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23 Skidoo
Seven Songs + Singles
PS, UK Expanded reissue on CD by seminal post-punk group 23 Skidoo. Initially active between 1979 and 1987, 23 Skidoo released a series of genre-defining records fusing post-punk, dub, industrial, world and hip-hop styles. Singles include Last Words, Tearing Up The Plans, Coup and Language. Albums include Seven Songs, The Culling Is Coming and Urban Gamelan. In 2000 the group returned with a self-titled album, 23 Skidoo, and remain hugely influential. Originally released on Fetish Records in February 1982, the mini album Seven Songs topped the indie charts and established 23 Skidoo as a groundbreaking commercial force. "Intoxicating - one of the most exciting records I've heard since Unknown Pleasures" (Paul Morley, NME, 1982); "23 Skidoo conceived of funk as a sinister energy, and Seven Songs still sounds bloodcurdlingly intense" (Simon Reynolds, Rip It Up & Start Again, 2005). Digitally remastered, this extended CD includes seven bonus tracks from the singles Last Words and Tearing Up The Plans. The booklet also features a detailed history of the elusive group, with contributions from Skidoo members past and present.
LTM-2528
CD
$16.25

Aan Meets Eyes Like Saucers
Kristallivirta
PS, US While some moments sound like an even more far-out Angus MacLise, that's about where any comparison ends. To be certain, this is among the most challenging releases on the label; certainly not for beginners of any of the the bands involved (KULKIJA, UTON, EYES LIKE SAUCERS), but rewarding to those who recognize there is an outer-margin to where music is today, & draw satisfaction from hearing half-crazed (fully crazed?) musicians trying to push those margins.
LastVisibleDog
CD
$11.75

Acid Mothers Temple
Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
PS, US Sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded mega riffage for a super defined clean sound. Kawabata & company deliver this focused rock explosion full of hyper repetitive heavy hooks & freaked out pitched up vocals.
Important
CD
$13.25

Activities of Dust
New Mind [multimedia]
PS, US DOUG SCHARIN (HIM, CODEINE, REX, JUNE OF 44), BILL LASWELL, JEFF PARKER, BERNIE WORRELL come together as Activities of Dust. Doug Scharin says: "A New Mind is the result of hours of recorded feedback that had been collected from various mixing sessions over the past decade. Within are compositions, possibility waves, constructed, originally, from manipulation of these feedback signals. The initial impressions from Jeff Parker were then added to the recordings. Parker interpreted, reacted to & in some cases painted a definitive picture of latent melodies within the feedback structures. Combining & blending these two elements created a basic form for the introduction of keyboard, bass & drum elements to enhance the movements taking shape in the music. Bill Laswell & Bernie Worrell fleshed out the tracks."
AoD
CD/DVD
$13.50

Activities of Dust
New Mind
PS, US 140 gram vinyl with digital download card!
AoD
LP
$12.00

Alpha
The Sky Is Mine
PS, SPAIN This is Alpha's eighth album (including last year's compilation of collaborations and remixes, 'Without Some Help') but is their first 'vocal' album since 2003's 'Stargazing'. Whereas previous albums featured a number of vocal collaborations, this time it is only long-term member Wendy Stubbs singing on The Sky Is Mine. And just as their debut 'Come From Heaven' (released on Massive Attack's Melankolic label) was widely acknowledged as a classic collection of trembling torch songs, so this album develops that strand dramatically further. Whilst still deploying their skills for gentle experimentation, Alpha have tunnelled their sound out to a bolder, brassier landscape with Wendy often belting out her melancholic choruses like one of her hero, Shirley Bassey. When Wendy first started working with Alpha they already had a lot of musical influences in common such as Scott Walker, Michel Legrand and Burt Bacharach. They also shared a love of simple love songs, mixing and merging different genres with bittersweet melodies thrown around by giddy synths and melodramatic strings. Over the years Alpha have worked with many varied artists (Jarvis, Acid Casuals, Blueneck, Coldplay to name a few) and are known for their inventive and emotional production. Last year Corin Dingley mixed the James Roberts album (a NME 9/10 on release) and more recently finished work on the superb debut lp by The Heavy who were promptly signed to Ninja Tune and whose album is released in the Autumn.
GreenUFOs-035
CD
$16.25

Analogue Minefield
Visions In Sonic Sense
PS, UK 3D digipak with 3D-spex!!! Analogue Mindfield's Gizzy D explains that the groups wants to, "create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes". This ferociously creative outfit indeed harks back to a golden age when reggae called itself roots and planted socially conscious lyrics into the public's consciousness. Delivered with sensitivity and passion over stellar riddims, laid down by musicians with an intrinsic feel for the groove, whilst adding a 21st century update in message and incoming musical influences, the results are 100% dynamite. The three main participants are Gizzy D, Snapper J and Kitty B, who are joined on their third studio album, Visions In Sonic Sense, by a supporting cast of singers and players including MC Ishu (Step 13, Manasseh Soundsystem), MC Jaz (DJ Reeza, Scribble Orchestra and now Analogue Mindfield's new live MC), techno forager Suspira (Transient Dreams who have worked with Eat Static and Ozric Tentacles), Asian Dub Foundation's Dr Das on occasional bass and G Frequency (Goontrax, Domination Records) providing some luscious double bass and top turntablism. From the upbeat politically-biting skank of Political Patsy to haunting female-sung ballad Reflections, they handle conscious roots outings like Mediocracy and the brass-splattered toast of Eire Beag like the great Jamaican vocal groups of the 70s but still take the form to new vistas in roots dub ballad Dread Up, all bathed in a rich dub afterglow. Be Careful Out There could be a new street anthem for the 21st century while Music Man seems to put an 80s electro-pop outing through the dub blender. Over the years, Analogue Mindfield have worked with a diverse array of UK and Jamaican musicians and made a substantial impact with their first two albums, 2006's Digital Brainwave and last year's A Fine Adjustment of Time. Their third album is a mature affirmation of their vision and talent for working with sympathetic co-conspirators while grasping the original multi-cultural roots ethic and taking it into modern times. As to be expected from a Malicious Damage act, Analogue Mindfield don't confine themselves to the one genre they might be identified with: Soul Crew brings in elements of UK free party dub-techno while Burnt Out plants its incisive rhythms over a drum 'n' bass charge. The possibilities are infinite. Leftfield's Cheshire Cat once described the band as, "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with vibrant brass-driven skankŠ like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts!" while Primal Scream's mighty Mani declared, "You've got to get Weatherall to listen to these tracks man, he'll fookin' love em!" So will you.
MaliciousDamage-638
CD
$16.25

Anathallo
Canopy Glow
PS, US The album's opening song introduces straight away the topic of death. Among lush pile-ups of 'Pet Sounds' (Beach Boys) harmony & 'Sung Tongs' (Animal Collective) texture, they sing to the rafters! It's a surprisingly beautiful rendering of life's most feared result: calm & considered, yet wide-eyed in approach, & colored by kaleidoscopic detail. This, their 2nd full-length (& first for ANTICON), could be described just the same. Texture & temperament are paramount here, due in no small part to the band's multi-instrumentalist might.
Anticon
CD
$16.00

Andrews, Drew
Only Mirrors
PS, US Guitarist from The Album Leaf and co-founder of Via Satellite debuts his first solo album. An absorbing and atmospheric record featuring soft and intricate guitar, synthesizers, and Andrews' feathery vocals floating above it all. Contributors include members of The Album Leaf and The Black Heart Procession. Limited edition of 500 white 180 gram vinyl with MP3 download card.
MintyFresh
LP
$16.50

Apples In Stereo
Stephen, Stephen / Same Old Drag [picture disc+DVD]
PS, US This is special collaboration with The Apples In Stereo and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert show. Robert (Apples in stereo) likes the Colbert show, and wrote the song for this TV show and sent it to them. Stephen Colbert liked it so much he invited Apples In Stereo to play at his TV show. So this is the song for Stephen Colbert, presented by HEARTFAST that put out special edition of picture 7" w/DVD. Yes, you can not only listen to the music but you can also watch their video. Side B is a song, taken from their latest album called New Magnetic Wonder on Yep Roc.
Heartfast-004
45/DVD
$16.25

Asobi Seksu
Me & Mary b/w Breathe Into Glass
PS, US As their captivating live show attests, Asobi Seksu have outgrown the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and others, and are finally realizing their potential as one of New
York's greatest bands.
Polyvinyl
45
$6.25

Au Revoir Simone
Summer Lines
PS, SPAIN Red vinyl. LIMITED EDITION 625 COPIES. Of all the groups launched in the past five years, without a doubt, AU REVOIR SIMONE is one of the most refreshing and succulent bands for true pure pop lovers. Restoring once again the spirit of our Singles Club (Club de Single), along with our idea of releasing exclusive singles of our favorite artists, we contacted the Brooklyn trio and enticed them with what you have in your hands, a delicious special edition seven inch vinyl in red, with an exquisite photo on the cover (courtesy of Anna Di Prospero, our favorite Italian photographer) which perfectly depicts the feminine universe of AU REVOIR SIMONE. Their influences include MODEST MOUSE, STEREOLAB, PAVEMENT, THE BEACH BOYS, Björk, BROADCAST, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, GUTHER, LALI PUNA and MS. JOHN SODA. In the autumn of 2003, they formed a group with just keyboards and antique synthesizers. Two delicious albums, various singles and a recent release of a compilation of covers and remixes are their legacy to date. This legacy has sparked passions around the world and has allowed them to tour half the globe, as well. A few of their songs have been included in the famous television series, "Grey's Anatomy" and have been special guests of David Lynch at the signing of his book, "Catching the Big Fish". Similar to their music, they are adorable, dreamy, simple and delicate, and this is why many people compare them to the sisters in "The Virgin Suicides", the first film of Sofia Coppola and NME has described them as the missing link between LADYTRON and CAMERA OBSCURA. They are all
of this and more! The new single is a small gift from heaven and "Summer Lines" is as delightful as a summer afternoon on the beach, a melancholic, sad and cold tune, yet sweet and angelic at the same time. "Haunted House" is a glorious instrumental which takes us to the decade of the seventies when the explosion of techno-pop inundated the shelves in music stores and instrumental songs were a huge part of the first albums of OMD, KRAFTWERK, RHEINGOLD, EL AVIADOR DRO and THE HUMAN LEAGUE, authentic futuristic harmonies of outer space entities.
Elefant-262
45
$7.75

Autodrone
Striking A Match
PS, US Their debut album is darker, denser and more experimental, yet catchy & hook-laden than any of their previous work. Seamlessly melding the sonic dynamics of noise & pop w/ throbbing bass lines, jagged angular synths, searing dark atmospheric guitars & urgent banshee vocals-the album has received a deluge of critical acclaim & has made it onto multiple best of 07' lists, thought it was unreleased at the time.
Clairecords-082
CD
$12.50

Averkiou
Throwing Sparks
PS, US This is the classic indie rock band that you've always loved-you just haven't heard 'em yet. A modern indie rock masterpiece clocking in at a scorching 22 minutes, Throwing Sparks will rock you like a Category 5 cyclone. You best not blink. Not matter what, we are positive you will be begging for more.
Clairecords-083
CD
$12.50

Avrocar
Against the Dying of the Light
PS, UK Avrocar hail from the city of Birmingham, UK. They have received airplay and recorded a session for the late John Peel and have also been featured by Mary-Anne Hobbes and Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1. Avrocar have released records since the mid 1990's and are part of the truly independent UK label collective Make Mine Music, who are heading towards their 50th release in autumn 2008. What follows is an account of the recording of the new album by mentor and long-time confidant Lew Monick - "I suppose at the end of recording the concept had become clear...even though it wasn't something the band had thought about consciously at the time. There was a realization that they had unwittingly evoked the constant passing of day into night and night into day. No surprise when considering that the recording took place in a small loft in near darkness and very often on into the early hours of morning. In making this album, Avrocar had willfully removed themselves from the usual machinations of recording, isolating themselves, so to speak, from people and places they would normally encounter. It was like being a part of something and yet being apart from the very same thing. The resulting sounds were softer somehow and the way the band had worked, less regimented than before, whether by luck or by design, the process and the music felt more organic. All the samples heard are taken directly from radio, many fortunately working with almost finished pieces that just needed that extra something. They came up with many tracks that sounded, to my ears anyway, like short-wave transmissions bleeding through the airwaves from bleak or exotic locales in Eastern Europe or North Africa. Along with the occasional human voice and the daily coaxing of archaic musical machinery back to working order, "Against the dying of the Light" is often reminiscent of the early work of Kraftwerk. At other times, I guess the listener may recall Stars of the Lid or even the more esoteric releases of Fax Records. Whatever you hear in the rocket's red glare of Avrocar's latest release, this is music best enjoyed in a darkened room or outside at night, at high volume." Lew Monick, Feb 2008.
Makeminemusic-037
CD
$16.25

Band Of Annuals
EP
PS, US BAND OF ANNUALS EP: Tracks 1, 2 and 3 were recorded live at Audio Space by Hyrum Summerhays and mixed by Jay Henderson. Track 1 is written by our friend David Williams and appears on his album "Summer." Track 4 was originally recorded and mixed by Scott Wiley during the January 2007 "Let Me Live" sessions and released on the Slowtrain Records compilation "Around The Bend." Track 5 was played live on-air at Tucson, Arizona's KXCI.Mastered by Ed Brooks at RFI/CD Mastering, Seattle WA. Package design by Sam Owens.
BandofAnnuals
CD5
$7.00

Bass Communion
Ii/Iii
PS, US 1ST ED OF 1200 copies packaged in a 2xCD full color Japanese style gatefold case. Starship trooper, go sailing on by... cuz BASS COMMUNION will squelch you into a throbbing mass of well-armed gristle. 2 previously released LTD ED albums now collected in one comprehensive set! 'II's' earliest days go back to the mid to late 90's, where it steps through the door hissing w/ deep space halitosis. Quietly eclipsed by slow, subtly melodic breaths of solar wind, "II" finds its ellipses crossing long, glowering belts of ambience & majestic rings of thick, bass-heavy electro-pulses. Miniature terrestrials appear as stringed
acoustics & other Earth-bound instrumentation peeks up through the crackling electronic mists. 'III' began its days at the same time as its kin, originally as leftover pieces, tv music, & failed experiments recorded between 1995-99 from the 1st 2 BC albums & then briefly released as a made-to-order CDR. "III's" lustmord for global communication moans out in a series of lonely alien drones. Don't worry the good ship lands safely, but is, much like the listener, forever altered
Beta-LactamRing
DCD
$21.50

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees [re-issue]
PS, US Collects the Gibb Bros' pre-disco baroque-pop genius, originally release on LP in 1969. Could be the first time on CD? ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If anyone needs conclusive proof that the brothers Gibb weren't always the chest-medallion-flashing kings of mainstream disco or, since about 1980 on, meaningless AOR washouts, the nearly 40-minute collection of the Bee Gees' earliest hits will suffice in spades. At their (perhaps, in hindsight) surprising best, the threesome, along with capable if generally unremarkable rhythm section members Melouney and Colin Peterson, created a slew of tender, affecting, and quite lovely hits. While the Stonesproto-metal crowd of the time probably thought them unbearably wimpy, their songwriting acumen, combined with their harmonies, fine production by Robert Stigwood, and ace orchestral/band arrangements by Bill Shephard, holds up astonishingly well... Considering that everyone from Catherine ("Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You") and Jimmy Somerville ("To Love Somebody") to Low ("I Started a Joke") and Jose Feliciano ("I've Gotta Get a Message to You") has covered something from this collection is testimony to the songs' continuing influence."
Reprise
CD
$12.25

Bee Gees, The
Best of Bee Gees Volume 2 [re-issue]
PS, US Second volume of the trio's pre-disco baroque-pop best, originally released in 1973. Includes the fairly rare "Morning Of My Life", which also happens to be one of their best orch-pop songs.
Reprise
CD
$8.25

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions
PS, US Gatefold HQ 180 gram vinyl.
Matador
LP
$20.00

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions [deluxe edition] (ON SALE)
PS, US This limited, deluxe double CD contains an entire live show broadcast on BBC Evening Session in mid-2001 with another four never before heard songs.
Matador
DCD
$15.50

Belle And Sebastian
The BBC Sessions
PS, US Fourteen gorgeous tracks recorded for the BBC between 1996 and 2001. At the time, the group rarely performed live, so all these songs are noticeably different from the studio versions. The regular CD includes an additional four unreleased songs from their classic early Jeepster period.
Matador
CD
$13.25

Berndt, John
Private Language Problem
PS, US Collection of electro-acoustic compositions performed on a variety of handmade & sculptural instruments. The compositions vary from filling large rooms w/ a continuous wash of sound to the heady pans of pure electronic tones. A work of high concept & intense concentration.
AbstractOnBlack
CD
$10.50

Black Christmas
By Way Of Decay
PS, US LTD ED OF 500! Comes in thick cardboard sleeve & each is hand numbered/hand-screened on 100% virgin LP vinyl. Lovely!
BadAgeRecords
LP
$12.75

Black Christmas
By Way Of Decay
PS, US Very 1st release from the band's own BAD AGE Records. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a 5-piece instrumental band (feat ex-members of MINUS STORY) from Lawrence, Kansas w/ some members currently residing in Chicago. Their debut here is the sound of 4:03am western Kansas, the echo & the calm, the Kansas prairie rechristened 'By Way Of Decay.' Born from the brooding '70s Italian film scores of Goblin, the desolate crescendos of Spacemen 3, the minimal bombast dialogue of Godspeed You! Black Emperor - this is impressively composed, sonically explosive & mesmerizing. A beautiful concussion. Comes in really nice, thick, hand-screened cardboard gatefold sleeve.
BadAgeRecords
CD
$10.50

Book Of Black Earth
Feast
PS, US REISSUED ON CD! The 1st full-length from Seattle's BOBE, originally released in 2006, this is reissued/remastered. Punishing & memorable blackened death metal similar to early Amorphis (Karelian Isthmus-era) meeting head on w/ Deicide. Subtle keyboard strains throughout give an epic & vast quality to the songs (yes, actual songs). Vocalist TJ Cowgill's (Teen Cthulhu) menacing & layered guttural delivery coupled w/ the assault of Joe Axler's (Skarp) double-bass drum march propel the songs comfortably alongside far more experienced & noteworthy bands in the genre (Nile, Hate Eternal, Behemoth)
20BuckSpin
CD
$14.25

Bowie, David
iSelect
PS, US 'iSelect' draws upon trks not well known to the general public; 12 personal favorites that he "never seems to tire of." BOWIE added a further surprise by incl. 2 unavailable trks, a recorded version of "Time Will Crawl" plus "Some Are" written by Bowie & Brian Eno, recorded during the 'Low' album sessions. The collection was released only in the UK for the Mail on Sunday; the next day it had become an out-of-print collector's item
Astralwerks
CD
$17.50

Boyd, CJ Sexxxtet
Fleur Du Mal
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 copies in a custom made full color book bound CD case & inner sleeve. XXX marks the spot spot spot. "Fleur Du Mal's" transcendental mixture of high-lonesome & chamber classicism soundtracks a bit like The Assignation of Andrew Poppy by the Minimalist Terry Riley. CJ BOYD's bass continuo grounds the string section's rounds into a composite rock formation that's shaped like a cello but carries the stank of teen spirit. The compositions chunk along w/ quiet thunder & building textures; juxtaposing dramatic tension against fluid looseness, not unlike some of Moondog's more formal string works. But the piece de resistance is the beautifully strange choral coda at the end of the line. A pleasant surprise awaits.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$17.75

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb
PS, US Guitarist/composer JAMES BLACKSHAW & lutenist/composer JOZEF VAN WISSEM. Intricate phrases circle & spiral in on themselves, & in the end it's the subtle shifts in rhythm & tonal coloration that provide a kind of transcendence in a sea of repetition
Important
CD
$13.25

Brethren Of The Free Spirit
The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Important
DLP
$23.25

Briggs, Anne
S-T
PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Briggs, Anne
Time Has Come
PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Brunnen
Swoon
PS, US LTD ED OF 400 numbered copies. Originally released in 1993 on Seven in a Broom in the Sky. EDWARD KA-SPEL plays keyboards on 'Scars on a Windowpane'. Trks 1-15 were recorded 1991-1993. Trks 13-14 were part of the EP single "The Honey Button". Trk 12 is a previously unreleased trk from the "Swoon" LP sessions. Trk 15 was found hiding on top of a shelf & suitably dusted off. This feat a series of hushed songs of love & lust w/ a twist played on his trusty (& now long retired) Ensonic keyboard. The original vinyl issue was LTD to 215 copies & has turned into something of a collector's ite.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$17.75

Bubblegum Lemonade
Doubleplusgood
PS, US 'A Billion Heartbeats' kicks the album off w/a 150 bpm adrenalin rush-if the Jesus & Mary Chain had studied anthropology they may have written something like this. Meanwhile, 'Beautiful Friends' is a paper thin celebration of surface beauty sort of like The Byrds' 'Lady Friend' re-written by the Valentines, & 'I'll Never Be Yours' is big chorus pop featuring Sandra from fellow Glasgow pop outfit STRAWBERRY WHIPLASH on backing vocals. 'Tired Of Sleeping' is a jangledelic ode to sleeping w/the radio on, complete w/multi-tracked 12-string Rickenbacker action straight from the early days of Creation or Cherry Red. 'Last Time I Saw Andrew' moves us into the '90s w/a lazy, looping, slow burning nostalgia somewhat like a cross between Slowdive & Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Matinee-048
CD
$12.50

Bust
#54
PS, US JENNY LEWIS on cover! Features on the ladies of advertising's golden age, gifts that don't suck for as low as $10, heavy metal chicks, make your own classy cocktails, adorable aprons & perfect presents
ZINE
$4.75

Campbell, Isobell & Mark Lanegan
Sunday at Devil Dirt
PS, US US edition of their 2008 album includes five bonus tracks over the previously available imported edition. Bonus tracks, Fight Fire With Fire, Asleep On a Sixpence, Violin Tango, Rambling Rose, Clinging Vine and Hang On. Sunday at Devil Dirt is second full-length collaboration between the former Belle & Sebastian member (Campbell) and Mark Lanegan, the Screaming Trees frontman and part-time QOTSA vocalist. Recorded between studios in the Catskills and Isobel's native Glasgow, Sunday At Devil Dirt is an album of dust bitten ballads and troubled wanderings, easily the equal of its predecessor. Again, Campbell and Lanegan complement each other beautifully, like silk on cracked leather. While continuing to mine the same rich seam of Alt-Country, Folk and Blues of their debut, the new record also embraces a dusty southern gothic, while a sultry, jazzy feel is evident on a number of tracks. As with their debut, the album has been written, produced and arranged by Isobel Campbell, with Lanegan providing lead vocal duties.
Fontana/Universal
CD
$15.25

Cave/California Raisins
Split
PS, US Monstrous jams and heavy riffs on this limited edition vinyl 10" . The Cave side includes two epic psychedelic jams and the Raisins side is their first release. These dudes get down and dirty with some groove-a-delic punk rock. Hand screened artwork.
Permanent
10
$14.25

Champagne Riot
Paris & I (7"+CD)
PS, US Super Limited!! Think of the Human League's Dare!, ostensibly a collection of love songs made to sound like science fiction; or New Order's plainspoken anti-poetry couched in synthetic symphonies that were the very antithesis of the everyday. It is this largely abandoned idea of the velvet melody in the robotic glove to which Champagne Riot aspires. A product of very limited means - "mainly a Roland MC-307 groovebox and a couple of old guitars," says Caspar - but the luxuriousness of the finished product belies the budget with which it was made. Songs such as "Scandinavian Warfare," "I Dream About You at Night" & "Heroes of Our Time" are rich with sonic detail, and choruses that are enveloping in their windswept grandeur. They sound like urban life in all its wonder & sadness, its busyness & also its terrible loneliness.
Shelflife
45
$18.00

Chap
Builders Brew
PS, US This pan-European, London-based modern pop group is back w/ a collection of remixes & cover versions plus new original material. As w/ their critically acclaimed recent album, 'Mega Breakfast,' this continues the search for a heart of gold in a world gone cold. It deals w/ nice faces, bad conversations, wild joy, severe pain, moral panic, & some truly bad cycling. They have expanded their repertoire & are moving into new techno territory, all the while getting w/ some serious choir singing & funky harmonizing. There is plenty of gems here... a new edit of recent single "Proper Rock," another cut "Ethnic Instrument" gets remixed by Parisian disco superstar JOAKIM, then there is the classic group take on Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It?" It doesn't sound much like Tina Turner but instead contains the best violin solo in the world. Fans have been asking for its release for yrs. This is infectious, blistering pop music, but all the while something here is deliciously wrong
LoRecordings
CD
$14.25

Chap
Ethnic Caution
PS, US They have become known & loved for their inimitable pop - improv - disco - rock - w/ - strings sound, captured in some crunchy, truly "out there" home production & a furiously rocking live show, complete w/ dance routines & scary faces. Here, JOAKIM (Parisian electro-disco superstar producer) was commissioned to remix "Ethnic Instrument" & turned it into the massive funk/disco/rock floor filler it has always secretly wanted to be. Funny, unsettling and hugely danceable - a suitable reinterpretation of THE CHAP ethic. On the flipside, "Caution Me", taken from the album 'Mega Breakfast,' comes courtesy of VINCENT OLIVER (of Lo Recordings & Border Community labels), & is exclusive to this release/format - a beautifully atmospheric & minimal affair.
LoRecordings
LP
$10.00

Cheap Trick
At Budokan! 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition [expanded re-issue]
PS, US For the first time, the DVD premieres the previously unseen historic 1978 Tokyo concert, aired only once on Japanese TV. Bonus features include a new interview with the band plus two songs taped at 2008 Budokan Anniversary Show. Two CDs feature At Budokan: The Complete Concert, newly remastered, while an additional disc includes the audio counterpart to the DVD plus four bonus songs not included in the original film.
SonyLegacy
3CD/DVD
$47.50

Chesnutt, Vic, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums
Darl Developments
PS, US A tuneful collision of Athens institutions finds fruition this fall when Orange Twin releases Vic Chesnutt's collaboration with Elephant 6 originals Elf Power, "Dark Developments." As intriguing as this combination may seem for hardcore fans of either act, the final sonic results reveal a daunting sum much greater than even the involvement of such esteemed parts would imply; the Elves' lived-in dexterity as a live band goads Vic's vocal delivery to a menacing new muscularity, imbuing this batch of songs with a sinister vibe not dissmilar to John Cale's black classic "Fear," the harsh, articulate sleaze of Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" or the defeated low key soul-music of Nick Lowe's last few records. And Chesnutt's songwriting retains its trademark literary bent; central songs carry the narrative weight, sturdy construction and lexical mystery of a longlost Raymond Carver story. And as he still woos you with his squelched, beautiful melodies, his sonic turns-in-the road take an even stranger tack with the aid of the psych-pop veterans.
OrangeTwin
CD
$15.00

Connelly, Chris
Forgiveness & Exile
PS, US The album is again produced by TIM KINSELLA (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc), BEN VIDA (Town & Country, Terminal 4, Bird Show), & CONNELLY himself, & the musicians comprise the same jazz & improvisational band that played on 'The Episodes.' This time, however, his group is augmented by the addition of 4 of his oldest friends: DAVID MILLER (Fini Tribe), SHIRLEY MANSON (Garbage), DAVID TIBET (Current 93), & actress TORRI HIGGINSON (The English Patient, Stargate Atlantis). Apart from the opening song, this is basically one long piece divided into sections, an ever-changing & evolving meditation on war, displaced peoples, families shattered by corrupt governments, wrongful imprisonments, & torture. This impressionistic view is characterized through improvisation,dramatic change in dynamics, disparate imagery, ruined landscapes, & cities illustrated by Connelly's poetry.
DurtroJnana
CD
$16.00

De La Mancha
Atlas
PS, SWEDEN Goteburg, Sweden duo's debut full-length is a collection of exquisite shoegazing postrock drama. DLM was founded by childhood friends Jerker Lundh and Dag Rosenqvist, who shared a mutual admiration for groups like Red House Painters, Sigur Rós, Led Zeppelin and My Bloody Valentine. Atlas is the title of de la Manchas' debut album and it's an album full of contrasts and beauty. Clocking in at just over an hour, its nine songs ranges from moments of serene and hushed melancholy to distorted shards of pure white light. It's an album where words, voice and instrumental parts are interweaved into a beautiful fabric, filled with both light and darkness.
CryingBob
CD
$15.00

Dead Can Dance
Toward The Within (Remastered)
PS, US Originally released in 1994, this record was an audio document of the band's 1993 sell-out world tour. Recorded at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica, CA, in front of an invited audience at the conclusion of the tour, the shows were also filmed with the intent of releasing a long form concert film. Includes twelve previously unrecorded Dead Can Dance tracks as well as material from their six previous studio albums.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Spleen And Ideal (Remastered)
PS, US The primarily experimental structure of their second album, released in 1986, dispelled any notion that the band deserved the post-Gothic label slapped on them by the music press. "Spleen And Ideal" defined a new richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Aion (Remastered)
PS, US This 1990 release contains twelve songs recorded in Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's own studio in southern Ireland.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Spiritchaser (Remastered)
PS, US Their seventh studio album was released in 1996, and focused on the more percussive, tribal side of the group's music. It was their first studio album since 1993's "Into The Labyrinth".
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
The Serpent s Egg (Remastered)
PS, US Their fourth album, originally released in 1988. At the time of its release, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were in Spain writing and recording music for "El Nino De La Luna", a film in which Lisa also made her acting debut.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (Remastered)
PS, US Their third album, originally released in 1987. With record sales worldwide increasing, the band was reaching a wider audience than ever before.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
S-T (Remastered)
PS, US On their eponymous debut, released in 1982, they successfully harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion. Their range is staggering, as is their disciplined economy, with no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Dead Can Dance
Into The Labyrinth (Remastered)
PS, US This 1993 release saw Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard embark on individual paths. While this record of all new material was considered a commercial breakthrough (it was 4AD's best-seller at a million copies worldwide and counting), it was also their most divided. They both wrote songs independent of one another, on separate continents.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Deadbeat
Roots And Wire
PS, US DEADBEAT is Scott Monteith, a long-time Montrealer & recent Berlin ex-pat who has been releasing his own special blend of dub-laden, minimal electronics since 2000 for labels such as Cynosure, Musique Risquée, ~scape, & Spectral, to name but a few. His 1st full-length release for WAGON REPAIR here is aesthetically informed by his long term collaborative friendship w/ ROBERT HENKE (aka MONOLAKE), the close proximity of his fellow artists in Berlin & the opportunity to collaborate w/ PAUL ST. HILAIRE (aka TIKIMAN). It is no surprise that an album of such vast scope be largely inspired by the artist's own transition from Montreal-based producer releasing on Berlin label ~scape for 5 years, to Berlin-based producer releasing on a Canadian label. An uncanny logic is present throughout, weaving a fluid narrative from disparate influences & styles. Might just knock you off your seat.
WagonRepair
CD
$18.00

Deadbeat
Roots And Wire
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
WagonRepair
DLP
$21.75

Dear Nora
Three States: Dear Nora Rarities 1997-2007
PS, US Self-explanatory!
MagicMarker
DCD
$15.75

Dear, Matthew
Pom Pom
PS, US LIMITED TO 300!
Ghostly
10
$8.75

Deer Tick
War Elephant
PS, US New album from intriguing solo-acoustic troubadour dude. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, has been on a non-stop tour since graduating from high school in 2004. He often performs without amplification, delivering tunes with just his voice and guitar, an experience that gives his vocals the primal power of a turn of the (last) century mountain balladeer. McCauley's a singer/songwriter with finely crafted literary lyrics married to folkie melodies that sport influences from rock, blues, country, and pop, as evidenced by his cover of Anthony Newley's "What Kind of Fool Am I?." McCauley transforms the tune into a country waltz, straining to reach the high notes, replacing Newley's measured regret with desperation and agony, although the mood is broken by a goofy, loping instrumental bridge just before the last two verses. The rest of the album, originals penned by McCauley, is more straightforward -- tunes about lost love, loneliness, and heartache delivered simply, highlighting McCauley's emotionally charged, unadorned vocals."
Partisan
CD
$15.00

Deerhunter
Microcastle
PS, US VINYL VERSION. White vinyl with bonus CD which we assume is 'Weird Era Cont.'
Kranky
LP
$11.50

Detroit Cobras
Original Recordings Box (6X7")
PS, US The album of early, unheard & rare recordings presented as a 6 x 7" box set! Compiles their very 1st 3 7" singles plus NINE previously unreleased studio trks from the same era!
Munster
45
$65.25

Deupree, Taylor & Kenneth Kirschner
May
PS, AUSTRALIA May is the latest collaboration between New York composers Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner. Recorded on May 9, 2008 at the OFFF Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, the album represents the first available live recording of Deupree and Kirschner's concert performances. Continuing in the direction of their acclaimed post piano series, Deupree and Kirschner's live work explores the intersection between piano and state-of-the-art digital music technology. For this performance, Deupree and Kirschner took an even more experimental approach than they have in past concerts: sitting side by side at a single grand piano, they both played piano and both played laptop, with Kirschner playing the keys of the piano and Deupree directly manipulating the strings inside, even as they both shared the duties of electronic processing and sample manipulation. The result is a rich and complex mixture of digital and acoustic timbres that breaks new ground in their ongoing exploration of the role of the piano in contemporary electronic music. PRESS (on Landing) "'Landing' is but another crowning achievement for the master of micro-tonal beauty" - Gaz-eta "These are beautiful, delicate paintings in sound - evoking perhaps morning sun, bare trees and snow, in a rural winter landscape. These are the works of a sonic Hokusai." - Cyclic Defrost "...this enigmatic little disc takes us into some delightfully sparse arenas but, like walking on the edge of a glacier, it's the silence that seems to matter most." - Heathen Harvest
Room40-425
CD
$15.00

Dim Dim
Whip
PS, US Tossing fistfuls of guitar, ukulele, programmed beats, twisted synth & toy instruments into a blender, JERRY DIMMER hits "liquefy", & surfs the sonic mixture as it spills across his musical universe. Deconstructing all things known & leaving a trail of brightly colored debris, he has turned his back to the norm & rip-shredded a technicolored path to a genre unknown.
AudioDregs-072
CD
$13.25

Diplo
I Like Turtles
PS, US "Mad Greasy! Originally released as part of Pitchfork's mix series, DIPLO gives us the full length, hi-fi version of this mix. Has everything you could want in a mixtape - heaters, weirdness & tons of fun, all effortlessly mixed by the dino-man. Oh yeah, exclusivos too, like the Sizzla dubplate of M.I.A.'s "Bamboo Banger," Diplo's "Krispy" remix of the Bartman song, Diplo & Switch's "Solta Frango" w/ Beenie Man, y mucho mas. Artists incl.: Mr. Vegas, Bun B, Rich Boy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Schoolly D, Jellybean, Nirvana, Huey, DJ Tamiel, Queen, a Sandrinho remix of DJ Shadow... & that's only halfway through the tracklist. 39
tracks total. Highly recommended."-TURNTABLE LAB
MadDecent
CD
$8.50

DJ Olive
Triage
PS, AUSTRALIA Over the past two decades, DJ Olive has been a central figure in New York's diverse sonic underground. As a member of WEtm, DJ Olive created three stunning records that came to epitomize the Brooklyn Illbient explosion. In the 00s, Olive turned his ears to a range of other projects - joining forces with members of Sonic Youth in a range of experimental outings, improvising with some of the leading figures in Jazz including Uri Caine and Dave Douglas and starting the 'Roof Music' label the Agriculture. In 2001 he also commenced work on a series of 'sleeping pills' designed to create a deeply enveloping environment in which the listener becomes engulfed in an audio tint. The first of these editions published by Room40 was 'Buoy' (2004), followed by the aptly titled 'Sleep' (2006). The third volume is 'Triage' - a slightly darker and more densely textured work than its counterparts. The piece was initially exhibited in installation form at the year's Whitey Biennial and this published edition represents the soundtrack of the installation. Listen quietly. "This is a sleeping pill. Please listen to it quietly." - DJ Olive PRESS ON BUOY: What Buoy most simulates is that state of consciousness where sensations blurrily pulsate within a state of semi-consciousness and the usual lines of demarcation between activity within and without temporarily collapse; those gentle wave sounds, for example, might just as easily be seeping in through an open window as emerging within a fleeting memory trace. - Cyclic Defrost PRESS ON SLEEP: Sleep (which comes with the written instructions "This is a sleeping pill. Please listen to it quietly.") is designed to make you somewhat unconscious while striking you subconsciously, in your most impressionable state, through textured, filtered synths and graceful flourishes allegedly produced from a turntable. - TinyMixTapes
Room40-429
CD
$15.00

DNA
DNA on DNA
PS, US Previously available on CD by NO MORE Recs, now as a LTD ED 2LP vinyl - feat. 5 newly discovered songs exclusive to the LP. NYC's seminal No Wave band w/ this definitive collection of studio & live recordings. DNA formed in 1978 by singer/guitarist ARTO LINDSAY, & early on they received much attention after appearing on Eno's infamous 'No New York' comp. The legendary group, despite their short existence & lack of studio material, has influenced hundreds of artists since (from Sonic Youth to Blonde Redhead). This compiles all studio recordings & some choice live ones, incl. the original lineup's versions of several songs, unreleased studio tracks & live versions of unreleased songs. Excl. liner notes from Byron Coley, Jason Gross & Glenn O'Brien.
NoMoreRecords
DLP
$21.75

DNE
47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing
PS, AUSTRALIA Eugene Carchesio's renown as a visual artist has unjustly eclipsed his extraordinary output as a sound maker. Since the mid 80s, the Brisbane artist has steadfastly proliferated a sack full of barely released cassettes and cdr's under the D.N.E. moniker. Twenty years ago, he emptied his wallet to press 250 copies of the appropriately titled LP "47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing". Then compact discs arrived. The local pressing plant closed and the master tape went with it. Copies were circulated to friends. A handful made it to England. A copy did the rounds in Dunedin. And then suddenly, the clutch of remaining copies disappeared. To a small legion, 47 Songs became a coveted item, its whacked miniaturism a visionary jolt of intuitive post punk energy. A suggestion of Ayler, a Chadbournesque styling, a No Wave propulsion. This was not a jazz album! These were 47 small constructions. Sound diamonds. Songs. Not for human tongue, yet instantly humable. Acoustic, yet coursing with electricity. Currents of energy running through its veins. D.N.E. Spiritual genetics. Recorded in a frenzied three days on four tracks of cassette. The sum of parts. Twentythree plus twentyfour small explosions. WORDS (cont) This 20th anniversary reissue has been faithfully remastered from the vinyl, finally restoring this lost Australian classic. Out of the vault, onto disc, the sparks still flying! Leighton Craig, Brisbane, November 2008 PRESS (on Various t it les) "Eugene has released a sackful of barely released cassettes and CDRs under the D.N.E. moniker, consisting of some of the most waywardly original and exploratory music made in Australia." - Missing Link This is so beautiful I can barely stand it. There is a bit of a Jewelled Antler vibe here, but this trumps just about every great thing I've heard from that label. "Leaves" should be released in a much wider format. This is too amazing to go unheard by more people. This is Craig & Carchesio's masterwork, and will instantly give you the sensation that you are outside, breathing the delicious Australian air. Highly, highly recommended." 10 out of 10 - Foxy Digitalis
Room40-434
CD
$15.00

Dokkemand
Hons
PS, US Dokkemand is the alias of Marius Grøtterud Egenes, a Norwegian musician of destructive proportions. Also a prominent remixer, Marius has been leaving laptops in stitches as Dokkemand since early 2005. Walking the line between calculated restraint and frenzied, arcade-tronic attacks, his output reveals much about the importance of tension in composition. Broken-hip-hop beat collages accompanied by an orchestra of disheveled music boxes, somber, glitch-laden balladry, and minimal, warped ambience are all fair in this game. HØNS! is Dokkemand's debut full-length on Other Electricities, featuring contributions by Universal Records artist Kate Havnevik, legendary Cranes vocalist Alison Shaw, Laura Becerra (Carrie), Sarah Hellström (Lost Room), and Lars Wiik. Throughout, Marius utilizes his unique palette in varying configurations, creating rhythmic landscapes amply dappled with vocal-characters. Rounded out by manipulated samples - the commonplace rendered ethereal, this collection stretches perceptions and expectations alongside tones and timbres.
OtherElectricities-15
CD
$12.25

Dream Academy, The
Remembrance Days/A Different Kind of Weather
PS, US
Collectables
CD
$14.25

Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Special 180 gram, ultra-deluxe vinyl version packaged like a faux-leatherette, gold-embossed hardcover book, nay, it's BIBLE! Contains an exclusive track: "Junkyard Priest". LIMITED TO 5000!
SouthernLord
DLP
$25.00

Fireman
Electric Arguments
PS, US Mysterious duo of PAUL MCCARTNEY & YOUTH. The album's opener "Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight" is classic rock & an instant attention grabber. A heavy guitar riff w/ loud drums & soaring vocals. The second track, the acoustic driven "Two Magpies" immediately takes you in a different direction, calming things right down. Then we reach the third song "Sing The Changes," a euphoric upbeat song w/ an instantly memorable melody.
ATO
CD
$16.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars [deluxe edition] (ON SALE)
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" Deluxe edition DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film. Bonus CD is the film's soundtrack, which we think is all unreleased material. CD tracklist: 01 Once Beyond Hopelessness / 02 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part One / 03 The Horrors of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed / 04 In Excelsior Vaginalistic / 05 Your Spaceship Comes From Within / 06 Suicide and Extraordinary Mistakes / 07 The Distance Between Mars and the Earth -- Part Two / 08 The Secret of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World / 09 The Gleaming Armament of Marching Genitalia / 10 The Distress Signals of Celestial Objects / 11 Space Bible With Volume Lumps / 12 Once Beyond Hopelessness
Warners
DVD/CD
$24.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars
PS, US "A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips" DVD features the 86-minute motion picture, interviews with band members and a featurette called 'From Drawings to a Movie: Inside Wayne's Endless Yellow Notepad', which explores the genesis of the film.
Warners
DVD
$18.00

Flipper
Album - Generic Flipper [re-issue]
PS, US 1st classic record from the legendary San Francisco act, originally released in 1982. Post-hardcore? Post-punk? Art-rock? Despite being a part of SF's punk scene FLIPPER were really only punk in spirit, eschewing conventions & making no concessions. Sludgy, distorted, atonal, noise rock jams that sound as urgent & heavy as they must have 25 yrs ago. A huge influence on bands to come later like Nirvana & The Melvins.
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Gone Fishin' [re-issue]
PS, US Their 2nd & final studio album for the original lineup of San Francisco's legends FLIPPER. This was released in 1984 & took the "punk" tag to extremes, as no other band in the world was playing punk this slow, sludgy, dark & disturbed. Feat. the haunting "Survivors of the Plague" & the public incrimination of "Sacrifice," 'Gone Fishin' is an art-punk classic that holds up alongside their more heralded debut.
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Sex Bomb Baby [re-issue]
PS, US Another essential release from San Francisco legends FLIPPER. Originally released in 1987, 'Sex Bomb Baby' is actually a collection of material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, b-sides, & compilation trks. The single version of "Sex Bomb" is an all out clasic - a frenetic, yelping punk answer to "Louie, Louie" & the rest is no slouch either. Outrageous, harsh, sludge-punk from SF's finest. Back in print on CD for the 1st time in yrs!
Water
CD
$14.25

Flipper
Public Flipper Limited Live 1980-1985 [re-issue]
PS, US 2CD collection that was originally released in 1986 as a 2LP of live material culled from 1980-85. The sound quality & playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing & abrasive FLIPPER left no room for the middle ground of "like." The album title is a shot at John Lydon & his alleged plagiarism of Flipper's artwork for his own PIL & it proves that the band was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of San Francisco's most important post-hippy era bands.
Water
DCD
$17.50

Frances
All The While
PS, US FRANCES' debut full-length, is a perfectly realized expression of the band's genteel madness. It's experimental pop, dressed up in a top hat & tails.
GiganticMusic
CD
$13.00

Frightened Rabbit
I Feel Better
PS, US Very Limited!
FatCatRecords-047
45
$4.75

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

Funke, Sascha
Watergate 02
PS, US 2nd 'Watergate' mix CD installment. SASCHA FUNKE is an honest-to-goodness Berliner, & has played a significant role in molding & forming the Berlin techno scene since the mid-'90s. Here he delivers a mix that is 2nd to none in its musical diversity. At the same time, his personality shines throughout. Artists incl.: NATHAN FAKE, FOUR TET, ELLEN ALLIEN, MISS KITTIN, MAUS & STOLLE, THE MOLE, SASCHA FUNKE, ACID JESUS, TOBIAS THOMAS & SUPERPITCHER, CLOSER MUSIK, much more! Berlin's WATERGATE CLUB in Berlin has quickly become one of the world's leading dance music clubs. The club now goes a step further & releases a mix CD series delivering only the finest DJ mixes by some of club's most exiting residents & guests w/ the focus being put not only on the music but also on the packaging & design.
Watergate
CD
$18.00

Garrie, Nick
Twilight
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 725 COPIES. MYSTERIOUS, CULT SINGER/SONGWRITER EMERGES WITH CREAM OF SCOTTISH INDIE MUSIC SCENE TO RECORD STUNNING NEW MATERIAL... Just a couple of years ago 'lost legend' Nick Garrie entered a songwriting competition at a bar in London and, unsurprisingly, won. His prize - a website which allowed those very few select people who had been transfixed by his 'lost' classic album from 1969 to realize that he was very much alive. A clutch of record labels immediately got in touch and as a result The Nightmare of JB Stanislas, an album that had only ever reached the promotional copy stage at the end of the 1960s, was finally released in 2005 to widespread critical acclaim on the Rev-Ola label. A compilation of lost songs emerged on the same label the following year and Garrie played to adoring young fans in hip venues in Paris, Barcelona and in New York where he captivated listeners to college radio and the New York indie scene. Cut to 2008 and Garrie is introduced to fast-rising Scottish singer/songwriter Ally Kerr through Rev-Ola records's head honcho Joe Foster, formerly of Creation Records. After a series of phone conversations with Garrie singing new songs down the line, Kerr invites Garrie to come up to Glasgow to play at the club night he's resident at - Viva Melodia. Friendships are struck with other musicians including emerging alt-folk duo Doghouse Roses, culminating in the recording of five songs (with plenty of live takes) over just one weekend at Riverside Studios in Glasgow just a few months later. Fans and friends also involved in the recording process included Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits) on production duties with Duncan Cameron (Delgados, Travis, Trashcan Sinatras) engineering. Other players included brothers Brian and Jim McEwan and Stuart Kidd (all BMX Bandits / contributors to many Scottish indie bands and acts). The recording was emotional; the results were incredible with songs written from the heart, full of poignancy, purity and reflecting the life of this wandering minstrel. At their core is a brutal honesty, of someone writing in a way that is unaffected by trends. Being half Scottish (his mother was from Broughty Ferry) this was only his second visit to Scotland, the first had been when he'd come up to play just a few months earlier. In a way he'd come full circle and Garrie described this intense recording weekend in January 2008 as the best musical experience of his life. Listening to the songs one can hear just why...
Elefant-265
45
$7.75

Gentle People, The
Plastic City
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 525 COPIES. GENTLE PEOPLE vocalist Dougee Dimensional classifies "Plastic city" as a "hard-hitting postmillennial groove espousing the beauty of plastic surgery, collagen, and a little tuck behind the ear. 'You love the knife, it made your life, OH YEAH!'," while "Naughty Nauga" extols the virtues of a mischievous unidentified space creature..." Formed out of a nascent art collective of musicians, graphic designers, and gadabouts, THE GENTLE PEOPLE first offered up their unique style of subversive lounge music upon their arrival on the London music scene in 1993. Immediately garnering the interest of APHEX TWIN's electronica pioneer Richard D. James, THE GENTLE PEOPLE were kindly asked if they would issue their music on James' Rephlex Records. The band's first EP, "Journey", was released in 1994 to much critical acclaim, and its success would help foster a whole new genre of lounge "chill-out" music which is, still today in 2006, the soundtrack for hipsters throughout the globe, played in funky shops, restaurants, and chic bars forevermore. After a second hit EP ("Emotion heater"), the band released its first full length album "Soundtracks for living", (The disc was named Mixmag's LP of the month for January 1997). Three years later, riding the wave of their single "Groovin' with you", THE GENTLE PEOPLE reigned in the new millennium with their sophomore album "Simply faboo". Meshing lush dreamy vocals and strings with quirky electro and disco beats, the techno bubblegum feel of "Simply faboo" instantly became the pick of many hip sophisticates around the globe. In the years since Faboo, music from THE GENTLE PEOPLE has been featured on numerous chill-out compilations, including the legendary Cafe Del Mar, Big Chill, Radio Nova, and Danny Tenaglia's Back To Mine series. Tracks have also been featured on a variety of BBC television shows and in advertisements for Axe Deodorant and Kraft Cheese. Most recently, THE GENTLE PEOPLE have released a series of iTunes exclusive Compilation LP's and ep's "Galactic Confections" and " I love THE GENTLE PEOPLE" feature unreleased, new material, and remixes from some of the bands favorite musicians. THE GENTLE PEOPLE's unique "Glamour Pop" sound has been internationally celebrated and has led to remixes for Japan's PIZZICATO 5 and Towa Tei (DEEE-LITE), as well as guest appearances on releases by the FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE and MANSFIELD. Their works have also been remixed by the likes of APHEX TWIN and Luke Vibert, and most recently, by Eighteenth Street Lounge's recording artist URSULA 1000 and Nacional Records' THE PINKER TONES. THE GENTLE PEOPLE's celebrated live performances have been staged in such evocative venues as Berlin's Templehof Airport and even the fountains of London's Centrepoint Building, where a "gentle cocktail pool party" was held during the filming of the video for the "Simply faboo" track "Shopping world." Most recently, THE GENTLE PEOPLE found themselves in Russia performing at "Solyanka", Moscow's newest and swankiest nightclub. The band has also supported Japanese recording icon CORNELIUS, graced the main stage at the Sonar Music Festival in Barcelona, and appeared on the BBC's cult music show Beat Room.
Elefant-264
45
$7.75

Gentleman Reg
Little Buildings
PS, US W/ a voice from the heavens & an unforgettable look, GENTLEMAN REG has made fans of some of Canada's best talent, performing & touring w/ acts as Tegan & Sara, Broken Social Scene, Stars & The Hidden Cameras. In the U.S., he is best known for his contribution on the 'Shortbus' 2006 soundtrack, in which he made a brief cameo. As an introduction to his forthcoming 2009 full-length album, this long EP is a collection of some of his finest work from his previously released albums, as well as one never before released trk, entitled "Something To Live For." Fans of the Arts & Crafts roster will dig this!
Arts&Crafts
CD5
$6.50

Gilberto, Bebel
Tanto Tempo
PS, US With its inspired marriage of bossa nova & cool electronics, this acclaimed debut album has perfectly captured the mood of the times. Features collaborations w/ AMON TOBIN, MARIO CALDATO, CHRIS FRANCK & NINA MIRANDA, & THE THIEVERY CORPORATION.
Ziriguiboom/CrammedDiscs
CD
$13.50

Giraffes
Prime Motivator
PS, US The Giraffes were formed in 1998 in Brooklyn. Throughout the ten year history of the Giraffes, they have remained a genre defying mix of punk, heavy metal, classic rock and roll, surf guitar rock with echoes of Eastern European and Middle Eastern traditional music surfacing in their riffs. Prolific as they are destructive, these boys from Brooklyn have already released three full-length albums and two EPs as well as having toured with the likes of Eagles of Death Metal, Local H, The Means, The Vacation, Skeleton Key and others.
Crustacean
CD
$11.00

Golden Birthday
Infinite Leagues
PS, US GB overlay old, half-broken drum machines & effect-laden keyboards w/ satisfying yet simple guitar hooks to create warm, off-kilter pop on it's debut. Songwriter Ryan Sullivan hones his pop sensibilities while simultaneously utilizing more experimental recording techniques. This is honest music; not self-conscious in the least. RIYL: Mahjongg, Icy Demons, These Are Powers.
RainbowBody
CD
$10.50

Golden Birthday
Infinite Leagues
PS, US VERY LIMITED, CLEAR VINYL, ALTERNATE ART. GB overlay old, half-broken drum machines & effect-laden keyboards w/ satisfying yet simple guitar hooks to create warm, off-kilter pop on it's debut. Songwriter Ryan Sullivan hones his pop sensibilities while simultaneously utilizing more experimental recording techniques. This is honest music; not self-conscious in the least. RIYL: Mahjongg, Icy Demons, These Are Powers.
RainbowBodyRecords
LP
$13.50

Gomez (UK)
Bring It On: 10TH Anniversary
PS, US 10th yr anniversary celebrating the classic album 'Bring It On,' which has been remastered & expanded to incl. a 16-trk bonus disc feat. rare singles & BBC radio sessions, as well as the NME Radio Session Of The Year winner.
Caroline
DCD
$19.75

Gonzalez, Jose
Live At Park Ave
PS, US Limited edition live mini-album. A very special recording captured at Park Ave CDs in Orlando, Florida. Live takes on five songs from his latest album 'In Our Nature' as well as favorites from his debut album 'Veneer'. NINE TRACKS.
Mute
CD
$11.00

Grimm, Larkin
Parplar
PS, US LARKIN GRIMM is a force of nature, a self-made woman w/ an elemental voice from somewhere under the earth. Depending on her mood, she moans like a woman-in-full, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl. Born 26 years ago in Memphis, TN, to hippie devotees of the religious cult The Holy Order Of MANS, raised by multiple "parents" in the commune environment of the cult until age 6, she went on to study at Yale & has since become an international traveling nomad. The whole time she naturally developed into a gifted singer, fingerpicker, & multi-instrumentalist. Eventually, she was signed w/ YOUNG GOD Records & her album debut was co-produced by MICHAEL GIRA. This contains stellar vocal performances of songs that are soulful, whimsical, sensual, & bizarre. The production is as varied & unpredictable as Grimm herself. Guest musicians incl. Young God's new luminaries Fire on Fire, members of Boston's Beat Circus, Angels of Light & Old Time Relijun.
YoungGod
CD
$16.00

Group Inerane
Guitars From Agadez
PS, US By popular demand, this is the CD reissue of the 2nd Sublime Frequencies vinyl release (Fthree qLuTeDn LcPie srelease sold out almost immediately upon release in 2007). GROUP INERANE is the now sound of the Tuareg Guitar Revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert & inspired by the rebel musicians that started this music as a political weapon used to communicate from the Libyan Refugee camps in the 1980s and 1990s. Spearheaded by the enigmatic guitar hero Bibi Ahmed, the group has been together for several years & carries the rich tradition of Tamachek guitar songs for another generation. These 10 trks are a combination of amplified roots rock, blues, & folk in the local Tuareg styles, at times entering into full-on electric guitar psychedelia. Performed w/ 2 electric guitars, drum kit & a chorus of vocalists. All captured live in the city of Agadez in the Republic of Niger. The group was also feat. in the DVD 'Niger: Magic & Ecstasy in the Sahel.' Recorded by Hisham Mayet, this CD reissue incl. an 8-page insert w/ photos of the musicians & liner notes.
Sublime
CD
$16.25

Guitar
HoneySky [re-issue]
PS, US Available for the first time in the U.S. this album is considered by Michael Lueckner, one-half of Guitar, to be "the most straight shoegazer-style album Guitar ever did." It's tracks alternate between introspective laptop folk & full-on walls of layered guitar shoegazer bliss. SaltyKisses is also re-issued.
Clairecords
CD
$12.50

Guitar
SaltyKisses
PS, US First released (and available) only in Japan via the Third-Ear label, first time released in the U.S. SaltkKisses takes a pop approach to shoegaze (perhaps if Brian Wilson and Kevin Shields were one). This album will not disappoint fans of Sunkissed, released on Morr Music. HoneySky is also re-issued.
Clairecords
CD
$12.50

Hammers Of Misfortune
Fields / Church Of Broken Glass
PS, US San Francisco's HOM, currently one of the most praised acts in the metal underground, have tapped into something timeless, unique, & masterful since their inception in 2000. Their mix of traditional metal w/ NWOBHM, classic & obscure prog, '70s rock, & Broadway musical & theatrical elements has won the band critical acclaim for their previous 3 milestone releases. This is comprised of 2 distinct full-lengths, each w/ its own theme & aesthetic, packaged together & priced as a single album - finding the band heading in a new direction & recruiting new members along the way. LP vinyl coming soon!
ProfoundLore
CD
$16.00

Handsome Family
Drunk by Noon/Blizzard
PS, US First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, "Odessa" (1995), that has been covered by ANDREW BIRD, CERYS MATTHEWS (CATATONIA), SALLY TIMMS & JON LANGFORD (MEKONS), THE SADIES, and NORA O'CONNOR. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month after month. Side AA's "The Blizzard" is their EXCLUSIVE, sublime cover of the 1964 Jim Reeves countrypolitan classic. A sad, SAD story of a man whose love for his pony is stronger than his love for his
girl or even himself. Beautiful picture sleeve has 2 pieces of original Rennie Sparks art. Two aces!
CarrotTop
45
$4.50

Hank IV
Refuge In Genre
PS, US VINYL ONLY release, comes w/ free MP3 download code. A decidedly meaner, sharper, & more pummeling affair than their critically acclaimed debut, their 2nd album sports 11 songs in 30 scorched-earth mins. Recorded by TIM GREEN (The Fucking Champs) & mastered by BOB WESTON (Shellac). The rollicking San Francisco quintet's sound is a bit too wily & scrambled to pigeonhole as any one type of honk. Forward thinkers might tag 'em as panic-skiffle, combining the cunning & menace of compadres such as Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments or Country Teasers, w/ a dual guitar attack that nods toward the Bailey/Kuepperera Saints.
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Hello Seahorse!
Holy a Las Ocho
PS, US
MagicMarker
CD
$15.75

Holtkamp, Koen
Field Rituals
PS, US 1st solo album from member of ambient duo MOUNTAINS. Based in Brooklyn, he created the album slowly & as a love letter of sorts, taking in delicate field recordings & using them like faded photos, representing his distinct memories of the people & places he chanced upon. Taking cues from the classic ambience of Brian Eno, the contemporary cues of Stars of the Lid & fusing it w/ the instrumental subtlety of Sweden's Tape, each trk feels entwined in the next & feels like a part of something much bigger. Sure we've heard field recordings, synthesizers & guitars before, but rarely have these instruments been injected w/
such a lightness of touch & w/ such a delicate open ear. Each listen reveals more, like peeling back layers of onion skin.
Type
CD
$15.50

Holtkamp, Koen
Field Rituals
PS, US 2LP vinyl format. 1st solo album from member of ambient duo MOUNTAINS. Based in Brooklyn, he created the album slowly & as a love letter of sorts, taking in delicate field recordings & using them like faded photos, representing his distinct memories of the people & places he chanced upon. Taking cues from the classic ambience of Brian Eno, the contemporary cues of Stars of the Lid & fusing it w/ the instrumental subtlety of Sweden's Tape, each trk feels entwined in the next & feels like a part of something much bigger. Sure we've heard field recordings, synthesizers & guitars before, but rarely have these instruments been injected w/ such a lightness of touch & w/ such a delicate open ear. Each listen reveals more, like peeling back layers of onion skin. Incl. 2 vinyl-only remixes by AUBREY LOWE (aka ROB AA LOWE aka LICHENS) & XELA
Type
DLP
$22.50

Huntsville
Eco, Arches & Eras
PS, US 2nd album from this Norwegian trio, which is the follow-up to their highly-acclaimed 2006 release. In general, the HUNTSVILLE project contrasts sharply with their other collaborations/projects, & reveals a quite different, more groove-based approach w/ strong elements of composition & a curiosity to investigate country music, electronic music, as well as Feldman, Cage, drone & folk music. The 2nd CD is a recording from the concert they did w/ Nels Cline & Glenn Kotche (from Wilco) at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in '07. The group's multi-instrumentalism means that this is no conventional guitar/bass/drums trio - but w/ all players indulging in idiosyncratic devices, it's almost impossible to know who's producing what hauntingly unusual or strangely beautiful sound.
RuneGrammofon
DCD
$22.50

Ida
Tales of Brave Ida
PS, US Tales of Brave Ida is marked by spare yet clean production and is a stunning debut thatís an absolute essential for Ida fans one and all. Recorded in 1993, ToBI is a drumless effort featuring the duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell and was written during the time of Mitchell's collaborations with Lisa Loeb. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

Ida
Ten Small Paces
PS, US Ida's third record pieces together a scrapbook of an album, a total of 15 tracks recorded in almost as many places. Some four-track, some studio, and some bedroom tracks find their home on this beautiful album that led to Ida's work with Capital Records. Double gatefold 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
LP
$14.50

Ida
I Know About You
PS, US On their second full-length, Ida absolutely shines. The duo of Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell are joined by Michael Littleton (Blood on the Wall) on drums. IKAY finds Ida discovering the recognizable voice that has defined their 15-year career. Double gatefold 2xLP 180-gram vinyl with printed innersleeves includes digital download code.
Polyvinyl
DLP
$16.50

I'm Not A Gun
Mirror
PS, US Collaboration between JOHN TEJADA & TAKESHI NISHIMOTO - their 1st for the Tejada's PALETTE label. Their past INAG releases gained worldwide acclaim w/ their 3 albums for Berlin-based City Centre Offices (CCO). Tejada is an internationally-established electronic artist who has received critical acclaim the world over for his electronic & dance productions, while Nishimoto studied the classical tradition from some of the world's premiere guitar players such as James Smith, Scott Tennant, Bill Kanengizer, & Brian Head. He also studied unde jazz guitar legend Phil Upchurch. This project is an organic combination of a captured acoustic performance & experimental electronic composition
Palette
CD
$18.00

Ito, Hidenobu
Assemblage Funk
PS, JAPAN The innovator of the Japanese electronics scene drops his new album. He's also active in the minimal house scene world-widely but with this album, he uses 80's soul and funk elements and stirs up with his technical cut-ups to produce splendid sweet break beats music. Hidenobu produces music from the 90s and has released his 1st album on NS-Com (1999), and his 2nd on Flyrec (2002). After that he made two albums on his own Elegantdisc label and lead the domestic electronica/break beats scene from there. Assemblage Funk is his 5th album, which we have all waited for. He swallows 80's soul, R&B, disco and even hard rock music and covers it with sour & tender melodies of the synthesizers. The break beats are made up of his cut-up techniques derived from his long career that gives the piece the original funk sound appealing enough to not only break beats fans but to Balearic disco house fans and ghetto beats manias! And what more to watch out is the party killer tune "Paris Tokyo Connection" featuring the great rapper of TTC, The Cuizinier!! The artwork drawings are written by NA2ME, a spirited female artist.
WimmRecordings-08
CD
$16.25

It's A Musical
Music Makes Me Sick
PS, US Debut full-length release by Swedish/German duo, IT'S A MUSICAL (feat. ex-members of BOBBY BABY & LADY BOY). Bedroom pop songs w/ literally 4 hands on a keyboard, & two jubilant voices. These are voices that share equal space w/ each other, intertwining in stunning pop harmony, sung in English. "Lazy" begins as a melancholy piano miniature that expands into a grand, sweeping Burt Bacharach serenade. "Circus" feat. a waltzing organ & brass confidently bumps against a marching percussion in "Pain." So, what's this music about? Happy things, bad things, like The Carpenters or Jens Lekman - rough & subtle, virtuoso & amateurish, mischievous & angelic. Sincere, upbeat pop about having no money & having trouble making art.
MorrMusic
CD
$16.25

J.T. IV
Cosmic Lightning
PS, US Vinyl only release! The late John Henry Timmis IV was a genuine rock & roll madman! Though his music was energized by the punk & glam movements, John was beyond style, feverishly (and unknowingly) meshing punk & classic rock sounds with dark psychedelic touches. Cosmic Lightning is a barely-released slice of psychedelic punk from the 1980s, remastered for superior sound by Bob Weston IV. J.T. IV's LP package represents a once-in-a-lifetime experience of the artist - a thick LP sleeve with pasted-on artwork front & back, containing not only an LP & a double-sided insert of press clippings, photos & a letter from J.T. but also a DVD featuring a series of live & in-studio (or bedroom) performances.
DragCity/GalacticZooDisk
LP
$20.00

Jean on Jean
S-T
PS, US When Molly Schnick's longtime band OUT HUD broke up in 2005, she started from the beginning. Over the next three years, she developed the sound slowly, adding layers of strings, vocals, guitars, organs & percussion when appropriate. The results of her labors are the nine songs that make up the self-titled album. The sound is warm, lush & orchestrated, like Colin Blunstone's 'One Year' or Judee Sill's 'Heart Food'
KanineRecords
CD
$10.00

Joan of Arc
My Summer-Long High Wipeout
PS, US "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" is Joan of Arc at their best; "The Surrender" is an alternate version from the ones on JOA's latest full-length Boo Human; "A Man Needs A Maid" is a Neil Young Harvest cover. This 7" includes a digital download code for all three songs.
Polyvinyl
45
$4.00

Joe E
Love Got In My Way
PS, US A grandly groovy 70s discovery -- and long lost bit of mid-decade lounge sweetness with a melancholy underbelly from Joe E Neubauer -- a South Florida construction work, part time stock car racer, and nightclub singer! Love Got In My Way is ripe with blue eyed/polyester suit soul, post Nashville Sound era lushness, and the kind of endearing, boozy lounge songcraft that with one good stroke of luck could have gotten this guy into far greener pastures. Joe takes his craft seriously, but still seems the having a great ol' time out front on the tunes with his rich, charismatic vocals. The record was recorded at Ft Lauderdale's SRS International Recording Studios in 1974, which saw a pretty sizable number of famous artists in those days, and the production is quite elaborate -- with big string arrangements, lots of horns, female backing vocals, and all kinds of classy 70s sounds. Comes with a thick booklet of notes & photos, which make for a pretty fascinating story, but the songs and performance of the should-be famous Joe E are more than worth checking out! Titles include "Come On Sign", "Thinkin' About Me, Thinkin' About You", "Love Is Just A Feeling", "Mother Nature", "Love Got In My Way", "Find Your Place In Time", "A Table For Two For One" and more -Dusty Groove
Eabla
CD
$12.50

Jonquil
Whistle Low
PS, SPAIN Hailing from the musical city of Oxford, Jonquil have had a very prolific two years of existence that has resulted in two full length albums, both on Try Harder Records (Foals, Blood Red Shoes), and two self-released tour CDRs. Numbering six members and a far greater number of instruments (the usual guitar bass and drums plus accordion, flute, violin, trumpet, melodica, piano, organ...) Jonquil have moved on significantly from the noise-tinged avant-folk of their debut, Sunny Casinos. This new Mini-CD, the first non-album release of the band, sees Jonquil reinventing themselves as re-inventors of pop music, with moments of sublime melodicism set against dense polyrhythms that call to mind Animal Collective, Built to Spill, early Arcade Fire or Akron/Family, and some camp-side gathering, incorporating doo-wop, party horn arrangements and gentle balladry. "Whistle Low" was recorded initially by front-man Hugo Manuel in his bedroom and finished with the rest of the band over a two week period at the end of 2007, hot on the heels of their much lauded second album, Lions, which received glowing reviews in publications such as the Wire and Rock Sound as well as many of the world's most influential blogs such as 'My Old Kentucky Home', 'La Blogotheque' and 'Nothing But Green Lights'.
Acuarela-068
CD
$8.25

Killing Joke
Peel Sessions 79-81
PS, US Now, for the 1st time, 17 of the band's seminal live-in-the-studio radio sessions for the John Peel & Richard Skinner programs are being made available commercially. Feat. the classic KILLING JOKE line-up!
Mute
CD
$17.75

Kirschner, Kenneth
Filaments & Voids
PS, US A subdued chord, and a subsequent quiet. A hovering drone, followed by a compelling absence of sound. True to its title, Filaments & Voids is comprised predominantly by one or the other: by carefully constructed audio of lingering delicacy or by singular silences of ambiguous depth. Over the course of two discs and nearly two and a half hours of music, composer Kenneth Kirschner focuses the listener's attention on the silence inherent in his sounds, and the sounds implicit in silence. Like the night sky evoked by the album's title, the music heard on Filaments & Voids is a broad and dark space inhabited by dispersed and luminous materials. Filaments & Voids is a 2-CD collection of Kenneth Kirschner's music featuring liner notes by Disquiet.com's Marc Weidenbaum and photography by Taylor Deupree. Kenneth Kirschner was born in 1970 and lives in New York City; he releases his music freely online through his website, kennethkirschner.com. His work is also available on CDs such as September 19, 1998 et al. (12k, 2003) and Three Compositions (Sirr, 2006); his most recent release is May (Room 40, 2008), based on a concert with Taylor Deupree recorded live in Lisbon, Portugal.
12K-1050
DCD
$17.00

Klaus & Kinski
Tu Hoguera Está Ardiendo
PS, SPAIN The début album of Klaus & Kinski, the group led by Álex and Marina, settled in Murcia and recently winners of the Lemon Pop Festival demo contest. Beyond its sarcastic meaning, "Tu hoguera está ardiendo" ("Your bonfire is on fire") is a stunning and full of nuances record, that catches the attention of the listener from the beginning to the end, through its 14 songs (more than an hour long), a perfect description of the wide range of possibilities their repertory has. An album that, far from lengthy, turns out to be fascinating, like a path with plenty of different landscapes they travel, however, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Klaus & Kinski has the strange ability of pique the curiosity of everyone who notices them for the first time. And that is because both their name and songs titles, and now, the album title too, contribute to create that feeling. A calling that no matter the way it comes, never stays there. Because what really catch you from Klaus & Kinski is what is inside: their personality, their idiosyncrasy, and, above all, their songs. Compositions so full of emotions, common sense and honesty they may seem surprising, full of paths we have all walked around, that they come to look like maps. All that thanks to a personal mix of ingenuity and talent that flood their repertory, mainly pop, with delicacy to a lot of common styles, differing them from the rest of the indie Spanish bands. Like Marina says, who, when it comes to digression, describes as nobody does, "We like to be eclectic (that's what you say when you have no style or personality) covering from bolero to electronic music, bossa-nova, country-folk, melodic Italian songs from the 70s, 80s style and (kind of) standard indie music. We are influenced by My Bloody Valentine or Stereolab but we don't feel distant from The Beatles and The Panchos. Even sometimes people have related us with Shoegazer for our chronic nerve and grace on stage, creating a perfect expressive communication with our feet". The lyrics (signed by Álex, of course) and Marina's delightful singing style deserve separate remark. Like Marina herself tells, "Alejandro likes to hear what the songs say in my little voice." From the different themes they deal with, to the way the manage the stories they tell us, through their metaphors, the lyrics represents a main factor when it comes to explain the style of Klaus & Kinski. "Tu hoguera está ardiendo" collects a large part of the known repertory of this band from Murcia through their demos, and provides with two new songs composed for the occasion: "El Cristo del perdón", opening the album, and "Crucifixión, la solución". All of them recorded at the Arturo Vaquero's Abrigueiro Studio with the production of Álex Martínez, the real Klaus & Kinski jack-of-all-trades, who previously had composed, orchestrated and edited all the songs, combining real instruments (electric, acoustic, classic and bass guitars, synthesizers, percussion instruments, chimes, harmonicas from 1 euro shops...) with sampled instrument, and the inestimable collaboration of Daniel (guitar), Paco (bass guitar), Leandro (keyboards), all of them Martínez, and, of course, with the distinct voice of Marina Gómez Carruthers.
Jabalina-2044
CD
$17.75

Korine, Harmony
Collected Fanzines
PS, US Long out of print, Harmony Korine's 'zines are comprehensively collected in this new book. Full-color soft-cover edition featuring the eight fanzines in chronological order. Some of these Collected Fanzines were done in collaboration with Mark Gonzales. Harmony & Mark would go back and forth, trying to make each other laugh. They'd stay up for days writing poems based on the names of famous people like "Mae West go east."
DragCity
BOOK
$22.25

Ladyhawke
S-T
PS, US Full length debut from Ladyhawke aka Pip Brown from New Zealand. The album blends serious song crafting w/ elements of vintage pop, electro and rock. Or as Pip puts it: "I wanted to make music that could put a smileon people's faces and give them a feeling of nostalgia even though they may be hearing my songs for the first time."
Modular
CD
$11.00

Larsen
LLL
PS, US LP only live set released as a companion to Larsen's new full length. Features frequent collaborators JOHANN JOHANNSSON, BABY DEE & JULIA KENT. Material recorded live in Italy & Austria. LIMITED TO 500.
Important
DLP
$23.25

Larsen
La Fever Lit
PS, US Featuring legendary dub diva/post-punk- cabaret icon Little Annie a.k.a. Annie Anxiety a.k.a. Annie Bandez (CRASS, NWW, COIL, C93), La Fever Lit could be considered their most focused album yet, but at the same time it's also their most experimental & floating. Cinematic pop, illuminating rhythms, musical weightlessness, & the nocturnal noire narrative style of Annie Anxiety
Important
CD
$13.25

Laureates, The
There Are No More Gentlemen
PS, US Her Fiction, Your Filthy Eastern Ways, Nothing Is Perfect, It's Shattering, My Association, Tomorrow Today, A Novel Approach, Make You, Coronation Now!, I Wanna Miss You, Gentleman, Witching Boots, Furniture Moves. There Are No More Gentlemen was recorded and mixed by Mike Lust at Phantom Manor. Mastered by Carl Saff.
FunambulistRecordingCompany
CD
$10.00

Legendary Pink Dots
Chemical Playschool 8/9
PS, US 2xCD housed in a full color custom made book bound sleeve & printed inner sleeve. This documents the largely unseen universe of THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS between the yrs 1990 and 1995. History has been amended where necessary. The cast for this voyage: The Silverman, Niels Van Hoornblower, Edward Ka-Spel, Martijn de Kleer, Father Pastorius, Cevin Key, Elke Skelter, Raymond Steeg, Ryan Moore, Maria, a brass band & Calyxx.
Beta-LactamRing
DCD
$20.50

Longwave
Secrets Are Sinister
PS, US New album. The group's fourth full-length expands on their trademark sound: atmospheric, arena-sized guitars still build to an epic swell while the band's penchant for dreamy landscapes now gives way to an equally dynamic but louder, noisier, & more driving sensibility.
OriginalSignal
CD
$10.25

Lorna
Writing Down Things To Say
PS, US Signposts: Mojave 3, American Analog Set, Coastal, The Blue Nile. WORDS ON MUSIC is proud to present WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY, the third album by Nottingham, England's orchestral pop songsmiths LORNA. The quartet follow up their highly acclaimed 2005 record STATIC PATTERNS AND SOUVENIRS with another rare work that eschews convenient classification - embracing an expansive sonic palette without sounding eclectic (in no small part due to the dozens of instruments the band is able to skillfully perform and weave into the record's nine compositions). LORNA tours folk, old-time country, chamber pop, post-rock, and even avant-lounge on WRITNG DOWN THINGS TO SAY. But the genius of LORNA lies in the masterful (husband and wife) songwriting team of Mark Rolfe and Sharon Cohen-Rolfe. The duo have created an album unified in theme and texture by seamlessly cross-pollinating their songs with traces of all these musical genres - deftly bringing pedal steel, string quartets, harmonicas, vintage keyboards, and woodwind and brass arrangements into the fold - not to mention their sumptuous vocal harmonies. "Not In My Lighthouse" bustles with a warm bed of keyboards, on top of which Rolfe's gentle vocals casually flirt with alternating clarinet and flute melodies. This patient courtship builds to yield a wistfulness and exquisiteness once realized by Scotland's romantic perfectionists THE BLUE NILE. On "Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)" Sharon Cohen-Rolfe's voice is undressed to its poignant core - sheltered only by occasional strings and sparse acoustic guitar. The song is a stark interpretation of the 1993 SEBADOH composition - much in the way Ivo's THIS MORTAL COIL project breathed a fresh new atmosphere into the music of TIM BUCKLEY and ROY HARPER. "(I Wish I Knew) How to Build a House" employs a 7/8 meter to daringly bridge the intersection of post-rock and avant-lounge - perhaps having a conversation with AMERICAN ANALOG SET and STEREOLAB along the way. WRITING DOWN THINGS TO SAY is a record that rewards multiple listens, as the sundry instruments that are subtly and cleverly woven into the rich fabric of LORNA's songwriting surface and bloom.
WordsOnMusic-024
CD
$11.00

Los Soberanos
Fiesta Sin Fin
PS, SPAIN Many are the ensembles who try their take on the sound of modern grooves, but unfortunately very few really devote their time to find a refreshing and cheerful style. After a twelve-year uninterrupted career, LOS SOBERANOS, ultimate representatives of the party lifestyle, are still proud bearers of the flag of fun. For all these years, they've given heart and soul to cover other bands' hits and to recover the cream of Sixties music. "¡Fiesta sin fin!" their new album, brings a new step forward, including five infectious tunes of their own that will leave no one indifferent: "Guapa", "Pero te quiero", "Un hombre tranquilo", "La, La, La" (not to be mistaken with the Eurovision tune by Massiel) and "Siroco". The rest of the songs in the record, nine dynamic covers, frankly showing off their complete lack of pretentiousness and how they love to mess about. We find LOS SOBERANOS taking Manolo Díaz for a few drinks ("Bibí"), daringly having their take on a ballad by the great Rafael Martos "Raphael" ("Estuve enamorado"), paying tribute to their beloved BRINCOS ("Pareces gitana"), plunging headlong into the waters with MICKY Y LOS TONYS (No sé nadar"), vindicating LOS PASOS ("Nací de pie"), reminding us of a forceful tune by LOS HURACANES ("El calcetín"), deciding on Italian tonalities ("Il paradiso" by Patty Bravo and "Si chiama Maria" by the essential Pino Donnagio) and crossing the Pond together with Venezuelan band LOS SUPERSÓNICOS (¿Por qué te vas?). From day one you will have a crush on this album, until you become yet another Soberano.
Autoreverse -008
CD
$17.75

Love Is All
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (ON SALE)
PS, US A full three years since their debut (which was re-released a couple times and then remixed), the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids and a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy and music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep.
WhatsYourRupture?
CD
$11.50

Love Is All
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
PS, US A full three years since their debut, the fanciful-anachro-charm of Love Is All has matured with the marriage of several members, kids & a true appreciate that love is all. The new album harnesses the same raw energy & music which captured our hearts, but this time magnifies it through the complex emotions & experiences the band has struggled with. Years in the works, A Hundred Things is a record about excitement, frustration, regret, disappointment & figuring out what's important in finding the relief of the morning's light at the end of a bad nights sleep.
WhatsYourRapture-508
LP
$12.50

LSD March
Uretakumo Nakunarutorika
PS, US 1ST ED OF 500 copies in a full color custom made book bound sleeve & insert. The LSD MARCH hare hops its winding way through another Wonderland of its own making w/ a brand new kraut influenced album. These ever indefinable Japanese psych monsters have coughed up a syrup-soaked album of broken tribal psychedelia. Their distended view of plunderphonic percussion gurgles like a drum 'n' bass-jump into a vat of psilocybin wine... & then things get weird. This is twisted, groovy & trippy. Drumming the arrhythmic heart; such is the blurred journey of LSD MARCH. Some shapes fit together & some shapes are ghosts sneaking into the material world.
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$19.75

Makoto, Kawabata & Michishita Shinsuke
Sex, Voyage & Echo Chamber
PS, US Available in a full color custom made book bound sleeve. Acid. Meet LSD. LSD. Meet Acid. The reigning lords of the new psychedelic church cross guitars for a super-electric cosmic jam that causes even hurricanes to don ear plugs. More like the paintings of crazed banshees than songs, this shape-shifting set's loud-quiet-loud transforms the spaciousness of the axe duel into a growling canvas of thunder. Walls of feedback & distortion moan like sinking U-boats. Fuzzed tones collide into cavernous micro black holes that seem to engulf the Earth. Bigger bangs birth savage suns of massive noise. A fierce metallic martini, best taken shaken & stirred! Play loud!
Beta-LactamRing
CD
$19.75

Melvins
Senile Animal (4XLP)
PS, US Monster 4xLP, each LP features audio on Side A at 45RPM, an etching on Side B & is housed in a heavy weight full color innersleeve inside a custom designed badass jacket. COLOR VINYL.
HydraHead
LP
$58.00

Meyer, Bob
Threefold Return
PS, UK Bridging the great divide from South London to the Deep South, Bob Meyer is one of those individuals who, while showing no desire to crave the spotlight, assimilate and homage's his influences to emerge with statements of unadorned and unrelenting honesty. Sounding like they could be recorded in your front room, the songs on his second album, Threefold Return, intimately straddle anyone from Nick Drake to Blind Willie Johnson but what shines through is the man's honest and restless, questing musical passion. Bob's also a shit-hot guitar player, first picking up the instrument at the age of ten courtesy of his older brother, who built them. Maybe put off by his own left-handedness, Bob didn't touch a guitar again until the age of 31when he did a Hendrix by turning the instrument upside down along with his teach yourself handbook. Within a month he was writing songs, later recording his 2006 debut album All This Is That in one afternoon at the Chocolate Box in Wood Green - all tracks first takes with no overdubs. AmericanaUK described the album as, "Primordial blues, tough and dirty, that harks back to Robert Johnson's template and at times comes close to being as powerful. Meyer has a real feel for the music and delivers real blues in a classic style." Guardian Unlimited called Bob, "an extraordinarily talented acoustic blues guitarist, a man who sings like his heart is buried in a Mississippi swamps". Although the album didn't catapult him into a position to give up his day job as a truck-driver it paved the way for a second outing which throws out an uncanny timeline with America's 60s troubadours lashed with the stark guitar styling of the blues musicians he reveres, particularly Blind Gary Davies, Leadbelly and Son House. This blues fixation surfaces on tracks like Tilt and the stridently atmospheric I'm A Fool. Southwark Bridge recalls the drowsy observations of Nick Drake while As She Flows and When I'm Gone recall Greenwich Village singer-songwriters like the Tim Rose and Hardin. The most enthralling excursions are instrumentals like Rollin' Part 3 and stunning Fast River Of No Return which recall nobody so much as the late John Fahey, the mysterious American genius who revolutionized the six string steel guitar in the early 60s, inspiring names like Leo Kottke and Robbie Basho to develop their own individual styles.
MaliciousDamage-637
CD
$16.25

Mighty Underdogs
Droppin' Science Fiction
PS, US This hip-hop super-group is comprised of members of BLACKALICIOUS, QUANNUM PROJECTS, & CROWN CITY ROCKERS. Their DEF JUX debut feat. contributions from DJ SHADOW, MR. LIF, DAMIAN "JR GONG" MARLEY & MF DOOM. The album's other-worldly atmosphere is one where monsters have gun fights in old west towns, identities are kept secret as a principle, & not all super heroes' intentions are what they seem.
DefinitiveJux
CD
$15.00

Mikkel Metal
Peaks And Troughs
PS, US Copenhagen-based producer Mikkel Meldgaard's (aka MIKKEL METAL) 4th full-length release, & 3rd for the ECHOCORD label. Contains 11 brand new trks & 4 of them contain vocals by Berlin-based PAUL ST. HILAIRE (aka TIKIMAN) who is famous for his many productions w/ labels such as Rhythm & Sound, Burial Mix & Mainstreet. Mikkel presents his own unique style of dub - dark, seductive, & sometimes gritty, w/ the same measured & atmospheric attention to beats consistent w/ his previous releases. The stellar vocals by St. Hilaire seem more than a natural fit & a higher-level commitment to deep dubness that we all love.
Echocord
CD
$16.25

Minotaur Shock
Amateur Dramatics
PS, US Audio Dregs is pleased to announce the release of a longtime favorite from Bristol UK, Minotaur Shock; the musical side of David Edwards. There are currently 3 albums by him available, a compilation of old hits and some EPs out there, but this is his first stateside release now available on Compact Disc! How cool is that? "I'd describe Amateur Dramatics as school band meets Italo meets chamber music rubbing up on electro with a slice of acid, a sprinkling of minimalism and a short attention span. It's got saxophones, violins, clarinets and the insides of my grandma's mini-piano on it. It was influenced by many things, notably Fleetwood Mac, Detroit techno, Frank Zappa, Cluster, Andrew Poppy, Bowie, Italo house, Glass/Reich, Gentle Giant and Todd Rundgren. It was all written, arranged, recorded and produced by me mostly at home (occasionally in other people's houses). All instruments were done by me except clarinet, flute and saxophone which were played by the wonderful Emily Wakefield, and violin which was played by the excellent James Underwood of the Iskra String Quartet. Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner provided vocals for 'This Plane Is Going To Fall'." -David Edwards, June 2008
AudioDregsRecordings-073
CD
$12.25

Monsere, Annelies
Somewhere Someone
PS, BELGIUM Limited to 185. All copies hand-numbered, hand-stamped and have handwritten liner notes by Annelies. "Somewhere someone" consists of 6 previously unreleased songs. Five out of six are brand new and written right after recording "marit" - Annelies' second yet to be released full length. One was written a long time ago for her band Zent One, but, completely reworked for this release. She recorded these songs over a short period of time in 2008 on an eight track cassette recorder at home. This EP features a Hammond organ for the first time. This instrument led to new approaches in songwriting. This release deviates clearly from previous releases, with a darker and harsher sound. Lyrically, these songs all touch the theme of absence, though this was not a conscious starting point. About Annelies Monseré: Annelies Monseré is a multi-instrumentalist from Gent, Belgium. Her debut record came out in 2005 on Bluesanct records. During a four-year stay in the Netherlands, she toured Europe and the US and played on festivals like Tanned Tin and Primaverasound, leading to high expectations for her second record, due for release later. In the meantime, she has released several well received collaborations, with diverse artists as Jessica Bailiff, dREKKa and Birch Book.
Morc-49
45
$8.25

Music Lovers, The
MasculineFeminine
PS, US 'Masculine Feminine' is the third long-playing record from acclaimed San Francisco-based pop-sophisticates The Music Lovers and the pinnacle of their artistic endeavors. The Music Lovers are led by transplanted Englishman songwriter Matthew Edwards. Edwards refers to 'Masculine Feminine' as his own personal 'Day of the Locust', a travelogue through the underbelly of the almost-famous doyens of LA and San Francisco. Like a toxic Graham Greene on a tear, Edwards speaks of motels, love-affairs, addictions, vamps and ingénues, pausing on occasion to look back on a half remembered England and wonder what went wrong (or right)? These are desperate songs born of need and frustration, but never dreary, never self-pitying. Rather, they show a formidable spirit of abandon - an abandon to the pop aesthetic; saddling the darkest sensibilities and wickedest proclivities to the sweetest pop-song frame-works. The music? The girl-group sound on a dreary Tuesday morning in 1976... quietly exultant on a radio in Birmingham. Serge and Stax and The Go-Betweens and Dusty and Lerner and Lowe, dammit! If David Goodis had written lyrics for Carole King they might have sounded a little like this record. Yes, they are all 'love songs' but not only to people, but places, states of mind and to divine release. 'Masculine Feminine' is battered, inebriate, sensual and defiantly and unfashionably romantic! Praise for The Music Lovers: "Gin-spritzed string arrangements and cocktail-bar melancholy, [that comes] off like a Rat Pack version of Lloyd Cole." - WORD "Hints of '60s AM-radio fodder regularly poke through the creamy, dreamy layers of piano, acoustic guitar, concertina, strings and mellotron, and the results are seductive." - MAGNET "The Music Lovers sound is lush and voluptuous, making me think of clouds and rain, strings and guitars, both orchestral and earthy, akin to the sublime pleasure of holding your head in my lap, oh my beautiful one." - comedian MARGARET CHO
LeGrandMagistery-046
CD
$12.25

Mystery Girls, The
Incontinopia
PS, US New album. Wisconsin's Mystery Girls were mere teenagers when they started out. Now in their early/mid-20s, the boys (er, Girls) have delivered their most cohesive work yet on their third album, Incontinopia. It's unclear what Incontinopia means but it's a good bet that copious amounts of marijuana smoke were involved in choosing it. Ha!
InTheRed
CD
$14.25

Mystery Girls, The
Incontinopia
PS, US Vinyl version.
InTheRed
LP
$10.50

Nerves, The
One Way Ticket
PS, US "Their bare, skeletal sound made every lick seem memorable. They excelled in energy.
People compared them to the early Beatles or the Dave Clark Five." - Kenneth Funsten.
Formed in 1975 by guitarist JACK LEE, bassist PETER CASE, and drummer PAUL COLLINS, the Nerves are one of the most influential garage/punk pop outfits to come out of the mid-70's LA scene, and certainly one of the least documented... until now. Mostly remembered for their classic "Hanging On The Telephone," a Jack Lee composition which has been covered over the years by a myriad of artists from BLONDIE to L7 to CAT POWER, the Nerves were above all a high energy rock'n'roll band with all three members composing and singing. Playing fast, ear-catching garage pop songs, sometimes wearing matching suits, the trio had more than a bit of the stripped down street energy of the Los Angeles's early punk movement. They shared the stage with the Ramones and Mink Deville during their infamous US "Magical Blistering Tour," played the Punk Palace and the legendary Masque in Hollywood, and headlined shows with the Avengers, the Zeros, The Dils, The Screamers and Shock, to name just a few. After the band's break-up in 1978, Peter Case and Paul Collins formed The BREAKAWAYS, and later went on to front the legendary PLIMSOULS and The BEAT, respectively. Following the success of "Hanging On the Telephone," JACK LEE has mostly focused on his songwriting career, releasing an album in 1981. Both Peter and Paul are still recording and touring. PETER CASE's latest album "Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John" (Yeproc 2007) was nominated for a Grammy. This collection, authorized for the first time ever by the three band members, features the band's 1976 EP (now regarded as a power pop classic), as well as demos and previously unreleased live recordings, REMASTERED and complete with notes and photos. The CD is a Digipack. Track listing : 1. One Way Ticket 2. Paper Dolls 3. Hanging On The Telephone 4. When You Find Out 5. Working Too Hard 6. Give Me Some Time 7. Walking Out On Love (Breakaways) 8. Thing Of The Past (Plimsouls) 9. It's Hot Outside (Jack Lee) 10. Many Roads To Follow (demo) 11. Are You Famous? (live) 12. Why Am I Lonely? (live) 13. You Won't Be Happy (live) 14. Any Day Now (live) 15. Letter To G. (live) 16. Come Back And Stay (live) 17. I Need Your Love (live) 18. Stand Back and Take a Good Look (demo) 19. Are You Famous (demo - CD only) 20. Letter To G. (demo - CD only). Produced by The Nerves
AliveRecords-
CD
$20.00

New Order
Technique [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1989 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with nine non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, and Brotherhood.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Brotherhood [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1986 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. BROTHERHOOD is a document of growth for New Order's ever-expanding sonic landscape. Packaged in the stark, utilitarian style that was the Factory label's trademark, the album belies its minimalist presentation with a sprawling, intricately crafted collection of pop gems, inspiringly diverse, yet uniformly infused with the band's trademark sincerity and off-kilter melodic sense. The album opens with the deceptively straight drum hits of "Paradise", which quickly adopts an intense double-tracked vocal and with it, an air of danger that offsets its soaring melody. New Order developed into masters of intellectually stimulating dance music, an elusive combination of qualities. The album's biggest hit "Bizarre Love Triangle" exemplifies this rare mixture--atop a throbbing, heavily sequenced dance beat is played out a drama complete with consistently engaging musical shifts, dramatic lyrical turns, and a chorus that's instantly memorable and nothing short of gorgeous. The wistful vulnerability of "All Day Long" dissolves into a sprawling, regal affair and the supremely sweet "Every Little Counts" show yet another dimension to New Order's sonic richness.
Rhino
CD
$23.00

New Order
Movement [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1981 album, includes 10 non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, including their debut singles/EP. After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making. Also similarly re-issued: Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Power, Corruption & Lies [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

New Order
Low Life [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album, includes eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. With LOW-LIFE, New Order truly hit their stride with their highly individual combination of infectious rhythms, inventive composition and performances full of conviction. The vulnerable lyrics and earnest delivery of Bernard Sumner are in top form; his voice is at last a completely developed instrument, clear and comfortable as it wraps itself around such memorable tracks as the opening "Love Vigilantes", a solid, purely guitar-driven narrative. Following immediately and in sharp contrast is LOW LIFE's biggest success, "The Perfect Kiss", a sequencer-fueled dance classic which boasts what is undoubtedly pop music's only frog sample solo. "Sunrise" has an epic feel, filled with driving leads and Sumner's signature scratchy, frenetic rhythm playing. The album takes a serene turn on "Elegia", a beautiful, airy composition of echoey guitar lines and swirling synth textures. Also similarly re-issued: Movement, Power Corruption & Lies, Brotherhood and Technique.
Rhino
DCD
$23.00

Nodzzz
S-T
PS, US The group's self-titled debut is a grower, with ten new songs in a markedly more pop direction than their 7". You can hear the simple American pleasures of baseball, road trips & late summer within, plain as day within this record. More specifically, you can hear three guys examining where punk became something more, between notions of power pop & advanced songwriting on the Embarrassment/Big Dipper/ Pointed Sticks axis, but with the economy of the Minutemen or Beat Happening. They're in & out before you know it, having firmly planted the seeds of catchy melodies between your ears. On Tour throughout Nov '08 with Love is All & Vivian Girls .
WhatsYourRupture
LP
$12.75

Plagenhoef, Scott and Ryan Schreiber
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present
PS, US The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present, by Scott Plagenhoef and Ryan Schreiber. Pitchfork offers up their take on the 500 best songs of the past three decades. Focusing on indie rock (Arcade Fire, The Shins), hip hop (Public Enemy, Jay-Z), electronic (Daft Punk, Boards of Canada), pop (Madonna, Justin Timberlake), metal (Metallica, Boris), and experimental underground music (Suicide, Boredoms), it features all-new essays and reviews written with the sharp wit and insight for which the site is known. Kicking it off in 1977 with the birth of punk and independent music, The Pitchfork 500 runs chronologically, with each chapter representing a distinct period and offering a narrative of how the musical landscape of the day influenced its artists. The book opens with David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Kraftwerk, and Brian Eno, the "art-rock godfathers" who set the tone and tenor for the next thirty years, and wraps up in the present, when bands connect with new audiences through social networking sites and prime-time TV placements -- and when a single mp3 can turn a niche indie artist into a global sensation. Sidebars like "Yacht Rock," "Runaway Trainwrecks," "Nanofads," and "Career Killers" call out some far-from-classic musical trends and identify the guiltiest offenders. Softcover, 224 pages.
FiresideBooks
BOOK
$13.00

Pleasant Dreams
Podría Ser Hoy
PS, SPAIN Despite being young, Spanish band PLEASANT DREAMS have been working towards their debut album for several years. Honing their songs and playing sporadic word of mouth gigs they sent out demo after demo before a chance encounter between the band and Green Ufos on MySpace convinced the label that they had discovered one of the Spanish music scene's brightest hopes for the future. Led by Juanjo Clausell, the band plays a gorgeous style of pop influenced by bands like Belle & Sebastian, The Ladybug Transistor, Norkfolk & Western, and Bright Eyes. Singing in their native language, they are being favorably compared in the press to influential and leading artists in the Spanish scene including Family, La Buena Vida, Lori Meyers, Nacho Vegas or Refree. The songs by PLEASANT DREAMS are full of arrangements (cellos, violins, violas, trumpets,...) but they are essentially catchy pop gems that immediately lodge themselves in your head. Some of the songs are positive and "up" whilst others reflect the difficulties of being a young pop lover fighting against the tide of this modern society with its uniform music, dress, clubs, etc. Despite being a debut album, it has great maturity and all the songs are truly memorable. Only one remains from the original demos that the label heard, all the rest being new material specially written for the album. Produced by Spanish production guru Paco Loco, the artwork of the album is by Vanesa Zafra, who has also worked for the Lori Meyers. The album comes in an attractive digipack.
GreenUFOs-032
CD
$16.25

Port Royal/Absent Without Leave
Magnitogorsk Split
PS, GREECE Limited to 500. Special packaging. Individual nature/landscape color print on each heavy brown cardstock container. Velum insert. Full color print on CD face. 8 exclusive new tracks, 4 tracks per artist. Each artist contributes 3 new unreleased tracks and there are also 2 collaborative tracks. In fact, these are two remixes as each artist has remixed an older track of the other artist. The split is packaged in a recycled cardboard with the front cover image printed on photo paper! It's a limited edition of 500 hand-made collectable copies and there is a total of 50 different front cover photos (10 copies with each photo). Each cd comes with a tracing (transparent) paper insert including the tracklist and the credits too. TRACKS: 1.port-royal - Ernst Bloch 2.port-royal - Agent 008 Codename Littlehorses (Aka The Lazybones) 3.port-royal - Severnaya 4.port-royal - Zobione Pt.2 (Absent Without Leave Remix) 5.absent without leave - On A Carousel 6.absent without leave - My Music Is Still Sad Though I Found My Happiness 7.absent without leave - Evening Walks 8.absent without leave - Blind (Port-Royal Remix)
SoundInSilence-004
CD
$16.25

Psychatrone Rhonedakk
American Primitive Electronics
PS, US A collection of tracks that are influenced by classic electronic musicians from the 1960's & 1970's. From Lucifer's "A Black Mass," Tonto's Expanding Headband, & the Dr. Who soundtrack,- all the way to Brian Eno, & early 1970's Tangerine Dream, this CD is a compilation of cuts from Psychatrone's early cassett & CD-R releases that filters all those influences into a psychedelics tinged, si-fi, fun house mirror of looping & overdriven warm analog sounds.
BlackPlastic
CD
$7.00

Radius
Neighborhood Suicide
PS, US RADIUS (aka Ramon Norwood) is a Chicago-based instrumental hip hop electronic musician/producer/DJ who has received much attention & comparisons to J.Dilla & Pete Rock already w/ his official debut on Chicago's own TSLOS label. Funky bangin' drums, jazzy riffs & pensive strings set the stage for this thematic tour of different neighborhoods of the city of Chicago. Fans who dig the early work of DJ Shadow, Premier, RZA, Eliot Lipp, Blockhead, Fourtet etc. should definitely snatch up this underground gem! Comes in multipanel CD digipak w/ notes by the artist about his inspiration for each song. "What's more important to the listeners at large is a tight overall sound - & on that note Radius is just as successful! The drums & beats, elements of strings, keys & other elements bring mood & drama, & the energy remains throughout. Strong stuff!"-DUSTY GROOVE.
TheSecretLifeOfSound
CD
$9.00

Red Fang
S/T (First 2 EP's)
PS, US 4 of western America's premier heavy rock & roll players in a band that's part Big Business plow, part Blue Cheer abandon, & several parts colossal metallic Portland spastic thunder. Feat. members of LAST OF THE JUANITAS, FACEDOWNINSHIT & TRUMANS WATER. Heavy, but smart, weird & cool. Contains both of their 1st CD-only (until now) EPs & one unreleased bonus trk. Video recently feat. on Pitchfork!
WantageUSA
LP
$12.50

Rigil
Concertina Heart
PS, US Once in a blue moon there comes an artist with such brightness and abundance of talent that they can't be ignored. 20-year-old Rigil is certainly this rare gem. His debut album 'Concertina Heart' is completely unexpected; far from mundane yet so familiar. The ten tracks of Fennesz-tinged ambient-pop chart across longing, love, loss and wonder with such infectious brightness you can't help but smile.
Dynamophone-011
CD
$13.00

ROM
Foot Signal
PS, JAPAN A rich combination of beats & melodies. 2nd album by duo project of Prefuse 73's collaborator Epstein aka Roberto Range and drummer Matt Crum! Broken gears and stolen instruments - ROM takes these equipments and produces heart-vibrating melodies and crispy beats freely with a refreshing taste, After their more break-beaty 1st album "ROM", Roberto has collaborated with Prefuse 73 and such and delivers this 2nd full album. This 2nd album entitled "Foot Signal" is a beautiful example of organizing a minimal band in a modern sense - Multi performances of acoustic and electronics including the laptops as a duo is perfectly accomplished here. The beat approaches evolved from projects like Epstein and Boom & birds, the duo's musical roots; guitar sounds and a bit strange yet charming tones from the laptops chaining almost non-stop. The ensemble which is a mere adaptations of the "post-rock method" and the energetic flow of the instrumental beat music weaves into fresh, developing and creative sounds. You can also feel the warm psychedelia which you could hear on Prefuse 73's "Preparations / Interregnums". An outstanding album including the brilliant recording and mix by Jim O' Rourke's favorite pupil Jeremy Lemos (White/Light).
WimmRecordings-07
CD
$16.25

Saint Etienne
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne
PS, UK DISC ONE: 1. Only Love Can Break Your Heart / 2. Nothing Can Stop Us / 3. Join Our Club / 4. Avenue [Edit] / 5. You're in a Bad Way / 6. Hobart Paving / 7. Who Do You Think You Are / 8. Pale Movie / 9. Like a Motorway / 10. Hug My Soul / 11. He's on the Phone / 12. Sylvie / 13. Heart Failed / 14. Action / 15. A Good Thing / 16. Side Streets / 17. Burnt Out Car [Xenomania Mix] / 18. This Is Tomorrow / DISC TWO: 1. Kiss and Make Up / 2. Filthy / 3. Spring / 4. People Get Real / 5. Mario's Cafe / 6. Goodnight Jack [Original 1998 Version] / 7. The Bad Photographer / 8. Lose That Girl / 9. Lover Plays the Bass / 10. How We Used to Live / 11. Boy Is Crying / 12. Finisterre / 13. Soft Like Me / 14. Shower Scene / 15. Stars Above Us / 16. Teenage Winter / 17. I Was Born on Christmas Day
Universal
DCD
$27.25

SCSI-9
Easy As Down
PS, US 3rd full-length release from Moscow's SCSI-9, a minimal techno/house act w/ past releases for Salo to Force Tracks, Trapez, Tyrant & beyond. These lads have captivated DJs and dancefloors around the world with their remarkable ability to construct an uplifting, emotive mood fuelled by the pulse of the unprejudiced, techy beat. This puts forward a fantastic cluster of dimension & depth to an overpopulated world of disposable, faceless music that exists in minimal techno currently. Here they invited some live musicians capturing a classic deep house sound, while pursuing a more scientific & modern approach & still worshipping the beauty & spirituality of the old school.
Kompakt
CD
$16.25

Secret Society, The
I Am Becoming What I Hate the Most
PS, SPAIN Three years have passed since Sad Boys Dance When No One's Watching, the first album from The Secret Society, came out. That was an important work for Pepo M. (actually the only permanent member behind this changing society that has been visited randomly by people like Frank Rudow of Manta Ray and JR, or Remate, and that it's always ready to admit submissions) for several reasons: it ended up being the Best Spanish Album of 2005 for Go! one of the most important music magazines in Spain, ahead of people like Nacho Vegas, Enrique Morente or Sr Chinarro; it obtained really surprising and moving reviews on international magazines like Rolling Stone, Les Inrockuptibles, Uncut, Rif Raf, as well as on fanzines that document the cultural underground; it made thousands of miles playing, Pepo alone or with their long time mates Andrés Perruca on drums and Javier Vicente on guitar, lapsteel and piano; together they visited several times the most important cities in Spain, they visited Portugal, Austria, Russia, France or Belgium; they shared vans and stages with bands like Arab Strap, Xiu Xiu, Dominique A, Magnolia Electric Co., Tara Jane O'Neil, Destroyer, or Frog Eyes to name a few; they played at important festivals such as Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, FIB at Benicassim, Tanned Tin, Avant Festival in Moscow or South Pop Festival. This is October 2008 and The Secret Society has their new ammunition ready to launch, hidden in one of those long and intriguing names so beloved by Pepo: I Am Becoming What I Hate the Most. So explicit, so fast: 10 songs in 35 minutes. Be ready those who have to be ready because this album is not, by any means, another album. It is not a sequel. It is not an easy work. It is not a folk album. This is not an adult album, not a fussy album, not a self-assuring album. I Am Becoming What I Hate the Most is an album that goes way beyond. It has rage, obscurity, sadness, doubts; it is winter and summer all together. It's really shocking to find a record with so many details in so few minutes. It is also a surprise: five out of ten songs are sung in Spanish, hidden under English titles. A way of writing without impostures, direct and true. Probably the best way for Pepo to join with honors in the Spanish singer- songwriters club that started writing in English before they find the guts to express themselves I their native tongue. In this transition to normalize its own vision of music, The Secret Society hands this unique gift to us. And I Am Becoming What I Hate the Most is such an honest album that listening to it makes you feel dirty and, no doubt about it, will bring Pepo and his mates to places they still don't know; they will play again with bands they love, and they will meet again a bunch of people, emotions and satisfactions. All with a sense of unimportance and true love: just like the most important things in life, the ones that last forever.
Acuarela-1084
CD
$13.50

Sedgwick, Edie
Things Are Getting Sinister & Sinisterer
PS, US "Edie Sedgwick" - the nom de plume JUSTIN MOYER (EL GUAPO, ANTELOPE) swiped from a forgotten Andy Warhol Superstar -became a vehicle for new songs, songwriting, & video art about mainstream celebrity culture. LP only release includes MP3 code.
Dischord
LP
$12.00

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (Deluxe Book w/ CD & Exclusive DVD)
PS, ICELAND This special edition contains: Med sud à eyrum vid spilum endalaust CD & Vid spilum endalaust DVD 200-page book of full colour large format fine art photography Unique and exclusive 16mm film strip taken from the Gobbledigook video
SR
DVD
$86.50

Smashing Pumpkins
If All Goes Wrong
PS, US Two-DVD set culled from hundreds of hours of footage & featuring a two hour concert full of rarities from throughout the band's entire career to date along with a number of new compositions not available anywhere else.
ComingHomeMedia
DVD
$20.50

Smiths, The
Sound of the Smiths (Remastered)
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$17.00

Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek
Draw
PS, BELGIUM Machinefabriek has joined forces with Soccer Committee's Mariska Baars on a multitude of previous albums and EPs, but nothing has come close to the sheer force of "Drawn." Baars' bare-bones songs of lament and longing are taken apart and reassembled by Zuydervelt's capable hands. The result is stunning. "Drawn" skirts the line between fractured folk music and drone, never settling into one facade. Through Zuydervelt's production work, "Drawn" sounds like a dusty, unearthed gem found tucked away in the darkest reaches of an abandoned basement. This is music that is timeless. Gentle acoustic guitar plucks and soothing harmonium tones work magically to highlight the brightest star on the album: Baars' fragile, beautiful voice. She is in magnificent form, pulling emotions from the depths. Not to be overlooked are the flickering samples of Franz Hautzinger's mournful trumpet. This is music for the ages. Baars & Zuydervelt have made a magnificent album that will leave its mark and haunt you long after it ends. It really doesn't get much better. About Soccer Committee: Soccer Committee likes the act of endlessly zooming in on a particular sound and to follow its path to the point where it becomes totally inaudible. Her debut album 'sC' came out out morc in may 2007. About Machinefabriek: Machinefabriek makes electronic (nonlaptop) music ranging from drones to melodica songs and from classical ambient to harsh feedback noise. Rutger was called one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine and with 60+ releases in just a few years, is definitely one of the most prolific ones.
Morc-51
LP
$17.75

Southern Arts Society
Burning Sound
PS, SPAIN After a bedroom produced debut album released in 2005, SOUTHERN ARTS SOCIETY, the project of ex A Popular History of Signs leader Andy Jarman, has gradually developed into a stable band with four established members. This maturing process has been a key element in creating an organic sound which has led to what is undoubtedly the best album in a personal musical adventure going back over two decades. Apart from the fact that the album includes guest vocals by Gary Olson from The Ladybug Transistor, Roger Quigley from The Montgolfier Brothers / At Swim Two Birds, and French chanteuse Françoiz Breut, it is quite simply a superb collection of songs. Tindersticks, the Go Betweens, Wilco, Deus, Nick Cave, Divine Comedy, Calexico, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra... All these names could be traced in the music of this Londoner based in Seville (Spain) and his band. The album has a cool stylish sound, mixing guitars, piano, and strings with hints of electronica. There are flashes of intensity that explode in songs such as Satellites and Shooting Stars which features Spanish production guru Paco Loco on typically untamed guitar. The songs unfold with one hit following another. Just the demo version of opener "The Window" has been played repeatedly on Spanish national radio. Andy has never sung better whilst the rich tones of Roger Quigley captivate the listener on "Religion", which is immediately followed by the atmospheric trumpet arrangements of Passing Through. "The Fall" features the wonderfully evocative voice of reclusive Spanish singer Muni from The Maddening Flames. Another highlight in the middle of the album is French chanteuse Françoiz Breut singing Landlocked Sailor, a story of mariners from the bankrupt Russian fishing fleets who are marooned in the Canary Islands. Next comes the powerful of "Satellites and Shooting Stars", followed by the immediately catchy groove of "This Town". Finally, to close the album, the majestic baritone of The Ladybug Transistor frontman Gary Olson singing "Day in September". Then it's back to the beginning to play the album once more, because you'll need to listen to these fantastic songs time and time again. The cover of "Burning Sand" is inspired by the Republican propaganda posters from the Spanish Civil War, and reflects Andy's fascination with this tragic but emotive time in our history.
GreenUFOs-036
CD
$16.25

Speedmarket Avenue
Don't Fall In Love
PS, SPAIN Red vinyl. LIMITED EDITION 725 COPIES. "Don't fall in love" is the second single taken from "Way Better Now," the second full-length album of SPEEDMARKET AVENUE. The self-titled and previous released song of the album has turned itself into a total international indie-pop hit. Steve Lamacq chose this tune as single of the week on his BBC program and music journalists riddled the album with praise as it counted on the magic and wisdom of Jari Haapalainen (Producer of ED HARCOURT, THE BEART QUARTET, THE CONCRETES and CAMERA OBSCURA among others), although to have such a well-rounded full length, it is very important to have terrific songs and SPEEDMARKET AVENUE has plenty of them like the one which is the protagonist of the new single. "Don't Fall in Love" is an instant classic, a short traditional song, the perfect pop tune with a contagious verse and a dazzling chorus. It comes so close to the in love and out-of-love music of sixties pop groups similar to THE SMITHS, LADYBUG TRANSISTOR, THE RAW HERBS and the early songs of AZTEC CAMERA. On the B side of this red special limited edition vinyl is "Dying in Africa," a heart-rending, intimate and melancholic cover of the Swedish Italian disco electro-pop duo NICOLAS MAKELBERGE. Johan Lundin and Arvid Ringborg were in charge of putting images together for "Don't Fall in Love" creating a fun video narrating the typical story of a band playing at the wrong event where they are out of place - a private party with terrible guests who do not jive well with the group.
Elefant-266
45
$7.75

Stereolab
The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TooPure
LP
$15.50

Stone Breath
Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis [expanded re-issue]
PS, US The third in series of Stone Breath reissues, "Lanterna Lucis Viriditatis" finds the band journeying further down the darkened paths they first showed us on their other CDs, "Songs of Moonlight and Rain" and "A Silver Thread to Weave the Seasons". The deep woods folk & acoustic experimentalism Stone Breath conjured on their earlier recordings is here refined in a cauldron of sound that may well define "wyrdfolk." Expanded here to two CDs with many rare & previously unreleased recordings.
Hand/Eye
DCD
$15.25

Swervedriver
Ejector Seat Reservation [expanded re-issue]
PS, UK Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded double-gatefold digipak edition of their 1995 masterpiece from the British shoegaze-rock legends featuring 6 bonus tracks: "Plan 7 Star Satellite", "Flaming Heart", 'Maelstrom", "The Directors Cut Of Your Life", "Neon Lights Glow" and "Just Sometimes", plus additional liner notes from the band. 17 tracks total, including the mysterious Unlisted Silent Track. Both 'Raise' and 'Mezcal Head' will be similarly re-issued with bonus tracks domestically in January 2009.
Sony/Creation
CD
$16.75

Thou
Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature
PS, US Takes the final two tracks from 'Tyrant' (that won't appear on the Southern Lord LP) & puts them a side a piece on this slab of awesomeness. "What Blood..." shows them in their darkest & most abrasive, riffs so slow & chunky you could bludgeon a zombie to death w/them. The B-side, "Acceptance," is a polar opposite of the A. Melodic swooping guitar parts, thickly layered post-something-or-other composition.
GileadMedia
12
$11.00

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

True Widow
S-T
PS, US Dan Phillips' (ex-SLOWRIDE) new "dronecore" band that blends shoegaze, country, & indie rock w/haunting melodies & Phillips' distinctive morphine drip vocals. RIYL: Silversun Pickups, Autolux, MBV.
EndSounds
CD
$14.25

Twilight Sad, The
Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did
PS, US
FatCatRecords-078
CD5
$9.00

Various
Teenbeat Number One Record Label
PS, US Twenty-three all new tracks with track-by-track narration by Brooklyn librarian Lisa Goldstein. The latest volume in Teenbeat's series of mix-tapes made from new songs by Teenbeat artists and friends. Includes tracks by +/-, FLIN FLON, TRUE LOVE ALWAYS, HOLLAND, JONNY COHEN, TRACY SHEDD, BUTCH WILLIS, PHIL KRAUTH & more!
Teenbeat-4110
CD
$8.75

Various
Streets Of Lhasa
PS, US Children, birds, trains, prayers & a traditional temple activity called 'bian jing' (where monks discForuerqsue eanbcoiuets scripture and punctuate their points by clapping loudly) provide the backdrop for this disc w/ the folk music of the street taking center stage. The recordings are as clear as the strings of these banjo & violin-like instruments scathed by leather fingers of the high, thin air. Buddhism remains of primary importance in Tibet & chants of song & prayer are heard throughout the plateau. This ornamental carnival of sound was recorded by Zhang Jian (of the Beijing-based sound collective 'fm3') on the streets of Lhasa, ZhaDa & Shigatse in August 2003. Liner notes written by Steve Barker (ON THE WIRE/BBC).
Sublime
CD
$15.00

Various
Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long
PS, US Fresh new Mississippi Records compilation of rare wartime gospel & blues singles. Hope reveals itself within the sparse guitar and vocals. Songs by BESSIE JOHNSON, BUKKA WHITE, WILLIE WILLIAMS, BO WEAVIL JACKSON, & more. A fresh take on classic Americana, highly recommended
MississipiRecords
LP
$12.75

Velvet Cacoon
Genevieve
PS, US Now on CD! "...luxurious wordplay back in hand, laced to the nines in immaculate decadence, the late Oregon fold, life on a grey seacoast, snowsailing into the deep December lavender of a heartbeat's cadence, drinking grenache, over & over, grenache grenache grenache, spiced lacquer coating in the fade of dusk, passages from "A Rebours", manic laughter at old art & new vignettes, music of the sea, stars, drugs, dreams, soft nothingness treasured, & after much delay we have finally started recording the new album."
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Vetiver
More of the Past
PS, US 2008 CD EP, originally intended as a precursor to the acclaimed 2008 release, Thing of the Past. Where the album comprised a set of cover versions of songs by some of band-leader Andy Cabic's favorite artists, offering a joyful and intriguing insight into some of the music that has inspired and informed the band, here are five further songs, all previously unreleased, that inspired them. Once again, most listeners will be challenged to have ever heard the originals, and again these tunes all possess the rich Vetiver treatment that has made these special songs the band's own. Band has signed to Sub Pop, you can say you knew them when...
Gnomonsong
CD5
$6.25

We Insist!
Oh! Things Are So Corruptible
PS, US French band revowned for their powerful live show. You will find traces of At The Drive In, Tool, Shellac, Primus in their music, but more importantly, you will travel in a moon-like, weird & psychotic landscape, with David Lynch as your guide.
ExileOnMainstream
CD
$13.50

Ween
At the Cat's Cradle, 1992
PS, US Classic live set in two formats.
Chocodog
CD/DVD
$21.75

Witmer, Denison
Carry the Weight
PS, US New album.
Militia
CD
$12.25

Workman, Nimrod
I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful
PS, US Coal miner, union activist & gifted singer. Loquacious & mischievous, with the energy & intensity of a man half his age, Nimrod has appeared on records, in films, across the folk festival circuit & as a guest on The Tonight Show. In 1982, folklorist/musician Mike Seeger visited Nimrod & made nearly 18 hours of recordings of Workman's songs & stories. This album draws on Seeger's recordings & gives the man his first LP release in 30 years, as well as his first ever solo CD release. It showcases Workman's huge repertoire of songs humorous & melancholy, sacred & sinful.
DragCity/Twos&Fews
CD
$13.25

Workman, Nimrod
I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
S-T
PS, US
StiffRecordsUk
CD
$17.00

Yellow6
merry6mas2008
PS, UK This is the tenth disc in the annual 'merry6mas' CDR series from Yellow6. This years offering includes 70 minutes of new unreleased recordings made during 2008, including a re-recording of Perception Received (celebrating the 10th anniversary of the debut Y6 single from 1998). Also present a re a collaboration with MMM artist All Sides, and a remix by Televise.
Makeminemusic-055
CDR
$11.00

Zazou, Hector & Swara
In The House of Mirrors
PS, US Zazou offers a stunningly fresh take on classical Asian music, inviting four outstanding instrumentalists from India & Uzbekistan (TOIR, KUZIYEV-tambur & oud, MILIND RAYKAR-violin, RONU MAJUMDAR-flute, MANISH PINGLE-Indian slide guitar) to offer inspired performances which he then enhances through subtle reprocessing techniques. Other notable guests include percussionist BILL RIEFLIN & Norwegian trumpet player NILS PETTER MOLVAER. This can be viewed as a discreet homage to the music produced in the 1970s by the likes of Terry Riley, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, translated for the first time into a classical Asian environment.
Crammed
CD
$13.50

Forthcoming Releases

1900s, The
Medium High EP (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US Beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky new limited edition mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel.
Parasol-CD-111
CD5
$5.00

Bambaataa, Afrika
Planet Rock: The Album (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1986 this is actually a collection of 12' singles & songs dating back as far as 1982, the year that the absolute, stone classic, 'Planet Rock' 12' was released. One of the most important singles in the history of hip-hop. Now on 180gm vinyl.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Bookish, Simon
Everything/Everything (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Vinyl Version! An unpredictable and dramatic "big band song cycle about science and information", Everything/Everything is a new departure for Simon Bookish, being his first album for TOMLAB. Additionally, whilst previous Simon Bookish releases have been informed by the sounds of digital synthesizers, Everything/Everything does away with them entirely to focus on live instruments. Scored for an ensemble dominated by saxophones, brass, piano, harp and Far sa organ, it features luminaries from both the jazz and experimental classical music scenes. Whilst this is almost certainly his most pop oriented release to date, Everything/Everything, as it's name suggests, nds room for moments of racing Philip Glass minimalism, lop-sided disco, expressionist cabaret, and even an eery ambient interlude. Lyrically, the album's concept is "the - good of information" in our modern age, taking in chemistry and ecology, language and art, sometimes surreal, sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, a weird blur of fact and action, delivered in Bookish's distinctive English eccentric vocal. It's only natural that Simon Bookish would want to tackle this chaos of stuff, since 'Simon Bookish' is the pseudonym of London-based composer Leo Chadburn, whose diverse recent work has included everything from sound-art installations in Bregenz, Austria, improvisation and guest spots with Leafcutter John and Polar Bear's Seb Rochford, and computer music for contemporary dance at the Royal Opera House to an acclaimed appearance with the National Theatre as "The Singer" in Brecht's "Caucasian Chalk Circle".
Tomlab-121
LP
$14.25

Bronnt Industries Kapital
Häxan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25th)
PS, UK The world of horror soundtracks has long been an inspiration for Bronnt Industries Kapital, the musical project revolving around Bristol-based composer Guy Bartell, and it is no surprise that Bronnt should return the favor by delivering a horror soundtrack of its own. Häxan (1922, dir. Benjamin Christensen) is a fusion film using dramatization, documentary and animation to explore the themes of witchcraft and superstition. Met with outrage on its release, it has since been reappraised as a classic. Bronnt was commissioned to write a new soundtrack to accompany the film's first release on DVD in Europe (TVD3758) in 2007, and it is this soundtrack which forms the group's second album, the follow up to 2005's acclaimed Virtute et Industria. Much of Häxan was shot at night to enhance the sinister mood of the film, and Bronnt utilized a similar schedule to evoke the awe of the Sabbat. The soundtrack was composed and performed using a wide range of instrumentation, including clockwork devices, transistor organs, mellotron, clarinet, guitars, bespoke string instruments, pianos, tone generators, analog synthesizers and elaborate processing and manipulation through antique tape machines and plate reverbs. The resulting scope of the soundtrack is vast, ranging from minimalist clockwork lullabies to lush orchestral ensemble pieces, heavenly analog sound collages to hellish electrical miasmas, all imbued with a darkly hypnagogic ambiance worthy of Christensen's strange world populated by mechanical demons and castles in the clouds.
StaticCaravan-168
CD
$16.25

Calder
Lower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Calder formed in Iceland when musical instrument maker Lárus Sigurðsson and Ólafur Josephsson, who is perhaps best known for his recordings under the alias Stafrænn Hákon, met and decided to join forces. Their first collaborations resulted in self-titled five-track album of improvised, experimental instrumentals that was released through Ólafur's Vogor Recordings and later picked up by UK indie Unlabel. Lárus' background is in classical music, having played with various Icelandic musicians and self-released a handful of solo recordings. His recent album Jarðhörpusálmar was improvised and recorded using musical instruments that he had designed and built himself. Ólafur Josephsson has been experimenting with ambient guitar arrangements under the name Stafrænn Hákon since 1999. He has released his music through various labels including his own Vogor Recordings, the Resonant Label and Awkward Silence Recordings, with the music progressing and becoming increasingly refined since his debut album Eignas Jeppa in 2001. After the creative success of Calder's debut, a second album was conceived in 2005 when Lárus and Ólafur started exchanging ideas, shaping and molding their music, with the material composed in a truly collaborative way - Lárus handed Ólafur acoustic melodic ideas and Ólafur added electronic elements, with tracks gradually acquired shape, depth and life. With this new music, melody, structure and beats have come more to the fore, although the beautiful and haunting guitar atmospherics are still evident, running like a thread through the album. 2008 saw the completion of this process and the resulting album has been entitled Lower. The music can perhaps best be described as a fusion of experimental, ambient, classical and acoustic music.
MakeMineMusic-052
CD
$16.25

Cat Power
Dark End Of The Street (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Six-song vinyl EP containing mostly unreleased recordings from the "Jukebox" sessions. In keeping with the "Jukebox" theme , all the songs here are covers: "Auld Triangle", "Dark End Of The Street", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", "Fortunate Son", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "It Ain't Fair". Limited deluxe double gatefold 10-inch vinyl.
Matador
2X10
$14.00

Cuomo, Rivers
Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New collection. More!
Geffen
CD
$15.75

Datsuns, The
Smoke & Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album from New Zealand throwback garagerockers.
CookingVinyl
CD
$13.75

De Dionyso, Arrington
I See Beyond The Black Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Interchanging bass clarinet & throat-singing w/homemade instruments used as vocal modifiers, this is less the apocalyptic doom of his ramshackle post-punk group OLD TIME RELIJUN, but instead a raga influenced anthropological meditation.
Krecords-200
CD
$11.50

De Dionyso, Arrington
I See Beyond The Black Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Interchanging bass clarinet & throat-singing w/homemade instruments used as vocal modifiers, this is less the apocalyptic doom of his ramshackle post-punk group OLD TIME RELIJUN, but instead a raga influenced anthropological meditation.
Krecords-200
LP
$11.50

DM Stith
Curtain Speech (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The music calls to mind contemporaries Antony & the Johnsons, Grizzly Bear, & sometimes the explosiveness of Animal Collective. However, a handful of other influences cloud the comparison as hints of the dissonance of Sonic Youth & Henryk Gorecki, expressive vocal techniques of Caetano Veloso & Mary Margaret O'Hara, & the romance & textures of Benjamin Britten & Edward Elgar underpin even the simplest of gestures. Stith's delicate yet confident voice sits amongst lush arrangements of piano, guitar, strings, electronics, choir, percussion, & a penny whistle or two.
AsthmaticKitty-54
CD5
$3.50

Fake Male Voice
Cou Cou Sous Les Nuages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 23RD)
PS, US Picture 7" with dvd. Fake Male Voice is the new project from TUNDE of TV ON THE RADIO. Two brand new songs with a bonus track on DVD. Sexy, soulful vocals with orchestral 80's visual dance music.
HeartFast-006
45/DVD
$16.25

Feist
The Reminder [deluxe expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Expanded, enhanced, deluxe! Two-disc set includes the original plus a second disc featuring Feist's duets with Constantines and Mocky, remixes by Grizzly Bear, Chromeo, Escort, Boys Noize and others, along with all of the videos made for the album.
CherryTree
DCD
$20.50

Fennesz, Christian
June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US th installment in the Guitar Series Vol. 3 & 4. As much as any artist, he is responsible for establishing the laptop computer as both a compositional tool & concert instrument. Subsuming electro-acoustic strategies into a bedrock of pop, he terraforms vast new worlds of sound, within which both AMM & the Beach Boys can cozily coexist. His Guitar Series contribution, is a suitably lush transformation, as electric guitars flow into deep streams of sound.
TableOfTheElements-100
LP
$14.25

Flaherty, Paul
Aria Nativa (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US "Aria Nativa" is more than PAUL FLAHERTY'S third solo saxophone album; it merges rhapsodic avant garde music, patriotic dream verse, and mortality into a frighteningly pure work of audio, visual and literary sledge. Recorded during a pair of 2007 performances, its four pieces capture lifeblood in stunning detail from foot stomps to gut hollers and crowd roars as Flaherty's free power blues dips into the well of wretchedness and raises with fists of mirth. It's the sorta record that splays naked the artist for all: equal parts wise ass and universal vision. From his early 1970s woodshedding through a dozen plus albums each with drum buddies Randall Colburne and Chris Corsano, and collaborators Bill Nace, Wally Shoup and Sunburned Man of the Hand, Flaherty remains a total wildcat - on and off the alto/tenor horns. For this LP his massive tonal craft is equally matched by Ken Hill's gorgeous cover shot of a snow blown grave and "No More America" - Ken DelPonte's epic poem that spans nearly five decades and fills the back jacket, framing the atmosphere the music was recorded under. Each 500 copies contain a download coupon for MP3 version of the album that includes a bonus track of "No More America" read by the author.
FamilyVineyard-57
LP
$12.50

Flaming Lips, The
Christmas On Mars [deluxe vinyl] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The soundtrack on Martian green vinyl, plus a white vinyl 7" featuring a couple Xmas songs and a cover of Spacemen 3's "Lord Can You Hear Me"! Also includes the DVD of the film, naturally.
Warners
LP/DVD/45
$29.75

Fredrik
Na Na Ni (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Kora
LP
$14.25

God Is An Astronaut
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, UK Trance-inducing, post-rock instrumental trio GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT has announced a European and its second US tour in support of its forthcoming self-titled album, "God Is An Astronaut". The tour will kick off on December 4th in San Diego, USA. Hailing from Glen of the Downs, Ireland, GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT formed in 2002 and have already released 3 albums and one EP. GIAA's storied live performances have the unique ability to effortlessly ascend / transcend at any given moment, reaching bold crescendos of both of dim shimmer and blinding incandescence. The band make use of projected, self-edited video footage along with impressive lighting arrangements to form what it calls, a "full audio visual show", with each song accompanied by its own video. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT's marriage of raw power and delicate beauty has drawn comparisons to the works of like-minded indie acts Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. The band has performed all over the world including sell out shows in Boston, New York, London, Dublin and Moscow. The upcoming GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT live performances are listed in the Track Listing column. Updated GIAA news and tour information will be made available via the GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT web domains: "beauty and menace... fantastically broad and lush soundscapes... it's like watching a thunderhead slowly approach from the distance; dark, towering and fat with tension." - DROWNED IN SOUND "On Far from Refuge, their third full-length, GIaA ventures even further into the outer realms, streamlining their sound as if to make it sleeker for the demands
of deep space flight. A simultaneously gentle and enthralling adventure upon a star-strewn stage." - DECOY MUSIC "A highlight of the day for sure, their big sound should have no problem filling the tiny Knitting Factory tap bar which is where they'll finish their U.S. tour in NYC tonight" - SXSW Review - brooklynvegan.com
Revive-009
CD
$16.25

Headlights
Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Features remixes from The Album Leaf, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Son Lux, as well as Cale Parks and T.J. Lipple of Aloha. Limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies in an eco-friendly recycled digipack. TRACKS: 1. Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple) / 2. Owl Eyes (The Buddy System) / 3. Market Girl (The Album Leaf) / 4. School Boys (Cale Parks) / 5. Towers (Uzi & Ari) / 6. Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On (Via Satellite) / 7. So Much For The Afternoon (Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) / 8. TV (Son Lux) / 9. Put Us Back Together Right (Ruby Isle) / 10. On April 2 (Jason Caddell) / 11. Your Old Street (Spinnerty) / 12. Get Yer Head Around It (The Show Is The Rainbow) / 13. Tokyo (Brett Sanderson)
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

International Noise Conspiracy, The
Cross of My Calling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album, their fourth, produced by Rick Rubin.
Vagrant
CD
$14.25

Johnson, Britta w/ Mirah and Spectratone International
Share This Place (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This combines the music created by MIRAH & SPECTRATONE INTERNATIONAL w/the stop motion films created by BRITTA JOHNSON to animate the live performance that first debuted at the Seattle International Children's Festival in May 2007. The music is full, subtle, & meticulously rendered, moving easily among a wide range of influences, from early music to folk to psychedelia. Johnson has created luminous stop-motion animated films for each of the songs. The insects - created out of corks, ashtrays, old balloons & other bits of domestic debris - are singing, hatching, rolling balls of dung & fulfilling their destinies.
Krecords-201
DVD
$14.25

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

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

Kaleidoscope
Beacon from Mars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Wielding a battery of exotic instruments that once adorned a thrift-shop front window (bazouki, oud, vina, saz, doumbeg), they were every bit as multi-hued & subject to change as a telescope full of bright bits of colored glass. This wildly experimental outfit pioneered what would become the world-music genre by darting deftly between rock, folk, blues, Cajun, country, Middle Eastern, good-time ballads & Eastern European styles, w/ plenty of full-blown psychedelia on the side.
Sundazed
LP
$16.50

Kazumasa, Hashimoto
Tokyo Sonata: Original Soundtrack (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, JAPAN They were supposed to be leading a normal life. But something crept unexpectedly into their lives and turned this family into one of disharmony. Will there be a day when this family can ring in harmony again? TOKYO SONATA is a film portraying the typical family of modern day Japan and is an exploration into a new genre for world-renowned director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The widely acclaimed film which received the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival is also the first film score created by artist Kazumasa Hashimoto and noble is proud to announce the release of its original soundtrack. The minimal but heartwarming harmony created by the mellotron, piano, guitar and noise synchronizes brilliantly with the film to bring more strength to the world of Kurosawa. In addition to the film scores that brought colorful impression to the film, the album includes many unreleased pieces written for the film as well as a cover song of "Clair De Lune" by Claude Debussy, an artist much respected by Hashimoto and apiece that can also be heard in parts of the film. It is a soundtrack and a Kazumasa Hashimoto original album that can be enjoyed by Hashimoto fans and movie fans alike. As the title TOKYO SONATA indicates, music plays a central role in the film and Kazumasa Hashimoto took on this challenge with solid respect. The result is a collection of lean music that preserves the raw essence and core of the melody that help to guide the film to perfection, a monumental piece that celebrates the artist's entry into new horizons as a composer of film music. Kazumasa Hashimoto biography: Born in Tokyo. Composer/ Musician. Kazumasa Hashimoto has released 4 albums to present including Euphorium released from noble records in December 2007. Until now, the artist has received 5 stars in a review by Germany's DE:BUG magazine, his music has been used by the UK's BBC television, and his work has been taken up widely by Japanese and overseas media in Europe and the United States. June 2007, Kazumasa Hashimoto performed in Europe's largest festival of electronic music and multimedia art, the sonar festival in Barcelona, and has been spreading his music actively on a global scale. In addition to his own work, Hashimoto created music for the movie TOKYO SONATA (director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa), an award winning film in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival and continues to unleash his spectrum of talent as a music producer for commercials, theater, and other artists.
Noble-1239
CD
$17.00

Killers, The
Day & Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. VERY LIMITED!
Island
LP
$17.00

Killers, The
Day & Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album.
Island
CD
$16.25

Kozelek, Mark
Finally (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Many of these tracks were recorded for tribute albums & are now collected in a cohesive, 10-song LP. Highlights include a bluegrass version of "Lazy" by Low, "Bedtime Lullaby" from the children's show Yo Gabba Gabba! & an intimate, acoustic version of Stephen Sondhiem's "Send In The Clowns." Also includes radio show rarities, a previously unreleased version of Husker Du's "Celebrated Summer" & two original instrumentals.
CaldoVerde
CD
$12.00

Las Escarlatinas
Al Galope (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SPAIN Maybe it's slightly irrational to say that Las Escarlatinas are one of the greatest creations of humankind... but considering how much happiness they brought to the lovers of beauty and pop with their debut album (A todo color released in 2005), you are forced to believe there is something magical and supernatural about this quartet. Las Escarlatinas are one of the few bands that can create their own world. Their playground melancholy, Lolita vocals, the multi colored record sleeves, the 60's and 80's retro charm throwbacks, the ethereal dreamy collective feel, the pink and sticky bubblegum teenage spirit, it's all here...their very own universe that is. However this is only the tip of a musical iceberg that contains J-pop, bubblegum, beat pop with lush harmonies, sunshine and soft pop, beatles-esque moods, donosti pop, italo disco, gentle electronica, bossa nova... This time, the recipe created by Mateo Guiscafré has been cooked by the grand chef Guille Milkyway (La Casa Azul), a true guru in Spain and key opinion leader in the indie scene. Songwriters such as Alberto Matesanz (Mate, Plastic d'Amour), Fernando Márquez El Zurdo, Anne Arbor (Pedro Vigil & Natalia Quintanal), Sergio López De Haro (Kiki D'aki), Violeta Gómez, Miguel Angel Villanueva (Los Brujos), Pablo Jiménez (Pulpops) also ensure that magic is widespread in each of the twelve songs. Add two cover versions of songs by Olivier Libaux (Nouvelle Vague) and Korean hipsters, Misty Blue and voilà, Al galope. The record is just lovely. This is indie-ish pop (although the album has vibes that recall Saint Etienne, Ephemera, Mareva Galanter or The Cardigans) with sultry, angelic and delightful vocals and a generous budget production. Las Escarlatinas achieve being fashioned while being elegant indeed. Their voices are spectacular all over and the production is very much in detail while remaining very modern, straight, vivid and youthful. Everything about Las Escarlatinas seems young and tender. All this band wants is a chance to be heard, and you'll be doing yourself a favor to champion them. Every single song on Al galope is memorable, jewel-like, catchy, shockingly melodic, and tinged with irony and hope. It's hard to choose favourite songs on this album because they're all very well-crafted, both melodically and lyrically. They all get stuck in your head. Las Escarlatinas have definitely jumped to the major leagues. * Siesta also released solo albums of the Escarlatinas singers under the production of Ramón Leal & Mateo Guiscafré: Cristina Georgina (Mapamundi) and Bel Divioleta (Espejos).
Siesta-220
CD
$19.00

Library Tapes
A Summer Beneath the Trees (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Library Tapes follow up the highly acclaimed Make Mine Music album Höstluft with the beautiful and atmospheric long player A Summer Beneath the Trees. A Summer Beneath the Trees steps away from the minimal sound of previous Library Tapes releases, with rich layers of sound and more varied instrumentation, and strings taking a more prominent role. Joining Library Tapes main man David Wenngren (piano, laptop and field recordings) are Peter Broderick (Bella Union, Type, Kning Disk) who adds violin, guitar, accordion, trumpet, celeste, viola and banjo on the six of the album's nine tracks, and Danny Norbury (Static Caravan, Ono) who plays cello on three tracks. The trademark ageing clicks and glitches of earlier releases are largely absent, and there is a newfound warmth and depth to these recordings. The album moves Library Tapes further into the realm of modern classical and cinematic soundtracks, with the music bringing to mind Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman and Max Richter. Based in Gothenburg in Sweden, David Wenngren has also released music under the name Forestflies and has extensively toured UK, Europe and USA, playing live with the likes of Sylvain Chauveau, Greg Haines and Akira Rabelais.
MakeMineMusic-053
CD
$16.25

Loop
Fade Out [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US Fade Out is the extremely overdue reissue of the long out of print album by British band, LOOP. Remastered from the original analogue sources, this album is released as a double discs and housed in a mini vinyl style card sleeve, reproducing the original artwork. The album in its entirety on CD 1, with the bonus tracks (including relevant Peel session material from the time) on CD 2, the bonus material will be available on CD formats only. Fade Out was originally released on Chapter 22 Records in late 88, the Peel session was recorded at that time too: Loop were loosely influenced by bands such as The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The MC5, but retaining an avant-garde and experimental edge from Can, Faust, Neu!, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca and minimalist systems music, to name but a few. As with Heavens end, Fade Out was remastered by Robert Hampson with Kevin Metcalfe at Soundmasters, with the original album on CD 1, and 4 unreleased demo versions, 3 peel session tracks, and the 5 guitar loops(!!!) on CD 2.
Reactor
DCD
$18.00

Loop
Heaven's End [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, UK Heavens end is the extremely overdue reissue of the long out of print album by British band, LOOP. Remastered from the original analogue sources, this album is released as a double discs and housed in a mini vinyl style card sleeve, reproducing the original artwork. The album in its entirety on CD 1, with the bonus tracks (including relevant Peel session material from the time) on CD 2, the bonus material will be available on CD formats only. Remastered by Robert Hampson at SoundMasters with Kevin Metlcalfe, Heavens End originall came out on the HEAD label in 1987, they recorded their first Peel session that year (on the bonus disc) and the album draws heavily from the likes of the Velvets, Stooges, and the MC5. BONUS DISC: 1. Rocket USA / 2. Soundhead (1st Mix) / 3. Head On (1st Mix) / 4. Soundhead (Peel BBC Live Version) / 5. Straight To Your Heart (Peel BBC Live Version) / 6. Rocket USA (Peel BBC Live Version)
Reactor
DCD
$18.00

Los Campesinos!
We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US The youthful septet from Cardiff, Wales, Los Campesinos! prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity, and most importantly, energy, with the announcement of their new record. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed: ten brand new tracks recorded in Seattle from June 12-23rd with Mr John Goodmanson (Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Wedding Present, Wu Tang) and mixed immediately after at Monnow Valley in Wales.
Arts&Crafts
CD/DVD
$15.25

M83
Digital Shades, Vol. 1 (2PC) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$16.25

M83
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$20.00

M83
Saturdays=Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75

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

Magic Mushroom Band
Feed Your Head (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The band first came together in 1982 when they first began playing their brand of "Psychedelic Space Pop." This was recorded on the band's "Stoned Crypt" tour of 1986 & features some of the band's more popular numbers in the set including "Magick Eye" & "Jelly Jam"
USD
CD
$17.50

Magnificents
Year Of Explorers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The latest release from this Scottish band is an epic saga of stolen synths, left-handed guitars, trans-European expressways, covert product placement, and serious studio tomfoolery. Where their eponymous debut was primarily fueled by raw punk power and electrifying excess, this record demonstrates a more measured method. They've toured with the Beta Band, Mogwai, Stereolab, and Trans Am.
Mush-207
CD
$9.00

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

Nada Surf
Vinyl Box Set 1994-2008 (6XLP) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Amazing box set containing 5 albums on 6xLP, a 7" single, plus ample additional goodies. All 5 full-length studio LPs including Elektra debut High/Low (available on vinyl exclusively in this box set), The Proximity Effect, Let Go, The Weight Is a Gift, & Lucky. Repressing of the band's long out-of-print debut 7" single The Plan/Telescope, 24-page full-color 12x12" booklet includes lyrics for all the LPs, exclusive photos & tour poster reproductions. Single-use full-album MP3 download codes for The Proximity Effect, Let Go,The Weight Is A Gift, & Lucky. PLUS a very special bonus download folder with 16 b-sides & rarities! Box set is numbered & strictly limited to 1000 copies worldwide
Barsuk
LP
$129.75

Ocean
Pantheon Of The Lesser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US 2xLP to follow in about one month. Following their acclaimed breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Pantheon Of The Lesser was composed over a period of two years in Ocean's home studio in Portland, Maine. As the seasons passed each track was written, re-written, played and then re-played as layers were slowly stripped away until the true essence of the song was revealed. Once Ocean entered the studio it took another two years to deconstruct Pantheon Of The Lesser until they had found the essence of their writing. This disciplined deconstructionist approach to songwriting is how Pantheon Of The Lesser is how Ocean takes it to the next level of the abyss. The result of this compositional technique is over an hour of strictly bare instrumentation and a kind of natural heaviness that slowly rises and falls in a pure organic fashion. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like Schoenberg. While Ocean continues to explore and expand upon their "less is more" approach of profound musical minimalism and sheer heaviness, Pantheon Of The Lesser is a bit more musical than its predecessor. The Beacon, the opening track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, was played as Ocean's complete set on a recent US tour and on dates with Mono and Boris. Clocking in at 41 minutes on record and over an hour live; The Beacon evolves in 3 distinct movements with fleeting moments of hypnotic melody and earth shaking heavy dirges creating an all-encompassing tone of pure misanthropy. The second and final track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, titled Of The Lesser, carries a similar theme of misery. Written as an ode to distraction, chemical and otherwise, it is Ocean at their most personal: a pure sonic stream of consciousness in slow motion. Packaged in a deluxe foil printed heavy-duty cardboard jacket with art by renowned Maine illustrator Bruce Hutchison. The vinyl version is packaged in double 200 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe letter pressed covers and limted to 500 copies.
Important-219
CD
$13.00

Of Montreal
Jimmy b/w Middle Class Ghetto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Nifty new 7" picture disc features a M.I.A. cover and and DVD features live and behind-the-scenes stuff! Hot on the heels of their new album 'Skeletal Lamping'. A-side, "Jimmy", is a M.I.A. cover, here but it sounds very Of Montreal, duh. B-side is an exclusive track. DVD is live footage and back stage, etc. from their 2007 US tour. Kevin Barnes sez: "Middle Class Ghetto is an exclusive and unreleased track. I chose Jimmy because I really loved the song and wanted to try and reinterpret it. We have played it live once or twice. The DVD footage was taken on tour in the united states in 2007."
Heartfast-005
45/DVD
$16.25

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

Parenthetical Girls
Entanglements (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US An orchestral song cycle of grand sonic ambition, this is an 11 song, linear narrative of ascendancy, adolescent sexuality, quantum mechanics, consent & other moral ambiguities - all set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of Modern Classical & timeworn, traditional American pop forms.
Tomlab-120
LP
$14.25

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The fourth in Matador's series of deluxe editions of the five classic Pavement albums is a rather joyous pop explosion after the complications of "Wowee Zowee". The double CD set, again packaged in an embossed slipcase with gorgeous 62-page perfect-bound booklet, contains the remastered original twelve-song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session takes, along with full-color poster and postcard. "'Brighen' hits Pavement's goal of making classic rock according to its own definition of the classics" - NY Times.
Matador
DCD
$16.50

Pavement
Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. DELUXE (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US **SPECIAL PRE-ORDER for Pavement's re-issue of 'Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.' DCD. Pre-order this doozie and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now Sixth Pre-Order Promotion. You will receive: Instant stream of album starting Oct. 10th. Bonus track #1available Oct. 15th. Bonus track #2 available Nov. 4th. And on street date, Nov. 18th, pick up the album here at Parasol or have it shipped and you will get your paws on a VERY LIMITED vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show and a free poster. The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now. It's very easy, just pre-order the DCD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be emailed a confirmation and directions to get the all of the goods. That's it. Noice!
Matador
DCD/LP
$23.00

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

R.E.M.
Murmur: 25th Anniversary Edition [expanded re-issue] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Two-CD 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features R.E.M.'s debut album, remastered, plus an additional disc with a previously unreleased concert recorded at Larry's Hideaway in Toronto, three months after Murmur's April 1983 release. The 16-song live performance boasts nine of Murmur's 12 songs, including "Radio Free Europe," three songs from the Chronic Town EP, early renditions of "7 Chinese Bros." and "Harborcoat," as well as "Just A Touch", eventually a track included on R.E.M.'s fourth album, 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant. The live set also features a cover of the Velvet Underground's "There She Goes Again", which R.E.M. recorded in the studio for the b-side of "Radio Free Europe." Exclusive essays by producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, as well as former I.R.S. executives Jay Boberg, Sig Sigworth, Carlos Grasso round out the deluxe edition.
IRS/Universal
DCD
$28.00

Reverend Green/Drawlings
Be Good To Earth This Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This 7-inch comes courtesy of Care Kacky's 45s, the singles division of Paw Tracks. Side A is Reverend Green (a.k.a. Brad Truax of Home and Jah Division). Antony Hagerty (Antony & The Johnsons) along with Kria Brekkan (Mum) lend their distinct voices on this inspirational meditation on self development and the importance of earth awareness. On the flip is the first solo recording of Abby Portner's Drawlings, recorded with the help of Dave Portner (Animal Collective, Terrestrial Tones) and Rusty Santos (The Presence). A haunted children's carol that'll make you glad you're inside by the fire.
PawTracks
45
$4.75

Scarlet's Well
Gatekeeper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SPAIN In the beginning, Scarlet's Well was Bid (of Monochrome Set fame) accompanied by a fluctuating cast of girlish singers, esoteric musicians and random collaborators. It was a beautiful but primarily solo vision. Lavishly illustrated albums emerged quietly, all set in the vicinity of a place called Mousseron, "a sickly village situated somewhere east of the Azores and only slightly north of the Styx" populated by howling wolves, seductive mermaids and a bawdy captain with his crew of beer-swilling pirates and off-kilter animals with disturbingly human characteristics. Seven albums have now been released and with the most recent two: Black Tulip Wings (2006) and Gatekeeper (2008) Scarlet's Well has evolved into a band in its own right, with live gigs, collaborative song writing, luscious merchandise, tantrums and uncorroborated suggestions of bizarre fantasies. A sense of band empathy and the benefits of varied influences are evident in both these albums but there is still a thematic consistency. Although there is a conceptual thread that runs through the albums, the songs still function as pop in the sweetest sense, i.e. they are catchy, you can sing along (if you must) and most are dance friendly. What make them special is their unpredictability and the dizzying range of musical genres combined with an essence that is simply 'Scarlet's Well'. It's Whirling Dervish meets gypsy troubadour with the crack of a whip on the rump of a unicorn ... then it gets fey and funky. Lyrics leap from cryptic literary allusions to pert whimsy and although there is a certain obscure quality there is also an air of familiarity: a morphic memory thing bringing on a parallel universe that reveals itself to those who are open to getting lost with new acquaintances down strange cobbled streets, wooded glades, uncharted waters or the dark tunnels of the underworld. Bid describes it better in 'November Night' from Gatekeeper, "Strange songs playing, so darkly chanted with words I feel but don't understand." While Peter Momtchiloff emphasizes the benefits of collaboration with New Friends, "We are your new friends, if the night ever ends it will feel as if we've always been here." Scarlet's Well is a big band - eight members in all - but the sound, although rich and multi-layered is surprisingly light and charming.
Siesta-244
CD
$19.00

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

Sheff, Will / Charles Bissell
Will Sheff covers Charles Bissell, Charles Bissell covers Will Sheff (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US SHEFF covers "Ex-Girl Collection" which BISSELL wrote & performed w/his band WRENS. BISSELL covers "It Ends With A Fall," which SHEFF wrote & performed w/his band OKKERVIL RIVER.
Jagjaguwar-122
45
$4.75

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes, the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" - NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl.
XL
DLP
$20.00

Sigur Ros & Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson
Angels Of The Universe [reissue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US BACK IN PRINT. Domestic release for Icelandic only film soundtrack originally released on Sigur Ros' own Krunk label. Most music composed by Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, European Composer of the Year in 1995 for "Children of Nature" soundtrack. Sigur Ros contributes 2 huge tracks, only previously available on their second EP, "Ny Batteri", which is long out of print.
FatCatRecords-1102
CD
$9.00

Skeletons
Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION! Already up so early in the morning of 2008, SKELETONS were hibernating in the safest, quietest, warmest place in the world: Times Square, New York. In a haunted WWII-era ballroom they recorded through the wintry nights when the studio was on fire. Taking breaks at 5am, standing under heat lamps listening to Hot Jazz outside the Time Warp Hotel, soaking up the empty streets with the leftover creeps while the tourists sleep. It's just the same struggle any old human has to go through to make anything: make it to work on time, make an excuse, make babies, make war, make breakfast without getting into a fight. The child of this struggle is "Money", pre-made, for you, entering the world October 7th in the USA, and October 28th in the UK and Europe via TOMLAB.
Tomlab-123
DLP
$14.25

Soundtrack of Our Lives, The
Communion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN All new 2008 double album from Swedish retro-rock Godfathers. A new beginning, or a spectacular finale? Either way it's 24 long-awaited new songs, more like Extended Revelation than Origin, with some spacey, psychedelic suites, or so I gather. And no, I don't believe that's really the cover art....but then again, one never knows.
Akashic/WMS
DCD
$25.00

Soy Un Caballo
Les Heures De Raison (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US The duo Soy Un Caballo (Spanish for "I am a horse") features Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas). They write and perform songs of exquisite fragility. "Delicate, wispy melodies vie with choral refrains...smooth as silk, cool as a cucumber and light as a feather" - Subba-Cultcha. "An album that enchants and leaves you to imagine" - Wire.
MintyFresh
CD
$10.00

Stone Breath
Knotwork (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Knotwork presents many out of print, rare & previously unreleased songs from Stone Breath. Ranging from Eastern-tinged folk to deep drone-songs to more traditional fare, Knotwork shows the band's deep roots finding dark earth while the leaves above open to the sun. This album serves as a bridge between Stone Breath's earlier recordings & their new album (look for it in 2009).
Hand/Eye
CD
$12.50

Supersuckers, The
Get It Together (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album! Long awaited new album, delivers a blast of rock-n-roll satisfaction to your discerning earhole.
MidFi
CD/DVD
$12.00

Supersuckers, The
Get It Together [picture disc] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US Picture disc vinyl for the long awaited new album.
MidFi
LP
$18.25

Swervedriver
Mezcal Head [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1993 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Never Lose That Feeling', 'Planes Over The Skyline', 'The Hitcher' and 'Paris') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75

Swervedriver
Raise [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition of this 1991 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four rare bonus tracks ('Hands', 'Andaluc¡a', 'Kill The Superheroes' and 'Over') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75

Sword, The
Sword Box (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US "Age of Winters" & "Gods of the Earth" in a limited edition box set. Includes sticker.
Kemado
DCD
$20.50

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

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

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 8 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'Hymns for Today: UK Pop-Folk-Sike Sounds 1968-1975'. Limited Edition eighth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "It's been a long hiatus but at last here are two excellent new volumes of the cult Fading Yellow series. Vol. 8 is collection of British artist album tracks of the period 1968-75... A beautiful confection of pastoral shades and cotton wool clouds floating in a hazy Summer sky. Predominantly mid-paced and lightly orchestrated, these are often acoustic based songs with electric underpinning. A few, in the interval, have become more familiar, notably the two fine selections by Jan & Lorraine from their recently reissued Gipsy People album. The majority however will be new to your ears. The track selection and flow is pretty much faultless as one track melts effortlessly into the next, working its magic on the ears. In some instances, tracks are surprising reworkings of the most unlikely songs. For instance Raw's (aka New York Public Library) rendition of 'What To Do', from their US and Germany released only Raw Holly album consists of covers of Buddy Holly songs - this one is an orchestrated tabla and sitar version! There are the short sharp spurts like the enigmatic (because there is nothing known about him) Michael Blount with 'Acorn Street' from his 1971 Patchwork album, which at 1.58 leaves you wanting a lot more of the same. P.C. Kent's 'After Dark' is from their self-titled Deram Nova album and is pleasingly pop (think a lighter version of Blossom Toes's 'Postcard' for instance) whilst Vigrass & Osborne's 'Ballerina' (which was also a single or a B side I think) has all the atmosphere, heavy with pathos of Mike Batt's series title track 'Fading Yellow' from Vol.1. Storyteller's 'Alice Brown', Fuchsia's 'Me And My Kite' and Evensong's 'The Smallest Man In The World' are also excellent. Overall, the FY signature brand of soundscape is very much perpetuated here and fans of the series will lap this up. There are as usual liner notes and band pics in the booklet which help contextualise the music nicely. Buy with confidence."
FlowerMachine-1008
CD
$15.00

Various
Fading Yellow Volume 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, SWEDEN Subtitled: 'The Other Side of Life: Timeless UK Pop-Sike & Other Delights, 1966-1972'. Limited Edition ninth installment of this very fine compilation series that collects the best Pop/Folk/Psyche sounds from the UK circa 1968-75. If you dig the sound of Fairport Convention, early Bee Gees, The Moody Blues, the psychedelic Beatles... 21 tracks available on a compilation for the very first time. SHINDIG MAGAZINE: "Here we are squarely back in singles territory. Pop Workshop's 'Fairyland' is a good starter and manages to be both brash and gentle at the same time. Suzi Klee's 'Punch And Judy Girl' is a plaintive and tremulous pop ballad by this 'Swiss Miss' (I've always wanted to use that somewhere!); it comes across like Jan and Lorraine produced by Mike Batt (only it was produced by Georgio Gomelsky!). Dave Christie's 'Penelope Breedlove' makes its commercial compilation debut (and is also included on Psychic Circle's Fairytales Can Come True comp also out this month); a fabulous and atmospheric pean to the object of his affections, this is NOT the same version as the 6AX acetate compiled on Syde Tryps Vol.7. Although it's the same song, the two versions are markedly different in arrangement and timing, so you certainly need both. Pussyfoot's 'Hasty Words' is another beauty with its lilting 3/3 waltz timing and a lovely choral vocal job to boot. Mike Leslie's 'Office Girl' has been a long time want of mine in the original, a delightful ode to a lonely clerical worker lost in the urban crowd as the singer puckers up the courage to approach her. It deserved to be more than a B side too. Rodney Bewes' 'Dear Mother Love Albert' is the topside to the already compiled and much sought after 'Meter Maid' and it has a similar vibe - was this the actual TV series signature tune or was it written as a single in its own right I wonder? It sounds way too magically bendy for 1970 television! Christian's 'Other Side Of Life' is another restless orch popper with more than a passing reminder of The Apple's 'Other Side' as well. A good string arrangement adds a lot to it. Tony Ritchie seems to have recorded quite a few sides in Europe including the excellent 'Rain On My Window' included here with its urgent "loner" vibe that would have suited Paul & Barry Ryan for instance c.1967. Maybe it's about time a Tony Ritchie anthology was compiled? This is another excellent collection of emotionally challenging sides. You may encounter some of these sides individually occasionally but it is only when they are compiled with this level of aesthetic skill that they fully bloom."
FlowerMachine-1009
CD
$15.00

Various
Best of Flipside (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25TH)
PS, US 126-minute DVD featuring vintage live performances by BAD RELIGION, CIRCLE JERKS, THE WEIRDOS, and THE DICKIES. These performances, originally released on VHS as "Best Of Flipside Vol.1" and "Best Of Flipside Vol.6," capture all the aggressiveness and energy of the L.A. punk scene in the mid-80s. The DVD also features bonus live tracks from D.O.A. and DEAD KENNEDYS.
FlipsideVideo
DVD
$14.00

Various
MMM050 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 25th)
PS, UK Make Mine Music releases a collection of exclusive tracks showcasing the work of artists on the innovative label, as it reaches its landmark 50th release on Monday 24 November. The compilation includes new recruits Piano Magic and Calder, label favorites Epic45 and the musical return of label founder Scott Sinfield aka Portal. After quietly releasing a range of critically acclaimed albums and EPs, Make Mine Music now boldly states its manifesto. These are difficult times for the music industry with file sharing, illegal downloads and falling sales. The traditional music business model is failing and record labels are scrabbling to find a way to survive. Artists too are campaigning for better copyright laws and greater shares of royalties through coalitions. But these still rely on an outdated model of releasing music. For Make Mine Music, this isn't a crisis. It's a golden opportunity. Make Mine Music is a truly radical independent label, run and owned by the artists themselves. The artists pay for the manufacture and promotion of their own records and correspondingly receive 100% of any income generated. There are no management pockets to line, no shareholders to please, no restrictive contracts or demands placed upon the artists. Six years and 50 releases after its inception, Make Mine Music is proof that there is another way. It's time for other artists and labels to catch up. Tracklisting: Millimetrik Ignacio Ramonet et le Metronidazole, Avrocar Two Silver Czars, Schengen The Prince (From Ueno), The Doldrums Try A New Thing, Glen Johnson A Pause in the Night, Portal Prana (Slow Burner), Piano Magic Western Gothic, Yellow6 Day in Pripyat, Planivaar Slow Motion, Epic45 In All the Empty Houses, All Sides Marathon, Innerise Dreams at E38th Street, Weyland No, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Story, Still Crescent In A Northern Landscape, Jelly Antler Back to School (Original Edit), Calder Old.
MakeMineMusic-050
CD
$12.25

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

Welcome Wagon, The
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US This debut album unveils a ramshackle sing-a-long enterprise of a Presbyterian pastor (the Rev. Vito Aiuto) & his wife (Monique) wrestling out the influences of folk music, religion, popular culture, & church tradition in a collection of songs that is as soulful as it is good-humored.
AsthmaticKitty-45
CD
$11.50

Weller, Paul
Weller at the BBC [deluxe boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 9TH)
PS, US Stunning 74-track, all digitally-remastered 4CD HARD-BACK BOOK set of exclusive BBC sessions & live concert tracks from 1990-2008. Discs 1&2 feature key session tracks from 1992-2008, including 40 unreleased versions. Discs 3&4 feature 34 of the best live concert tracks from 6 BBC-recorded shows from 1990-1998. The 64-page booklet houses new extensive liner notes as well as never before published interviews.
YepRoc-2626
CD-BOX
$59.50

Werewolves
ES (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 2ND)
PS, US DBL 7", LIMITED TO 500 HAND-NUMBERED COPIES. Brooklyn 5-piece thrives on eclectic inspirations, bringing an intense energy w/ vibrations that penetrate the soul & take the mind into unoccupied space. Layered textures w/ hard-hitting sonic pulses of rhythm & melody transform into an all-out explosion of passion & desire. Solely analog, the raw and organic recording shows off their paralyzing kinetic energy & adds to the aesthetic of their sound.
BNSSessions
45
$3.75

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

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Alps, The “III ” LP $17.75

Barr, Brad “The Fall Apartment: Instrumental Guitar” CD $12.00

Biosphere “Substrata 2” DCD $17.75

Boston Spaceships “Brown Submarine” CD $15.25

Boston Spaceships “Brown Submarine” LP $17.00

Cale, John “Process OST” CD $16.25

Colourmusic “f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13” CD $13.75

Dear, Matthew “Dog Days: The Robsoul Remixes” 12 $11.50

Drones “The Minotaur + A Brief Retrospective” LP $12.25

Hi-Fi's, The “Snakes And Hi-Fis” CD $21.00

Kjersem, Hilde Marie “A Killer For That Ache” CD $16.25

Louvin, Charlie “Steps To Heaven” CD $13.00

Maniac's Dream “Zanzibar” LP $13.00

Nightmares On Wax “Thought So” LP $20.00

Nonagon “No Sun” CD5 $7.00

Oil Tasters “S-T” CD $12.25

O'Rourke, Jim “Despite The Water Supply” 45 $6.75

Pixies, The “Bossanova [vinyl re-issue]” LP $15.00

Plush “Fed” CD $18.25

Radiohead “The Bends” LP $19.00

Relatively Clean Rivers “S-T” CD $16.25

Replacements, The “Please To Meet Me [remaster, vinyl re-issue]” LP $17.75

Stott, Andy “Unknown Exception” CD $14.25

Tindersticks “The Hungry Saw” LP $17.00

Tindersticks “The Hungry Saw” CD $15.25

Toral, Rafael “Space” DLP $19.50

Toral, Rafael “Space Solo 1” LP $15.00

Tucker, Alexander “Portal” CD $14.25

Tucker, Mark “In The Sack” CD $12.50

Tweak Bird “Reservations” CD5 $7.00

Various “Cosmic Balearic Beats Vol. 1” CD $16.25

Various “Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me!: Female Blues Singers - Rarities 1923-1930” LP $14.25

Various “Cocoon Morphs Tokyo” CD $16.25

Volcano! “Paperwork” CD $15.25