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New Releases

A Weather
Cove
PS, US Like a postcard from the green & gray environs of Portland, this is moody & warm, rife w/ odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self & hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. The songs are marked w/ an intimacy so striking that it feels like you're eavesdropping on the pillow talk of 2 forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

A Weather
Cove
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove
LP
$12.50

Acid Mothers Temple
Never Ending Space Ritual
PS, US The acid mothers DVD "never ending space ritual _ history of " is finally complete. A 2 DVD set over 4 1/2 hours long covering the entire history from early days in Japan to recent footage, guest appearances, interview with Mankato plus other extras. disc 1. traces the band through its first decade featuring very rare early footage and special guest appearances from members of Ruins, Afrirampo, Guru Guru and others. Disc 2. Includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with ocitan queen of song rosina de peira, pink lady lemonade medley, dark star blues and other AMT epics, an exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto, live cuts of amt related units _ Acid Mother Temple And The Cosmic Inferno, SWR, Guru Guru, and Acid Mothers Gong. Also extra features. Ltd run of 1000.
Swordfish-DVD1/2
2XDVD
$42.00

Adorable
Footnotes: Best Of (92-94)
PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives.
CherryRed-327
CD
$15.50

AM Syndicate
Liberation
PS, US Sophomore effort from Austin TX based band. Formed in the Spring 2004 by Omar Chavez of RHYTHM OF BLACK LINES, AM Syndicate's sound is a constantly evolving musical experiment - both catchy and challenging - which is often described as a cross between the Arcade Fire and the Animal Collective. "The mesmerizing lushness that has always propelled AM Syndicate's music is pervasive and all-encompassing on Liberation. (The album) is a musical force that deserves recognition." - Austin Sound RECOMMENDED
Novastar
CD
$10.50

Aspen Woods
New World Disorder
PS, US Aspen Woods debut 70 minute 10 track debut LP will be released on Razorblade records (home of Bristol shoegazers Secret Shine www.secretshine.co.uk and liverpudlian acoustic artist Vincent Callan). Covering subjects ranging from the ritual sacrifice of Princess Diana in 'Passing of a Moon Goddess' to the unbreakable mother and son bond in 'The Witch's Son', the woods have recorded as much of the album as possible live using traditional recording techniques, to capture the guts and spirit of their live shows much the same way as the bands influences would have done so in the hazy 60s and 70s. Latchman Manghat (whose previous works include the celebrated great lost HEADS psychedelic album and Julian Cope favorite 'At last' that was 'er never... lost!) at Rolling Rex Studios has engineered and expertly, painstakingly co-produced the album with the band. For the Woods its as much about the journey as well the destination, just like how you choose to live your life - there are too many people prepared to step on too many people to get to where they want - only to realize their not happy when they get there. Getting where you want is nothing without putting in the hard graft to feel the satisfaction. People want things to easy in this day an age, without being prepared to work for it or care about who they step on the way. US distribution has been secured with Tonevendor, and the band are now seeking UK distribution aiming for a February 29th '08 release date and live dates to be announced throughout 2008 after the band return from the US. Homing their psychedelic crafts on a fruitful Bristolian live scene. The band have played memorable psychedelic hypnotic wig out sets at the legendary Espionage club and the world famous Cube cinema (check the live footage over at www.aspenwoods.co.uk) and have supported a wide variety of bands from Italian space rockers UFO Mammut to Japan's instrumental wonders Mono. Marketing plans for the album will be advertisements and media assault on the major alternative music press UK and US.
Razorblade-05
CD
$15.75

Atlas Sound/Mexcellent
Fractal Trax/Cornbread Jungle
PS, US Atlas Sound is the solo moniker for Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox. Surface noise & dust-bunnies-on-the-needle beats along w/ strung-out ambiance, creating an atmosphere of dirty & drug-addled bliss. Side B is a bleak, industrial slur. Voices & vaguely recognizable samples melt into a magnificent jumble of blackened & abstract beats, chopped, screwed & drowning in morphine reverberation.
Hoss
LP
$13.00

Auburn Lull
Begin Civil Twilight
PS, US One of the most hauntingly beautiful, ethereal pop records ever created. Auburn Lull are a dream pop/space rock band from the East Lansing, Michigan area and are in fact the Michigan space rock scene's core. Begin Civil Twilight is Auburn Lull's third and best album and the first completely self-produced album by "The Lull". Imagine The Moody Blues produced by Eno, if Slowdive originally wrote and recorded Surrealistic Pillow, or perhaps Seefeel on a good sedative/hypnotic. Fellow dream popper Ulrich Schnauss mixed one track and did treatments on two others. Auburn Lull is guitarists Sean Heenan, Jason Kolb, Eli Wekenman, and drummer Jason Wiesinger. The quartet came together out of a shared affection for bands like Seefeel, Flying Saucer Attack, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark, and the 4AD and Creation Records aesthetic. In 1997, the band released the Dual Group EP, a split release with Mahogany, which John Peel played on his BBC radio program. Their debut full-length debut Alone I Admire was initially released on local independent record label Burnt Hair in 1999, sold out, and was then reissued by Darla Records in 2002. Their second record Cast From The Platform (Darla) was released in 2004. Regions Less Parallel: Early Works And Rarities 1996-2004, which compiles band's highly collectible singles, EPs and stray compilation tracks plus two previously unreleased tracks was released by Darla in 2005. Auburn Lull are planning to tour in support of Begin Civil Twilight in 2008. TRACKLIST: 1. Light Through The Canopy 5:18, 2. Dub1 3:28, 3. Broken Heroes 4:31, 4. Grange Arcade 5:43, 5. Civil Twilight 5:11, 6. Axis Nears 3:45, 7. November's Long Shadows 4:26, 8. Stanfield Echo 4:07, 9. Coasts 4:38, 10. Geneva 1:54, 11. Arc Of An Outsider 3:58, 12. Hidden3 9:54.
Darla-184
CD
$12.25

Autechre
Quaristice
PS, UK New album of clicktronica from veteran ambienteers. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "at 73 minutes in length, most of the 20 tracks are more like vignettes, yet the ideas arrive fully formed, never appearing to be dashed off or loosely sketched. The variety of ideas is nearly imposing, the best of which include the deadened chiming and clanging of "Simmm," the stealth jitter of "Tankakern," the Drexciya-worthy pitch-black neo-electro of "Rale," and the handful of stunning and duly swarthy ambient tracks -- especially the closing 12 minutes shared by the chilling "Notwo" and "Outh9x" tandem. A couple moments, unsurprisingly, border on the inscrutable, with "Fol3" sounding like a collage of car collisions and slammed doors smeared and backmasked for nearly four minutes, and "bnc Cstl" more like a hyper-speed gag of sound effects, its high hats and snares tucked deeply into the mix. While it can take some time to get a handle on its generous stream of components, Quaristice is far from just another Autechre album. Not since LP5 has being impressed been so obviously secondary to enjoyment."
Warp
CD
$16.25

Autistic Daughters
Uneasy Flowers
PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements.
Kranky-115
CD
$12.25

Axelrod, David
Seriously Deep
PS, UK In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America's most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually attributed to Miles Davis - that of jazz-fusion, his reputation was cemented by his remarkable productions with Cannonball Adderley, David McCallum and Lou Rawls and by the religious albums Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath he created with the Electric Prunes. He was talked up by Frank Zappa and Sly Stone; George Harrison wanted him to record for Apple and Allen Ginsberg wanted him to set Howl! to music! His genius began to be re-discovered in the mid-nineties through the sampling by such hip-hop and dance record producers as DJ Shadow. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Axelrod¹s prodigious solo albums Songs of Innocence and Songs Of Experience were quickly re-issued. Then in 2000 he released a new album and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, where he conducted a one-off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. Originally released in 1975, and inexplicably out of print for three subsequent decades, Seriously Deep has become a kind of Holy Grail for samplers. Axelrod the composer is unmistakably present and what has also made the record a particularly sought-after item is the remarkable interplay between Joe Sample's exuberant keyboards and the hypnotically intense drumming of Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler. This is the kind of thing that gets samplers - and indeed anyone with a finely tuned sense of rhythm - very excited indeed.
El-138
CD
$15.50

Axolotl/Inca Ore
Inner Voices/Nerve Language
PS, US "Karl Bauer and Eva Saelens (Axolotl and Inca Ore respectively) are two like-minded Bay area psychers operating on two opposing levels. Axolotl marks the A-side with skyward streaking drones and ethereal loops tinged and focused, ringing with the joyous bliss of upward passage. An endless array of vocals, electronics, and violin looping and looping, building and growing: stasis. Inca Ore makes her craft from an Earth-bound level. Oneness with her surroundings, roots firmly planted. Eerie incantations and meandering harp play foreground to layer upon layer of looped vocals and murky ambience, charting your way towards forever. In an edition of 450 white purity colored 7"s in black and white pro-printed collage fold-over sleeves by Eva with a numbered insert."
Arbor
45
$5.25

Ayers, Kevin
Unfairground
PS, US Co-produced by Ladybug Transistor's Gary Olson & Peter Henderson, feat. a myriad of talent as well as a pseudo-SOFT MACHINE reunion in the form of Hugh Hopper on bass & Robert Wyatt singing through a synthesizer, dubbed the Wyattron. Other high-profile guests on the new record incl. Norman Blake (TEENAGE FANCLUB), Phil Manzanera (ROXY MUSIC), Bill Wells (Bill Wells Trio), Euros Childs, (GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI), Frank Reader (TRASH CAN SINATRAS), Bridget St. John & members from ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI.
Gigantic
CD
$12.25

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition
PS, US Unlike many of his peers, he looks beyond the traditions of Fahey (whom he calls "a teacher" not a god), bringing portentous & progressive elements into his music, alongside a dreamy country lilt. He covers Krautrock legends Neu! ("Weissensee") & metal Vikings Judas Priest ("Winter"), & culls inspiration from prog heroes Yes on the closing epic "Rainbow." His music comes on like a creeping moss, verdant but threatening, comforting yet unsettling.
AmericanDust
CD
$16.00

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AmericanDust
LP
$16.00

Baltic Fleet
S-T
PS, UK Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken and tracks gradually started to form into an album. A sound was born influenced by works from artists such as Eno, Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Written, produced and performed by Paul, the album also features contributions from Simon Finley on drums, Will Sergeant on guitar and Pete Wilkinson on Bass. Paul signed to Blow Up Records in April 2007, and the same Summer took his recordings into Studio B, The Premises in Hackney for additional production and mixing with Nick Terry (Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco). After some heavy-duty valve and analogue processing, the beats got bigger, the sound-scape was widened and the album was complete!
Blowup-041
CD
$16.25

Band Of Horses
No One's Gonna Love You b/w Am I A Good Man
PS, UK
Subpop
45
$3.50

Basinski, William + Richard Chartier
Untitled 1-3
PS, US LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. "Untitled 1" contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 2" contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3/3(reprise)" contains Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3" mixed by Basinski. "Untitled 3(reprise)" mixed by Chartier. "Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!" - William Basinski. Both William Basinski and Richard Chartier have been digging through their archival matter as of late. In fact, the majority of Basinski's recent output is the result of his discoveries, including his profound Disintegration Loops series. Chartier, meanwhile, based his recent production Archival1992 upon two older pieces evolved into a single-minded composition of subtle disquiet. LIMITED EDITION: 1000
Line-034
CD
$12.25

Bauhaus
Go Away White
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BauhausMusic
LP
$15.75

Bauhaus
Go Away White
PS, UK New album! 'Go Away White' is everything you would hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental. The 10 songs on 'Go Away White' channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies. NME: "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog."
CookingVinyl
CD
$15.00

Believer
March 2008
PS, US 2008 Film Issue. Includes a free DVD with Slavoj Zizek at the movies. Werner Herzog in conversation with Errol Morris; Todd Haynes; Chuck Klosterman; Jim Shepard; Helen DeWitt; Nick Hornby; Indonesia; Hitchcock's mistakes. Recommended reading.
ZINE
$9.75

Bell 1X
Flock
PS, US Called "The best band in Ireland" by Vanity Fair magazine, the quintet of rockers has seen 4 songs simultaneously chart in the Irish Top 20 & the album has since gone 5 times platinum. "...a gorgeous album... majestic & elegant." - Nick Duerden, Q. ltd edition enhanced CD, which launches an audio/visual program when loaded into a computer that includes 3 live videos, the "Rocky Took A Lover" animated music video, a photo slideshow, a page on The Cake
Sale & 2 special track.
YepRoc
CD
$11.50

Bitch
#39
PS, US Feminist response to pop culture. The Wired Issue: Busting blog bandits, deconstructing fembots, living a second life, ANI DIFRANCO, ANN WILSON & much more.
ZINE
$5.50

Black
Donna
PS, US They perform their music w/ numerous players from the Austin music scene. Members of ...Trail Of Dead, Knife In The Water & the Crackpipes have helped them craft mid-tempo songs to be played in the parlour. Influenced by American folk, blues & country w/ abstracts of indie rock, alt-country & garage. "Straight Americana & 60's British Invasion sounds, twisted, filtered, spit out shiny & unique."-Rank & Revue
Kwoo
12
$9.50

Black Cab
Altamont Diary [2004]
PS, AUSTRALIA Direct from the band, better price... A dazed, drug-ripped voyage to the dark heart of rock and roll. Australia's Black Cab features ex-Foil and Registered Nurse members. The sound is a heady brew of raw guitars, early '70's style drums, plus eerie electronic and industrial audio treatments. Black Cab's sound is inspired as much by late '60's and early '70's America as it is by American music of that period. The album's beer soaked programming and walls of electric and acoustic guitars, sitars, maracas and monstrous live & programmed drums delve through time to that fateful day at Altamont. Like the evil, bastard son of The Who's 'Tommy', Altamont Diary is unashamedly a concept album. ROLLING STONE: "You can almost hear the crack of the pool cues and smell the black smoke of the fires on the hill. With bloodied-fuzz guitars, hellish electronics and sound bites from Gimme Shelter, the Australian duo Black Cab has created a riveting, album-length memorial to the fatal folly of the Rolling Stones' free concert at Altamont Speedway in December 1969. This is the end of peace and love in you-are-there detail: the murderous riffing in "1970"; an eerie, electro-psych version of the Grateful Dead's "New Speedway Boogie"; the real, stoned-zone voice of Jerry Garcia, in "Jerry Sez," reacting to the bummer news that the Hells Angels have beaten up Marty Balin. A day that will live in infamy now lives on record, with appropriate menace." (David Fricke)
Interstate40
CD
$12.50

Black Cab
Jesus East [2007]
PS, AUSTRALIA/UK Direct from the band, better price... New 2007 album from Australian psych-o-nauts. Jesus East is something of an antidote to the fear and loathing of their debut album, Altamont Diary, blending late '60's and early '70's rock sounds with loops and subtle electronica over pulsing percussion and driving guitars reminiscent of some of the great German rock bands of the '70's. Jesus East evokes ghosts of the Velvet Underground, Can, Neu and coolest Beatle George Harrison's fascination with eastern sounds. UNCUT MAGAZINE (4 STARS): "The dark side of hippie-dom, updated and energised... Two years ago this Melbourne duo - Andrew Coates and James Lee - delivered a dark-horse diamond with Altamont Diary, their compelling, sinister concept album inspired by The Stones' dread day of '69. Their second sticks to no strict storyline but advances their mix of psyched-out 60s guitars/sitars and late 70s Teutonic rhythms to heart-stopping effect. It's accumulatively epic: it begins as a fine Spacemen 3/Neu pastiche, but by the roaring climax its pulse-rockets are firing way beyond genre. As a finale Sam Cutler, M.C. at Altamont and Stones/Grateful Dead manager, drawls a languidly poetic memoir over "Valiant", while guitars mentally creep. Utterly riveting." (CR)
Interstate40/Inertia
CD
$12.50

Black Cab
Surrender EP [2007] & The Illinois Chapter EP [1999]
PS, AUSTRALIA *** COMPLETISTS TAKE NOTE *** SPECIAL OFFER *** LIMITED STOCK *** Get the new Surrender EP along with Black Cab's very rare and extra limited Illinois Chapter EP, the band's three-song debut: 1. Illinois Chapter / 2. Christlike / 3. Sonny Speaks! New 2007 Surrender EP features remixes and live gear: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now in stock and available at a great price.
Interstate40
CD5/CD5
$8.50

Black Cab
Surrender EP [2007]
PS, AUSTRALIA New 2007 EP features remixes and live gear. Tracklist: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now available at a wonderful price.
Interstate40
CD5
$7.50

Black Monk
Flowstone
PS, US "Flowstoned and dethroned, finally. Last year's bored/burning summer spell of Eagle Rock entropy birthed a numb drum 'n drones duo dubbed Black Monk. The aesthetic of inept, free-punk drumming and red-eyed, void-surfing low-end infinity found output on two micro-limited cassette releases (one on Buried Valley, one on Zac/Lambsbread's Maim & Disfigure) and one weedian live show (in Tempe, AZ) and then the scholars split to separate coasts. Fortunately for us/you, Flowstone comes crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer on a slab of black wax, collecting their out-of-print Murmur CS and half the V CS, plus an unreleased side-long wasteoid-land of subterranean percussion and roaring magma. Just in time for 2012. Black vinyl LPs in stark pro-printed fold-over covers plus a poster of arcane team scribble by BM. Limited to 270. Co-released with Not Not Fun."
Arbor
LP
$11.25

Bodeans
Still
PS, US New album.
Oarfin
CD
$13.75

Born Ruffians
Red Yellow Blue
PS, UK PITCHFORK: "First full-length by the herky-jerky indie rock trio from Toronto expands outward from their debut EP, not so much a premeditated step toward maturity as an exploration of different shades of the young-man's blues."
Warp
CD
$15.00

Bryars, Gavin
Hommages
PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981 and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers, which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger (Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah, Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson, as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars' early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new 63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise, and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc Borgers.
LTM-2503
CD
$17.00

Cash, Brent
How Will I Know If I'm Awake
PS, US Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, this is overflowing w/ hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies & lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers & good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town & assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass & even a harp.
Marina
LP
$18.00

Cash, Brent
How Will I Know If I'm Awake (ON SALE)
PS, GERMANY The Marina label presents the debut release from Athens, GA-based Brent Cash. Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, How Will I Know If I'm Awake is overflowing with hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies and lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers and good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town and assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass and even a harp. The results are simply stunning. From the opening chords of "Everything That's Grey," we enter melody wonderland, a place where major 7 chords rule and beautiful vocal harmonies dazzle your mind. "Digging The Fault Line" is full of Byrds guitar jangle, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to cruise into golden California sunsets (with a great Wes Montgomery-like guitar solo along the way). "Only Time" explodes with 100 % fat-free youthful euphoria -- Roger Nichols meets The 5th Dimension. While deeply rooted in '60s songwriting -- influenced by Bacharach, Wilson, McCartney, and yes, The Monkees -- Cash certainly has his own unique signature style. Just listen to "And Had We Ever?" and "I Think I'm Falling In Love" -- with its complex, enchanting textures, ignoring conventional song structures. "Love Is Burning Down Tonight" -- a striking duet between Brent and Amanda Kapousouz -- is a special highlight of the album, while "Good Morning Sunshine" could be the theme song to the best TV series in the world -- the harpsichord-driven piece is chock-full of amazing twists and turns of melodic beauty. "This Sea, These Waves" moves us into bossa nova territory -- starting off in a classic Getz/Gilberto mould, the song soon morphs into heavenly orchestrated Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 elegance. "More Than Everything," clocking in at over six minutes, ends this beautiful song circle with a great final statement about overcoming heartbreak, delivered with the sincerity of a Carpenters record. Music made the way it was meant to be heard.
Marina-071
CD
$15.00

Celephais
I Am Kuranes
PS, US Debut release from drone rock trio. Filled w/ jagged riffs that move at hard angles & pummeling, off-kilter drumming. Songs shift into subdued dronescapes & collages of skittery electronica & cut-up voices. Huge riffs layered w /acoustic guitar strum & lush cosmic keyboards, equally ominous & anthemic.
Hoss
CD
$11.50

Chatham, Rhys & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life
PS, US Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977's "Guitar Trio" is composer RHYS CHATHAM'S signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xCD set, "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" The sprawling collection FEATURES MEMBERS OF SONIC YOUTH, SWANS, TORTOISE, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, HÜSKER DÜ, MODERN LOVERS, SILVER MT. ZION, TOWN AND COUNTRY, DIE KREUTZEN, 90-DAY MEN, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and many more; even TONY CONRAD gets in on the act. Together these artists celebrate Chatham's wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature. So, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to Liquefy. "Guitar Trio" endures.
TableoftheElements-813
3XCD
$21.00

Children
Death Tribe
PS, US Children is a riff appreciation society formulated to combat boredom. W/ axes & clubs aided only by high power application, they aim to honor the torch lit by our metalien forefathers. Brothers & sisters please join them in theIr humble quest. Feat. guys from EARLY MAN & S.T.R.E.E.T.S. VERY LIMITED!! B-Side w/ excl. etching
Kemado
12
$12.75

Chion, Michel
Requiem
PS, US ONLY ON LP! Originally released on INA-GRM in '78. Based in France, he is a composer of experimental music, & was an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970 as well as a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971-76. This is an electroacoustic masterpiece built on a system of echoes & correspondences within the context of a "choir" of voices, loops, tape crackles & drama-schemes.
SubRosa
LP
$15.50

Clint
Los Tipos Duros Tambien Bailan
PS, SPAIN Tough guys do dance! Three years ago, Clint were four blokes trying to express their particular vision through music without the impending need of using words. Their mantra was "a closed mouth gathers no flies" and "loose lips sink ships". After one year of devoted silence playing Battleship, their lengthy exploration of silence yielded Alégrame el Día (siesta 206 - 2005) , a vivid record that lifted the band to "New Talent" status and honors at Fnac and to the prestigious "best of the year" lists. They even captivated the international critical community like no other self-taught instrumental band ever did. Clint offered no opposition to tour the bullskin shape (=Spain) until they had to embrace a new assignment, a new challenge. A tough guy, initials E.G., proposed them to create the soundtrack for a silent film, any silent film actually. Clint revised their files thoroughly and interrogated another tough guy, L.J.M. They crystallized everything in a new vehicle to communicate their "duende", the imaginary soundtrack for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (1929) (Walter Ruttmann)/aka Berlin, Symphony of a Big City. Clint proved themselves as masters of luxuriant melancholy and found the blurred images of the last century as a true source of inspiration and a revelation to their lives.
Siesta-236
CD
$17.75

Coil
The Ape Of Naples + The New Backwards
PS, US The Ape Of Naples/The New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies. This 4 LP set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own LP jacket that is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. A four panel poster is included and the box has a 5th color spot-gloss. This box set includes 2 albums. The first is the complete Ape Of Naples and the second is The New Backwards, which is only currently available in this box set. The New Backwards appropriately is part of the Ape of Naples set. The material is additional completed versions of songs that were left unfinished, whose early raw loops and demonstrational incarnations might sound familiar to some but have never officially surfaced.
Important-174
4XLP
$87.75

Common Loon
Dinosaur vs. Early Man b/w Palestine Everywhere
PS, US Blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness, local dream-rock duo Common Loon rates as one of the C-U Music Scene's bands to watch in 2008. Yes, there's an album in the pipe. Comes with a digital download ticket, so you can have it both ways. Pink-noise-pop for Sebadoh, Spiritualized, and Spacemen 3 fans.
IdealUtopia
45
$4.50

Coniglio, Enrico
'dyanMU
PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album.
Psychonavigation-022
CD
$15.50

Constantines
Hard Feelings
PS, US This is the first single off their new album "Kensington Heights" to be released on April 15, 2008. B-Side "Easy Money" is not appearing on the full length.
Arts&Crafts
45
$6.50

Corsano, Chris
The Young Cricketer
PS, US "The Young Cricketer" is CHRIS CORSANO'S debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of "The Solo Drum Album". Corsano's flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a Milford Graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower Paul Flaherty and a cadre of collaborators and groups (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Vampire Belt, Michael Flower, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. This LP is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. Originally issued on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label as a CDR, this LP IS REMASTERED AND ISSUED IN A 600 EDITION.
FamilyVineyard-51
LP
$12.25

Country Funk
S-T [re-issue]
PS, UK Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band's. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970 on Polydor, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of U.S. West Coast rock -- it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Crabapples
Crabapples For Change
PS, US Inspired equally by '78-'79 punk (Buzzcocks, Swell Maps) and '80s and '90s pop (This Poison!, Television Personalities, Boyracer), The Crabapples were a tough little Bay Area four-piece that exploded briefly on the scene a few years back. Loud but melodic, their specialty was short, catchy tunes played with sloppy abandon. Live shows clocked in at around 15 minutes and this 4-song EP is an ideal keepsake of The Crabapples effervescent charms. From the mod-ish pogo of "Quality (Not Quantity)" to the angular "The Earnest Young Man Song" to the full-on near-hardcore of "Crabapples For Change" this great EP rushes along in a breathless blur, fuelled by lager, explosive tunes and a love of great pop. The band included members of The Frenchmen and Black Tambourine, and this single is sure to please all fans of scrappy punk-ish pop. All copies pressed on colored vinyl in a hand-stamped sleeve.
Slumberland-070
45
$4.25

Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy"
Gonna Be Some Changes
PS, UK 2008 collection of hits and rarities by one of the masters of the Blues and one of the originators of Rock 'N' Roll! Beautifully packaged with rare memorabilia and extensive sleeve notes by our man in the pointy creepers Dave Penny and wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland!
Rev-ola-240
CD
$15.50

Cud
Leggy Mambo
PS, UK Following the release of their debut When In Rome, Kill Me and 1990 s Elvis Belt compilation (CDMRED355), Leeds indie heroes CUD set to work on their next album for Imaginary Records. Recorded during the Summer of 1990, Leggy Mambo proved to be a step in all the right directions, cementing the sound developed over their previous releases and capitalizing on the band s pop sensibilities to provide their most immediately accessible collection of songs to date. Produced by XTCs Dave Gregory and released in October 1990, the album spawned the well-received singles Robinson Crusoe and Magic (both of which might have achieved greater success had they been released on a larger label) and generated a huge amount of industry interest, eventually leading to their signing with A & M the following year. This Cherry Red Gold top Copy version of the album features the newly remastered original disc, as well as a collection of demos and alternate versions, all of which have been hand picked by the band themselves. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006 s Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received reissues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. NOW! 2. HEART 3. HEY, BOOTS 4. LOVE IN A HOLLOW TREE 5. LOVE MANDARIN 6. NOT EXACTLY D.L.E.R.C. 7. ROBINSON CRUSOE 8. EAU WATER 9. CARL'S 115TH COACH TRIP NIGHTMARE 10. MAGIC 11. SYRUP AND SOUR GRAPES 12. BRAIN ON A SLOW TRAIN BONUS TRACKS 13. ROBINSON CRUSOE (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 14. NOW! (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 15. EAU WATER (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 16. L.O.P.H.E. (ROBINSON CRUSOE B-SIDE) 17. LOVE MANDARIN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 18. MAGIC (DEMO MIX) 19. ROBINSON CRUSOE (DUNGEON DEMO).
CherryRed-356
CD
$15.50

Cud
Elvis Belt
PS, UK Formed in Leeds in 1986, CUD went on to forge one of the more interesting and indefinable sounds of the late 80s / early 90s indie scene. Fusing a catchy pop sensibility with danceable grooves and intelligent and often humorous lyrics, they soon became firm independent favorites and began releasing records on Leeds based Reception Records in 1987, very quickly catching the ear of John Peel and becoming a regular fixture of his broadcasts. Three quality singles into their career, the band secured a deal with Imaginary Records, where they continued a fine run of singles and eventually released their debut album. Capitalizing on the band's underground success, in June 1990 Imaginary followed this with this fantastic compilation of their early releases, topping several independent charts in the process and further establishing an already strong reputation. Some eighteen years later, Elvis Belt is updated and reissued here by Cherry Red, together with a wealth of rarities and unreleased tracks from those formative years and beyond. This release features the original album in its entirety, carefully remastered and now sitting comfortably alongside Elvis Handbag, an additional disc conceived by the band as a sister album to the original release and containing a number of further B-Sides, Peel Session recordings and cover versions (including the band's legendary take on Bohemian Rhapsody, previously only available on the ultra-rare Alvin Lives in Leeds compilation). This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007s well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and its accompanying releases. TRACKS: ELVIS BELT 1. SLACK TIME 2. MAKE NO BONES 3. TREAT ME BAD 4. PUNISHMENT REWARD 5. RELATIONSHIPS 6. UNDER MY HAT 7. LOLA 8. URBAN SPACEMAN 9. ART 10. YOU'RE THE BOSS 11. ONLY (A PRAWN IN WHITBY) 12. HEY! WIRE 13. I'VE HAD IT WITH BLONDES ELVIS HANDBAG 14. MIND THE GAP (PEEL SESSION) 15. EVERYBODY WORKS SO HARD (PEEL SESSION) 16. BB COULDN T C (PEEL SESSION) 17. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 18. MANCHESTER 19. PURPLE LOVE BALLOON (ORIGINAL VERSION) 20. POSSESSION (ORIGINAL VERSION) 21. REMEMBER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU LOVE 22. MARJORIE 23. DOWN DOWN 24. MAGIC (1994 UNRELEASED SINGLE VERSION) 25. SLIPAWAY (UNRELEASED SINGLE MIX) 26. BEFORE TOMORROW 27. JUDAS KISS.
CherryRed-355
DCD
$15.50

Cud
Showbiz
PS, UK Having departed the independent world and signed with A&M in 1991, CUD proceeded to pursue the commercial success their previous releases had hinted at with 1992's Asquarius. Following this, their first hit album, proved to be the band s longest break between releases (largely the result of some inter-label disharmony), but they eventually emerged in 1994 with Showbiz. Recorded primarily in Scotland (at a studio owned by Fish of Marillion fame, no less), this record saw their sound mature and showcased a broader range of songwriting styles than previous efforts. It was well received on its release in April 1994, garnering favorable reviews, and spawned two UK hit singles in Neurotica and One Giant Love. Sadly, though, the album proved to be the band's last officially released effort as the pressures of life on a major and all that it entails took their toll on the band. This remastered version also includes a number of B-Sides from the album's single releases, as well as some unreleased out-takes and demo versions, including material intended for their next album, which hasn't seen the light of day before now. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were. A UK tour is also scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. SOMEBODY SNATCHED MY ACTION 2. ESP 3. WAVING AND DROWNING 4. STICKS AND STONES 5. MYSTERY DEEPENS 6. SLIP AWAY 7. ONE GIANT LOVE 8. I REEK OF CHIC 9. NOT NECCESSARILY EVIL 10. YOU LEAD ME 11. TOURNIQUET 12. NEUROTICA BONUS TRACKS 13. W.G.S. (NEUROTICA B-SIDE) 14. MY NEED TO HURRY (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 15. SKI BUM (STICKS AND STONES B-SIDE) 16. DOWN THE PLUG (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 17. HERE COME THE OLD FLAMES (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 18. LIVING IN YOUR LOVE (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 19. LET YOU DOWN (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 20. TAKE THE TIME AND READ MY MIND (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 21. WANTING ISN'T GETTING (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS)
CherryRed-357
CD
$15.50

Cuomo, Rivers
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Geffen
LP
$11.00

Darla Farmer
Rewiring the Electric Forest
PS, US Debut release that manages to sound wild, dark, violent, & heart-wrenchingly beautiful w/in the span of a single track. Drawing from influences as diverse as Cursive, Blood Brothers, Tom Waits, & the greatest of small town orchestras, the band has quickly gained positive traction w Saddle Creek bands Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor, & Cursive
PaperGarden
CD
$10.25

Dawson, Kimya
Knock Knock Who?
PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies.
Important
LP
$15.00

Dawson, Kimya
My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies! Her most intimate record full of some of her best songs.
Important
LP
$15.00

Dear, Matthew
Asa Breed: Black Edition
PS, US It's not often an album containing bluesy guitar & brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, w/ this release, critics & audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to incl. remixes & re-envisionings from FOUR TET, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ KOZE & HOT SHIP! Also incl. "Don & Sherri" video!
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.25

Diebold
Listen To My Heartbeast
PS, US Duo featuring Ian Ilvansky from A SILVER MT. ZION and Sofia Trudeau from GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR.
Bangor
CD
$14.25

Diebold
Listen To My Heartbeast
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Bangor
LP
$14.25

Dirtbombs, The
We Have You Surrounded
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
InTheRed
LP
$14.50

DiskJokke
Staying In
PS, NORWAY Staying In, DiskJokke's debut release, is a tripped out mastodon of an album. This is the sound of Norwegian disco taken to its farthest, futuristic limits. It's epic, groovy, cinematic, poppy & most of all melodic. But at the same time, it is melancholic, and as the title suggests, staying inside the dark winter & autumn nights to make music certainly reflects the mood of the album. For years DiskJokke has been closely connected to Norway's premiere club night, Sunkissed, where he is resident DJ with G-HA, Olanskii & VinnyVillbass. "Bright, playful, spacey, and colorful, music for the nighttime that retains the warmth of an afternoon on the beach" -Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-145
CD
$15.25

Dixon, Andy
Mice of Mt. Career
PS, US This billows w/ a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, & multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing, & songwriting burst w/ a fresh, vibrant energy. Andy Dixon is in SECRET MOMMY.
Ache-036
CD
$12.00

Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time
Runout Groove (ON SALE)
PS, UK 2007 release, the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Folk-Jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. 12 tracks.
Fruitcake
CD
$15.00

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths
PS, US Originally released in 1977. First reissue of this now-extinct material featuring contributions from reggae greats Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Adrian "Homer" Miller & Bunny Brown from The Chosen Few. Heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar, percussion & Brown's wild style behind the controls.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$12.50

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LightInTheAttic
LP
$14.25

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
DLP
$14.25

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story
PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
CD
$9.00

Eprhyme
Punklezmerap
PS, US Enter EPRHYME: a rapper with more on his mind than his money; a Jew with issues other than his mother. A cultural nomad with roots in seemingly contradictory cultural contexts, Eprhyme approaches both Judaism and Hip Hop with a profound respect for tradition, balanced by creative freedom and poetic license. Not afraid to experiment or cross boundaries of content and style, Eprhyme blends and juxtaposes seemingly divergent sounds and ideas into a swirling and seamless whole.
Krecords-114
45
$3.75

Erik M
Steme
PS, AUSTRALIA Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concrete composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD that was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad8system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. ERIKM has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turn tabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better-equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music ; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience.
Room40-426
CD
$15.00

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation-050
LP
$16.25

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager
PS, US New band featuring CARLA BOZLICH, former vocalist for the GERALDINE FIBBERS. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes featuring Carla's incantatroy sung and spoken lyrics on the opening & closing tracks, with the rest of the record more overtly composed. PREFIX MAG: "Evangelista is the latest musical project of much-beloved Carla Bozulich, formerly of the Geraldine Fibbers. In a bit of a confusing move, Bozulich has named her new band after a 2006 solo album of hers, which featured many of the same collaborators. Some of those musicians include members of the sprawling Silver Mt. Zion collective. Hello Voyager, like Silver Mt. Zion's new one, was recorded in Montreal at the Hotel2Tango."
Constellation-050
CD
$14.25

Excepter/Leb-Laze
The Troglodytes/Life In The Wilderness
PS, US A monument to f(l)ailing house beats & disembodied rock stars. "Life in Wilderness" is a dense mix of ping-ponging guitars, rolling drums, & keyboard manipulations. Limited to 500 copies
HOSS
LP
$11.00

Fairport Convention
Liege & Lief (Deluxe Edition, 2PC, Remastered)
PS, US In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their stellar version of "A Sailor's Life" on Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief found them diving headfirst into the possibilities of England's musical past, with Ashley Hutchings digging through the archives at the Cecil Sharp House in search of musical treasure and the musicians (in particular vocalist Sandy Denny) eagerly embracing the dark mysteries of this music. (Only two of the album's eight songs were group originals, though "Crazy Man Michael" and "Come All Ye" hardly stand out from their antique counterparts.) Liege & Lief was also recorded after a tour bus crash claimed the lives of original Fairport drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend; as the members of the group worked to shake off the tragedy (and break in new drummer Dave Mattacks and full-time fiddler Dave Swarbrick), they became a stronger and more adventurous unit, less interested in the neo-Jefferson Airplane direction of their earlier work and firmly committed to fusing time-worn folk with electric instruments while honoring both. And while Liege & Lief was the most purely folk-oriented Fairport Convention album to date, it also rocked hard in a thoroughly original and uncompromising way; the "Lark in the Morning" medley swings unrelentingly, the group's crashing dynamics wring every last ounce of drama from "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves," and Thompson and Swarbrick's soloing is dazzling throughout. Liege & Lief introduced a large new audience to the beauty of British folk, but Fairport Convention's interpretations spoke of the present as much as the past, and the result was timeless music in the best sense of the term. In 2007, about a year after Liege & Lief finally earned a gold disc in the U.K., Island Records released a two-disc "Deluxe Edition" of the album. Disc one features the original album remastered by Denis Blackham, and while it doesn't sound strikingly superior to the 2002 expanded CD version, the audio is certainly improved over the 1993 CD (and the original vinyl LP). Disc two features ten bonus tracks: two Liege & Lief outtakes that surfaced on the 2002 reissue, "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood," lead off the disc, while another take of "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" also makes the cut. Most of the rest of the disc consists of BBC recordings of Fairport live in the studio in 1969, along with a fine cover of "The Ballad of Easy Rider" and a jokey medley of "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Fly Me to the Moon." Ultimately, the added material on the bonus disc doesn't seem to add as much to the package as the presence of "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" enhanced the 2002 edition, but the original album genuinely plays better in its original eight-song sequence, and this deluxe version does boast a beautifully designed package. Fairport fanatics will want to pick this up for the rare BBC material, but the less obsessed will do just fine to hold on their copies of the 2002 issue. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
UmvdImport
DCD
$40.00

Fanu + Bill Laswell
Lodge
PS, US Artists: FANU is Finland's and perhaps the world's finest breakbeat splicer and re-imaging doctor. His programming, layering, and arrangements of classic breakbeats are truly some of the most innovative and by far the most realistic sounding - akin to a jazz drummer with no boundaries and seventeen available drum kits at once. BILL LASWELL is the Grammy award-winning producer of Herbie Hancock, bassist and arranger extraordinaire. Fresh off the amazing Method of Defiance record "Inamorata", he's completed this follow up recording, which also features Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer prominently. Album: If you took the electric period of Miles Davis, with less repetition, more funk, and mad scientist drummer, you might end up halfway to LODGE. Half time vamps swing with steady funk bass from Laswell and one of Bernie Worrell's most inspired keyboard performances since PFunk, LODGE turns it out with much more emphasis on the groove. Bits of drum n bass and floating trumpet maneuver over the core modular pieces; a much less harsh sound than the Method of Defiance project, more demonstrative of the soul of Laswell's funktronics. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell and his project Method of Defiance, to End.user and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-8
CD
$12.25

Felice Brothers, The
S-T
PS, US Their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons to Woodie Guthrie, a young Springsteen, and the Scorcese film, "Gangs Of New York". In these tales of murder, pathos, lust, and love, you'll find an honest new brand of American storytelling and song. "Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and early Springsteen" - Time Out London. "The Felice Brothers' Catskills folk is rough around the edges and intoxicating. Ryan Adams, eat your heart out" - Metroland / Best Of 2007. "Backwoods Americana is all the rage, but this band of brothers is a cut above the rest" - The Sun UK (4 stars).
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Felice Brothers, The
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove
LP
$16.50

Fleet Foxes
Sun Giant
PS, US Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk-rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David Crosby's "Laughing" where Cros, Joni, and the whole gang hit a harmony that might be the most gorgeous moment in the history of recorded music. The Fleet Foxes know that moment and they go for it. This EP is a precursor to the band's debut, "Ragged Wood", out in June.
Subpop
CD5
$5.00

Food For Animals
Belly
PS, US Brings the best elements of ghettotech & glitch-hop together under one glorious B-club roof to form a bouncy, yet utterly bleak(-sounding) album
HOSS
CD
$13.00

Fool, The
The Fool [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.50

Foot Foot
Trumpet
PS, US Rather than sticking with the bedroom orchestra arrangements of their debut, Snaggle and Buck (Oedipus), with Trumpet they opt for a more traditional band arrangement. They round their song out with plenty of electric & acoustic guitars, stand up bass, drums, and a piano here & there. Although darker than it's predecessor, Trumpet finds them flirting with alt-rock & traditional country to find them sitting seamlessly on the Drag City roster between Silver Jews & Will Oldham without losing their California porch-country bliss.
Oedipus
CD
$10.00

Forbes, China
'78
PS, US For ten years, China Forbes has toured the world as lead singer of the celebrated "little orchestra" Pink Martini. Forbes has grown into an accomplished performer & built a devoted, diverse fan base around the globe. On her long-awaited solo album, Forbes dusts off her guitar & returns to her roots, displaying strikingly personal songs in a style all her own. Filled with intimate stories of love, loneliness, friendship & alienation. Backed by Gregg Williams & Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), with cameos by Eric Matthews & Phil Baker (Pink Martini), Forbes plays a variety of instruments- including guitar, piano, bass, harmonium & Wurlitzer- making this record clearly & uniquely hers.
Heinz
CD
$16.00

Gergis, Mark & Alan Bishop
Sumatran Folk Cinerma
PS, US This is a psychedelic collage of images & sounds from the heart & soul of the island's culture w/ the main focus on music. Witness classic dangdut rock music, street & country scenes, raw TV excerpts, Minang orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk musicians, audio/visual artifacts & much more wrapped in a 60 min. kaleidoscope complete w/ an epic soundtrack. All region DVD contains bonus footage of musical performances & trailer segment. Color; 60
minutes; digipak; NSTC format
$21.50

Giant Robot
#52
PS, US Carbon/Silicon, Blissed Out, Albert Reyes, music from the masses, Iced Out, Machine Girl, Maid Cafes, Hawaii Modern & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond!
ZINE
$4.75

Glorytellers
S-T
PS, US First release for this new project featuring Geoff Farina, frontman for KARATE & SECRET STARS. Abstract harmonies, urgent vocal style, pristine pre -WWII guitar & drum sounds, bass lines thumb-picked on an acoustic guitar , and 50 year old cymbals make this one hell of an interesting American songbook.
Southern
CD
$13.50

Glorytellers
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$13.50

Godfathers, The
Hit By Hit + Extras
PS, UK Newly compiled double CD album containing all of The Godfathers' original Corporate Image early singles: Lonely Man, This Damn Nation, I Want Everything, Love Is Dead as well as B-sides and extra tracks including instrumentals John Barry and Gone To Texas plus their ultimate cover of John Lennon's Cold Turkey and an inspired rendition of Rolf Harris' Sun Arise. All tracks on Disc one produced by the legendary Vic Maile (Motorhead, Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Guns n' Roses, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Inmates, Tom Robinson Band, Vibrators, Girlschool, etc.). Disc one is paired with a full CD of previously unreleased extra tracks from The Godfathers' seminal BBC Radio One Sessions recorded for Janice Long and Andy Kershaw and live recordings around the world. Along with an exclusive live rendition of Cold Turkey you can expect ultra rare material including cover versions of The Sid Presley Experience's Public Enemy Number One, The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop and The Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK as they were performed in front of wild and enthusiastic crowds. The package boasts previously unseen pictures and liner notes by frontman Peter Coyne and ex-Ramones manager Danny Fields, the man who discovered The MC5 and Iggy & The Stooges. TRACK LIST: Disc One: 1. I Want Everything 2. This Damn Nation 3. I Want You 4. Can't Leave Her Alone 5. Sun Arise 6. Cold Turkey 7. John Barry 8. Sticks & Stones 9. I'm Unsatisfied 10. Lonely Man 11. Angela 12. Gone To Texas 13. Love Is Dead - All tracks produced by Vic Maile. Disc Two: Extras 1. This Damn Nation - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 2. John Barry - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 3. Lonely Man - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 4. Sun Arise - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 5. If I Only Had Time - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 6. I Want Everything - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 7. I Want You - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 8. I'm Unsatisfied - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 9. I Want Everything - live 10. Love Is Dead - live 11. Can't Leave Her Alone - live 12. Cold Turkey - live 13. Blitzkrieg Bop - live 14. Lonely Man - live 15. Public Enemy Number One - live 16. Anarchy In The UK - live.
CorporateImage-030
DCD
$22.50

Grand Volume
Send Me Your Champion
PS, UK Grand Volume are a unique proposition in the current musical climate, capable of knocking out two minute punk rock gems with consummate ease but equally comfortable venturing into more sophisticated prog-inspired territory. Of their peers only the Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age can match them for combining such musical dexterity with fiercely passionate intensity. Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Vocals, Guitar), Dan Larke (Guitar, Vocals, Tech) and Jon Green (Drums, Vocals, Bass, Tech) have made a ferocious statement of intent with their debut album for Fat Northerner Records, the provocatively titled 'Send Me Your Champion'. Opening track 'Summon' throws down the gauntlet in typically thunderous fashion, transporting the listener to the dirty side of early 90's Seattle before it's apocalyptic wall of noise eventually subsides and the clear, unashamedly English vocals of frontman Tom Sheals-Barrett reveal that this is a band as in thrall to Radiohead as they are to Soundgarden. Recent single 'History' follows and highlights again what a versatile outfit Grand Volume are; as tenacious, disciplined and economical as Fugazi or Minor Threat, yet as musically adventurous and intelligent as Devo or Television. 'Fire Come Soon' is another fine distillation of Grand Volume's prog meets punk philosophy - it's bombastic fire and brimstone lyrics are consumed in a maelstrom of sub-pop inspired thrash, which occasionally gives way to a gentler, fx-laden, bassdriven groove that wouldn't sound out of place on 'OK Computer'. The album closes with the beautiful 'Departure Lounge', a deeply introspective track that wouldn't sound out of place on any of the 4AD label's austere 80's gothic releases. The whole mood of the song emphasizes again that Grand Volume are a band well-versed in the whole canon of alternative rock, stretching their sound far further than the majority of their contemporaries. "An awesome racket. The missing link between classic stadium bombast and post-hardcore death noise" Dan Martin, NME. Championed by Bruce Dickinson (BBC 6) Music and Huw Stephens (Radio 1).
FatNortherner-002
CD
$16.25

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia
PS, US The first album from the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. "Saturnalia" finds the Dulli nicknamed "Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. It proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Harp
March/April 2008
PS, US Special Election Section. Issue feat. Dave Grohl, Danger Mouse, The Black Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Stephin Merritt. Need we say more.
ZINE
$4.00

Harpeth Trace, The
On Disappearing
PS, US Evoking shades of The Zombies, Bill Fay, Galaxie 500, Josh Kasselman & Co. Psychedelic immediacy & winsome melancholy. Marked by frequent cross-fades & compelling patches of sound collage, On Disappearing is an engrossingly existential 35 minutes that seem to live outside of the realms of time & place."Their dreamy pop is timeless." - L.A. Alternative Press
RedRocket
CD
$9.50

Hideki Spaghetti
S-T
PS, SPAIN Is this the soundtrack of the first Japanese spaghetti-western? Is Hideki Kaji -the official emperor of Shibuya-ku pop- now in full cowboy gear or is he now a charming and romantic character alla italiana? Has Jez Butler sculpted another highly stylized retro futuristic fantasy? Will this Italian trip from the neo-aco heroe please the many legions of his fans? Did he use a time machine to travel to the good old days of lost pop? Well, Hideki Spaghetti is an italian adventure created by Hideki Kaji and Jez Butler. And all the responses can be found in this fantastic record.
Siesta-216
CD
$17.75

Hingley, Tom And The Lovers
Highlights
PS, UK Tom Hingley is also lead singer in The Inspiral Carpets. March 2008 sees Tom Hingley and the Lovers release their second album 'Highlights'. 3 years in the making it is a work of art. Poetic, melodic and well worth the wait. Highlights is the first release from the band since their critically acclaimed 2004 debut 'Abba Are the Enemy'. Where 'Abba' was a brash 200 mph Punk/Garage dash through topical subjects such as reality television, the Pop parade and War Mongering, 'Highlights' sees the band developing along a much more melodic soulful train of thought. Songs touch on such universal themes as love (Highlights), Religion ('All My Time'), Lions ('Venomous) Credit Crunch ('Kick out The Clocks') and the pretentious Manchester district of Chorlton Cum Hardy, which Tom can't afford to buy a house in and is not all at all bitter about ('EverGreen')
NewMemorabilia-10
CD
$16.25

Hollywood Brats
S-T
PS, UK Formed in 1972 the Hollywood Brats were Punk long before the term was invented. Dressed in make-up and women's blouses they sought to shock, whilst making the music they wanted to make. The packaging for this CD has been lovingly assembled with biographies from both vocalist Andrew Matheson and guitarist Brady plus all the lyrics. The digital mastering was undertaken by keyboard player Casino Steel. Chez Maximes / Another School Day / Nightmare / Empty Bottles / Courtesan / Then He Kissed Me / Tumble With Me / Zurich 17 / Southern Belles / Drowning Sorrows / Sick On You.
CherryRed-106
CD
$15.50

How, The
Happy Matt
PS, US Ripping a page from the Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy songbook, The How might not be The Who but you'd be forgiven for getting them mixed up. The mod-rocking brainchild of Matt (Henry's Dress, The Coachwhips, Sic Alps) and Stewart (Boyracer, 555 Records), The How pays cheeky tribute to the Spirit of '66: slashing guitars, pop-art graphics, sharp threads and even sharper tunes.
Upbeat A-side "Happy Matt" will have you frugging in no time, throwing more shapes on the dancefloor than the Ace Face himself. On the flip, "I Was A Boy" Matt sings oh-so-sweetly while Stew pummels his drum kit into submission; midway through the song bursts into a complete feedback frenzy, going all red with purple flashes. Two ace tunes to end your summer, all wrapped up in colored vinyl and a hand-screened transparent sleeve.
Slumberland-069
45
$4.25

Howlin' Rain
Magnificent Fiend
PS, US Feat. members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE & COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke.
Birdman
LP
$16.00

Howlin' Rain
Magnificent Fiend
PS, US Features members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE and COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If Magnificent Fiend, the second album by Howlin Rain, sounds like a different band made the record, it's not the brown windowpane working its sickly magic on you, it's in many ways an accurate perception. Howlin Rain is Ethan Miller's side project when he's not playing with his "other band," Comets on Fire. HR's self-titled debut was released in 2006. It was well-received for its taut, simple song structures that evoked everything from the Grateful Dead to harder, more riff-laden big rock & roll power plays. It was loud, proud, and topped off with just a touch of country and blues... The music here is much more complex. These are still identifiable as rock songs, but there are spaces in them that evoke the harder edges of improvising rock acts like early Steppenwolf, Delaney & Bonnie (at their most rockist), and even Quicksilver Messenger Service. But this isn't necessarily a throwback group at all, and Magnificent Fiend is its own affair. It is louder, wilder, bigger, and more live sounding than the records made by any of those bands. These songs are knottier, building on the more elemental riffs and melodies of the previous set and creating something denser, more immediate, and menacing in the process."
American
CD
$12.25

Indian Jewelry
We Are the Wild
PS, US Completely detached from any of its musical contemporaries, this album possesses a unique sense of surrealism, & feels closer in spirit to the films of Peter Greenaway & David Lynch then the usual psychedelic or rock & roll ethos. Ornamenting the album is art culled from some of the finest zoological lexica known in Western history.
Tigerbeat6
CD
$14.25

Iris, Donnie
Back on the Streets/King Cool
PS, US
AmericanBeat
CD
$15.50

Jason & The Scorchers
Fervor / Lost & Found [re-issue]
PS, US The Scorchers' awesome 1983 EP and debut 1985 full-length album on one CD. Highly recommended re-issue action.
Caroline
CD
$15.25

Joe & Bing
Daybreak
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.50

Judys, The
Washarama [re-issue]
PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Julie Mittens
S-T
PS, US A Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording & the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do w/ Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, they consistently wreak havoc w/ lavish, textural, peakerblowing meltdown jams.
HolyMountain
CD
$14.25

Junc Op
2013
PS, US Junc Ops is an apocalyptic hip hop and electronica group known for its high energy live shows that make people dance. A unique blend of everyman sincerity and esoteric paranoia; Junc Ops is challenging party music made for people who seek something more than just mindless club hits! Smart dudes who don't take themselves too seriously, PG-13 (named Best Electronica Artist by New Times Miami) and Kentsoundz (former Fania Records Art Director) get people to celebrate hard times and failed romances. With honesty and openness at the core of what they do, its no wonder their fan base has grown exponentially in such a short time! Highly melodic and yet bass heavy production is at the core of their sound, fusing Miami Bass party music with an underground hip hop aesthetic. Imagine 2 Live Crew meets Aesop Rock in the future. For fans of Atmosphere, Def Jux, Madlib, Fourtet...
Circuitree-004
CD
$12.25

Kid Kishore
The Social Club Nº 9
PS, US Copenhagen native of Indian descent KID KISHORE strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. Self-described as anything from "Danish ghetto-tech" to "golden age Bollywood," his beat-heavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape.
TheSocialRegistry-057
45
$5.50

King, Kaki
Revenge
PS, US New album from guitar wiz turned experimental pop songstress features stronger songs fronted by stronger vocals this go round. PREFIX MAG: "With Dreaming of Revenge, Kaki King gets back around to focusing on her own music after farming out her virtuosic guitar talents of late. King guested with Dave Grohl and company on a song on the recent Foo Fighters album and with Eddie Vedder on the Into the Wild soundtrack. Like 2006's Until We Felt Red, which was produced by Tortoise's John McEntire, Dreaming was helped along in the studio by a big-name producer. That would be Malcolm Burn, who has worked with Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois. Some of the songs here are light and sexy, while others, like "Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person" (which takes its inspiration from the film The Lives of Others), are more serious."
Velour
CD
$13.75

Koenjihyakkei
Hundred Sights of Koenji
PS, US Legendary debut album, the original Japanese issue went largely unheard, Hundred Sights of Koenji returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, it includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya, Masuda Ryuichi, Kubota Aki & Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey to those hallowed fields of yore.
SkinGraft-090
CD
$14.25

Kraus, Sharron
Fox's Wedding
PS, US She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness & joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark & stormy night. This stunning new album offers 11 original songs & a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion.
DurtroJnana
CD
$16.00

Ladyhawk
Shots
PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time.
Jagjaguwar-117
CD
$11.50

Lair Of The Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master
PS, US This is a concept album about solving conflicts w/ a big fucking axe! The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression & mega-riffage of the previous album: The Ultimate Destroyer & the unrelenting beatings & Sabbath chugs of Carnage, mixed w/ a new emotionless ferocity reserved for an executioner. Contains a 20 pg bk w/ graphic illustrations for each song.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Landes, Dawn
Fireproof
PS, UK ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Landes' second album shows that while she's been characterized as a folk artist, it might be more appropriate to say she has her own quietly varied spin on a number of styles, using her talents as a studio engineer to create something that has a tense, moody feeling that wouldn't surprise listeners of performers ranging from Suzanne Vega to Alison Krauss (or, for that matter, producers like Jon Brion and T Bone Burnett). Backed by a variety of able performers, most notably Ray Rizzo on "drums, vocals, chaos," Landes plays everything from guitars to Optigans to bells as well as sings, but what's interesting is how relatively uncluttered Fireproof sounds -- there's always a sense of space that the music fills but doesn't dominate, matched by the gentle swath of echo she adds to her voice)."
CookingVinyl
CD
$14.25

Lichens/Lexie Mountain
Restoration of Temperment/If You So Choose
PS, US 180g. Side A explores the deep facets of the drone-world, combining guitars both reversed & straight w/occasional chants to form a nice addendum to recent Kranky full-length Omns. Side B contains "Patty Waters-esque freeform vocalizing mixed w/Smegma worthy cut-ups"
Hoss
LP
$12.75

LK, The
The LK vs. The Snow
PS, US Swedish duo of Lindefelt, abstract sound artist, & Fredrik, pop visionary & songwriter par excellence. Fusing musique concrète-style collages of sound w/ iconic pop arrangements that are both gradually mind-invading & comfortingly direct. Recorded w/ a minimum of equipment, this album was built largely by gluing pieces of Lindefelt's abstract sounds,lyrics & voice to Fredrik's simple, beautiful melodies. The resulting 11 (including 1 bonus song for kora) tracks make or a crisp, melancholy noise- pop cocktail w/ a human warmth & dark sense of humor.
TheKoraRecords
CD
$11.00

Lodger, The
Grown-Ups
PS, US The Lodger was born in Ben Siddall's Leeds bedsit flat in 2004. Encouraged by local label Dance To The Radio, Ben recruited friends for bass and drum duties, tuned-up with live shows around town and debuted in early 2005 with a track on a Dance To The Radio compilation. The band quickly followed-up with their excellent debut single "Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion," the "Watching" 7" on Double Dragon, and track for the hotly-tipped Wrath label's split 7" series. 2006 was when the band got their act together-- a permanent line-up of Ben, Joe and Katie was established and the band went out on the road in the UK with kindred Yorkshire spirits The Research in February. London indie label Angular Records released the band's ace third single "Let Her Go" shortly afterwards. This single won the BBC 6music's Rebel Playlist and started to pick up airplay worldwide. In the summer the band decamped to Alan Smyth's tiny little Sheffield recording studio to record songs for their debut album. Thirteen tracks were recorded in a week in September and the result is "Grown-Ups." On the heels of the successes of bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, the north of England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands, and The Lodger are amongst the brightest hopes. Taking their cues from fellow northerners The Smiths and The Wedding Present, The Lodger's music is classic melodic pop, fueled by sparkling hooks and plangent lyrics. The tunes are sharp and timeless, a thoroughly modern distillation of great Britpop from the 60s right up to today. Grown-Ups is a perfect introduction to the thrilling pop charms of The Lodger.
Slumberland
CD
$12.00

Lodger, The
Grown-Ups
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$8.50

Lullatone
The Bedtime Beat
PS, AUSTRALIA Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece, Lullatone presents the bedtime beat This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious "bathtime beat", which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let's March to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat!
SomeoneGood-003
CD5
$13.50

Maclean, Juan
Happy House
PS, US This single is a dance tourist's window into the state of downtown clubbing in what has always historically been the worldwide capital for boogie. It is no longer as paranoid, as cold, as robotic. W/ remixes by PRINCE LANGUAGE & LEE DOUGLAS.
DFA
12
$8.00

Madrugada
S-T [2008] (ON SALE)
PS, NORWAY New and final (?) album from Norwegian rockers Madrugada, whose guitarist, Robert Buras, passed away last year. There`s no doubt that working in the studio has been therapeutic for the remaining members of Madrugada, who perservered after the tragic death of guitarist Robert Burås. Fourteen songs where Robert plays a major part. The material on the new album was developed among the band members in the three years that have passed since their last studio album, The Deep End. Vital to making this Madrugada album are the merited musicians and friends the trio has recruited: Madrugadas drummer Erland Dahlen, guitarist Kid Congo Powers (Bad Seeds, Cramps, Gun Club), guitarist Emil Nicolaisen (Serena Manesh), American pedal steel-players Eric Heywood (Son Volt, Jayhawks, Joe Henry) and David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, Alpha Band). Adding vocals are Norwegian singers Ane Brun and Ingrid Olava.
Malabar/EMINorway
CD
$25.00

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash
PS, US His first record in three years. Malkmus' genius is that he knows exactly when to fetter. These songs may sprawl like the Central Valley (told you), they may spread out like a jet's flame, but when they reach that last tract house they gracefully spread their wings and head for the unclaimed land beyond. Indeed, although Malkmus makes the Pacific Northwest his home, this feels like a "California" album. Check out how "Real Emotional Trash" begins as a modern-day "Tonight's the Night," before evolving into a road trip from the Mexican border to Marin, in the tradition of Pavement's "Unfair." And dig those Allman Bros. leads (really!).
Matador
CD
$13.50

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$13.50

Manishevitz
East to East
PS, US A set of swaggering, thoughtfully-composed rock songs, with a liberal dose of open-ended groove structures (think Neu!) and moody pop mutations (think Roxy Music). East to East offers the culmination of Adam Busch & co.'s particular take on post-everything pop forms, delivered with the vigor of a faceless young blogworthy band & the grace of scene veterans with nothing to prove. "It is, to date, their masterpiece," says John Darnielle (Mountain Goats), "an excitingly good album from a band who's still plugging away & probably feeling like they're banging their heads against a wall a lot of the time"
Catbird
CD
$6.75

Miimo
Live at Super Deluxe
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type), clamshell case. Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). "Live at Super Deluxe" was recorded at the most advanced club in Tokyo "Super Deluxe" in July, 2007. Their live performance is vivid and emotional. Steel Pan is featured on drum & electric double bass with electronic percussions. Each members control dubbed samplers/computers, playing their own instruments. Hybrid performance. Chill-out dubbed sounds and beat-driven groove(tr1), jazzy and tender arrangement(tr2), heavy bass onedrop(tr3), hypnotic beat with Melodica and Steel Pan(tr4). Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) as well as debut album.
Amorfon-2
CD
$15.00

Miimo
S-T
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type) in clamshell case. Cool melody & beat from Tokyo! Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Miimo's tracks have been already used for documentary movie and commercial spot as soundtracks in Japan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). Exotic electronic pop album "miimo" is their debut album including tunes like; impressive Pablo-like melody by Melodica (tr2), nice combination with jazzy sax and electric beat(tr3), mystic polyphonic song feat. J-pop female singer (tr4), chilled Steelpan 'dub' melody (tr6), feat. cut-up poetry reading in Spanish (tr8), etc. Describing romantic and chilled atmosphere in Tokyo with the sound. Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) in clamshell case. Like Morr, ~Scape and C.C.O., electronic and acoustic are crossovered nicely.
Amorfon-1
CD
$15.00

Mojo
#173 (April 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Monochrome Set
The Independent Singles Collection
PS, UK Suave; debonair; sophisticated. Haughty, perhaps, for those who favor the pejorative. Aristocratic in more than one sense, classy in at least as many. The Monochrome Set were effortlessly inventive, literate, poised and immaculate of tuneage, possessed of an internal dialogue as a band that allowed them to surf their own narrative. They were just unlike anything else, in layman s terms. Instead, their sound harked back to a golden era of British pop songwriters. But there was nothing retrogressive about their endeavors. Instead they wrote songs that recreated the drama and promise of a Pearl & Dean interval theme, veering from lullaby to mambo to harmonic pop, accompanied by lush melodies and irresistibly playful lyrics that embraced morbidity at one extreme, and pitch-perfect satire at another. Because they could. Brand new release of Monochrome Set's complete independent singles collection including b-sides and rare tracks Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, a long-term fan of the band, has recorded a cover of He's Frank with guest vocals by Iggy Pop and indeed this version has already been broadcast in Heroes. And the word is that this track may even be his next single. TRACKS: 1. HE S FRANK 2. ALPHAVILLE 3. EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS 4. LESTER LEAPS IN 5. THE MONOCHROME SET 6. MR BIZZARO 7. HE S FRANK (SLIGHT RETURN) 8. SILICON CARNE 9. FALLOUT 10. THE MATING GAME 11. J.D.H.A.N.E.Y. 12. CAST A LONG SHADOW 13. THE BRIDGE 14. JET SET JUNTA 15. LOVE GOES DOWN THE DRAIN 16. KILLING DAVE 17. HOUSE OF GOD (LIVE) 18. SWEET DEATH 19. FOREVER YOUNG 20. HURTING YOU 21. LITTLE NOISES 22. I LOVE LAMBETH 23. KISSY KISSY 24. ALL OVER 25. CLOSING TIME
CherryRed-350
CD
$15.50

Moore, Thurston
Sensitive/Lethal
PS, US Sensitive/Lethal is Thurston Moore in deep basement cosmoses. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and Texas blues albino drug zap (Johnny Winter - still alive and well detail - back cover). This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice.
NoFunProductions-26
CD
$12.25

Morning Dew
At Last
PS, US Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1970 on the Roulette label. "Midwest legends who cut a handful of great garage 45s before this swan song hippie rock LP, which unfortunately was issued way too late to make any impact. Rated highly by many, it's a solid trip through Airplane/Cream/Butterfly dimensions mixing early heavy moves with strong folk rock/psych material. Lack of macho vocals is a plus, and opening 'Crusader's Smile' is a classic. Caveat: despite utilizing the original album cover art, and listing the album tracks on the sleeve, the Scorpio vinyl LP contains completely different music; unreleased material plus three alternate takes of LP tracks! All this material had earlier been released by Collectables on CD." --Patrick Lundborg, The Acid Archives.
Roulette
LP
$13.00

Murder By Death
Red of Tooth and Claw
PS, US Fourth and most accomplished release recorded by Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (QUEENS OF
THE STONE AGE, IGGY POP)
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Naked on the Vague
Blood Pressure Sessions
PS, US Their distinct aggregate of sound calls to mind everything from SPK to Mars and beyond. Or, as they're fond of calling them in Philly, "the Death Star version of Times New Viking." Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat & anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines & stinging, swinging organ & synth fills. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as "apocalyptic pop" which could be construed as both drowning & waving.
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Nes, Silje
Ames Room
PS, US Debut album from the Norwegian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. Broad-ranging & full of character, it moves from languid dream-pop to stomping, upbeat tracks, to introspective or abstract numbers. W/ sparkling melodies exuding a music-box sweetness, spindly electronics weave around a vast array of instruments. PREFIX MAG: "What are young artists to do to get noticed these days? They could try to build blog buzz or win American Idol. Or they could take the old-fashioned route, like Norwegian songstress Silje Nes did, and send a demo directly to a respected label. Some of the songs from said demo appear here, as do other tunes the multitalented Nes crafted largely by herself. She plays an array of instruments on the album, including guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, and trumpet. It all adds up to plenty of pretty chamber pop."
FatCat
CD
$12.50

Numbers
Tomlab Alphabet Series: W
PS, US NUMBERS emerges from the dusk of last year's full-length, "Now You Are This", with a pair of rollicking jams that refuse to let the summer set from our hearts and minds. "Is That Really True?" takes on the heavy question of real knowledge with a fuzz bass and drone organ before turning to an irresistible hum-along chorus. And prevailing question remains: "What can we know?" On the þip, the TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS classic "Crimson and Clover" experiences a fuzz rock reawakening shot through by pointedly triumphant guitars and dirty synth. All builds to an end with a brilliant reenactment of the tremolo chant "Crimson and Clover - over and over..." Summer may go, but it won't be gone forever. "Now Now You Are This' fuzzy guitar riffs and distorted synth melodies aren't just burning and propulsive, they're also strangely emotive. We like strangely emotive." - XLR8R
Tomlab-106-W
45
$5.50

OffOnOff
Clash
PS, NORWAY One half of Original Silence, Offonoff is comprised of Terrie Ex (THE EX), Massimo Pupillo (ZU) & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE. Similar to the sounds of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth, and The Ex. Noisy, intense, hard with rapid shifts & contrasts, heavy grooves. All free improvised!
SmalltownSupersound-147
CD
$15.25

Operazione Nafta
Cavuru
PS, US Located w/in the Trapani Province of Sicily, they consider their self-described "un-rock" as "a blowjob from Luigi Russolo." The trio pours on the racket & sounds like they were hatched in a custom-built Russolo intonarumori. Their unstoppable onslaught taps into rock/improv fizz a la Sun City Girls, Etron Fou Leloublan or the Butthole Surfers, various FMP blat, & MEV-like electronic scramble.
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Pacific UV
Longplay 2
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Due to its rotating cast of vocalists (including guitarist Clay Jordan and Carolyn Berk of Lovers), Longplay 2 feels more like the work of a collective than a "band" and more of a collection than an "album"; maybe something like a post-rock version of Studio's Yearbook 1. "Alarmist" and "Orson" function as the centerpieces (eight and ten minutes each, respectively), tapping into well thought-out twinkles like Sigur Ros' () on fewer Ambiens and more Vitamin Water. Which arguably makes things a little lacking in the white magic department, but if that record was your sort of thing to begin with, Longplay 2 will certainly prove every bit as comforting even if they sometimes choose to move icebergs with tugboats. The movements in "Alarmist" are slight, but necessary for the illusion of space flotation, while "Arson" unhurriedly shimmers towards a choir of chattering electronics. Among others, Pacific UV point to Mazzy Star and Spacemen 3 as influences, which might be the coordinates for Brightblack Morning Light; certainly, "If So" and "Tremolo" aren't giving off the same moonchild whiff, but they'd still sound fantastic in lunar rovers."
Warm
CD
$11.50

Panther
14 Kt. God
PS, US Vinyl version of cd recently released by KILL ROCK STARS. 180 gram
Marriage
LP
$14.25

Paper
An Object
PS, SWEDEN Debut album from Swedish kraut-punk trio featuring Calle Olsson from The Bear Quartet and Paddington DC along with members of Audionom. The sound is based around the frustration of punk, the delicacy of pop melody and the hypnotic power of repetition. Think early Wire meets early Wire, simple, powerful.
Novoton-015
CD
$14.00

Pigeons
Virgin Spectacle
PS, US Amongst all the fog & feathers is a collection of comely pop & sonic excursions guaranteed to lodge itself in your waking subconscious. Limited to 500
BlackDirt
LP
$21.00

Pocahaunted
Peyote Road
PS, US "Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and Peyote Road shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A-side ritual, 'Divine Flesh,' stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side, 'Heroic Doses,' documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies' blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void. With tribal-psychedelia collage jacket artwork by Owl Eyes." --Britt Brown.
Woodsist
LP
$13.75

Polar, Kelley
I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Kelley Polar's flowery but strangely alluring second full-length is an unashamedly earnest record full of waterlogged synths, classics references, and a sense of theatre."
Environ
CD
$15.75

Port Royal
Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed
PS, US The much-delayed remix project finally surfaces, with a stellar line-up of remixers taking apart tracks from 'Flares', the much loved debut album from the Italian post-space-rock quartet. 'Flared Up' follows last year's sophomore long player 'Afraid To Dance' and was put together between June 2005 and December 2006, with finishing touches and fine-tuning preparing it for a Spring 2008 release. The album will be released in a limited edition one-off pressing of 1000 copies for the world. TRACKLISTING: 1. Mohn f/r port-royal (F.S. Blumm remix) (previously unreleased track) 2. Jeka (Fizzarum remix) 3. Spetsnaz (destroyed by Stafraenn Hakon) 4. Karola Bloch (Manual remix) 5. Jeka (Judith Juillerat remix) 6. Flares pt. 2 (d_rradio remix) 7. Flares pt.3 (Televise remix) 8. Karola Bloch (Dialect remix) 9. Spetsnaz (Skyphone remix) 10. Flares On The Water (Minamo remix) 11. Karola Bloch (OPN remix) 12. Stimmung (Ulrich Schnauss remix).
Resonant-027
CD
$15.50

Pretendo
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PS, US A NYC trio of ex-/present members of ENON, SKELETON KEY, CREEDLE, RUGBURNS & MORRICONE YOUTH, resembles a compilation of its counterparts. Their 2nd album (pronounced "2") was engineered by the legendary MARTIN BISI w/ artwork & lyrics contributed by the always subversive billboard artist Ron English.
Ccr-104
CD
$11.75

Pwrfl Power
S-T
PS, US In spite of its populist facade, popular music still largely manages to maintain a number of strangely puritanical conventions. One exceptionally glaring case in point is the assumed mutual exclusivity of humor and "serious" music--the assumption that all "important" music is solemn, earnest, and marked with abject sincerity. Particularly in the realm of the singer/songwriter, sap and heart-sleeved sincerity are tantamount to authenticity, and humor is viewed at best as a suspicious novelty. Which is just one reason why PWRFL Power's Kazutaka Nomura doesn't especially care for pop conventions. Born to an architect and a calligrapher in Hokkaido, Japan in 1984, Kaz began studying Classical and Jazz guitar at the age of 13--moving to Seattle at 18 to study musical composition. Shortly after his arrival, the diminutive and charismatic Nomura co-founded (along with two other like-minded Japanese emigres) the city-conquering, genre-defying free-improv trio Na--who, before their residency-related demise in 2006, self-released over 40 recordings, and garnered ink in Wire, Spin, and The Stranger. Following the dissolution of his band, Nomura--now armed with a fancy music degree--decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique. In the year or so since his live debut, PWRFL Power has collected considerable local and national acclaim for his magnetically charming live performances--with high-profile appearances at Wham City's Whartscape festival, and a mainstage slot at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party (an appearance which resulted in Kaz being cast as himself in one of those weird, animated Esurance television commercialsÉ no, seriously--look for it in early 2008). With his self-titled full-length debut, PWRFL Power covers considerable aesthetic strides--from contemplative sparsity to bluesy dexterity to pure pop, and on through to a number scarcely definable alleyways in between--whilst spinning loving yarns about self-acceptance, internet dating,
chopstick etiquette, loathsome cats, cocaine, obsessive-compulsive text messaging, and tomato throwing. And what's most awe-inspiring is that, in spite of this innate humor, PWRFL Power manages to transcend the potentially cloying confines of its subject matter--seemingly by sheer will-with thoughtfully constructed, elegantly played, and catchy as fuck compositions. So yes, the songs are meant to be funny. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take them seriously. PWRFL Power has performed with Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, No-Neck Blues Band, Spoon, Beach House, Sir Richard Bishop, No Age, Wooden Wand, Sage Francis, Marnie Stern, Barr, Aa, White Magic, Jana Hunter, Gang Wizard, and countless others.
SlenderMeansSociety-009
CD
$10.25

Quiet Life
Act Natural
PS, US "Pleasant chord progressions, soft harmonies & enough of a Southern wail to double check the band's ConnectRiceuct oardddsress." - Chattanooga Times Free Press debut full length, a collection of songs which have been honed the past year by filling opening slots throughout the country for the likes of Matt Costa, Cold War Kids & the Drive By Truckers.
SafetyMeeting
CD
$13.25

Rameses III
Basilica
PS, US `Basilica´ is Rameses III's eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed releases 'Honey Rose' (Important), 'Matanuska' (Music Fellowship) and 'Night Of The Ankou' (Type). 'Basilica' is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. Each artist approached to contribute to the 'Basilica' disc was given free range to experiment with the live files, to re-invent and re-interpret the recordings as they saw fit. Minimalist sound-sculptor Keith Berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of 'Basilica' and gave the album an early focus and provided inspiration for the glacial artwork. Gregg Kowalsky played the 'Rose Blood' remix as part of his own performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San Francisco using its tuned sinewave oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to induce, to quote the man himself, "a psychoacoustic listening experience".
Important-178
DCD
$13.00

Rational Acadamy, The
A Heart Against Your Own
PS, AUSTRALIA Birthed from of an explosive DIY underground in Brisbane, Australia sometime during the early moments of 2004, The Rational Academy is the epitome of shimmering avant-infused pop. With an unerring willingness to dispense with the pleasantries of expectation and convention, The Academy's songwriting duo Benjamin Thompson and Meredith McHugh have forged a unique place in the heartland of melodic song writing, etched with glistening electronic interludes and wall of sound guitars. Their songs are replete with sweet melody, reflective lyrics and a presence that's both engulfing and expansive for the listener. Produced by Room40's Lawrence English and featuring Iceland's Ben Frost, UK based duo For Barry Ray and others, 'A Heart Against Your Own' follows on from The Rational Academy's two, now highly collectible, seven inches, a swag of compilation appearances and projects with the likes of Japanese songstress Tujiko Noriko and Novi Split. In their time together The Rational Academy have toured extensively sharing the stage with the likes of Deerhoof (USA), Xiu Xiu (USA), Tenniscoats (Japan), Spoon (USA), Dear Nora (USA), The Blow (USA), Sarah Dougher (USA), Scout Nibblet (UK) and Australia's Holly Throsby, Art of Fighting and more. To quote Faster Louder - "The next big thing. The 'It' band. We've been told this too often before. But join us tonight for THE RATIONAL ACADEMY and you'll leave smugly, knowing this time Richard Kingsmill hasn't beaten you to it!"
SomeoneGood-004
CD
$15.00

Raveonettes, The
Lust Lust Lust
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Vice
LP
$16.50

Record Collector
#347 (March 2008)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Religious Knives
Resin
PS, US Since their first release for No Fun Productions, the collection of early LP's/singles entitled 'Remains', the Religious Knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. Resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. This is Brooklyn's true Psychedelic Rock.
NoFunProductions-30
CD
$12.50

Renderizors
Submarine
PS, US A new formation of members from The Renderers & Sandoz Lab Technicians. Songs dissolve into swirls of musical deconstructions, then at times reform into the recognizable. Throughout this album there is a sense of drift & the gorgeousness of space.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$11.75

Ruby Suns, The
Sea Lion
PS, US The melodic musings of "Sea Lion" found inspiration in the natural world and Ryan McPhun's travels with in it. With a Dictaphone, he ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes of New Zealand that surround his everyday. It was intended to be a world music album, but reverb and psychedelic pop crept in to create a unique mixture of exotic sounds, accomplished with an impressive array of instruments - from steel-string ukulele to djembe drums to pots and pans - all set upon a cozy cushion of synths and cassette samples.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Rusalnaia (ft. SHARRON KRAUS)
S-T
PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded in two sessions through 2007 when SHARRON KRAUS & GILLIAN CHADWICK (Ex-Reverie) teamed up with engineer Greg Weeks, who helped capture the duo's organic & sometimes unusual instrumentation, from dulcimer & guitar to pennywhistles & goat's nail shaker, and contributed his own accents to a few tracks: acid Les Paul leads & vintage 70's synths. Eight tracks of haunting, ritualistic, magical pagan-folk were the result, varying from the darkly processional tale of dispossession, though the Comus-like ceremonies of the title track, to the extended forest folk trance on the concluding "Wild Summer"
CameraObscura-082
CD
$14.25

Sarandon
Joe's Record
PS, US Brilliant post-punk pop that pays homage to the best of 80s UK DIY. Short, angular tunes that combine the brusque drive of Big Flame and Bogshed with the spiky melodicism of June Brides and Josef K.
Slumberland
45
$5.75

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 1 Nov/Dec 2007
PS, UK "Moby Grape: they had it all... the talent, the tunes, the looks, the attitude. So whatever happened to Moby Grape? The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream: the freak-out in London in 1967. Laguna Beach 1970 Christmas Festival: 'Some guy drank a whole bottle of acid!' The Moody Blues: misunderstood psych heroes. John's Children: what happened next? Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief Revisited. The Band: did they ruin British rock music? All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, 4-color art.
Shindig-V2#1
ZINE
$8.25

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 2 Jan-Feb 2008
PS, UK "Gary Walker: from the Sunset Strip with The Standells, to world fame with Scott and John, to psychedelia in England with The Rain. The Walker Brother who rocked! Garage Fashion: the evolution of mop tops, turtle necks and Cuban heels from the '60s to today! Wendy & Bonnie: teen sisters cut soft-pop classic. The Sonics: Seminal garage heroes reborn. Moby Grape: part two of our exclusive story. Mitch Mitchell: Hendrix drummer speaks, Bummer Cinema: six easy pieces of loner celluloid, The Chesterfield Kings, The Horrors. All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power-pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, full color, high quality paper stock; 2nd issue of this re-launched magazine.
ZINE
$8.25

Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 3 March-April 2008
PS, UK "Issue contents: The Early San Francisco Scene -- the first in our exclusive three-part San Francisco timeline focuses on 1965: the beginnings. The Charlatans, The Great Society, The Beau Brummels, The Warlocks and many more. The GTO'S -- Pamela Des Barres' infamous 'groupie group' grew out of the '60s Sunset Strip scene and had Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck and Lowell George provide the musical backdrop to their irreverent pop adventures. Here's the whole story! Moby Grape -- the third and final installment of our exclusive in-depth Grape story. From the wilderness years to their rebirth as cult heroes in the '90s. Gonn -- creators of garage-psych classic 'Blackout of Gretely' and self-confessed 'loudest band in town' (that's Keokuk, Iowa) come clean. The Fairytale -- the brief but bright career of these British psych legends told for the first time! Overlooked albums -- our finest scribes celebrate their most cherished long-playing vinyl obscurities, from The Thirteenth Floor Elevators to Sandie Shaw. Plus tons more including the usual trouser-splitting selection of news, reviews and hullabaloos!" 82 pages.
ZINE
$8.25

Skyscraper
#27
PS, US Features on Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Dillinger Escape Plan, Black Mountain, Magnolia Electric Co., Dan Deacon, Magik Markers, Growing, Circle, Tunng, Tusk, Titan, ft (the Shadow Government), Abe Vigoda, plus the usual plethora of articles, & reviews.
ZINE
$5.50

Smile Smile
Blue Roses
PS, US Hailing from the Dallas, TX music scene, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme create their own modern blend of folk, pop and rock in Smile Smile. Their songs range from heart wrenching ballads to foot stomping sing alongs. Jencey's classical piano background teamed with Ryan's self-taught guitar style combine to create sounds, which both soar above you and pull you in tight at the same time."A sort of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/Mazzy Star hybrid of sing-along folk, buzzy country-leaning tunes and uptempo/downtempo swings, with brilliantly unconventional songwriting and smart harmonies anchoring the whole deal." Dallas Observer
Smile-001
CD
$10.00

Solo Andata/Seaworthy/Taylor Deupree
Live In Melbourne
PS, US One night in April, 2007, the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia was host to a small gathering of sound-lovers and curious passers-by descending on the venerable Northcote Social Club for a night of subtle soundscaping by Oz-natives Solo Andata and Seaworthy and New Yorker Taylor Deupree, who was in Australia for a tour. After a great meal and despite the ghosts of the BBC hijacking the audio system, the three artists set out to capture the focused listeners with beds of abandoned melodies and warm acoustic tangles. In hopes to capture the memories of the night, and a snapshot of live audio and all of its imperfections, Deupree recorded the evening with the intent of producing this CD. Live in Melbourne pairs labelmates Seaworthy and Deupree with Solo Andata, a newcomer to 12k, who all share in a similar sonic aesthetic. Solo Andata performed with laptop and a host of small instruments and electronics creating dense and careful beds of disjointed, yet beautiful music. Seaworthy transformed the stunning, sparse drones of his Map in Hand album into a live, improvised experience that captured all of the emotion that's created by a single musician and his guitar. Deupree rounded off the night with his characteristically sparse bed of tones and digital detritus. Live in Melbourne is strictly limited to 500 copies.
12k-2008
CD
$12.25

Son Lux
At War with Walls & Mazes
PS, US A stunning debut wrung from classical precision & good old human gut-wrench. His first is a heady collection of songs breathing the same air & sharing the same space; painted from the same palette but set apart still--each is a distinct region of one broad, heaving sonic landscape. PREFIX MAG: "Son Lux is the musical project of Ryan Lott, an eclectic talent. He's remixed Castanets and Beirut and also dabbles in visual art, so he should fit right in on the open-minded Anticon label. The imprint drops names like Notwist, Will Oldham, and Radiohead as benchmarks for Son Lux's sound."
Anticon
CD
$15.25

Son Lux
At War with Walls & Mazes
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon
LP
$16.00

Soundpool
Dichotomies + Dreamland
PS, US Forming in 2005 Soundpool is a NYC-based 5-piece shoegaze, space rock, audio/visual act with sweet girlie vocals, saturated guitar sounds, lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section. Soundpool's first album, On High, reached the top spot on the Tonevendor charts for well over a month in late 2006 - Soundpool has since quietly placed themselves in the center of the new shoegaze/dream pop movement of music, sharing the stage with great acts: Robin Guthrie, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Mahogany, Asobi Seksu, Spectrum, Star, Kyte, Auburn Lull and Butterfly Explosion to name a few. Soundpool's second full-length album Dichotomies & Dreamland is in many ways the classic psychedelic album in a post electronica age. Conceptually, the album can be broken into two parts... the conscious and the subconscious. Stylistically, the album follows a thread that perhaps starts in the mid-sixties when pop artists of the day started taking hallucinogens and making records that were a bit more eclectic, cerebral and daring... pushing the boundaries of what a rock & roll record could be. Dichotomies & Dreamland was made in the spirit of that sort of artistic attitude but it's not deliberately of even necessarily retro per se... in fact it is quite modern in an indie sort of way. Elements of Shoegaze, Dreampop, Space Rock, Psychedelic and Electronic are all present. Over a year and a half in the making... we hope you enjoy our latest bodywork! "Soundpool's drone and roll has had my ears for some time. Shoegaze is a genre always in need of new blood, and few new artists match Soundpool's vocal delivery and sonic awareness. While their drone teeters on the tip toes of instability, it's Kim Fields vocals that seamlessly hold the chaos together." -Musicisnotdead. "This sounds great! Of all the newer stuff I was able to come across, I especially like what you guys are doing." -John Cofer, Music Director WTBU. "I walked off Orchard St. on the Lower East side into Pianos, waded my way through the sea of heads and walked right into the "Exploding Plastic Inevtitable"... the multimedia sensory blast definitely conjured up the Velvet underground imagery but Soundpool's sound was closer to early 90's Stereolab. The crowd was diggin' the impressive performance... this was one of the best sets I've seen in a while by a band that could be labeled "shoegaze"". -Fiddle While You Burn "When Lush wrote Sweetness and Light at the height of shoegazing, I wonder if they had anticipated Soundpool, the latest act to breath life into a fondly missed genre? Cosmic, phased guitars combine with breathy, angelic vocals and sequenced programming. Yet beneath the swirl of effects beats a heart of pure pop." -Brett Spaceman, EVILSPONGE.
Aloft-02
CD
$12.25

Spear Of Destiny
Word Service
PS, UK The first time on CD for Spear Of Destiny's final album for CBS which reached No.11 in the UK National Charts back in 1985. Includes the UK hit singles 'Come Back' and 'All My Love' Now comes with a second disc of rare b-sides and mixes, all making their debut on CD! Booklet contains original LP artwork, lyrics, pictures of all the relevant sleeves and liner notes by Alex "No More Heroes" Ogg. Still on the road to this very day and very much a major 'underground' attraction. Disc One- Rocket Ship / Up All Night / Come Back / World Service / I Can See / All My Love (Ask Nothing) / Mickey / Somewhere In The East / Once In Her Lifetime / Harlan County / Disc Two- Last Card / Walk In The Shadow / The Wheel (Live) / Prisoner Of Love (Live) / Liberator (Live) / All My Love / Come Back (Dub) / Cole Younger / Young Men (Return Of) / Come Back (Berlin Mix) / Micky (Remix).
Anagram-202
CD
$15.50

Ssion
Fools Gold
PS, US Pronounced "shun" A 10 years strong art punk dance/design/film collective headed by cosmic man sisters CODY CRITCHELOE (singer, director & sometimes graphic designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Scream Club) & J.A.M. (producer, co-writer & boho space cadet mystery man). They have toured w/ the Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Faint, & the Black Dice.
Sleazetone
12
$9.00

Sun City Girls
You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1)
PS, US Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time.
Abduction
CD
$15.00

Swimmers
Fighting Trees
PS, US Reminiscent of 60's British pop, this hints at influences such as the Kinks & the Velvet Underground & draws comparisons to contemporaries the Arcade Fire, Spoon, & the New Pornographers. It's the prettiness that strikes you, & the energy that hooks you.
MadDragon
CD
$14.50

Swirnoff, Preston
Maariv
PS, US A collection of electroacoustic solo works taking 20th century minimalism, ritual drone music, & early electronic & tape experiments as launching points. This uses a variety of instruments (piano, tone generators, organs, guitar, tape machines) to create absorbing sound worlds that thrive on repitition, melody, noise & a sense of the otherworldly. Each piece, though based on a simple premise & instrument setup, weaves a complex aural tapestry rich in both
texture & emotion.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$11.75

Tammar
S/T
PS, US Working out the kernels of their corn-fried haze, TAMMAR is an exercise in balancing minimalist riffs with maximalist peaks & valleys. While the usual rise-fall theory of rock is tired, with Tammar there's a focus on the jam rather then cold hard numbers. On stage they are always a bit different - moments are stretched and condensed at will, and on record its no different. Minimal keyboards and drums bring to mind early Suicide while tripping guitars and theatrical accented vocals bring to mind the more paisley moments of Felt and U2, respectively. This four-piece from just north of Louisville, KY recorded these songs primarily live off the cement floor of the basement of Grotto Home Studios by the deft hands of Daniel Burton. Bending the materials of the world until the band itself is a conduit for feelings hot and wet and primal as sex. But that's not all. Tammar tastes the psychedelic aether, visiting the realms above as well as below, transmitting those good vibrations. Turn down the lights, turn up your stereo and rock these five hits of ecstasy.
St.Ives-31
LP
$11.50

Teamforest
Leave
PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners.
Eglantine-015
CD
$13.50

Terminals
Touch
PS, US Reissue of long out-of-print classic from 1992. High point in the evolution of a sound that goes back to the Pin Group, Scorched Earth Policy, & Victor Dimisch Band. Remastered by Brian Cook & includes bonus material.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$12.00

Test Department
Beating A Retreat
PS, UK Reissue. The British collective's first album (comprised of two EPs) shows them with a better range of industrial percussion and more of a sense of rhythm than their only true contemporary, Einsturzende Neubaten. Though the album has an aimlessness to it, the presence of several ambient tracks broadens the palate. - AMG.
SomeBizzare-065
CD
$20.25

Them, Roaring Twenties
Future Sandwich
PS, US walk the same streets of Chicago that the band does, while learning interesting & personal tidbits about the band and their take on Chicago musical experiences. Music is for fans of Deerhoof, Make Believe, Cap'n Jazz
Sickroom-049
CD
$12.50

These Are Powers
Terrific Seasons
PS, US 180g. Gatefold, silkscreened covers. Screenprint on D side.
Hoss
DLP
$24.75

These Are Powers
Terrific Seasons
PS, US Tight, cyclical, incrementally shifting grooves smeared w/spectral guitar & banshee vocals. Upends traditional stylistic expectations of acts operating w /in the noise-punk continuum. Arbiters of "ghost-punk"-an expansion & evolution into the emotional resonance of repetition of the unfamiliar.
Hoss
CD
$12.75

Thing With Ken Vandermark
Immediate Sound
PS, NORWAY The Thing team up with their longtime friend Ken Vandermark to create some of their finest work. Recorded live at Chicago's Hide Out in April 2007, this album leans more towards the classical free jazz sound of the 60s - more American than European. With Vandermark on sax, The Thing gets more mellow, melodic & funky.
SmalltownSuperjazz-105
CD
$15.25

Thorton, Carter
Ten Fingers for Forefathers
PS, US Odd serially-infected compositions for classical guitar. A wide breadth of obscure & fragmented influences represented here, all internal. Limited to 500
BlackDirt
LP
$21.00

Tides/Giant
Split
PS, US Tides write gorgeously lush soundtracks to movies not yet made, filled w/ emotive guitar work, dynamic drumming, & huge production. Giant's sole track on this record weaves its way through both the heaviest of distortions & hauntingly euphoric passages. RIYL: Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Rosetta.
LevelPlane
CD
$9.00

Todd, Mia Doi
GEA
PS, US
CityZen
CD
$15.00

Toy
Half Baked Alaska EP
PS, NORWAY Sir Dupermann (Jorgen Traeen) & Alisdair Stirling follow up their self-titled debut, with this mini-album. Toy showcases the new track: "Welcome to Cedars Lodge" as well as a wonderful remix of the same track by Sean O'Hagen (HIGH LLAMAS). The album also contains four live tracks performed in Norway in 2006 using 11 different organs with guests BJORN TORSKE & John Hegre (JAZKAMER). "Like Royksopp's 'Poor Leno'- cold, lonely pop, bedroom dance party shit" -Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-102
CD5
$12.25

Transmissionary Six
Cosmonautical
PS, US Nine tracks of exploration into the vast, scary, uncharted regions of space- be it creative space or literal space. Terri Moeller (WALKABOUTS) and Paul Austin (WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY) set out to make a record for headphones, rather than be concerned with how to reproduce it live. Notably brighter & more lush than their prior releases, "Cosmonautical" is tied together by themes of discovery, electricity, disappointment, cults, sex, bad eyesight & poor decision-making. But despite the weighty topics, this record is unapologetically more pop-oriented than past work.
Tarnished-0811
CD
$11.50

Traum
Built For Nothing
PS, US One-sided LP. "Suburban Michigan is a breeding ground where every weirdo has a label, a band, and a handful of secret/under the radar collaborative projects. Here Graveyard's Ben Hall and Lambsbread's Zac Davis create a monolithic one-sider influenced by too many private press jazz records and abstract instrumentalism. Davis turns in his effect pedals for nothing; pure clean tones plucked up and down scales and bridges so uniquely that it is easy to confuse the guitar for a sax. Ben Hall drums like a man with four arms; constant rattling trap-tapping and assorted pots and pans clattering, flowing completely smoothly. A perfect union of sound. In an edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves by Anthony Decanini."
Arbor
LP
$11.25

Trencher
When Dracula Thinks
PS, US Re-issue of a long deleted lp that repeatedly sold out on a number of different independent labels. Short, sharp and penetrating songs.
Southern
CD
$12.50

Twin Engine
S-T
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.50

Uncut
#131 (April 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.00

Valet
Naked Acid
PS, US VINYL VERSION of CD on KRANKY. 180gram
Marriage
LP
$14.25

Valet
Naked Acid
PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." PITCHFORK: "Portland Renaissance woman Honey Owens returns for her second album as Valet, this time fusing the project's distinct styles-- patient drones with manipulated vocals, lovesick ballads, spiky tunes infused with electronic noise-- into a unified whole that works terrifically as an album."
Kranky-116
CD
$12.25

Vampire Weekend
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$14.00

Various
Searching For The Now Vol. 1
PS, US First in a series of split singles. The Company is Roy Moller (noted Glasgow popster), Gary Thom and Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian). "Join The Dots" foot-stomping, hand-clapping glam pop of the highest order.
Slumberland
45
$5.75

Various
Juno
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Rhino
LP
$15.00

Various
Encyclopedia Asthmatica Vol. 1
PS, US Nearly all of the ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS' roster, and many of their friends, make an appearance somewhere on this DVD: from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicking in shoes made of bread to the music of HALF-HANDED CLOUD, to the lovely abstraction of SUFJAN STEVENS' projectionist, DEBORAH JOHNSON; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live CASTANETS, to the crisp color footage of MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND at Northsix, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine.
AsthmaticKitty-40
DVD
$12.25

Various
The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset]
PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed.
Fallout
CD-BOX
$88.00

Various
Searching For The Now Vol. 2
PS, US Bye! is Archie Moore from Velocity Girl and Saturday People, his contribution is a great slice of Spectorian power pop. The Happy Couple were a German group who released a handful of exceptional singles. their contribution is an elegant piece of St Etienne-meets-Northern Picture Library electronic pop.
Slumberland
45
$5.75

Various
Don't Stop: Recording Tap
PS, US Though Jeremiah Yisrael's Tap label only issued a handful of 12''s between 1981-83, the tape deck never stopped rolling, producing dozens of lavish songs in disco's last days. From the string heavy sugar boogie of Jackie Stoudemire & Arnie Love to pioneering raps by Missy Dee & the Melody Crew & the Fabulous MCs, this covers a wide swath of New York's all night sound.
Numero
CD
$14.75

Various
Second Marriage
PS, US 2 cds documenting the label. Disc one represents the more psychedelic elements (WHITE RAINBOW, ADRIAN ORANGE, PRIVACY). Disc two represents the open philosophy of the label: lounge-punks WATERY GRAVES, ROB WALMART'S hip hop jams and more. Die cut and handmade packaging.
Marriage
CD
$14.25

Various
Pero Ese Olor En El Cuarto Del Piano Fue El Primer Perfume Que Nexesito En Su Vida
PS, BRAZIL Format: CD Digipack + poster (17.2 X 22.4 in). Pero ese olor en el cuarto del piano fue el primer perfume que necesitó en su vida is our modest homage to the Peruvian novel A world for Julius, by Mr. Bryche Echenique. Take it as an imaginary soundtrack to a book. Nineteen invited artists (from Latin America and Spain) appear on it with ambient, electronic and electro acoustic contributions. File under: Ambient, indie-tronic, electro-acoustic. Tracks: 1. Sonatine - Souvlaki, 2. Un caballo saltando - Caramelitus, 3. Difícil - Posnormal, 4. Snol - Balún, 5. Silhouette sombrío - Polaroyd*, 6. Los primos - Los nueva orleáns, 7. ¿Y Johnny? - Sintecoraz , 8. Si hay bulla no hay futbolín - Juan Stewart, 9. Pequeño forastero (pueblos) - imi, 10. 1981 - Carrie, 11. Extraño esas praderas - 3antena, 12. Candy Tucker - Arturo en el barco, 13. Monika - Boom Boom Clan, 14. Juguete de navidad - Felipe Moreno 15. El primer día - Jög, 16. Sinara Aïssatou - Lise, 17. Do, re, mi, fa, sol I kiss you - pequeña fiera!, 18. Cascabelle - La rainbow toy orchestra, 19. Desastre - dot tape dot.
SiNoPuedoBailer-002
CD
$13.50

Various
Silicon Graffiti
PS, US Silicon Graffiti has been a long time coming! The tracks were hand picked by Circuitree label head Paul Gaeta and Nicholas C. Raftis from literally hundreds of submissions. Highlights include the super intricate melodic masterpiece by electronic music prodigy Jimmy Edgar, the post-apocalyptic journey "2013" by Junc Ops, and the dancehall-inspired "Judah 2012" by Machine Drum. This record has something for everyone and explores various genres such as Hip Hop, Folktronica, IDM, Dancehall, Indie Rock and more. This is intelligent yet fun and danceable electronic music in the vein of Four Tet, Prefuse 73 and Aesop Rock. Tracks: 1. Under Your Skirt- Take, 2. 2013- Junc Ops, 3. 18th Street Reflections- Jimmy Edgar, 4. Inference - 000 5. Dream Eater - Baku, 6. Judah 2012 - Machine Drum, 7. You are the Important Person - Fluent In Fiyah, 8. Lyrical Soda Paper - PG-13 and Wake, 9. Dangling Eyeball - Nived and Hydroplane, 10. Arriving at the Water - Roy of Sealand, 11. The Vapors - Alf 1, 12. Testshot Starfish's Polaris Remix -Caural, 13. Fellow Rescue Paste - Hydroplane, 14. Through the Magnesium Manifold (Voyeurs) - Eleanor Channel, 15. Bro79 - Phoenecia (Jacque Polynice Remix), 16. NeighborhoodSpecialist - Wake, 17. Cognizance - Kentsoundz, 18. Good Living - Omar Jon Ajluni.
Circuitree-005
CD
$12.25

Warmth
S-T
PS, US "Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado, totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Polise was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then-Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of CD-Rs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original CD-R running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow marbled vinyl with hand-stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev."
Arbor
LP
$12.00

Whiskeytown
Strangers Almanac: Deluxe Edition
PS, US Expanded 2-disc re-issue of this 1997 album featuring a pre-Ryan Adams Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary (Tres Chicas) and Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter). PITCHFORK: "The first disc features the original album bolstered by five previously unreleased radio performances. The second disc is a veritable treasure trove: all but two of its 21 tracks are previously unreleased recordings from early sessions for the LP, known by bootleggin' fans as the "Barn's on Fire Sessions". "Kiss & Make-Up", "Indian Gown", "Barn's on Fire", "Streets of Sirens", "Breathe", "Nurse With the Pills", and "10 Seconds" all appear for the first time on any official Whiskeytown release. Acoustic demos of album tracks "16 Days", "Avenues", and "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart", covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner", Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone", and the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" round out the set."
Mood Food/Outpost/Geffen/Ume
DCD
$28.50

White Hinterland
Phylactery Factory
PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only.
DeadOceans-009
LP
$11.50

Who's Your Favorite Son God?
Out of Body Diva
PS, US They ably combine the dramatic & operatic pretense of Magma w/ the cool, aggressive delivery of MX-80 Sound & if you're thinkin' "that's somethin' I gotta hear,"
you're right.
HolyMountain
CD
$14.25

Why?
Alopecia
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anticon
LP
$14.25

Why?
Alopecia
PS, US Two years after wooing critics, they return, 3rd LP in hand. As expected, the band continues its calculated blitzkrieg on that self-made jangle-rap, indie pop 'n' roll genre, but the stakes are raised. The boys returned to their Midwest roots, hunkering down in Minneapolis. Throwing their samplers to the wind (mostly), they recorded live as a 5 piece. They've amassed their most immediate & cohesive batch of songs to date. PREFIX: "Because if a band isn't genre-mashing in these eclectic days, it's behind the times. Because the Bay Area by way of Minneapolis band Why? deftly blends indie-rock, avant-pop, and hip-hop sensibilities (bandleader Yoni Wolf cites artists as divergent as MF Doom and Joanna Newsom as influences on Alopecia). Because D. Kesler of Thee More Shallows engineered the album, which features guest appearances from Fog's Andrew Broder, Doseone, and Nedelle Torissi. Because we haven't had a full-length from Why? since 2005's Elephant Eyelash. Because alopecia might be the medical term for going bald, but Why? is just starting to grow into its own."
Anticon
CD
$15.25

Wire Magazine
#289
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.50

Wizards From Kansas, The
S-T
PS, US 2002 reissue. "West coast via the Midwest, The Wizards From Kansas sole album (Mercury/1970) is a solid mix of choice covers('High Flying Bird', 'Codine') and original compositions in the classic twin-guitar style of groups such as Quicksilver or Tripsichord. Regardless of the band's origins, their heads were firmly planted in San Francisco, going so far as to bring in noted SF session man Mark Naftalin for keyboard textures. World Psychedelia is pleased to add this rare release to its catalog, in superb fidelity."
WorldPsychedelia
CD
$16.25

WZT Hearts
Heat Chief
PS, US Alternately conjuring images of noise gristle, free-jazz wallop, psychedelic expansiveness, & the intellectual curiosity of modern composition. The album captures the extremities of the band's sound, from in-depth explorations of scraggly distortion to drone mentalism to guitar sunbursts. Limited to 500 copies
Hoss
LP
$12.75

Yeti
Issue #5 BOOK+CD
PS, US Musical contributions from and/or interviews with: JEFF MANGUM, who not only breaks his silence and contribures visusal art to the issue, but supplies us with 4 of his favoirte, unreleased sides from old 78s!), AKRON/FAMILY, WILL OLDAM, KAREN DALTON, DEAN AND BRITTA(covering GALAXIE 500 on the cd), DEERHOOF, VASHTI BUNYAN, TARA JANE O'NEIL and more. Also awesome travel journals, poetry, fiction, visual art and interviews. 240 pages with a gorgeous metallic cover.
Yeti
CD/ZINE
$10.75

Forthcoming Releases

Be Your Own Pet
Get Awkward (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Nashville teens' new album.
EcstaticPeace
CD
$9.75

Big Dipper
Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Big Dipper formed in Boston 1985 as an offshoot of post Mission of Burma project, Volcano Suns. Like the Suns they were on Homestead, but they were a bit more quirky and upbeat than any of their previous bands. This limited edition 3 cd set contains all of three of their Homestead albums, Boo-Boo, Heavens, and Crap, plus several unreleased tracks and material from their post-Epic career in the early 90's. Extensive liner notes from all of the band members and WFMU/ Best Show's Tom Scharpling.
Merge
3XCD
$15.00

Black Fortress of Opium
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Inspired by the lore surrounding a little town in Turkey , Afyonkarahisar, which translates into "Black Fortress of Opium." Their self-titled debut album was recorded in Brooklyn, NY by Martin Bisi (IGGY POP, SONIC YOUTH, DRESDEN DOLLS) over the course of seven months in 2007. The 10 original tracks are often reminiscent of Middle or Near Eastern sounds channeled through American folk instrumentation (mandolin, banjo) as well as e-bowed electric guitars, with female vocals that alternate between powerful and soulful to soft and mournful.
Afyonkarahisar
CD
$10.00

Black Hollies
Casting Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Vinyl version of Black Hollies "Casting Shadows" limited to 500 copies.
ErnestJennings-036
LP
$14.00

Blackshaw, James
Celeste/Sunshrine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US After the success of his 2007 album "The Cloud of Unknowing," comes reissues of previous titles previously available only as tiny CDR pressings. "Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string acoustic guitar, picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios: stately, tolling ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging on tremolo, up above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of notes is not bustle but tranquillity." -The New York Times
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75

Blackshaw, James
Lost Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75

Blau, Karl
AM (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Karl Blau is a talented, busy guy. A member of the MICROPHONES, one third of D+ w/ Phil Elvrum & Bret Lunsford (BEAT HAPPENING), & most recently the bassist for LAURA VIERS' back up band. The landmark album of his career carried by up & coming Chicago label Whistler, AM is his psych-folk ode to author A.A. Milne. The music may evoke early Byrds, Syd Barrett & Skylarking-era XTC but its is unmistakably Karl Blau.
Whistler
CD
$10.00

Borko
Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, GERMANY Celebrating Life is the first full-length release from Icelandic artist Björn Kristiansson and reflects a life in music full of experiences. The oldest of these eight tracks are up to six years old, and Morr label-head Thomas Morr has been their eager and attentive listener. How does a punch in the belly sound? Kristiansson has written a song about it called "Spoonstabber," where you'll hear an elegiac Tetris, encapsulated by delaying beats, tumbling samples, guitars, trumpets and a melody that goes on for an eternity. Borko - who also works as a musician for film and theater as well as a music teacher at a primary school in Reykjavik - expresses melancholy and nostalgia through rhythm-machines. His songs can reach dramatic heights with climbing melodies, as well as play up the stoicism of repetition and modulation. His work at the laptop and mixing desk live on stage have helped fuel his inspiration as well as childhood prog rock LPs, Jim O'Rourke's ear and electronica's warmth.
Morr-080
CD
$15.00

Borko
Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Morr-080
LP
$15.00

Braxton, Anthony
Quartet (GTM) 2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Four-disc box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded with Braxton playing reeds, Carl Testa on bass, Aaron Siegal on percussion & Max Heath on piano. The box also contains a definitive essay by Braxton on his Ghost Trance compositions.
Important-184
CD-BOX
$26.50

Cahoone, Sera
Only As The Day Is Long (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Despite being an accomplished guitarist and songwriter, Sera preferred to stay behind the drum kit (drumming for the likes of Carissa's Wierd, LA musician Patrick Park, and on the Band Of Horses' debut, "Everything All The Time") until one tour across the US with Park in 2006. She found herself inspired by the landscape and she wrote an album in her thoughts as they drove along the blue highways and back roads of the expansive west and the plains. "...a breathtaking collection of sad and dusky songs that reveal an artist of remarkable depth as well as a truly stunning voice" - The Stranger.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Cassius Clay
I Am The Greatest! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK Yep, it's no empty boast...as the Sportsman of the last, this, or any other century does his thang in a hilarious and amazing collection of standup, poetry and rapping, just prior to entering the history books by becoming THE GREATEST EVER heavyweight champ of all time! Well on his way to becoming the idol of boxing fans and kids worldwide, and a role model to millions, the brash young Ali is as hilarious, insightful, and wise as ever; a moment of history captured forever! As a bonus, this CD includes the stunning take on Ben E. King's Stand By Me, an idea conceived by the great Sam Cooke, where Ali shows he could have been a contender in the charts too! In the specially prepared stereo remix done exclusively for the RevOla release, it sounds stunning ** A stone RevOla classic available for the first time in a decade! ** Beautifully remastered in true RevOla style and with lovely packaging as usual... ** With notes by Paul Gorman, author of the acclaimed bible of pop style, "THE LOOK" ** A must for Boxing fans, comedy fans, rap fans, poetry fans...and everyone who grew up when Muhammed Ali was KING!
Rev-ola241
CD
$15.50

Chevron
Tuff Shite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, GERMANY Chevron's intricate beats and party anthems get down and dirty with "Tuff Shite". Partly inspired by Chevron's hometown, and partly the result of his extensive live experience all throughout Europe, the six complex, crisp and tongue-in-cheek tracks presented here are also a lot more than just "tuff". Upbeat and clear, the A side displays (again, as if necessary) Chevron's talent for complex rhythms and catchy melodies. Flip the record, and the B side delivers the dancefloor-packing tracks, where jungle, hardcore and breakcore collide in a tasty and incisive way. Welcome to Blackpool, don't let the comets hit you on the way to the club.
AdNoiseam-93
12
$10.00

Child Readers
Music Heard Far Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, US The Child Readers tread the implied ground that lies somewhere between music heard far off & music finally pulled together. They present the seemingly disparate dualities of metaphysical improvisation & meticulous composition in their otherworldly collaboration, an adventurous take on songwriting unheard since the heyday of Cherry Red & 4AD (imagine Eyeless in Gaza or Durutti Column nicking from the Richard Youngs songbook). Presenting music bathed in the beauty of everyday things, The Child Readers offer sonic prayers to country, wastes of sea, songs, drawings, particular times of day & different furs.
SoftAbuse-021
CD
$12.25

Clark
Turning Dragon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US PITCHFORK 8.2. RECOMMENDED! Chris Clark has earned his reputation as one of the world's most adventurous dance producers w/ a catalog of twists & turns that owe just as much to the avant-garde as they do to the dancefloor. On this, it's the dance floor that receives most of the attention from this collection of turbocharged tracks.
Warp
CD
$13.50

Clark
Turning Dragon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Warp
DLP
$16.50

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

Crow Tongue
Ghost Eye Seeker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Crow Tongue's first full length finds them summoning distant howls from the fog of night. Fingerpicked strings & Eastern
instruments recall CT's musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent electronics & mantric drones. "Ghost Eye Gaze" opens the album with a 5-part drone-raga, improvised to back a shamanic chant, pushing from free-folk to free-noise & back again. "Seeker" follows in 2 parts with bass dulcimer & tablas leading into an electric swarmandal excursion. The album closes with "Candle, Corpse, and Bell" where Crow Tongue shows their dub influence with guimbri & tabla-machine slowly spinning through the echochamber.
Hand/Eye-034
CD
$11.75

Crystal Castles
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Highly anticipated debut full length release from Toronto-based electro duo. Following a huge word-of-mouth
fan base, the duo has recieved substantial support on PITCHFORK, and have remixed songs for BLOC PARTY and KLAXONS.
LastGang
CD
$14.25

Destroyer
Trouble in Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Dan Bejar and his alias Destroyer are certainly a household name by now, well at least amongst the households that shop at Trader Joe's, read Pitchfork, and/or voted in the primaries this year. Trouble In Dreams is Bejar's 8th solo record and follow-up to 2006's magnum opus, Destroyer's Rubies. The same backing band and producer are in tow here, as are Bejar's brand name obtusely self-referential lyrics. This time around though we have vinyl! Exciting news for the demographic mentioned above, as Bejar's previous works have been never before been available on LP format.
Merge
CD
$13.25

Destroyer
Trouble in Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
DLP
$18.25

DeVotchKa
Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening. THE ONION: "DeVotchkA gets pegged with all kinds of farfetched descriptions - but despite all their trappings, which include admittedly exotic elements, Nick Urata and company concoct impeccable pop songs, the kind that fuse memory and memorability with swaying darkness and glittering soul."
Anti
CD
$14.75

Dodos, The
Visiter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long played folky guitar w/ a combination of loops & ambient keyboards. Now, along w/ Logan Kroeber & a name change, the band has toured w/ Akron Family, Wovenhand, & Les Savy Fav in support of their first full length for French Kiss.
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.25

Doleful Lions
7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008)
PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past.
Check out the release page for more info and sound samples.
Parasol-CD-108
CD
$9.00

Earle, Justin Townes
Good Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US As the son of legendary singer/songwriter Steve Earle, high expectations are the name of the game. He's shown that he's is up to the task on The Good Life, blending elements of blues, classic country and rock n' roll seemlessly in warm musical settings that could easily be mistaken for classics.
Bloodshot
CD
$13.50

El Perro Del Mar
From The Valley To The Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TheControlGroup
LP
$14.50

El Perro Del Mar
From The Valley To The Stars (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, US El Perro Del Mar is the alter ego of Sarah Assbring. Her second album is an opus, chock full of non-traditional folk songs that explore the world at large. She's joined at times on the record by members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphonic Choir. Her 2006 debut garnered high profile raves from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork to NPR to The NY Times. "A minimal Phil Spector sound. Unique and magical" - The London Times.
TheControlGroup
CD
$13.00

Eleh & Sun Circle
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Essential limited edition 180-gram vinyl release pressed in an edition of 500 copies. Eleh's pure analog drones are a perfect complement to Sun Circle's ecstatic high-volume compositions. Eleh's track is a slight departure from the sub-sonic bass-heavy drones of their first two records. This time around there is more emphasis on a glistening shimmer. Sun Circle's Important debut is psychoacoustic minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism: ecstatic high-volume drones, long-form trance musics & peace noise performed with bowed strings, voices, organs, percussion & world instruments.
Important
LP
$15.00

Experimental Aircraft
Third Transmission (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US This Austin band has been described as lush, ethereal, soothing and beautiful, thanks to front woman/guitarist Rachel Staggs' gorgeous, breathy-yetapocalyptic vocals and heavily distorted instruments.
Graveface-023
CD
$11.50

Fahey, John
Mill Pond (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Originally released on vinyl only. Limited edition CD reissue includes the first-ever collection of Fahey's paintings in the accompanying booklet. His music has been called folk, blues, bluegrass, noise, and even (gasp!) new age. On this EP, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric slide & feedback to create an eerie mood. The Mill Pond is all over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. It further proves that
there is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius.
Important-183
CD
$12.50

For Against
Shade Side Sunny Side (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Signposts: Factory Records, Joy Division, Section 25, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to release "Shade Side Sunny Side," FOR AGAINST's seventh full-length record and first studio album since 2002. As the Lincoln, Nebraska trio approaches their 25th anniversary on the independent music scene, FOR AGAINST has reemerged with an exclamation point: "Shade Side Sunny Side" is a landmark record for the band, boasting FOR AGAINST's darkest (and loudest) material to date. The post-punk roots of FOR AGAINST's early years are firmly in place, but presented throughout 9 new songs with a more expansive and atmospheric sonic palette. "Shade Side Sunny Side" also marks the notable return of original FOR AGAINST guitarist Harry Dingman III, who formed the band with vocalist and bassist Jeffrey Runnings back in 1984. Dingman left FOR AGAINST after 1988's seminal dream pop record, "December." For the new album, the prolific Runnings-Dingman songwriting team picks up right where they left off 20 years ago, when they wrote the classic post-punk material that comprised "Echelons," "December," and "In The Marshes" all within a 2- year span. "Glamour," the album's opening track, is a fierce proposition that tours the early FACTORY RECORDS sound before segueing into a cold post-punk stomp coated by Runnings' icy vocals. Songs like "Underestimate" and the album closer "Irresistible" sparkle with a pop grandeur hinted at by 2002's "Coalesced" album, but infused with unmistakable guitarwork revealing the fingerprints of Dingman's return: searing feedback, atmospheric chord-play, and inspired hooks are coaxed together to form a musical backbone that is both furious and gorgeous. "Aftertaste" is a blistering song that melds the musical sensibilities of JOY DIVISION's early WARSAW years with production by MARC OSTERMEIER (SHOULD) hinting at WIRE's "154." "Shade Side Sunny Side" also includes a cover version of "Friendly Fires," written by Factory Records' SECTION 25, from their 1981 debut "Always Now." "Shade Side Sunny Side" also includes some of the most heartrending accounts by Runnings to date. The album reveals itself as a confessional and therapeutic musical diary, with several songs recounting the tragic life and loss of a close family member, from the acerbic "Glamour," to the haunting ballad "Why Are You So Angry?," and culminating in "Game Over," where Runnings is at his most defenseless, singing nakedly on piano through the first verse and chorus. FOR AGAINST's musicianship on "Shade Side Sunny Side" is in top form, reflecting a maturity befitting their quarter century of songwriting and performances and a freshness that has drawn together an interesting union of dream pop enthusiasts in the USA and a strong dark wave following in Europe.
WordsOnMusic-25
CD
$12.25

Fuck Buttons
Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The group was initially born as an outlet for their nihilistic-noise tendencies but quickly, they realized they could harness the use of noise as a tool to immerse & evoke. Tribal beats & subtle, beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolor drone-scapes while preaching distorted vocals scream for dear hope. This grand noise will fondle you into a state of totally immersed euphoria.
ATP
CD
$15.50

Fuck Buttons
Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
ATP
DLP
$17.75

Gazelle
Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-090
CD
$9.00

Ghost Buffalo
Magician (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US New album.
SuburbanHome
CD
$11.00

Great Northern
Sleepy Eepee (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Before they honed the lush lullabies that made up the arresting debut LP, "Trading Twilight For Daylight," the L.A.-based foursome constructed a set of songs that laid the early groundwork for the band's cinematic pop. The previously unreleased 5-track prequel is being made available due to the overwhelming demand from fans.
Eeniemeenie
CD5
$6.50

Green, Adam
Sixes & Sevens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Green is formerly one half of Moldy Peaches (with Kimya Dawson). This is his fifth solo album. His music is reminiscent of Bacharach and Brel, and he's created his own brand of playful pop while refining it with each release. He's toured with the likes of The Libertines, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Kweller, and The Strokes. "A queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism, and elegant melody" - Mojo. "It always amazes me how he can express such deep meaning with such twisted humor. Adam is eccentric and down to earth, with newfound technical proficiency over a wider spectrum of styles. I love it" - Julian Casablancas, The Strokes.
RoughTrade
CD
$13.25

Head of Femur
Great Plains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Head of Femur releases its third full-length, stripping down to a more accessible five-piece. However, the group still manages to stay true to its ambitious trademark sound, lacing together art-rock sensibilities reflective of the Talking Heads.
Greyday
CD
$11.50

Hello Lovers
Gone With The Wind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Hello Lovers has been producing a unique sound described as "southern gothic" baroque pop in a chamber group incarnation. The group itself has been referenced as a "String Chamber Group With Vocals". Lead by John King who writes & directs most of the arrangements & sings, the group features Masha Poloskova (Conservatory of Moscow) on violin, Molly Fischer (Conservatory of Kansas) on cello & Andy Hadaway (Spank Dance Co) on piano. Guest performers include members of ...Trail of Dead, Windsor for the Derby, Polyphonic Spree & others.
Sixgunlover-015
CD
$12.25

Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Stoned & Dethroned [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Psychocandy [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Honey's Dead [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Darklands [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Automatic [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Joan Of Arc
Boo Human (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50

Joan Of Arc
Boo Human (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 20TH)
PS, US Done with the young and hungry rat-race of band-life, Joan of Arc now exists at the pace their real lives allow. By combining one week of studio time, a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet allowing participants to drop in whenever they could, each track on Boo Human is as wildly different and uniquely constructed as the groups who produced them. The combination of 14 musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that is as intense as it is intimate.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Jucifer
Autrichienne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US New Album. Follow-up to their critically acclaimed Relapse debut. Amber Valentine's distinctive voice varies from harsh, banshee screams to softly moaned intonations against a raw palette that varies in terms of tempo & volume but never wavers in emotive intensity. A reinvention of metallic shoegazing!
Relapse
CD
$13.25

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

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

July
July (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK Having started out as a skiffle act from Ealing and called The Playboys they then became an R&B combo, The Tomcats. John (Speedy) Keen, (Thunderclap Newman) was in them for a while and then In 1966, The Tomcats went to Spain with a new line-up (one which become the future July one). As Los Tomcats, they got in the charts with four EPs, one of which was all in Spanish! They then returned to the UK in 1968, still basing themselves in Ealing and changed their name to July. As July, they recorded what later became one of the most sought-after British psychedelic sixties albums of all time. One that was originally released in the UK on Major Minor (MMLP/SMLP 29) in 1968 and also issued in USA/Canada on Epic (BN- 26416) and even released in Brazil (Musidisc Hi Fi 2.177). The album s main appeal is its haunting brand of psychedelia and Rev-Ola are delighted to announce that this special CD issue has four bonus tracks. The gorgeous package is also enhanced by a quantity of previously unpublished photographs and some highly-informative CD booklet notes by 60s pop-sike expert David Wells. Tony Duhig (guitarist) and John Field (keyboards, flute) went on to be in Jade Warrior and Tom Newman later released solo albums on Virgin and Decca. He also set up Branson's Manor Studios and engineered 'Tubular Bells' I and II! TRACKS: 1. MY CLOWN 2. DANDELION SEEDS 3. JOLLY MARY 4. HALLO TO ME 5. YOU MISSED IT ALL 6. THE WAY 7. TO BE FREE 8. MOVE ON SWEET FLOWER 9. CRYING IS FOR WRITERS 10. I SEE 11. A FRIENDLY MAN 12. A BIRD LIVED BONUS TRACKS 13. MY CLOWN (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM580 1968) 14. DANDELION SEEDS 15. HELLO WHO S THERE (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM568 1968) 16. THE WAY
Rev-Ola-243
CD
$15.50

Juniper Tar
To The Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Juniper Tar's debut release is the result of the band packing up and heading to Prentice in Northern Wisconsin in April 2007 to record the batch of songs they had been working on since the group's inception in 2005. The idea was to stay out of the recording studio environment and invite the room where the song is recorded to be the fifth band member. This allowed for the songs to be played live in one room where separation and instrument tracking would not become a separate process. The songs on To the Trees come together in a collage with a unifying theme of separation and solitude, sometimes longing for it while other times cursing it. Beginning this spring and summer, Juniper Tar will be supporting To the Trees with live shows throughout the Midwest and east coast. A limited edition 7" vinyl single will also be released this spring on the Bus Stop Label for the song "The Mouths of Fields" with a B-side take on Townes Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues" R.I.Y.L.: Band of Horses, Golden Smog, Ryan Adams, Avett Brothers, Come, My Morning Jacket, Matt Pond PA.
BusStop-1033
CD
$10.00

Kid Dakota
A Winners Shadow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Layer on layer of guitar and percussion driven melodies. For fans of Okervil River, Rio Kiley, Spoon, Nada Surf.
Graveface
CD
$10.25

Kills, The
Midnight Boom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US manner that flits between light and dark, funny and morbid, experimental and cute. The result is a short, sharp twelve track album of sensual, fresh, and atmospheric songs.
Domino
CD
$12.50

Kills, The
Midnight Boom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$18.00

Lemonheads
It's a Shame About Ray [Collector's Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Expansive re-issue.
Rhino/WEA
CD/DVD
$25.00

Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin
Missa Luba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, UK Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as Absolutely, one of the great films, Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmosphere of the sixties; and four decades on has lost none of it's power to astonish and provoke. Malcolm McDowell (of whom IF... made a star), suggested the bewitching, other-worldly music of Sanctus from the Missa Luba, a version of the Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs, which establishes the film s very particular atmosphere. IF... captured the public's imagination beyond anyone's expectation and the memorable Sanctus subsequently became a chart hit (I couldn¹t believe it recalled McDowell). Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, a choir with percussion section consisting of about 45 boys from 9 to 14 years old, and 15 teachers were formed by Father Haazen. The Missa Luba is pure Congolese. It is completely void of any modern, western musical influences. None of it is written. Certain rhythms, harmonies and embellishments are spontaneous improvisations. This edition, comprising the mass and native songs of the Congo, is the first complete restoration of the original album first released in 1963.
El-136
CD
$15.50

Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, CANADA Cardiff-based 7-piece. Recorded in Canada & produced by David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) the album is a frenetic mix of Indie Pop inspired by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Pavement & Bis. It's been a hugely eventful year for the band: a right-of-passage, roller coaster, massively exciting kind of year, that's seen them make an impressive dent globally, experience an avalanche of 'firsts', & subsequently proved their mettle as a Pop collective of huge potential. PITCHFORK rating 8.4!
Arts&Crafts
CD
$15.25

Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION! LP & 10".
Arts&Crafts
DLP
$21.75

Lucy Bland
Down To Sea Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US A little bit familiar and a lot unexpected, Lucy Bland's Down to Sea Level fuses the dynamic range of indie rock, the experimentation of electronica, and the story telling of folk into this genre-defining work. Expanding on the dreamy lushness of their "... really really really cool debut EP" (John Richards, KEXP), Down to Sea Level is the lo-fi indie anthem of your everyday. Introspective tracks like "Crashing Waves" are dominated by intricate arrangements, blip hop adventurousness, and bold instrumentation. The vocal-driven style is complimented by drops of melodic cello, delicate electronic ornamentation, and understated guitar chords, lending the song an aquatic, nostalgic air. Along with the imagery of open seas, Venetian streets, and collecting driftwood, Lucy Bland proves their adaptability with the sixth track of the album. Echoing the sound of Mirah and Blonde Redhead, "Valor" combines open, naked vocals and funky, disco bass beats into a quintessentially dark and moving opus. The song is epic without overstepping dramatic boundaries. Drawing from influences as varied as Cat Power and Hot Chip, Down to Sea Level is a versatile record that lacks only a distribution company. One listen and it won't be your last. Your eardrums will thank you. REVIEWS OF LUCY BLAND'S FIRST RECITAL: "It was so good I almost feel like speaking would be a disgrace." - Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), KEXP Radio "... Music is rarely this pleasurable, meaningful, and soothing on tracks like 'Centuries' and the Suzanne Vega-ish 'Streaker'. A very charming debut EP." - www.threeimaginarygirls.com "Down tempo and moving, Lucy Bland is anything but bland. With the vocals of lead singer Cat Biell surrounded by some cello, guitar, and keyboard, the music just seems to flow so easily. It is perfect for that quiet evening or lazy afternoon." -South of Mainstream
LucyBland-2
CD
$12.50

Lurker of Chalice
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH)
PS, US This re-issue features new packaging (a digi-pac) & a bonus track that was previously only available on the limited vinyl version. This release comes hot on the heels of the forthcoming Lurker of Chalice second full-length: Perverse Calculus
SouthernLord-045
CD
$14.00

Maquiladora
St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F.
Acuarela-1083
DCD
$16.00

Maybe It's Reno
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, US Joining Bridget Cross (UNREST/AIR MIAMI) in Maybe It's Reno are her Unrest bandmates MARK ROBINSON & PHIL KRAUTH; it's almost like an Unrest reunion album. These ten songs mix that old Unrest pop sound & update it for the 21st century.
Teenbeat-434
CD
$12.25

Meloy, Colin
Sings Live! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US A 14-song set documenting THE DECEMBERISTS' lead singer/songwriter's 2006 solo tour. This presents him in a stripped-down, acoustic setting leading his audience on a spellbinding walk through his oeuvre thus far & providing a glimpse of some new material. Of the 13 originals, 2 are previously unreleased compositions, w/ snippets of songs from The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd & REM & performs a version of the traditional folk song "Barbara
Allen".
KillRockStars
CD
$13.00

Millimetrik
Northwest Passage's New Era (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK Pascal Asselin is a founder member of French Canadian dreampop outfit Below the Sea and half of Anglo-Canadian duo Glider. Pascal began recording under the name Millimetrik in 2003, uniting his love of atmospheric ambient (Biosphere, Murcof) with hip-hop rhythms and breaks. With his background as a drummer, Millimetrik's earlier albums "Variety is the Spice of Life" and "Deeper Transmissions" and "The Last Polar Bear on Earth" (all Statik Rek) featured intricately programmed beats with the music creating an otherworldly and often unsettling and chilly backdrop. Over the course of recent releases, such as "Cities EP" and "I Am You Are Me; Remixes and Unreleased" (both Make Mine Music), the atmospheres have slowly thawed and melody has come increasingly to the fore. On the new album "Northwest Passage's New Era", Pascal has ventured even further down this path and the music has a sense of emerging from darkness into the light. The intricately programmed beats are still present, but the emphasis is firmly on melody and structure, and the sound is rooted in hip-hop rather than ambient music. Featuring guest appearances by Ulrich Schnauss and Port-Royal amongst others, the album also sees the first vocals on a Millimetrik release courtesy of Sean Heenan of Auburn Lull and Marie Jorge, whose beautiful vocals grace the album's final track. With this new album, Millimetrik has exceeded the already very high standards of previous releases. "Northwest Passage's
New Era" is a consistently enjoyable, engaging and varied listen that Make Mine Music is proud to release.
MakeMineMusic-039
CD
$17.75

Mission Of Burma
The Horrible Truth About Burma [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The posthumous album, originally released in 1984, has never been available on CD until now. The vinyl has been unavailable since the 1980s. Re-mastered and restored to its correct sequence with three bonus tracks. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. SALON.COM: "Combining rock 'n' roll's traditional fetish for pure, unmediated feeling, with a more modern sort of artistic calculation, Burma's music could evoke everything from the Beatles' ecstatic run of Hamburg rock clubs in the early 60s to the lightning-speed hardcore punk that was developing in the US during Burma's tenure. In this sense, Burma can be said to have blithely encapsulated punk's overarching mission: to draw a line connecting rock rebels past and present, and, in doing so, re-imagine and re-establish the music's anarchic condition."
Matador
CD/DVD
$15.50

Mission Of Burma
The Horrible Truth About Burma [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US . Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing.
Matador
DLP/DVD
$26.00

Mission Of Burma
VS. [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing.
Matador
DLP/DVD
$26.00

Mission Of Burma
VS. [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The second and final studio album, released in 1982 just months before the band broke up, at the pinnacle of their songwriting and performing skills. Unavailable on CD for three years and out of print on vinyl since the 1980s. Bonus DVD contains the entire afternoon set from the final show in Boston in 1983. Fully re-mastered from the original tapes. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. "The almost-pop architecture is opposed by almost-Wagnerian sonic density, a dichotomy between blueprint and chaos - the competition indicated by the album's title" - Village Voice.
Matador
CD/DVD
$15.50

Mission Of Burma
The Signals, Calls And Marches [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing.
Matador
DLP/DVD
$26.00

Mission Of Burma
The Signals, Calls And Marches [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Out of print on CD for three years and unavailable on vinyl since the 80s, this debut record is back with remarkable extras, including two unreleased studio tracks, a DVD of concert footage at The Space and The Underground in Boston in 1979 and 1980, and a 32-page booklet with interviews and ephemera.
Matador
CD/DVD
$15.50

Mogwai
S-T (Standley Kubrick) EP+6 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, SCOTLAND Tracks: 1.Stanley Kubrik / Christmas Song / 3.Burn Girl Prom Queen / 4.Rage:Man / 5.Xmas Steps / 6. Rollerball / 7.Small Children in the Background / 8. Superheroes of BMX / 9. Now You're Taken / 10.Stereo Dee
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$13.75

Mogwai
Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, SCOTLAND Remix album, available again.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$13.75

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

Moren, Peter
Last Tycoon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Quarterstick
LP
$14.25

Moren, Peter
Last Tycoon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Lead singer of Swedish indie megastars PETER BJORN & JOHN. Out of his prolific pen emerged an intimate collection of songs that see their writer pondering the difficulties & resolutions of everyday life & the ever-present confusion of approaching late adulthood -according to Peter, "the usual lyrical psychobabble, but w/ a direct & honest approach".
Quarterstick
CD
$14.25

Motorpsycho
Little Lucid Moments (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, NORWAY NEW 2008 ALBUM! PRICE TO BE CONFIRMED. Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog juggernaut Motorpsycho is back for their 12th album, with new drummer Kenneth Kapstad, and we couldn't be happier. The follow-up to last year's double-album guitar-rock epic Black Hole/Blank Canvas, this new album is reported to be comprised of "long and delightful songs", exploring the outer reaches of each song's planetary system we reckon...and we couldn't be happier. Plus it will be readily available at what we like to call a very decent price...and we couldn't be happier!
RuneGrammofon
CD
$15.00

My Bloody Valentine
Loveless (Limited edition 180 gram colored vinyl) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless as a special, exclusive numbered limited edition of 1000 copies pressed on 180 Gram red vinyl.

This will be strictly limited to a one time pressing of 1000 copies and sure to become a collectors item as this is the first time ever on colored vinyl. Features the original artwork, released in a gatefold sleeve.
Plain
LP
$16.25

Nalle
Sirens Wave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich & expansive vocals, w/ a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synth & buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski & Aby Vulliamy. These 6 pieces form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese Gagaku, European plainsong, & Near Eastern modal drones
Locust
CD
$13.00

Nalle
Sirens Wave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Locust
LP
$18.25

New Bloods
Secret Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US It's American-sounding, raw & sonorous, resonating deep into the ground, past the roots of trees, sighing up to shoot holes in the clouds & drifting back behind mountains. Lean, engaging, minimalist punk songs topping out before the 3 min. mark. There's some Raincoats vibe, a little Intima, a touch of ESG & Unwound, but w/dub, soul, & afro-beat influences. The joyous spirit of Fela Kuti is right there switching beats alongside Buffy Sainte-Marie & the Pacific Northwest's best DIY originators. RECOMMENDED!
KillRockStars
CD
$13.00

New Bloods
Secret Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars
LP
$13.00

Numan, Gary & Tubeway Army
Replicas Redux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US In 2008, Numan celebrates his 30th year in music, and turns 50. To celebrate, "Replicas" will be re-issued as a deluxe 2xCD package. CD1 contains the original album and three b-sides, while CD2 is a fourteen-track album of early versions/mixes, which were recently discovered and haven't been heard in 29 years. "Replicas" mid-price edition has scanned 26,000+ copies. "Numan's influence on electronic music is unparalleled" - NME. "Another near perfect album from the band" - All Music Guide.
BeggarsBanquet
DCD
$16.50

Occasional Keepers, The
True North (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 29TH)
PS, UK LTM present True North, the second album from The Occasional Keepers, an ongoing studio collaboration between songwriters Bobby Wratten (Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars) and Carolyn Allen and Caesar (The Wake). True North was recorded and produced by the Keepers with Ian Catt (St Etienne) in London in February 2008. Guest musician Beth Arzy (Aberdeen, Trembling Blue Stars) features on The Life Of The Fields. Retaining plenty of acoustic, reflective elements from the previous album, this release adds experimental, song-based pop touches to great effect. Track listing: If The Ravens Leave/The Cricket Laced Midnight/Town Of 85 Lights/Leave The Secret There Forever/The Life Of The Fields/Factory
Records/I've Realized/Snow And Feathers/Elsinore/A Distant Piano On A Foggy Night. Praise for The Occasional Keepers: "This Sarah supergroup lives up to the expectations that come from such an important meeting of musical minds, and there's a real synergy here" (Exclaim!); "Often the smallest touches have the greatest impact, like dropping a bomb on a calm hillside" (All Music Guide); "An album of rainy day melancholia and innocent beauty" (Leonard's Lair); "Lovely bubble-bath pop and slo-mo waltz" (Teletext). Also available: The Beauty of the Empty Vessel (LTMCD 2439) (2005).
LTM-2511
CD
$17.00

Old Haunts
Poisonous Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Keeping the torch lit on the vibe & sound coming from the scene that they are so deeply a part of, they add their own personal touch to the garagey punk they forcefully spit out. They layer wirey guitars over a pounding backbeat & the quirky vocals are delivered w/ urgency. Comparisons to Television & the Gun Club are not far from the mark although their spooky & razor sharp riffs are all their own.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.00

Parade, The
Sunshine Girl: The Complete Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, UK The Parade were Murray MacLeod (also a member of The Roger Nichols Trio/Small Circle of Friends), Jerry Riopelle (Phil Spector protégé and former Philles staff producer), and Smokey Roberds (songwriter and actor). Originally signed to A&M Records, The Parade not only created a definitively West Coast pop sound but also unknowingly helped establish the sunshine pop genre via their 1967 Billboard Top 20 hit, Sunshine Girl. This first-ever complete collection of the trio s recorded output features the talents of no less than a pre-Loggins Jimmy Messina, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, David Gates, and other L.A./Wrecking Crew luminaries. The gorgeous 16 page full-colour booklet also includes rare, previously unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of all original band members. Now Sounds, the brand-new imprint from Cherry Red has been established by STEVE STANLEY - producer of over 50 Rev-Ola titles. Recordings produced by Jerry Riopelle. TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE GIRL 2. SHE SLEEPS ALONE 3. THE RADIO SONG 4. LOVERS 5. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU 6. FROG PRINCE 7. WELCOME, YOU RE IN LOVE 8. HALLELUJAH ROCKET 9. SHE S GOT THE MAGIC 10. A.C./D.C. 11. LULLABY 12. THIS OLD MELODY 13. LAUGHIN LADY 14. I CAN SEE LOVE BONUS TRACKS 15. MONTAGE MIRROR (ROGER NICHOLS TRIO) 16. HOW CAN I THANK YOU (DEMO) 17. LOVE IS THERE (DEMO) 18. LOVE IS THE PEOPLE S CHOICE (SMOKEY ROBERDS) 19. FROG PRINCE (ALTERNATE MIX) 20. SHE SLEEPS ALONE (DEMO) 21. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU (MONO) 22. SUNSHINE GIRL (MONO 45) 23. ONE MORE TIME (CONNIE AUSTIN).
NowSounds-1
CD
$15.50

Park Avenue Music
By Hearts + Horses (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Sacramento couple Wes Steed and Jeannette "Juju" Faith got a shiny new piano - really shiny. So up went the mics and out came the music. Flowing pieces of raw improvisation from Juju were recorded and then dressed, bit by bit, by Wes in layers of modular synth distortion; some for the fun of making soundtracks for short films by New Zealand artist and web designer Fuyuko Akiyoshi; some for the fun of mixing 10 minutes of piano music down to 3; or making 3 minute songs out of 4 measures of sometimes bluesy, sometimes ethereal use of the 88s. When one mic picked up off-the-cuff vocals for several tracks, another picked up the team's beloved cat Harrison's collar bell ringing in the background for what seems the sweetest topping to the already honeyed instrumental "Norway Kitty", the opening track on what has become park avenue music's loveliest accomplishment yet. Befriending cellist Gretchen Lehtonen in time to add her touch to that first track (even if recorded backwards) was a lucky move. The trio has played a handful of boutique performances, each one unique and special as they improvised in the dark while streams of Akiyoshi's imagery served as backdrop. They have also brought a crowded house of listeners to silence - even when equipment failed, piano and cello went on to duet without the noise of synthesizers, drum machines, and Unix-based applications. "by hearts + horses" may seem an odd title, but given that the band has morphed over the years and is indeed changing their name to "hearts + horses", this last effort as park avenue music seemed only fit to be thusly titled. (File under Park Avenue music and/or Hearts + Horses.) "While many artists are using a Moog, Roland, or Juno for bouncy pop, Park Avenue Music approaches the unique instruments as if they were gentle as flowers. It could be Jeannette Faith's concert pianist training or simply a love for exquisite sounds. Either way, To Take With You is an alluring ensemble of downtempo and quiet, sophisticated pop." -Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide "Mixing very nice programming of lush electronics with soft, breathy female vocals, it manages to sound somewhat like several different things...without really sounding too much like anyone." - Almost Cool "I'm starting to think that this sort of electronic pop is the new shoegaze for me-no matter how many times I hear these wispy, glitchy sounds, I never seem to get tired of them. And that's especially true when a band like Park Avenue Music does it this well." - Opus Zine
Clairecords-075
CD
$12.25

Powell, Baden & Vinicius De Moraes
Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, UK Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova, (Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sambas is his response to the commercialization of the movement by the mid-sixties. Co-written with the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell and eventually released in 1966, these eight songs combine Powell's melodic gifts with Bahian folk traditions and Gregorian chant. With the joyous vocalizations of Quarteto Em Cy, the atmosphere is at once haunting and spontaneous. The music hasn't even begun to date. Recorded at a time when musicians around the world were looking to break down barriers - between classical and pop, East and West - but the Afro-sambas appear to recognize no such barriers in the first place. Os Afro-Sambas is an absolute stunner. One of the most exquisite pieces of Brazilian music ever recorded, it is combined on this edition with the intimate, irresistible, A Vontade, Baden's most successful solo LP of the period and one of his finest achievements.
El-137
CD
$15.50

Power Pill Fist
Kongmanivong (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US The bassist from BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW's solo album, all of the music was produced on a circuit bent Atari 2600. Dark and intense. For fans of Melt Banana, Autechre, Pan Sonic.
Graveface-021
CD
$11.50

Roommate
We Were Enchanted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH)
PS, US Dramatically shifting & evolving over the course of the album, the sounds strike a deft balance between organic & electronic, dissonant & harmonious, all the while capturing the elusive, abstract emotions of the lyrics. While there are moments here & there that may spark a memory of 60s & 70s psychedelic rock or 80s synth-pop, a hint of Nilsson-esque bar-room piano, Faust-ian analog synths, or delicate strings a la Talk Talk, this is music with eyes gazing into the future.
PlugResearch
CD
$9.25

School of Seven Bells
Silent Grips b/w Used To (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US Comprised of ex-SECRET MACHINES guitarist Benjamin Curtis & ON! AIR! LIBRARY! sister set Alejandra & Claudia Deheza. They intricately infuse a pysch-rock aesthetic that freely weaves itself in an ethereal of lush harmonics, richly textured beats & ripping riffs. Feat. a brand new track & a unique cover of Wire's "Used To". Incl. download coupon
SuicideSqueeze
45
$4.25

Second Band, The
The Definite Form (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Incredible new album. More on this soon...
OrangeGrammofon
CD
$15.00

Secret Shine
All Of The Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US "All of the Stars" is Secret Shine's second studio album, and their first in 14 years. The band took an unscheduled nine year break before returning in 2004 with the release of their back catalogue (After Years) on Clairecords, followed by two emphatically-received EPs of new material in 2006, and live shows in Europe and America. "All of the Stars" encapsulate the passion of Secret Shine's live power pop in the heart-thumping 'Oblivion', 'Voice of the Sea' and 'The Sound of Light' but is both delicate and beautiful in 'All that's left' and 'Last Leaves'. Secret Shine has lost none of the sumptuous boy/girl harmonies and celestial melodies (never more evident than in the heavenly 'Stars in the Sky') that made their debut album Untouched such a classic that is still revered in shoegazing circles today. Secret Shine dedicated 2007 to write and record All of the Stars and demo'd twice the amount of songs they needed for the album so that only the finest would survive. The band have grown on this record - the sound is stronger and more confident, expertly produced and directed by Shine protagonist Jamie Gingell. The band drift effortlessly between the epic, orchestral arrangements of 'Café Crash' and the sparse, haunting piano-led 'Another Day'. All of the Stars would sit comfortably alongside shoegaze classics like Slowdive's Souvlaki, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and The Pale Saints' The Comforts of Madness, but Secret Shine have created their own unique treasure and possibly the new wave of 'stargaze'.
Clairecords-074
CD
$12.25

She & Him
Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel met on a film they were both appearing in called The Go-Getter. The director wanted them to do a duet in the film of a Linda & Richard Thompson cover. This inspired them to then do a full on collaboration of which Volume One is the end product. There are a couple covers, Smokey Robinson and The Beatles, and the rest are all old-timey warm sounding originals. It has a very analog, at times girl-group sound to it so much so that the songs come off more as instant standards rather than typical indie classics. This album already has serious blog love from both the film & music communities, and the pair will more than likely do some high profile live dates around release
Merge
CD
$13.25

Skyphone
Avellaneda (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, NORWAY This is the second full-length release by Danish trio Skyphone for the Rune Grammofon label. Having played in various rock outfits during most of the '90s, childhood friends Keld Dam Schmidt, Thomas Holst and Mads Bødker slowly moved towards the electronica scene and the German dub scene before starting Skyphone in 1999. Since then, they have steadily developed their own style, combining traditional rock instruments with electronics; scratching and carefully damaging the surface of the digital sounds, creating melodic pop songs without singing, leaving it to the listener to infer what the songs actually could have been and what is lurking virtually beneath the constrained, deliberately ambiguous surface of the song. With Avellaneda, they have further developed these ideas into a seamless blend of acoustic and electronic elements, rich in detail and sonic refinement, with the occasional touch of Scandinavian folk music providing a strong melodic base.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$16.25

Stargazer Assistant
The Otherside of the Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US The soundtrack to David J Smith's (GUAPO) sculptural works collected under the same name. A strange work comprising of layered vocals, percussion, electronics & prepared strings.
AuroraBorealis-018
CD
$14.25

Sun Kil Moon
April (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, US
CaldoVerde
CD
$15.50

Sword
Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Waves of powerful riffs & low-end thinder dominate this vinyl. Also incl. exclusive b-side "Scorcher Codex Corvidae" Limited to 1000...you sleep, you weep.
Kemado
10"
$15.00

Takeovers
Little Green Onion Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 450
Off
45
$6.25

Teenagers, The
Reality Check (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$14.00

Teenagers, The
Reality Check (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US This French trio's sound is built around a backbone of golden pop melodies, enveloped in a sardonic wit and lingering Sofia Coppola soft focus. Although all the members are 20-somethings, adolescence is a concept that cuts to the group's core. They're in love with the idea of the dreamy teen, inspired by sunset walks through the park, clogging up shopping malls for no good reason, holding hands, and stolen kisses in the cinema. Similar to most filthy mouthed teens, "Reality Check" is full of foul innuendos and lyrics that would make Serge Gainsbourg blush. With its nonchalant and biting humor, this record is a 21st Century lo-fi French pop backdrop, awash in guitar hooks and soaring electro synth riffs.
XL
CD
$13.25

These New Puritans
Beat Pyramid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Domino's latest signing, These New Puritans, are a band of four 19 year-olds from Southend, UK. They have accomplished a lot in their brief existence including the release of a debut EP, extensive UK and European touring, and a collaboration with Dior designer Hedi Slimane which resulted in the epic "Navigate, Navigate" 12" single released in February. Beat Pyramid, their full-length debut, is the next phase in These New Puritans' hyperbolic progression. Recorded with Gareth Jones ¿ the producer of albums by Einsturzende Neubauten, Liars, and Wire ¿ its songs are an ever-mutating blur of brash chords, subtle details, and taut rhythms, borne of influences as disparate as early 80's industrial music to numerology, from This Heat to Dubsteb, and from J. Dilla to David Lynch. "This music is weightless," says Jack midway through "Swords Of Truth", perhaps the most striking track on the album. "This music's symbolic." In seven words, he manages to sum up his band better than anyone else could ¿ in typically oblique fashion, of course.
Domino
CD
$12.50

These New Puritans
Beat Pyramid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$16.50

This Is Ivy League
This Is Ivy League (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST)
PS, US Formerly IVY LEAGUE, now This Is Ivy League. The debut full-length for New York pop duo finds themselves recording one of the best "wall of sound" pop records within their Brooklyn apartments. With influences ranging from Simon & Garfunkel to The Beach Boys, this is one of the most promising pop records of 2008.
27Records-0007
CD
$10.25

Tong, Winston
In A Manner of Speaking (Best Of) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 29TH)
PS, UK LTM are pleased to present In A Manner Of Speaking (Best Of), a collection of outstanding tracks by Winston Tong, the songwriter and performance artist best known as frontman of the group Tuxedomoon. Recorded between 1982 and 1990, the twelve tracks gathered on In A Manner of Speaking include five tracks from Winston's acclaimed 1985 solo album Theoretically Chinese, produced by former Associate Alan Rankine and featuring a stellar cast of guest musicians including Jah Wobble, Steven Morris, Simon Topping and Dave Formula. Two are in the form of dance remixes previously only available on an Italian maxi single. This Best Of CD also features representative tracks from Winston's other two solo albums Like The Others and Miserere, as well as rare compilation tracks: covers of Duke Ellington's Prelude to a Kiss, witty festive ditty The Twelve Days of Christmas, and Syd Barrett's Late Night. Also included are two especially memorable Tong songs recorded with Tuxedomoon, Albert Camus tribute The Stranger and In A Manner of Speaking, the 1985 song later covered by Martin Gore of Depeche Mode and more recently by Nouvelle Vague. As a result of the Nouvelle Vague cover version, IAMOS has now become a standard, featuring in the soundtracks of several high profile movies and television shows, including A Mighty Heart, Sugar Rush, Fragile and Riviera. The booklet features a detailed biography of Winston Tong, as well as archive images. Winston Tong is alive and well and living in San Francisco, where he continues to perform in live and theatre events.
LTM-2520
CD
$17.00

Tractor Kings
Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders.
Spur-CD-006
CD
$9.00

Various
A Mind Expansion Compilation 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, UK Second compilation from Mind Expansion, compiled by FUXA frontman Randall Nieman. Features songs from some of the most ground breaking & influential groups over the past 20+ years on 2 CDs: SPECTRUM, FUXA with DEAN WAREHAM, MERCURY REV, FAUST, JESSAMINE, RICK WHITE ALBUM, IMAJINARY FRIENDS, LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD, POPULOUS, MUS, SUKI EWERS, ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON, MARTIN REV, RICHARD FORMBY, SONIC BOOM & DELIA DERBYSHIRE, MARKUS, VENTURE LIFT, ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA, PAINT AND COPTER, SPRING REVERBS, ECTOGRAM, SPARE SNARE, SHIVA AFFECT, BARDO POND, THE TELESCOPES, ECHOES OF THE WHALES, THE PROJECTS (Broadcast remix), SPOONFED HYBRID (IAN MASTERS), LOOPDROP, TELSTAR, ASTEROID #4, MARKUS & UNKNOWN CELEBRITIES.
MindExpansion-2015/2016
DCD
$16.25

Various
Phantom Guitars: A Cool Collection of Twangin' Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, UK Instrumentals from the UK 1961-1964. For a short period in the UK, guitar-led instrumental groups took control. In the three year span between rock & roll and the full flush of beat, there was no bigger band than The Shadows. Their magical brand of twanging melody incorporated elements of Duane Eddy and The Ventures, but was something entirely British. And, as always, when someone comes up with a winning formula, everybody else suddenly leaps on board. So, in contrast to the clean-cut crooners, coffee bars, dancehalls and fairgrounds reverberated to the sound of Binson echo units and primitive Bigsby-esque tremelo arms. This CD ventures back in time a little further than previous Psychic Circle releases to round up a string-bending selection of some the finest examples of this genre.
PsychicCircle
CD
$16.25

Vincent, Gene
A Million Shades Of Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND)
PS, UK Yes indeed! It's Sweet Gene Vincent! Do we need say more? What else do you need to know? Oh, OK then! Back in the dear dead days when singers of 30-ish weren't just about to form their first indie band, GENE, the man who had wowed America, challenged Elvis, launched Rock n Roll in Britain and France and inspired a generation, was seen in his native land as a bit of a has-been...his audience was the French arty intelligentsia and UK Teds...but there were still those who believed in Gene...one was Kama Sutra, the New York label who brought us The Lovin' Spoonful and Gene fanatics The Flamin' Groovies (and obliquely The Shangri-Las too, but that's another story...) In 1969 and 1970 they put Gene in their newly acquired LA studio with the cream of young session men to produce an album. Taking a cue from The Band, Bob Dylan, The Sir Douglas Quintet, and possibly fellow not as old as you might think rocker Dale Hawkins (who had just had an amazing album out himself!) Gene rose to the occasion bigtime! Possibly one of the most unexpected and astonishing albums of roots rock and Americana is what we have here...with Gene as on good form as ever! ** Another rediscovered forgotten classic from RevOla! ** Beautifully remastered By the lovely Nick Robbins...in true RevOla style! ** Ditto goes for artwork by Pepperbox! ** A must for anyone who ever had a heart...Gene Vincent! Does it get any better?? TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE 2. I NEED WOMAN'S LOVE 3. SLOW TIMES COMIN' 4. DANSE COLINDA 5. GEESE 6. 500 MILES 7. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC 8. IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE ME TODAY 9. A MILLION SHADES OF BLUE 10. TUSH HOG 11. HOW I LOVE THEM OLD SONGS 12. HIGH ON LIFE 13. NORTH CAROLINA LINE 14. YOU CAN MAKE IT IF YOU TRY 15. OUR SOULS 16. THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND 17. THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED BLUE 18. BOPPIN' THE BLUES 19. LOOKING BACK 20. OH LONESOME ME 21. THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Rev-Ola-242
CD
$15.50

Visage
The Anvil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US The long overdue reissue of this classic 1982 album 'The Anvil', by the pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Visage. The album reached No.6 in the UK album charts. The album produced two hit singles for the band, 'The Damned Don't Cry' (No.11) and 'Night Train' (No.12). Visage were a supergroup of their day, formed by Steve Strange and ex-Rich Kid Rusty Egan, they recruited Billy Currie and Midge Ure from Ultravox, Dave Formula and Barry Adamson from Magazine and John McGeogh from Siouxsie & The Banshees. Together they produced 2 innovative and commercially successful albums with the resulting 5 hit singles. This CD reissue features 6 bonus tracks not included on the original 9 track release. These include dance mixes of the hit singles 'Mind Of A Toy' and 'The Damned Don't Cry' and the rare b-sides 'Motivation' and 'I'm Still Searching'. The CD booklet features sleeve notes, discography and all the single sleeves taken from the original album. As the leading lights of the New Romantic movement, Visage's legacy is lasting. The band's reputation for producing quality electronic pop lives on. TRACKS: 1. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY 2. ANVIL (NIGHT CLUB SCHOOL) 3. MOVE UP 4. NIGHT TRAIN 5. THE HORSEMAN 6. LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE 7. AGAIN WE LOVE 8. WILD LIFE 9. WHISPERS BONUS TRACKS 10. WE MOVE (DANCE MIX) 11. FREQUENCY 7 (DANCE MIX) 12. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (DANCE MIX) 13. MOTIVATION 14. I'M STILL SEARCHING 15. THE MIND OF A TOY (DANCE MIX)
CherryPop-006
CD
$15.50

Voyager One
Afterhours in the Afterlife (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, US This Seattle band has been creating sonic groove-oriented psychedelia for over eight years. Over this time, the band has released several albums, with each chargting on KEXP's Northwest top ten list.
Loveless-027
CD
$11.50

Weber, Windy
I Hate People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 15TH)
PS, US Limited to 500 copies! Beautifully colored splatter vinyl featuring a completely different mix & with a shorter length on each song so as to provide the best sound quality. Cover art features a wonderful selection of photos by Christy Romanick and Windy's passport photo from 1987 - showing a very angry, young, punk rock beginning to this musician's career.
Kenedik-1005
LP
$16.25

Weber, Windy
I Hate People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 15TH)
PS, US Windy Weber, known for being half of the ambient drone duo WINDY & CARL, has recorded a solo album. It is quite different from what you may be thinking - it has none of the soothing characteristics you may be expecting & instead is full of heavy & brooding music. It's comprised of two tracks - Sirens, coming in at 24 minutes, is instrumental & is filled with the sound of guitars crying, rising & falling like waves crashing on the rocks. Sirens is ominous, and haunting. It is not music to sleep to, but instead could make you tense & anxious. The second track is Destroyed. It is 32 minutes long, and comprised of 3 suites. The first being layers of vocals, woven together to make a chorus of breathing & breathlessness, layers to make you feel as if you may be drowning in the sea...whether that sea be the ocean, or the sea of life, the day to day world in which you must deal. The second suite becomes noisy, agitated, rumbling & distorted guitars, bass & feedback, and makes you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what is about to happen. The third suite takes you to the end of the album with subsonic frequencies & strange unrecognizable sounds. This is not music for the faint of heart.
BlueFlea-014
CD
$13.00

Weepies
Hideaway Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH)
PS, US A darker companion to their last album, w/ 14 new tunes ranging from the upbeat title track to jangly rock masterpieces to gorgeously arranged meditations.
Nettwerk
CD
$18.00

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

Wild Swans
Bringing Home the Ashes [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Songs about war and religious faith were not exclusive to U2 in the '80s. Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while sustaining their distinctive sound. The haunting voice of Paul Simpson injects every track with emotional weight; whether he is trying to convey joy or sorrow, his icy baritone chills to the bone. His vocals combine Scott Walker's lonely croon with the brooding angst of Ian McNabb from fellow Liverpudlians the Icicle Works... As enthralling as U2 were in the '80s, they never sounded as gorgeous as the Wild Swans do on Bringing Home the Ashes... Simpson's sparkling voice and Kelly's ethereal guitars provide the album with an undeniably romantic feel. Every track is suffused with radiant pop hooks."
WoundedBird
CD
$16.75

Witch
Paralyzed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US Witch is Dave Sweetapple (bass), J Mascis (drums), and Kyle Thomas (guitar/vocals), but they're no indie-metal super group or side project; that would underestimate the band members' commitment. This follow-up to their 2006 self-titled debut remains true to the classic heavy rock sound of the first, but has evolved as the band has learned to play to each other's strengths. They've returned to their punk roots and attack with a more aggressive tempo. This record burns with hostility.
TeePeeRecords
CD
$13.25

Witch
Paralyzed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeePeeRecords
LP
$14.00

Wraiths
Oriflamme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US Remastered vinyl edition, previously available as a limited cdr. Recorded live under ritual conditions. Blackened death-ambient drone meets howling, metallic noise.
AuroraBorealis
LP
$17.00

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Angel “Kalmukia” CD $17.00

Apples In Stereo “Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Apples In Stereo “Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Apples In Stereo “Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Architect “I Went Out Shopping To Get Some Noise” CD $15.50

Beequeen “Sandancing” CD $12.25

Beequeen “Sandancing Demos” 10 $14.75

Boris “Statement” 45 $5.00

Bow Street Runners “S-T” CD $13.25

C.A. Quintet “Trip Thru Hell” DLP $19.75

C.A. Quintet “Trip Thru Hell” CD $17.75

Cave “Hunt Like the Devil” LP $13.50

Club 8 “Club 8 + 2” CD $13.50

Club 8 “Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5” CD $13.50

Club 8 “Strangely Beautiful + 5” CD $13.50

Club 8 “The Friend I Once Had + 6” CD $13.50

Coltrane, John “Turning Point” CD $15.50

Contents Are, The “Through You” CD $16.25

Exillon “It's Ok To Dance” CD $15.50

Instant Orange “S-T” CD $16.25

Laven & MSO “Reach” 12 $9.50

Menche, Daniel “Glass Forest” CD $12.25

Menche, Daniel “Body Melt” LP $14.75

Ocrilim “Annwn” CD $12.50

O'Malley, Stephen, Attila Csihar “6: Degree Fskyquake” CD $18.00

Peasant “On The Ground” CD $10.00

Poor School “Holy Master” LP $12.25

Printer “Can You Take More?” CD $13.50

Robinson, Eugene S. “FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking” DCD $13.50

Section 25 “Dirty Disco (Best Of)” CD $17.00

Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto “S-T” CD $15.00

Silver Apples “Garden” CD $14.00

Sun Ra & His Arkestra “Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue” CD $15.00

Time Constant “Silent Phone Calls In The Fall” LP $6.75

Various “Obsession” CD $13.75

Various “New Folk Routes” CD $15.50

Weekend “Live At Ronnie Scotts” CD $15.50

Weird Weeds “I Miss This” CD $11.50

Xasthur “Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors” DCD $12.50

Yellow Moon Band, The “Maybach EP” 45 $7.75

Zdzislaw Piernik/Piotr Zabrodski “Namanga” CD $15.00

Parasol New Arrivals • March 11, 2008
Hello, Well, what do you know? Yet again, it’s Tuesday and as usual, there are plenty of great new releases for you to sift through. No, we’re not yankin’ your chain, we know you’re sitting there thinking to yourself, yeah, yeah, all Roy listens to is The Band and Paul only likes to stare at audio WAV files. While that may be true to some extent, we’re going to recommend a few others right about now. Just in this week are new offerings from These Are Powers, Preston Swirnoff, Pretendo and we can't forget to add that we're basically stoked on the entire Siltbreeze and Slumberland catalog that gently balances the past with the present. Take that! Okay, sound the horn if something catches your eye. Keep well, Roy Dean & Paul
Below is a list of new arrivals for this week. To search for a specific item or to browse our entire catalog click here. Or, click here to go back to the Parasol Home Page. Click here to see previous weeks new arrivals.
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	Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time "Runout Groove" CD $15.00 Highly recommended new import-only album from esteemed UK songsmith Stephen Duffy and his Lilac Time, featuring brother Nic, Melvin Duffy (no relation?), British folk legend Danny Thompson and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Claire Worrall, who allows Duffy to get his Gram & Emmylou on. Fans of John Cunningham and The Beatles’ solo albums will find much to love on this svelte folk-pop charmer, in heavy rotation at Parasol HQ in recent months.. Sound samples available on our front page.
Jim's Pick of the Best New Nordic Music
	Madrugada "Self-Titled" CD $25.00 OK, a little pricier than usual, I spoil us, don't I? I recommend taking advantage of the sale pricing while it lasts, it will be more expensive and less available later on. Well worth it I assure you! New album from Norwegian rock gods. Madrugada’s ferocious, passionate blues-rock is even more charged and heartbreaking than ever after the untimely death of guitarist Robert Burås last year. Taking the songs that Robert had completed, and recruiting guitarists like Kid Congo Powers (Bad Seeds, Gun Club) and Emil Nicolaisen (Serena Maneesh) to flesh things out, the remaining members of Madrugada offer this album as testament to their lost brother. Could this be the band's swan song? Hard to say. I imagine it would be hard to move forward after such a loss, but we'll see... Sound samples available on our front page.
New Releases A Weather Cove PS, US Like a postcard from the green & gray environs of Portland, this is moody & warm, rife w/ odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self & hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. The songs are marked w/ an intimacy so striking that it feels like you're eavesdropping on the pillow talk of 2 forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with. TeamLove CD $12.50 A Weather Cove PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeamLove LP $12.50 Acid Mothers Temple Never Ending Space Ritual PS, US The acid mothers DVD "never ending space ritual _ history of " is finally complete. A 2 DVD set over 4 1/2 hours long covering the entire history from early days in Japan to recent footage, guest appearances, interview with Mankato plus other extras. disc 1. traces the band through its first decade featuring very rare early footage and special guest appearances from members of Ruins, Afrirampo, Guru Guru and others. Disc 2. Includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with ocitan queen of song rosina de peira, pink lady lemonade medley, dark star blues and other AMT epics, an exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto, live cuts of amt related units _ Acid Mother Temple And The Cosmic Inferno, SWR, Guru Guru, and Acid Mothers Gong. Also extra features. Ltd run of 1000. Swordfish-DVD1/2 2XDVD $42.00 Adorable Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives. CherryRed-327 CD $15.50 AM Syndicate Liberation PS, US Sophomore effort from Austin TX based band. Formed in the Spring 2004 by Omar Chavez of RHYTHM OF BLACK LINES, AM Syndicate's sound is a constantly evolving musical experiment - both catchy and challenging - which is often described as a cross between the Arcade Fire and the Animal Collective. "The mesmerizing lushness that has always propelled AM Syndicate's music is pervasive and all-encompassing on Liberation. (The album) is a musical force that deserves recognition." - Austin Sound RECOMMENDED Novastar CD $10.50 Aspen Woods New World Disorder PS, US Aspen Woods debut 70 minute 10 track debut LP will be released on Razorblade records (home of Bristol shoegazers Secret Shine www.secretshine.co.uk and liverpudlian acoustic artist Vincent Callan). Covering subjects ranging from the ritual sacrifice of Princess Diana in 'Passing of a Moon Goddess' to the unbreakable mother and son bond in 'The Witch's Son', the woods have recorded as much of the album as possible live using traditional recording techniques, to capture the guts and spirit of their live shows much the same way as the bands influences would have done so in the hazy 60s and 70s. Latchman Manghat (whose previous works include the celebrated great lost HEADS psychedelic album and Julian Cope favorite 'At last' that was 'er never... lost!) at Rolling Rex Studios has engineered and expertly, painstakingly co-produced the album with the band. For the Woods its as much about the journey as well the destination, just like how you choose to live your life - there are too many people prepared to step on too many people to get to where they want - only to realize their not happy when they get there. Getting where you want is nothing without putting in the hard graft to feel the satisfaction. People want things to easy in this day an age, without being prepared to work for it or care about who they step on the way. US distribution has been secured with Tonevendor, and the band are now seeking UK distribution aiming for a February 29th '08 release date and live dates to be announced throughout 2008 after the band return from the US. Homing their psychedelic crafts on a fruitful Bristolian live scene. The band have played memorable psychedelic hypnotic wig out sets at the legendary Espionage club and the world famous Cube cinema (check the live footage over at www.aspenwoods.co.uk) and have supported a wide variety of bands from Italian space rockers UFO Mammut to Japan's instrumental wonders Mono. Marketing plans for the album will be advertisements and media assault on the major alternative music press UK and US. Razorblade-05 CD $15.75 Atlas Sound/Mexcellent Fractal Trax/Cornbread Jungle PS, US Atlas Sound is the solo moniker for Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox. Surface noise & dust-bunnies-on-the-needle beats along w/ strung-out ambiance, creating an atmosphere of dirty & drug-addled bliss. Side B is a bleak, industrial slur. Voices & vaguely recognizable samples melt into a magnificent jumble of blackened & abstract beats, chopped, screwed & drowning in morphine reverberation. Hoss LP $13.00 Auburn Lull Begin Civil Twilight PS, US One of the most hauntingly beautiful, ethereal pop records ever created. Auburn Lull are a dream pop/space rock band from the East Lansing, Michigan area and are in fact the Michigan space rock scene's core. Begin Civil Twilight is Auburn Lull's third and best album and the first completely self-produced album by "The Lull". Imagine The Moody Blues produced by Eno, if Slowdive originally wrote and recorded Surrealistic Pillow, or perhaps Seefeel on a good sedative/hypnotic. Fellow dream popper Ulrich Schnauss mixed one track and did treatments on two others. Auburn Lull is guitarists Sean Heenan, Jason Kolb, Eli Wekenman, and drummer Jason Wiesinger. The quartet came together out of a shared affection for bands like Seefeel, Flying Saucer Attack, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark, and the 4AD and Creation Records aesthetic. In 1997, the band released the Dual Group EP, a split release with Mahogany, which John Peel played on his BBC radio program. Their debut full-length debut Alone I Admire was initially released on local independent record label Burnt Hair in 1999, sold out, and was then reissued by Darla Records in 2002. Their second record Cast From The Platform (Darla) was released in 2004. Regions Less Parallel: Early Works And Rarities 1996-2004, which compiles band's highly collectible singles, EPs and stray compilation tracks plus two previously unreleased tracks was released by Darla in 2005. Auburn Lull are planning to tour in support of Begin Civil Twilight in 2008. TRACKLIST: 1. Light Through The Canopy 5:18, 2. Dub1 3:28, 3. Broken Heroes 4:31, 4. Grange Arcade 5:43, 5. Civil Twilight 5:11, 6. Axis Nears 3:45, 7. November's Long Shadows 4:26, 8. Stanfield Echo 4:07, 9. Coasts 4:38, 10. Geneva 1:54, 11. Arc Of An Outsider 3:58, 12. Hidden3 9:54. Darla-184 CD $12.25 Autechre Quaristice PS, UK New album of clicktronica from veteran ambienteers. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "at 73 minutes in length, most of the 20 tracks are more like vignettes, yet the ideas arrive fully formed, never appearing to be dashed off or loosely sketched. The variety of ideas is nearly imposing, the best of which include the deadened chiming and clanging of "Simmm," the stealth jitter of "Tankakern," the Drexciya-worthy pitch-black neo-electro of "Rale," and the handful of stunning and duly swarthy ambient tracks -- especially the closing 12 minutes shared by the chilling "Notwo" and "Outh9x" tandem. A couple moments, unsurprisingly, border on the inscrutable, with "Fol3" sounding like a collage of car collisions and slammed doors smeared and backmasked for nearly four minutes, and "bnc Cstl" more like a hyper-speed gag of sound effects, its high hats and snares tucked deeply into the mix. While it can take some time to get a handle on its generous stream of components, Quaristice is far from just another Autechre album. Not since LP5 has being impressed been so obviously secondary to enjoyment." Warp CD $16.25 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements. Kranky-115 CD $12.25 Axelrod, David Seriously Deep PS, UK In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America's most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually attributed to Miles Davis - that of jazz-fusion, his reputation was cemented by his remarkable productions with Cannonball Adderley, David McCallum and Lou Rawls and by the religious albums Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath he created with the Electric Prunes. He was talked up by Frank Zappa and Sly Stone; George Harrison wanted him to record for Apple and Allen Ginsberg wanted him to set Howl! to music! His genius began to be re-discovered in the mid-nineties through the sampling by such hip-hop and dance record producers as DJ Shadow. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Axelrod¹s prodigious solo albums Songs of Innocence and Songs Of Experience were quickly re-issued. Then in 2000 he released a new album and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, where he conducted a one-off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. Originally released in 1975, and inexplicably out of print for three subsequent decades, Seriously Deep has become a kind of Holy Grail for samplers. Axelrod the composer is unmistakably present and what has also made the record a particularly sought-after item is the remarkable interplay between Joe Sample's exuberant keyboards and the hypnotically intense drumming of Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler. This is the kind of thing that gets samplers - and indeed anyone with a finely tuned sense of rhythm - very excited indeed. El-138 CD $15.50 Axolotl/Inca Ore Inner Voices/Nerve Language PS, US "Karl Bauer and Eva Saelens (Axolotl and Inca Ore respectively) are two like-minded Bay area psychers operating on two opposing levels. Axolotl marks the A-side with skyward streaking drones and ethereal loops tinged and focused, ringing with the joyous bliss of upward passage. An endless array of vocals, electronics, and violin looping and looping, building and growing: stasis. Inca Ore makes her craft from an Earth-bound level. Oneness with her surroundings, roots firmly planted. Eerie incantations and meandering harp play foreground to layer upon layer of looped vocals and murky ambience, charting your way towards forever. In an edition of 450 white purity colored 7"s in black and white pro-printed collage fold-over sleeves by Eva with a numbered insert." Arbor 45 $5.25 Ayers, Kevin Unfairground PS, US Co-produced by Ladybug Transistor's Gary Olson & Peter Henderson, feat. a myriad of talent as well as a pseudo-SOFT MACHINE reunion in the form of Hugh Hopper on bass & Robert Wyatt singing through a synthesizer, dubbed the Wyattron. Other high-profile guests on the new record incl. Norman Blake (TEENAGE FANCLUB), Phil Manzanera (ROXY MUSIC), Bill Wells (Bill Wells Trio), Euros Childs, (GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI), Frank Reader (TRASH CAN SINATRAS), Bridget St. John & members from ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI. Gigantic CD $12.25 Baldwin, Matt Paths of Ignition PS, US Unlike many of his peers, he looks beyond the traditions of Fahey (whom he calls "a teacher" not a god), bringing portentous & progressive elements into his music, alongside a dreamy country lilt. He covers Krautrock legends Neu! ("Weissensee") & metal Vikings Judas Priest ("Winter"), & culls inspiration from prog heroes Yes on the closing epic "Rainbow." His music comes on like a creeping moss, verdant but threatening, comforting yet unsettling. AmericanDust CD $16.00 Baldwin, Matt Paths of Ignition PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! AmericanDust LP $16.00 Baltic Fleet S-T PS, UK Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken and tracks gradually started to form into an album. A sound was born influenced by works from artists such as Eno, Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Written, produced and performed by Paul, the album also features contributions from Simon Finley on drums, Will Sergeant on guitar and Pete Wilkinson on Bass. Paul signed to Blow Up Records in April 2007, and the same Summer took his recordings into Studio B, The Premises in Hackney for additional production and mixing with Nick Terry (Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco). After some heavy-duty valve and analogue processing, the beats got bigger, the sound-scape was widened and the album was complete! Blowup-041 CD $16.25 Band Of Horses No One's Gonna Love You b/w Am I A Good Man PS, UK Subpop 45 $3.50 Basinski, William + Richard Chartier Untitled 1-3 PS, US LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. "Untitled 1" contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 2" contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3/3(reprise)" contains Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3" mixed by Basinski. "Untitled 3(reprise)" mixed by Chartier. "Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!" - William Basinski. Both William Basinski and Richard Chartier have been digging through their archival matter as of late. In fact, the majority of Basinski's recent output is the result of his discoveries, including his profound Disintegration Loops series. Chartier, meanwhile, based his recent production Archival1992 upon two older pieces evolved into a single-minded composition of subtle disquiet. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 Line-034 CD $12.25 Bauhaus Go Away White PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BauhausMusic LP $15.75 Bauhaus Go Away White PS, UK New album! 'Go Away White' is everything you would hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental. The 10 songs on 'Go Away White' channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies. NME: "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog." CookingVinyl CD $15.00 Believer March 2008 PS, US 2008 Film Issue. Includes a free DVD with Slavoj Zizek at the movies. Werner Herzog in conversation with Errol Morris; Todd Haynes; Chuck Klosterman; Jim Shepard; Helen DeWitt; Nick Hornby; Indonesia; Hitchcock's mistakes. Recommended reading. ZINE $9.75 Bell 1X Flock PS, US Called "The best band in Ireland" by Vanity Fair magazine, the quintet of rockers has seen 4 songs simultaneously chart in the Irish Top 20 & the album has since gone 5 times platinum. "...a gorgeous album... majestic & elegant." - Nick Duerden, Q. ltd edition enhanced CD, which launches an audio/visual program when loaded into a computer that includes 3 live videos, the "Rocky Took A Lover" animated music video, a photo slideshow, a page on The Cake Sale & 2 special track. YepRoc CD $11.50 Bitch #39 PS, US Feminist response to pop culture. The Wired Issue: Busting blog bandits, deconstructing fembots, living a second life, ANI DIFRANCO, ANN WILSON & much more. ZINE $5.50 Black Donna PS, US They perform their music w/ numerous players from the Austin music scene. Members of ...Trail Of Dead, Knife In The Water & the Crackpipes have helped them craft mid-tempo songs to be played in the parlour. Influenced by American folk, blues & country w/ abstracts of indie rock, alt-country & garage. "Straight Americana & 60's British Invasion sounds, twisted, filtered, spit out shiny & unique."-Rank & Revue Kwoo 12 $9.50 Black Cab Altamont Diary [2004] PS, AUSTRALIA Direct from the band, better price... A dazed, drug-ripped voyage to the dark heart of rock and roll. Australia's Black Cab features ex-Foil and Registered Nurse members. The sound is a heady brew of raw guitars, early '70's style drums, plus eerie electronic and industrial audio treatments. Black Cab's sound is inspired as much by late '60's and early '70's America as it is by American music of that period. The album's beer soaked programming and walls of electric and acoustic guitars, sitars, maracas and monstrous live & programmed drums delve through time to that fateful day at Altamont. Like the evil, bastard son of The Who's 'Tommy', Altamont Diary is unashamedly a concept album. ROLLING STONE: "You can almost hear the crack of the pool cues and smell the black smoke of the fires on the hill. With bloodied-fuzz guitars, hellish electronics and sound bites from Gimme Shelter, the Australian duo Black Cab has created a riveting, album-length memorial to the fatal folly of the Rolling Stones' free concert at Altamont Speedway in December 1969. This is the end of peace and love in you-are-there detail: the murderous riffing in "1970"; an eerie, electro-psych version of the Grateful Dead's "New Speedway Boogie"; the real, stoned-zone voice of Jerry Garcia, in "Jerry Sez," reacting to the bummer news that the Hells Angels have beaten up Marty Balin. A day that will live in infamy now lives on record, with appropriate menace." (David Fricke) Interstate40 CD $12.50 Black Cab Jesus East [2007] PS, AUSTRALIA/UK Direct from the band, better price... New 2007 album from Australian psych-o-nauts. Jesus East is something of an antidote to the fear and loathing of their debut album, Altamont Diary, blending late '60's and early '70's rock sounds with loops and subtle electronica over pulsing percussion and driving guitars reminiscent of some of the great German rock bands of the '70's. Jesus East evokes ghosts of the Velvet Underground, Can, Neu and coolest Beatle George Harrison's fascination with eastern sounds. UNCUT MAGAZINE (4 STARS): "The dark side of hippie-dom, updated and energised... Two years ago this Melbourne duo - Andrew Coates and James Lee - delivered a dark-horse diamond with Altamont Diary, their compelling, sinister concept album inspired by The Stones' dread day of '69. Their second sticks to no strict storyline but advances their mix of psyched-out 60s guitars/sitars and late 70s Teutonic rhythms to heart-stopping effect. It's accumulatively epic: it begins as a fine Spacemen 3/Neu pastiche, but by the roaring climax its pulse-rockets are firing way beyond genre. As a finale Sam Cutler, M.C. at Altamont and Stones/Grateful Dead manager, drawls a languidly poetic memoir over "Valiant", while guitars mentally creep. Utterly riveting." (CR) Interstate40/Inertia CD $12.50 Black Cab Surrender EP [2007] & The Illinois Chapter EP [1999] PS, AUSTRALIA * COMPLETISTS TAKE NOTE * SPECIAL OFFER * LIMITED STOCK * Get the new Surrender EP along with Black Cab's very rare and extra limited Illinois Chapter EP, the band's three-song debut: 1. Illinois Chapter / 2. Christlike / 3. Sonny Speaks! New 2007 Surrender EP features remixes and live gear: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now in stock and available at a great price. Interstate40 CD5/CD5 $8.50 Black Cab Surrender EP [2007] PS, AUSTRALIA New 2007 EP features remixes and live gear. Tracklist: 1. Surrender 2007 / 2. Underground Star 2007 / 3. Surrender 2007 (extended version) / 4. Underground Star 2007 (extended version) / 5. Surrender (paradox mix) / 6. Surrender (live) / 7. Hearts On Fire (live). Please note Black Cab's astounding full-length albums, 2004's Altamont Diary and 2006's Jesus East, are now available at a wonderful price. Interstate40 CD5 $7.50 Black Monk Flowstone PS, US "Flowstoned and dethroned, finally. Last year's bored/burning summer spell of Eagle Rock entropy birthed a numb drum 'n drones duo dubbed Black Monk. The aesthetic of inept, free-punk drumming and red-eyed, void-surfing low-end infinity found output on two micro-limited cassette releases (one on Buried Valley, one on Zac/Lambsbread's Maim & Disfigure) and one weedian live show (in Tempe, AZ) and then the scholars split to separate coasts. Fortunately for us/you, Flowstone comes crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer on a slab of black wax, collecting their out-of-print Murmur CS and half the V CS, plus an unreleased side-long wasteoid-land of subterranean percussion and roaring magma. Just in time for 2012. Black vinyl LPs in stark pro-printed fold-over covers plus a poster of arcane team scribble by BM. Limited to 270. Co-released with Not Not Fun." Arbor LP $11.25 Bodeans Still PS, US New album. Oarfin CD $13.75 Born Ruffians Red Yellow Blue PS, UK PITCHFORK: "First full-length by the herky-jerky indie rock trio from Toronto expands outward from their debut EP, not so much a premeditated step toward maturity as an exploration of different shades of the young-man's blues." Warp CD $15.00 Bryars, Gavin Hommages PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981 and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers, which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger (Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah, Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson, as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars' early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new 63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise, and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc Borgers. LTM-2503 CD $17.00 Cash, Brent How Will I Know If I'm Awake PS, US Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, this is overflowing w/ hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies & lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers & good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town & assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass & even a harp. Marina LP $18.00 Cash, Brent How Will I Know If I'm Awake (ON SALE) PS, GERMANY The Marina label presents the debut release from Athens, GA-based Brent Cash. Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, How Will I Know If I'm Awake is overflowing with hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies and lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers and good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town and assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass and even a harp. The results are simply stunning. From the opening chords of "Everything That's Grey," we enter melody wonderland, a place where major 7 chords rule and beautiful vocal harmonies dazzle your mind. "Digging The Fault Line" is full of Byrds guitar jangle, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to cruise into golden California sunsets (with a great Wes Montgomery-like guitar solo along the way). "Only Time" explodes with 100 % fat-free youthful euphoria -- Roger Nichols meets The 5th Dimension. While deeply rooted in '60s songwriting -- influenced by Bacharach, Wilson, McCartney, and yes, The Monkees -- Cash certainly has his own unique signature style. Just listen to "And Had We Ever?" and "I Think I'm Falling In Love" -- with its complex, enchanting textures, ignoring conventional song structures. "Love Is Burning Down Tonight" -- a striking duet between Brent and Amanda Kapousouz -- is a special highlight of the album, while "Good Morning Sunshine" could be the theme song to the best TV series in the world -- the harpsichord-driven piece is chock-full of amazing twists and turns of melodic beauty. "This Sea, These Waves" moves us into bossa nova territory -- starting off in a classic Getz/Gilberto mould, the song soon morphs into heavenly orchestrated Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 elegance. "More Than Everything," clocking in at over six minutes, ends this beautiful song circle with a great final statement about overcoming heartbreak, delivered with the sincerity of a Carpenters record. Music made the way it was meant to be heard. Marina-071 CD $15.00 Celephais I Am Kuranes PS, US Debut release from drone rock trio. Filled w/ jagged riffs that move at hard angles & pummeling, off-kilter drumming. Songs shift into subdued dronescapes & collages of skittery electronica & cut-up voices. Huge riffs layered w /acoustic guitar strum & lush cosmic keyboards, equally ominous & anthemic. Hoss CD $11.50 Chatham, Rhys & His Guitar Trio All-Stars Guitar Trio Is My Life PS, US Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977's "Guitar Trio" is composer RHYS CHATHAM'S signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xCD set, "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" The sprawling collection FEATURES MEMBERS OF SONIC YOUTH, SWANS, TORTOISE, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, HÜSKER DÜ, MODERN LOVERS, SILVER MT. ZION, TOWN AND COUNTRY, DIE KREUTZEN, 90-DAY MEN, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and many more; even TONY CONRAD gets in on the act. Together these artists celebrate Chatham's wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature. So, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to Liquefy. "Guitar Trio" endures. TableoftheElements-813 3XCD $21.00 Children Death Tribe PS, US Children is a riff appreciation society formulated to combat boredom. W/ axes & clubs aided only by high power application, they aim to honor the torch lit by our metalien forefathers. Brothers & sisters please join them in theIr humble quest. Feat. guys from EARLY MAN & S.T.R.E.E.T.S. VERY LIMITED!! B-Side w/ excl. etching Kemado 12 $12.75 Chion, Michel Requiem PS, US ONLY ON LP! Originally released on INA-GRM in '78. Based in France, he is a composer of experimental music, & was an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970 as well as a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971-76. This is an electroacoustic masterpiece built on a system of echoes & correspondences within the context of a "choir" of voices, loops, tape crackles & drama-schemes. SubRosa LP $15.50 Clint Los Tipos Duros Tambien Bailan PS, SPAIN Tough guys do dance! Three years ago, Clint were four blokes trying to express their particular vision through music without the impending need of using words. Their mantra was "a closed mouth gathers no flies" and "loose lips sink ships". After one year of devoted silence playing Battleship, their lengthy exploration of silence yielded Alégrame el Día (siesta 206 - 2005) , a vivid record that lifted the band to "New Talent" status and honors at Fnac and to the prestigious "best of the year" lists. They even captivated the international critical community like no other self-taught instrumental band ever did. Clint offered no opposition to tour the bullskin shape (=Spain) until they had to embrace a new assignment, a new challenge. A tough guy, initials E.G., proposed them to create the soundtrack for a silent film, any silent film actually. Clint revised their files thoroughly and interrogated another tough guy, L.J.M. They crystallized everything in a new vehicle to communicate their "duende", the imaginary soundtrack for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (1929) (Walter Ruttmann)/aka Berlin, Symphony of a Big City. Clint proved themselves as masters of luxuriant melancholy and found the blurred images of the last century as a true source of inspiration and a revelation to their lives. Siesta-236 CD $17.75 Coil The Ape Of Naples + The New Backwards PS, US The Ape Of Naples/The New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies. This 4 LP set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own LP jacket that is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. A four panel poster is included and the box has a 5th color spot-gloss. This box set includes 2 albums. The first is the complete Ape Of Naples and the second is The New Backwards, which is only currently available in this box set. The New Backwards appropriately is part of the Ape of Naples set. The material is additional completed versions of songs that were left unfinished, whose early raw loops and demonstrational incarnations might sound familiar to some but have never officially surfaced. Important-174 4XLP $87.75 Common Loon Dinosaur vs. Early Man b/w Palestine Everywhere PS, US Blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness, local dream-rock duo Common Loon rates as one of the C-U Music Scene's bands to watch in 2008. Yes, there's an album in the pipe. Comes with a digital download ticket, so you can have it both ways. Pink-noise-pop for Sebadoh, Spiritualized, and Spacemen 3 fans. IdealUtopia 45 $4.50 Coniglio, Enrico 'dyanMU PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album. Psychonavigation-022 CD $15.50 Constantines Hard Feelings PS, US This is the first single off their new album "Kensington Heights" to be released on April 15, 2008. B-Side "Easy Money" is not appearing on the full length. Arts&Crafts 45 $6.50 Corsano, Chris The Young Cricketer PS, US "The Young Cricketer" is CHRIS CORSANO'S debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of "The Solo Drum Album". Corsano's flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a Milford Graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower Paul Flaherty and a cadre of collaborators and groups (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Vampire Belt, Michael Flower, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. This LP is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. Originally issued on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label as a CDR, this LP IS REMASTERED AND ISSUED IN A 600 EDITION. FamilyVineyard-51 LP $12.25 Country Funk S-T [re-issue] PS, UK Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band's. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970 on Polydor, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of U.S. West Coast rock -- it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album. Fallout CD $16.25 Crabapples Crabapples For Change PS, US Inspired equally by '78-'79 punk (Buzzcocks, Swell Maps) and '80s and '90s pop (This Poison!, Television Personalities, Boyracer), The Crabapples were a tough little Bay Area four-piece that exploded briefly on the scene a few years back. Loud but melodic, their specialty was short, catchy tunes played with sloppy abandon. Live shows clocked in at around 15 minutes and this 4-song EP is an ideal keepsake of The Crabapples effervescent charms. From the mod-ish pogo of "Quality (Not Quantity)" to the angular "The Earnest Young Man Song" to the full-on near-hardcore of "Crabapples For Change" this great EP rushes along in a breathless blur, fuelled by lager, explosive tunes and a love of great pop. The band included members of The Frenchmen and Black Tambourine, and this single is sure to please all fans of scrappy punk-ish pop. All copies pressed on colored vinyl in a hand-stamped sleeve. Slumberland-070 45 $4.25 Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" Gonna Be Some Changes PS, UK 2008 collection of hits and rarities by one of the masters of the Blues and one of the originators of Rock 'N' Roll! Beautifully packaged with rare memorabilia and extensive sleeve notes by our man in the pointy creepers Dave Penny and wonderfully re-mastered by Norman Blake and Joe Foster at the mysterious Studio 3, Glasgow, Scotland! Rev-ola-240 CD $15.50 Cud Leggy Mambo PS, UK Following the release of their debut When In Rome, Kill Me and 1990 s Elvis Belt compilation (CDMRED355), Leeds indie heroes CUD set to work on their next album for Imaginary Records. Recorded during the Summer of 1990, Leggy Mambo proved to be a step in all the right directions, cementing the sound developed over their previous releases and capitalizing on the band s pop sensibilities to provide their most immediately accessible collection of songs to date. Produced by XTCs Dave Gregory and released in October 1990, the album spawned the well-received singles Robinson Crusoe and Magic (both of which might have achieved greater success had they been released on a larger label) and generated a huge amount of industry interest, eventually leading to their signing with A & M the following year. This Cherry Red Gold top Copy version of the album features the newly remastered original disc, as well as a collection of demos and alternate versions, all of which have been hand picked by the band themselves. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006 s Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received reissues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. NOW! 2. HEART 3. HEY, BOOTS 4. LOVE IN A HOLLOW TREE 5. LOVE MANDARIN 6. NOT EXACTLY D.L.E.R.C. 7. ROBINSON CRUSOE 8. EAU WATER 9. CARL'S 115TH COACH TRIP NIGHTMARE 10. MAGIC 11. SYRUP AND SOUR GRAPES 12. BRAIN ON A SLOW TRAIN BONUS TRACKS 13. ROBINSON CRUSOE (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 14. NOW! (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 15. EAU WATER (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 16. L.O.P.H.E. (ROBINSON CRUSOE B-SIDE) 17. LOVE MANDARIN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 18. MAGIC (DEMO MIX) 19. ROBINSON CRUSOE (DUNGEON DEMO). CherryRed-356 CD $15.50 Cud Elvis Belt PS, UK Formed in Leeds in 1986, CUD went on to forge one of the more interesting and indefinable sounds of the late 80s / early 90s indie scene. Fusing a catchy pop sensibility with danceable grooves and intelligent and often humorous lyrics, they soon became firm independent favorites and began releasing records on Leeds based Reception Records in 1987, very quickly catching the ear of John Peel and becoming a regular fixture of his broadcasts. Three quality singles into their career, the band secured a deal with Imaginary Records, where they continued a fine run of singles and eventually released their debut album. Capitalizing on the band's underground success, in June 1990 Imaginary followed this with this fantastic compilation of their early releases, topping several independent charts in the process and further establishing an already strong reputation. Some eighteen years later, Elvis Belt is updated and reissued here by Cherry Red, together with a wealth of rarities and unreleased tracks from those formative years and beyond. This release features the original album in its entirety, carefully remastered and now sitting comfortably alongside Elvis Handbag, an additional disc conceived by the band as a sister album to the original release and containing a number of further B-Sides, Peel Session recordings and cover versions (including the band's legendary take on Bohemian Rhapsody, previously only available on the ultra-rare Alvin Lives in Leeds compilation). This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007s well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and its accompanying releases. TRACKS: ELVIS BELT 1. SLACK TIME 2. MAKE NO BONES 3. TREAT ME BAD 4. PUNISHMENT REWARD 5. RELATIONSHIPS 6. UNDER MY HAT 7. LOLA 8. URBAN SPACEMAN 9. ART 10. YOU'RE THE BOSS 11. ONLY (A PRAWN IN WHITBY) 12. HEY! WIRE 13. I'VE HAD IT WITH BLONDES ELVIS HANDBAG 14. MIND THE GAP (PEEL SESSION) 15. EVERYBODY WORKS SO HARD (PEEL SESSION) 16. BB COULDN T C (PEEL SESSION) 17. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 18. MANCHESTER 19. PURPLE LOVE BALLOON (ORIGINAL VERSION) 20. POSSESSION (ORIGINAL VERSION) 21. REMEMBER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU LOVE 22. MARJORIE 23. DOWN DOWN 24. MAGIC (1994 UNRELEASED SINGLE VERSION) 25. SLIPAWAY (UNRELEASED SINGLE MIX) 26. BEFORE TOMORROW 27. JUDAS KISS. CherryRed-355 DCD $15.50 Cud Showbiz PS, UK Having departed the independent world and signed with A&M in 1991, CUD proceeded to pursue the commercial success their previous releases had hinted at with 1992's Asquarius. Following this, their first hit album, proved to be the band s longest break between releases (largely the result of some inter-label disharmony), but they eventually emerged in 1994 with Showbiz. Recorded primarily in Scotland (at a studio owned by Fish of Marillion fame, no less), this record saw their sound mature and showcased a broader range of songwriting styles than previous efforts. It was well received on its release in April 1994, garnering favorable reviews, and spawned two UK hit singles in Neurotica and One Giant Love. Sadly, though, the album proved to be the band's last officially released effort as the pressures of life on a major and all that it entails took their toll on the band. This remastered version also includes a number of B-Sides from the album's single releases, as well as some unreleased out-takes and demo versions, including material intended for their next album, which hasn't seen the light of day before now. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were. A UK tour is also scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. SOMEBODY SNATCHED MY ACTION 2. ESP 3. WAVING AND DROWNING 4. STICKS AND STONES 5. MYSTERY DEEPENS 6. SLIP AWAY 7. ONE GIANT LOVE 8. I REEK OF CHIC 9. NOT NECCESSARILY EVIL 10. YOU LEAD ME 11. TOURNIQUET 12. NEUROTICA BONUS TRACKS 13. W.G.S. (NEUROTICA B-SIDE) 14. MY NEED TO HURRY (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 15. SKI BUM (STICKS AND STONES B-SIDE) 16. DOWN THE PLUG (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 17. HERE COME THE OLD FLAMES (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 18. LIVING IN YOUR LOVE (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 19. LET YOU DOWN (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 20. TAKE THE TIME AND READ MY MIND (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 21. WANTING ISN'T GETTING (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) CherryRed-357 CD $15.50 Cuomo, Rivers Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Geffen LP $11.00 Darla Farmer Rewiring the Electric Forest PS, US Debut release that manages to sound wild, dark, violent, & heart-wrenchingly beautiful w/in the span of a single track. Drawing from influences as diverse as Cursive, Blood Brothers, Tom Waits, & the greatest of small town orchestras, the band has quickly gained positive traction w Saddle Creek bands Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor, & Cursive PaperGarden CD $10.25 Dawson, Kimya Knock Knock Who? PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies. Important LP $15.00 Dawson, Kimya My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies! Her most intimate record full of some of her best songs. Important LP $15.00 Dear, Matthew Asa Breed: Black Edition PS, US It's not often an album containing bluesy guitar & brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, w/ this release, critics & audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to incl. remixes & re-envisionings from FOUR TET, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ KOZE & HOT SHIP! Also incl. "Don & Sherri" video! GhostlyInternational CD $10.25 Diebold Listen To My Heartbeast PS, US Duo featuring Ian Ilvansky from A SILVER MT. ZION and Sofia Trudeau from GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR. Bangor CD $14.25 Diebold Listen To My Heartbeast PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Bangor LP $14.25 Dirtbombs, The We Have You Surrounded PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! InTheRed LP $14.50 DiskJokke Staying In PS, NORWAY Staying In, DiskJokke's debut release, is a tripped out mastodon of an album. This is the sound of Norwegian disco taken to its farthest, futuristic limits. It's epic, groovy, cinematic, poppy & most of all melodic. But at the same time, it is melancholic, and as the title suggests, staying inside the dark winter & autumn nights to make music certainly reflects the mood of the album. For years DiskJokke has been closely connected to Norway's premiere club night, Sunkissed, where he is resident DJ with G-HA, Olanskii & VinnyVillbass. "Bright, playful, spacey, and colorful, music for the nighttime that retains the warmth of an afternoon on the beach" -Pitchfork SmalltownSupersound-145 CD $15.25 Dixon, Andy Mice of Mt. Career PS, US This billows w/ a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, & multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing, & songwriting burst w/ a fresh, vibrant energy. Andy Dixon is in SECRET MOMMY. Ache-036 CD $12.00 Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time Runout Groove (ON SALE) PS, UK 2007 release, the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Folk-Jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. 12 tracks. Fruitcake CD $15.00 Earth, Roots & Water Innocent Youths PS, US Originally released in 1977. First reissue of this now-extinct material featuring contributions from reggae greats Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Adrian "Homer" Miller & Bunny Brown from The Chosen Few. Heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar, percussion & Brown's wild style behind the controls. LightInTheAttic CD $12.50 Earth, Roots & Water Innocent Youths PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LightInTheAttic LP $14.25 Envy A Dead Sinking Story PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131 DLP $14.25 Envy A Dead Sinking Story PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131 CD $9.00 Eprhyme Punklezmerap PS, US Enter EPRHYME: a rapper with more on his mind than his money; a Jew with issues other than his mother. A cultural nomad with roots in seemingly contradictory cultural contexts, Eprhyme approaches both Judaism and Hip Hop with a profound respect for tradition, balanced by creative freedom and poetic license. Not afraid to experiment or cross boundaries of content and style, Eprhyme blends and juxtaposes seemingly divergent sounds and ideas into a swirling and seamless whole. Krecords-114 45 $3.75 Erik M Steme PS, AUSTRALIA Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concrete composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD that was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad8system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. ERIKM has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turn tabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better-equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music ; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience. Room40-426 CD $15.00 Evangelista Hello, Voyager PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Constellation-050 LP $16.25 Evangelista Hello, Voyager PS, US New band featuring CARLA BOZLICH, former vocalist for the GERALDINE FIBBERS. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes featuring Carla's incantatroy sung and spoken lyrics on the opening & closing tracks, with the rest of the record more overtly composed. PREFIX MAG: "Evangelista is the latest musical project of much-beloved Carla Bozulich, formerly of the Geraldine Fibbers. In a bit of a confusing move, Bozulich has named her new band after a 2006 solo album of hers, which featured many of the same collaborators. Some of those musicians include members of the sprawling Silver Mt. Zion collective. Hello Voyager, like Silver Mt. Zion's new one, was recorded in Montreal at the Hotel2Tango." Constellation-050 CD $14.25 Excepter/Leb-Laze The Troglodytes/Life In The Wilderness PS, US A monument to f(l)ailing house beats & disembodied rock stars. "Life in Wilderness" is a dense mix of ping-ponging guitars, rolling drums, & keyboard manipulations. Limited to 500 copies HOSS LP $11.00 Fairport Convention Liege & Lief (Deluxe Edition, 2PC, Remastered) PS, US In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their stellar version of "A Sailor's Life" on Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief found them diving headfirst into the possibilities of England's musical past, with Ashley Hutchings digging through the archives at the Cecil Sharp House in search of musical treasure and the musicians (in particular vocalist Sandy Denny) eagerly embracing the dark mysteries of this music. (Only two of the album's eight songs were group originals, though "Crazy Man Michael" and "Come All Ye" hardly stand out from their antique counterparts.) Liege & Lief was also recorded after a tour bus crash claimed the lives of original Fairport drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend; as the members of the group worked to shake off the tragedy (and break in new drummer Dave Mattacks and full-time fiddler Dave Swarbrick), they became a stronger and more adventurous unit, less interested in the neo-Jefferson Airplane direction of their earlier work and firmly committed to fusing time-worn folk with electric instruments while honoring both. And while Liege & Lief was the most purely folk-oriented Fairport Convention album to date, it also rocked hard in a thoroughly original and uncompromising way; the "Lark in the Morning" medley swings unrelentingly, the group's crashing dynamics wring every last ounce of drama from "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves," and Thompson and Swarbrick's soloing is dazzling throughout. Liege & Lief introduced a large new audience to the beauty of British folk, but Fairport Convention's interpretations spoke of the present as much as the past, and the result was timeless music in the best sense of the term. In 2007, about a year after Liege & Lief finally earned a gold disc in the U.K., Island Records released a two-disc "Deluxe Edition" of the album. Disc one features the original album remastered by Denis Blackham, and while it doesn't sound strikingly superior to the 2002 expanded CD version, the audio is certainly improved over the 1993 CD (and the original vinyl LP). Disc two features ten bonus tracks: two Liege & Lief outtakes that surfaced on the 2002 reissue, "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood," lead off the disc, while another take of "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" also makes the cut. Most of the rest of the disc consists of BBC recordings of Fairport live in the studio in 1969, along with a fine cover of "The Ballad of Easy Rider" and a jokey medley of "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Fly Me to the Moon." Ultimately, the added material on the bonus disc doesn't seem to add as much to the package as the presence of "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" enhanced the 2002 edition, but the original album genuinely plays better in its original eight-song sequence, and this deluxe version does boast a beautifully designed package. Fairport fanatics will want to pick this up for the rare BBC material, but the less obsessed will do just fine to hold on their copies of the 2002 issue. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide UmvdImport DCD $40.00 Fanu + Bill Laswell Lodge PS, US Artists: FANU is Finland's and perhaps the world's finest breakbeat splicer and re-imaging doctor. His programming, layering, and arrangements of classic breakbeats are truly some of the most innovative and by far the most realistic sounding - akin to a jazz drummer with no boundaries and seventeen available drum kits at once. BILL LASWELL is the Grammy award-winning producer of Herbie Hancock, bassist and arranger extraordinaire. Fresh off the amazing Method of Defiance record "Inamorata", he's completed this follow up recording, which also features Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer prominently. Album: If you took the electric period of Miles Davis, with less repetition, more funk, and mad scientist drummer, you might end up halfway to LODGE. Half time vamps swing with steady funk bass from Laswell and one of Bernie Worrell's most inspired keyboard performances since PFunk, LODGE turns it out with much more emphasis on the groove. Bits of drum n bass and floating trumpet maneuver over the core modular pieces; a much less harsh sound than the Method of Defiance project, more demonstrative of the soul of Laswell's funktronics. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell and his project Method of Defiance, to End.user and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer. OhmResistance-8 CD $12.25 Felice Brothers, The S-T PS, US Their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons to Woodie Guthrie, a young Springsteen, and the Scorcese film, "Gangs Of New York". In these tales of murder, pathos, lust, and love, you'll find an honest new brand of American storytelling and song. "Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and early Springsteen" - Time Out London. "The Felice Brothers' Catskills folk is rough around the edges and intoxicating. Ryan Adams, eat your heart out" - Metroland / Best Of 2007. "Backwoods Americana is all the rage, but this band of brothers is a cut above the rest" - The Sun UK (4 stars). TeamLove CD $12.50 Felice Brothers, The S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeamLove LP $16.50 Fleet Foxes Sun Giant PS, US Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk-rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David Crosby's "Laughing" where Cros, Joni, and the whole gang hit a harmony that might be the most gorgeous moment in the history of recorded music. The Fleet Foxes know that moment and they go for it. This EP is a precursor to the band's debut, "Ragged Wood", out in June. Subpop CD5 $5.00 Food For Animals Belly PS, US Brings the best elements of ghettotech & glitch-hop together under one glorious B-club roof to form a bouncy, yet utterly bleak(-sounding) album HOSS CD $13.00 Fool, The The Fool [Bonus Tracks] PS, US Rev-Ola CD $16.50 Foot Foot Trumpet PS, US Rather than sticking with the bedroom orchestra arrangements of their debut, Snaggle and Buck (Oedipus), with Trumpet they opt for a more traditional band arrangement. They round their song out with plenty of electric & acoustic guitars, stand up bass, drums, and a piano here & there. Although darker than it's predecessor, Trumpet finds them flirting with alt-rock & traditional country to find them sitting seamlessly on the Drag City roster between Silver Jews & Will Oldham without losing their California porch-country bliss. Oedipus CD $10.00 Forbes, China '78 PS, US For ten years, China Forbes has toured the world as lead singer of the celebrated "little orchestra" Pink Martini. Forbes has grown into an accomplished performer & built a devoted, diverse fan base around the globe. On her long-awaited solo album, Forbes dusts off her guitar & returns to her roots, displaying strikingly personal songs in a style all her own. Filled with intimate stories of love, loneliness, friendship & alienation. Backed by Gregg Williams & Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), with cameos by Eric Matthews & Phil Baker (Pink Martini), Forbes plays a variety of instruments- including guitar, piano, bass, harmonium & Wurlitzer- making this record clearly & uniquely hers. Heinz CD $16.00 Gergis, Mark & Alan Bishop Sumatran Folk Cinerma PS, US This is a psychedelic collage of images & sounds from the heart & soul of the island's culture w/ the main focus on music. Witness classic dangdut rock music, street & country scenes, raw TV excerpts, Minang orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk musicians, audio/visual artifacts & much more wrapped in a 60 min. kaleidoscope complete w/ an epic soundtrack. All region DVD contains bonus footage of musical performances & trailer segment. Color; 60 minutes; digipak; NSTC format $21.50 Giant Robot #52 PS, US Carbon/Silicon, Blissed Out, Albert Reyes, music from the masses, Iced Out, Machine Girl, Maid Cafes, Hawaii Modern & tons more about Asian pop culture & beyond! ZINE $4.75 Glorytellers S-T PS, US First release for this new project featuring Geoff Farina, frontman for KARATE & SECRET STARS. Abstract harmonies, urgent vocal style, pristine pre -WWII guitar & drum sounds, bass lines thumb-picked on an acoustic guitar , and 50 year old cymbals make this one hell of an interesting American songbook. Southern CD $13.50 Glorytellers S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Southern LP $13.50 Godfathers, The Hit By Hit + Extras PS, UK Newly compiled double CD album containing all of The Godfathers' original Corporate Image early singles: Lonely Man, This Damn Nation, I Want Everything, Love Is Dead as well as B-sides and extra tracks including instrumentals John Barry and Gone To Texas plus their ultimate cover of John Lennon's Cold Turkey and an inspired rendition of Rolf Harris' Sun Arise. All tracks on Disc one produced by the legendary Vic Maile (Motorhead, Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Guns n' Roses, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Inmates, Tom Robinson Band, Vibrators, Girlschool, etc.). Disc one is paired with a full CD of previously unreleased extra tracks from The Godfathers' seminal BBC Radio One Sessions recorded for Janice Long and Andy Kershaw and live recordings around the world. Along with an exclusive live rendition of Cold Turkey you can expect ultra rare material including cover versions of The Sid Presley Experience's Public Enemy Number One, The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop and The Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK as they were performed in front of wild and enthusiastic crowds. The package boasts previously unseen pictures and liner notes by frontman Peter Coyne and ex-Ramones manager Danny Fields, the man who discovered The MC5 and Iggy & The Stooges. TRACK LIST: Disc One: 1. I Want Everything 2. This Damn Nation 3. I Want You 4. Can't Leave Her Alone 5. Sun Arise 6. Cold Turkey 7. John Barry 8. Sticks & Stones 9. I'm Unsatisfied 10. Lonely Man 11. Angela 12. Gone To Texas 13. Love Is Dead - All tracks produced by Vic Maile. Disc Two: Extras 1. This Damn Nation - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 2. John Barry - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 3. Lonely Man - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 4. Sun Arise - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 5. If I Only Had Time - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 6. I Want Everything - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 7. I Want You - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 8. I'm Unsatisfied - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 9. I Want Everything - live 10. Love Is Dead - live 11. Can't Leave Her Alone - live 12. Cold Turkey - live 13. Blitzkrieg Bop - live 14. Lonely Man - live 15. Public Enemy Number One - live 16. Anarchy In The UK - live. CorporateImage-030 DCD $22.50 Grand Volume Send Me Your Champion PS, UK Grand Volume are a unique proposition in the current musical climate, capable of knocking out two minute punk rock gems with consummate ease but equally comfortable venturing into more sophisticated prog-inspired territory. Of their peers only the Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age can match them for combining such musical dexterity with fiercely passionate intensity. Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Vocals, Guitar), Dan Larke (Guitar, Vocals, Tech) and Jon Green (Drums, Vocals, Bass, Tech) have made a ferocious statement of intent with their debut album for Fat Northerner Records, the provocatively titled 'Send Me Your Champion'. Opening track 'Summon' throws down the gauntlet in typically thunderous fashion, transporting the listener to the dirty side of early 90's Seattle before it's apocalyptic wall of noise eventually subsides and the clear, unashamedly English vocals of frontman Tom Sheals-Barrett reveal that this is a band as in thrall to Radiohead as they are to Soundgarden. Recent single 'History' follows and highlights again what a versatile outfit Grand Volume are; as tenacious, disciplined and economical as Fugazi or Minor Threat, yet as musically adventurous and intelligent as Devo or Television. 'Fire Come Soon' is another fine distillation of Grand Volume's prog meets punk philosophy - it's bombastic fire and brimstone lyrics are consumed in a maelstrom of sub-pop inspired thrash, which occasionally gives way to a gentler, fx-laden, bassdriven groove that wouldn't sound out of place on 'OK Computer'. The album closes with the beautiful 'Departure Lounge', a deeply introspective track that wouldn't sound out of place on any of the 4AD label's austere 80's gothic releases. The whole mood of the song emphasizes again that Grand Volume are a band well-versed in the whole canon of alternative rock, stretching their sound far further than the majority of their contemporaries. "An awesome racket. The missing link between classic stadium bombast and post-hardcore death noise" Dan Martin, NME. Championed by Bruce Dickinson (BBC 6) Music and Huw Stephens (Radio 1). FatNortherner-002 CD $16.25 Gutter Twins Saturnalia PS, US The first album from the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. "Saturnalia" finds the Dulli nicknamed "Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. It proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together. Subpop CD $12.50 Gutter Twins Saturnalia PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $14.00 Harp March/April 2008 PS, US Special Election Section. Issue feat. Dave Grohl, Danger Mouse, The Black Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Stephin Merritt. Need we say more. ZINE $4.00 Harpeth Trace, The On Disappearing PS, US Evoking shades of The Zombies, Bill Fay, Galaxie 500, Josh Kasselman & Co. Psychedelic immediacy & winsome melancholy. Marked by frequent cross-fades & compelling patches of sound collage, On Disappearing is an engrossingly existential 35 minutes that seem to live outside of the realms of time & place."Their dreamy pop is timeless." - L.A. Alternative Press RedRocket CD $9.50 Hideki Spaghetti S-T PS, SPAIN Is this the soundtrack of the first Japanese spaghetti-western? Is Hideki Kaji -the official emperor of Shibuya-ku pop- now in full cowboy gear or is he now a charming and romantic character alla italiana? Has Jez Butler sculpted another highly stylized retro futuristic fantasy? Will this Italian trip from the neo-aco heroe please the many legions of his fans? Did he use a time machine to travel to the good old days of lost pop? Well, Hideki Spaghetti is an italian adventure created by Hideki Kaji and Jez Butler. And all the responses can be found in this fantastic record. Siesta-216 CD $17.75 Hingley, Tom And The Lovers Highlights PS, UK Tom Hingley is also lead singer in The Inspiral Carpets. March 2008 sees Tom Hingley and the Lovers release their second album 'Highlights'. 3 years in the making it is a work of art. Poetic, melodic and well worth the wait. Highlights is the first release from the band since their critically acclaimed 2004 debut 'Abba Are the Enemy'. Where 'Abba' was a brash 200 mph Punk/Garage dash through topical subjects such as reality television, the Pop parade and War Mongering, 'Highlights' sees the band developing along a much more melodic soulful train of thought. Songs touch on such universal themes as love (Highlights), Religion ('All My Time'), Lions ('Venomous) Credit Crunch ('Kick out The Clocks') and the pretentious Manchester district of Chorlton Cum Hardy, which Tom can't afford to buy a house in and is not all at all bitter about ('EverGreen') NewMemorabilia-10 CD $16.25 Hollywood Brats S-T PS, UK Formed in 1972 the Hollywood Brats were Punk long before the term was invented. Dressed in make-up and women's blouses they sought to shock, whilst making the music they wanted to make. The packaging for this CD has been lovingly assembled with biographies from both vocalist Andrew Matheson and guitarist Brady plus all the lyrics. The digital mastering was undertaken by keyboard player Casino Steel. Chez Maximes / Another School Day / Nightmare / Empty Bottles / Courtesan / Then He Kissed Me / Tumble With Me / Zurich 17 / Southern Belles / Drowning Sorrows / Sick On You. CherryRed-106 CD $15.50 How, The Happy Matt PS, US Ripping a page from the Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy songbook, The How might not be The Who but you'd be forgiven for getting them mixed up. The mod-rocking brainchild of Matt (Henry's Dress, The Coachwhips, Sic Alps) and Stewart (Boyracer, 555 Records), The How pays cheeky tribute to the Spirit of '66: slashing guitars, pop-art graphics, sharp threads and even sharper tunes. Upbeat A-side "Happy Matt" will have you frugging in no time, throwing more shapes on the dancefloor than the Ace Face himself. On the flip, "I Was A Boy" Matt sings oh-so-sweetly while Stew pummels his drum kit into submission; midway through the song bursts into a complete feedback frenzy, going all red with purple flashes. Two ace tunes to end your summer, all wrapped up in colored vinyl and a hand-screened transparent sleeve. Slumberland-069 45 $4.25 Howlin' Rain Magnificent Fiend PS, US Feat. members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE & COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke. Birdman LP $16.00 Howlin' Rain Magnificent Fiend PS, US Features members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE and COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If Magnificent Fiend, the second album by Howlin Rain, sounds like a different band made the record, it's not the brown windowpane working its sickly magic on you, it's in many ways an accurate perception. Howlin Rain is Ethan Miller's side project when he's not playing with his "other band," Comets on Fire. HR's self-titled debut was released in 2006. It was well-received for its taut, simple song structures that evoked everything from the Grateful Dead to harder, more riff-laden big rock & roll power plays. It was loud, proud, and topped off with just a touch of country and blues... The music here is much more complex. These are still identifiable as rock songs, but there are spaces in them that evoke the harder edges of improvising rock acts like early Steppenwolf, Delaney & Bonnie (at their most rockist), and even Quicksilver Messenger Service. But this isn't necessarily a throwback group at all, and Magnificent Fiend is its own affair. It is louder, wilder, bigger, and more live sounding than the records made by any of those bands. These songs are knottier, building on the more elemental riffs and melodies of the previous set and creating something denser, more immediate, and menacing in the process." American CD $12.25 Indian Jewelry We Are the Wild PS, US Completely detached from any of its musical contemporaries, this album possesses a unique sense of surrealism, & feels closer in spirit to the films of Peter Greenaway & David Lynch then the usual psychedelic or rock & roll ethos. Ornamenting the album is art culled from some of the finest zoological lexica known in Western history. Tigerbeat6 CD $14.25 Iris, Donnie Back on the Streets/King Cool PS, US AmericanBeat CD $15.50 Jason & The Scorchers Fervor / Lost & Found [re-issue] PS, US The Scorchers' awesome 1983 EP and debut 1985 full-length album on one CD. Highly recommended re-issue action. Caroline CD $15.25 Joe & Bing Daybreak PS, US Rev-Ola CD $16.50 Judys, The Washarama [re-issue] PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Julie Mittens S-T PS, US A Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording & the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do w/ Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, they consistently wreak havoc w/ lavish, textural, peakerblowing meltdown jams. HolyMountain CD $14.25 Junc Op 2013 PS, US Junc Ops is an apocalyptic hip hop and electronica group known for its high energy live shows that make people dance. A unique blend of everyman sincerity and esoteric paranoia; Junc Ops is challenging party music made for people who seek something more than just mindless club hits! Smart dudes who don't take themselves too seriously, PG-13 (named Best Electronica Artist by New Times Miami) and Kentsoundz (former Fania Records Art Director) get people to celebrate hard times and failed romances. With honesty and openness at the core of what they do, its no wonder their fan base has grown exponentially in such a short time! Highly melodic and yet bass heavy production is at the core of their sound, fusing Miami Bass party music with an underground hip hop aesthetic. Imagine 2 Live Crew meets Aesop Rock in the future. For fans of Atmosphere, Def Jux, Madlib, Fourtet... Circuitree-004 CD $12.25 Kid Kishore The Social Club Nº 9 PS, US Copenhagen native of Indian descent KID KISHORE strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. Self-described as anything from "Danish ghetto-tech" to "golden age Bollywood," his beat-heavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape. TheSocialRegistry-057 45 $5.50 King, Kaki Revenge PS, US New album from guitar wiz turned experimental pop songstress features stronger songs fronted by stronger vocals this go round. PREFIX MAG: "With Dreaming of Revenge, Kaki King gets back around to focusing on her own music after farming out her virtuosic guitar talents of late. King guested with Dave Grohl and company on a song on the recent Foo Fighters album and with Eddie Vedder on the Into the Wild soundtrack. Like 2006's Until We Felt Red, which was produced by Tortoise's John McEntire, Dreaming was helped along in the studio by a big-name producer. That would be Malcolm Burn, who has worked with Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois. Some of the songs here are light and sexy, while others, like "Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person" (which takes its inspiration from the film The Lives of Others), are more serious." Velour CD $13.75 Koenjihyakkei Hundred Sights of Koenji PS, US Legendary debut album, the original Japanese issue went largely unheard, Hundred Sights of Koenji returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, it includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya, Masuda Ryuichi, Kubota Aki & Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey to those hallowed fields of yore. SkinGraft-090 CD $14.25 Kraus, Sharron Fox's Wedding PS, US She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness & joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark & stormy night. This stunning new album offers 11 original songs & a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion. DurtroJnana CD $16.00 Ladyhawk Shots PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time. Jagjaguwar-117 CD $11.50 Ladyhawk Shots PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time. Jagjaguwar-117 LP $11.50 Lair Of The Minotaur War Metal Battle Master PS, US This is a concept album about solving conflicts w/ a big fucking axe! The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression & mega-riffage of the previous album: The Ultimate Destroyer & the unrelenting beatings & Sabbath chugs of Carnage, mixed w/ a new emotionless ferocity reserved for an executioner. Contains a 20 pg bk w/ graphic illustrations for each song. SouthernLord CD $14.00 Landes, Dawn Fireproof PS, UK ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Landes' second album shows that while she's been characterized as a folk artist, it might be more appropriate to say she has her own quietly varied spin on a number of styles, using her talents as a studio engineer to create something that has a tense, moody feeling that wouldn't surprise listeners of performers ranging from Suzanne Vega to Alison Krauss (or, for that matter, producers like Jon Brion and T Bone Burnett). Backed by a variety of able performers, most notably Ray Rizzo on "drums, vocals, chaos," Landes plays everything from guitars to Optigans to bells as well as sings, but what's interesting is how relatively uncluttered Fireproof sounds -- there's always a sense of space that the music fills but doesn't dominate, matched by the gentle swath of echo she adds to her voice)." CookingVinyl CD $14.25 Lichens/Lexie Mountain Restoration of Temperment/If You So Choose PS, US 180g. Side A explores the deep facets of the drone-world, combining guitars both reversed & straight w/occasional chants to form a nice addendum to recent Kranky full-length Omns. Side B contains "Patty Waters-esque freeform vocalizing mixed w/Smegma worthy cut-ups" Hoss LP $12.75 LK, The The LK vs. The Snow PS, US Swedish duo of Lindefelt, abstract sound artist, & Fredrik, pop visionary & songwriter par excellence. Fusing musique concrète-style collages of sound w/ iconic pop arrangements that are both gradually mind-invading & comfortingly direct. Recorded w/ a minimum of equipment, this album was built largely by gluing pieces of Lindefelt's abstract sounds,lyrics & voice to Fredrik's simple, beautiful melodies. The resulting 11 (including 1 bonus song for kora) tracks make or a crisp, melancholy noise- pop cocktail w/ a human warmth & dark sense of humor. TheKoraRecords CD $11.00 Lodger, The Grown-Ups PS, US The Lodger was born in Ben Siddall's Leeds bedsit flat in 2004. Encouraged by local label Dance To The Radio, Ben recruited friends for bass and drum duties, tuned-up with live shows around town and debuted in early 2005 with a track on a Dance To The Radio compilation. The band quickly followed-up with their excellent debut single "Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion," the "Watching" 7" on Double Dragon, and track for the hotly-tipped Wrath label's split 7" series. 2006 was when the band got their act together-- a permanent line-up of Ben, Joe and Katie was established and the band went out on the road in the UK with kindred Yorkshire spirits The Research in February. London indie label Angular Records released the band's ace third single "Let Her Go" shortly afterwards. This single won the BBC 6music's Rebel Playlist and started to pick up airplay worldwide. In the summer the band decamped to Alan Smyth's tiny little Sheffield recording studio to record songs for their debut album. Thirteen tracks were recorded in a week in September and the result is "Grown-Ups." On the heels of the successes of bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, the north of England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands, and The Lodger are amongst the brightest hopes. Taking their cues from fellow northerners The Smiths and The Wedding Present, The Lodger's music is classic melodic pop, fueled by sparkling hooks and plangent lyrics. The tunes are sharp and timeless, a thoroughly modern distillation of great Britpop from the 60s right up to today. Grown-Ups is a perfect introduction to the thrilling pop charms of The Lodger. Slumberland CD $12.00 Lodger, The Grown-Ups PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Slumberland LP $8.50 Lullatone The Bedtime Beat PS, AUSTRALIA Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece, Lullatone presents the bedtime beat This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious "bathtime beat", which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let's March to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat! SomeoneGood-003 CD5 $13.50 Maclean, Juan Happy House PS, US This single is a dance tourist's window into the state of downtown clubbing in what has always historically been the worldwide capital for boogie. It is no longer as paranoid, as cold, as robotic. W/ remixes by PRINCE LANGUAGE & LEE DOUGLAS. DFA 12 $8.00 Madrugada S-T [2008] (ON SALE) PS, NORWAY New and final (?) album from Norwegian rockers Madrugada, whose guitarist, Robert Buras, passed away last year. There`s no doubt that working in the studio has been therapeutic for the remaining members of Madrugada, who perservered after the tragic death of guitarist Robert Burås. Fourteen songs where Robert plays a major part. The material on the new album was developed among the band members in the three years that have passed since their last studio album, The Deep End. Vital to making this Madrugada album are the merited musicians and friends the trio has recruited: Madrugadas drummer Erland Dahlen, guitarist Kid Congo Powers (Bad Seeds, Cramps, Gun Club), guitarist Emil Nicolaisen (Serena Manesh), American pedal steel-players Eric Heywood (Son Volt, Jayhawks, Joe Henry) and David Mansfield (Bob Dylan, Alpha Band). Adding vocals are Norwegian singers Ane Brun and Ingrid Olava. Malabar/EMINorway CD $25.00 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash PS, US His first record in three years. Malkmus' genius is that he knows exactly when to fetter. These songs may sprawl like the Central Valley (told you), they may spread out like a jet's flame, but when they reach that last tract house they gracefully spread their wings and head for the unclaimed land beyond. Indeed, although Malkmus makes the Pacific Northwest his home, this feels like a "California" album. Check out how "Real Emotional Trash" begins as a modern-day "Tonight's the Night," before evolving into a road trip from the Mexican border to Marin, in the tradition of Pavement's "Unfair." And dig those Allman Bros. leads (really!). Matador CD $13.50 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $13.50 Manishevitz East to East PS, US A set of swaggering, thoughtfully-composed rock songs, with a liberal dose of open-ended groove structures (think Neu!) and moody pop mutations (think Roxy Music). East to East offers the culmination of Adam Busch & co.'s particular take on post-everything pop forms, delivered with the vigor of a faceless young blogworthy band & the grace of scene veterans with nothing to prove. "It is, to date, their masterpiece," says John Darnielle (Mountain Goats), "an excitingly good album from a band who's still plugging away & probably feeling like they're banging their heads against a wall a lot of the time" Catbird CD $6.75 Miimo Live at Super Deluxe PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type), clamshell case. Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). "Live at Super Deluxe" was recorded at the most advanced club in Tokyo "Super Deluxe" in July, 2007. Their live performance is vivid and emotional. Steel Pan is featured on drum & electric double bass with electronic percussions. Each members control dubbed samplers/computers, playing their own instruments. Hybrid performance. Chill-out dubbed sounds and beat-driven groove(tr1), jazzy and tender arrangement(tr2), heavy bass onedrop(tr3), hypnotic beat with Melodica and Steel Pan(tr4). Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) as well as debut album. Amorfon-2 CD $15.00 Miimo S-T PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type) in clamshell case. Cool melody & beat from Tokyo! Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Miimo's tracks have been already used for documentary movie and commercial spot as soundtracks in Japan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). Exotic electronic pop album "miimo" is their debut album including tunes like; impressive Pablo-like melody by Melodica (tr2), nice combination with jazzy sax and electric beat(tr3), mystic polyphonic song feat. J-pop female singer (tr4), chilled Steelpan 'dub' melody (tr6), feat. cut-up poetry reading in Spanish (tr8), etc. Describing romantic and chilled atmosphere in Tokyo with the sound. Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) in clamshell case. Like Morr, ~Scape and C.C.O., electronic and acoustic are crossovered nicely. Amorfon-1 CD $15.00 Mojo #173 (April 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Monochrome Set The Independent Singles Collection PS, UK Suave; debonair; sophisticated. Haughty, perhaps, for those who favor the pejorative. Aristocratic in more than one sense, classy in at least as many. The Monochrome Set were effortlessly inventive, literate, poised and immaculate of tuneage, possessed of an internal dialogue as a band that allowed them to surf their own narrative. They were just unlike anything else, in layman s terms. Instead, their sound harked back to a golden era of British pop songwriters. But there was nothing retrogressive about their endeavors. Instead they wrote songs that recreated the drama and promise of a Pearl & Dean interval theme, veering from lullaby to mambo to harmonic pop, accompanied by lush melodies and irresistibly playful lyrics that embraced morbidity at one extreme, and pitch-perfect satire at another. Because they could. Brand new release of Monochrome Set's complete independent singles collection including b-sides and rare tracks Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, a long-term fan of the band, has recorded a cover of He's Frank with guest vocals by Iggy Pop and indeed this version has already been broadcast in Heroes. And the word is that this track may even be his next single. TRACKS: 1. HE S FRANK 2. ALPHAVILLE 3. EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS 4. LESTER LEAPS IN 5. THE MONOCHROME SET 6. MR BIZZARO 7. HE S FRANK (SLIGHT RETURN) 8. SILICON CARNE 9. FALLOUT 10. THE MATING GAME 11. J.D.H.A.N.E.Y. 12. CAST A LONG SHADOW 13. THE BRIDGE 14. JET SET JUNTA 15. LOVE GOES DOWN THE DRAIN 16. KILLING DAVE 17. HOUSE OF GOD (LIVE) 18. SWEET DEATH 19. FOREVER YOUNG 20. HURTING YOU 21. LITTLE NOISES 22. I LOVE LAMBETH 23. KISSY KISSY 24. ALL OVER 25. CLOSING TIME CherryRed-350 CD $15.50 Moore, Thurston Sensitive/Lethal PS, US Sensitive/Lethal is Thurston Moore in deep basement cosmoses. Investigations into acoustic guitar as noise instrument as well as noise/amp discussion for a hopeful and bright blackness. Childhood dreams of noise essayed with photos of unsuspecting innocents running from noise weirdo (front cover) and Texas blues albino drug zap (Johnny Winter - still alive and well detail - back cover). This is the story told in drone meditation and sweet slice. NoFunProductions-26 CD $12.25 Morning Dew At Last PS, US Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1970 on the Roulette label. "Midwest legends who cut a handful of great garage 45s before this swan song hippie rock LP, which unfortunately was issued way too late to make any impact. Rated highly by many, it's a solid trip through Airplane/Cream/Butterfly dimensions mixing early heavy moves with strong folk rock/psych material. Lack of macho vocals is a plus, and opening 'Crusader's Smile' is a classic. Caveat: despite utilizing the original album cover art, and listing the album tracks on the sleeve, the Scorpio vinyl LP contains completely different music; unreleased material plus three alternate takes of LP tracks! All this material had earlier been released by Collectables on CD." --Patrick Lundborg, The Acid Archives. Roulette LP $13.00 Murder By Death Red of Tooth and Claw PS, US Fourth and most accomplished release recorded by Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, IGGY POP) Vagrant CD $13.75 Naked on the Vague Blood Pressure Sessions PS, US Their distinct aggregate of sound calls to mind everything from SPK to Mars and beyond. Or, as they're fond of calling them in Philly, "the Death Star version of Times New Viking." Propelled by the sharp, rhythmic snare drum beat & anchored by thunderous, fuzzed bass-lines & stinging, swinging organ & synth fills. Betraying a gallows wit, the band refers to their music as "apocalyptic pop" which could be construed as both drowning & waving. Siltbreeze LP $16.00 Nes, Silje Ames Room PS, US Debut album from the Norwegian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist. Broad-ranging & full of character, it moves from languid dream-pop to stomping, upbeat tracks, to introspective or abstract numbers. W/ sparkling melodies exuding a music-box sweetness, spindly electronics weave around a vast array of instruments. PREFIX MAG: "What are young artists to do to get noticed these days? They could try to build blog buzz or win American Idol. Or they could take the old-fashioned route, like Norwegian songstress Silje Nes did, and send a demo directly to a respected label. Some of the songs from said demo appear here, as do other tunes the multitalented Nes crafted largely by herself. She plays an array of instruments on the album, including guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, and trumpet. It all adds up to plenty of pretty chamber pop." FatCat CD $12.50 Numbers Tomlab Alphabet Series: W PS, US NUMBERS emerges from the dusk of last year's full-length, "Now You Are This", with a pair of rollicking jams that refuse to let the summer set from our hearts and minds. "Is That Really True?" takes on the heavy question of real knowledge with a fuzz bass and drone organ before turning to an irresistible hum-along chorus. And prevailing question remains: "What can we know?" On the þip, the TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS classic "Crimson and Clover" experiences a fuzz rock reawakening shot through by pointedly triumphant guitars and dirty synth. All builds to an end with a brilliant reenactment of the tremolo chant "Crimson and Clover - over and over..." Summer may go, but it won't be gone forever. "Now Now You Are This' fuzzy guitar riffs and distorted synth melodies aren't just burning and propulsive, they're also strangely emotive. We like strangely emotive." - XLR8R Tomlab-106-W 45 $5.50 OffOnOff Clash PS, NORWAY One half of Original Silence, Offonoff is comprised of Terrie Ex (THE EX), Massimo Pupillo (ZU) & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE. Similar to the sounds of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth, and The Ex. Noisy, intense, hard with rapid shifts & contrasts, heavy grooves. All free improvised! SmalltownSupersound-147 CD $15.25 Operazione Nafta Cavuru PS, US Located w/in the Trapani Province of Sicily, they consider their self-described "un-rock" as "a blowjob from Luigi Russolo." The trio pours on the racket & sounds like they were hatched in a custom-built Russolo intonarumori. Their unstoppable onslaught taps into rock/improv fizz a la Sun City Girls, Etron Fou Leloublan or the Butthole Surfers, various FMP blat, & MEV-like electronic scramble. Siltbreeze LP $16.00 Pacific UV Longplay 2 PS, US PITCHFORK: "Due to its rotating cast of vocalists (including guitarist Clay Jordan and Carolyn Berk of Lovers), Longplay 2 feels more like the work of a collective than a "band" and more of a collection than an "album"; maybe something like a post-rock version of Studio's Yearbook 1. "Alarmist" and "Orson" function as the centerpieces (eight and ten minutes each, respectively), tapping into well thought-out twinkles like Sigur Ros' () on fewer Ambiens and more Vitamin Water. Which arguably makes things a little lacking in the white magic department, but if that record was your sort of thing to begin with, Longplay 2 will certainly prove every bit as comforting even if they sometimes choose to move icebergs with tugboats. The movements in "Alarmist" are slight, but necessary for the illusion of space flotation, while "Arson" unhurriedly shimmers towards a choir of chattering electronics. Among others, Pacific UV point to Mazzy Star and Spacemen 3 as influences, which might be the coordinates for Brightblack Morning Light; certainly, "If So" and "Tremolo" aren't giving off the same moonchild whiff, but they'd still sound fantastic in lunar rovers." Warm CD $11.50 Panther 14 Kt. God PS, US Vinyl version of cd recently released by KILL ROCK STARS. 180 gram Marriage LP $14.25 Paper An Object PS, SWEDEN Debut album from Swedish kraut-punk trio featuring Calle Olsson from The Bear Quartet and Paddington DC along with members of Audionom. The sound is based around the frustration of punk, the delicacy of pop melody and the hypnotic power of repetition. Think early Wire meets early Wire, simple, powerful. Novoton-015 CD $14.00 Pigeons Virgin Spectacle PS, US Amongst all the fog & feathers is a collection of comely pop & sonic excursions guaranteed to lodge itself in your waking subconscious. Limited to 500 BlackDirt LP $21.00 Pocahaunted Peyote Road PS, US "Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and Peyote Road shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A-side ritual, 'Divine Flesh,' stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side, 'Heroic Doses,' documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies' blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void. With tribal-psychedelia collage jacket artwork by Owl Eyes." --Britt Brown. Woodsist LP $13.75 Polar, Kelley I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling PS, US PITCHFORK: "Kelley Polar's flowery but strangely alluring second full-length is an unashamedly earnest record full of waterlogged synths, classics references, and a sense of theatre." Environ CD $15.75 Port Royal Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed PS, US The much-delayed remix project finally surfaces, with a stellar line-up of remixers taking apart tracks from 'Flares', the much loved debut album from the Italian post-space-rock quartet. 'Flared Up' follows last year's sophomore long player 'Afraid To Dance' and was put together between June 2005 and December 2006, with finishing touches and fine-tuning preparing it for a Spring 2008 release. The album will be released in a limited edition one-off pressing of 1000 copies for the world. TRACKLISTING: 1. Mohn f/r port-royal (F.S. Blumm remix) (previously unreleased track) 2. Jeka (Fizzarum remix) 3. Spetsnaz (destroyed by Stafraenn Hakon) 4. Karola Bloch (Manual remix) 5. Jeka (Judith Juillerat remix) 6. Flares pt. 2 (d_rradio remix) 7. Flares pt.3 (Televise remix) 8. Karola Bloch (Dialect remix) 9. Spetsnaz (Skyphone remix) 10. Flares On The Water (Minamo remix) 11. Karola Bloch (OPN remix) 12. Stimmung (Ulrich Schnauss remix). Resonant-027 CD $15.50 Pretendo ] [ PS, US A NYC trio of ex-/present members of ENON, SKELETON KEY, CREEDLE, RUGBURNS & MORRICONE YOUTH, resembles a compilation of its counterparts. Their 2nd album (pronounced "2") was engineered by the legendary MARTIN BISI w/ artwork & lyrics contributed by the always subversive billboard artist Ron English. Ccr-104 CD $11.75 Pwrfl Power S-T PS, US In spite of its populist facade, popular music still largely manages to maintain a number of strangely puritanical conventions. One exceptionally glaring case in point is the assumed mutual exclusivity of humor and "serious" music--the assumption that all "important" music is solemn, earnest, and marked with abject sincerity. Particularly in the realm of the singer/songwriter, sap and heart-sleeved sincerity are tantamount to authenticity, and humor is viewed at best as a suspicious novelty. Which is just one reason why PWRFL Power's Kazutaka Nomura doesn't especially care for pop conventions. Born to an architect and a calligrapher in Hokkaido, Japan in 1984, Kaz began studying Classical and Jazz guitar at the age of 13--moving to Seattle at 18 to study musical composition. Shortly after his arrival, the diminutive and charismatic Nomura co-founded (along with two other like-minded Japanese emigres) the city-conquering, genre-defying free-improv trio Na--who, before their residency-related demise in 2006, self-released over 40 recordings, and garnered ink in Wire, Spin, and The Stranger. Following the dissolution of his band, Nomura--now armed with a fancy music degree--decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique. In the year or so since his live debut, PWRFL Power has collected considerable local and national acclaim for his magnetically charming live performances--with high-profile appearances at Wham City's Whartscape festival, and a mainstage slot at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party (an appearance which resulted in Kaz being cast as himself in one of those weird, animated Esurance television commercialsÉ no, seriously--look for it in early 2008). With his self-titled full-length debut, PWRFL Power covers considerable aesthetic strides--from contemplative sparsity to bluesy dexterity to pure pop, and on through to a number scarcely definable alleyways in between--whilst spinning loving yarns about self-acceptance, internet dating, chopstick etiquette, loathsome cats, cocaine, obsessive-compulsive text messaging, and tomato throwing. And what's most awe-inspiring is that, in spite of this innate humor, PWRFL Power manages to transcend the potentially cloying confines of its subject matter--seemingly by sheer will-with thoughtfully constructed, elegantly played, and catchy as fuck compositions. So yes, the songs are meant to be funny. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take them seriously. PWRFL Power has performed with Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, No-Neck Blues Band, Spoon, Beach House, Sir Richard Bishop, No Age, Wooden Wand, Sage Francis, Marnie Stern, Barr, Aa, White Magic, Jana Hunter, Gang Wizard, and countless others. SlenderMeansSociety-009 CD $10.25 Quiet Life Act Natural PS, US "Pleasant chord progressions, soft harmonies & enough of a Southern wail to double check the band's ConnectRiceuct oardddsress." - Chattanooga Times Free Press debut full length, a collection of songs which have been honed the past year by filling opening slots throughout the country for the likes of Matt Costa, Cold War Kids & the Drive By Truckers. SafetyMeeting CD $13.25 Rameses III Basilica PS, US `Basilica´ is Rameses III's eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed releases 'Honey Rose' (Important), 'Matanuska' (Music Fellowship) and 'Night Of The Ankou' (Type). 'Basilica' is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. Each artist approached to contribute to the 'Basilica' disc was given free range to experiment with the live files, to re-invent and re-interpret the recordings as they saw fit. Minimalist sound-sculptor Keith Berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of 'Basilica' and gave the album an early focus and provided inspiration for the glacial artwork. Gregg Kowalsky played the 'Rose Blood' remix as part of his own performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San Francisco using its tuned sinewave oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to induce, to quote the man himself, "a psychoacoustic listening experience". Important-178 DCD $13.00 Rational Acadamy, The A Heart Against Your Own PS, AUSTRALIA Birthed from of an explosive DIY underground in Brisbane, Australia sometime during the early moments of 2004, The Rational Academy is the epitome of shimmering avant-infused pop. With an unerring willingness to dispense with the pleasantries of expectation and convention, The Academy's songwriting duo Benjamin Thompson and Meredith McHugh have forged a unique place in the heartland of melodic song writing, etched with glistening electronic interludes and wall of sound guitars. Their songs are replete with sweet melody, reflective lyrics and a presence that's both engulfing and expansive for the listener. Produced by Room40's Lawrence English and featuring Iceland's Ben Frost, UK based duo For Barry Ray and others, 'A Heart Against Your Own' follows on from The Rational Academy's two, now highly collectible, seven inches, a swag of compilation appearances and projects with the likes of Japanese songstress Tujiko Noriko and Novi Split. In their time together The Rational Academy have toured extensively sharing the stage with the likes of Deerhoof (USA), Xiu Xiu (USA), Tenniscoats (Japan), Spoon (USA), Dear Nora (USA), The Blow (USA), Sarah Dougher (USA), Scout Nibblet (UK) and Australia's Holly Throsby, Art of Fighting and more. To quote Faster Louder - "The next big thing. The 'It' band. We've been told this too often before. But join us tonight for THE RATIONAL ACADEMY and you'll leave smugly, knowing this time Richard Kingsmill hasn't beaten you to it!" SomeoneGood-004 CD $15.00 Raveonettes, The Lust Lust Lust PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Vice LP $16.50 Record Collector #347 (March 2008) PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Religious Knives Resin PS, US Since their first release for No Fun Productions, the collection of early LP's/singles entitled 'Remains', the Religious Knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. Resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. This is Brooklyn's true Psychedelic Rock. NoFunProductions-30 CD $12.50 Renderizors Submarine PS, US A new formation of members from The Renderers & Sandoz Lab Technicians. Songs dissolve into swirls of musical deconstructions, then at times reform into the recognizable. Throughout this album there is a sense of drift & the gorgeousness of space. LastVisibleDog CD $11.75 Ruby Suns, The Sea Lion PS, US The melodic musings of "Sea Lion" found inspiration in the natural world and Ryan McPhun's travels with in it. With a Dictaphone, he ventured into the wilds of Africa, the ancient monasteries of Thailand, and the haunting landscapes of New Zealand that surround his everyday. It was intended to be a world music album, but reverb and psychedelic pop crept in to create a unique mixture of exotic sounds, accomplished with an impressive array of instruments - from steel-string ukulele to djembe drums to pots and pans - all set upon a cozy cushion of synths and cassette samples. Subpop CD $12.50 Rusalnaia (ft. SHARRON KRAUS) S-T PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded in two sessions through 2007 when SHARRON KRAUS & GILLIAN CHADWICK (Ex-Reverie) teamed up with engineer Greg Weeks, who helped capture the duo's organic & sometimes unusual instrumentation, from dulcimer & guitar to pennywhistles & goat's nail shaker, and contributed his own accents to a few tracks: acid Les Paul leads & vintage 70's synths. Eight tracks of haunting, ritualistic, magical pagan-folk were the result, varying from the darkly processional tale of dispossession, though the Comus-like ceremonies of the title track, to the extended forest folk trance on the concluding "Wild Summer" CameraObscura-082 CD $14.25 Sarandon Joe's Record PS, US Brilliant post-punk pop that pays homage to the best of 80s UK DIY. Short, angular tunes that combine the brusque drive of Big Flame and Bogshed with the spiky melodicism of June Brides and Josef K. Slumberland 45 $5.75 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 1 Nov/Dec 2007 PS, UK "Moby Grape: they had it all... the talent, the tunes, the looks, the attitude. So whatever happened to Moby Grape? The 14 Hour Technicolour Dream: the freak-out in London in 1967. Laguna Beach 1970 Christmas Festival: 'Some guy drank a whole bottle of acid!' The Moody Blues: misunderstood psych heroes. John's Children: what happened next? Fairport Convention: Liege & Lief Revisited. The Band: did they ruin British rock music? All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, 4-color art. Shindig-V2#1 ZINE $8.25 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 2 Jan-Feb 2008 PS, UK "Gary Walker: from the Sunset Strip with The Standells, to world fame with Scott and John, to psychedelia in England with The Rain. The Walker Brother who rocked! Garage Fashion: the evolution of mop tops, turtle necks and Cuban heels from the '60s to today! Wendy & Bonnie: teen sisters cut soft-pop classic. The Sonics: Seminal garage heroes reborn. Moby Grape: part two of our exclusive story. Mitch Mitchell: Hendrix drummer speaks, Bummer Cinema: six easy pieces of loner celluloid, The Chesterfield Kings, The Horrors. All the hottest new releases and reissues reviewed! Psych, garage, beat, power-pop, soul, folk... for people who want more!" 82 pages, full color, high quality paper stock; 2nd issue of this re-launched magazine. ZINE $8.25 Shindig Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 3 March-April 2008 PS, UK "Issue contents: The Early San Francisco Scene -- the first in our exclusive three-part San Francisco timeline focuses on 1965: the beginnings. The Charlatans, The Great Society, The Beau Brummels, The Warlocks and many more. The GTO'S -- Pamela Des Barres' infamous 'groupie group' grew out of the '60s Sunset Strip scene and had Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck and Lowell George provide the musical backdrop to their irreverent pop adventures. Here's the whole story! Moby Grape -- the third and final installment of our exclusive in-depth Grape story. From the wilderness years to their rebirth as cult heroes in the '90s. Gonn -- creators of garage-psych classic 'Blackout of Gretely' and self-confessed 'loudest band in town' (that's Keokuk, Iowa) come clean. The Fairytale -- the brief but bright career of these British psych legends told for the first time! Overlooked albums -- our finest scribes celebrate their most cherished long-playing vinyl obscurities, from The Thirteenth Floor Elevators to Sandie Shaw. Plus tons more including the usual trouser-splitting selection of news, reviews and hullabaloos!" 82 pages. ZINE $8.25 Skyscraper #27 PS, US Features on Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Dillinger Escape Plan, Black Mountain, Magnolia Electric Co., Dan Deacon, Magik Markers, Growing, Circle, Tunng, Tusk, Titan, ft (the Shadow Government), Abe Vigoda, plus the usual plethora of articles, & reviews. ZINE $5.50 Smile Smile Blue Roses PS, US Hailing from the Dallas, TX music scene, Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme create their own modern blend of folk, pop and rock in Smile Smile. Their songs range from heart wrenching ballads to foot stomping sing alongs. Jencey's classical piano background teamed with Ryan's self-taught guitar style combine to create sounds, which both soar above you and pull you in tight at the same time."A sort of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/Mazzy Star hybrid of sing-along folk, buzzy country-leaning tunes and uptempo/downtempo swings, with brilliantly unconventional songwriting and smart harmonies anchoring the whole deal." Dallas Observer Smile-001 CD $10.00 Solo Andata/Seaworthy/Taylor Deupree Live In Melbourne PS, US One night in April, 2007, the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia was host to a small gathering of sound-lovers and curious passers-by descending on the venerable Northcote Social Club for a night of subtle soundscaping by Oz-natives Solo Andata and Seaworthy and New Yorker Taylor Deupree, who was in Australia for a tour. After a great meal and despite the ghosts of the BBC hijacking the audio system, the three artists set out to capture the focused listeners with beds of abandoned melodies and warm acoustic tangles. In hopes to capture the memories of the night, and a snapshot of live audio and all of its imperfections, Deupree recorded the evening with the intent of producing this CD. Live in Melbourne pairs labelmates Seaworthy and Deupree with Solo Andata, a newcomer to 12k, who all share in a similar sonic aesthetic. Solo Andata performed with laptop and a host of small instruments and electronics creating dense and careful beds of disjointed, yet beautiful music. Seaworthy transformed the stunning, sparse drones of his Map in Hand album into a live, improvised experience that captured all of the emotion that's created by a single musician and his guitar. Deupree rounded off the night with his characteristically sparse bed of tones and digital detritus. Live in Melbourne is strictly limited to 500 copies. 12k-2008 CD $12.25 Son Lux At War with Walls & Mazes PS, US A stunning debut wrung from classical precision & good old human gut-wrench. His first is a heady collection of songs breathing the same air & sharing the same space; painted from the same palette but set apart still--each is a distinct region of one broad, heaving sonic landscape. PREFIX MAG: "Son Lux is the musical project of Ryan Lott, an eclectic talent. He's remixed Castanets and Beirut and also dabbles in visual art, so he should fit right in on the open-minded Anticon label. The imprint drops names like Notwist, Will Oldham, and Radiohead as benchmarks for Son Lux's sound." Anticon CD $15.25 Son Lux At War with Walls & Mazes PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anticon LP $16.00 Soundpool Dichotomies + Dreamland PS, US Forming in 2005 Soundpool is a NYC-based 5-piece shoegaze, space rock, audio/visual act with sweet girlie vocals, saturated guitar sounds, lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section. Soundpool's first album, On High, reached the top spot on the Tonevendor charts for well over a month in late 2006 - Soundpool has since quietly placed themselves in the center of the new shoegaze/dream pop movement of music, sharing the stage with great acts: Robin Guthrie, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Mahogany, Asobi Seksu, Spectrum, Star, Kyte, Auburn Lull and Butterfly Explosion to name a few. Soundpool's second full-length album Dichotomies & Dreamland is in many ways the classic psychedelic album in a post electronica age. Conceptually, the album can be broken into two parts... the conscious and the subconscious. Stylistically, the album follows a thread that perhaps starts in the mid-sixties when pop artists of the day started taking hallucinogens and making records that were a bit more eclectic, cerebral and daring... pushing the boundaries of what a rock & roll record could be. Dichotomies & Dreamland was made in the spirit of that sort of artistic attitude but it's not deliberately of even necessarily retro per se... in fact it is quite modern in an indie sort of way. Elements of Shoegaze, Dreampop, Space Rock, Psychedelic and Electronic are all present. Over a year and a half in the making... we hope you enjoy our latest bodywork! "Soundpool's drone and roll has had my ears for some time. Shoegaze is a genre always in need of new blood, and few new artists match Soundpool's vocal delivery and sonic awareness. While their drone teeters on the tip toes of instability, it's Kim Fields vocals that seamlessly hold the chaos together." -Musicisnotdead. "This sounds great! Of all the newer stuff I was able to come across, I especially like what you guys are doing." -John Cofer, Music Director WTBU. "I walked off Orchard St. on the Lower East side into Pianos, waded my way through the sea of heads and walked right into the "Exploding Plastic Inevtitable"... the multimedia sensory blast definitely conjured up the Velvet underground imagery but Soundpool's sound was closer to early 90's Stereolab. The crowd was diggin' the impressive performance... this was one of the best sets I've seen in a while by a band that could be labeled "shoegaze"". -Fiddle While You Burn "When Lush wrote Sweetness and Light at the height of shoegazing, I wonder if they had anticipated Soundpool, the latest act to breath life into a fondly missed genre? Cosmic, phased guitars combine with breathy, angelic vocals and sequenced programming. Yet beneath the swirl of effects beats a heart of pure pop." -Brett Spaceman, EVILSPONGE. Aloft-02 CD $12.25 Spear Of Destiny Word Service PS, UK The first time on CD for Spear Of Destiny's final album for CBS which reached No.11 in the UK National Charts back in 1985. Includes the UK hit singles 'Come Back' and 'All My Love' Now comes with a second disc of rare b-sides and mixes, all making their debut on CD! Booklet contains original LP artwork, lyrics, pictures of all the relevant sleeves and liner notes by Alex "No More Heroes" Ogg. Still on the road to this very day and very much a major 'underground' attraction. Disc One- Rocket Ship / Up All Night / Come Back / World Service / I Can See / All My Love (Ask Nothing) / Mickey / Somewhere In The East / Once In Her Lifetime / Harlan County / Disc Two- Last Card / Walk In The Shadow / The Wheel (Live) / Prisoner Of Love (Live) / Liberator (Live) / All My Love / Come Back (Dub) / Cole Younger / Young Men (Return Of) / Come Back (Berlin Mix) / Micky (Remix). Anagram-202 CD $15.50 Ssion Fools Gold PS, US Pronounced "shun" A 10 years strong art punk dance/design/film collective headed by cosmic man sisters CODY CRITCHELOE (singer, director & sometimes graphic designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Scream Club) & J.A.M. (producer, co-writer & boho space cadet mystery man). They have toured w/ the Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Faint, & the Black Dice. Sleazetone 12 $9.00 Sun City Girls You're Never Alone with a Cigarette (Singles Volume 1) PS, US Recorded in July of 1988 during the sessions that produced Sun City Girls' most popular recording, these nine tracks represent the other half of songs which were originally prepared as a 2LP demo version of Torch of the Mystics for Placebo Records in 1989. The sequencing of all 20 tracks at the time was entirely different with the predominately instrumental tracks in this collection mixed in and around the mostly vocal tracks of what became Torch. Placebo went out of business shortly after this proposed 2LP idea was presented to them but Majora Records quickly stepped in to begin releasing most of the material. Included here are five tracks from early Majora singles: "100 Pounds of Black Olives" and "The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria" (the complete unreleased 12-minute version) from the single "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" and all three tracks from Record #1 of the double 7" Three Fake Female Orgasms -- "Plaster Cupids Falling from the Ceiling," "The Beauty of Benghazi," and "Souvenirs from Jangare." The short piece "Harmful Little Armful" is from the triple 7" box set Bruce Lee, Heroin, and the Punk Scene (from a Bay Area label Massacre at Central High) and rounding out the set are three unreleased studio tracks recorded the same day as much of the Torch LP: never before heard versions of "Amazon One," "Sev Acher," and "Wild World of Animals." This is the first of a multi-volume set of reissued singles, compilation, and unreleased tracks to be assembled and sequenced to play as full-length records. Vinyl editions may also appear in time. Abduction CD $15.00 Swimmers Fighting Trees PS, US Reminiscent of 60's British pop, this hints at influences such as the Kinks & the Velvet Underground & draws comparisons to contemporaries the Arcade Fire, Spoon, & the New Pornographers. It's the prettiness that strikes you, & the energy that hooks you. MadDragon CD $14.50 Swirnoff, Preston Maariv PS, US A collection of electroacoustic solo works taking 20th century minimalism, ritual drone music, & early electronic & tape experiments as launching points. This uses a variety of instruments (piano, tone generators, organs, guitar, tape machines) to create absorbing sound worlds that thrive on repitition, melody, noise & a sense of the otherworldly. Each piece, though based on a simple premise & instrument setup, weaves a complex aural tapestry rich in both texture & emotion. LastVisibleDog CD $11.75 Tammar S/T PS, US Working out the kernels of their corn-fried haze, TAMMAR is an exercise in balancing minimalist riffs with maximalist peaks & valleys. While the usual rise-fall theory of rock is tired, with Tammar there's a focus on the jam rather then cold hard numbers. On stage they are always a bit different - moments are stretched and condensed at will, and on record its no different. Minimal keyboards and drums bring to mind early Suicide while tripping guitars and theatrical accented vocals bring to mind the more paisley moments of Felt and U2, respectively. This four-piece from just north of Louisville, KY recorded these songs primarily live off the cement floor of the basement of Grotto Home Studios by the deft hands of Daniel Burton. Bending the materials of the world until the band itself is a conduit for feelings hot and wet and primal as sex. But that's not all. Tammar tastes the psychedelic aether, visiting the realms above as well as below, transmitting those good vibrations. Turn down the lights, turn up your stereo and rock these five hits of ecstasy. St.Ives-31 LP $11.50 Teamforest Leave PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners. Eglantine-015 CD $13.50 Terminals Touch PS, US Reissue of long out-of-print classic from 1992. High point in the evolution of a sound that goes back to the Pin Group, Scorched Earth Policy, & Victor Dimisch Band. Remastered by Brian Cook & includes bonus material. LastVisibleDog CD $12.00 Test Department Beating A Retreat PS, UK Reissue. The British collective's first album (comprised of two EPs) shows them with a better range of industrial percussion and more of a sense of rhythm than their only true contemporary, Einsturzende Neubaten. Though the album has an aimlessness to it, the presence of several ambient tracks broadens the palate. - AMG. SomeBizzare-065 CD $20.25 Them, Roaring Twenties Future Sandwich PS, US walk the same streets of Chicago that the band does, while learning interesting & personal tidbits about the band and their take on Chicago musical experiences. Music is for fans of Deerhoof, Make Believe, Cap'n Jazz Sickroom-049 CD $12.50 These Are Powers Terrific Seasons PS, US 180g. Gatefold, silkscreened covers. Screenprint on D side. Hoss DLP $24.75 These Are Powers Terrific Seasons PS, US Tight, cyclical, incrementally shifting grooves smeared w/spectral guitar & banshee vocals. Upends traditional stylistic expectations of acts operating w /in the noise-punk continuum. Arbiters of "ghost-punk"-an expansion & evolution into the emotional resonance of repetition of the unfamiliar. Hoss CD $12.75 Thing With Ken Vandermark Immediate Sound PS, NORWAY The Thing team up with their longtime friend Ken Vandermark to create some of their finest work. Recorded live at Chicago's Hide Out in April 2007, this album leans more towards the classical free jazz sound of the 60s - more American than European. With Vandermark on sax, The Thing gets more mellow, melodic & funky. SmalltownSuperjazz-105 CD $15.25 Thorton, Carter Ten Fingers for Forefathers PS, US Odd serially-infected compositions for classical guitar. A wide breadth of obscure & fragmented influences represented here, all internal. Limited to 500 BlackDirt LP $21.00 Tides/Giant Split PS, US Tides write gorgeously lush soundtracks to movies not yet made, filled w/ emotive guitar work, dynamic drumming, & huge production. Giant's sole track on this record weaves its way through both the heaviest of distortions & hauntingly euphoric passages. RIYL: Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Rosetta. LevelPlane CD $9.00 Todd, Mia Doi GEA PS, US CityZen CD $15.00 Toy Half Baked Alaska EP PS, NORWAY Sir Dupermann (Jorgen Traeen) & Alisdair Stirling follow up their self-titled debut, with this mini-album. Toy showcases the new track: "Welcome to Cedars Lodge" as well as a wonderful remix of the same track by Sean O'Hagen (HIGH LLAMAS). The album also contains four live tracks performed in Norway in 2006 using 11 different organs with guests BJORN TORSKE & John Hegre (JAZKAMER). "Like Royksopp's 'Poor Leno'- cold, lonely pop, bedroom dance party shit" -Pitchfork SmalltownSupersound-102 CD5 $12.25 Transmissionary Six Cosmonautical PS, US Nine tracks of exploration into the vast, scary, uncharted regions of space- be it creative space or literal space. Terri Moeller (WALKABOUTS) and Paul Austin (WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY) set out to make a record for headphones, rather than be concerned with how to reproduce it live. Notably brighter & more lush than their prior releases, "Cosmonautical" is tied together by themes of discovery, electricity, disappointment, cults, sex, bad eyesight & poor decision-making. But despite the weighty topics, this record is unapologetically more pop-oriented than past work. Tarnished-0811 CD $11.50 Traum Built For Nothing PS, US One-sided LP. "Suburban Michigan is a breeding ground where every weirdo has a label, a band, and a handful of secret/under the radar collaborative projects. Here Graveyard's Ben Hall and Lambsbread's Zac Davis create a monolithic one-sider influenced by too many private press jazz records and abstract instrumentalism. Davis turns in his effect pedals for nothing; pure clean tones plucked up and down scales and bridges so uniquely that it is easy to confuse the guitar for a sax. Ben Hall drums like a man with four arms; constant rattling trap-tapping and assorted pots and pans clattering, flowing completely smoothly. A perfect union of sound. In an edition of 300 copies in screened chipboard sleeves by Anthony Decanini." Arbor LP $11.25 Trencher When Dracula Thinks PS, US Re-issue of a long deleted lp that repeatedly sold out on a number of different independent labels. Short, sharp and penetrating songs. Southern CD $12.50 Twin Engine S-T PS, US Rev-Ola CD $16.50 Uncut #131 (April 2008) [Magazine + CD] PS, UK ZINE $10.00 Valet Naked Acid PS, US VINYL VERSION of CD on KRANKY. 180gram Marriage LP $14.25 Valet Naked Acid PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." PITCHFORK: "Portland Renaissance woman Honey Owens returns for her second album as Valet, this time fusing the project's distinct styles-- patient drones with manipulated vocals, lovesick ballads, spiky tunes infused with electronic noise-- into a unified whole that works terrifically as an album." Kranky-116 CD $12.25 Vampire Weekend S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $14.00 Various Searching For The Now Vol. 1 PS, US First in a series of split singles. The Company is Roy Moller (noted Glasgow popster), Gary Thom and Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian). "Join The Dots" foot-stomping, hand-clapping glam pop of the highest order. Slumberland 45 $5.75 Various Juno PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Rhino LP $15.00 Various Encyclopedia Asthmatica Vol. 1 PS, US Nearly all of the ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS' roster, and many of their friends, make an appearance somewhere on this DVD: from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicking in shoes made of bread to the music of HALF-HANDED CLOUD, to the lovely abstraction of SUFJAN STEVENS' projectionist, DEBORAH JOHNSON; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live CASTANETS, to the crisp color footage of MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND at Northsix, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine. AsthmaticKitty-40 DVD $12.25 Various The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Various Searching For The Now Vol. 2 PS, US Bye! is Archie Moore from Velocity Girl and Saturday People, his contribution is a great slice of Spectorian power pop. The Happy Couple were a German group who released a handful of exceptional singles. their contribution is an elegant piece of St Etienne-meets-Northern Picture Library electronic pop. Slumberland 45 $5.75 Various Don't Stop: Recording Tap PS, US Though Jeremiah Yisrael's Tap label only issued a handful of 12''s between 1981-83, the tape deck never stopped rolling, producing dozens of lavish songs in disco's last days. From the string heavy sugar boogie of Jackie Stoudemire & Arnie Love to pioneering raps by Missy Dee & the Melody Crew & the Fabulous MCs, this covers a wide swath of New York's all night sound. Numero CD $14.75 Various Second Marriage PS, US 2 cds documenting the label. Disc one represents the more psychedelic elements (WHITE RAINBOW, ADRIAN ORANGE, PRIVACY). Disc two represents the open philosophy of the label: lounge-punks WATERY GRAVES, ROB WALMART'S hip hop jams and more. Die cut and handmade packaging. Marriage CD $14.25 Various Pero Ese Olor En El Cuarto Del Piano Fue El Primer Perfume Que Nexesito En Su Vida PS, BRAZIL Format: CD Digipack + poster (17.2 X 22.4 in). Pero ese olor en el cuarto del piano fue el primer perfume que necesitó en su vida is our modest homage to the Peruvian novel A world for Julius, by Mr. Bryche Echenique. Take it as an imaginary soundtrack to a book. Nineteen invited artists (from Latin America and Spain) appear on it with ambient, electronic and electro acoustic contributions. File under: Ambient, indie-tronic, electro-acoustic. Tracks: 1. Sonatine - Souvlaki, 2. Un caballo saltando - Caramelitus, 3. Difícil - Posnormal, 4. Snol - Balún, 5. Silhouette sombrío - Polaroyd, 6. Los primos - Los nueva orleáns, 7. ¿Y Johnny? - Sintecoraz , 8. Si hay bulla no hay futbolín - Juan Stewart, 9. Pequeño forastero (pueblos) - imi, 10. 1981 - Carrie, 11. Extraño esas praderas - 3antena, 12. Candy Tucker - Arturo en el barco, 13. Monika - Boom Boom Clan, 14. Juguete de navidad - Felipe Moreno 15. El primer día - Jög, 16. Sinara Aïssatou - Lise, 17. Do, re, mi, fa, sol I kiss you - pequeña fiera!, 18. Cascabelle - La rainbow toy orchestra, 19. Desastre - dot tape dot. SiNoPuedoBailer-002 CD $13.50 Various Silicon Graffiti PS, US Silicon Graffiti has been a long time coming! The tracks were hand picked by Circuitree label head Paul Gaeta and Nicholas C. Raftis from literally hundreds of submissions. Highlights include the super intricate melodic masterpiece by electronic music prodigy Jimmy Edgar, the post-apocalyptic journey "2013" by Junc Ops, and the dancehall-inspired "Judah 2012" by Machine Drum. This record has something for everyone and explores various genres such as Hip Hop, Folktronica, IDM, Dancehall, Indie Rock and more. This is intelligent yet fun and danceable electronic music in the vein of Four Tet, Prefuse 73 and Aesop Rock. Tracks: 1. Under Your Skirt- Take, 2. 2013- Junc Ops, 3. 18th Street Reflections- Jimmy Edgar, 4. Inference - 000 5. Dream Eater - Baku, 6. Judah 2012 - Machine Drum, 7. You are the Important Person - Fluent In Fiyah, 8. Lyrical Soda Paper - PG-13 and Wake, 9. Dangling Eyeball - Nived and Hydroplane, 10. Arriving at the Water - Roy of Sealand, 11. The Vapors - Alf 1, 12. Testshot Starfish's Polaris Remix -Caural, 13. Fellow Rescue Paste - Hydroplane, 14. Through the Magnesium Manifold (Voyeurs) - Eleanor Channel, 15. Bro79 - Phoenecia (Jacque Polynice Remix), 16. NeighborhoodSpecialist - Wake, 17. Cognizance - Kentsoundz, 18. Good Living - Omar Jon Ajluni. Circuitree-005 CD $12.25 Warmth S-T PS, US "Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado, totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Polise was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then-Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of CD-Rs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original CD-R running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow marbled vinyl with hand-stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev." Arbor LP $12.00 Whiskeytown Strangers Almanac: Deluxe Edition PS, US Expanded 2-disc re-issue of this 1997 album featuring a pre-Ryan Adams Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary (Tres Chicas) and Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter). PITCHFORK: "The first disc features the original album bolstered by five previously unreleased radio performances. The second disc is a veritable treasure trove: all but two of its 21 tracks are previously unreleased recordings from early sessions for the LP, known by bootleggin' fans as the "Barn's on Fire Sessions". "Kiss & Make-Up", "Indian Gown", "Barn's on Fire", "Streets of Sirens", "Breathe", "Nurse With the Pills", and "10 Seconds" all appear for the first time on any official Whiskeytown release. Acoustic demos of album tracks "16 Days", "Avenues", and "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart", covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner", Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone", and the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" round out the set." Mood Food/Outpost/Geffen/Ume DCD $28.50 White Hinterland Phylactery Factory PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only. DeadOceans-009 LP $11.50 White Hinterland Phylactery Factory PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only. DeadOceans-009 CD $11.50 Who's Your Favorite Son God? Out of Body Diva PS, US They ably combine the dramatic & operatic pretense of Magma w/ the cool, aggressive delivery of MX-80 Sound & if you're thinkin' "that's somethin' I gotta hear," you're right. HolyMountain CD $14.25 Why? Alopecia PS, US VINYL VERSION. Anticon LP $14.25 Why? Alopecia PS, US Two years after wooing critics, they return, 3rd LP in hand. As expected, the band continues its calculated blitzkrieg on that self-made jangle-rap, indie pop 'n' roll genre, but the stakes are raised. The boys returned to their Midwest roots, hunkering down in Minneapolis. Throwing their samplers to the wind (mostly), they recorded live as a 5 piece. They've amassed their most immediate & cohesive batch of songs to date. PREFIX: "Because if a band isn't genre-mashing in these eclectic days, it's behind the times. Because the Bay Area by way of Minneapolis band Why? deftly blends indie-rock, avant-pop, and hip-hop sensibilities (bandleader Yoni Wolf cites artists as divergent as MF Doom and Joanna Newsom as influences on Alopecia). Because D. Kesler of Thee More Shallows engineered the album, which features guest appearances from Fog's Andrew Broder, Doseone, and Nedelle Torissi. Because we haven't had a full-length from Why? since 2005's Elephant Eyelash. Because alopecia might be the medical term for going bald, but Why? is just starting to grow into its own." Anticon CD $15.25 Wire Magazine #289 PS, UK ZINE $10.50 Wizards From Kansas, The S-T PS, US 2002 reissue. "West coast via the Midwest, The Wizards From Kansas sole album (Mercury/1970) is a solid mix of choice covers('High Flying Bird', 'Codine') and original compositions in the classic twin-guitar style of groups such as Quicksilver or Tripsichord. Regardless of the band's origins, their heads were firmly planted in San Francisco, going so far as to bring in noted SF session man Mark Naftalin for keyboard textures. World Psychedelia is pleased to add this rare release to its catalog, in superb fidelity." WorldPsychedelia CD $16.25 WZT Hearts Heat Chief PS, US Alternately conjuring images of noise gristle, free-jazz wallop, psychedelic expansiveness, & the intellectual curiosity of modern composition. The album captures the extremities of the band's sound, from in-depth explorations of scraggly distortion to drone mentalism to guitar sunbursts. Limited to 500 copies Hoss LP $12.75 Yeti Issue #5 BOOK+CD PS, US Musical contributions from and/or interviews with: JEFF MANGUM, who not only breaks his silence and contribures visusal art to the issue, but supplies us with 4 of his favoirte, unreleased sides from old 78s!), AKRON/FAMILY, WILL OLDAM, KAREN DALTON, DEAN AND BRITTA(covering GALAXIE 500 on the cd), DEERHOOF, VASHTI BUNYAN, TARA JANE O'NEIL and more. Also awesome travel journals, poetry, fiction, visual art and interviews. 240 pages with a gorgeous metallic cover. Yeti CD/ZINE $10.75 Forthcoming Releases* Be Your Own Pet Get Awkward (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Nashville teens' new album. EcstaticPeace CD $9.75 Big Dipper Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Big Dipper formed in Boston 1985 as an offshoot of post Mission of Burma project, Volcano Suns. Like the Suns they were on Homestead, but they were a bit more quirky and upbeat than any of their previous bands. This limited edition 3 cd set contains all of three of their Homestead albums, Boo-Boo, Heavens, and Crap, plus several unreleased tracks and material from their post-Epic career in the early 90's. Extensive liner notes from all of the band members and WFMU/ Best Show's Tom Scharpling. Merge 3XCD $15.00 Black Fortress of Opium S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Inspired by the lore surrounding a little town in Turkey , Afyonkarahisar, which translates into "Black Fortress of Opium." Their self-titled debut album was recorded in Brooklyn, NY by Martin Bisi (IGGY POP, SONIC YOUTH, DRESDEN DOLLS) over the course of seven months in 2007. The 10 original tracks are often reminiscent of Middle or Near Eastern sounds channeled through American folk instrumentation (mandolin, banjo) as well as e-bowed electric guitars, with female vocals that alternate between powerful and soulful to soft and mournful. Afyonkarahisar CD $10.00 Black Hollies Casting Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Vinyl version of Black Hollies "Casting Shadows" limited to 500 copies. ErnestJennings-036 LP $14.00 Blackshaw, James Celeste/Sunshrine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US After the success of his 2007 album "The Cloud of Unknowing," comes reissues of previous titles previously available only as tiny CDR pressings. "Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string acoustic guitar, picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios: stately, tolling ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging on tremolo, up above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of notes is not bustle but tranquillity." -The New York Times TompkinsSquare CD $14.75 Blackshaw, James Lost Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US TompkinsSquare CD $14.75 Blau, Karl AM (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Karl Blau is a talented, busy guy. A member of the MICROPHONES, one third of D+ w/ Phil Elvrum & Bret Lunsford (BEAT HAPPENING), & most recently the bassist for LAURA VIERS' back up band. The landmark album of his career carried by up & coming Chicago label Whistler, AM is his psych-folk ode to author A.A. Milne. The music may evoke early Byrds, Syd Barrett & Skylarking-era XTC but its is unmistakably Karl Blau. Whistler CD $10.00 Borko Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, GERMANY Celebrating Life is the first full-length release from Icelandic artist Björn Kristiansson and reflects a life in music full of experiences. The oldest of these eight tracks are up to six years old, and Morr label-head Thomas Morr has been their eager and attentive listener. How does a punch in the belly sound? Kristiansson has written a song about it called "Spoonstabber," where you'll hear an elegiac Tetris, encapsulated by delaying beats, tumbling samples, guitars, trumpets and a melody that goes on for an eternity. Borko - who also works as a musician for film and theater as well as a music teacher at a primary school in Reykjavik - expresses melancholy and nostalgia through rhythm-machines. His songs can reach dramatic heights with climbing melodies, as well as play up the stoicism of repetition and modulation. His work at the laptop and mixing desk live on stage have helped fuel his inspiration as well as childhood prog rock LPs, Jim O'Rourke's ear and electronica's warmth. Morr-080 CD $15.00 Borko Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!! Morr-080 LP $15.00 Braxton, Anthony Quartet (GTM) 2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Four-disc box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded with Braxton playing reeds, Carl Testa on bass, Aaron Siegal on percussion & Max Heath on piano. The box also contains a definitive essay by Braxton on his Ghost Trance compositions. Important-184 CD-BOX $26.50 Cahoone, Sera Only As The Day Is Long (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Despite being an accomplished guitarist and songwriter, Sera preferred to stay behind the drum kit (drumming for the likes of Carissa's Wierd, LA musician Patrick Park, and on the Band Of Horses' debut, "Everything All The Time") until one tour across the US with Park in 2006. She found herself inspired by the landscape and she wrote an album in her thoughts as they drove along the blue highways and back roads of the expansive west and the plains. "...a breathtaking collection of sad and dusky songs that reveal an artist of remarkable depth as well as a truly stunning voice" - The Stranger. Subpop CD $12.50 Cassius Clay I Am The Greatest! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Yep, it's no empty boast...as the Sportsman of the last, this, or any other century does his thang in a hilarious and amazing collection of standup, poetry and rapping, just prior to entering the history books by becoming THE GREATEST EVER heavyweight champ of all time! Well on his way to becoming the idol of boxing fans and kids worldwide, and a role model to millions, the brash young Ali is as hilarious, insightful, and wise as ever; a moment of history captured forever! As a bonus, this CD includes the stunning take on Ben E. King's Stand By Me, an idea conceived by the great Sam Cooke, where Ali shows he could have been a contender in the charts too! In the specially prepared stereo remix done exclusively for the RevOla release, it sounds stunning A stone RevOla classic available for the first time in a decade! Beautifully remastered in true RevOla style and with lovely packaging as usual... With notes by Paul Gorman, author of the acclaimed bible of pop style, "THE LOOK" A must for Boxing fans, comedy fans, rap fans, poetry fans...and everyone who grew up when Muhammed Ali was KING! Rev-ola241 CD $15.50 Chevron Tuff Shite (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, GERMANY Chevron's intricate beats and party anthems get down and dirty with "Tuff Shite". Partly inspired by Chevron's hometown, and partly the result of his extensive live experience all throughout Europe, the six complex, crisp and tongue-in-cheek tracks presented here are also a lot more than just "tuff". Upbeat and clear, the A side displays (again, as if necessary) Chevron's talent for complex rhythms and catchy melodies. Flip the record, and the B side delivers the dancefloor-packing tracks, where jungle, hardcore and breakcore collide in a tasty and incisive way. Welcome to Blackpool, don't let the comets hit you on the way to the club. AdNoiseam-93 12 $10.00 Child Readers Music Heard Far Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND) PS, US The Child Readers tread the implied ground that lies somewhere between music heard far off & music finally pulled together. They present the seemingly disparate dualities of metaphysical improvisation & meticulous composition in their otherworldly collaboration, an adventurous take on songwriting unheard since the heyday of Cherry Red & 4AD (imagine Eyeless in Gaza or Durutti Column nicking from the Richard Youngs songbook). Presenting music bathed in the beauty of everyday things, The Child Readers offer sonic prayers to country, wastes of sea, songs, drawings, particular times of day & different furs. SoftAbuse-021 CD $12.25 Clark Turning Dragon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US PITCHFORK 8.2. RECOMMENDED! Chris Clark has earned his reputation as one of the world's most adventurous dance producers w/ a catalog of twists & turns that owe just as much to the avant-garde as they do to the dancefloor. On this, it's the dance floor that receives most of the attention from this collection of turbocharged tracks. Warp CD $13.50 Clark Turning Dragon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Warp DLP $16.50 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Crow Tongue Ghost Eye Seeker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Crow Tongue's first full length finds them summoning distant howls from the fog of night. Fingerpicked strings & Eastern instruments recall CT's musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent electronics & mantric drones. "Ghost Eye Gaze" opens the album with a 5-part drone-raga, improvised to back a shamanic chant, pushing from free-folk to free-noise & back again. "Seeker" follows in 2 parts with bass dulcimer & tablas leading into an electric swarmandal excursion. The album closes with "Candle, Corpse, and Bell" where Crow Tongue shows their dub influence with guimbri & tabla-machine slowly spinning through the echochamber. Hand/Eye-034 CD $11.75 Crystal Castles S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Highly anticipated debut full length release from Toronto-based electro duo. Following a huge word-of-mouth fan base, the duo has recieved substantial support on PITCHFORK, and have remixed songs for BLOC PARTY and KLAXONS. LastGang CD $14.25 Destroyer Trouble in Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Dan Bejar and his alias Destroyer are certainly a household name by now, well at least amongst the households that shop at Trader Joe's, read Pitchfork, and/or voted in the primaries this year. Trouble In Dreams is Bejar's 8th solo record and follow-up to 2006's magnum opus, Destroyer's Rubies. The same backing band and producer are in tow here, as are Bejar's brand name obtusely self-referential lyrics. This time around though we have vinyl! Exciting news for the demographic mentioned above, as Bejar's previous works have been never before been available on LP format. Merge CD $13.25 Destroyer Trouble in Dreams (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge DLP $18.25 DeVotchKa Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening. THE ONION: "DeVotchkA gets pegged with all kinds of farfetched descriptions - but despite all their trappings, which include admittedly exotic elements, Nick Urata and company concoct impeccable pop songs, the kind that fuse memory and memorability with swaying darkness and glittering soul." Anti CD $14.75 Dodos, The Visiter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long played folky guitar w/ a combination of loops & ambient keyboards. Now, along w/ Logan Kroeber & a name change, the band has toured w/ Akron Family, Wovenhand, & Les Savy Fav in support of their first full length for French Kiss. FrenchKiss CD $13.25 Doleful Lions 7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past. Check out the release page for more info and sound samples. Parasol-CD-108 CD $9.00 Earle, Justin Townes Good Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US As the son of legendary singer/songwriter Steve Earle, high expectations are the name of the game. He's shown that he's is up to the task on The Good Life, blending elements of blues, classic country and rock n' roll seemlessly in warm musical settings that could easily be mistaken for classics. Bloodshot CD $13.50 El Perro Del Mar From The Valley To The Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TheControlGroup LP $14.50 El Perro Del Mar From The Valley To The Stars (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND) PS, US El Perro Del Mar is the alter ego of Sarah Assbring. Her second album is an opus, chock full of non-traditional folk songs that explore the world at large. She's joined at times on the record by members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphonic Choir. Her 2006 debut garnered high profile raves from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork to NPR to The NY Times. "A minimal Phil Spector sound. Unique and magical" - The London Times. TheControlGroup CD $13.00 Eleh & Sun Circle S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Essential limited edition 180-gram vinyl release pressed in an edition of 500 copies. Eleh's pure analog drones are a perfect complement to Sun Circle's ecstatic high-volume compositions. Eleh's track is a slight departure from the sub-sonic bass-heavy drones of their first two records. This time around there is more emphasis on a glistening shimmer. Sun Circle's Important debut is psychoacoustic minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism: ecstatic high-volume drones, long-form trance musics & peace noise performed with bowed strings, voices, organs, percussion & world instruments. Important LP $15.00 Experimental Aircraft Third Transmission (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US This Austin band has been described as lush, ethereal, soothing and beautiful, thanks to front woman/guitarist Rachel Staggs' gorgeous, breathy-yetapocalyptic vocals and heavily distorted instruments. Graveface-023 CD $11.50 Fahey, John Mill Pond (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Originally released on vinyl only. Limited edition CD reissue includes the first-ever collection of Fahey's paintings in the accompanying booklet. His music has been called folk, blues, bluegrass, noise, and even (gasp!) new age. On this EP, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric slide & feedback to create an eerie mood. The Mill Pond is all over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. It further proves that there is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius. Important-183 CD $12.50 For Against Shade Side Sunny Side (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Signposts: Factory Records, Joy Division, Section 25, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to release "Shade Side Sunny Side," FOR AGAINST's seventh full-length record and first studio album since 2002. As the Lincoln, Nebraska trio approaches their 25th anniversary on the independent music scene, FOR AGAINST has reemerged with an exclamation point: "Shade Side Sunny Side" is a landmark record for the band, boasting FOR AGAINST's darkest (and loudest) material to date. The post-punk roots of FOR AGAINST's early years are firmly in place, but presented throughout 9 new songs with a more expansive and atmospheric sonic palette. "Shade Side Sunny Side" also marks the notable return of original FOR AGAINST guitarist Harry Dingman III, who formed the band with vocalist and bassist Jeffrey Runnings back in 1984. Dingman left FOR AGAINST after 1988's seminal dream pop record, "December." For the new album, the prolific Runnings-Dingman songwriting team picks up right where they left off 20 years ago, when they wrote the classic post-punk material that comprised "Echelons," "December," and "In The Marshes" all within a 2- year span. "Glamour," the album's opening track, is a fierce proposition that tours the early FACTORY RECORDS sound before segueing into a cold post-punk stomp coated by Runnings' icy vocals. Songs like "Underestimate" and the album closer "Irresistible" sparkle with a pop grandeur hinted at by 2002's "Coalesced" album, but infused with unmistakable guitarwork revealing the fingerprints of Dingman's return: searing feedback, atmospheric chord-play, and inspired hooks are coaxed together to form a musical backbone that is both furious and gorgeous. "Aftertaste" is a blistering song that melds the musical sensibilities of JOY DIVISION's early WARSAW years with production by MARC OSTERMEIER (SHOULD) hinting at WIRE's "154." "Shade Side Sunny Side" also includes a cover version of "Friendly Fires," written by Factory Records' SECTION 25, from their 1981 debut "Always Now." "Shade Side Sunny Side" also includes some of the most heartrending accounts by Runnings to date. The album reveals itself as a confessional and therapeutic musical diary, with several songs recounting the tragic life and loss of a close family member, from the acerbic "Glamour," to the haunting ballad "Why Are You So Angry?," and culminating in "Game Over," where Runnings is at his most defenseless, singing nakedly on piano through the first verse and chorus. FOR AGAINST's musicianship on "Shade Side Sunny Side" is in top form, reflecting a maturity befitting their quarter century of songwriting and performances and a freshness that has drawn together an interesting union of dream pop enthusiasts in the USA and a strong dark wave following in Europe. WordsOnMusic-25 CD $12.25 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The group was initially born as an outlet for their nihilistic-noise tendencies but quickly, they realized they could harness the use of noise as a tool to immerse & evoke. Tribal beats & subtle, beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolor drone-scapes while preaching distorted vocals scream for dear hope. This grand noise will fondle you into a state of totally immersed euphoria. ATP CD $15.50 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! ATP DLP $17.75 Gazelle Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights. AHiddenAgendaRecord-090 CD $9.00 Ghost Buffalo Magician (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US New album. SuburbanHome CD $11.00 Great Northern Sleepy Eepee (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Before they honed the lush lullabies that made up the arresting debut LP, "Trading Twilight For Daylight," the L.A.-based foursome constructed a set of songs that laid the early groundwork for the band's cinematic pop. The previously unreleased 5-track prequel is being made available due to the overwhelming demand from fans. Eeniemeenie CD5 $6.50 Green, Adam Sixes & Sevens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Green is formerly one half of Moldy Peaches (with Kimya Dawson). This is his fifth solo album. His music is reminiscent of Bacharach and Brel, and he's created his own brand of playful pop while refining it with each release. He's toured with the likes of The Libertines, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Kweller, and The Strokes. "A queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism, and elegant melody" - Mojo. "It always amazes me how he can express such deep meaning with such twisted humor. Adam is eccentric and down to earth, with newfound technical proficiency over a wider spectrum of styles. I love it" - Julian Casablancas, The Strokes. RoughTrade CD $13.25 Head of Femur Great Plains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Head of Femur releases its third full-length, stripping down to a more accessible five-piece. However, the group still manages to stay true to its ambitious trademark sound, lacing together art-rock sensibilities reflective of the Talking Heads. Greyday CD $11.50 Hello Lovers Gone With The Wind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Hello Lovers has been producing a unique sound described as "southern gothic" baroque pop in a chamber group incarnation. The group itself has been referenced as a "String Chamber Group With Vocals". Lead by John King who writes & directs most of the arrangements & sings, the group features Masha Poloskova (Conservatory of Moscow) on violin, Molly Fischer (Conservatory of Kansas) on cello & Andy Hadaway (Spank Dance Co) on piano. Guest performers include members of ...Trail of Dead, Windsor for the Derby, Polyphonic Spree & others. Sixgunlover-015 CD $12.25 Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stoned & Dethroned [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Rhino CD $12.25 Jesus And Mary Chain, The Psychocandy [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Rhino CD $12.25 Jesus And Mary Chain, The Honey's Dead [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Rhino CD $12.25 Jesus And Mary Chain, The Darklands [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Rhino CD $12.25 Jesus And Mary Chain, The Automatic [re-issue, remaster] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Rhino CD $12.25 Joan Of Arc Boo Human (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 20TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.50 Joan Of Arc Boo Human (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 20TH) PS, US Done with the young and hungry rat-race of band-life, Joan of Arc now exists at the pace their real lives allow. By combining one week of studio time, a stack of songs and a sign-up sheet allowing participants to drop in whenever they could, each track on Boo Human is as wildly different and uniquely constructed as the groups who produced them. The combination of 14 musicians whose previous collaborations include Wilco, Iron & Wine, Bonnie Prince Billy, Beth Orton, and Prefuse 73 yields a truly diverse record that is as intense as it is intimate. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Jucifer Autrichienne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US New Album. Follow-up to their critically acclaimed Relapse debut. Amber Valentine's distinctive voice varies from harsh, banshee screams to softly moaned intonations against a raw palette that varies in terms of tempo & volume but never wavers in emotive intensity. A reinvention of metallic shoegazing! Relapse CD $13.25 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 July July (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Having started out as a skiffle act from Ealing and called The Playboys they then became an R&B combo, The Tomcats. John (Speedy) Keen, (Thunderclap Newman) was in them for a while and then In 1966, The Tomcats went to Spain with a new line-up (one which become the future July one). As Los Tomcats, they got in the charts with four EPs, one of which was all in Spanish! They then returned to the UK in 1968, still basing themselves in Ealing and changed their name to July. As July, they recorded what later became one of the most sought-after British psychedelic sixties albums of all time. One that was originally released in the UK on Major Minor (MMLP/SMLP 29) in 1968 and also issued in USA/Canada on Epic (BN- 26416) and even released in Brazil (Musidisc Hi Fi 2.177). The album s main appeal is its haunting brand of psychedelia and Rev-Ola are delighted to announce that this special CD issue has four bonus tracks. The gorgeous package is also enhanced by a quantity of previously unpublished photographs and some highly-informative CD booklet notes by 60s pop-sike expert David Wells. Tony Duhig (guitarist) and John Field (keyboards, flute) went on to be in Jade Warrior and Tom Newman later released solo albums on Virgin and Decca. He also set up Branson's Manor Studios and engineered 'Tubular Bells' I and II! TRACKS: 1. MY CLOWN 2. DANDELION SEEDS 3. JOLLY MARY 4. HALLO TO ME 5. YOU MISSED IT ALL 6. THE WAY 7. TO BE FREE 8. MOVE ON SWEET FLOWER 9. CRYING IS FOR WRITERS 10. I SEE 11. A FRIENDLY MAN 12. A BIRD LIVED BONUS TRACKS 13. MY CLOWN (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM580 1968) 14. DANDELION SEEDS 15. HELLO WHO S THERE (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM568 1968) 16. THE WAY Rev-Ola-243 CD $15.50 Juniper Tar To The Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Juniper Tar's debut release is the result of the band packing up and heading to Prentice in Northern Wisconsin in April 2007 to record the batch of songs they had been working on since the group's inception in 2005. The idea was to stay out of the recording studio environment and invite the room where the song is recorded to be the fifth band member. This allowed for the songs to be played live in one room where separation and instrument tracking would not become a separate process. The songs on To the Trees come together in a collage with a unifying theme of separation and solitude, sometimes longing for it while other times cursing it. Beginning this spring and summer, Juniper Tar will be supporting To the Trees with live shows throughout the Midwest and east coast. A limited edition 7" vinyl single will also be released this spring on the Bus Stop Label for the song "The Mouths of Fields" with a B-side take on Townes Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues" R.I.Y.L.: Band of Horses, Golden Smog, Ryan Adams, Avett Brothers, Come, My Morning Jacket, Matt Pond PA. BusStop-1033 CD $10.00 Kid Dakota A Winners Shadow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Layer on layer of guitar and percussion driven melodies. For fans of Okervil River, Rio Kiley, Spoon, Nada Surf. Graveface CD $10.25 Kills, The Midnight Boom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US manner that flits between light and dark, funny and morbid, experimental and cute. The result is a short, sharp twelve track album of sensual, fresh, and atmospheric songs. Domino CD $12.50 Kills, The Midnight Boom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $18.00 Lemonheads It's a Shame About Ray [Collector's Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Expansive re-issue. Rhino/WEA CD/DVD $25.00 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin Missa Luba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as Absolutely, one of the great films, Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmosphere of the sixties; and four decades on has lost none of it's power to astonish and provoke. Malcolm McDowell (of whom IF... made a star), suggested the bewitching, other-worldly music of Sanctus from the Missa Luba, a version of the Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs, which establishes the film s very particular atmosphere. IF... captured the public's imagination beyond anyone's expectation and the memorable Sanctus subsequently became a chart hit (I couldn¹t believe it recalled McDowell). Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, a choir with percussion section consisting of about 45 boys from 9 to 14 years old, and 15 teachers were formed by Father Haazen. The Missa Luba is pure Congolese. It is completely void of any modern, western musical influences. None of it is written. Certain rhythms, harmonies and embellishments are spontaneous improvisations. This edition, comprising the mass and native songs of the Congo, is the first complete restoration of the original album first released in 1963. El-136 CD $15.50 Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, CANADA Cardiff-based 7-piece. Recorded in Canada & produced by David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) the album is a frenetic mix of Indie Pop inspired by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Pavement & Bis. It's been a hugely eventful year for the band: a right-of-passage, roller coaster, massively exciting kind of year, that's seen them make an impressive dent globally, experience an avalanche of 'firsts', & subsequently proved their mettle as a Pop collective of huge potential. PITCHFORK rating 8.4! Arts&Crafts CD $15.25 Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION! LP & 10". Arts&Crafts DLP $21.75 Lucy Bland Down To Sea Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US A little bit familiar and a lot unexpected, Lucy Bland's Down to Sea Level fuses the dynamic range of indie rock, the experimentation of electronica, and the story telling of folk into this genre-defining work. Expanding on the dreamy lushness of their "... really really really cool debut EP" (John Richards, KEXP), Down to Sea Level is the lo-fi indie anthem of your everyday. Introspective tracks like "Crashing Waves" are dominated by intricate arrangements, blip hop adventurousness, and bold instrumentation. The vocal-driven style is complimented by drops of melodic cello, delicate electronic ornamentation, and understated guitar chords, lending the song an aquatic, nostalgic air. Along with the imagery of open seas, Venetian streets, and collecting driftwood, Lucy Bland proves their adaptability with the sixth track of the album. Echoing the sound of Mirah and Blonde Redhead, "Valor" combines open, naked vocals and funky, disco bass beats into a quintessentially dark and moving opus. The song is epic without overstepping dramatic boundaries. Drawing from influences as varied as Cat Power and Hot Chip, Down to Sea Level is a versatile record that lacks only a distribution company. One listen and it won't be your last. Your eardrums will thank you. REVIEWS OF LUCY BLAND'S FIRST RECITAL: "It was so good I almost feel like speaking would be a disgrace." - Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), KEXP Radio "... Music is rarely this pleasurable, meaningful, and soothing on tracks like 'Centuries' and the Suzanne Vega-ish 'Streaker'. A very charming debut EP." - www.threeimaginarygirls.com "Down tempo and moving, Lucy Bland is anything but bland. With the vocals of lead singer Cat Biell surrounded by some cello, guitar, and keyboard, the music just seems to flow so easily. It is perfect for that quiet evening or lazy afternoon." -South of Mainstream LucyBland-2 CD $12.50 Lurker of Chalice S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH) PS, US This re-issue features new packaging (a digi-pac) & a bonus track that was previously only available on the limited vinyl version. This release comes hot on the heels of the forthcoming Lurker of Chalice second full-length: Perverse Calculus SouthernLord-045 CD $14.00 Maquiladora St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F. Acuarela-1083 DCD $16.00 Maybe It's Reno S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND) PS, US Joining Bridget Cross (UNREST/AIR MIAMI) in Maybe It's Reno are her Unrest bandmates MARK ROBINSON & PHIL KRAUTH; it's almost like an Unrest reunion album. These ten songs mix that old Unrest pop sound & update it for the 21st century. Teenbeat-434 CD $12.25 Meloy, Colin Sings Live! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US A 14-song set documenting THE DECEMBERISTS' lead singer/songwriter's 2006 solo tour. This presents him in a stripped-down, acoustic setting leading his audience on a spellbinding walk through his oeuvre thus far & providing a glimpse of some new material. Of the 13 originals, 2 are previously unreleased compositions, w/ snippets of songs from The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd & REM & performs a version of the traditional folk song "Barbara Allen". KillRockStars CD $13.00 Millimetrik Northwest Passage's New Era (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Pascal Asselin is a founder member of French Canadian dreampop outfit Below the Sea and half of Anglo-Canadian duo Glider. Pascal began recording under the name Millimetrik in 2003, uniting his love of atmospheric ambient (Biosphere, Murcof) with hip-hop rhythms and breaks. With his background as a drummer, Millimetrik's earlier albums "Variety is the Spice of Life" and "Deeper Transmissions" and "The Last Polar Bear on Earth" (all Statik Rek) featured intricately programmed beats with the music creating an otherworldly and often unsettling and chilly backdrop. Over the course of recent releases, such as "Cities EP" and "I Am You Are Me; Remixes and Unreleased" (both Make Mine Music), the atmospheres have slowly thawed and melody has come increasingly to the fore. On the new album "Northwest Passage's New Era", Pascal has ventured even further down this path and the music has a sense of emerging from darkness into the light. The intricately programmed beats are still present, but the emphasis is firmly on melody and structure, and the sound is rooted in hip-hop rather than ambient music. Featuring guest appearances by Ulrich Schnauss and Port-Royal amongst others, the album also sees the first vocals on a Millimetrik release courtesy of Sean Heenan of Auburn Lull and Marie Jorge, whose beautiful vocals grace the album's final track. With this new album, Millimetrik has exceeded the already very high standards of previous releases. "Northwest Passage's New Era" is a consistently enjoyable, engaging and varied listen that Make Mine Music is proud to release. MakeMineMusic-039 CD $17.75 Mission Of Burma The Horrible Truth About Burma [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The posthumous album, originally released in 1984, has never been available on CD until now. The vinyl has been unavailable since the 1980s. Re-mastered and restored to its correct sequence with three bonus tracks. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. SALON.COM: "Combining rock 'n' roll's traditional fetish for pure, unmediated feeling, with a more modern sort of artistic calculation, Burma's music could evoke everything from the Beatles' ecstatic run of Hamburg rock clubs in the early 60s to the lightning-speed hardcore punk that was developing in the US during Burma's tenure. In this sense, Burma can be said to have blithely encapsulated punk's overarching mission: to draw a line connecting rock rebels past and present, and, in doing so, re-imagine and re-establish the music's anarchic condition." Matador CD/DVD $15.50 Mission Of Burma The Horrible Truth About Burma [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US . Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. Matador DLP/DVD $26.00 Mission Of Burma VS. [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. Matador DLP/DVD $26.00 Mission Of Burma VS. [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The second and final studio album, released in 1982 just months before the band broke up, at the pinnacle of their songwriting and performing skills. Unavailable on CD for three years and out of print on vinyl since the 1980s. Bonus DVD contains the entire afternoon set from the final show in Boston in 1983. Fully re-mastered from the original tapes. 32-page booklet contains ephemera, photos, and interviews. Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. "The almost-pop architecture is opposed by almost-Wagnerian sonic density, a dichotomy between blueprint and chaos - the competition indicated by the album's title" - Village Voice. Matador CD/DVD $15.50 Mission Of Burma The Signals, Calls And Marches [The Definitive Edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Vinyl is true all-analog, HQ-180 pressing. Matador DLP/DVD $26.00 Mission Of Burma The Signals, Calls And Marches [The Definitive Edition] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Out of print on CD for three years and unavailable on vinyl since the 80s, this debut record is back with remarkable extras, including two unreleased studio tracks, a DVD of concert footage at The Space and The Underground in Boston in 1979 and 1980, and a 32-page booklet with interviews and ephemera. Matador CD/DVD $15.50 Mogwai S-T (Standley Kubrick) EP+6 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, SCOTLAND Tracks: 1.Stanley Kubrik / Christmas Song / 3.Burn Girl Prom Queen / 4.Rage:Man / 5.Xmas Steps / 6. Rollerball / 7.Small Children in the Background / 8. Superheroes of BMX / 9. Now You're Taken / 10.Stereo Dee ChemikalUnderground CD $13.75 Mogwai Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, SCOTLAND Remix album, available again. ChemikalUnderground CD $13.75 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Moren, Peter Last Tycoon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Quarterstick LP $14.25 Moren, Peter Last Tycoon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Lead singer of Swedish indie megastars PETER BJORN & JOHN. Out of his prolific pen emerged an intimate collection of songs that see their writer pondering the difficulties & resolutions of everyday life & the ever-present confusion of approaching late adulthood -according to Peter, "the usual lyrical psychobabble, but w/ a direct & honest approach". Quarterstick CD $14.25 Motorpsycho Little Lucid Moments (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, NORWAY NEW 2008 ALBUM! PRICE TO BE CONFIRMED. Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog juggernaut Motorpsycho is back for their 12th album, with new drummer Kenneth Kapstad, and we couldn't be happier. The follow-up to last year's double-album guitar-rock epic Black Hole/Blank Canvas, this new album is reported to be comprised of "long and delightful songs", exploring the outer reaches of each song's planetary system we reckon...and we couldn't be happier. Plus it will be readily available at what we like to call a very decent price...and we couldn't be happier! RuneGrammofon CD $15.00 My Bloody Valentine Loveless (Limited edition 180 gram colored vinyl) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless as a special, exclusive numbered limited edition of 1000 copies pressed on 180 Gram red vinyl. This will be strictly limited to a one time pressing of 1000 copies and sure to become a collectors item as this is the first time ever on colored vinyl. Features the original artwork, released in a gatefold sleeve. Plain LP $16.25 Nalle Sirens Wave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich & expansive vocals, w/ a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog synth & buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations of Chris Hladowski & Aby Vulliamy. These 6 pieces form a dense, cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese Gagaku, European plainsong, & Near Eastern modal drones Locust CD $13.00 Nalle Sirens Wave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Locust LP $18.25 New Bloods Secret Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US It's American-sounding, raw & sonorous, resonating deep into the ground, past the roots of trees, sighing up to shoot holes in the clouds & drifting back behind mountains. Lean, engaging, minimalist punk songs topping out before the 3 min. mark. There's some Raincoats vibe, a little Intima, a touch of ESG & Unwound, but w/dub, soul, & afro-beat influences. The joyous spirit of Fela Kuti is right there switching beats alongside Buffy Sainte-Marie & the Pacific Northwest's best DIY originators. RECOMMENDED! KillRockStars CD $13.00 New Bloods Secret Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! KillRockStars LP $13.00 Numan, Gary & Tubeway Army Replicas Redux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US In 2008, Numan celebrates his 30th year in music, and turns 50. To celebrate, "Replicas" will be re-issued as a deluxe 2xCD package. CD1 contains the original album and three b-sides, while CD2 is a fourteen-track album of early versions/mixes, which were recently discovered and haven't been heard in 29 years. "Replicas" mid-price edition has scanned 26,000+ copies. "Numan's influence on electronic music is unparalleled" - NME. "Another near perfect album from the band" - All Music Guide. BeggarsBanquet DCD $16.50 Occasional Keepers, The True North (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 29TH) PS, UK LTM present True North, the second album from The Occasional Keepers, an ongoing studio collaboration between songwriters Bobby Wratten (Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars) and Carolyn Allen and Caesar (The Wake). True North was recorded and produced by the Keepers with Ian Catt (St Etienne) in London in February 2008. Guest musician Beth Arzy (Aberdeen, Trembling Blue Stars) features on The Life Of The Fields. Retaining plenty of acoustic, reflective elements from the previous album, this release adds experimental, song-based pop touches to great effect. Track listing: If The Ravens Leave/The Cricket Laced Midnight/Town Of 85 Lights/Leave The Secret There Forever/The Life Of The Fields/Factory Records/I've Realized/Snow And Feathers/Elsinore/A Distant Piano On A Foggy Night. Praise for The Occasional Keepers: "This Sarah supergroup lives up to the expectations that come from such an important meeting of musical minds, and there's a real synergy here" (Exclaim!); "Often the smallest touches have the greatest impact, like dropping a bomb on a calm hillside" (All Music Guide); "An album of rainy day melancholia and innocent beauty" (Leonard's Lair); "Lovely bubble-bath pop and slo-mo waltz" (Teletext). Also available: The Beauty of the Empty Vessel (LTMCD 2439) (2005). LTM-2511 CD $17.00 Old Haunts Poisonous Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Keeping the torch lit on the vibe & sound coming from the scene that they are so deeply a part of, they add their own personal touch to the garagey punk they forcefully spit out. They layer wirey guitars over a pounding backbeat & the quirky vocals are delivered w/ urgency. Comparisons to Television & the Gun Club are not far from the mark although their spooky & razor sharp riffs are all their own. KillRockStars CD $13.00 Parade, The Sunshine Girl: The Complete Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK The Parade were Murray MacLeod (also a member of The Roger Nichols Trio/Small Circle of Friends), Jerry Riopelle (Phil Spector protégé and former Philles staff producer), and Smokey Roberds (songwriter and actor). Originally signed to A&M Records, The Parade not only created a definitively West Coast pop sound but also unknowingly helped establish the sunshine pop genre via their 1967 Billboard Top 20 hit, Sunshine Girl. This first-ever complete collection of the trio s recorded output features the talents of no less than a pre-Loggins Jimmy Messina, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, David Gates, and other L.A./Wrecking Crew luminaries. The gorgeous 16 page full-colour booklet also includes rare, previously unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of all original band members. Now Sounds, the brand-new imprint from Cherry Red has been established by STEVE STANLEY - producer of over 50 Rev-Ola titles. Recordings produced by Jerry Riopelle. TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE GIRL 2. SHE SLEEPS ALONE 3. THE RADIO SONG 4. LOVERS 5. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU 6. FROG PRINCE 7. WELCOME, YOU RE IN LOVE 8. HALLELUJAH ROCKET 9. SHE S GOT THE MAGIC 10. A.C./D.C. 11. LULLABY 12. THIS OLD MELODY 13. LAUGHIN LADY 14. I CAN SEE LOVE BONUS TRACKS 15. MONTAGE MIRROR (ROGER NICHOLS TRIO) 16. HOW CAN I THANK YOU (DEMO) 17. LOVE IS THERE (DEMO) 18. LOVE IS THE PEOPLE S CHOICE (SMOKEY ROBERDS) 19. FROG PRINCE (ALTERNATE MIX) 20. SHE SLEEPS ALONE (DEMO) 21. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU (MONO) 22. SUNSHINE GIRL (MONO 45) 23. ONE MORE TIME (CONNIE AUSTIN). NowSounds-1 CD $15.50 Park Avenue Music By Hearts + Horses (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Sacramento couple Wes Steed and Jeannette "Juju" Faith got a shiny new piano - really shiny. So up went the mics and out came the music. Flowing pieces of raw improvisation from Juju were recorded and then dressed, bit by bit, by Wes in layers of modular synth distortion; some for the fun of making soundtracks for short films by New Zealand artist and web designer Fuyuko Akiyoshi; some for the fun of mixing 10 minutes of piano music down to 3; or making 3 minute songs out of 4 measures of sometimes bluesy, sometimes ethereal use of the 88s. When one mic picked up off-the-cuff vocals for several tracks, another picked up the team's beloved cat Harrison's collar bell ringing in the background for what seems the sweetest topping to the already honeyed instrumental "Norway Kitty", the opening track on what has become park avenue music's loveliest accomplishment yet. Befriending cellist Gretchen Lehtonen in time to add her touch to that first track (even if recorded backwards) was a lucky move. The trio has played a handful of boutique performances, each one unique and special as they improvised in the dark while streams of Akiyoshi's imagery served as backdrop. They have also brought a crowded house of listeners to silence - even when equipment failed, piano and cello went on to duet without the noise of synthesizers, drum machines, and Unix-based applications. "by hearts + horses" may seem an odd title, but given that the band has morphed over the years and is indeed changing their name to "hearts + horses", this last effort as park avenue music seemed only fit to be thusly titled. (File under Park Avenue music and/or Hearts + Horses.) "While many artists are using a Moog, Roland, or Juno for bouncy pop, Park Avenue Music approaches the unique instruments as if they were gentle as flowers. It could be Jeannette Faith's concert pianist training or simply a love for exquisite sounds. Either way, To Take With You is an alluring ensemble of downtempo and quiet, sophisticated pop." -Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide "Mixing very nice programming of lush electronics with soft, breathy female vocals, it manages to sound somewhat like several different things...without really sounding too much like anyone." - Almost Cool "I'm starting to think that this sort of electronic pop is the new shoegaze for me-no matter how many times I hear these wispy, glitchy sounds, I never seem to get tired of them. And that's especially true when a band like Park Avenue Music does it this well." - Opus Zine Clairecords-075 CD $12.25 Powell, Baden & Vinicius De Moraes Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova, (Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sambas is his response to the commercialization of the movement by the mid-sixties. Co-written with the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell and eventually released in 1966, these eight songs combine Powell's melodic gifts with Bahian folk traditions and Gregorian chant. With the joyous vocalizations of Quarteto Em Cy, the atmosphere is at once haunting and spontaneous. The music hasn't even begun to date. Recorded at a time when musicians around the world were looking to break down barriers - between classical and pop, East and West - but the Afro-sambas appear to recognize no such barriers in the first place. Os Afro-Sambas is an absolute stunner. One of the most exquisite pieces of Brazilian music ever recorded, it is combined on this edition with the intimate, irresistible, A Vontade, Baden's most successful solo LP of the period and one of his finest achievements. El-137 CD $15.50 Power Pill Fist Kongmanivong (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US The bassist from BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW's solo album, all of the music was produced on a circuit bent Atari 2600. Dark and intense. For fans of Melt Banana, Autechre, Pan Sonic. Graveface-021 CD $11.50 Roommate We Were Enchanted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH) PS, US Dramatically shifting & evolving over the course of the album, the sounds strike a deft balance between organic & electronic, dissonant & harmonious, all the while capturing the elusive, abstract emotions of the lyrics. While there are moments here & there that may spark a memory of 60s & 70s psychedelic rock or 80s synth-pop, a hint of Nilsson-esque bar-room piano, Faust-ian analog synths, or delicate strings a la Talk Talk, this is music with eyes gazing into the future. PlugResearch CD $9.25 School of Seven Bells Silent Grips b/w Used To (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US Comprised of ex-SECRET MACHINES guitarist Benjamin Curtis & ON! AIR! LIBRARY! sister set Alejandra & Claudia Deheza. They intricately infuse a pysch-rock aesthetic that freely weaves itself in an ethereal of lush harmonics, richly textured beats & ripping riffs. Feat. a brand new track & a unique cover of Wire's "Used To". Incl. download coupon SuicideSqueeze 45 $4.25 Second Band, The The Definite Form (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Incredible new album. More on this soon... OrangeGrammofon CD $15.00 Secret Shine All Of The Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US "All of the Stars" is Secret Shine's second studio album, and their first in 14 years. The band took an unscheduled nine year break before returning in 2004 with the release of their back catalogue (After Years) on Clairecords, followed by two emphatically-received EPs of new material in 2006, and live shows in Europe and America. "All of the Stars" encapsulate the passion of Secret Shine's live power pop in the heart-thumping 'Oblivion', 'Voice of the Sea' and 'The Sound of Light' but is both delicate and beautiful in 'All that's left' and 'Last Leaves'. Secret Shine has lost none of the sumptuous boy/girl harmonies and celestial melodies (never more evident than in the heavenly 'Stars in the Sky') that made their debut album Untouched such a classic that is still revered in shoegazing circles today. Secret Shine dedicated 2007 to write and record All of the Stars and demo'd twice the amount of songs they needed for the album so that only the finest would survive. The band have grown on this record - the sound is stronger and more confident, expertly produced and directed by Shine protagonist Jamie Gingell. The band drift effortlessly between the epic, orchestral arrangements of 'Café Crash' and the sparse, haunting piano-led 'Another Day'. All of the Stars would sit comfortably alongside shoegaze classics like Slowdive's Souvlaki, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless and The Pale Saints' The Comforts of Madness, but Secret Shine have created their own unique treasure and possibly the new wave of 'stargaze'. Clairecords-074 CD $12.25 She & Him Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel met on a film they were both appearing in called The Go-Getter. The director wanted them to do a duet in the film of a Linda & Richard Thompson cover. This inspired them to then do a full on collaboration of which Volume One is the end product. There are a couple covers, Smokey Robinson and The Beatles, and the rest are all old-timey warm sounding originals. It has a very analog, at times girl-group sound to it so much so that the songs come off more as instant standards rather than typical indie classics. This album already has serious blog love from both the film & music communities, and the pair will more than likely do some high profile live dates around release Merge CD $13.25 Skyphone Avellaneda (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, NORWAY This is the second full-length release by Danish trio Skyphone for the Rune Grammofon label. Having played in various rock outfits during most of the '90s, childhood friends Keld Dam Schmidt, Thomas Holst and Mads Bødker slowly moved towards the electronica scene and the German dub scene before starting Skyphone in 1999. Since then, they have steadily developed their own style, combining traditional rock instruments with electronics; scratching and carefully damaging the surface of the digital sounds, creating melodic pop songs without singing, leaving it to the listener to infer what the songs actually could have been and what is lurking virtually beneath the constrained, deliberately ambiguous surface of the song. With Avellaneda, they have further developed these ideas into a seamless blend of acoustic and electronic elements, rich in detail and sonic refinement, with the occasional touch of Scandinavian folk music providing a strong melodic base. RuneGrammofon CD $16.25 Stargazer Assistant The Otherside of the Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US The soundtrack to David J Smith's (GUAPO) sculptural works collected under the same name. A strange work comprising of layered vocals, percussion, electronics & prepared strings. AuroraBorealis-018 CD $14.25 Sun Kil Moon April (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, US CaldoVerde CD $15.50 Sword Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Waves of powerful riffs & low-end thinder dominate this vinyl. Also incl. exclusive b-side "Scorcher Codex Corvidae" Limited to 1000...you sleep, you weep. Kemado 10" $15.00 Takeovers Little Green Onion Man (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 8TH) PS, US LIMITED TO 450 Off 45 $6.25 Teenagers, The Reality Check (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $14.00 Teenagers, The Reality Check (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US This French trio's sound is built around a backbone of golden pop melodies, enveloped in a sardonic wit and lingering Sofia Coppola soft focus. Although all the members are 20-somethings, adolescence is a concept that cuts to the group's core. They're in love with the idea of the dreamy teen, inspired by sunset walks through the park, clogging up shopping malls for no good reason, holding hands, and stolen kisses in the cinema. Similar to most filthy mouthed teens, "Reality Check" is full of foul innuendos and lyrics that would make Serge Gainsbourg blush. With its nonchalant and biting humor, this record is a 21st Century lo-fi French pop backdrop, awash in guitar hooks and soaring electro synth riffs. XL CD $13.25 These New Puritans Beat Pyramid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Domino's latest signing, These New Puritans, are a band of four 19 year-olds from Southend, UK. They have accomplished a lot in their brief existence including the release of a debut EP, extensive UK and European touring, and a collaboration with Dior designer Hedi Slimane which resulted in the epic "Navigate, Navigate" 12" single released in February. Beat Pyramid, their full-length debut, is the next phase in These New Puritans' hyperbolic progression. Recorded with Gareth Jones ¿ the producer of albums by Einsturzende Neubauten, Liars, and Wire ¿ its songs are an ever-mutating blur of brash chords, subtle details, and taut rhythms, borne of influences as disparate as early 80's industrial music to numerology, from This Heat to Dubsteb, and from J. Dilla to David Lynch. "This music is weightless," says Jack midway through "Swords Of Truth", perhaps the most striking track on the album. "This music's symbolic." In seven words, he manages to sum up his band better than anyone else could ¿ in typically oblique fashion, of course. Domino CD $12.50 These New Puritans Beat Pyramid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $16.50 This Is Ivy League This Is Ivy League (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, US Formerly IVY LEAGUE, now This Is Ivy League. The debut full-length for New York pop duo finds themselves recording one of the best "wall of sound" pop records within their Brooklyn apartments. With influences ranging from Simon & Garfunkel to The Beach Boys, this is one of the most promising pop records of 2008. 27Records-0007 CD $10.25 Tong, Winston In A Manner of Speaking (Best Of) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 29TH) PS, UK LTM are pleased to present In A Manner Of Speaking (Best Of), a collection of outstanding tracks by Winston Tong, the songwriter and performance artist best known as frontman of the group Tuxedomoon. Recorded between 1982 and 1990, the twelve tracks gathered on In A Manner of Speaking include five tracks from Winston's acclaimed 1985 solo album Theoretically Chinese, produced by former Associate Alan Rankine and featuring a stellar cast of guest musicians including Jah Wobble, Steven Morris, Simon Topping and Dave Formula. Two are in the form of dance remixes previously only available on an Italian maxi single. This Best Of CD also features representative tracks from Winston's other two solo albums Like The Others and Miserere, as well as rare compilation tracks: covers of Duke Ellington's Prelude to a Kiss, witty festive ditty The Twelve Days of Christmas, and Syd Barrett's Late Night. Also included are two especially memorable Tong songs recorded with Tuxedomoon, Albert Camus tribute The Stranger and In A Manner of Speaking, the 1985 song later covered by Martin Gore of Depeche Mode and more recently by Nouvelle Vague. As a result of the Nouvelle Vague cover version, IAMOS has now become a standard, featuring in the soundtracks of several high profile movies and television shows, including A Mighty Heart, Sugar Rush, Fragile and Riviera. The booklet features a detailed biography of Winston Tong, as well as archive images. Winston Tong is alive and well and living in San Francisco, where he continues to perform in live and theatre events. LTM-2520 CD $17.00 Tractor Kings Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders. Spur-CD-006 CD $9.00 Various A Mind Expansion Compilation 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK Second compilation from Mind Expansion, compiled by FUXA frontman Randall Nieman. Features songs from some of the most ground breaking & influential groups over the past 20+ years on 2 CDs: SPECTRUM, FUXA with DEAN WAREHAM, MERCURY REV, FAUST, JESSAMINE, RICK WHITE ALBUM, IMAJINARY FRIENDS, LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD, POPULOUS, MUS, SUKI EWERS, ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON, MARTIN REV, RICHARD FORMBY, SONIC BOOM & DELIA DERBYSHIRE, MARKUS, VENTURE LIFT, ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA, PAINT AND COPTER, SPRING REVERBS, ECTOGRAM, SPARE SNARE, SHIVA AFFECT, BARDO POND, THE TELESCOPES, ECHOES OF THE WHALES, THE PROJECTS (Broadcast remix), SPOONFED HYBRID (IAN MASTERS), LOOPDROP, TELSTAR, ASTEROID #4, MARKUS & UNKNOWN CELEBRITIES. MindExpansion-2015/2016 DCD $16.25 Various Phantom Guitars: A Cool Collection of Twangin' Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, UK Instrumentals from the UK 1961-1964. For a short period in the UK, guitar-led instrumental groups took control. In the three year span between rock & roll and the full flush of beat, there was no bigger band than The Shadows. Their magical brand of twanging melody incorporated elements of Duane Eddy and The Ventures, but was something entirely British. And, as always, when someone comes up with a winning formula, everybody else suddenly leaps on board. So, in contrast to the clean-cut crooners, coffee bars, dancehalls and fairgrounds reverberated to the sound of Binson echo units and primitive Bigsby-esque tremelo arms. This CD ventures back in time a little further than previous Psychic Circle releases to round up a string-bending selection of some the finest examples of this genre. PsychicCircle CD $16.25 Vincent, Gene A Million Shades Of Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Yes indeed! It's Sweet Gene Vincent! Do we need say more? What else do you need to know? Oh, OK then! Back in the dear dead days when singers of 30-ish weren't just about to form their first indie band, GENE, the man who had wowed America, challenged Elvis, launched Rock n Roll in Britain and France and inspired a generation, was seen in his native land as a bit of a has-been...his audience was the French arty intelligentsia and UK Teds...but there were still those who believed in Gene...one was Kama Sutra, the New York label who brought us The Lovin' Spoonful and Gene fanatics The Flamin' Groovies (and obliquely The Shangri-Las too, but that's another story...) In 1969 and 1970 they put Gene in their newly acquired LA studio with the cream of young session men to produce an album. Taking a cue from The Band, Bob Dylan, The Sir Douglas Quintet, and possibly fellow not as old as you might think rocker Dale Hawkins (who had just had an amazing album out himself!) Gene rose to the occasion bigtime! Possibly one of the most unexpected and astonishing albums of roots rock and Americana is what we have here...with Gene as on good form as ever! Another rediscovered forgotten classic from RevOla! Beautifully remastered By the lovely Nick Robbins...in true RevOla style! Ditto goes for artwork by Pepperbox! A must for anyone who ever had a heart...Gene Vincent! Does it get any better?? TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE 2. I NEED WOMAN'S LOVE 3. SLOW TIMES COMIN' 4. DANSE COLINDA 5. GEESE 6. 500 MILES 7. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC 8. IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE ME TODAY 9. A MILLION SHADES OF BLUE 10. TUSH HOG 11. HOW I LOVE THEM OLD SONGS 12. HIGH ON LIFE 13. NORTH CAROLINA LINE 14. YOU CAN MAKE IT IF YOU TRY 15. OUR SOULS 16. THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND 17. THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED BLUE 18. BOPPIN' THE BLUES 19. LOOKING BACK 20. OH LONESOME ME 21. THE WOMAN IN BLACK Rev-Ola-242 CD $15.50 Visage The Anvil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The long overdue reissue of this classic 1982 album 'The Anvil', by the pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Visage. The album reached No.6 in the UK album charts. The album produced two hit singles for the band, 'The Damned Don't Cry' (No.11) and 'Night Train' (No.12). Visage were a supergroup of their day, formed by Steve Strange and ex-Rich Kid Rusty Egan, they recruited Billy Currie and Midge Ure from Ultravox, Dave Formula and Barry Adamson from Magazine and John McGeogh from Siouxsie & The Banshees. Together they produced 2 innovative and commercially successful albums with the resulting 5 hit singles. This CD reissue features 6 bonus tracks not included on the original 9 track release. These include dance mixes of the hit singles 'Mind Of A Toy' and 'The Damned Don't Cry' and the rare b-sides 'Motivation' and 'I'm Still Searching'. The CD booklet features sleeve notes, discography and all the single sleeves taken from the original album. As the leading lights of the New Romantic movement, Visage's legacy is lasting. The band's reputation for producing quality electronic pop lives on. TRACKS: 1. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY 2. ANVIL (NIGHT CLUB SCHOOL) 3. MOVE UP 4. NIGHT TRAIN 5. THE HORSEMAN 6. LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE 7. AGAIN WE LOVE 8. WILD LIFE 9. WHISPERS BONUS TRACKS 10. WE MOVE (DANCE MIX) 11. FREQUENCY 7 (DANCE MIX) 12. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (DANCE MIX) 13. MOTIVATION 14. I'M STILL SEARCHING 15. THE MIND OF A TOY (DANCE MIX) CherryPop-006 CD $15.50 Voyager One Afterhours in the Afterlife (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US This Seattle band has been creating sonic groove-oriented psychedelia for over eight years. Over this time, the band has released several albums, with each chargting on KEXP's Northwest top ten list. Loveless-027 CD $11.50 Weber, Windy I Hate People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 15TH) PS, US Limited to 500 copies! Beautifully colored splatter vinyl featuring a completely different mix & with a shorter length on each song so as to provide the best sound quality. Cover art features a wonderful selection of photos by Christy Romanick and Windy's passport photo from 1987 - showing a very angry, young, punk rock beginning to this musician's career. Kenedik-1005 LP $16.25 Weber, Windy I Hate People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 15TH) PS, US Windy Weber, known for being half of the ambient drone duo WINDY & CARL, has recorded a solo album. It is quite different from what you may be thinking - it has none of the soothing characteristics you may be expecting & instead is full of heavy & brooding music. It's comprised of two tracks - Sirens, coming in at 24 minutes, is instrumental & is filled with the sound of guitars crying, rising & falling like waves crashing on the rocks. Sirens is ominous, and haunting. It is not music to sleep to, but instead could make you tense & anxious. The second track is Destroyed. It is 32 minutes long, and comprised of 3 suites. The first being layers of vocals, woven together to make a chorus of breathing & breathlessness, layers to make you feel as if you may be drowning in the sea...whether that sea be the ocean, or the sea of life, the day to day world in which you must deal. The second suite becomes noisy, agitated, rumbling & distorted guitars, bass & feedback, and makes you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what is about to happen. The third suite takes you to the end of the album with subsonic frequencies & strange unrecognizable sounds. This is not music for the faint of heart. BlueFlea-014 CD $13.00 Weepies Hideaway Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH) PS, US A darker companion to their last album, w/ 14 new tunes ranging from the upbeat title track to jangly rock masterpieces to gorgeously arranged meditations. Nettwerk CD $18.00 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 Wild Swans Bringing Home the Ashes [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Songs about war and religious faith were not exclusive to U2 in the '80s. Liverpool, England's the Wild Swans ventured into U2 territory on their 1988 debut album, Bringing Home the Ashes, while sustaining their distinctive sound. The haunting voice of Paul Simpson injects every track with emotional weight; whether he is trying to convey joy or sorrow, his icy baritone chills to the bone. His vocals combine Scott Walker's lonely croon with the brooding angst of Ian McNabb from fellow Liverpudlians the Icicle Works... As enthralling as U2 were in the '80s, they never sounded as gorgeous as the Wild Swans do on Bringing Home the Ashes... Simpson's sparkling voice and Kelly's ethereal guitars provide the album with an undeniably romantic feel. Every track is suffused with radiant pop hooks." WoundedBird CD $16.75 Witch Paralyzed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Witch is Dave Sweetapple (bass), J Mascis (drums), and Kyle Thomas (guitar/vocals), but they're no indie-metal super group or side project; that would underestimate the band members' commitment. This follow-up to their 2006 self-titled debut remains true to the classic heavy rock sound of the first, but has evolved as the band has learned to play to each other's strengths. They've returned to their punk roots and attack with a more aggressive tempo. This record burns with hostility. TeePeeRecords CD $13.25 Witch Paralyzed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeePeeRecords LP $14.00 Wraiths Oriflamme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Remastered vinyl edition, previously available as a limited cdr. Recorded live under ritual conditions. Blackened death-ambient drone meets howling, metallic noise. AuroraBorealis LP $17.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders Angel “Kalmukia” CD $17.00 Apples In Stereo “Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue]” CD $14.25 Apples In Stereo “Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue]” CD $14.25 Apples In Stereo “Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue]” CD $14.25 Architect “I Went Out Shopping To Get Some Noise” CD $15.50 Beequeen “Sandancing” CD $12.25 Beequeen “Sandancing Demos” 10 $14.75 Boris “Statement” 45 $5.00 Bow Street Runners “S-T” CD $13.25 C.A. Quintet “Trip Thru Hell” DLP $19.75 C.A. Quintet “Trip Thru Hell” CD $17.75 Cave “Hunt Like the Devil” LP $13.50 Club 8 “Club 8 + 2” CD $13.50 Club 8 “Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5” CD $13.50 Club 8 “Strangely Beautiful + 5” CD $13.50 Club 8 “The Friend I Once Had + 6” CD $13.50 Coltrane, John “Turning Point” CD $15.50 Contents Are, The “Through You” CD $16.25 Exillon “It's Ok To Dance” CD $15.50 Instant Orange “S-T” CD $16.25 Laven & MSO “Reach” 12 $9.50 Menche, Daniel “Glass Forest” CD $12.25 Menche, Daniel “Body Melt” LP $14.75 Ocrilim “Annwn” CD $12.50 O'Malley, Stephen, Attila Csihar “6: Degree Fskyquake” CD $18.00 Peasant “On The Ground” CD $10.00 Poor School “Holy Master” LP $12.25 Printer “Can You Take More?” CD $13.50 Robinson, Eugene S. “FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking” DCD $13.50 Section 25 “Dirty Disco (Best Of)” CD $17.00 Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto “S-T” CD $15.00 Silver Apples “Garden” CD $14.00 Sun Ra & His Arkestra “Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue” CD $15.00 Time Constant “Silent Phone Calls In The Fall” LP $6.75 Various “Obsession” CD $13.75 Various “New Folk Routes” CD $15.50 Weekend “Live At Ronnie Scotts” CD $15.50 Weird Weeds “I Miss This” CD $11.50 Xasthur “Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors” DCD $12.50 Yellow Moon Band, The “Maybach EP” 45 $7.75 Zdzislaw Piernik/Piotr Zabrodski “Namanga” CD $15.00