda Larsen brings their minimalist beauty and melody with this live performance incorporating music, dance and projections. With Larsen are their close musical friends David Tibet (Current 93), Baby Dee ( Current 93 member and acclaimed solo performer), Johann Johannsson (Touch/4AD) The music swells in gentle pulses of soflty stated melody. Emotion clings to each note while glistening shimmers of electonics dance quietly in the mix. The DVD reminds us of what a rich visual experience Abeceda was and is. As The Wire so perfectly put it in a extensive write up of the evening, David Tibet's performance "Provides a vital link between the music and the visuals... At one point he connects beautifully connects perfectly with the dancer, breathing deeply into the microphone in time with her movements." Visual projections, created by Bellissimo, portray a woman in a 20's style bathing suit, much like Teige's original work, portraying letters of the alphabet which slowly become obscure by Teige's brilliant typography. Thanks to Larsen's definitive discipline and their kindred visual and musical collaborators. Abeceda is an event of great subtlety and complexity. It is truly a gift that this performance was so perfectly documented in both an audio and visual format. Where the work of Karel Teige was a tremendous gift for the eyes, Larsen & Friend's Abeceda is a gift for both the eyes and the ears. Hats off to Bellissimo, the design team responsible for Larsen's distinctive packaging, for putting the finishing touches on a perfect evening and a perfect package. "My dear friends Fabrizio and Larsen honoured me by asking me to interpret the alphabet for their project ABECEDA in the light of Nezval's verses for Karel Teige. Being neither an admirer of dada, surrealism or the avant-garde, I escaped from them all by taking a train from the seaside town of Hastings where I live, to London, after kissing my cats goodbye. I looked at the blurs of sheep, tree, hedge, sea, pond passing me like living clouds. I looked at each letter of the alphabet, and covered Nezval's text with my hand. I ordered the letter to tell me what it looked like. I disbelieved its answer. Letters always lie. So I peered at the shape of the letter and wrote down my immediate responses. Important-129 CD/DVD $14.75 Lesbians On Ecstasy We Know You Know PS, US The much anticipated sophomore release delves deeper into some of the cliches of iconic lesbian music. More melodic than the previous release with hooks that might remind you of campfire sing alongs at some mythical womyn's event in the 70's, with several tracks featuring a chorus backing. A danceable album that is at moments uplifting and at other moments very dark, but all with a sense of humor and fun . Their sound bridges the gap between electro/techno with punk rock. Alien8-069 CD $11.75 Lesbians On Ecstasy We Know You Know PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Alien8-069 LP $11.75 Limbeck S/T PS, US Their third full-length is equal parts rock, Americana, pop, and country. "Limbeck" proves that these four former punk rockers from Orange County and Milwaukee have finally grown into their cowboy boots and crafted a disc that everyone from The Bamboozle to Bonnaroo can appreciate. "This California indie band works a terrain similar to that of the Old 97's, who helped invent a more upbeat, carefree alt-country" - Rolling Stone. For fans of The Format, Wilco, The Replacements, The Beach Boys. Doghouse CD $12.50 Loden Valeen Hope PS, US Debut full lenght of melodic electronica from up and coming Dutch producer. Shoegaze-inspired electronic work with rays of early 90's pop melody and layers of deconstructed beats and oceans of ambient synth noise. Mush-251 CD $10.00 Machine Go Boom Music for Parents PS, US A distorted pop invention that is a frighteningly good mix of acoustic folk balladry, amphetamine-lit punk & synth fed new wave. It has been generally agreed that the city of Cleveland deemed it the most welcomed musical event. The 3 year wait for a new album is definitely worth it! CollectibleEscalators-013 CD $11.00 Magnet #75 PS, US ZINE $3.25 Manasyt Filthdonor PS, US Terminal Dusk Records is proud to present the sounds of Manasyt's Detroit electro-industrial hybrid LP, Filthdonor. Extensive production, attention to detail, and dark undertones define the other worldly realm Manasyt creates. Witness the brilliance of Petar Tassev with nine carefully chosen tracks of razor-sharp electro created from 2005 - 2006. TerminalDusk-008 12 $9.50 Marcus, Joshua Make/Believe PS, US Featuring duet compositions for the banjo & upright bass, these songs are both easy to listen to & hard to forget, as the subtle melodies deliver potent lyrics in an inviting manner that inspires the listener to sing along. Marcuss songwriting is powerful & astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from lifes many juxtapositions. He has been the subject of considerable praise & has been featured on NPRs All Songs Considered. Contraphonic-062 CD $9.75 Merzbow Merzbear PS, US Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psycedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especially Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear is the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records. Merzbear pulses and pounds with distorted droning heavy guitar feedback, pulsing noise-blasts and swirling analog sounds of Akita's distinct EMS Sythi. Like most of Merzbow's recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he's been moving away from his pure laptop era and reincorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days w/ his homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi & electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Cover art by Jenny Akita. Important-136 CD $12.25 Mojo #162 (May 2007) [MAGAZINE+CD] PS, UK New issue of the planet's best music magazine features extensive features on Arctic Monkeys, Clash legends Joe Strummer, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, the weird world of Tom Waits... The age of disco, in the studio with Dr Dre, Ian Brown and Dungen.. New psych meltdown with the Besnard Lakes' Bassekou Kouyaté, king of the n'goni (it's like a cricket bat with four strings)... Bloc Party's Kele Okerere on the record that changed his life... How to buy U2... The melancholy tale of Dr Feelgood... David Lynch's favourite band, Au Revoir Simone! Free CD features the best bands the UK has to offer: Field Music, The View, 1990s, Noisettes, Maps, Bat For Lashes, The Aliens, and more. ZINE $9.50 Moya, Raul La Nueva Era Glacier PS, SPAIN It is said that the Anglo-Saxons carry their memory in their hearts. And it seems that Raül Moya (who plays with élena, Miqui Puig, Sitcom, Romodance and Refree) has gone there to recover the memories which bring his solo debut to life. That is because "La Nueva Era Glaciar" sounds as if it had been made with his heart and memories. It also sounds Anglo-Saxon due to the dragging-tempo of his confessional folk-rock. However, the fact that the album is written in Spanish (and really well) and that it gets a Latin-Mediterranean touch by using accordions, toy percussions, and so on, moves him away from the Anglo cliché. From that cliché and from any other. This is a very personal album. The more you listen to it the more you cannot avoid comparing him with the Andrés Calamaro of "Honestidad Brutal": both albums share a lack of emotional reserve and have fed themselves with legends, but without being trapped inside caricature. Here you have more suspicions that Raül and Andrés have lived parallel lives: Raül has spent lots of hours looking at the sea, as near as possible to his so beloved Buenos Aires, and when he looks deep inside of him he finds the same as Andrés does, that is Bob Dylan. The album starts with an harmonica. That is reminiscent of "Come Pick Me Up", from the album "Heartbreaker" by Ryan Adams, which is another confessional ode. And there are more connections with that record: the guitar in "Rían Con Sentido" flickers just like Ryan's in "My Winding Wheel". That is not a coincidence. "Heartbreaker" and "Honestidad Brutal" are like swells for Raül and lighthouses for the seafarer who goes deeper into the album "La Nueva Era Glaciar". These are dangerous comparisons, but we make them. That is because we are not before a shy musician who looks at his feet, we are introducing you to someone who knows how to defend some lyrics that echo words that burn on your lips: "you", "forever", "life", "to go back". Promotional reserve tempt us not to say that this debut is a very especial album. But we say so. We know that writing something like "of course they are not precisely the same" next to the proper nouns and other albums that have been mentioned in this text, would have been a kind of defensive detail. And voluntarily we have not included any: with these songs we cannot be that fussy. Rhonda/HoustonParty-11 CD $14.75 Mystery Jets Diamonds In The Dark PS, US The beauty of it thus far: they've been born of paradoxical simplistic complexities, glorious sing alongs rise out of intriguing & technically mesmerizing verses. The epic synth-led solo on display here comprises few notes yet still manages to sound like the whole world is singing it. Enlisting the help of Brit-pop legend Stephen Street this debut is fed through the pop-aliser & comes out the other side polished, accessible & better. DimMak-106 CD5 $6.25 Null, KK Fertile PS, US Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of seminal noise group Zeni Geva & electronic wizard. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica. His intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures & droning isolationist material could be described "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism." Touch-074 CD $15.50 Panthers The Trick PS, US Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP "Things Are Strange" with a follow-up record so concisely intense it demands attention from all areas; from jaded riff-rock devotees to the most indifferent pop listener and everyone in between. Recorded in 2006 by renowned producer and engineer Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice), "The Trick" is the third full-length offering from this Brooklyn-based quartet and their second on Vice. Ten tracks of calculated abandon. Vice CD $11.50 Peel, Julie / The Caulfield Sisters Divine Candy PS, US 7" Blue Vinyl Split featuring French indie-rocker JULIE PEEL covering The Breeders "Divine Hammer", and Brooklyn's favorite daughters THE CAULFIELD SISTERS covering The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Some Candy Talking" live. Mastering by Sean Glonek at SRG studios (Frank Black, Kristin Hersh, The Dresden Dolls, Matthew Sweet), and renowned rock poster designer Lon Unitus (Liz Phair, The Decemberists, The Shams, John Doe) created a custom sleeve just for this release. It's a very limited pressing (only 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide). For fans of The Breeders, The Amps, Juliana Hatfield, Galaxie 500, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and The Pixies. AmericanLaundromat-0006 45 $5.50 Poem Rocket Invasion! PS, US A sumptuous smorgasbord of acoustic and amplified sonic delights, and their best album ever. An incredibly sophisticated, expansive, and densely layered double album. "This week's most beautiful pop record" - Melody Maker. "...a new type of organism...the songwriting is just too inventive to bog down in matchmaking" - Alternative Press. Atavistic CD $17.50 Qua Forgetabout PS, US Thirteen tracks in a plethora of electronic sub-genres that mingle elements of world music, folk, rock and more. Cool keys, warm guitars & found sound recordings are heightend by pristine digital editing & expert musicianship. Mush-210 CD $10.00 Qua Painting Monsters On Clouds PS, US An unrepentent, gorgeous & nostalgic mix of sunlit electronics & guitars, buoyed by complex arrangements. Brings to mind the playfulness of Mouse on Mars, the sophistication of Ennio Morricone & the quirky pop of Architecture in Helsinki. Mush-229 CD $10.00 Rollins, Henry Talk Is Cheap Vol. 4 PS, US This set documents his 2004 tour. This show happening at San Jose State in N. California. Disc 2 being the show at the University of California @ Bakersfield, Oct. 21, 2004. 2.13.61 DCD $11.00 Rough Bunnies Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available only in Sweden. Yipsilanti-032 LP $15.00 Shaky Hands S/T PS, US Debut full-length from Portland jangly-pop wunderkinds. Sliding bouncy go-go beats under shambling guitars & reedy, swooning vocals, SH make the kind of catchy, soulful indie rock tailormade for brokedown car stereos & river-rat boomboxes. Sloppily romantic warmth thats equal parts summer sunshine & candlelit mellow, pre-party buzz & scruffy day-after fuzziness. The result is a fully formed and confident debut; a big-hearted, starry-eyed bear hug of a record full of youthful energy & tumbling vigor. HoloceneMusic-005 CD $15.25 Soft Machine Third [Remastered/Bonus CD] PS, US Soft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited The Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. The original vinyl release was a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition -- two by Mike Ratledge, and one each by Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt, with substantial help from new bandmember Elton Dean on saxophones and a number of backup musicians, including Canterbury mainstay Jimmy Hastings. The Ratledge songs come closest to jazz fusion, although this is fusion laced with tape loop effects and hypnotic, repetitive keyboard patterns. Hugh Hopper's "Facelift" recalls "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson, although it's more complex, with several quite dissimilar sections. The pulsing rhythms, chaotic horn and keyboard sounds, and dark drones on "Facelift" predate some of what Hopper did as a solo artist later (this song was actually culled from two live performances in 1970). On his capricious composition "Moon in June," Robert Wyatt draws on musical ideas from early 1967 demos done with producer Giorgio Gomelsky. Lyrically, "Moon in June" is a satirical alternative to the pretension displayed by a lot of rock writing of the era, and combined with the Softs' exotic instrumentation, it makes for quite a listen. Not exactly rock, Third nonetheless pushed the boundaries of rock into areas previously unexplored, and it managed to do so without sounding self-indulgent. A better introduction to the group's psychedelic pop side is Vols. 1 & 2, but once introduced, this is the place to go. [The 2007 remastered edition features the original two-disc vinyl set of Third on one CD plus a bonus live disc of the Softs' "classic quartet" -- Ratledge, Hopper, Dean, and Wyatt -- performing "Out-Bloody-Rageous," "Facelift," and "Esther's Nose Job" live at Royal Albert Hall in 1970; this live material (also remastered) was previously issued as the Live at the Proms 1970 CD.] ~ Peter Kurtz, All Music Guide Sony / BMG Import SNYB687293.2 DCD $11.50 Sons Viracochas PS, US Former members of Boston shoegaze/drone outfit SUNTAN (Kimchee) & 3 members of Chapel Hill by way of Arkansas spazz lunatics "A Problem of Alarming Dimensions." Deftly combines Swervedriver style shoegazing, Loop-esque drone, the haphazard psych of the 13th Floor Elevators & 90's staples Seam & Built to Spill. Charged guitars & rolling bass lines. Big rock fused w/elements of psych pop & indie rock quirkiness. RECOMMENDED FracturedDiscs-009 CD $9.75 Spiritualaires Singing Songs of Praise PS, US The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama are 1 of the very last still active gospel quartets w/origins in Gospel's Golden Age of the '50s. Weaving together influences from the blues & country & western, the Spiritualaires over the years have remained faithful to their ever distinct yet traditional sound. Drawn from recent studio recordings & live radio broadcasts, "Singing Songs of Praise" reveal the Spiritualaires as both a super fine harmony quartet & a unique blues guitar driven ensemble. CaseQuarter-103 CD $12.50 Sur La Mer Prelude to the Sea PS, US The brainchild of ATSU NAGAYAMA (Boredoms, Prescriptions), who wrote & arranged all of the material for this debut EP. Nagayama enlisted the help of friends Dino, Julie Liu (Rex, Tortoise), Jason McDermott, Kim Ambriz (Rabbit Rabbit), and Fred Erskine (June of '44, Hoover) when it came time to record. The results speak for themselves-provocative, captivating & ambient instrumental bliss. ThirtyGhosts-004 CD5 $7.75 Ten Speed Racer Eskimo Beach Boy PS, US Debut album released in 2000 to critical acclaim. US College radio immediately took to it & amazing reviews began pouring in. Comparisons were made to The Stooges, The Dandy Warhols & even Spiritualized. At the heart of the band are 3 brothers; Dermot, Pat & John Barrett, w/ 2 other close mates, Terry Cullen & Joe Chester filling in the musical gaps. "A vivacious mix of sonically charged guitars, ethereal melodies and intelligent vocals."-Virtually Alternative ReverbRecords-005 CD $10.00 Torske, Bjorn Kokt Kveite PS, US Bjorn Torske delivers another killer 12". This one shows us more of the soundworld that Torske is in these days. With references to 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Residents, Idut Boy & Count Ossie and his unique blend of quirky, avant-garde, dubbed out, psychedelic sounds Torske creates a whole new genre; the free-disco. This 12" contains 3 tracks "Kokt Kveite" & "Soloppgang Over Yukigaya" (written by Torske togehter with Cato canari and Ole Andre Farstad) as well as the bonus "Yukigaya Bonus". 25 minutes of new music! SmalltownSupersound-12912 12 $9.25 Uncut #120 (May 2007) PS, UK ZINE $10.25 Under The Radar #17 PS, US Feist cover plus Bands on their favorite films, ,Jarvis Cocker, Gruff Rhys, Interpol, Charlotte Gainsburg, Bright Eyes, Klaxons, Yoko Ono, Deerhunter and much more. ZINE $3.75 Veirs, Laura Saltbreakers PS, US Listening to Veirs is like looking up into the night sky and suddenly witnessing a meteor shower: there's something startling and magical, both intimate and awesome, about her songs. The nature-obsessed images she conjures up and the mesmerizing sound she creates are as indelible as the blaze of shooting stars. Her third Nonesuch release is her most beautifully realized, band-oriented yet. Produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Built To Spill), it is by turns haunting, playful, tender, and fierce, embracing everything from machine-driven beats to angelic gospel choirs to fuzzed-out guitars, and driving alt-rock rhythms. Nonesuch CD $14.00 Wreckless Eric Big Smash [Deluxe Edition, Bonus Tracks] PS, US One of the best songs ever, "Whole Wide World", plus 27 bonus tracks... ; ) Stiff DCD $12.50 XBXRX Wars PS, US Continuing to progress, they expand their musical horizons, incorporating a wider palette of textures, rhythm & structure as well as gaining a newfound clarity in the vocals. Never wishing to repeat themselves, they've made a conscious effort to move beyond the non-stop blastbeat/screaming assault of previous releases, while retaining the vigorous exhilaration that people expect from them. Polyvinyl-129 CD $12.00 XBXRX Wars PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl-129 LP $12.00 Xiu Xiu Remixed & Covered PS, US The 1st disc, a batch of covers, is an exercise in sisterly fan-domand inspired innovation. Feat. LARSON, OXBOW, MARISSA NADLER, WHY?, DEVENDRA BANHART & others!!! The remix half feat. GOLD CHAINS, SON, KID606, TO LIVE & SHAVE IN reach your arms into them & get pulled into their reality for awhile.You might not come back the same. 5RueChristine DCD $14.25 Forthcoming Releases* A&E Oi! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Artists formerly known as AE. Pleasant ballads drift into daringly arranged pop songs. A meld of traditional Japanese singing, deft jazz guitar , gameboy chirping, junkshop keyboards & punk drums. Four of the tracks are electric interpretations of Japanese folk songs from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Sonig-060 CD $15.00 Aa gAame (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US They've been honing their unique, intensely stylized brand of DIY maximalism in the lofts, clubs & parking lots of NYC since '02. Like an ADD-afflicted Boredoms or Aphex Twin re-imagined as a high school marching band, their polyrythmic sound synthesized elements of hardcore, ambient, pop, crunk, noise, dance, psych & dance filtered through their distinct, largely self-taught aesthetic. GiganticMusic-017 CD $14.50 Acrnym Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, CANADA Genre: Electronic/Breakcore. Discovered by Bong-Ra for his Kriss record label, 20 year old Glasgow, Scotland artist Calum Gunn makes music under the moniker Acrnym, his debut album "Flowers" is 13 killer tracks tethering spastic rhythms and malfunctioning breaks with spellbinding melodic instrumentation. "Flowers" shows off some awesome technical exercises in speedy BPMs with a buzz-storm of frenetic break episodes and blazing synth lines. Think Venetian Snares meets Wisp i.e., Amazing breakcore with actual melodies. Sublight-3401 CD $12.25 Acute Arms Around a Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US LA indie boy trio who place an emphasis on quality songwriting while playing both energetic hook-filled pop & reflective rock that ranges from Pavementy though practiced indie rock to Neutral Milk Hotel chewy goodness. Wonderful, subtle & surprising inflections of southwestern appeal like pedal steel, horns & tremeloed guitar sit next to dreamy cello, piano, occasional violin & even some Andrew Bird-esque whistling. RIYL: Magnetic Fields, Shins, Sea & Cake, Seam. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Help CD $11.00 Alchemist Rapper's Best Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Decon-048 DLP $16.75 Alchemist Rapper's Best Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US One of the most celebrated producers in hip-hop today, he's been making hot beats for nearly 15 yrs. This is an instrumental CD comprising 14 finely chiselled jams, which feat. a combination of previously unreleased beats & recent studio work that he did for Mobb Deep, Jadakiss, Tony Yayo, Dilated Peoples & more! Decon-048 CD $15.75 Alex Delivery Star Destroyer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar-099 LP $9.50 Alex Delivery Star Destroyer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US ALEX DELIVERY have gleefully exposed their myriad gifts and influences with their debut full-length "Star Destroyer," almost two years in the making. On it the New York-based quintet have demonstrated their penchant for the electro-organic, seamlessly blending the sharp and gentle, like a chain-gang draped in organza. You can hear the chattering of insects resonating from the inside of a kettle drum, and you can imagine this colossal robo-beast wobbling and waltzing down an abandoned carnival boardwalk. Sylphs soar across strings, occasionally descending to enjoy some wiggle-worthy poly-rhythms. These and many more colorful characters have climbed aboard the "Star Destroyer." JagJagWar-099 CD $11.00 Alsace Lorraine Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) (ON SALE) PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well. Darla-178 CD $12.25 Amandine Solace in Sore Hands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The sophmore album from Malmo, Sweden is 11 tracks of plaintiv, bittersweet songs that merge a newly extensive sonic palette w/ their poignant lyrical content. Though still centered around an Americana/roots axis, their songs have broadened in both scope & depth in addition to easy references like Rex & Songs:Ohia/Jason Molina. FatCat-050 CD $13.25 Antiguo Automata Mexicano Kraut Slut (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine, a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas". StaticDiscos-019 CD $12.25 Arcade Fire Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge-285 DLP $17.50 Arcade Fire Keep the Car Running (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Feat. single from Neon Bible. Youve probably heard the song by now - but its a hook laden affair w/ a driving Joy Division bass line & drum pattern held together by Win Butlers impassioned vocals! "Broken Window" is another mini epic building on a minor key acoustic gutar strum & insistent violin. Merge-304 45 $5.00 Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US New full-length. Domino CD $14.50 Arctic Monkeys Brianstorm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US This pre-album single serves to prepare you for the coming onslaught that is the rocking brilliance of their new release, "Favourite Worst Nightmare". Like some cruel bait-and-switch, this record opens with a lovely string quartet before a rude intrusion of frantic drums and squealing guitars send them packing (apparently inspired by The Jesus Lizard no less). The second track, "Brianstorm" barrels out of the gate with an itchy energy. "Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend" is a taut, suspenseful track featuring a guest verse from Dizzee Rascal. DominoRecordingCo. CD5 $4.75 Asa Irons & Swaan Miller S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US This record is forever. After listending to it you'll realise that it doesn't matter that Asa Irons plays in Witch with J Mascis as well as the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers. This record needs no associations and it's songs are so timeless that they feel as if they've been passed around for generations and hardly need any recording medium at all. This is the first release from Asa Irons and Swann Miller but it sounds like they've lived within each others voices for a million years. Asa's deep-breath-voice lays down a mossy hill for Swann's beautiful voice to tread upon. His guitar work is simply intricate and his fingerpicking perfectly suits the way their voices combine to become one. This record always has been and always will be. This record is forever. "After spending years in New Hampshire and often Nova Scotia, I began writing songs about my Northeastern window through which I view the world. Most of the pieces represent strong fundamentals in my life such as living without comfort resources like electricity and running water, the building trends of carpentry and masonry with which I make my living, and the slow paced rural life in which I grew up. The land of Northeastern North America is very important to me and compelled me to describe it in the form of music. Many people in my life were musicians - my father, cousins, friends - so I had plenty of good examples to pull from and think about. My style of song writing, I believe, comes from the influence of these loved ones combined with certain deep-rooted melodies or images from books that have stuck with me. (Such as sound tracks of old cinema and authors like Tolstoy and Carolyn Chute.) My older sister's art work has also had a tremendous effect on the way I see the world. Many of her primary subjects revolve around various representations of our own home place and the people who inhabited this and the other woods houses in which we grew up. One of the people connected to me through music and lifestyle is Swann Miller. She is the daughter of a man who was a good friend of my father's. Through the '70's our fathers built houses together around N.H. and also played a lot of music. So, I have known Swann my whole life and perhaps it was inevitable that we made music together. When I reached her house in the winter of 2003, I had just had my notebook of songs stolen along with other things. I decided to try to catalogue all I could remember by practicing them. Swann practiced with me. On a whim, her boyfriend - who works as a sound engineer - recorded the two of us singing in an abandoned yellow women's bathroom in the basement of the building where they lived. It all took about an hour and a half including set up of mics, recording, and breaking down. I borrowed a twenty year old Guild guitar from a friend of a friend which was very similar to my father's guitar that I grew up with. I am so happy to have had the opportunity to help capture Swann's beautiful voice and continue the music of our families. The album is a quick glimpse of a world view from Southern New Hampshire through the voices of two old friends whose fathers were friends before them." Asa Irons Important-143 CD $12.25 Badgerlore We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US BADGERLORE is the great tribal council of the so-called "Freak Folk" movement. The supergroup features Rob Fisk (DEERHOOF, 7-YEAR RABBIT CYCLE) and Ben Chasny (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), with Tom Carter (CHARALAMBIDES), Pete Swanson (YELLOW SWANS), Glen Donaldson (BLITHE SONS, JEWELED ANTLER) and Liz Harris (GROUPER). Together they proceed with masterful nuance and inexorable tension; "We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits" is the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber. TableoftheElements-114 CD $12.25 Basement Illicit Hugs Playground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Brit press darlings who live in the soup made from that late 60's wet spot left by Gram & the Flying Burritos, Dylan's albums w/The Band & Van Morrison's best work. From jangly footstomping romps to raucous twang & bittersweet laments. "Effortlessly charming folk-tinged tales."-The Sun. Zealous-704 CD $13.75 Bergraven Dödsvisioner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US Bergraven turns the traditional blast-and-flay aesthetic of "frost bitten grimness" on its ear and comes at you with sweeping riff dirges, winding cinematic passages, melodic guitar interludes, tortured-yet-vaguely authoritarian and Germanic vocal overtones and - get this - ambient pedal steel excursions. All of which is enough to make your head spin, especially if you're down with weirdness. "Dodsvisioner" is not your typical black metal experience, and Bergraven is not your standard Swedish killing machine. HydraHead CD $12.50 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (B.R.M.C.) Baby 81 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US New album, heard it's awesome. RedInt/RedInk CD $14.25 Black Tie Revue Code Fun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Their hooky keyboard driven power-pop has been drawing ravenous fans everywhere they play. Often compared to power pop bands likeThe Only Ones, The Wildhearts & The Records, the band is everything great about being young, geeky & American: adictively hooky, powerful, flagrantly irresponsible three-chord pop songs, loud guitars & new-wave keyboards, & a whole lot of jumping around. Gearhead-074 CD $11.50 Bloarzeyd Delirious Insane Ventilator of Bloarzeyd (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US An explosion of joyful, eardrum shattering, wildly fun music by 2 guys from New England, Phil on bass & vocals and Mike on drums. If you like Shellac, LIghtning Bolt, Dionagah or old Batman reruns, you are sure to like these guys. WoodedMan-008 CD $8.50 Bloomfield, Mike Junko Partner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of his era. A maestro of guitar, & an excellent composer & interpreter, he introduced young & old alike to a world of pure & authentic blues. This excellent album was released just after his death. Akarma-376 CD $15.75 Blow, The Poor Aim: Love Songs (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US "Poor Aim: Love Songs" is resilient electro-pop music that can be lovingly devoured by people of all ages and coolness factors. Already, the songs have fallen into a beloved repeat-play position in many a heart (and cell phone, as ring tones!). In their experiment, the two challenged each other with stringent requirements: JONA insisted that the rhythms couldn't be redundant; KHAELA guaranteed that the lyrics held sentences worth repeating. They succeeded. The songs are catchy as hell, and rise to meet all of the duo's snobby music standards. With sing-along-when-you-think-you're-alone types of refrains, it's as if the oldies station on the car stereo is playing at the same time as the urban party music station, with the occasional interfering sonic sway of an eighties keyboard refrain. That mash of sounds would come closest to describing "Poor Aim's" productional pitch, the sound of feeling fun and desperate and bravely romantically unsuccessful all at once; easy listening for difficult feelings. KLP167 CD $11.00 Boonaraaas!!! 5 Steps Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SoundsOfSubterrania-083 LP $16.50 Boonaraaas!!! 5 Steps Ahead (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US While most musical groups are taking two steps back, their thrust is most definitely forward. They bash out their heart & soulpoppin' sonic nuggets using vintage equipment but the noise they make is very much NOW! A treat for the ears & the eyes, no matter what your persuasion. Trich's sassy singing & bass attitude along w/ Christina's command of the big beat provides a rockin' solid foundation. Laura's Danelectro action blends w/ Tine's rhythm licks to create a fuzz-infused wall of sound that is so direct that you'll wonder what the heck just hit you. SoundsOfSubterrania-083 CD $17.00 Brown, Steven Brown Plays Tenco + Live 1988 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, UK Steven Brown is a core member of cult avant garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has recorded some ten solo albums, including Music For Solo Piano (1983), Searching For Contact (1987), Half Out (1991), Nine Rain (1996) and Decade (2003). Brown Plays Tenco was recorded in Italy in 1987 and features Steven's own interpretations of five songs written by cult artist Luigi Tenco. Born in Cassine in 1938, Tenco scored many hits as a singer in Italy during the 1960s, but shot himself through the head at the San Remo Festival in 1967 after Ciao amore ciao (Hello, Love, Hello), failed to reach the final. The suicide note explained that his suicide was a gesture of protest against the jury's taste in music. Never available on CD before, Brown Plays Tenco has now been digitally remastered with twelve bonus tracks recorded live in Italy in 1988. These include in-concert renditions of songs by Luigi Tenco as well as solo material by both Brown (Besides All That, rwf) and Tuxedomoon (What Use?, Egypt , Lowlands Tone Poem). Artist Resume: Steven Brown was born in Chicago in 1952, and currently resides in Mexico City. Tuxedomoon formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following a string of releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd group albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Suite En Sous-Sol, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. The latest TM album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. LTM-2428 CD $16.25 Camera Obscura Tears For Affairs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SPAIN "Tears for affairs" is the fourth song taken as a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA. Along with the title track, the CD-single format includes one new, previously unreleased track: "The last song", as well as a brand new video of "Lloyd, I´m ready to be heartbroken", directed by Victoria Bergsman (THE CONCRETES, TAKEN BY TREES) and filmed by Blair Young, the man behind most of the band's videos; the clip features artwork by François Marry, French designer and musician living in England. Elefant-253 45 $6.25 Camera Obscura Tears For Affairs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SPAIN "Tears for affairs" is the fourth song taken as a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA. Along with the title track, the CD-single format includes one new, previously unreleased track: "The last song", as well as a brand new video of "Lloyd, I´m ready to be heartbroken", directed by Victoria Bergsman (THE CONCRETES, TAKEN BY TREES) and filmed by Blair Young, the man behind most of the band's videos; the clip features artwork by François Marry, French designer and musician living in England. Elefant-368 CD5 $6.75 Celestial Dream On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty. "Precious songs, in the Sarah Records vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo "stay true to their roots and produce a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows no limits." - 4 Lighthouses "wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice to JAMC in five songs" - Groove SkippingStones-009 CD $9.50 Clientele God Save The Clientele (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge LP $15.50 Clientele God Save The Clientele (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US On their third full-length, The Clientele are setting free their inner Monkees with a lovely blend of Big Star twisted powerpop, Byrdsian country achin', and flashes of The Beatles at their most joyful and upbeat. The ghosts, half-light, and uncertainties remain, but included in this music is a newfound optimism. With the addition of piano and violin, the band paints from a broader palette, adding splashes of pedal steel and slide guitar to their already lush songs. Their most accomplished and triumphant record. Recorded in Nashville with Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Calexico, Silver Jews). Merge CD $13.25 Clorox Girls J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BYO-113 LP $13.75 Clorox Girls J'aime Les Filles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Third LP from Portland, OR popsters channels the 70's style LA punk attitude of brevity, urgency & punchy pop hooks. Produced by Pat Meares (EXPLODING HEARTS). BYO-113 CD $13.75 Cold Bleak Heat Simitu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US "Simitu" is the second album from COLD BLEAK HEAT, the dream-team, east-coast avant jazz line-up of alto/tenor saxophonist PAUL FLAHERTY (DREAM/AKTION UNIT), drummer CHRIS CORSANO (VAMPIRE BELT, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE), trumpeter GREG KELLEY (NMPERIGN, HEATHEN SHAME), and acoustic bassist MATT HEYNER (NO NECK BLUES BAND, TEST). While explosive as their 2005 debut, "Simitu" brings a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. Yet, no need to worry about these four wipin' tears on their sleeves. CBH wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of Flaherty/Kelley and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while mainting the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Even as complex and multi-paced beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains the returning leader. Features liner notes and drawings by Christina Carter (CHARALAMBIDES). FamilyVineyard-041 CD $11.00 Comas, The Spells (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Vagrant CD $12.25 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Damiak Micalavera (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Abe Dichi who's musical works are released via the Damaik alias is what you would classify as a true cosmopolitan musical entity. Spending most of his life moving between Mexico, Europe and the United States somehow gives his debut album "Micalavera" for n5MD an undercurrent of international, almost globalized, method. Add in the mixing and mastering of Mio and Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Mum, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) at Greehouse Studios in Iceland and this compounds the borderless sense of musical place that Micalavera embodies. The album title which roughly translates to "my skeleton" utilizes guitars, melodium, harmodium, violin, piano, field recordings, and live drums as well as electronic elements and edits that may recall similar moments to Sigurdsson's copatriots Mum and Blindfold or even to the more delicate moments of Dntel. Micalavera is an absorbing mix of many musical styles interwoven into a bright, affectionate, yet cohesive whole that features 12 vignettes of multicultural instrumentation, technique, and raw wondrous emotion. n5MD-147 CD $12.00 Dead Meadow Howls from the Hills (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Their new album of accomplished and mesmerizingly authentic psychedelic rock. Xemu CD $15.00 Deerhunter Flourescent Grey EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Four new songs recorded while mixing Cryptograms. A snapshot of what direction the band might explore next? Probably not. This EP arrives on the heels of a well received sophomore LP, Cryptograms. EP functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the LP and the accompanying well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future. Four songs plus video for "Strange Lights". DOA: "The Flourescent Grey EP basically picks up where the album left off, combining the droning atmospherics of space-rockers like Loop and Spacemen 3 with the kind of Martin Hannett style production and drumming of Unknown Pleasures-era Joy Division." Kranky CD5 $7.00 Dinosaur Jr. Beyond (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Reunion album by all original members (J, Lou, and Murph, and all the accompanying disfunctional psychoses and neuroses) is one of the finest "comebacks" in the history of "comebacks". A triumphant return to form, highly recommended. FatPossum CD $14.00 Drakes Hotel Tell Me Everything (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US The married duo of Amy Drake and Chris Y make up the core & soul of Drakes Hotel. Having done away with live drummers altogether, they have taken the complex beats from their recordings and reimagined them for their live shows. Their use of countless older drum machines is now an integral & legendary part of their live appearances. They be will touring hard in 2007 to support their debut album & will also head out w/ label mates The High Violets later in 2007. ReverbRecords-021 CD $10.00 Draper, Linda Keepsake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City. The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK) PlantingSeeds-048 CD $12.25 Dungen Tio Bitar (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, US Vinyl version. Kemado LP $12.00 Dungen Tio Bitar (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, US New album! Over the past two years, the profile of Swedish psychedelic rockers Dungen has grown at an alarming rate, from a cult studio project into a worldwide musical phenomenon. And on Tio Bitar, we're hearing the end results of an outpouring of success and support - one which has, for once, inspired the creative processes at hand to make something wholly new and original, yet remaining within the same sphere of emotions that fostered Dungen's three previous albums. Gustav Ejstes, Dungen's founder and principal member, made Tio Bitar (translated, "Ten Pieces") - a bracing display of psychedelic rock, presented with a bright, avid confidence - largely by himself, with the assistance of guitarist Reine Fiske. Gustav wrote the songs, and played all of the instruments on his own, with Reine on many lead guitar and bass parts; his style of play puts him well within the top ranks of modern guitar heroes past and present. Kemado CD $13.50 Eames Era Heroes & Sheroes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US The bands sophomore record is so brazenly hooky, with songs that are so totally fleshed out with memorable sing-a-longable instantly familiar melodies, chugging guitars, ba-bas, harmonies & handclaps, you could forgive it for what it lacks in innovation. In fact, Heroes highlights are some of the best chick-pop, and wholeheartedly deserve to sit amongst your Go-Gos greatest hits CD, Blondies Parallel Lines & the last Mates of State record too. The first single, "When You were a Millionaire", is currently featured as the theme song on MTV's new show, "I'm from Rolling Stone". Also had a song featured on Grey's Anatomy soundtrack. MDF-429 CD $10.00 Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Following "Rock It To The Moon" (2001), "Power Out" (2004), and "Axes" (2005), there seems to be a new kind of light shining on Electrelane that remains strong throughout this record, but the willingness to push the envelope hasn't left the band either. "No Shouts No Calls" is an album of enticingly irregular brilliance. "Electrelane effortlessly assimilate a wide cut of moods and influences - the off kilter harmony of the Velvet Underground, the droning insistence of Krautrock heroes Can, the bratty brashness of feminist popsters Le Tigre - into a heartfelt batch of art-pop that never sounds snobby" -Blender. TooPure CD $13.25 Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TooPure DLP $13.25 Elk City New Believers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US New album from former Hidden Agenda artists, now on Friendly Fire. For 'New Beleivers' the band would recall the soul of Dusty Springfield, the power of Patti Smith, the big sound of Phil Spector and the warped-pop sensibilities of The Breeders on an album that brought vocalist Renée LoBue to the forefront. his new Elk City calls upon a wide palette of influences: 1960's psychedelic bands such as Love, the girl group sounds of classic Motown, 1970's proto-punk heroes John Cale and Television, and 1980's alternative rock such as The Smiths and The Pixies. Features guest appearances by Brother JT and former members of Luna. FriendlyFire CD $15.00 Elope 9 Distilled Dreams (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL??? 2007) PS, SWEDEN COMING SOON? Perhaps Elope's finest album to date...and that's saying something consideing how brilliant 'The No Name Record' and '3WD' are... It is also their very mellowest. '9 Distilled Dreams' is the mainly acoustic companion piece to the rocking '3WD' released earlier this year. Check out Jim's Pick page for a sound sample. Gravitation-026 CD $10.50 Fall of Troy Manipulator (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Having built upon their reputation for lightning fast guitar riffs, raw screams, catchy choruses & a volatile rhythm section, this finds them combining metal w/ progressive, rock & blues, & past w/ present to once again push themselves beyond. EqualVision-1402 CD $15.50 Familjen Det Snurrar I Min Skalle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SWEDEN The music is joyus. Not to mention, deceptively simple. Run a three-note arpeggio through a phaser and there's your refrain. Naturally, there's a bit more to it than that, but the essence of Familjen's pop/electronica sound is uncomplicated fun. Perhaps the lyrics tell a completely different story, but hey - I don't speak Swedish so I don't really care. Familjen makes warm electronica. Sounds like the Hacienda in springtime, Mylo on downers, Rex the dogs soundsystem and A guy called geralds dreams. It makes us all fuzzy and fightable inside. Hybris-047 CD $13.50 Feist Reminder (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US New album from Canadian electro-chantuese, the follow-up to 2005's 'Let It Die', which was very very popular. New album is s produced by Feist, Gonzales and Renaud Letang. VANITY FAIR: "A one-in-a-million voice that evokes both Astrud Gilberto's sexy cool and Billie Holiday's languorous quaver." Interscope CD $11.00 Filip Crane-Grief (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Second full length from Sweden's eccentric pop poet. Simple beautiful songs performed on guitar, piano, pump organ & auto harp. For fans of Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham & Tom Waits. Filipsongs-001 CD $16.75 Fine Arts Showcase, The Sings The Rough Bunnies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2007) PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant 'Radiola'. Oddly enough a tribute record. TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. Highly recommended. Adrian CD $15.00 Flying Burrito Bros Definitive Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman (BYRDS) & the FBBs made country cool again when everybody else was into big rock sounds. They introduced the fuzztoned pedal steel and psychedelic nudie suits to a culture that was about as far from country cool as you could get. And God, "Hot Burrito No. 1" is one of the best vocal takes ever put to tape. 25 songs. Hip-O CD $15.00 Francis, Sage Human The Death Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Epitaph DLP $15.50 Francis, Sage Human The Death Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Rapper, activist, and cultural provocateur Sage Francis offers his most personal and fully realized work on his second Anti/Epitaph release. With topics ranging from 9 to 5 cubicle madness to addiction to sex and hip-hop, Francis delves into very real issues with wit and intensity. Equally comfortable in rap battle or a poetry slam, Francis will hit the road this spring with Buck 65 and Alias; a highly anticipated tour for fans of hip-hop and alternative alike. Epitaph CD $14.75 Frog Eyes Tears of Valedictorian (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US "An amazing monster."-PITCHFORK. Latest album from Vancouver quartet is "a dense work that breathes & seethes with an energy all its own...though bleak on the surface, at its core this is vital, hopeful music by a group of musicians seemingly playing with a single mind." AbsolutelyKosher-053 CD $14.50 Fursaxa Alone in the Dark Wood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Recorded half in Pennsylvania, half in Finland, this evokes pale moonlight & deep shadows, where tree limbs bend to form cathedral arches over a procession of mystics. Disembodied female voices rise like sacral fire-smoke amongst the strum of mandolin, balalaika, & the piper's call of bells & flute- whistle. At some turns mournful & stark, at others a celebratory invocation, it displays her alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, & then into sheer psych & back again. AllTomorrowsParties-026 CD $15.50 Future Clouds And Radar S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Heavily influenced by cameras, the asterisk, loss of any kind, and Bill Monroe's falsetto, Future Clouds And Radar is the latest creation of Robert Harrison, best known as the leader of Austin cult-reggae-heroes Cotton Mather; hailed by NME as "the most exciting new guitar pop band since Supergrass", handpicked by Oasis to join them on tour, and most recently, featured on Little Steven Van Zandt's "Coolest Songs In The World Vol. 1". Paste Magazine hails this record as a "magnificent double-disc collection of Flaming Lips/13th Floor Elevators/ELO-inspired psychedelic pop gems. Move over, Robert Pollard." StarAppleKingdom CD $15.25 Go Find, The Stars On The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! MorrMusic-075 LP $15.75 Go Find, The Stars On The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US An album full of pop music, rock music, dance music & songwriter music. Nonchalant, eloquent and elegant, it is softer and somehow more reduced than "Miami." This is a pop album that does not need to fear comparison w/ anything. 70s, 80s, reminiscences out of that great echo chamber named pop-music, but never sounding retro, not even for a second. MorrMusic-075 CD $16.75 Golden Smog Blood on the Slacks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US GS delivers the follow up to their critically acclaimed LP "Another Fine Day," an 8 song mini-album incl. 6 new original songs plus covers of David Bowie's "Starman" & Dinosaur. Jr. LostHighway CD $10.75 Golden Smog Blood on the Slacks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LostHighway LP $10.75 Grails Burning Off Impurities (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Following soon after the critically praised "Black Tar Prophecies" collection on IMPORTANT RECORDS, Portland, Oregon's GRAILS return with their first proper studio album since 2004 release of Redlight. "Burning Off Impurities" - their debut for TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. - makes good on the promise of those past releases in delivering an album that not only thrusts the group to new heights, but also pushes the instrumental rock genre forward for the first time in nearly a decade. An increased interest in psychedelic, ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for Grails' exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. Influenced in equal parts by ASH RA TEMPEL, ERKIN KORAY, POPOL VUH, BLACK SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest Grails will ever get to making a classic rock record; the kind of sprawling masterpiece that you savor for years before passing it on to your younger brother so he can repeat the process. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-118 DLP $13.75 Grails Burning Off Impurities (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Following soon after the critically praised "Black Tar Prophecies" collection on IMPORTANT RECORDS, Portland, Oregon's GRAILS return with their first proper studio album since 2004 release of Redlight. "Burning Off Impurities" - their debut for TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. - makes good on the promise of those past releases in delivering an album that not only thrusts the group to new heights, but also pushes the instrumental rock genre forward for the first time in nearly a decade. An increased interest in psychedelic, ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for Grails' exploration of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. Influenced in equal parts by ASH RA TEMPEL, ERKIN KORAY, POPOL VUH, BLACK SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest Grails will ever get to making a classic rock record; the kind of sprawling masterpiece that you savor for years before passing it on to your younger brother so he can repeat the process. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-118 CD $11.00 Grey, Nick Thieves Among Thorns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US This new collection of songs, stripped bare of the Orchestras usual members, reveals a quieter, sadder aspect of their work, and was recorded after Nick dreamed of commiting suicide with a Bible in a Geneva first-class hotel. As a result, Thieves Among Thorns is all about forlorn piano lullabies, insecure percussions & torpid classical arrangements, eerie ballads & numbing rythms, terminological inexactitudes & sleepy hyperboles. Ten desolate tracks where Nicks laptop arrangements & quiet, inconsolable vocals interweave with pianist Jasmine Pinkertons eastern-Europe sensitivity & Nicholas Davis' precise guitar. A sound shaped by various failures, breakups & periods of intense doubt : perfect for heartbreaks & codeine addicts. Hand/Eye-022 CD $11.75 Guthrie, Robin & Harold Budd Before the Day Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH) PS, US A pair of companion piece CDs by two masters, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. Robin's signature guitar sound and Harold's signature piano sound first came together on The Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd -The Moon and the Melodies LP (4AD), 1986. Their playing and trademark sounds are absolutely made for each other, in heaven actually. Track list: 1. How Close Your Soul 2. A Formless Path 3. A minute, A Day, No More 4. She is My Weakness 5. Outside, Silence 6. Hidden Message 7. I Returned Her Glance 8. My Monochrome Vision 9. Turn on the Moon. Darla-183 CD $12.25 Guthrie, Robin & Harold Budd After the Night Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH) PS, US A pair of companion piece CDs by two masters, Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. Robin's signature guitar sound and Harold's signature piano sound first came together on The Cocteau Twins with Harold Budd -The Moon and the Melodies LP (4AD), 1986. Their playing and trademark sounds are absolutely made for each other, in heaven actually. Track list: 1. How Distant Your Heart 2. Avenue of Shapes 3. Seven Thousand Sunny Years 4. She is My Strength 5. Inside, a Golden Echo 6. Open Book 7. And Then I Turned Away 8. The Girl with the Colorful Thoughts 9. Turn Off the Sun. Darla-182 CD $12.25 Handsome Furs Plague Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US Dark and minimal while noisy and earnest, the point of this duo was to be as sparse and repetitive as possible with the help of little more than vocals, guitars, and a drum machine. Disenchanted vocals thinly resonate while cloaked in a frenzied undertone of fear and uncertainty, all punctuated by bare drum machine beats. Their debut is a record of melancholic tendency and heartfelt desire; a stripped down symphony relegated between city and country, and made for ears of either side. SubPop CD $12.50 Handsome Furs Plague Park (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SubPop LP $12.50 Hedrons One More Won't Kill Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Equal parts Joan Jett, The Ramones, The Foo Fighters & Iggy Pop, these Scottish girl rockers have taken the UK by storm. 4West-40032 CD $14.50 Heyman, Richard X. Actual Sighs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Any Average Joe rock dude could reissue an out-of-print EP they recorded in 1986, and the same sort of guy could easily add a few bonus tracks to boost the value of the package. Richard X. Heyman, however, is no Average Joe -- he's perhaps America's greatest unsung hero of power pop, a songwriter of uncommon talent and intelligence, and a one-man rock band without peer. So when Heyman decided to resurrect his long-gone Actual Size EP twenty years after it first hit the racks, he went for the grand gesture -- Actual Sighs features the six tunes from that aged 12" in their original sequence, preceded by fourteen (yes, fourteen) previously unavailable songs, turning a fleshed-out single into an epic..." (Mark Deming) TurnUp CD $13.50 Hope in Ghosts All Your Departures (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US HIG is Ted Flynn, veteran of L.A. & Chicago indie-rock scenes and St. Petersburg, FL-based guitar anti-hero. His previous release garnered immediate comparisons with Slint & Seam. Debut full length is predominantly instrumental, using different guitar tones, layers & arrangements to sonically represent the cycle of emotions involved when losing someone, leaving, or being left. The album opens immediately showcasing Flynn's playing- from the gentlest of drones to wrenching, weeping walls of furious resonance. Guests appearances include vocal contributions from electro-pop wunderkind JON MONTEVERDE (XYZR_KK) & JARROD WHITTINGTON (AUTOHARP), along with the tremendous drumming of Chicago-based CHATTY CATHY'S ALAN TAKAOKA. Actually,Records-009 CD $12.50 Je Suis France Afrikan Majik (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, US New album from majorly-hyped genre-splicers. AntennaFarm-523 CD $11.75 Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Krecords-180 LP $9.50 Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US In 2003, K recording artists KHAELA MARICICH (THE BLOW) AND JASON ANDERSON had a vision. "What if Calvin Johnson played all his best songs from over the years, with a band of real music-making people?" This was their vision, and they decided to make it happen. Jason formed a band of other K music stalwarts that included KYLE FIELD (LITTLE WINGS) on bass with ADAM FORKNER (YUME BITSU, VERSION) and Jason sharing the guitar and drum playing duties. Dubbed by Jason the SONS OF THE SOIL, they set out to modernize the primitive. Khaela designed a graphic image that perfectly captured the Sons of the Soil's transcendental vibe. A tour was arranged that crossed paths with other fine Olympia types, including REBECCA PEARCY and MIRAH. Songs were chosen that spanned the years and various combos, including songs originally recorded by HALO BENDERS ("Love Travels Faster"), DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM ("Booty Run") and the GO TEAM ("Sand"). Rehearsals commenced, and then it was off across the Western United States for a rollicking, rockin' good time. Krecords-180 CD $11.00 Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US The debut from this LA-based group is a tour-de-force of gorgeous folk-pop melody and uplifting sentiment. Produced by Tom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Devendra Banhart, Brightblack Morning Light), and featuring the incomparable soprano voice of Becky Stark, the album includes twelve new songs and original artwork by drummer and noted artist/cartoonist Ron Rege. The band's slightly tongue-in-cheek demands for world peace and harmony are subtly undercut by minor key modes and absurdist lyrics. The result is deeply entertaining and subversive. Matador CD $13.25 Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Lewis, Wyndham The Enemy Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by WW1, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in penniless exile in America , yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. His many books include Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), Blasting & Bombardiering (1937), The Revenge for Love (1937) and the trilogy The Human Age. His artworks include Workshop (1913), A Battery Shelled (1919), Tyro (1920) Red Portrait (1937), The Surrender of Barcelona (1937) and Portrait of T.S. Eliot (1938), and are regularly exhibited by galleries including the Tate, Hayward, Imperial War Museum and others. The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy that so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in his dug-out near Ypres in 1917. The CD features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. LTM-2411 CD $15.25 Lichens Omns (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US His 2nd long player, like his first, is an ascent to a higher plane. Rob Lowe's sound recordings are of a distinctly personal nature, works turned inward as much as they are projected outward. Conceived w/ the idea of it being a continuation of the first, while using slightly different techniques in recording & editing.The DVD contains a single live 28 min. performance from Chicago's Empty Bottle that was recorded in 2006. Kranky-106 CD/DVD $14.75 Lindt, Virna Shiver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UKAn extended CD reissue of 'Shiver', the debut album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1983. Written and produced by Virna Lindt and Tot Taylor, the acclaimed Shiver album offers 12 slices of chic, Cold War pop informed by 1960s spy thriller soundtracks and musique concrete, including the singles Attention Stockholm and I Experienced Love. The album has been digitally remixed and re-modelled from the original mastertapes, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. The new edition of Shiver also features bonus track The Windmills of Your Mind, a rare Michel Legrand cover version from The Thomas Crown Affair originally recorded for the Crepuscule movie compilation Moving Soundtracks. Contemporary reviews for Shiver:"Intrepid undercover agent disguised as a top international fashion model sets out on a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, armed only with a firm sense of fair play and a gadget-filled powder compact" (NME); "Euro-eccentric. Virna Lindt casts herself as a mysterious blonde in a loving pastiche of Continental movie music" (Sounds); "Only the surly amongst you can fail to acknowledge the splendour of Virna Lindt's new single I Experienced Love, and the equally thrilling Shiver lp, the epitome of Compact's sleek, chic Sixties tease" (The Face); "Imagine a pastiche of all those old Sixties spy series, like Danger Man, The Avengers and The Man From Uncle. Well, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go with it" (London Evening Standard). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and detailed dossier on Virna Lindt. Also available: Virna Lindt: Play/Record (LTMCD 2489), V/a : A Young Person's Guide to Compact (LTMCD 2488). LTM-2487 CD $16.25 Lindt, Virna Play/Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK The first release on CD of 'Play/Record', the second album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organization in 1985. Written and produced by Virna Lindt during a three-week holiday in London, Play/Record tackles girls who cannot stand the colour red, the numbing effect of the new media, and subterfuge and skulduggery in her adopted home town (the single My Home Town). The album has been digitally remastered by close collaborator Tot Taylor, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. Unfortunately Virna abandoned music forever after creating Play/Record, leaving the world a poorer place. Contemporary reviews for Play/Record: "Ms Lindt deftly conveys a sense of breezy, delirious Sixties camp. Arch instrumentals such as the title track and Add It Up are nothing short of wondrous, and the album is a delightful and accurate evocation of a period when music was allowed to be fun" (Melody Maker); "A uniquely crafted voiceover masterpiece, the diverse tempo moves from the sunny waft of single My Home Town to the more sombre tones of Any Colour But Red" (Sounds); "Lush, intelligent and very, very sexy" (Underground). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and liner/recording notes. LTM-2489 CD $16.25 Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant. OtherElectricites-006 CD $12.25 Magic Bullets A Child but in Life Yet a Doctor in Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, US The astonishing debut album by the San Francisco sextet Magic Bullets. A tour-de-force with 10 songs that make friends with the rich traditions of post-punk (Gang of Four), new wave (early Talking Heads) and C86 (The Wedding Present), whilst introducing themselves to contemporaries influenced by these scenes (The Walkmen, French Kicks) with their own secret handshake. Singer Philip Benson's poised, dynamic croon towers over his contemporaries, yet does not overshadow his own band's intricate musicianship - a crafty layering of Felt-esque melodies onto Bizarro-era chords. "Yesterday's Seen Better Days" launches the record with a C86 meets "Ticket To Ride" guitar riff, coyly anticipating Benson's dramatic album entrance. Benson's voice - energetic, yet inconsolable - coaxes the listener into a world in which deceptively bright colors are used to draw bleak pictures. "Heatstroke" is an unforgettable renewal of the classic new wave territory paved by The Stranglers and Power, Corruption and Liesera New Order. WordsOnMusic-021 CD $12.25 Mando Daio Ode to Ochrasy [Enhanced] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US New album from ballsy Swedish rockers. Mute CD $15.00 Mardie, Montt Clocks / Pretender (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SWEDEN Montt Mardie has went from bedroom pop dreamer to being at the forefront of the burgeoning Swedish pop movement. His new record, the 2 cd set Clocks/Pretender (Hybris) is one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the year. Clocks one contains 10 songs recorded with a string quartet and big band backing up Montt mardié in full crooner/motown style while disc two is full of duets with the likes of Hello Saferide, Jens Lekman, Andreas Mattsson and many more. Montt mardié brand of music wears it influences on the sleeves but never fails to be unique. Boombastic, danceable and always, always with the biggest heart. Montt mardié is one of the finest pop jewels ever found in Sweden. Hybris-049 DCD $15.00 Markel, Graig Via Novella (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Graig layers acoustic & electric guitars, strings, pianos & organs along shimmering vocal melodies w/help from Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green, vocalist Jen Wood (POSTAL SERVICE, RACHELS), & members of TAGGING SATELLITES to create captivating, autobiographical short stores inside lush, haunting indie rock soundscapes. Produced by Aaron Prellwitz (SUN KIL MOON). SonicBoom-024 CD $12.25 Mary Onettes, The S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, SWEDEN Long awaited debut album from Sweden's best new band. These ten songs sound somewhat like a modern version of A-ha dressed in black mixed with early The Jesus and Mary Chain on an arena. We love every little second of it. It took them two years and three labels to get here, but if that's what they needed in order to produce what must be one of the finest Swedish debut album ever, it was worth all the wait. Everything about this album is just perfect. From the confident and obvious choice of simple calling it The Mary Onettes to the epic artwork. The classic ten songs format where each song has it's obvious place on the album. First-rate songs all the way dressed in production perfectly balancing between futuristic and timeless. Biography Although development are crucial for a band one thing have remained the same, the songs. The band revolves around Philip Ekströms song writing and although some songs have been stripped down, rebuilt or even thrown away they have kept coming. Things started happen for The Mary Onettes in spring 2004, signing with a brand new label the future couldn't look brighter. Six months later the band lost the deal without being given the chance to release anything. Eight months of despair followed until Sony/BMG decided to sign up the band up for an EP. The debut was released may 2005 and didn't make big fuzz to the main crowd, although it got great reviews. A couple of months later the band found themselves without a recording contract once again. Instead of splitting up or getting depressed they started building a music studio and plans took form to start an own label and release everything themselves. A demo cd to Swedish indie label Labrador changed those plans. For the first time the band felt that they had a label that understood them and their music. Signing for a full length album in spring 2006 led to more frequent studio sessions and recording in their new built studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. Humans don't believe in stagnation, it's in our nature to develop, evolve and invent. The Mary Onettes started out in 2000 and when looked at in retrospect, many things have changed. Starting out as a passionate, yet naive rock band from a small town and therefore a lot to prove, the band have managed to stay together because of their love for music and each other. It takes time for a band to develop a sound and to create that special bond between members in a rock group. Six years on, that development is still in progress. Labrador-103 CD $14.75 Mary Timony Band, The The Shapes We Make (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Their Kill Rock Stars debut represents the latest stage in the evolution of one of the most important voices in underground music. Flowing from the mystic prog-laced veins that have informed her art for the past decade, this record builds upon the stark rebellious austerity of 2005's "Ex Hex" and imbues it with warmth and formidable urgency. Equal parts clairvoyance and virtuosity, Mary (formerly of Helium) and her musicians paint in broad strokes a vivid landscape of colorful musical shapes. Much more than a gifted crafter of melody, Timony is a talented multi-instrumentalist, recording among other things, intricately layered keyboards, banjos, analog synths, viola, the melotron, and a vintage Casio PT1. KillRockStars CD $13.25 Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Warp-155 CD $12.50 Melt Banana Bambi's Dilemma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US On their sixth full-length studio release they exercise a hitherto undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock" region. The band refuses to accommodate any pigeonholing: "Maybe it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just follow our own instincts!" Azap-007 CD $13.25 Melt Banana Bambi's Dilemma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Azap-007 LP $10.50 Merzbow & Carlos Giffoni Synth Destruction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September of 2006. This is Sound Totalism and is as heavy as it comes: totally brutal, totally ugly, totally beautiful, totally intense, totally classic, totally analog, total synth and total destruction. Intense artwork by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter and sound artist Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition as well the physical arts, especialy Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Carlos Giffoni, despite his young age, has been an in-demand Brooklyn collaborator for many years. He has worked with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Fe-Mail and many others. In 2005 he releases his first solo record titled Welcome Home on Important Records. This is Merzbow and Giffoni's first collaborative release. Important-131 CD $12.25 Mezzanine Owls Slingshot Echoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Reference Points: Arcade Fire, Doves, Silversun Pickups, Interpol, Yo La Tengo, U2, Coldplay, JAMC. Selling Points: SXSW shows, full radio promotion with AAM, multiple reviews in national print, free downloads from spin.com. new media campaign with filter. Multiple US tours. Overview: Spring of 2006 saw Mezzanine Owls travel from Los Angeles to record with Andy LeMaster (Bright Eyes, Azure Ray, R.E.M.) in Athens, GA. These sessions produced Slingshot Echoes, a dreamy, noisy collection of songs featuring dense layers of guitars and keyboards washing over driving beats. Reviews: "A haunting Jesus and Mary Chain rattle filtered through an anthemic guitar line as driven as something from another avian outfit, Doves..." - Spin "this four piece builds luxuriant canopies of british heart racers doves and elbow but bearing the intriguing twist of wounded vocals landing somewhere between dean wareham and mercury rev." - San Francisco Guardian "the Pixies re-imagined by Lush" - bullz-eye "soaring pop melodies" - usounds "melodic, memorable pop music that is, at times, slightly reminiscent of The Tyde." (5/5) - babysue "Vocalist Jack Burnside recalls a softer, less dramatic Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes... a quiet stunner of a debut" - sound as language "These guys remind me a bit of what Interpol would sound like if they weren't trying to be Joy Division. It's a sort of shoegazey, downtempo'd post-punk" - I guess I'm floating "Indie Jayhawks meets shoegazer Ride/Jesus Mary Chain...your stereo will thank you." - The Tripwire"Also spent a lot of time with: the driving, layered guitars of Mezzanine Owls' "Slingshot Echoes..." - LA Times Best of 2006 Pehr-095 CD $9.00 Mice Parade S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Their first self titled album & 7th full length release finds Adam Pierce continuing his trend of stellar collaborations w/ Laetitia Sadler of Stereolab, Kristin Anna Valtysdottir of Mum & many more! RIYL: Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, Paco de Lucia. FatCat-063 CD $13.25 Midnight Movies Lion the Girl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US NewLine CD $14.00 Monotract Trueno Oscuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load-108 LP $14.50 Monotract Trueno Oscuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Guitar drums & electronics lock together into a frightening miasma. They've recorded a record so unreal that it warps reality unto itself. Songs exist as pure sine wave terror, like long taffy pulled by tractors miles apart. Light bulbs explode, couch cushions swell, & nipples get hard. This is the new method, with new tools. Load-108 CD $14.50 My Midnight Creeps Histamin [2007] (DELAYED...PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, NORWAY New album from Norwegian garagerock/psychblues supergroup featuring guitarists from Madrugada and Ricochets. Two years in the making 'Histamin' (Norwegian spelling for the chemical released into the human body's bloodstream during orgasm) is a result of living under the spell of the mighty garage demon. My Midnight Creeps' award nominated, self-titled first album was hinting at it, but now their gloomy universe of dark, dangerous psychedelic vibrations is laid bare in all its triumphant wonder. Norway's hardest hitting rock outfit not only delivers the goods with 'Histamin' - they lift themselves to a new, astonishing level, even by the bands own high standards. It's hard, heavy and angry; it's sweet melodies and vulnerable hearts, all driven ever edgeward by manic guitar riffs, bass from the hall of the mountain king, and drums straight out of 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'. Murky, moody, hynotic rock'n'roll. Likened to Union Carbide Productions, The Stooges, The Rolling Stones, The Gun Club, and The Cramps, with a bluesier take on modern marvels like BRMC and Black Angels. . Totally. EMI/MMC-002 CD $15.00 Mystery Jets Zoo Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US The Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous singles have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einsturzende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexy's can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present. With "ZooTime", be prepared to have your life forever enriched by a band relentless at breaking boundaries and enlightening one's soul with much of their own. DimMak CD $14.00 Namelessnumberheadman Wires Reply (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The three members of NAMELESSNUMBERHEADMAN grew up together in a small town in Oklahoma, but the three of them (Jason Lewis, Andrew Sallee and Chuck Whittington) ultimately settled in Kansas City and have been playing, writing and recording as NNHM for about six years. Having released two prior full-length albums since July 2002 that have been received well, but it's with this ST. IVES release that they make their grand statement as artists. With "Wires Reply," they join the afternoon drive between your ears where Sparklehorse covers Skylarking in its entirety, where Pinetop Seven and Tortoise make 4-track tapes as teenagers, and The Notwist backs up Robert Pollard in the beautiful headspace of blissful lo-fi stereo. Cohesive in sound and vision, "Wires Reply" is a dream that doesn't jump around and confuse you, but calms and guides you through a hazy panoramic photograph. This is a balmy summer in Midwestern America. This is the smell of the trees and the street at the end of the longest days. This is a genuine, honest celebration but, all the same, it is fighting the sinking feeling that there is no one left to believe anymore. The guitars buzz. The drums crack. The mellotrons whir. The three sing at the top of their lungs. As with all St. Ives releases, "Wires Reply" is a VINYL LIMITED EDITION RELEASE (to just 300 copies). The artwork is lovingly hand-wrought by the band in a celebration of folk art and the return to care in record making. St.Ives-20 LP $11.00 Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-336 12 $11.00 Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US All new arrangements & performances of 2 already-classic Joanna songs & the debut of a brand-new song, its a solid short-play record at least & another inspiring slice of Newsom at best. DragCity-336 CD $11.00 Noisettes What's the Time Mr. Wolf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US New album from London hipsters & one of Rolling Stone's 10 Bands to Watch. On tour supporting Bloc Party this spring. Yup. Univeral CD $9.75 Ocean/Conifer Split LP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US This split 12" release is limited to 1000 copies and pressed on rust and grey color vinyl. It is packaged in a screen printed mylar jacket with a screen printed mylar insert and a screen printed paper insert. Cover artwork is of a 19th century statue located at the center of Portland Maine, the dramatic coastal home of both groups. This is the sound of a musical brotherhood entirely unique to Ocean & Conifer. Over the years Ocean and Conifer have shared vans, stages, members, practice spaces, apartments, beers, a city and a kindred musical spirit. In a lot of ways it's a shock that that split hasn't happened already but perhaps it was so obvious that nobody noticed that it needed to happen. Sometimes the truth is right beneath your nose. With their original drummer back in the line-up, since Eric Brackett left to focus his energy on Ocean, Conifer has re-enlisted their original drummer Nate Nadeau. With Nate back in the group they're heavier, tighter and more united than ever before. They've toured and player with Mono, Black Dice, High On Fire, Asva, Mouth Of The Architect and many more. Summer of 2006 saw them embark on an ambitious 26 city tour. Ocean's 20 minute epic was recorded in the same sessions that birthed their next album, currently untitled, for Important. Containing all of the epic minimalist intensity and robust heaviness that has gained them international attention, The Undoing is a whole new level. Important-144 LP $12.25 Olausson, Jakob Moonlight Farm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Sweden's Olausson is a sugar beet farmer and his record of ten songs is somehow both comforting and unsettling, concerned with the classic subjects such as the garbage, the flowers, one's mother, and the love of them all. Laid thick with a vague dissonance, they possess a mask of fog/haze, but the trail between writer/performer/song is not often trodden in such a deftly crystalline manner. "From one loner to another, this is everything that the phrase 'private press' conjures up and more. A modern classic" - David Keenan, The Wire. DeStijl CD $12.50 Oliveros, Pauline Accordion & Voice (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Pauline Oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in Just Intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. 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 recordings. "Accordion and Voice was the first of my recordings as a soloist. I was living in an A-frame house in a meadow just below Mount Tremper at Zen Mountain Center. I had a wonderful view of the graceful saddle mountain top. When away on a performance trip I would imagine the mountain as I played Rattlesnake Mountain. I followed the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain - the changing colors of the season, the breezes and winds blowing through the grasses and trees. Horse Sings From Cloud taught me to listen to the depth of a tone and to have patience. Rather than initiating musical impulses of motion, melody and harmony I wanted to hear the subtlety of a tone taking space and time to develop. The tones linger and resonate in the body, mind, instrument and performance space. My thanks to Important Music for bringing these pieces to be heard again." - Pauline Oliveros 2007 Important-140 CD $12.25 Oliveros, Pauline The Wanderer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The Wanderer is based on a single modal scale (B C# D D# E F# G#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of 3/4 and 3/8. Part I, Song, is intended to explore the unique resonant qualities of accordion reeds through long sounds. Subtle variations come about from differences in tuning and air pressure. Part II, Dance, demonstrates the sharp accenting power of the accordion bellows in a mixture of cross rhythms characteristic of jigs, reels, batucadas, Bulgars, klezmer forms, Cajun dances, and music of other diverse cultures. The Wanderer was composed in November, 1982 especially for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra, directed by Sam Falcetti. This recording documents The Wanderer's world premiere, as it was performed 27 January, 1983 at Marymount Manhattan Theatre. The orchestra consists of twenty accordions, two bass accordions, and five percussion, with Pauline Oliveros as soloist, Sam Falcetti conducting. Horse Sings From Cloud, written in 1975, is one of Oliveros' best known works. Like most of her Sonic Meditations, it can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally, solo or in collaboration. A solo version of Horse Sings From Cloud has been recorded on Accordion & Voice. An early version of the score reads, "Sustain a tone or sound until any desire to change it disappears. When there is no longer any desire to change the tone or sound, then change it." This time, Horse Sings From Cloud is performed in ensemble. Joining Pauline Oliveros on bandoneion are Heloise Gold on Harmonium, Julia Haines on accordion, and Linda Montano on concertina. This quartet version incorporates the microtonal differences in tuning of the selected instruments, creating shimmering reed sounds somewhat similar to the shimmering of a Balinese gamelan. Important-141 CD $12.25 OOIOO Eye Remix (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey-171 12 $5.75 OOIOO Eye Remix (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Hot on the heels of their latest record of hard-hitting polyrhythmic skree, they've unleashed fellow sonic cohort EYE from BOREDOMS to dismember & reassemble 2 of their songs. UMO & UMA get the remix treatment here, resulting in 2 long tracks that reinvent Yoshimis jetpropelled psychedelic pep rallies as bass-driven dancefloor slammers. The CDEP comes in a full color digipak w/ deluxe spot-matte finishing & obi strip. CD has 2 extra tracks! ThrillJockey-171 CD5 $4.50 Original Silence First Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US A monster is born, a clash of the the titans! The new band of THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE, MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded live on the OS Italian tour, September 2005 in Teatro Arisoto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, to be more specific. This is the first in a series of recordings from OS. Musically one can hear the obvious influences from early Sonic Youth & The Ex mixed with the Scandinavia free-jazz. But you can hear their many influences from Black Flag, to drone rock, to Albert Ayler, to Boredoms, to noise, punk, Dead C, Merzbow & 60s minimalism. This is 100% improvised rock. A monumental, raw and harsh beautiful out- rock masterpiece. Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy SmalltownSuperjazz-124 CD $14.50 Ov Noctilucent Valleys (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US There exists a sense of optimism in Ovs humming analog drones, a floating light within a pack of ominous clouds. Nocilucent Valleys takes Ov's expansive palette, blurrs & disguises instrumental thresholds & presents sheer sound augmented by mysterious & mesmerizing gentle clamor. Initial impressions slowly morph into demonstrative bliss, synthesizing the organic & the unknown. The new project from prolific, longtime collaborators Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards contributor) & Jewelled Antlers Loren Chasse. Ov pushes the duos established scopic pallette further into the void. Touching upon traditional minimalism & psychedelic free-form folk music, NV plays like the soundtrack to an otherworldly fairy tale, with foggy oscillations guiding the extrinsic myth. SoftAbuse-018 CD $11.50 Page France Page France And The Family Telephone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SuicideSqueeze LP $12.50 Page France Page France And The Family Telephone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US The band's fifth release in four years is the product of many hands, but the work of one heart. Principle songwriter Michael Nau's lyrics call to mind Dylan or Nilsson ghostwriting for Margo Guryan, all well-accompanied by a range of upbeat instrumentation. "Rich in melody and rife with dreamy natural/biblical imagery...Michael Nau's adolescent voice sweetly floats over occasional female backing vocals and sparse instrumentation (organ, glockenspiel, acoustic guitar)" - Spin. "Delicate chamber folk" - CMJ. "Spiritual-folk auteurs" - Alternative Press. "Pillowing melodies and effervescent hooks" - DIW. "Nestled within Page France's languid sound are Ben Fold's earnestness and a melodic sensibility reminiscent of early Neutral Milk Hotel" -Baltimore City Paper. SuicideSqueeze CD $13.25 Paley, Tom Beware Young Ladies! (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SWEDEN New recordings from underground folk legend Tom Paley, with special guest Bert Deivert, recorded in Sweden in early 2006. Tom has been recordings since the 50s! Tom Paley was born and raised in NYC, where he first fell in love with old-time music. He began playing guitar and 5-string banjo and quickly excelled at both instruments. He briefly performed in a duo with the great folk musician Woody Guthrie in the late 50s. Later he helped form The New Lost City Ramblers, with Mike Seeger and John Cohen. This group inspired a greater mainstream interest in traditional music. The Ramblers considered their live concerts primarily as opportunities to share great old songs they had discovered with their fellow folk performers. After The Ramblers broke up Paley formed The Old Reliable String Band (with Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose). Tom moved to Sweden, where he lived from 1963 to 1965, before moving to England where he has resided ever since. Tom continues to tour in America and Europe both solo and with other musicians. Gravitation-023 CD $12.00 Part Chimp CUP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Less than a year ago, PART CHIMP toured the United States bearing $99 guitars duct taped together, a ramshackle drumkit with pom poms, and stacks of junkyard amps...not really your optimum selection of rock gear. But, from the first click down on their octave pedals, Part Chimp laid into one of the most devastatingly awesome tours on which the MONITOR team has ever laid their eyes and ears. It was on this tour that we became aware that Part Chimp were the most under appreciated rock band active today. Who else plays this loud, with this much fury!?!? Part Chimp continues their course with their new Monitor release "CUP." A compilation only available in North America, "CUP" contains the new single "New Cross", rarities, alternative versions of past tracks, a previously unreleased cover of the BEATLES' "Wild Honey Pie", and two music videos. The album, just like the live show, is raw, raucous, and will just as easily rip your head off if the volume is adjusted correctly. Monitor-029 CD $11.00 Peter Bjorn And John Writer's Block [U.S. vinyl pressing] (PRICE TBC, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, US Details, price forthcoming. Of course we will find the nicest price possible. AlmostGold LP $0.00 Pjusk Sart (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Sart is the debut full-length cd from Norwegian duo Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik and Rune Sagevik, collectively known as Pjusk. First heard on 12k's Blueprints (12k1039) compilation, Pjusk's sound can be characterized as warm, dark, delicate, and wet. Sart builds a cavernous scape that listens like a surreal storybook, utilizing a combination of electronics, dub, rhythm, found sounds such as tape machine noise, fans, and ski lifts as well as field recordings from around the world. It is in their inspiration from very human events, such as private conversations, empty rooms, or smells that gives Pjusk's music a strangely familiar yet very disconnected and alien mood. They are very interested in the presence or disappearance of man and mankind's impact on nature, building on this dichotomy of tension as they create their work. Difficult to immediately classify, Pjusk carry on the organic and tonal tradition of 12k's recent output but twist it into darker and more narrative territory. Sart is a beautifully produced debut that clearly carves out the artists' own niche in electronic music. Pjusk is a duo from the westcoast of Norway. Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik started doing electronic music in the early nineties techno scene and layed live around the country with the Neural Network band. A dozen releases have since appeared both solo and in various bands. Most prominently the Circular project which relased several acclaimed albums on the same label as the Biosphere work of that era. Rune Andre Sagevik was an early party promoter way out in the vividly beautiful countryside in the deep fjords. He started doing electronic music a decade ago. The Pjusk project began when Jostein many years later heard one of these tracks on the radio. He liked it so much that he made contact with Rune and a fruitful, productive collaboration started in 2005. In the two years that have passed they have released work on compilations and their debut cd Sart, on 12k in New York. 12K-1042 CD $12.25 Pollard, Robert Silverfish Trivia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US New album from GBV/Budweiser guy. PromIsComing CD $10.00 Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Atlantic/WEA CD $15.25 Port Royal Afraid To Dance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 17TH) PS, UK The second album from the band who injected new life into the post-rock scene with their breathtaking debut "Flares" in 2005. For those unfamiliar with their debut, port-royal are anything but just another generic epic instrumental outfit; utilising subtle electronics and almost classical arrangements, they create lengthy, expansive, melancholic compositions that often have movements within the individual tracks, constantly evolving and shifting in tempo. Though "Afraid To Dance" follows the formula that made "Flares" such a success, it also displays sufficient progression to be more than just "Flares pt2"; though the same components are evident, the emphasis has shifted towards the electronic beats and pure rhythm that underpin their sound, bringing them to the forefront while the hypnotic spacerock guitars and synth gently weave melodies beneath. Full press push on what could be the biggest album on the label to date; journalists have been asking for promo copies ever since the release was listed on the Resonant website, so expect a wave of support. First UK tour dates to follow in the summer, with European dates being finalised now. Resonant-024 CD $14.25 Proem A Permanent Solution (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Richard Bailey and n5MD team up yet again, this time to release his 6th Proem studio album "A Permanent Solution". There is an undeniably classic IDM vibe to "A Permanent Solution", one that has been missing from the genre for some time. Ever present are the moments you have come to know, feel and respect of Bailey's music. However, Bailey tears the seam on the bag of atmospherics he's been hiding and pours the contents like thick syrup over every track. The Proem beatwork is intact but there is a much heavier emphasis on letting the backdrop propel the songs forward. There are people still superfluously creating this style of electronica but not with as much depth and style as Bailey projects into his music. "A Permanent Solution" is a perfect jump forward while still keeping true to the "Proem sound". n5MD-145 CD $12.00 Pterodactyl S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The songs on this record range from incessant and infectious ("Polio") to sparse and spacious ("Three Succeed") to epic and redemptive ("Esses"). Combining a noisy post-punk palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, PTERODACTYL'S first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound that is not easily forgotten. In 2006 Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau caught a performance of "Polio" at the tail end of Pterodactyl's set and ranked it the best "tail end" in a month of New York live shows, writing: "A 20-minute Dungen song deserved its 10-minute flute solo. The unknown Pterodactyl repeated the same climactic six-note riff for six minutes. This was so much better than that flute solo." Jagjaguwar/BrahRecords-011 CD $11.00 Pterodactyl S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The songs on this record range from incessant and infectious ("Polio") to sparse and spacious ("Three Succeed") to epic and redemptive ("Esses"). Combining a noisy post-punk palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, PTERODACTYL'S first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound that is not easily forgotten. In 2006 Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau caught a performance of "Polio" at the tail end of Pterodactyl's set and ranked it the best "tail end" in a month of New York live shows, writing: "A 20-minute Dungen song deserved its 10-minute flute solo. The unknown Pterodactyl repeated the same climactic six-note riff for six minutes. This was so much better than that flute solo." Jagjaguwar/BrahRecords-011 LP $9.50 Puzzleweasel Exo-Grid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 29TH) PS, CANADA Genre: Electronic/Breakcore. puzzleweasel's compositions are dense storms of, complex brain wave manipulating wonderment. Fusing breakcore and all things experimental and leaving your synapses tingling. puzzleweasel's music falls somewhere between Richard Devine and Otto Von Schirach, with an unabashed love of throbbing jungle basslines and futuresque electronic wizardry. Even though Exo-Grid is Puzzleweasel's debut full length album he has enjoyed the success of smaller releases on awesome labels like Tigerbeat6 and Violent Turd. Sublight-3501 CD $12.25 Reininger, Blaine L. Elektra / Radio Moscow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece. LTM-2482 CD $16.25 Remate No Land Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, SPAIN REMATE is a musician trained in classical music since was wearing short trousers and long socks. His first hero was a heroine, a skinny Bielorrusian piano teacher, who taught him how to play piano for hours without hurting his hands and wrists. The second hero was a Southafrican guitar teacher with a curly toupée, who instilled him the significance of the posture if you wish to turn into a good guitarist. After these pre-Olympics he became a singer-songwriter without limits: from folk to blues, from rock to gospel, from country to pop, always with the ambition of the one who knows that you must deserve your own influences, and that having style means much more than quoting other stylists. His distinctive features are, apart from playing piano avoiding pain, and having a good posture and/or a stance of defiance with the guitar... to be a very good singer, sometimes high-pitched ("Ballads Don't Change Things", 2004), and keen (also in person); at the beginning his voices sounded like a drunk Ry Cooder or between J. J. Cale and Neil Young; then (since "On Junk", 2005) a cocktail of Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and Wagner without Kurt (he would have a voice as cavernous as his operas). Lately his singing has been non dissimilar to Bob Dylan yapping in a small town library. The process, of course, finally turns up to Remate's signing to Acuarela for a brand new ouvre created like a labour of love. "No land Recordings", his new double album with 25 songs, is jam-packed with clouds of latex, giant wings, toxic passion, dinosaurs, enemies, falls, one-eyed singers, pain in vain, kitties and beautiful ladies, love at first sight, howls, fireflies, propeller beanies, TV shows, sports, calls, Superman, glowing colours, bankruptcy, tenderness, mends. Whereabouts are the best songs being born? Where do they grow up like unhappy children? Which are the shops where you can buy propeller beanies? Acuarela-1074 DCD $16.25 Rockey, Lee Lee Rockey Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 1ST) PS, US Portland Oregon, art museum, early 1976. In the auditorium, drums electric violin & cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre-recorded electronic skronks, flutes, & off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a Paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary & funny & beautiful. This was the 2nd (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances. Destijl-060 LP $16.00 Rumskib Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Darla is proud to release the debut record by Danish nu-gaze group Rumskib. Rumskib is the Odense, Denmark duo of Keith Canisius (Guitarist, Vocalist, Composer, Producer) and Tine Louise Kortermand (Singer). Keith produced the debut record with Jonas Munk (Manual), who programmed the beats, made the electronic sounds, and played synthesizer. Rumskib's debut record begins with a Simple Minds New Gold Dream style intro. A rough & repetitive MBV Loveless style guitar line kicks in. Next an aggressive baggy beat begins to pump making Rumskib sound nearly like Curve. Then a very lovely surprise: A very pretty, Lush style guitar change comes and simultaneously the wall of sound vocal harmonies begin - like Emma, Miki... and Bjork! There's no denying Rumskib are derivative, however, Rumskib has such command of all the genre's key sound elements and their own pop songs are so damn good the band gloriously claim the new shoegaze sound as their own. Rumskib's sound is at once modern and classic, blending a strong love for early 90s shoegazer bands such as Chapterhouse and Lush with the sensibilities of grand Scandinavian 80s pop such as A-Ha and Roxette, all flavored with harsh noise-rock guitars and crunchy micro-programmed beats. Sometimes their sound is up-tempo, almost danceable like The Cardigans meet St. Etienne. At other times their sound is thick, heavy, and romantic recalling The Cocteau Twins or Simple Minds. Rumskib manage to be both surrealist and accessible; complex but straight forward. Vocalist Tine Louise creates harmonies so beautiful one would think they came from some mysterious wonderland (or Victorialand?) and Keith Canisius' lyrical call & response guitar playing is intelligent and evocative. Combine all this with well crafted compositions and Jonas Munk's trademark head-spinning, multi-layered sound sculptures, and you've got a work of undeniable beauty. Track list: 01. Hearts On fire, 02. Springtime, 03. Dreampoppers Tribute, 04. Where Are The Flowers, 05. Ferris Wheel Blackout, 06. Think Eyes Away, 07. You're My Japan, 08. Sneak, 09. Crucial Love Games, 10. Ovation Outsiders, 11. Girl Afraid, 12. Love At First Sight. ""Re-evokes my dancing feet with the fragrance of Liz Fraser insanity there on top.. humm..There' s some serious celebration going on in Scandinavia now." -- SERENA MANEESH ""Springtime" kills, kills again, and then kills some more. And then bathes in in the blood of its own awesomeness." --JATUN Darla-164 CD $12.25 Run_Return Sum of an Abstract (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Before they took the Metro North Run_return did a little math...Sum of an Abstract is their little known self released first album. Now repressed by n5MD after a few years of unavailability this time around remastered and repackaged complete with 3 bonus tracks. A shining album of "futures passed" still sounding current, relevant, and true to form, galvanizing Run_return as a band that is as distinctive as it is timeless. You do the math and come up with your own sum... n5MD-146 CD $12.00 Satie, Erik Cubist Works 1913-1924 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), following the success of previous releases Vexations, Socrate, Musique de la Rose + Croix and Dada Works, on which we present selected Satie recordings with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde. Cubist Works offers four works composed by Satie between 1913 and 1924 for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as the seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). The 60 minute CD also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer and poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel and premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. The solo piano works on this CD are performed by Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward. LTM-2406 CD $16.25 Scientists Sedition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Ultra-high quality live recording from this legendary Australian garage-rock punk act. Recorded on May 11th, 2006 @ Shepherd's Bush Empire, London. Machine throb bass & drums w/ jagged car wreck guitars were their modus operandi. Fitting into no place or time, they spurned all but the most rudimentary & elemental of rock structures along w/ other people's modes of embellishment. Presented in super-deluxe souvenir packaging (like a moleskin book) w/ liner notes by Thurston Moore, Jon Spencer, Warren Ellis, Gareth Liddiard & Henry Rollins. ATP-024 CD $15.50 Sea And Cake Everybody (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Their first full-length in over four years continues to perfect their singular brand of dreamlike, hot-buttered pop music that sounds delicately handcrafted, yet effortless. Sheets of glowing guitar tones skip along propulsive percussion underscored by gently funky, introspective bass lines, all adorned by breathlessly delivered lines of lyrical poetry. ThrillJockey CD $14.00 Sea And Cake Everybody (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Section 25 Communicants (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, UK NTSC Region 0 DVD. Multi-region format. LTM is proud to announce a new live DVD Communicants from cult post-punk group Section 25, previously with Factory Records, whose brand new studio album Part-Primitive is released in May 2007. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984). Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 across Europe. Communicants offers a professional multi-camera shoot of their triumphant homecoming show at Blackpool Empress Ballroom in October 2006 (as guests of New Order), as well as bonus performances from Brussels, Dublin, Athens, Paris, London and Poulton. The 70 minute DVD also features interview material with Larry and Vin, and footage shot on the road. As well as SXXV classics Dirty Disco, Friendly Fires, New Horizon and Looking From A Hilltop, new songs Gene and Can't Let Go are also featured. Section 25 will be promoting Communicants with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new studio album, Part-Primitiv, is also available (LTMCD 2500). DVD $18.00 Section 25 Part-Primitiv (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK LTM is proud to announce a brand new studio album from cult post-punk group Section 25, who previously recorded four studio albums with the celebrated Factory Records label. Formed by Blackpool brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, Section 25 gigged extensively with Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, New Order and the original Factory stable, completed two North American tours, and recorded keynote albums Always Now (1981) and From The Hip (1984) with Martin Hannett and Bernard Sumner as the respective producers. Their sublime proto-techno single Looking From A Hilltop remains an oft-sampled club classic. Although Section 25 disbanded in 1986, core members Larry (bass/vocals), Vin (drums) and Jenny Cassidy (keyboards/vocals) regrouped in 2001, joined by guitarist Ian Butterworth (ex Tunnelvision) and multi-instrumentalist and engineer Roger Wikeley. Although work on the new album was set back by the untimely death of Jenny Cassidy in November 2004, the group began gigging again in May 2006 and have since visited France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Dublin, London and Poulton-le-Fylde. Part-Primitiv was produced by the band at West Orange Studio, Preston, in 2007. Stand-out tracks include Can't Let Go, Dream, Carbon and You Never Make Your Mind Up. As the title suggests, the new album combines raw post-punk power with retro-futurist electronics, including two tracks written and sung by Jenny. Section 25 will be promoting Part-Primitiv with further live shows, including an American tour in May 2007, and will also be following their memorable appearance in the 2006 documentary Shadowplayers with spots in upcoming documentaries on Factory (BBC4) and Joy Division. A new live DVD, Communicants, is also available (LTMDVD 2496). LTM-2500 CD $13.50 Shout Out Louds Tonight I Have To Leave It EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 2007) PS, SWEDEN Price might get better, it won't get worse. It could be this gets released here soon, will advise. Either way, this is the new single from the long-awaited new album, 'Our Ill Wills', produced by Peter Bjorn And John's Bjorn Yttling. EP features the title track, plus a Pogues cover with guest stars The Essex Green, along with remixes of the title by both Kleerup and The Russian Futurists. BudFox CD5 $8.00 Silver Daggers New High & Ord (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Load LP $14.50 Silver Daggers New High & Ord (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US They're a streamlined bullet to the brain from a unusually shaped pistol. W/ a new creep vibe running through the deserted subway tunnels of LA & emptying into ground zero center stages. They generate new sparks & suck you, the listener, into the tiny foam headphones. Indeed as a 6 piece band they operate as a single muscle. Future sound just in time for a culture caught in caustic feedback loops Load CD $14.50 Smegma 33 1/3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US 33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups. Their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original and highly influential. 33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of Happy Holidays live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) as well as Grubsteak live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago. Smegma. Seriously. They've been at it for so long now that you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. You can only say that others sound like them. They're all here on 33 1/3: Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id. The core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions. . While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere their influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. However, it's essential to remember that Smegma has never been noise for noise's sake. While they've had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget their rock roots as well. For this reason alone they're bound to not fit in anywhere. Influences aside, not matter how much everyone else sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. Nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence or sound into their work. They may just be the greatest American band. Ever. Important-145 CD $12.25 Smegma 33 1/3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US This vinyl edition of 33 1/3 is limited to 1000 copies on black, red, red/black split and red & black splatter vinyl. Includes a bonus track only available on the vinyl version. 33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups. Their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original and highly influential. 33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of Happy Holidays live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) as well as Grubsteak live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago. Smegma. Seriously. They've been at it for so long now that you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. You can only say that others sound like them. They're all here on 33 1/3: Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id. The core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions. While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere their influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. However, it's essential to remember that Smegma has never been noise for noise's sake. While they've had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget their rock roots as well. For this reason alone they're bound to not fit in anywhere. Influences aside, not matter how much everyone else sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. Nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence or sound into their work. They may just be the greatest American band. Ever. Important-145 LP $13.00 Smith, Elliott New Moon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Arguably the most gifted songwriter of his generation, Smith produced a large body of work that includes five solo albums and a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003. This double CD contains twenty-four songs recorded between 1994 and 1997, a prolific time in Elliott's career, when he recorded his self-titled album and "Either/Or". Like his other work, "New Moon" reflects the power of Smith's ability to integrate rich, melodic music with poetic, multi-layered lyrics. KillRockStars DCD $16.50 Smith, Elliott New Moon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! KillRockStars DLP $16.50 Snider, Todd The Devil You Know (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US First DVD collection features tons of live footage, unreleased videos and bonus live rehearsal footage plus the short film "Come East to Nashville." The CD garnered year end Top 50s from Blender, Rolling Stone & No Depression. NewDoor DVD $15.50 Stafraenn Hakon Gummi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, UK Much-anticipated brand new full length from one of the leading lights of Iceland's burgeoning alternative music scene, following 2004's "Ventill/Poki" and the accompanying debut UK tour. Stafraenn Hakon is the pseudonym of Olafur Josephsson, and "Gummi" is his fourth album release for UK indie Resonant - the first two effectively being full releases for his bedroom recordings. While "Ventill/Poki" represented his first material recorded with a supporting cast - a progression that was very evident in comparison to his previous output - "Gummi" marks a further giant leap forward in every respect. Having established himself as a predominantly instrumental artist, Josephsson will surprise many with the inclusion of six full vocal tracks among the nine included here - featuring Birgir Hilmarsson (Blindfold/Ampop) on five tracks and Efterklang's Casper Clausen on one, alongside other guest musicians and collaborators. While recognising the need to constantly evolve in order to maintain and expand upon your audience, the key elements that have always marked out Stafraenn Hakon from the crowded post-rock platform are still very much in place; delicate, intricate instrumentation and atmospherics, building slowly and organically, drawing in the listener. Sure to be his biggest album to date, "Gummi" is housed in a full colour CD wallet featuring stunning hand-drawn artwork, and will be supported by UK tour dates around the release. Resonant-023 CD $15.00 Stevens, Sufjan Seven Swans (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US When thinking about re-issuing the vinyl version of "Seven Swans," SUFJAN and I decided to look back at some of the unmixed tracks that didn't make the cut for the record. I went back to the 1/4" 8 track tapes and made rough mixes of these recordings to play for Sufjan. "Seven Swans" was actually recorded before "Michigan", so we had an early version of "Romulus" that Sufjan had decided didn't work with the album. Also we had a song "Borderline" which ended up on a Rough Trade 7". The two remaining songs, "I Went Dancing With My Sister" and "Waste Of What Your Kids Won't Have," were great fun to hear again. I put bass lines down on them and mixed them up for Sufjan to hear. We liked what we heard, but felt that they still belong separate from the album. So here we are with the vinyl re-issue of "Seven Swans." It's an album that I so proud to have been part of and still enjoy listening to. THE VINYL MASTERING IS BETTER, THE VINYL IS THICKER, THE COVER IS MATTE INSTEAD OF SHINY, AND IT'S GOT A BONUS 7" OF TWO SUFJAN SONGS FROM THE "SEVEN SWANS" SESSIONS THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY OTHER FORMAT. Get a new needle for your turntable and enjoy. SoundsFamilyre-018 LP $13.75 Submerged Stars Lights The End (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, CANADA SUBMERGED teams up with Grammy award winning producer BILL LASWELL, avant-garde Japanese trumpeter TOSHINORI KONDO and drummer GUY LICATA a second time to give us the follow up to last years Method of Defiance "The Only Way To Go Is Down" album and his first solo titled album SUBMERGED "STARS LIGHTS THE END". Once again we find bass arrangements of infinite complexity by Bill Laswell mashing with Kondo's horns while distorted guitars and abrasive synths battle against one another all the while producing a perfect fusion between instrumental and software generated music. "Guy Licata, is a monster, he has got the skills to compete with any software geek in beat mangling, reaching easily two hundred BPMs." - Igloo Magazine. Submerged "Stars Lights The End" keeps Method of Defiance's hard edged drum n bass blasts, experimental dub and jazz elements only this time leans slightly toward a more aggresive sound than "The Only Way to Go Is Down". Stars Lights The End features bruising sound edits and beat contributions from Corrupt Souls, D`nee and Mark Filip. Expect extreme high quality sound again courtesy of Michael Fossenkemper who also mastered Method Of Defiance's "The Only Way To Go is Down". Sublight-3701 CD $12.25 Svoy Eclectric (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US Unique singer/songrwiter who mixes richly textured electronic sounds, yearning pop melodies & articulate poetry-Electronica from a romantic's point of view. CF Postal Service, Imogen Heap, Thom Yorke. Rendezvous CD $13.75 Swan, Astrid Poverina (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US Swan's piano-centric pop songs sometimes recall the confessional tones of Laura Nyro, Regina Spektor, and Rufus Wainwright, but comparisons still can't come close to describing her unique vision. With an appearance by Jimi Tenor (techno's first cabaret star), "Poverina" proves there's no limit to where Astrid or her music will go. "She gets the delicate, fluttery most out of the ebonies and ivories while spilling her non-metallic Finnish guts" - Harp. MintyFresh CD $11.50 Tare, Avey & Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PawTracks-015 LP $14.50 Tare, Avey & Kria Brekkan Pullhair Rubeye (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US DAVE PORNER of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE & KRISTIN ANNA VALTYSDOTTIR of MUM met a few yrs back & started playing music together in the summer of '05. Recently they married & now live together in NYC. Recorded their debut collaboration w/ guitars & piano on an 8 track in their practice space in Brooklyn. This is a motley collection of fun & somber songs. Some of the tracks are instrumental, textured, & trancelike. They sound like they could come from another world. Other songs are lyrically based, calmer, more introspective. PawTracks-015 CD $14.50 Tears Run Rings Question & An Answer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US It would be difficult to avoid comparing this dense, sweeping production to shoegaze veterans Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine-- but this is not imitation or ritual. TRR have artfully defined their sound with a subtly seldom expressed by their predecessors. The title track is guided by beautifully layered guitars & controlled noise, at times bursting with rich detail. It dazzles with emotions that swirl up into a crescendo of distortion & ambient sound. Elsewhere, the distinct poppiness of "Blur the Lines" & "Tomorrow" is underlined with a sadness fashioned of boy-girl harmonies. 5 song CDEP in digipak. DisasterClub/Shelflife-001 CD5 $8.75 Teeth You're My Lover Now (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US . While the studio sound of The Teeth has been compared to the Beatles, early Bowie & Elvis Costello, the band's live performance has been likened to the Minutemen, Pavement, & even the Stooges. Thunderous bass lines, roaring brass sections, hand claps, foot stomps, jangly guitars, growls, screams & of course those ever so beautiful harmonies that Teeth fans know & love, not to mention enough ideas to drive you insane. ParkTheVan-014 CD $13.75 Tennis, Whiting Three Leaf Clover (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Like the end of a long road-trip with The Velvet Underground if Neil Young was in the drivers seat. Hypnotic yet grounded & perhaps a little dangerous, renowned visual-artist WTs music picks up in that middle-ground where those like Galaxie 500 & M. Ward have left off. WT takes simple, everyday events & concepts and turns them into exquisite moments while not falling into the trappings of dwelling on himself or looking for attention. These apartment recordings are somehow more potent, more stark & personal than live shows. The absence of drums on well over half of the record brings you closer to the songwriting. You can hear the empty room. The subtle noises & hums, the alarm bells, sudden crashes & simulated bird calls are all allowed to exist as part of the composition. Tarnished-708 CD $11.00 Thee More Shallows Book of Bad Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Follow-up to 2005's well loved "More Deep Cuts." The band takes a minimalist approach to producer & arranger DEE KESLER'S precisely charted, near-orchestral post-pop & the result plays like a film, moving fluidly through rich pop atmospheres & epic proggy depths with slightly twanged lyrics. Anticon-072 CD $15.00 Toad S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Legendary first release by this 1970s power-rock blues band, considered a must have by fans & collectors alike. Originally released in 1971, this album (mixed by Martin Birch of Deep Purple and Iron Maiden fame) showed to the world the talent of three young musicians. Akarma-083 CD $15.75 Trembling Blue Stars The Last Holy Writer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, SPAIN "The last holy writer" is the sixth album by TREMBLING BLUE STARS, thesecond one released worldwide through Elefant Records. This album is dark,intimate, melancholic and cloudy, but every now and then there are rays ofsunshine coming through the clouds, riding sunny melodic breezes. SLOWDIVE and THE CURE are still good references for this music, but they are toolimited to describe the unique sound of TREMBLING BLUE STARS, a sound that'sready to mingle melodic, sensitive pop with many electronic sounds,distortions, noises, static and even field recordings that envelope thesongs with a nostalgic halo. On one song, percussion is provided byfootsteps on dry branches and shingles, and on another song a recording of dawn on the Romney Marsh provides the backdrop. THE RAIN PARADE, MAZZY STAR and GALAXIE 500 come up here and there: on this album there's folk, andthere's electronica and 80's influences and avant country and, of course,there's the best pop music you can hear. There's no doubt you will fall inlove again with Bobby Wratten's music. They have hit the target again. "The last holy writer" is the proof that one of the most influential bands in indie-pop is at its most creative, daring and inspired, now more concentrated than ever in writing the most beautiful popsongs you've heard for ages. Highly recommended! Elefant-1126 CD $13.00 Trembling Blue Stars The Last Holy Writer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) (2X10") PS, SPAIN "The last holy writer" is the sixth album by TREMBLING BLUE STARS, thesecond one released worldwide through Elefant Records. This album is dark,intimate, melancholic and cloudy, but every now and then there are rays ofsunshine coming through the clouds, riding sunny melodic breezes. SLOWDIVE and THE CURE are still good references for this music, but they are toolimited to describe the unique sound of TREMBLING BLUE STARS, a sound that'sready to mingle melodic, sensitive pop with many electronic sounds,distortions, noises, static and even field recordings that envelope thesongs with a nostalgic halo. On one song, percussion is provided byfootsteps on dry branches and shingles, and on another song a recording of dawn on the Romney Marsh provides the backdrop. THE RAIN PARADE, MAZZY STAR and GALAXIE 500 come up here and there: on this album there's folk, andthere's electronica and 80's influences and avant country and, of course,there's the best pop music you can hear. There's no doubt you will fall inlove again with Bobby Wratten's music. They have hit the target again. "The last holy writer" is the proof that one of the most influential bands in indie-pop is at its most creative, daring and inspired, now more concentrated than ever in writing the most beautiful popsongs you've heard for ages. Elefant-1126-1/2 10 $16.00 Two Bands & A Legend S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The meeting between THE THING & CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE started at the Kongsberg Jazz festival in Norway in 2004, when The Thing was offered the chance to invite their favorite rock band Cato Salsa Experience, for a special collaboration. The show was a success & this also led to the critically acclaimed EP "Sounds Like A Sandwich". It was immediately decided that the two bands & the legend should go into studio to record a full length album. On the album the bands do their own versions of tracks like "Who The Fuck" by PJ Harvey, "Baby Talk" by James Blood Ulmer among others. The CD is the perfect pairing of the dirty 60s influenced free-jazz that of The Thing and the raw & minimalistic garage rock of Cato Salsa Experience. Most tracks on this album was recorded in one take only with no overdubs. SmalltownSuperjazz-104 CD $14.50 Unrecognizable Now In a Cave or a Coma (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, US Reference Points: múm, lali puna, brian eno, the books, air, to rococo rot, tristeza, album leaf, boards of canada, fennesz, matmos, neu, tortoise, do make say think, bjork, aphex twin, dntel, languis. Overview: Unrecognizable Now is the duo of Marcus Fischer and Matthew Jones, two young men from North Portland who blend organic instruments and field recordings into an evolving collage of melodies and rhythms with their laptops. You may have seen or heard Marcus's work before: He has designed album covers for various bands on K Records out of Olympia, Washington; has handled live projections for Hovercraft (remember Eddie Vedder's ex-wife?); and has styled Adidas products for the past few years. You also may have seen him drumming in the Sleater Kinney side-project named Tommy, or one of many other Olympia bands. Unrecnow's live shows have hypnotized Portland residents with projected film paintings, layers of real-time xylophone, drums, guitar sinews, sine waves and glitches. Now you can enjoy this experience in your home. Enhanced CD also contains an ice-themed video directed by Rob Tyler. If you read Wire magazine, enjoy going to Cologne, or if you are a fan of music straddling post and electronic worlds, you will love in a cave or a coma. Pehr-032 CD $9.00 Van Doesburg, Petro Repertoire De Stijl: Bauhaus: Dada (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK LTM are pleased to present an overview of the avant-garde piano repertoire of Pétro van Doesburg, performed at various De Stijl, Dada and Bauhaus soirees in Europe between 1920 and 1925. Born in Holland in 1899, Pétro met De Stijl movement founder and propagandist Theo van Doesburg in 1920. Over the next decade the couple lived in Wiemar (where Theo was associated with the influential Bauhaus art and architecture school) and then Paris. A Conservatory-trained pianist, Pétro accompanied her husband's lectures with selected modernist piano pieces, and also performed at Salon Dada soirees organised by Theo with Kurt Schwitters in Holland and Germany in 1922/23. Following Theo's death in 1931, Pétro established the De Stijl archive and was a buyer for Peggy Guggenheim. She died in 1975. The material on this 76 minute CD includes pieces by Erik Satie, Josef Matthias Hauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger and Jacob van Domselaer, whose austere Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913-17) offers an application of Piet Mondrian's neo-plastic principles to musical composition. The music is performed by noted Dutch pianist Peter Beijersbergen van Henegouwen. The CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward. LTM-2495 CD $16.25 Vapnet Något Dåligt Nytt Har Hänt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 17TH) PS, SWEDEN Vapnet doesn't stray too far from the band's effervescent pop compositions, although it does sound like they've tidied up the arrangement for their guest Jens Lekman, that features on one of the tracks. Bells, flute, melodica, guitar, and that show-stealing sax blow kisses to one another over a percolating beat, goosing the stop/start melody to that exuberant filigree that leads so joyously into the chorus. Despite the exuberance of the music, an undercurrent of melancholy runs through it. Hybris-048 CD $9.50 Various A Young Person's Guide To Compact (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH) PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM are pleased to announce a remastered CD edition of the highly collectible label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1982. Founded in London in 1981, The Compact Organisation was the brainchild of composer-svengali Tot Taylor. Chic, cheerful and redolent of hip New York label Ze, Compact's stylish and stylized roster included ice-cool Swedish model agent Virna Lindt, Neasden soul queen Mari Wilson, funk contenders Shake/Shake, American retro diva Miss Cynthia Scott and ironic pop artists The Beautiful Americans. All these and more are featured on the wonderful label compilation A Young Person's Guide to Compact. Originally released as a double album in a bespoke limited edition box (copies now sell for over £1000), the album rounds up early singles on the label as well as key album tracks. Rarities include the non-album singles Model Agent and Young & Hip by Virna Lindt, and a live version of Rave by Mari Wilson, recorded at a Compact showcase in London in October 1981. The remastered 71 minute CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and Compact ephemera from the box set, as well as detailed liner notes by Tot Taylor. LTM-2488 CD $16.25 Various Thank You For Being You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 17TH) PS, US A compilation of scottish independent labels - 1980 - present. Electric Honey, the label set up by students at Glasgow's Stow College, are set to release a unique compilation of tracks from Scottish Independent labels from 1980 to present on the 12th of May 2007. Featuring twelve tracks from the likes of Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Josef K, Fire Engines, Future Pilot AKA and relative new comers How To Swim, this compilation hopes to highlight the wealth and diversity of Scottish independent labels that have supported and nurtured the Scottish underground scene from 1980 to 2000 approx. From the first flourishes of post-punk activity from the legendary Postcard and Fast Product/Pop Aural labels, through to the present with labels as diverse as Chemikal Underground and Geographic, Scottish independents continue to receive international recognition. Belle & Sebastian came to public prominence with the release of their debut album, 'Tigermilk', released in 1996 on Stow College's Electric Honey label. 1,000 of the album were cut, with the vinyl - only release selling out before being deleted. This led to a bidding frenzy on internet auction-sites, with one American fan paying $1,200 Dollars for a copy On the back of the Electric Honey release, Belle & Sebastian were signed to Jeepster Records and their 2nd album, "If You're Feeling Sinister", cemented their critical reputation and proved to be a commercial success. Further albums on Jeepster resulted in the group building a massive international following, before singing to legendary London independent label Rough Trade for their 2003 album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress".Students on Glasgow's Stow College HND Music Business course are involved with three labels; Electric Honey, Gdansk, and Root8. Through their involvement, students gain invaluable knowledge and experience of the machinations of the music industry, covering all aspects from legal, artistic, to promotion. Tutored by Douglas MacIntyre, head of the Creeping Bent Organisation, itself an influential independent label over the last ten years, the course covers many grounds...culturally, musically and socially and thus Electric Honey is probably (almost certainly) the most successful College label in the world. Tracklisting: 1. Belle & Sebastian - 'She's Losing It' (Electric Honey) 2. Teenage Fanclub - 'Fallen Leaves' (Pema) 3. Josef K - 'It's Kinda Funny' (Postcard circa 1980) 4. King Creosote - 'King Bubbles In Sand' (Fence) 5. The Delgados - 'Monica Webster' (Chemikal Underground) 6. Fire Engines - 'Get Up & Use Me' (Codex / Fast / Pop Aural) 7. The Pastels - 'The Viaduct' (Domino/Geographic) 8. Frank Blake - 'Any Way The Wind Blows' (Shoeshine) 9. The Nectarine No9 - 'Saint Jack ' (Postcard circa 1995) 10. Future Pilot AKA - 'Eyes of Love' (Creeping Bent) 11. Bill Wells Trio - 'Singleton' (Geographic) 12. How To Swim - 'Logical Man' (Electric Honey) ElectricHoney-702 CD $16.25 Various The Camp Burlesque Original Soundtrack Album [CD+DVD] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE EARLY 2007) PS, US Features songs and performances by Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, Dave Alvin, Big Sandy, Peter Case, John Doe, Rick Vito, Tito & Tarantula, the Cruzados (featuring Bob Dylan), the Martini Kings, and many more. Initial pressing will include the movie on DVD. BirdSong-102 CD $11.00 Various SC100 SC100 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US This is Secretly Canadian's 100th release, finally stamped and shipped out on its 11-year anniversary. All artists who issued recordings from SC01 (JUNE PANIC, "Glory Hole") to SC99 (SWEARING AT MOTORISTS, "Last Night Becomes This Morning") were up for inclusion to cover a song by a label mate via the ol' names-in-a-hat method. So step back a bit just a few years and settle in or dust off those old SC albums to refresh with the originals. While the pre-SC100 discography is packed with Indiana heavies, there have been extended stays and shack-ups in Bloomington by most of the SC roster, be it a few days, or monthly rates at the College Inn, or even more permanent. No one wants to get hokey here, but this is a communal gathering, a family jamboree where each takes a turn, fugs it up a smidge, and pays homage to tourmates of past, or in some takes, to personal strangers. SecretlyCanadian-100 CD $11.00 Veils Nux Vomica [enhanced] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US RoughTrade CD $15.25 Vibracathedral Orchestra Wisdom Thunderbolt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US First widely available VCO release since 2003, and this is their most rocking ever! VHF-102 CD $13.25 Voxtrot S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PlayLouder LP $13.25 Voxtrot S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US It's refreshing to find a band that's not terribly worried about being the next big thing. Over the five years of their existence, Voxtrot have released fewer than twenty songs spread across two hard to find 7-inch singles and three EPs. And it's on the strength of those literate, memorable songs, plus a series of increasingly tight and vibrant live shows, that they've built a devoted and passionate following. The twelve songs on this record are a powerful statement of intent: louder, harder, a little more complex, a more confident Voxtrot. "...a Texas band who could nudge the heights of soulful UK indie poppers like Aztec Camera and the Beautiful South" - Spin. "Voxtrot write whip-smart pop rock" - Pitchfork. PlayLouder CD $13.25 Voyces, The Kissing Like It's Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US After one listen to The Voyces Planting Seeds Records' debut -"Kissing Like It's Love" - and you'll be hooked to their glowing tuneful style. The band echoes the sounds of pop music's past as well as its ever so fervent future. Principal songwriter Brian Wurschum creates the well crafted pop song, recalling the mid 60's era of The Beatles, the folk rock of Simon & Garfunkel, and the 70's mini rock epics ala Pink Floyd. Their style maybe placed in a box and labeled anywhere from: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic Folk Rock, New York Folk, and everywhere in between. The sunny California shine of the title track "Kissing Like It's Love" launches the groups long awaited LP with it's sugary sweet chorus. The soft ballad "Hair Up High" follows with its elegant smooth guitar strums and the band's signature harmonies. The majestic beauty of "Call It Home" continues the album's melodic element, while the introspective acoustic interlude "Please Wash Away" appears with its stripped down heartfelt vocals, acoustic guitar and light piano taps. "Humming" chimes in with one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear this decade - instantly memorable. "Top Of My Lungs," showcases even more of the Wurschum magic: Jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and a song destined to be a classic. The album's closing number - the delicate "Where The Little Girls Still Throw Roses," features Brian's warm vocal, light guitar picking and makes for the perfect ending. Whether blending funky pop, epic rockers or near psychedelia, "Kissing Like It's Love" collects ten tracks of pure pop heaven you're sure to fall for. The Voyces are led by singer/songwriter Brian Wurschum (Guitar, Vocals) and also features Jude Kastle (Vocals), Frank Careno (Bass), Steve Dawson (Lead Guitar) and Eric Puente (Drums). The band was formed in 1999, with its origins in Southern California. Brian and company later moved east to New York City and was quickly embraced by the east villages' anti-folk scene. The Voyces have shared stages with acts as diverse as America, Cracker, and Regina Spektor among countless others - while frequenting venues (both in California and New York) such as the famed Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge, The Knitting Factory and The Roxy. Live dates are sure to follow in support of "Kissing Like It's Love." The Voyces have created an impressive catalog of music. Their first self released LP, 2003's "The Angels Of Fun" showcased their fine blend of folk rock and celestial harmonies. The acoustic gem "Relate To Me" was featured on Jack Johnson's Motion Picture Soundtrack, "Thicker Than Water" (2003) furthering the groups worldwide fan base. They followed in 2004 with an appearance on Planting Seeds Records critically acclaimed collection "Sunsets And Silhouettes," which also features amazing performances from Linda Draper, Camera Obscura, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Freeheat (Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus & Mary Chain) among the 18 tracks. In 2006 the band contributed the song "Poor Little Fool" to a loving tribute to rock legend and country rock pioneer Rick Nelson, titled "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" - with performances from pop Icons Marshall Crenshaw, Jeffrey Foskett (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson), John Beland (Flying Burrito Brothers), Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Primary 5 (ex Teenage Fanclub) and many more. The band also released "Love Arcade" in 2006 - a collection of the bands hits, demos, and fan favorites. PlantingSeeds-049 CD $12.25 Weatherbox American Art (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Thirteen songs of swelling love and bear-like strength. A stunning first step from this San Diego band destined for greatness. Gigantic guitar hooks and earth-shattering drum work seem to burst through a cloud of smoke, all while the vocalist provides a hefty dose of eclectic melodies with lyrics that harkens back to a bygone psychedelic era. With equal parts prog-rock and symphonic guitar ambience, "American Art" makes an undeniable statement. Doghouse CD $12.50 Wheat Everyday I Said A Prayer For Kathy And Made A One Inch Square (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND) PS, US Their fourth full-length marks a splendid return to the incandescent form that yielded Wheat's bumper crop of masterworks that included 1997's "Medeiros" and 1999's indie-pop gem, "Hope And Adams". They've shared the stage with everyone from Death Cab For Cutie to Oasis to The Flaming Lips and have toured all over the world, including back to back performances on Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Last Call With Carson Daly. Wheat are favorites among film and TV music supervisors and have had many high profile placements including on (Wheat fan) Cameron Crowe's highly visible "Elizabethtown", where the band was also featured on the soundtrack. Empyrean CD $13.25 White/Lichens S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Collaboration between White/ Light's MATT CLARK & JEREMY LEMOS & Lichens' ROBERT LOWE. Improvisational feedback-drenched drone-jams. HolyMountain-5645 CD $13.25 Wolf, Patrick The Magic Position (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 1ST) PS, US PITCHFORK 8.3! Our boy has grown up! Latest engaging violin, electronics, kitchen sink pastiche pop album from the wunderkind with roots stretching from PJ Harvey to Stockhausen & Chet Baker to English folk music. Digipak. LowAltitude CD $11.25 Wright, Shannon Let In The Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, US Wright takes the clarity and artistic sensibility of Lou Reed, mixes them with the subdued simplicity of Erik Satie and the explosive abilities of Jimmy Page, and emerges as her own artist. On this, her first album in three years, Shannon finally lets herself go and allows the time and emotional space to create the record she really wanted to make. It's earnest and sympathetic, open and vulnerable, and her most revealing work yet. Quarterstick CD $13.25 Young Galaxy S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US The creative confluence of kindred spirits, STEPHEN RAMSAY (vocals/guitar) & CATHERINE MCCANDLESS (vocals/keyboards). Their sound is kaleidoscopic, w/ heavy tones & hypnotic male/female vocals. Like their namesake, they have borne something concrete of something abstract & ephemeral. Arts&Crafts-022 CD $15.00 Young Gods Super Ready/Fragmente (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Ground breakers for 20 years, these Swiss music geniuses have been at the forefront of music & sampling technology since their inception, exploring organic experimentation, classical derivation (even covering Kurt Weil), & electronic excess--forever on the edge of creation. One of the few groups to remain consistently relevant, engaging & surprising for the last two decades. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Ipecac-088 CD $16.00 ZMF Trio Circle the Path (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US This straddles the lines somewhere between old-school free jazz, contemporary composition & improvisation. Despite its uncompromising & aggressive tendencies, it manages to reach moments of serene beauty & contemplation. The recording was created a mere 4 days after the groups first moments of making music together; a youthful & dangerous spirit is contained within. DripAudio-21562 CD $14.50 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Brother Reade “Northcack Aphonicrobotic Killatracktonic” CD $6.75 Bulemics “Still Too Young To Care” CD $16.00 Carlberg, Pelle “In A Nutshell” CD $14.75 Cibo Matto “Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto” CD $17.25 Cunniff, Jill “City Beach” CD $12.50 Damon “Song of a Gypsy (LP + 7")” LP $25.00 Drawing Voices “S/T” CD $12.50 Evripidis And His Tragedies “Self-Titled” CD $15.00 Fall, The “Post-TLC Reformation! [enhanced]” CD $13.75 Field, The “From Here We Go Sublime” CD $14.00 Fingered “DVDZINE” DVD/ZINE $12.75 Geisha Girls “Disappearing Act” CD $10.00 Germans “Cape Fear” CD $14.00 Hail Social “Modern Love & Death” CD $11.00 Land Of Talk “Applause Cheer Boo Hiss” CD $8.00 LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver (ON SALE)” CD $12.00 Locust, The “New Erections” CD $12.50 Loeb, Lisa & Elizabeth Mitchell “Catch the Moon [re-issue CD+DVD]” CD $14.00 Loney, Dear “The City, The Airport” 45 $3.50 Loudest Whisper “The Children of Lir” CD $15.00 Pierces, The “Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge” CD $14.00 Ponys “Laced With Romance” LP $8.75 Ponys, The “Turn Out The Lights” LP $12.25 Ponys, The “Turn Out The Lights” CD $11.50 Record Collector “#335” ZINE $14.00 Sea, The “The Boats Are In The Bay” CD $11.50 Shins “From Tugboats To Polar Bears: Short films by Matt McCormick” DVD $16.25 Sun Ra “Toward The Stars” CD $14.25 Various “Cherrystones Word” CD $11.25 Various “Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label” CD $16.00 Various “Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation” DCD $21.00