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New Releases

60 Watt Kid
Time Change
PS, US Kevin Litrow left the racket dance sounds of Dance Disaster Movement for a psychedelic acoustic collage which he dubbed as 60 Watt Kid. This EP captures the most beautiful moments of the now out of print full length with the addition of 3 unreleased tracks. Intergalactic pop with plenty of acoustics & electronics. This EP is stripped down yet incredibly epic!
Oedipus-009
CD
$8.25

8-Bit Operators
Tribute to Kraftwerk
PS, US Feat. interpretations of classic Kraftwerk songs, arranged primarily on Lo-bit microchip & handheld controlled synthesizers, such as Gameboys, NES systems & Commodores & a selection of the best musical innovators, & several of the inventors themselves. These are not merely faithful reproductions of songs, but truly inspired re-interpretations that use a relatively limited technological framework to its furthest reaches.
Astralwerks
CD
$13.25

A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Scribble Mural Comic Journal
PS, US Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin', and all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's A Sunny Day in Glasgow adds lush female vocals and dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin and Lauren's vocals glisten for thirteen storied tracks on "Scribble Mural Comic Journal." The album succeeds in marrying Cocteau Twins' otherwordliness, JAMC white noise, the best aspects of early Aphex Twin, and the jangle of "Strawberry Wine" era MBV to create pop music that somehow makes sense despite making no sense. (4 stars) Like Grizzly Bear, ASDIG's got a steep pop-to-noise curve, so their most gorgeous melodies become thick and swampy before you've noticed the tide has come in. Even the brightest colors look black if you smear them all together." - Pitchfork " (9 out of 10) Captivating. Stunning. A Sunny Day in Glasgow has single-handedly returned the shoegazer genre to its former glory. One of the best releases of 2006!" -Under the Radar
Notenuf
CD
$12.25

AA Tigre
Felicidades
PS, SPAIN The songs are stretched about as if tensed by strings manipulated by struggling automatons whom are unpredictable, deconstructing the structure until they are impregnated with a personality which is deliberately imperfect as an unfinished sketch, as an analgesic dissolving within an organism, taking effect slowly, and opting to use the label of autistic folk, due to his rejection to that which has been stipulated, and his almost harmful sensibility.
Aarecords-10
LP
$17.50

Air Formation
Daylight Storms (ON SALE)
PS, UK After last years astounding 57 Octaves Below EP, Brighton's Air Formation are back with their third album. Recorded over the Summer with producer Pat Collier, mastered by Shimmydisc/Bongwater maestro Kramer Daylight Storms is their most accomplished work to date. Drawing from the likes of eighties shoegazers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, as well as lesser known noise-dreamers like the fabulously mysterious Flying Saucer Attack, Air Formation sit comfortably alongside the current crop, Sigur Ros, Long-View, Mew et al while at the same time following a path of their very own making. Think Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, the sound of jet engines. Air Formation can go from breathy escapism to futuristic terrorcaust in a matter of minutes whilst still encapsulating the listener. Live shows are rare but stunning, recent supports have included Mark Gardner, Ulrich Schnauss and Rachel Goswell. The band will be back to delight in the Spring.
ClubAC30-304012
CD
$15.00

Analogue Minefield
A Fine Adjustment Of Time
PS, UK Blending elements of trip-hop, reggae, drum & bass and ambient, Dublin-based Analogue Mindfield's music was described by Cheshire Cat of Leftfield as "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with a vibrant brass-driven trip - they skank like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts". Analogue Mindfield are Snapper J, Gizzy D, Lariman, Yolazy and Kitty B. Their Mission Statement is simple "Create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes." - Gizzy D. The band have worked on a number of collaborations for these recordings including: Tim Bran Subsonar, Dreadzone, Transmission] Dr Das [Asian Dub Foundation], Eric Rico [producer/remixer Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, Tupac Shakur Tribute album], Belka & Strelka [The Orb, The Transit Kings] Electric Forgiveness [Jon Dawson - Third of Never, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick - the Who, Bob Marley]. Snapper J and Gizzy D met while playing with Irish urban guerrillas The Subtonics. Snapper J began his musical career fronting one of Ireland's most popular reggae bands Keltic Posse, gigging with reggae legends Derrick Morgan and Laurel Aiken as their support band, whilst in their own right headlining at The Montreaux Jazz festival. Gizzy D, founding member and resident producer of Loop Studios in Dublin has worked with Primal Scream, The Thrills, Shane McGowan, Thin Lizzy, Relish, Andy Rourke [The Smiths], The Frames, Jerry Fish, Blood or WhiskeyŠ and more. He is also a director of www.cpu.ie, Ireland's biggest online music resource. Nigerian-born Lariman originally shot to fame in Turkey where he was the leader in the vibrant reggae scene that swept the country in the 90's. Moving from there to Ireland he became the resident MC for the legendary Firehouse Skank Soundsystem performing alongside Brother Culture [Trojan Soundsystem] and supporting reggae superstars Lee Scratch Perry and The Skatalites. Kitty B's reputation as one of Dublin's most respected session vocalists, brought her to the attention of Snapper J and Gizzy D, who recruited her for the current album. Since then she has worked with Belka & Strelka and is due to record with labelmates Transit Kings [Alex Paterson, Dom Beken, Guy Pratt] in the near future.Yolazy, musician/producer/remixer first began working with Analogue Mindfield when he added some drum tracks and mastered their first album. He has worked with Colm O'coisoig [My Bloody Valentine], Leroy [The Prodigy], Nina Hynes, Produkt, The Pale, Stano, and has remixed and mastered for a host of others.
MaliciousDamage-621
CD
$16.00

Aqueduct
Or Give Me Death
PS, US If you're familiar w/ Aqueduct you'll be happy to hear that David Terry's love of the pop hook has only gotten stronger w /time. However, unlike" I Sold Gold's" huge blown out drum sounds & blip-pop synths, "Or Give Me Death" finds him broadening his tonal horizons to encompass mariachi horns, Gershwin-esque strings, looped & layered vocals, & grand piano. There's also quite a lot more electric guitar, & it contains the best song about The Princess Bride EVER! Super cool cover art includes interactive acetate skull layer.
Barsuk-063
CD
$11.75

Arab Strap
Ten Years of Tears
PS, SCOTLAND Recently disbanded Scot's swan song compilation of singles, rarities, demos and live recordings. Includes 2 bonus songs (hidden?) at the end: a 1995 demo by Aidan called 'Bon Voyage' and a cover of 'It's A Heartache' recorded in 2006. Official tracklist: 01 Preface: Set The Scene / 02 Islands (demo) / 03 The First Big Weekend / 04 Gilded (live) / 05 I Saw You / 06 The Clearing / 07 Packs Of Three (2006) / 08 (Afternoon) Soaps / 09 Rocket Take Your Turn / 10 To All A Good Night / 11 Turbulence (Bis remix) / 12 The Shy Retirer / 13 Blood (live) / 14 (If There's) No Hope For Us (Rogue version) / 15 Where We've Left Our Love / 16 The Girl I Loved Before I Fucked (with full band) / 17 Oxytocin (demo) / 18 There Is No Ending
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$15.50

Arkansaw Man
S/T
PS, US Here is the unlikely CD debut of ARKANSAW MAN, a wildly obscure San Francisco art-punk band that flickered to life all so briefly in 1981. 25 minutes of music, 25 years ago and sayonara. Still, the best things in life - in the life of music, anyway - often are tucked away where they are hard to find. With a brilliant economy of means and sparseness reminiscent of dub, the band got an amazing jump start on post-Rock. It revels in terse and choppy guitar, the languid, sour leakage of keyboards and horns, and occasional lyrics sung as ironic disclaimer, while the spare yet vaguely ominous bass lines recall the Gang of Four played back at 4 RPM. A quarter of a century ago, the spindly funk machinery and discordant scraping guitars of Arkansaw Man failed to give the world much to latch onto, so its music got lost, abandoned in a locker at pop culture's bus depot, the key left floating in a gutter somewhere one day to be scavenged. There's no better place to find a glimmer of artistic gold.
TableOfTheElements-805
CD5
$9.00

Ashley, Greg
Painted Garden
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman-098
LP
$10.50

Ashley, Greg
Painted Garden
PS, US The mastermind behind THE GRIS GRIS & THE MIRRORS is going solo for the first time since 1993. Beautifully orchestrated, sometimes fragile & always fuzzy, the album features great tunes, proof that the young songwriter's star is still on the rise. Written, produced & performed almost entirely by the artist, this is a true vision realized, & puts him right up there w/ the great musical minds of the day.
Birdman-098
CD
$13.25

Audionom
Retrospectiv [domestic version]
PS, US Formed from the ashes of punk/experimental legends Apparat (not the German Apparat, the Swedish one) and PVC in the late 90's, Audionom is a Stockholm supergroup that quickly became a popular live act known for its abrasive shows that also integrated the films of member Martin Malm. The band's hypnotic pummeling sound took inspiration from their love for such early experimental visionaries as Hawkwind, Brian Eno, and Neu! Nowhere is this more evident then on their full length debut Retrospektiv, which is comprised of material taken from various recordings and incarnations spanning 1999-2002. Repetition is definitely a reoccurring theme on Retrospektiv. Whether it's the punishing monotonous sound in opener "Ljusets Krigare", the electronically-keyed "Kristall," or avant Joy Division-esque "And You Said I Was The Only One," the merging of electronic and punk rock is repeated throughout the entire record.
Kemado-028
CD
$13.00

Awesome Color
S/T
PS, US Brooklyn's (by way of Ann Arbor) AWESOME COLOR's debut full-length is a mother of a scorched groover. Just check out the track "Free Man," it says it all. Guitarist DEREK STANTON, drummer ALLISON BUSCH, and bassist MICHAEL TROUTMAN have been blowing minds with heavy, cosmic guitars and a rhythm section like a freight train. When they play, they're often joined by brothers and sisters grabbing instruments and getting loud: barefoot guitar solos, sax in the aisles and wolf dancing all around. Produced by THURSTON MOORE, ANDREW KESIN and the band. Pressed on red vinyl and packaged in gatefold sleeves. CD released on Ecstatic Peace.
AmericanDust-101
LP
$9.50

Bark Haze, The
Unititled
PS, US This limited edition lp was pressed in an edition of 500 with letterpressed covers done by Manifesto. These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze compact disc also on Important Records. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops et al). Their name came from a mis-hearing of the radical early 70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mis-hearing and allegiance to presenting the mis-hearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity. So far all concerts have taken place in Western Massachusetts and once in the confines of Cambridge, MA's Twisted Village record emporium. They anxiously await their debut gig in the UK at the Nightmare Before Christmas event curated by Moore. As the heroic and potentially bonkers Carpenters refrained We've Only Just Begun. Damn straight.
Important-128
LP
$12.75

Barn Burning
Werner Ghost Truck
PS, US Darker & more diverse landscape than their first album. Second release is a journey through soundscapes, moods & stark images- filled with the sounds of empty rooms, cold stairwells & shortwave radio frequencies. Whispered, quiet finger-picking exploding into loud guitars & distorted violins then dying back down again into whispers & piano pieces: Alt-folk/Dark Indie Country.
Tarnished
CD
$10.00

Barr
Summary
PS, US His most musical BARR record to date, Brendan explores more of a pop sensibility (w/out ever becoming poppy) w/ a new means of lyrical narrative & execution. The collection of works spans 5 tumultuous months of triumphs, failures, loss & growth & evokes a spectrum of raw emotion, as would a novel, a movie, a sonnet, or a classical concerto.
5RueChristine-065
CD
$13.25

Barr/This Song Is A Mess
Split
PS, US An amazing effort by two of Los Angeles' most innovative artists. Electronic L.A. posterchildTSIAM contributes an apocolyptic dance revolution while Kill Rock Stars recording artistBarr dares to ask the question "remember how we all liked modest mouse?" Limited to 550 copies and comes with an exclusive pictureby Xiu Xiu tour manager David Horovitz
Oedipus-005
45
$5.50

Bear Colony
We Came Here To Die
PS, US The unfortunate inspiration behind the composition of this album came from primary songwriter Vince Griffins misdiagnosis of Crohns Disease. Vince was bedridden for several months & began writing the songs as an outlet. Leaning on his musician friends around him, Vince began sharing the early BC material over the internet & the collaborative process began. The core nucleus of the group became Vince, Brooks Tipton (UNWED SAILOR), Adam Putnam, Matthew Putnam (ex-LOVEDRUG), Chase Pagan (MILITIA GROUP label) & Kyle Smith. What began as a fun tape swap among friends to escape from the mundane quickly became a true band of seven members, all bringing their own contribution to the creative collective table
Esperanza-009
CD
$12.50

Beauty Shop
Crisis Helpline
PS, US Their edgy lo-fi country noir sound owes as much to J Mascis as it does to Johnny Cash. Beautiful. Essential. They turn acoustic punk rock down to 9 1/2 instead of up to 11, with a little taste of alt.country thrown in for good measure.
Snapper-943
CD
$15.75

Bermon, Victor
Arriving At Night
PS, US Where did the quiet romantic composers working within electronic music's own folk form go? We need them back, which is maybe why Victor Bermon seems like a rebel whose cause is already lost in the slipped-stream of popular opinion. Tracks glide on backbeats that hearken back to crate-dug jazz records, warm wide chords & layers of melodic counterpoint. Acoustic guitars strum in the background, or pick their way through the fore, but they always welcome the dawn.
Hefty-060
CD
$11.25

Berner, Martha
Ten Tiny Little Pieces
PS, US 4-Song EP including an amazing cover of The Velet Underground's "Sunday Morning". "Ten Tiny Little Pieces E.P." was recorded on a crisp, sunny, fall afternoon in October. October 8, 2006 to be exact. It was Sunday and all songs were, for the most part, recorded live on that day. The weekend would be a whirlwind of arranging, rehearsing, rehearsing and arranging, and these rough, acoustic demos had no idea what was about to happen to them. This combination of talented players would prove to be just the right blend of personalities and musical tastes to take them on. Martha blends acoustic folk with the energetic passion of rock & roll.
MachineRecords-
CD5
$7.00

Besnard Lakes, The
The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
PS, US Rich with BEACH BOYS style harmonies, ROY ORBISON reverbs and orchestra, PINK FLOYD's pacing and FREDDY MERCURY's falsetto, "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse" is a luxurious foray into sound and music. This is the second record by THE BESNARD LAKES, Montrealers by way of Western Canada. Their independently released previous record, "Volume I", came out in 2004, and it was noticed by critics but was largely overlooked by the public at large. On both records, The Besnard Lakes have shown that they are masters of finely-honed experimental pop songs that invoke the eerie Lynchian setting as aided and abetted by the music of Julee Cruise. But, on "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse", the band throws into the mix a mad dash of FLEETWOOD MAC proportioned swagger and ambition. Not so incidentally, The Besnard Lakes have created a masterpiece that will resonate within all quarters, amongst critics, casual and not-so-casual rock listeners, garden variety pop fans and headphone junkies.
Jagjagwar-106
LP
$10.25

Bethany & Rufus
900 Miles
PS, US The duo comprised of BETHANY YARROW (daughter of Peter Yarrow) & RUFUS CAPPADOCIA, refine their vast influences through the minimalist combo of voice & cello, while focusing their attn on traditional songs from America's gritty folk past.
Hyena
CD
$16.25

Big Takeover, The
#59 (Decemberists Cover)
PS, US RESTOCKED!!! Interviews: Decemberists (cover), Sonic Youth, Fiery Furnaces, Jello Biafra, Long Blondes, Franz Ferdinand pt. 2, Hidden Cameras, Richey Furay (Buffalo Springfield/Poco), Neil Innes (Rutles), Bats, New York Dolls pt. 2, St. Etienne, Nick Garrie, Pernice Brothers, Art Brut, Magic Numbers, Futureheads, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate) Snow Patrol, Alejandro Escovedo, Freeheat (ex-JaMC), Calexico, Phoenix, Happy Hate Me Nots, Denver Bands.
Editorials: Rabid: Farewell to CBGB/Bowery, Ackerman: Rock's Great B List Bands, Sommer: Neu! and Motorik.
Live Reviews: Jon Auer, Avengers, Belle & Sebastian, The Boys (reunion), Buzzcocks, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, English Beat, Golden Smog, Ipanema (ex-Mega City 4), Mission of Burma, Radio Birdman, Radiohead, Rogue Wave, Voxtrot, The Who. CD Reviews: Don McGlashan (ex-Mutton Birds), Humphreys & Keen (Abel Tasmans), Libertines U.S., Roddy Frame, Rifles, Greg Graffin, Wild Carnation, Shack, Neil Young, Fields, Lemonheads, The Sound, Robert Pollard, Black Watch, Bad Brains, Wire Jerry Lee Lewis, Byrds, Fats Waller, Camera Obscura, and more.
BigTakeover
ZINE
$5.75

Black Lips
Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
PS, US Now 22 years old, The Black Lips are grizzled veterans and kings of the psychedelic garage rock underground and legends in the scene. Playing the self-coined "flower punk" in the vein of Nuggets-faves The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators, live or on record it's hard to hide the fun these boys have and impossible to describe their unpredictable live show and how uninhibited the audiences are. This record is an amazing primer of Black Lips greatest hits. Contains new versions of tracks taken from their three previous albums and multiple singles. The music is every bit as deceptively sweet and dangerous as the city they recorded in - Tijuana
Vice
CD
$10.75

Black Rose Band
Hot Box/Hoochie Poochie
PS, US 500 Black Vinyl. 2 tracks . King Louie's post-disaster outfit, with other NOLA citizens including the guitar player from The Detonations & members of the Scrips & Kondor. Both songs really have a hot & sweaty Southern rock vibe w/ a devil-may-care 'tude. A must have for any Harahan Fats fan & includes lyrics on the back sleeve.
Contaminated-011
45
$5.00

Black To Comm
Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun...
PS, GERMANY "Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun..." is the rather weird title for Black To Comm's 2nd Album release within 12 months, this time coming out on a gorgeous vinyl-only double-LP with a beautifully strange gatefold sleeve in a limited edition of 500 copies. Black To Comm is the nom de plume for Hamburg's Dekorder label head honcho Marc Richter's sonic voyages. In 2006 he released a 7" lathe cut picture disc ("Levitation"), his debut album "Rückwärts Backwards" on CD and very limited vinyl and compilation tracks for the Finnish 267 Lattajjaa and Ukrainian Quasipop labels. While the first album was mainly constructed from dusty vinyl and shellac loops, the new album is based on "real" instruments including several antique organs, electric harmonium, acoustic & electric guitars, bells, clattery percussion, vintage effect pedals and tape loops thereof. Richter builds up massive psychedelic one-chord drones, minimal yet dense and heavily layered, full of spacious details and swirling melodies buried within. Each track is slowly building, drifting and floating hypnotically into a warm and shimmering black ocean of sonic liquid, creating a mesmerizing and mysterious mass of sound. While most of the works are thick monotone layers of organic sound there's some sort of simple songwriting gleaming constantly through the mist, making this a highly accessible drone album. Guest musicians are Hamburg visual artist Renate Nikolaus on electric & acoustic guitars and voice and electro-acoustic musician Gregory Büttner on trumpet.
Dekorder-19
DLP
$17.50

Black Velvet
Is It Me You Really Love
PS, US Another in the hidden gems series from Blacktop Records. This one's taken from the master tapes which have been remixed & remastered w/ instrumental versions of the 2 tracks now included. Teenage female vocal trio sing about the blurry lines between love & sex. A slow jam w/hard hitting drums on a CLASSIC. Flip is more conventional funk w/extra Jersey "crack" that sets it apart.
LatinExpress-014
12
$6.25

Bob & Gene
If This World Were Mine
PS, US Presented in its entirety for the first time. Bob & Gene's full length album. Some of the deepest & sweetest Soul sides ever carved into wax. Features recordings only previously available on rare 45's in the hands of a few collectors, as well as unreleased material.
Daptone-010
LP
$14.50

Boyracer
It's Not True Grit
PS, US
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe
45
$4.00

Bunny Rabbit
Lovers & Crypts
PS, US A record of midnight freestyle nursey rhymes bred through the martyrs of hip hop, punk & folk. The essential delivery of nightmarish prophecies, hallucinogenic dark beats, seductive sweet melodies & raunchy raps are said to arouse feelings of "deep seeded shame & inexorable ass shaking." She's also produced tracks & toured w/ CocoRosie.
VE-004CD
CD
$13.25

Bunyan, Vashti
Lookaftering
PS, US FINALLY!! Deluxe gatefold jacked w/tip-on style sleeve. Incl. contributions
from JOANNA NEWSOM, DEVENDRA BANHAT, ADEM, MICE PARADE, CURRITUCK COUNTY
DiCristina-006
LP
$13.50

Call Me Lightning
Soft Skeletons
PS, US Milwaukee trio create frenetic post-punk informed by Talking Heads' quirky pop & Jesus Lizards' rambunctious absurdism. Follow up to 2004 debut, Soft Skeletons is an 11 song blast of youthful energy, wicked riffery & unapologetic fun.
FrenchKiss-029
CD
$14.50

Calla
Strength In Numbers
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BeggarsBanquet
LP
$10.75

Calla
Strength In Numbers
PS, US Calla's sophomore effort encompasses their signature experimental raw sound. Written and recorded while on tour abroad and in their hometowns, the band had a chance to focus on their collections of field recordings for this release. They've created their own identity, while at the same time have been compared to Nick Cave and Low. "Burrowing into dark corners of new wave's shiny, happy side, the band Calla finds something more than brooding and vintage black couture" - NY Times. "Calla prove that emotional savagery can be a beautiful thing" - Rolling Stone.
BeggarsBanquet
CD
$13.25

Campbell, Glen
Best of The Glen Campbell Music Show
PS, UK The best of 3 performances in the early 70's - the peak of Campbell's career. This DVD represents the best performances from a string of concerts filmed by Ember in the early 70s - the peak of Campbell's career. The first was a recording of a show at The Talk Of The Town in '72, then through '75 Campbell six TV shows broadcast by the BBC. Backed by his then regular band and the BBC Concert Orchestra, Campbell performed live his greatest hits plus other favorite songs of his choosing. The performances are brilliant, the backing very tight, the sound recording excellent, and all filmed in gloriously gaudy 1970s color schemes. This includes his best known hits and interesting covers. Song Titles: Dream Baby, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Mary In The Morning, Try A Little Kindness, Gentle On My Mind, Ocean In His Eyes, Time In A Bottle, The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Country Boy, Oklahoma Sunday Morning, It Must Be A Sin When You Love Somebody, The Moons A Harsh Mistress, Aint No Sunshine, Oh Happy Day
RPM-2
DVD
$12.75

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone/Foot Foot
It's a Crime (Split)
PS, US
Oedipus
45
$5.50

Chelsea
Faster, Cheaper & Better Looking
PS, US Brand new album from veterans of the original U.K. Punk movement! First studio album in over a decade & the first time the trio of James Stevenson (ALARM, CULT, GENERATION X), Chris Bashford & Gene October have played on a record together since 1979! The boys are joined by Tony Barber of the BUZZCOCKS on this tour de force of a comeback album. Great `77 style Punk Rock- melodic but fast & with great, poignant lyrics.
TKO-164
CD
$12.75

Chrysler, The
Cold War Classic [U.S. Edition] (ON SALE)
PS, US Domestic release for The Chrysler's second album, with 5 bonus tracks. 'Cold War Classic' is the second full-length release from mysterious Swedish folk-pop band The Chrysler, recorded in a little cabin outside Katrineholm, Sweden; an album filled with hope, agony, and clarinets. The band's debut album 'Failures And Sparks' was well-received by music writers, who have compared The Chrysler's enigmatic, bonfire folk and baroque, jangling pop to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Lambchop, and Norway's Kings Of Convenience. Guest appearances by Laakso vocalist Martin Krunnegard and Swedish songstress Britta Person. As with their debut album 'Failures And Sparks', released in late-2005 by Galaxy Gramophone/PLG, the U.S. edition of 'Cold War Classic' will be augmented with five bonus tracks, the songs from their Blue Gold and First Blood EPs, including their cover of Bob Dylan's "Changing of the Guards".
CD
$9.00

Circle
Tower
PS, US Although still bearing the moniker 'New wave of Finnish heavy metal', this one definitely bares more relationship to In a Silent Way than Aces High. No sign of vocals at all, just chilled-out grooves that still have Prospekt at their core (though perhaps their exterior is more like a heavily sedated Soft Machine?). The line-up is the current core of Circle + Mika Rintala (Verde) so he is listed here as special guest super-star
LastVisibleDog-112
CD
$11.75

Conn, Bobby
King For A Day
PS, US "Its about my desperate attempt to lose myself in a candy-colored fantasyland of freaks & fairies. Its an urge that I think lots of us share, especially these days as the real world is getting increasingly grim. The album starts w/ an 8-min epic w/ strings, a choir singing in Latin, a blinding, atonal guitar solo & birds singing before the dawn. There are psychedelic interludes & instrumental passages between more conventional 'pop' songs & the album ends w/ a triumphant/tragic piano ballad," says Bobby. Feat. The Glass Gypsies & members of The Detholz! & Mahjonng & 3 bonus videos
ThrillJockey-177
CD
$13.25

Daniels, David Karsten
Sharp Teeth
PS, US A compelling exploration of moral ambiguity & perhaps-unavoidable human disconnection, suggesting modern
American folk music in the Southern tradition: often deathly slow, like life in the South, and haunted by religion- but unable to find
answers in its Bible. The sounds of the South appear as well; Nashville's slide guitars, nods to Dixieland Jazz, drums, horns, choirs & epic string arrangements take their places in songs that, despite their grand scale, manage to be concise & immediate, conveying a distinct love of pop music.
FatCat-051
CD
$13.25

Dark Fog
Ultimate Cult of Psychedelic Psychosis
PS, US Sophmore release from this Chicago psyche quartet delivers siren songs summoned from realms of incantation, trance & dream w/ high mass revelations channeled from subvert parallel universes. Starkly subtle yet profound, lurid & alluring, this album goes off the edge & at the same time leaps into the light.
OriginalSound-009
CD
$6.75

Deerhoof
Friend Opportunity
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ChildrenOfHoof-025
LP
$15.00

Diagram Brothers
Some Marvels of Modern Science + Singles
PS, UK 24 tracks. Digitally remastered from the original studio tapes, Some Marvels of Modern Science + Singles features 24 tracks and runs for 74 minutes. In addition to all 14 tracks from their 1981 album on the New Hormones label (founded by Buzzcocks), the CD also features ten bonus tracks from all four singles released between 1980 and 1982, including the cult favourites Bricks and Discordo, as well as the ultra-rare Diagram Brothers German EP. Often compared to XTC, Gang of Four and Fire Engines in their day, The Diagram Brothers invented and defined their sound 'discordo' as follows: "The music was made to a strict formula, or set of rules. All the guitar chords were based on discordant notes, all the beats were very simple rock or disco, and all the words very straightforward and down to earth." Some Marvels Of Modern Science drew warm reviews on release in 1981: "The Diagram Brothers play an extraordinary, quirky, jerky brand of speedo funk, as if some Pavlovian behaviourist has got hold of The Gang of Four and started to do tricky experiments on them... Science before sentience, the didactic before the ecstatic seems to be the unusual anti-rock n' roll idea... This is an album of observations which are never dull, and of music which - in spite of being clinical - is never cold. I quite warm to this kind of off-beat fun and to the proof that the English eccentric spirit needn't necessarily take twee grown-up public schoolboy forms." (NME). The CD booklet features a deluxe 16 pages booklet featuring facsimile artwork and detailed liner notes.
LTM-2480
CD
$15.00

Distance
My Demons
PS, US Debut album from Bromley, England's top dubstep producer. A resident DJ on influential UK radio station Rinse 100.3 FM, he rose to prominence w/ Sting Records tracks. This new album is another leap into uncharted dubstep territory. It collects all the dubs the artist's been working on over the past year incl. the haunting "Mistral," the booming breaks of "Weigh Down" & the long-awaited "Night Vision".
PlanetMu-170
CD
$15.00

Distance
My Demons
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu-170
DLP
$18.75

Dolorean
You Can't Win
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc-2109
LP
$14.50

Dolorean
You Can't Win
PS, US Another collection of melancholy & stunningly beautiful folk pop songs. Singer Al James completed the eleven new songs here after Dolorean's 2005 European tour & before long, the band performed the set live at two gigs within two weeks at one bar in their hometown of Portland, OR. After these two brief outings, James & cohorts promptly went into the studio & recorded all the basic tracks in one weekend. Cinematic & haunting in their imagery, the songs on- from the spooky opening percussion on the title track to the closing notes of "My Still Life"
YepRoc-2109
CD
$14.50

Dora Flood
We Live Now
PS, US Over the course of their five LPs and one EP, Dora Flood has produced some of the most notable shoegazing dream pop to come out of the United States. Their brand new effort, We Live Now, is perhaps the acclaimed San Francisco group's heaviest sounding release to date with nods to late '60s and early '70s interstellar boogie rock spliced into the heady mix. With praise coming from discerning music magazines like The Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Losing Today and Ptolemaic Terrascope, it is no wonder that audiences leave Dora Flood's shows feeling that they witnessed something of a secret, psychedelic phenomenon. These live close encounters, as well as their classic studio work, leave listeners with bold memories of pounding grooves, lush orchestration, and melodies so timeless that they take up residence in the heads of those fortunate enough to cross their path.
ElephantStone-1016
CD
$11.00

Eats Tapes
Dos Mutantes
PS, US Here they triumphantly return w/ 10 relentless brain smashers! Feat. a battery of hardware sequencers, synths, modified drum machines, cassette players & a midi Nintendo. They specialize in noisy, spazzy techno bangers w/ irresistible hooks. Fusing a variety of influences, they comfortably straddle the San Francisco Bay Area's myriad club, psychedelic noise, & art-rock scenes.
Tigerbeat6
CD
$15.00

Eluvium
Copia
PS, US Following a string of increasingly remarkable albums, ELUVIUM's MATTHEW COOPER set out to broaden his instrumental palette, while maintaining the uncanny emotional resonance that has become his trademark. The result is "Copia", an hour-long epic that applies Eluvium's heartache-inducing ether to a symphony of strings, brass, keyboards and piano. Noticeably absent but hardly missed are the washes of guitars that color most of Eluvium's previous material. The deliberate exclusion of traditional rock instrumentation serves as sufficient proof that the instrument is not Eluvium's driving force. At best it is a catalyst, a vehicle to that netherworld in the back of your head, where your life starts to uncontrollably reevaluate itself.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-110
CD
$11.50

End
Elementary
PS, US RECENT. An incredible listen, this sees them find their own unique voice; balancing world-class musicianship w/ fiery songs that bare the soul & expose the essence of what it means to be real/human. Awe inspiring songs look deep into the heart of human experience & emotion, burining w/ a passion seldom heard in modern music. RIYL: Tool, Isis
Relapse-6593
CD
$13.25

Erasure
On the Road to Nashville (CD/DVD)
PS, US
Mute
CD/DVD
$17.50

Eternals
Heavy International
PS, US International sounds homogenize through twisted, dirty avenues, where the high-rolling boom-box dub kings cruise tropical boulevards, tops down, stereos ablaze at twilight, while the jazzy ladies line up. The Chicago trio's strange rawar style stretches the sonic palette like Reed Richard's (Fantastic Four), whose creator Jack Kirby, plays influence to vocalist Damon Lock's intricately woven album covers depicting dark, rugged city-scapes. The group's third album ups the anti with all chips on the table. Diving deeper into uncharted waters, the musical monsoon continues to saturate their diverse sounds in their own unique vision.
Aesthetics-044
CD
$12.50

Eternals
Heavy International
PS, US Double LP comes w/ free sticker & poster.
Aesthetics-044
DLP
$15.75

Explosions In The Sky
All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
PS, US Thirty seconds is all you'll need to believe in the tragedy-turned-majesty of "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY's long-awaited, very eagerly anticipated fourth album. The hands-over-your-face, drop-to-your-knees opening track is only the beginning of the dominating brilliance of this record. Recorded by JOHN CONGLETON (THE ROOTS, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, the album is a massive leap forward, showcasing a broader instrumental range and their most focused, efficient songwriting. It's also within arm's length of matching the overwhelming glory of their legendary live shows, trading in the crystalline production of "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-099
DLP
$14.25

Explosions In The Sky
All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
PS, US (Limited number of special edition w/ bonus disc). Thirty seconds is all you'll need to believe in the tragedy-turned-majesty of "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY's long-awaited, very eagerly anticipated fourth album. The hands-over-your-face, drop-to-your-knees opening track is only the beginning of the dominating brilliance of this record. Recorded by JOHN CONGLETON (THE ROOTS, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, the album is a massive leap forward, showcasing a broader instrumental range and their most focused, efficient songwriting. It's also within arm's length of matching the overwhelming glory of their legendary live shows, trading in the crystalline production of "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance.
TemporaryResidenceLtd-099
CD
$11.50

Fane, Julian
Our New Quarters
PS, US His new pieces are grounded in live percussion, great swaths of strings, indecipherable high-pitched vocals & lush, sweeping synth effects. These elements, along w/ a strengthened vocal presence, give the music a powerful emotional core. The album wallows deliciously in vast, guitar-laden melancholy, & certain tracks achieve a pristine beauty almost classical in tone.
PlanetMu-161
CD
$15.00

Faust
In Autumn (3XCD/DVD)
PS, UK Krautrock legends Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set. Recorded last year in the UK, their performances featured many Faust enduring classics performed live for the very first time after all these years. The first two CDs in the set are a complete unedited show from the Carling Academy, Newcastle. CD 3 is a collection of tracks culled form other dates on the tour. The DVD also compiles the finest footage form the tour. This tour was hailed as the best so far from Faust since their reformation in 1992, and this fantastic box set really captures a legendary band at the absolute top of their game and truly on fire.32 page booklet and liner notes from Jean-Herve Peron.
DirtierPromotions-059
CD-BOX
$50.00

Feelers
Just Can't Get Enough
PS, US 200 color vinyl. Original press was July 2006 - 500 black vinyl. The vocals sound rougher & the guitars form a solid wall-of-punk sound that can't really be fucked with. The title track is their trademark schizophrenic-punk taken up a notch, definitely the "hit". On the B side things back up, slow 'em down a little again, & just clamp down hard & get into some serious business.
Contaminated-010
45
$5.00

Field Music
Tones Of Towns (ON SALE)
PS, US Whereas their eponymous debut was played & executed with care -dryly produced, ambitiously skewed, multilayered, & engineered to gradually reveal intricacies over repeated listens -this album pushes & scratches at the boundaries of their debut, moving in several directions at once, & taking big risks.
MemphisIndustries-074
CD
$14.00

Frames
The Cost
PS, US One of Ireland's most successful bands, known for their sell-out performances to 20,000 fans in their homeland, as well as their relentless touring schedule across the globe. With their sixth studio album, they've returned to an earlier, simpler mode of recording, in order to finally capture the intensity and ecstasy of their live performances. Retaining the signature Frames feel and texture but with more space and warmth, "The Cost" is, in leader Glen Hansard's words, "our 70's folk record¿Gordon Lightfoot, early Elton John, that kind of feel." With their catchiest songs to date and the intimate feel of their lauded live performances, "The Cost" will lift The Frames alongside bands like Coldplay to inspire and exhilarate us.
ANTI
CD
$14.75

Frith, Fred
The Happy End Problem
PS, US Consists of two, related, small-ensemble works for 6 & 7 musicians respectively - mostly strings, with percussion, flute, clarinet & electronics. FRED, violinist CARLA KILSTEHT & percussionist WILLIE WYNANT play throughout as the music constantly unfolds into new textures & dialects, never hesitating & never marking time. The necessity & simplicity of these pieces conceals a catalogue of experimental techniques and novel ideas - there are those whod have squeezed a score of albums from this material.
ReR-005
CD
$16.00

Frith, Fred
Impur
PS, US In 1996, Fred organized an event at Lecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France involving students grouped according to their departments & separated, each playing musical material Fred had prepared for them. In order to co-ordinate all the groups, everyone followed a precise time-score prepared by Fred. The entire event was recorded on 4 A-DAT machines, & this CD is the result: a lurching, complex & capricious beast w/ many heads: an orchestra tuning up; a salute to Sonny Blount; a roiling chaotic mass of sound splitting into layers, colliding back together, pullulating, ululating, roaring & sometimes mewing like a kitten.
ReR
CD
$16.00

Frivolous
Midnight Black Indulgence
PS, US This marks a watershed in DANIEL GARDNERr's career. For the first time, influences & inspirations are clearly discernible. Moments of pure dance ecstasy are followed by string interludes or appear next to jazz ballads. The connections he makes are of a convincing, almost compelling logic, & derive from his many yrs in the mid-'90s, peddling the new European minimalist sound as a club DJ in Vancouver.
Scape-043
CD
$16.00

F-Space
Preliminary Impact Report
PS, US Powerful, unparalleled musical project by San Francisco artists ETHAN PORT (SAVAGE REPUBLIC) & Scott Jenerik also featuring CHROME drummer Aleph Kali & sometimes MAN IS THE BASTARD DRUMMER Joel Connell. While referencing traditionial rock, punk & ethnic melodies, they also bring in metal, springs, strings & other hardware, often immersing the band in 15 foot fire balls! An apocalyptic giant is born! Played 8 DIY Hit & Run performances from the back of a van at Burning Man last year
Mobilization-501
CD
$13.25

Fu Manchu
We Must Obey
PS, US
CenturyMedia
CD
$16.00

Future Of The Left
Fingers Become Thumbs! + The Lord Hates A Coward b/w The Fibre Provider
PS, US In retrospect the end of mclusky was no great surprise. Strong personalities with strong feelings on many things don't always share the same feelings. No worries though as mclusky mainman Andy Falkous and mclusky drummer Jack Egglestone have teamed up with bassist Kelson Mathias and have seemingly picked up right where mclusky left off.
Pure
45
$3.75

Future Pilot AKA
Secrets From The Clockwise
PS, UK Secrets features collaborations & appearances from members of The Go-Betweens/Sonic Youth/Belle & Sebastion/Can /Stooges/Fire Engines/Concerto Caledonia/Unkle Bob/ Karine Polwart & Alasdair Gray. Some highlights - "TERY BINA (NOTHING WITHOUT YOU)" Kicking off with a cyclic rendition of the classic Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan track featuring vocals contributions from Pilot family members Vinita Dade and 4-year-old Anurudh (pilot in training) singing over a shimmering dulcimer led track. "EYES OF LOVE" Recording very much with the spirit of Two-Tone in mind and the energy of early Kinks, this uplifting summer groover is sung by Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch & Sarah Martin. "IT'S IN THE HEART OF EVERYONE" Simple Mathematics with former Lydia Lunch /Swans/Current 93 collaborator Joe Budenholzer with harmonies from Karine Polwart -minus 4 equals 7 indeed. "BOOMERANG" Slight return-the second coming of our man Joseph Budenholzer. "THE CITY OF LIGHT" The Go-Betweens Robert Forster & Grant McLennan do a 'reading' of this miniscule pop gem, 58 seconds of undiluted Pop to spring clean your mind! "NUCLEAR WAR" Members of Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon), The Fire Engines (Davy Henderson) and Stooges/Minutemen bass legend (Mike Watt) pay homage to the spirit of jazz giant Sun Ra ,on this one of his minimalist compositions from the 70's.This track also features a rare recording of the 'fu-horn' performed by iconic radio producer Stewart Cruickshank. "SHENANDOAH" This haunting folk song features chilling vocals and waterfall piano by Karine Polwart alongside young Glasgow improv percussionist Alex Neilson on loan from Scatter/Glasgow Improviser's Orchestra. "FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS" This historic track documents a genuine piece of 'instant composing' featuring a live jam across the telephone exchange, Sushil K Dade performs on acoustic guitar in Glasgow whilst Damo Suzuki (Can) listens to the chords 'down the line' from his Cologne HQ and responds with his hauntingly poignant, crackly telephone vocals.
CreepingBent-091
CD
$14.00

Giant Robot
#46
PS, US Ura-Harajuku Godfather, Gong Li, Towa Tei, Bons Brigade, Thai Cowboys, and Gloomy Bear!
ZINE
$4.75

Gowns
Red State
PS, US Their debut CD sketches out a vision of what the future of rock could be. Their over the counter psychedelia draws no lines between acoustic guitars & feedbacked pianos. MAE SHI vocalist, Ezra Buchla, AMPS FOR CHRIST guitarist, Erika Anderson & former member of MOUNTAIN GOATS & CURTAINS percussionist Corey Fogel have brought the American West Coast a fertile marriage of eerie folk murmur & crushed, twisted electronics. The sound conjured up is a digitally- ruptured, gospel valentine to the heartlands.
Cardboard-005
CD
$10.00

Group Doueh
Guitar Music From the Western Sahara
PS, US This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp. They play raw & unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. The sound is distorted, loud & unhinged w/ an impressive display of virtuosity & style only known in this part of the world. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl & comes in a gatefold full color jacket stocked w/ great photos of the musicians & liner notes. LIMITED TO 1000.
Sublime
LP
$21.00

Grubbs, David & Susan Howe
Souls of the Labadie Tract
PS, US This takes as its starting point a substantial new poem by HOWE that will appear in a collection bearing the same title, to be published in 2007 by New Directions. The Labadists were a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil County, Maryland in 1684. The community dissolved in 1722. This sustains a sound world of buzzing reeds & electronics.
BlueChopsticks-017
CD
$13.50

Half Cocked
The Movie
PS, US Indie rock/indie film classic where girl & friends steal van of musical instruments & morph into a real band. Featuring the music (and frequently the acting) of RODAN, POLVO, GRIFTERS, UNWOUND, RUBY FALLS, CRAIN. Also incl the feature "Radiation," following the expoits of a tour promoter taking US bands across Spain. RECOMMENDED.
Rumur-004
DVD
$17.00

Harry Roche Constellation
Spiral / Sometimes
PS, UK The last great psychedelic album, 'Spiral' and it's successor 'Sometimes' are restored to the catalogue (together here) for the first time in over thirty years. Completely overlooked when it was first released and quickly deleted, original copies of 'Spiral' have long been the holy grail for collectors, changing hands for ridiculous money. This album crosses over onto the jazz-lounge scene where 'Spiral' is right up there with Roy Budd's 'Get Carter' score. The famous title track features the vocals of Claire Torrey who contributed to Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'.
El-100
CD
$13.00

Hauschka
Room To Expand
PS, US The alias of Dusseldorf-based pianist/composer Volker Bertelmann, whose work is based upon an exploration of the possibilities of the "prepared" piano. Volker explores & influences the outcome of his playing by getting right down inside the instrument- clamping wedges of leather, felt or rubber between the strings; preparing the hammers with aluminium paper or rough films; or weaving guitar strings around the piano's guts. The resulting tracks are composed both originally & charmingly, forming vivid, unconventional pieces made through what Volker terms a playful "research-enthusiasm," much informed by modern electronica or Indonesian gamelan as it is by any classical cannon.
FatCat-1306
CD
$13.25

Hayman, Darren
Under Eastbourne Lights
PS, UK So like the third doctor, Jon Pertwee. Here is the third EP (in a four holiday series) from Darren Hayman. A dandy of a record , it might as well be on purple vinyl in a purple velevet sleeve. With the static brothers in UNIT family mode whilst Mr Hayman parks his yellow car and adjusts his eye patch. So a dandy indeed , four more tracks that touch all the familiar bases and satisfy all your needs, and anyone that disagrees can meet us outside for a venusian karate fight.
StaticCaravan-123-7
45
$7.25

Haysi Fantayzee
Battle Hymns for Children Singing: The Best of Haysi Fantayzee
PS, UK Haysi Fantayzee were formed in 1981 by fashion photographer Kate Garner, former Animal Magnet member Paul Caplin and Jeremy Healy, a well known face on London's club scene. Together they set about injecting a sense of fun and adventure into the music scene, wearing outlandish, self designed costumes and dreadlocks, and writing songs that married sexual subversion with deliberately disposable and cocksure dayglo pop. Their 'Dickensian Rasta' look was an immediate hit and saw their debut single 'John Wayne Is Big Leggy' rise to number 11 in the national charts. In their brief career they would also enjoy chart success with 'Holy Joe' and 'Shiny Shiny'. All three hits are reprised on this CD, as is their sole album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing. The package also features a host of bonus tracks, remixes, and sleevenotes written with the co-operation of both Healy and Garner. The former went on to become one of the UK's most successful DJs, while the latter is an accomplished and in-demand photographer for artists including Sinead O'Connor, Bjork, David Bowie and others.
CherryPop-3
CD
$13.00

Hazard County Girls
Divine Armor
PS, US The group started as a duo w/ drummer Sharon Heather & guitarist Christy Kane.
Crustacean-067
CD
$9.25

Hidden Hand
Resurrection of Whiskey Foot
PS, US Lyrically the band has evolved from their previous politically charged content also incorporating historical story based lyricism. Musically there is a subtle southern or classic rock vibe (ala killer slide playing from WINO & even some Harp by MICHAEL ANTONY MILLER) that creeps into the foundation of their brand of dark, heavy, progressive rock. Only a lineup consisting of the capable ""rock-veterans"" can properly pull off an album of this magnitude.
SouthernLord-070
CD
$14.00

High Llamas
Can Cladders
PS, US They're back & rolling out their sounds w/ soul & bounce hitherto unheard in their halcyon days. The acoustic flavor of "Beet, Maize & Corn" remains present here: a string quartet lays the harmonic bed of the material, joined there by a quartet of female vocalists. All of which lends the gospel truth to the Llamas traditional group profile of piano, bass & drums w/ vibes, organ & a bit of gut-string acoustic for good measure. After all the planning & arrangements, it's a happy record, as happy as we are today.
DragCity-317
CD
$13.50

High Llamas
Can Cladders
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-317
LP
$13.50

High Strung
Moxie Bravo
PS, US A listener might mistake its energy & bombastic sound for one hell of a party record. But if that listener were to allow his ears to fasten onto the songs, he would discover that it's onto something wholly unique. Malermans lyrics sound more like an eerie childrens novel than they do the traditional canon of be-my-girl rock 'n roll. And for this, and for the sheer originality of their arrangements, Moxie Bravo is something to be experienced rather than felt.
ParkTheVan-013
CD
$13.00

Higney, Kenneth
Attic Demonstration
PS, US Available again -- the long-planned reissue of this loner/Real-People album originally issued in 1976 by Higney himself, reissued on CD in 2004. "Kenneth Higney was a struggling singer-songwriter when he cut Attic Demonstration in 1976, a demo record of such massive outsider vision that it dropped straight into the void, as well as the deep pockets of a band of committed record collectors. Initially intended as a calling card to help him get his songs covered by other artists, Higney soon branched out into selling the disc as an actual album, placing low key ads in a couple of NY papers and sending out a bunch of review copies. Only Trouser Press took the bait, saluting Attic Demonstration's 'cross between Lou Reed and Neil Young without the aid of melody.' Now 'officially' available for the first time, Attic Demonstration is one of the most endearing and intensely human 'real people' discs to turn up for a while, boasting Modern Lovers-styled road ballads sung with a Jagger-esque sneer and propelled on pegleg rhythms that would do The Shaggs proud, through meandering tonal wastelands where Higney's eye wateringly unarmoured vocals are supported by minimal chord patterns that progress according to the position of the stars. Best of all is the addition of both sides of Higney's funk/punk tribute single, where he namechecks contemporaries like The Dead Boys and Johnny Thunders and rhymes 'dirty downtown bar' with 'the sissy music of John Denver'. Almost too good to be true." -- David Keenan/The Wire.
Kebrutney
CD
$12.50

Holy Ghost Revival
City Drugs
PS, US
Ttb-001
LP
$10.75

Hot Cross
Risk Revival (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
EqualVision
CD
$13.00

Hubcap City
Superlocalhellfreakride
PS, US BILL TAFT and WILL FRATESI are luminaries of Atlanta's indie rock avant-garde - Taft's legacy as a key player in SMOKE and Fratesi's tenure as the rickety percussionist behind such lonely and urbane Southern specters as CAT POWER and TENEMENT HALLS culminates in HUBCAP CITY with slow, serpentine miasma. "Superlocalhellfreakride" is a guided tour through Atlanta's underbelly; a survey of the acoustics found in its burned-out buildings, graveyards and long-abandoned mills. The humid ghosts of Hubcap City's ancestors, including Smoke, the Jody Grind and Atlanta's seminal Destroy All Music Festivals in the 1980s all echo in these folkish dirges of melody and noise. With each lazy and uplifting honk of the horn over a clatter of strings and metal the group pushes the old weird Atlanta into deeper and higher levels of beautiful imprisonment, and the only way out is through.
TableOfTheElements-112
CD
$13.00

Jain, Essie
We Made This Ourselves
PS, US Accompanied by piano & guitar (as well as other instruments, like drums by JIM WHITE of The Dirty Three), her vocals breathe in the space between the words & phrases. The results are a stunningly emotional album. At the core, the songs are touching, haunting melodies that can strike out on one fragile, repeating note. Yet, they sound indestructible.
BaDaBing!-051
CD
$13.00

Jesu
Conqueror
PS, US J.K. Broadrick's second full-length is packed with eight gorgeously hypnotic tracks. "Conqueror" exhales a dreamlike mist of weighty celestial ambience, underwater phantasms, and slow-rolling nebulae, fomenting the kind of kaleidoscopic rapture - brimming with lush electronics, dulcet guitar textures, massive riffs, and lavish atmospheric hues - that makes us swear we're on drugs.
HydraHead
CD
$13.50

Joakim
Monsters & Silly Songs
PS, US Multi-talented artist, DJ, & producer has returned with a new musical vision. Heavily influenced by artists like John Carpenter, Aphex Twin & Arthur Russel, M&SS focuses on live instrumentation & performance with a healthy dash of pop melody.
K7
CD
$17.00

JVC Force
Force Field
PS, US One of the most overlooked middle school Hip Hop groups, even though "Strong Island" was a classic hit. On this album, the MCs, B-Luv & AJ Rock ripped a hole into the record. Really they are one of the greatest duos of all time. This album showed a higher evolution of skill that completely surpasses "Doin Damage". If you're sleeping, its not too late to wake up.
Traffic-2722
CD
$13.25

Kiev Cuando Nieva
S/T
PS, SPAIN Produced by Rafael Martinez del Pozo (JR), each musical instrument seems to have achieved its due place by a force which has been propelled by a persistent intensity which has made it fundamental. As for the rest, that which was left it has been swiftly swept away by the northern Cierzo wind, or even one from the steppe. Banjos, faulty keyboards, drums which resound as if machinery, guitars that find a space in which to dialogue between the ghostly reminder of a bass that isn't there. The fragile voices make their way among this estranged beauty, and speak of forest keepers, subalterns, trips to hermitages, coincidences, and get-togethers with friends. The record shapes up as the listening continues, like a panoramic view of a world amazed by the smallest details, by the daily baroque, by the melancholy and the humor.
AARecords-12
CD
$13.50

Kuupuu
Unilintu
PS, GERMANY "Unilintu" is the second of two vinyl-only LP's on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from Kuupuu's first four CD-R and cassette releases, this time presenting a slightly darker and even more coherent sonic vision compared to last year's gorgeous "Yökehrä" LP which we sold out immediately (2nd edition is now available). Here's what we said about the first LP: Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu is one of the main movers of the (deservedly) much hyped Finnish Psychedelic Free Folk scene. Originally hailing from Tampere she is known as a core member of Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kukkkiva Poliisi and Maniacs Dream. She has recently started Hertta Lussu Ässä with Lau Nau and Islaja and has collaborated with Tomutonttu (aka Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystävät) and Paavi (as Lussu ja Paavi). This LP is a beautiful collection of haunting home baked freeform folk songs, strange lo-fi loops, vocal drones and psychedelic cut-ups, made using weirdly tuned plucked and strummed strings, bells, clattery percussion, unidentifiable wind instruments, backwards tape loops and a ton of other noisemakers played and recorded by herself; accompanied by her distinctive voice in her native Finnish language making the whole atmosphere even more haunting and mysterious. Jonna Karanka creates an intimate space where the listener feels like sitting next to her in a small chamber or outside in the woods. References: Fursaxa, Vashti Bunyan, Kemialliset Ystävät, Colleen, Animal Collective, Lau Nau, Jewelled Antler, Wooden Wand. "Of all the many travelers in the Finnish psychedelia scene, Kuupuu is surely one of the most enigmatic. (The Wire, September 2006).
Dekoder-018
LP
$13.25

La Buena Vida
Sencillos
PS, SPAIN Digibox with 5 CD singles. There is jovial cheer for the festive season and we are happy to announce a special event. Many people have waited years and years for this release to come out. Loyal followers of pop heartthrobs La Buena Vida will want to rush out to record stores to pick up this singles box set, which spans the band's career from 1992-2000. A gladiatorial thumbs-up gesture from the public is expected on this occasion as most of the material included in this special and deluxe box set is sold out (EP tracks only available on vinyl and classified "on the long deleted" and "impossible to find") including a whole load of rarities and cover versions. "Sencillos" contains 5 CDs that rescue the old times of the best Spanish band of the 1990's. La Buena Vida were the definitive Spanish cult indie pop band, marking the beginning of the smooth guitar pop explosion and seminal to the effervescence of Donosti-pop (Family, Le Mans, Daily Planet and El Joven Bryan). Seen as Siesta heavyweights they remained with us from 1992 to 2003 and left a trademark sound and a formidable discography. Their tasty songs have made them as a historic name with a devoted loyal fan base and they have sparked an underground movement. The early material is a riot of exuberant energy, taking stylistic cues from peers like The Smiths, Orange Juice, BMX Bandits or New Order to the adored big names (Beatles, Love, Beach Boys, Nick Drake). Although they are sometimes pigeonholed as cutie twee-pop, their pieces range from elegant bossa-nova to Motown-soul, from chamber pop to danceable synth-pop. Their cult status in Spain is similar to other examples in Britain such as The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Cure o Prefab Sprout. The outfit was formed in San Sebastian during the summer of 1988. The line-up was singer Irantzu Valencia, guitarists Mikel Aguirre and Javier Sanchez, bassist Pedro San Martin, keyboardist Borja Sanchez, and drummer Raul Sebastian. They finally signed to the fledgling Siesta label in 1992. CD 1: October 1992- the legendary "Historia de un verano" 7"-vinyl EP was released. The quintessential debut EP remains vibrant and punchy today as the best example of innocent, sparkling, iridescent, infectious and refreshing pop, like sunlight on water (Hoy es domingo/ El tren/ Historia de un verano/ Mi reloj). Not strangely it was sold out in just a few months. We have added Tardes de café to the original tracklisting. This song was featured in the Seven Summers compilation (Tweenet / Kindercore) for US and Germany. CD 2: .La Buena Vida's debut LP followed in October 1993, and seven months later the band resurfaced with the EP Mira a tu Alrededor inc. 4 exclusive tracks under another extraordinary jacket artwork by Javier Aramburu. Again the seven inch vinyl got immediately sold-out. The overall tone of the record is a sunshine day with shades that accentuate the brilliance. Each track (Mira a tu alrededor/ Malabares/ Velomar/ La gran familia) is a three minute burst of pop heaven. A bonus track Bajo el paraguas originally included in the Europop EP (Siesta 15) completes the CD. CD 3: September 1995- Magnesia (Magnesia/ Menta y agua/ A pesar de todo/ En bicicleta 1995) was the new pop effort which rocketed the band (being fashioned while being elegant and still having a very eighties feeling). A perfect record for fans of any form of contemporary or retro electronic music, we would dare to say that this was released at the peak of the band's work. The epitome of pop perfection. CD 4: May 2000, Maxi-CD/-EP "Eureka" featuring sophisticated electro pop (Otra vez tú/ Guillermine). As extra tracks, two well crafted and melodic pop gems that appeared in some Siesta mythical compilations Dulce y callado (Expreso) and Mil ventanas abiertas (Sombrero). You'll find yourself humming these indelible tunes all day long... CD 5: Cover Versions: 1994- That summer feeling (Jonathan Richman) and Candy Says (Velvet Underground). 1995- Here, there and everywhere (The Beatles). 1997- Mas yo no tengo nada (Formula V) and a song inspired by the film "Night of the Hunter" from Charles Laughton, H. Powell. 1998- Old man (Love). 2000- Más dura será la caída (Gabinete Caligari) and Cómo pudiste hacerme esto a mí (Dinarama). If you are a LBV fan or completist, this release is absolutely worthy of purchasing.
Siesta-208
CD-BOX
$29.75

La Jr
S/T
PS, SPAIN This is the vinyl edition of CD Album released by Acuarela.
AARecords-00
LP
$14.00

La Jr
El Campo
PS, SPAIN The lyrics, drama naked (although full of exciting words), compels you to hold the context in the music. Rafa uses a bare bones narrative that forces us to live the world that LA JR musicians proposes. Musicians who long time ago left apart their influences to be an influence. A black sun that extends its shade and heat to each listening. Soon you can hardly live withou them. Deep inside their oblique glance and its adventurous attitude towards creation, LA JR keeps a clear and warm nucleus carefully buried in a field. "El campo".
AARecords-13
10
$17.50

Larval/Bill Brovold
Surviving Death/AliveWhy
PS, US Fifth album from the ever changing lineup featuring some of the best musicians in Detroit and led by composer BILL BROVOLD. It is an amalgamation of styles and approaches to music, from quiet and thoughtful passages to an aggressive onslaught of screaming horns, guitars and assorted strings. This new studio recording & a second disc covering seven years of potent live work both showcase their unique experimental rock that often combines wall-of-sound guitars, bass and drums with saxes and violin, and is very direct and powerful. Brovold studied painting of the School of Visual Arts in NYC and received his degree in 1982. While there he was making music (and sounds) for film makers and performance artists. in 1983 he joined the ensemble of experimental/no- wave legend Rhys Chatham as guitarist and stayed on until 1988. In 1994 he moved to the Detroit area, where he formed Larval. He is still active in the making of visual arts, and continues making art and exhibiting around the country as well as making music for film makers and dancers. "Bill Brovold's music blows me away. Larval is the shit."- ZORN. "The band completely eschews solos, or any other display of instrumental might.... Larval are willing to sacrifice the glory of the individual for a tightly wound whole."- PITCHFORK
Cuneiform-248
DCD
$17.00

Les Breastfeeders
Les Matins de Grand Soirs
PS, US Montreal's 60s mod rock sextet is back full force with a new album that serves justice to the bands sound & energy. Franco-rock, gorgeously garagey, frenetic & contagious. "If albums could smoke, 'Les Matins de Grands Soirs would be a smokestack in a world of skinny cigarette fashionistas. Instead of hiding behind smoke clouds, let me be clear: I really love this record- [...] This will surely prove to be a significant release, elevating the sextet into some very combustible (and electrically charged) rock n roll company..." -Jay Jay
BlowtheFuse-008
CD
$12.50

Louvin, Charlie
S/T
PS, US A true living legend -- hello LOUVIN BROTHERS -- who has influenced everybody from Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons & the Byrds to Uncle Tupelo & the Handsome Family, is joined by an amalgam of hip guests incl. JEFF TWEEDY (WILCO), WILL OLDHAM (PALACE), GEORGE JONES, BOBBY BARE SR, TIFT MERRITT, DAVID KILGOUR, TOM T. HALL & MARTY STUART along w/members of BRIGHT EYES, LAMBCHOP, SUPERCHUNK, BLANCH & CLEM SNIDE. Goodness! Incl. several Louvin Bros. classics plus country classics popularizeed by Jimmie Rodgers, Delmore Brothers, Carter Family & Monroe Brothers along w/a moving tribute to his late brother Ira.
TompkinsSquare-1042
CD
$14.75

Luscious Jackson
Greatest Hits
PS, US
Capitol
CD
$17.25

M. Ward
To Go Home
PS, US The first single from his recent masterpiece "Post-War" is an instant pop classic written by the inimitable DAN-IEL
JOHNSTON. With 3 non album tracks incl. the epic JIMMIE DALE GILMORE penned "Headed For A Fall," feat. special guests NEKO CASE (who also lends backing vocals to "To Go Home"), NELS CLINE, MIKE MOGIS & JIM JAMES.
Merge-288
CD5
$4.00

Makelberge, Nicolas
Dying In Africa
PS, SWEDEN Sounds like Peter Gabriel fronting the Junior Boys, with a more carefree, less moody aesthetic. One of the freshest and most promising new Swedish acts, set for interesting things. Nice package, two strong singles, should appeal to Embassy/Twee/smart-pop people.
Rico-002
CD
$13.50

Makes Nice
Candy Wrapper & Twelve Other Songs
PS, US THE MAKES NICE explode with music-think freakbeat, Nuggets 2, Les Fleurs de Lys, Creation, Small Faces, Pretty Things, The Who, Cindermen, Light, Tomorrow, Idle Race, Powder, etc. Psychedelic pop with soaring, Wilson-esque vocal harmonies, bashing drums, and giant fuzz shred solos. Features current and former members of THE FUCKING CHAMPS, HAROLD RAY LIVE IN CONCERT, and THE MOTHBALLS.
Frenetic-025
CD
$13.25

Marcia Blaine School For Girls, The
Halfway Into The Woods
PS, UK With a name based on the fictional school in 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie', The Marcia Blaine School For Girls is actually comprised of three Glaswegian lads who have been forging their own particular approach to electronic music for the past few years, melding such disparate styles as American minimalism, Detroit techno and the blunted groove of dancehall and then adding their own distinct signature treatments of crushed rhythms and affecting haunting melodies. Since their inception they have released a steady stream of material for labels including Static Caravan, Benbecula, Awkward Silence, Dalriada, Expanding, Struktur and Stuff Records, and also previously curated a compilation of Scottish electronica for Highpoint Lowlife. 'Halfway Into The Woods' is their debut full-length, and finds them incorporating vocals for the first time, and expanding upon the recurring themes and ideas hinted at on previous releases. There's a whole rich seam of electronic history running through this album from Orbital to Autechre, through to the modern IDM players.
HighpointLowlife-024
CD
$15.50

Meat Beat Manifesto
In Dub 5.1 Surround
PS, US An electronic audio experience with visuals created specifically for the beats. This is a 5.1 Surround Sound DVD. Ideally, it is meant to be played on a 5.1 Surround Sound home theater system but it will also play on regular DVD stereo systems and sound exactly as the artist has intended. To hear the music in optimum fidelity, please follow the menu instructions for your setup. This DVD is primarily an audio experience with specially created visual accompaniments to the music of Meat Beat Manifesto. Featuring DJ Collage on the mike & Lynn Farmer on drums & percussion. Tracks: Introduction Dub, Echo In Spave Dub, Spining Round Dub, Fromage Dub, Intermission Dub, Super Soul Dub, Caramel Dub, Happiness Supreme Dub, Retrograde Dub, Radiation Dub, This Is A Test. Song Titles: Introduction Dub, Echo In Space Dub, Spinning Round Dub, Fromage Dub, Intermission Dub, Super Soul Dub, Caramel Dub, Happiness Supreme Dub, Retrograde Dub, Radiation Dub, This Is A Test, Deep Field Recording #3
MVD-33791
DVD
$9.00

Medicine Head
New Bottles, Old Medicine
PS, UK When, in early 1970, legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel ventured up to Wolverhampton's Lafayette club to do a gig, he came upon two guys who called themselves Medicine Head, the uniquely configured duo of John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans. So impressed was Peel that he signed Medicine Head to his label, Dandelion Records and later that year released "New Bottles, Old Medicine" the 1st of three studio albums that Medicine Head would release on the revered label. The walrus-mustached Fiddler would simultaneously sing, play guitar and operate a bass drum and hi-hat cymbal with his foot, augmented by the equally hirsute Hope-Evans on harmonica, jaws harp, mouth bow and strange concoctions of percussion. More art school than rock'n'roll, Medicine Head wrote poetic, spiritual, thoughtful, folk-rock tunes that have stood the test of time. Now the band's debut album can be enjoyed again as Cherry Red Records continues it's program of re-releasing classic albums from the Dandelion catalogue. "New Bottles, Old Medicine" follows hot on the heels of re-issues by Dandelion artists Bridget St John; Clifford T Ward; Principal Edwards Magic Theatre and also the acclaimed compilation box-set "Life Too, Has Surface Noise.
CherryRed-314
CD
$13.00

Milenasong
Seven Sisters
PS, US Berlin-based Sabrina Milena. The songs unravel as if written by a delicate hand on rice paper, stories which border between dream & realty. The vocal melodies flicker like eyelids in REM sleep & her unusual voice is a whole choir in itself. Her music weaves together Norwegian folklore, English folk-rock, forgotten memories & poetry. Her sound is related to such artists as His Name Is Alive, Sandy Denny, This Mortal Coil, Roy Harper & Vashti Bunyan.
Monika-053
CD
$15.50

Milenasong
Seven Sisters
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Monika-053
LP
$14.75

Minsk
The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
PS, US
Relapse
CD
$14.50

Minus The Bear
Interpretaciones Del Oso
PS, US Their 1st remix record! And while this act can frequently reek of self-indulgence w/ most bands, the resulting record here offers a fresh & varied look into a band that has sadly been reduced to the more pop corners of the earth. They have much more in common w/ chronic noise masters in Dalek than you might think: their records are frequently steeped in atmospherics & peppered w/ some serious prog-rock tendencies. Feat. remixes by TYONDAI BRAXTON, OKTOPUS, ALIAS & many others
SuicideSqueeze-062
CD
$13.25

Minus The Bear
Interpretaciones Del Oso
PS, US Minus The Bear's records are frequently steeped in atmospherics and peppered with some serious prog-rock tendencies. Their most recent full-length,
"Menos El Oso", was heavy on samples and their live set finds guitarist David Knudson playing his pedals more frequently than his guitar, hunkered over the side of the stage, syncopated and spastic. As the band transforms, this record achieves that rare remix goal of presenting an already esteemed record in an entirely new light.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$13.50

Monosov, Ilya
Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis
PS, US I created a group of airy, diffuse, diaphanous, unfocused cello sounds, using the extended corpus of the cello as a unified vibrational field, & expressing the point at which cello sound production breaks up into unspecific matter, or diffuses, freeing itself of singular pitch or any other characteristics lending specificity...the sounds are neither processed nor manipulated in any way & the recording is a single take played to a close condenser microphone onto analog tape..."" - Charles Curtis (2004). Composed By Ilya Monosov For the Fluxus 40th Anniversary Exhibit. Recorded & Mixed by Preston Swirnoff at The Habitat in San Diego, CA w/ assistance from Roy Silverstein. All sound recorded live in one take w/ no multitracking or layering of any kind. LIMITED TO 500
Eclipse
CD
$13.25

Monsters From Mars
Surfing Through a Creepy Castle
PS, US 4 surf & garage tracks including a cover of Joe Meek's Telstar & a unique version of Brittany Spears "Toxic". Instrumental surf quartet from San Diego, CA. A lovely but crusty experiment in bouncy, foamy horror. Sounds like The Mummies. Dick Dale, Murder City Devils, Man...or Astro-Man?
TicTacTotally-001
45
$3.50

Montgomery, Roy
Inroads: New & Collected
PS, US Reissuing seventeen out-of-print instrumentals (and introducing five unreleased ones) by seminal NZ guitarist Roy Montgomery (Dadamah, Hash Jar Tempo).
Hypnotic ragas, floating sound-clouds and ecstatic rock.
Rebis-010
DCD
$15.00

Morricone, Ennio
Arena Concerto
Ps, CANADA Morricone's first DVD release in the U.S., something long out of print elsewhere. Includes a rare interview with him talking about his process for writing music for films. 130 mins.
1.8SecRecords-18005
DVD
$18.00

Moskitoo
Drape
PS, US 12k kicks off its 11th year with a new release that takes the label down new sonic pathways. Caught between the organic and electronic minimalism that 12k is known for and the unconventional Japanese pop musings and songwriting style of Happy, Moskitoo's Drape is an infectiously strange, bleepy, and dreamy debut release. Sanae Yamasaki (Moskitoo) hails from Sappporo, Japan in Hokkaido, the country's northern-most prefecture. Perhaps a reaction to the cool climate of her home, her multi-instrumental talents bring a wide range of warm tones and textures to Drape by means of guitar, metallophone, organ, drum machines, synthesizers and nostalgic toy instruments. Yamasaki's gentle, airy vocals play off of broken beats and aqueous sound drops evoking half-awake memories lost and found. Influenced by visual art (she painted the cover image), modern electronic music and abstract pop, such as Eno's explorations in the 1970's, Yamasaki does not set out to write a particular style of music, but rather, lets her creative process emerge naturally, following whims and experiments. Drape is, by far, the most structured and song written release on 12k to date. It's a release that signifies not a complete directional change for the label but the creative go-ahead to add new nuances to the already established sound that the label has pioneered.
12K-1041
CD
$12.00

Munly, Jay
Galvanized Yankee Smooch
PS, US REISSUE from this SILM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB so-songwriter & frontman. Lovingly remastered by Bob Ferbrache, he reveals subtle touches not audible in the original mix. This album has also become one of Munly's most sought after albums.
Smooch-014
CD
$11.00

Nice Boys, The
S-T
PS, US
Birdman
CD
$15.00

Nico
All Tomorrow's Parties: Nico Live (2 shows on one double album)
PS, UK One of the most fascinating figures of rock's fringes, Nico hobnobbed, worked, and was romantically linked with an incredible assortment of the most legendary entertainers of the '60s. Nico first rose to fame as a European supermodel, also landing a bit part in Fellini's La Dolce Vita film. In the mid- 1960's she moved to New York, where Andy Warhol installed her as a vestigial presence and occasional lead singer for the Velvet Underground. The band never really accepted her as a bona fide member and she departed in 1967, but not before contributing unforgettable deadpan vocals to three of the songs on their classic 1967 debut album. Nico embarked on a solo career, recording folk-rock-flavored songs for her debut Chelsea Girl album with assistance from Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, and John Cale. Her 1969 follow-up, The Marble Index, was a dramatic departure that unveiled her doomladen, gothic persona, produced by Cale and prominently featuring her deep vocals, impenetrable lyrics, and ghostly harmonium. Her subsequent '70s albums explored much the same territory, with assistance from Cale and influential art rockers like Brian Eno. She fought a constant struggle with a massive drug habit and tangled personal life and eventually died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Ibiza in 1988. The original goth rocker, Nico's albums are demanding and bleak, but map a unique and starkly powerful vision that has become more influential with age. - A brand new, previously unreleased double-album featuring 2 shows from one of the great all-time rock music icons - Nico. - All Tomorrow's Parties" features extremely rare material from two shows Nico played in the UK in the early 1980's.
CherryRed-25
DCD
$13.00

No Depression
#68
PS, US THE SHINS on the cover!!! Features on them, Ry Cooder, Joe Ely, Frames, Carlene Carter, James Brown, & tons more! Plus all the other great alt-country news you get from this fine, fine zine.
ZINE
$4.25

Noriko, Tujiko
Solo
PS, US While still maintaining her trademark version of experimental Japanese pop, here the edges have been polished w/ some of her most accomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of Gerhard Potuznik & Tyme (from Mas). One could even say a work of great maturity.
EditionsMego-078
CD
$16.25

Normanoak
A Double Gift of Tongues
PS, US CHRIS BARTH re-emerges with "A Double Gift Of Tongues" to share once again NORMANOAK's mysterious fibrillation of heart and lung. Unbound from his share of duties with THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES, Barth chronicles a world "of acorns, blood, and sacrifice; of the holy hexagram of intertwined triangles; of the holy books writ in the sands of madness; Of the language behind language and the seeds of the unspeakable." Barth's ability to chew up, unbuckle, and alternate between sanguine sanctity and life's whimsical playfulness has never shown itself in a purer light than throughout the 14 song landscape of this limited vinyl release. Fans of the inwardly mobile mysticism of DONOVAN or the soul damaged guitar skree of GEORGE BRIGMAN's "Jungle Rot" in its most minimal state should book their ticket to "A Double Gift Of Tongues" immediately.
SecretlyCanadian-124
LP
$11.50

Olvis
Bravado
PS, UK Third album from Icelandic maverick Orlygur Thor Orlygsson, following last year's much-adored second full length "The Blue Sound" and the previous year's eponymous debut. Continuing the linear progression evident from first album to second, "Bravado" raises the bar further, with an equal split between lush instrumentals and hypnotic full vocal tracks (in his native tongue). With comparisons and appeal across the board, from chillout to Richard Hawley, Olvis' music defies classification, but ultimately has a heartwarming, relaxing, all-encompassing feel that renders pigeonholing unnecessary. As with "The Blue Sound", "Bravado" features the A-list of Reykjavik musicians as a supporting cast within its fourteen tracks: SIGUR ROS drummer Orri Dyrason plays drums on four tracks, with fellow SIGUR ROS member Georg Holm playing bass on two tracks, along with percussion and drums on three tracks from APPARAT ORGAN QUARTET's Arnar Geir Omarsson and violin from Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir from AMINA (Sigur Ros' string quartet) on one track. The whole album was written and produced by Orlygsson himself, and was recorded mainly at Sigur Ros' Sundlaugin studio during the fall of 2005, and lyrically touches upon Orlygur's disillusionment with global capitalism and US hegemony - not that you'd know it, unless you speak Icelandic.
Resonant-021
CD
$13.50

One AM Radio
This Too Will Pass (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
Dangerbird
CD
$12.50

P.G. Six
Slightly Sorry
PS, US In addition to the Anglo-Irish quasi-folk influences, you get some Garth Hudson attempts, some Roger McGuinn-izations, the odd Crazy Horse-ism & a pretty nifty cover of a song by Youngbloods pal Jeffrey Cain. After all influences have been calculated, the roots-informed, detail-obsessed, defiantly handspun sound & the transcendantly glossy results of such alchemy, make the truth about P.G. Six. Feat. SUE GARNER (RUN ON), MEGAN REILLY, ROBERT DENNIS, BOB BANNISTER, DEBBY SCHWARTZ (AQUANETTAS), HELEN RUSH & others.
DragCity-305
CD
$13.50

P.G. Six
Slightly Sorry
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-305
LP
$13.50

Panda Bear
Bro's
PS, US Exhibits the classic traits of Noah Lennox's musical personality- a fluidity & functional rhythmic accessibility stemming from a deep love of DJ culture; a delight in texture & depth; a playful use of samples & electronic processing; plus a foregrounding of sweet, poppy hooks in the vocal & instrumental melodies. B-side features an exclusive remix of "Bros" from Terrestrial Tones. A somewhat slower, slightly darker versioning of the original. Vinyl only release.
FatCat-059
12
$7.75

Papercuts
Can't Go Back
PS, US This is JASON QUEVER's cathedral of sound, a place for the desperate worship of all things analog & devotion to the musicianship of the old world. This a marriage of timeless songs, richly textured studio sounds, classic rock/pop hookery, & focused narratives- all delivered w/ his warm voice & wonderfully layered melodies.
Gnomonsong-004
CD
$12.00

Papercuts
Can't Go Back
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Gnomonsong-004
LP
$13.25

Perkins, Elvis
Ash Wednesday
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$10.75

Perkins, Elvis
Ash Wednesday
PS, US On his debut, Perkins combines emotional intimacy with a warm-hearted studio sound that recalls Nick Drake and "Astral Weeks"-era Van Morrison. Compelling, dreamlike songs with lyrics that teeter between the specific and the surreal. "We were sold on the spot - fuss-worthy folkies just don't come easy...double bass, harmonica, and strings color these lyrical laments, but the man's easy melodicism is the real charm" - Stereogum.
XL
CD
$13.25

Pink Mountaintops
Single Life/My Best Friend
PS, US So we asked STEPHEN McBEAN to help us out with the description of this 7-inch slice of vinyl heaven he created. We got the following key phrases out of him: "European car ads" and "4 am dancing shoes". The first song called "Single Life" is yet another in a long line of great fuzzed out Velvet-styled gems by Pink Mountaintops, sped up ever so slightly to be in synch with the minds of akathisiacs everywhere. And the reverse side, "My Best Friend", is the more affecting and spiritual of the two, perhaps McBean's most beautifully crafted song to date.
JagJagWar-109
45
$3.75

Pink Reason
Cleaning The Mirror
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Siltbreeze-084
LP
$13.50

Pink Reason
Cleaning The Mirror
PS, US This is almost always Kevin DeBroux & practically never anyone else. Dominated by creeping synths, stark strums & rickety percussive splats that complement his heartscraping vocal catharsis, it journeys far beyond any known perspective
Siltbreeze-084
CD
$13.50

Quellet, Israel
Oppressum
PS, US This music is not really outsider sound art, but it shares strong similarities w/ it. It explores a debarred universe almost impossible to escape. It's a minute, albeit exploration of sound (particularly through saturation), mystical discourse & excesses. Sound materials come from a number of sources: the local church's organ, rented or borrowed percussion instruments, various objects being struck, pipes, faucets, telephone touch pads, power tools, sound-producing toys, voice, mouth sounds, throat sounds, & wheelbarrows.
SubRosa-244
CD
$14.00

Rakes
Remixes
PS, US Anything that sounds good will be nicked & used in their music. Lyrically, the 1st album was a mix of regular personal diary like notes of 1st person events to more abstract/conceptual songs. This feat. remixes from "Capture/Release" w/ UNCLE BUCK, LOVING HANDS, STATIK, FLITHY DUKES SOCIETY & WEIRD SCIENCE.
DimMak-104
CD5
$6.25

Rare Bird
Epic Forest
PS, UK Though it made little commercial impact on its release in 1972, Rare Bird's 'Epic Forest' has since been widely acclaimed as a classic of the pre-punk era: a unique album that fuses the emotional reach of classical music with the harmonies of Sixties pop. This album is somewhere between Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and West Coast Psychedelia, and 'Epic Forest' is one of the masterpieces of progressive rock (file under prog and sunshine pop). We are restoring it to the catalogue in its classic form with three superb additional tracks that were given away as a 33rpm 7" with the first edition of the original album.
El-99
CD
$13.00

Riley, Terry
Reed Streams
PS, US This is his 1st album, originally released in 1966, & incl. first recordings Riley made using his 2 personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines later heard on his groundbreaking "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight". This has been remastered from the original tapes. Also incl. a psychedelic big-band version of "In C (Mantra)" recorded under the direction of renowned Canadian composer & conductor Walter Boudreau in '70.
ElisionFields-104
CD
$13.50

Rio En Medio
Bride Of Dynamite
PS, US An intricate collage of layered vocals, delicately plucked ukulele, ghostly samples & gritty, deconstructed electronics. It features texts lifted from sources as disparate as William Blake, Paul Eluard, John Ashbery & a 1920s Baghdad travelogue. The songwriting is rarely autobiographical, yet it maintains a very personal tone
Gnomonsong-003
CD
$12.00

Rjd2
You Never Had It So Good
PS, US XL Recordings is very excited to be releasing the new Rjd2 record next month and to get all of you excited too we've got this hot 12", a Matador Direct exclusive. While Rj's new album has expanded his music into new realms you'll notice that this 12" shows that it is still grounded by the same fundamentals that have always driven his music. Get ready for a good time because really, you've never had it so good.
XL
12
$6.25

Samamidon
But This Chicken Proved
PS, US Collaboration between Sam Amidon (STARS LIKE FLEAS, DOVEMAN, NICO MUHLY) & Thomas Bartlett (DOVEMAN, CHOCOLATE GENIUS, ELYSIAN FIELDS) is a wonderful modern folk statement, simultaneously channeling & transcending the past. Filled with obscure songs from the American roots canon, the duo have injected their own lives into these songs and found a voice that is all theirs. Includes cover of Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels"
PlugResearch-079
CD
$14.50

Saturday Looks Good To Me
Money In The Afterlife
PS, US Fred Thomas and Co. return with 2 brand new hits including the first single from their late 2007 full-length. The band is in their most rock and roll mode to date, with two raved up guitar based track, both of which feature our hero Fred on lead vocals. Limited 1000
ErnestJenning-027
45
$4.50

Shuttle 358
Chessa
PS, US 12k is very happy to announce the much-asked-for and long-awaited re-release of not only one of the label's most popular and critically acclaimed albums but one of highlights of the entire micro sound genre: Shuttle358 Frame. Complete with the original recording and video, Frame has been repackaged for 12k's Limited Series into a unique chipboard sleeve on which all graphics and text are printed only with white ink. The re-issue of this classic album will give a new generation of 12k followers a listen to one of the label's most defining moments. The original press-release text (from 12k1011, Shuttle358 Frame): Frame is the much-anticipated follow up release to 1999's debut optimal. lp, a compact disc which caused quite a bit of critical stir as a very impressive and original work for a new artist. Dan Abrams (aka: shuttle358) seamlessly blends stark textures/drones with digital dysfunction. Clicks, skips and tiny mechanized rhythms intertwine in hypnotic form that Abrams allows to evolve in a very organic way. Frame picks up where Optimal.lp left off. A bit more distant with excursions into deeper realms of Abrams' signature skittish minimalist rhythmic work. Frame includes a video, filmed and directed Abrams himself, in DVCAM for the opening title track of the album. It is available on the cd in Quicktime format, as well as a separate high-res VHS release (12k9004). The use of movement and abstracted forms along with a subtle color palette of whites, blues and yellows is a perfect visual accompaniment to the fragile rhythms of his work.
12K-2005
CD
$12.00

Snowglobe
Me and You
PS, US Memphis's SNOWGLOBE plays an entrancing blend of cosmic American music that owes as much to pioneering psychedelic country/pop legends like THE BYRDS and GRAM PARSONS as it does to modern-day fellow travelers like THE FLAMING LIPS. Having played together since high school, the members of Snowglobe have a unique ability to create complex songs with a rich pallet of sounds in a seemingly nonchalant way. The Memphis-based band continues the long lasting tradition of playing honest music for the right reasons. Many comparisons to NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, and ELEPHANT 6 recording company have been made to Snowglobe, and as natural as the comparison seems, it seems to be an easy way out; Snowglobe has advanced far beyond this. Snowglobe sounds like MERCURY REV, the piano balladry of TIM HARDIN, early '70s BEACH BOYS, and THE KINKS. Snowglobe is a band that takes form past genres and pushes those influences a step or two forward. This is a very song-oriented band. The noises and kitchen sink extremities aren't thrown in nonchalantly; they are precise and subtle flourishes that add texture.
SaintIves-015
LP
$11.50

Sodastream
Reservations
PS, UK For Fans Of: Low, Nick Drake, The Go-Betweens, Will Oldham Over the course of ten years, three albums, countless months in the backs of vans throughout Europe and North America, the duo of Karl Smith and Pete Cohen have been progressively expanding the musical world of Sodastream from scratchy lo-fi and barely whispered mournful melancholy through to lush expansive pop with horn sections and singalongs. But now they're home, and settled, and on Reservations, their fourth studio album, a darkness has settled in. Karl Smith (vocals, guitar) and Pete Cohen (double bass and deeply baritone backing vocals) effortlessly jump from acoustic introspection and instrumentals to raucous singalong shanties without any hint of affectation. Even with the additions of horns, harmonicas, and the drums of Marty Brown (Art of Fighting and Clare Bowditch's Feeding Set) on their studio albums, the core of their sound remains the same as it is live - Smith's acoustic guitar, Pete's driving double bass and some of the best, most beautiful songwriting to come out of Australia in years. Sodastream's previous albums, Looks Like A Russian, The Hill for Company and A Minor Revival, along with many EPs and live recordings, have been released throughout the world on some of the most renowned indie labels including Tugboat, Rough Trade, Drive-in Records and Acuarela Discos.
FortunaPop-071
CD
$15.50

Soft Lights
Say No To Being Cool Say Yes to Being Happy
PS, US Former front man for THE INCREDIBLE MOSES LEROY joins new friends to create the technicolor culmination of his musical evolution. Blends joyful pop experiments w/a dizzying array of instruments, sounds & textures. From breezy sun soaked goodness to glitchy electronica. A celebration of child like wonder, play & beauty.
Modular-044
CD/DVD
$14.75

Souleyman, Omar
Highway to Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria
PS, US Since 1994, he & his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. The music often has an overdriven sound consisting of phase-shifted Arabic keyboard solos & frantic rhythms. At breakneck speeds, these shrill Syrian electronics play out like forbidden Morse-code, but the moods swing from coarse & urgent to dirgy & contemplative in the rugged anthems that comprise Souleyman's repertoir.
SublimeFrequencies-031
DCD
$16.25

Southern Culture on the Skids
Countrypoltian Favorites
PS, US Southern Culture on the Skids are giving us a glimpse into their private record collections by compiling 15 one of a kind covers, recorded at singer Rick Miller's Kudzu Ranch recording studio. From Mary Huff's sultry take on "Funnel of Love" (made famous by Wanda Jackson), to Miller's version of the Don Gibson classic, "Oh Lonesome Me," and their swingers-on-the-rocks duet, "Let's Invite Them Over" (an Onie Wheeler original), SCOTS have recorded what might be the definitive countrypolitan soundtrack to
a life lived on the skids.
YepRoc-2124
CD
$14.50

Stern, Marnie
In Advance of the Broken Arm
PS, US In this debut, her music is culled from songs written by herself in her bedroom over a 2 yr period, w/ production & drum work by HELLA's ZACH HILL. Her songs are of the earth, birthed in an organic process where the finished product is much more striking than the individual parts. The most vibrant, original, empowering & groundbreaking record released in a long time.
KillRockStars-446
CD
$13.25

Strollers, The
Waiting Is...
PS, SPAIN
WhonRecords-006
CD
$17.00

Subjects
With The Ease Grace Precision & Cleverness of Human Beings
PS, US Like many prog-rock bands, they met in high school video production class. Unlike many bands, two of the members were students & two were teachers. They rehearsed secretly & managed to keep things under wraps until graduation. Recorded soon after, their self-produced, self-released EP received notable recognition in SPIN, Punk Planet, Music for Robots, CMJ & others. Their new full-length moves from well-crafted, high-energy moments to quiet the experience of age.
PrettyActivity-008
CD
$12.25

Swift, Richard
Dressed Up For The Letdown
PS, US RICHARD SWIFT has confidently composed yet another original masterpiece; employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Playing a vast majority of the instruments on "Dressed Up" himself, by virtue Swift has created something that is characteristically his. And considering his rough-around-the-edges exterior, one could rightly assume that Swift desires the listener to accept him as an ordinary honest man with some honest songs -- unmasked blemishes and all. Yet when one engages with Swift on this narrow-road-less-traveled, one immediately ignores the subtle imperfections shadowed by the all-consuming white light of well-crafted pop songs in an analog heaven. In effect he's saying, "Just listen to my songs... the riffraff in the background is inconsequential." Sure Swift... whatever you say.
SecretlyCanadian-133
LP
$10.25

Swift, Richard
Dressed Up For the Letdown
PS, US RICHARD SWIFT has confidently composed yet another original masterpiece; employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Playing a vast majority of the instruments on "Dressed Up" himself, by virtue Swift has created something that is characteristically his. And considering his rough-around-the-edges exterior, one could rightly assume that Swift desires the listener to accept him as an ordinary honest man with some honest songs -- unmasked blemishes and all. Yet when one engages with Swift on this narrow-road-less-traveled, one immediately ignores the subtle imperfections shadowed by the all-consuming white light of well-crafted pop songs in an analog heaven. In effect he's saying, "Just listen to my songs... the riffraff in the background is inconsequential." Sure Swift... whatever you say.
SecretlyCanadian-133
CD
$11.50

Tanakh
Saunders Hollow
PS, US A warm bouquet of songs that range from poppy-jazz, through renaissance remembrances, sweet folk, to dark drines and dreamy electronics and even straight up raunchy blues. A place full of inviting mystery and rich texture, with musical twists and turns of every type, leaving the listener in a state of reflection on all things past. Gentle bass, scorching electric guitars, lilting tablas, Asian-strummed ukuleles, swirling electronics, violins, vibes, harpsichords, organs, juke joint piano, sax, folky guitar, lap steel, drums and honeyed vocals propel the dreamy landscapes. "Oppulent and low key."- The Wire
CameraObscura-078
CD
$13.25

Trans Am
Sex Change
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-182
LP
$11.00

Trans Am
Sex Change
PS, US With 2 yrs of separation fueling them, the band began in June 2006 on a program of sporadic rendezvous, reconvening briefly on several continents to work on what would become the most joyous & upbeat rock album of their chronicle. Perhaps the bands geographical liberation was the inspiration for the creation of this, their most international & exhilarating album to date. Whatever the reason may be, it's a welcome & forceful return by a band that has been a consistent innovator & touring machine for over a decade.
ThrillJockey-182
CD
$13.25

Tresestrellas
5
PS, GERMANY Drums and cavernous electric guitars, with echoes from Neil Young and Crazy Horse, with anxious and cut dry blows which behave like dried paper acting upon the humidity of the songs, almost always based on ringlets made of a few solemn chords, which are left to sound with calmness. A soloist voice with a real, yet complex understanding of the drama which perfectly shapes the density of the song: where the dandyishness of Nick Cave invades passages where time is suspended, where the slow core is pinpointed, coming up and coming down, whispering, stammering...threading word after word until it becomes a sentence. And if we read between the lines we can even detect the hypnotic stoicism of old country blues from Skip James or the Carter Family.
AARecords-11
CD5
$11.00

Triffids, The
Calenture [re-issue]
PS, US The campaign to re-issue their entire catalog continues, two decades after their original releases. A deluxe double CD package with slipcase and 24-page booklet. Disc one includes the complete album and all the b-sides from various singles at the time. Disc two is a mythical "Calenture" from a parallel universe assembled from studio and rehearsal recordings.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$14.00

Triffids, The
In The Pines [re-issue]
PS, US IN THE PINES is the 1991 reissue of Australian folk rockers The Triffids featuring "Suntrapper," "In the Pines," "Kathy Knows," and "Love And Affection."
DominoRecordingCo.
CD
$12.50

U2
Achtung Baby: Classic Album Under Review
PS, US This DVD contains the ultimate review and critical analysis of U2's most pivotal album. It offers a previously unobtainable level of insight into the band during the recording of their most dynamic and well-respected album. Via the use of live footage, long forgotten videos and the review, criticism and insight of a panel of highly opinionated experts, this package delivers the finest documentary film yet to emerge on Dublins favorite sons. Achtung Baby was the album that fired U2 into the 90s when the four-piece dramatically overhauled their traditional approach to songwriting.
SexyIntellectual-515
DVD
$16.25

Utah Carol
Rodeo Queen
PS, US Third full length from Chicago duo Grant Birkenbeuel & Jinja Davis. Described by Mojo Magazine as "an addictive blend of bittersweet Americana & art-pop, sounding like a hillbilly fairground taken over by a couple of kids on mushrooms." Under the boy-girl harmonies, guitars & bass, you'll hear foot stomping, horn instruments, vintage organs & synthesizers, loops, slide, bells & tamborine. The March 07 issue of Mojo Magazine says "Gently strummed psych-folk redolent of Neutral Milk Hotel'.
StompingGround
CD
$9.25

Various
Labrador 100: A Complete History Of Polpular Music
PS, SWEDEN 4xCD box set. We celebrate our 100th release and 10 years as a label with an exclusive 4 CD Box with one song from each release ever. 100 songs + thick booklet with Labrador history and interview, comments on each track, the bands list their Labrador favorites and more.
Labrador-100
CD-BOX
$33.75

Various
Raga for Peter Walker (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.00

Various
Risky Dazzle: A Service Party Shuffle
PS, US Service is Sweden's #1 independent label, responsible for the new sound of Swedish pop: digital yet warm, melody based yet clubby, young yet confident. Service represents many of the Sweden's top acts and is the most reliable source for the freshest new Swedish pop: Jens Lekman, The Embassy, TTA etc. This label compilation: At the same time an introduction, a round-up of the Service times so far and a nice box of highlights, rare and unreleased stuff. Always at your service.
Service-024
CD
$14.00

Various
High School Reunion: A TRIBUTE TO THOSE GREAT 80'S FILMS!
PS, US 20 song tribute to important 80s films that spoke to us as teenagers. Favorite indie artists covering songs from popular teen films (Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, etc). Includes tracks from Matthew Sweet, Frank Black, Lori McKenna, Dresden Dolls, Dipsomaniacs, Caulfied Sisters, & more.
FaceDown/AmericanLaundromat-413
CD
$9.75

Various
Halleluwah #1
PS, US EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION LP compiled for the first ever music/art/film oriented fest held this past Labor Day in Portland, OR at Disjecta. Features 12 EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED tracks by fest performers DEERHOOF, MICHAEL HURLEY, TARA JANE O'NEIL, SIR RICHARD BISHOP, YACHT, ALELA DIANE, VALET & more, plus a nonexclusive track by festival headliner VASHTI BUNYAN. Stunning artwork printed on mylar boards which function as the covers. Pressed on thick vinyl & mastered by some dude in Brooklyn.
Yeti
LP
$13.25

Various
Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych from Viva Records
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Sundazed
LP
$16.25

Various
Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych from Viva Records
PS, US The short-lived Viva Records label was one wildly eclectic outfit. Helmed by hitmaker Snuff Garrett, this Los Angeles-based imprint targeted the teen marketplace with a series of extraordinary garage/psych/pop singles. The label's command of popular styles prevailed across these Top 40 hopefuls, ranging from the stomping beat of the Shindogs to the psych-fuzz nirvana of the Sound Sandwich. And there's Class of '66 garage-grunge from the Wailers and the Second Helping (yes, that's a teenage Kenny Loggins howling at the moon on the positively snarling 'Let Me In,' among other selections). With a supporting cast led by Leon Russell and J.J. Cale and bolstered with choice Snuff Garrett Productions like Gypsy Trips and Sunday Servants, Ain't It Hard! stands as an essential anthology of Sunset Strip sixties sounds!
Sundazed
CD
$17.00

Various
From Brussels With Love
PS, UK 19 tracks. LTM is proud to announce the very first CD release of the classic 1980 compilation album From Brussels With Love, also the debut release from chic Belgian indie label Les Disques du Crepuscule (TWI 007). Originally released as a deluxe cassette/book package in November 1980, From Brussels With Love featured 22 exclusive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the contributing artists include Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, Bill Nelson, New Order and Michael Nyman. The programme also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau. Writing in NME in 1980, journalist Paul Morley praised From Brussels With Love thus: "This is a reminder - without really trying, without being obvious - that pop is modern poetry, is the sharpest, shiniest collection of experiences, is always something new." And according to Dave McCullough in Sounds: "This tape, a long mysterious piece of collective modern overdrive, points to a future somewhere." This new CD edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 75 minutes of material. Most of the tracks remain featured here unavailable elsewhere.
LTM-2479
CD
$15.00

Very Hush Hush
Mourir C'est Facile
PS, US Using a hundred plus recorded tracks, TVHH create melancholy & tender songs exploring the sad decay of the industry, polluted relationships & the resulting beautiful sunsets. It at once enraptures & bereaves as it searches for a concrete foothold in a transient & amorphous world; it is a sublime declaration that everything you experience- the hidden mantras, the garish filth, the unexpected happiness- is worth of meditation & revelry.
SaoBentoMusic-007
CD
$10.00

Vocokesh
All This & Heironymus Bosch
PS, US Eighth album marks more departures from previous formulas, resulting in some of their finest & freshest sonics yet. Synthesizers & electronics take more of a backseat role while the sitar bubbles strongly to the surface. The result lends an Eastern-tinged vibe to many of the tunes, a late 60s consciousness-elevating cool. Masterful guitar work is still in rich abundance, but many of the dark psych passages Vocokesh are known for is offset by some sunnier trajectories. A surrealistic depth rarely matched in instrumental rock these days.
StrangeAttractors-048
CD
$13.00

White Barons
Up All The Night With The White Barons
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Gearhead-075
LP
$8.25

White Barons
Up All The Night With The White Barons
PS, US Feat. the eye-popping psychobilly singer Eva Von Slut, they play a blend of punk & rock n' roll infused w/ infectious
backing "whoa" style vocals reminiscent of The Misfits in their heyday. Fueled by an unholy mixture of booze, drugs, & rock n'
roll fury, the Bay Area band formed less than a yr ago & are already generating repeat requests for live appearances up & down the
West Coast.
Gearhead-075
CD
$11.50

Williams, Lucinda
West
PS, US Perhaps her most personal work to date w/songs touching on both darkness & redemption. At turns strikingly spare & compellingly muscular. Produced by HAL WILLNER.
LostHighway
CD
$14.00

Williams, Lucinda
West
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LostHighway
LP
$17.50

Wold
Screech Owl
PS, US "Gaining a reputation as one of the most unique and bizarre black metal enigmas today, Canada's WOLD are an entity like no other. By combining the very elements of raw black metal, noise, ambient, and power electronics, this mysterious cult from the barren prairies of Saskatchewan are an artistically surreal act that the extreme music scene in Canada has never encountered...ever."
ProfoundLore-021
CD
$11.50

Young, Dennis
Shadow
PS, US The latest recording from songwriter/guitarist/percussionist DENNIS YOUNG (founding member of legendary 80s NYC band Liquid Liquid), moving his music to a new place w/dark, rustic songs, moody vocals & percussive acoustic guitar. Guests include STEPHAN EICHER, JOANNA FERRAR, & SAL PRINCIPATO
FireDog-010
CD
$9.25

Young, Neil
Under Review 1966-1975
PS, US This documentary film reviews the music and career of one of rocks true giants during his formative and most creative years. It features obscure footage, rare interviews and rarely seen photographs of and with Neil Young. Throughout the film, live and studio recordings of Young classics are reappraised by a panel of contributors. Also included are reviews, comments, criticism and insights from John Einarson (Young's biography author), Robert Christgau (Village Voice), Barney Hoskins (author, critic), Nigel Williamson (Uncut), Dave Zimmer (ex-editor of BAM magazine), Bruce Tergesen (house engineer on Mr. Soul), Johnny Rogan (CSNY biographer)and many others.
SexyIntellectual-503
DVD
$16.25

Forthcoming Releases

+/- (Plus/Minus) vs. Bloodthristy Butchers
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US +/- specializes in dynamic, loud, Radiohead-ish indie-rock & simultaneously laptop-pop. Experimentation with interesting time signatures & negative space within a hooky hard pop structure. Here, they take on three Bloodthirsty Butchers songs & make them their own. BB was formed in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1987. With their ultra loud almost emo, heavy alterna-rock, transparent & melodious sounds, they are now one of the best band that Japan can boast to the world. The two bands became fast friends while touring Japan & decided to record this split EP. Each band covers three of the others songs. Artwork by famous Japanese illustrator Yoshitomo Nara. Enhanced with live video footage of both bands on stage in Japan.
Teenbeat-383
CD5
$8.25

31Knots
The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$11.50

31Knots
The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US The best music is always truly indefinable. Words can't truly describe Tom Waits'caterwaul the same way they can't explain what it feels like to experience thedeafening volume of a J. Mascis guitar solo. Portland, Oregon's prolific 31Knots have described their sound as "post-apocalyptic Vaudevillian punk," and whilethat's an apt description, it doesn't begin to express the level of demented-popbrilliance on the band's latest full-length, The Days and Nights of EverythingAnywhere.Thanks to an expert mixing job by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and engineering byJay Pellicci (Deerhoof engineer), 31Knots have transformed their musical landscape into a skewed fantasy world located somewhere between Alice In Wonderlandand Cursive's Happy Hollow.
Polyvinyl
CD
$11.50

Adult.
Why Bother? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH)
PS, US Uneasy listening music for uneasy times. A time to contextualize "folk" for our intent & advocate the importance of being folk. Folklore defines a distinctive culture, the common people, real people. Uncomfortable, restless, disturbed, perturbed, awkward & anxious. This hopes to spread the word of weird... Abnormal motivations, ready & willing. This album, of all their albums, they feel is the most accurate culmination of our disordered hysteria
ThrillJockey-185
CD
$14.25

Adult.
Why Bother? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-185
LP
$14.00

Alsace Lorraine
Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 5TH )(ON SALE)
PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well.
Darla-178
CD
$12.25

Anorak
Synthetic Pop Covers from the European Space Agency (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, SPAIN
Rhonda/HoustonParty-09
CD
$14.25

Antibalas
Security (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Building from the revolutionary blueprint of afrobeat, the dozen-strong members of Brooklyn's Antibalas weave Latin, jazz, funk, and horn-laden soul into a blend that's both polyrhythmic and political, independent and infectious. Produced by John McEntire (Stereolab, Tortoise, Sea and Cake, Tom Ze) who has upped the harmonic density in the band's sound, creating a rich tapestry of harmelodic color that owes as much to Mingus and Coltrane and Can as it does to Fela Kuti.
Anti
CD
$14.50

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

Arcade Fire
Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US This eagerly anticipated 2nd album exceeds all expectations...written, produced, arranged, performed, recorded throughout 2006 in Quebec, New York, Budapest, & London w/ recording help from Markus Dravs (Bjork, Brian Eno) & Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls). W/ string & orchestral arrangements by the band's own OWEN PALLET (FINAL FANTASY) & Regine Chassagne, it's full of both half-assed punk rock mistakes & meticulously orchestrated woodwinds. Processed strings & mandolin. Quiet & loud rumbles.
Merge-285
CD
$11.75

Arcade Fire
Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge-285
DLP
$17.50

Arcade Fire
Neon Bible (Deluxe Version) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Deluxe version LIMITED & packaged in a paperboard clamshell box with a lenticular (3-D) cover. It incl. two 33 image flip books designed by the band.
Merge-285
CD
$17.50

Axolotl
Memory Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards and various other acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl. In the last couple of years Axolotl have released numerous cd, cdr and vinyl releases many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on ebay. Memory Theater collects the best of these out of print releases into one convenient package designed by Karl Bauer. Axolotl has collaborated with the likes of the Skaters, Magik Markers, Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Skygreen Leopards, Religious Knives, and Mouthus. Axolotl has toured Europe and the United States and shared the stage with the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Boris, Charlambides, Chris Corsano, Double Leopards, Excepter, Sightings, the Skaters, Terrestrial Tones, Tomutonttu, and Yellow Swans.
Important-120
CD
$12.00

Baikal
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US New burner from BARDO POND brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow members Clint Takeda & Jason Kourkonis. This time they ventured down the route of heavy free-improvisation & a Last Exit style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks each weighing in at over 30 minutes in length it's clear that Baikal is a deep voyage underseas with yet another mindblowing side project.
Important-119
CD
$12.50

Baikel
Baikal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. This time they ventured down the route of heavy free-improvisation and a Last Exit style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks each weighing in at over 30 minutes in length it's clear that Baikal is a deep voyage under seas with yet another mind-blowing Bardo Pond side project featuring Bardo brothers John & Michael Gibbons as your tour guide - and it's a heavy trip indeed. Dive in.
Important-19
CD
$12.00

Bark Haze, The
Untitled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US This exclusive CD release is entirely different from the LP release on Important, which is also untitled. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, etc). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops et al). Their name came from a mishearing of the radical early 70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mishearing and allegiance to presenting the mishearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity. So far all concerts have taken place in Western Massachusetts and once in the confines of Cambridge, MA's Twisted Village record emporium. They anxiously await their debut gig in the UK at the Nightmare Before Christmas event curated by Moore. As the heroic and potentially bonkers Carpenters refrained We've Only Just Begun. Damn straight.
Important-127
CD
$12.00

Big Business
Here Come The Waterworks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Big Business feature members of The Melvins. This is their second full-length and it's harder, faster, and catchier than the first, unfurling all the mammoth riffs, furious vocals, and blazing drum work you've come to expect from this LA band. "Some of the most relentless, unyielding, and profound music in heavy metal today" - Thrasher Magazine. "These guys manage to deconstruct, reinvent, and then rebuild the typical noise rock formula" - Chord.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Black Hollies/Dansettes
SPLIT (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US The Black Hollies return on side A with a brilliant cover of the Joe South by way of Deep Purple classic "Hush," featuring backing vocals & Hammond accompaniment from THE DANSETTES. On the flip, The Dansettes step to the front w/their sultry, soulful vocals tearing the roof off of the brand new Motown-infused "40 Days." A classic pairing of bands joined together in perfect harmony.
ErnestJenning-029
45
$5.00

Bright Eyes
Four Winds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US This is presented here along w/ 5 exclusive B-sides. Retaining the simmering glow of its predecessors, this is full of the magic that brought Bright Eyes to international attention. Carefully played, deftly poetic & quietly enchanting, the release has a wandering country charm & all of the story-telling seductiveness of earlier work.
SaddleCreek-101
CD5
$4.75

Bright Eyes
Four Winds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek-101
12
$10.50

Brokaw, Chris
Forestry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US The legendary Boston guitarist and drummer for Come, Codeine, Pullman, Consonant, Kahoots, and then some, offers up his first solo 7-inch. Coming on the heels of two critically acclaimed solo records, "Incredible Love" and "Red Cities", this EP showcases another side of Chris's work. It features three instrumental outtakes from his score to Leslie McCleave's feature film "Road", as well as a drum-heavy dub mix from a Kahoots recording session. Gorgeous glossy cover images photographed by Brokaw himself and ultra high-quality transparent green vinyl make this a package worthy of wall display.
I&EarRecords
CD5
$4.75

Burning Star Core
Blood Lightning 2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Full of creeping drones, strange mutilated vocal incursions, and compositions full of unidentifiable sounds both acoustic and electronic. Another classic in organized sound and idea from the mind of Mr. C. Spencer Yeh. Blood Lightning is the third in a series of very particular BxC works in theme and scope, beginning with "Three Sisters Who Share an Eye" (No Fun limited LP series), and then "Everyday World of Bodies" LP (Ultra Eczema.) Ideas of drone, 'minimalism,' and human themes are heavily a concern, and unlike other recent and upcoming major works, BxC on these albums is kept intimate, primarily operated by C. Spencer Yeh. Instrumentation includes the current BxC trinity of voice, violin and electronics, surrounded by a whole host of other methods. In recent years the BxC line-up both live and in-studio has included Robert Beatty and Trevor Tremaine (of Kentucky/Michigan-based maniacs Hair Police) and solo sound artist Mike Shiflet- Who all appear on the last track of this release. Burning Star Core began in 1993 in Cincinnati, Ohio where it currently resides with primary member C. Spencer Yeh. It is considered a project and not a pseudonym. Not married to any traditional line-up, method or sound, Yeh's eclecticism separates him from his peers. BxC will be appearing live throughout the first half of 2007, including a tour of US and Canada with Carlos Giffoni and Prurient, a weekend of festivals in Germany, a collaborative appearance with Zaimph at No Fun Fest 2007, and other individual events.
NoFunProductions-12
CD
$12.25

Cashmore, Michael
Snow Abides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US A new solo mini-album from this longtime CURRENT 93 guitarist & contributor. Comprised of 5 thematically linked songs, w/ texts composed by DAVID TIBET (Current 93) & vocals by ANTONY (Antony & The Johnsons). Presented in an elegant, full-color digipak, this is his most accomplished & poignant work to date, solo or otherwise
DurtroJnana-002
CD
$10.00

Castanets/Dirty Projectors
Unusual Animals, Vol. 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Volume 2 of ASTHMATIC KITTY's Unusual Animals limited edition vinyl series finds Brooklyn residents CASTANETS and DIRTY PROJECTORS splitting sides. Castanets offer up "BlackWater," a bloody and muddy dubbed-out blues track, penned while on their epic and catastrophic sailboat tour with Jana Hunter and Peter & the Wolf in the Summer of 2006, and recorded upon the first day of final harbor. After a deep idiosyncratic investigation of electronic music and classical orchestration on "The Getty Address" and the "New Attitude" EP, Dirty Projector's DAVE LONGSTRETH turns to the live band as his compositional tool with the nine-minute epic "Silence in the Lands."
AsthmaticKitty-402
10
$9.00

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

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

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

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

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

Dalek
Abandoned Language (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US After two long years, their masterpiece is finally unveiled, an album the band have described as their "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Pet Sounds" a la Dälek. Still as layered as their previous work but complex enough for fans of avant noise while being accessible enough for mainstream hip hop audiences. Packed w/avant hip hop guests incl. ROB SWIFT (X-MEN). Incl. 16pp booklet w/art by Paul Romano (MASTODON).
ErnestJenning-031
DLP
$18.25

Dawn of Man
In the Bronze Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Brian Clancy (BLUETIP) has been grinding his teeth on his fretboard since the old Balt./DC basement punk days where he met producer David Sitek (TVOTR). Sitek uses the pounding drums & overdriving bass to produce a backbeat that's an inseparable part of each song's emotional substance. The melodic pop heart of the EP are keys & layered feedback with guitar riffs, along with the confrontational & intimate vocals.
Postfact-008
CD
$6.00

Dean & Britta
Back Numbers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US New album from rock's coolest couple DEAN WAREHAM & BRITTA PHILLIPS! As if a pedigree that includes LUNA & GALAXY 500 wasn't enough, they're now releasing their second duo album w/famed producer TONY VISCONTI (DAVID BOWIE, T. REX). The spotlight remains on their vocal interplay but also includes covers of 60's gems "Our Love Will Still Be There" by The Troggs & Lee Hazlewood's 'You Turned My Head Around."
Zoë
CD
$16.00

Dengue
Fever Escape From Dragon House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Fronted by Cambodian pop star Chhom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop-heavily influenced by American surf, rock & early psychedelic garage bands-with their own eclectic mix of American & international styles. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness & girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the bands own.
M80
CD
$16.75

Denver Gentlemen
Introducing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Incl. members of 16 HORSEPOWER, SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB, DEVOTCHKA, MUNLY & THE LEE LEWIS HARLOTS, WOVEN HAND & TARANTELLA. Although heavily influenced by traditional roots music, they tone down the twang, opting for a gothic-cabaret sound full of piano, accordion, & glockenspiel. In 2001, they reassembled to celebrate the belated release of the group's 1rst album recorded back in '95.
Smooch-016
CD
$10.00

Do Make Say Think
You, You're a History In Rust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation-045
LP
$15.50

Do Make Say Think
You, You're a History In Rust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US The fifth album from one of the most consistently inventive instrumental rock bands of the past decade. Creative, thoughtful and challenging. CD is in a deluxe 6 panel cardstock jacket.
Constellation-045
CD
$14.50

Dobson, Bonnie
Good Morning Rain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK After the acclaimed issue of Bonnie Dobson's first, self-titled RCA album...here we are with her second one! Again, a collection of outstanding songs written by herself and others, great well arranged folk-rock which has caught the attention of DJs and movers everywhere....Bonnie will be playing shows this February in the UK for the first time in far too long....to miss them would be sheer foolishness! I'll wager she'll also be doing a fair few interviews and so on....you know it makes sense.
Rev-Ola-194
CD
$13.00

Downbeat 5
Smoke & Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Formed in 2003 by lead guitarist JJ Rasler ( DMZ & The Queers) and singer/rhythm guitarist Jen D'Angora (ex-The Dents). Drawing on British Invasion bands like the Yardbirds & Animals, The Downbeat 5 spikes the brew with the toughest female vocals this side of a woman's prison riot & tops it all off with decades worth of aggression, attitude & volume. First live CD brings12 adrenaline-fueled shots of pure, real, raw rock & roll that grab you by the ears & cut straight to the bone.
SteelCage-061
CD
$11.75

Dr. Dog
We All Belong (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Recorded on a 24-track, 2-inch tape machine as opposed to their previous releases, the method introduced new possibilities as well as new challenges. They managed to make an album that captures the organic spirit so important to the band while introducing new layers of vocal harmonies & textured instrumentation the band had only been able to imagine prior. "Loaded w/ three-part harmonies, orchestral strings, heavy reverb & fuzzy guitars." -Rolling Stone
ParktheVan-012
CD
$13.25

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

Echoboy
Elekrik Soul Psymphonie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US First new album in nearly 4 years follows '03's "Giraffe" (Mute). A new leftfield instrumental electronic masterpiece. "Faust via Stereolab."-Tme Out London
TheFirstTime-019
CD
$13.75

Einsturzende Neubauten
Palast Der Republik (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more. Song Titles: Haus Der Luege, Armenia, Weilweilweil, Youme & Meyou, Perpetuum Mobile, Dead Friends (Around the Corner), Grundstueck, GS:1, GS:2, Unseasonable Weather, GS:3, Vox Populi, Was Ist Ist, Ein leichtes leises Saeuseln, Sabrina, Alles. Plus: Encore performances of Die Befindlichkeit des Landes and Redukt.
MVD-4564
DVD
$17.00

Eleh
Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. This record is pressed in a deluxe edition of 400 on audiophile quality 180 gram vinyl mastered and pressed at RTI with letter pressed jackets done by Manifesto Letterpress. Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. To be heard and felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away. Noise canceling headphone use is also recommended for the optimum listening experience.
Important-125
LP
$12.50

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

Entwistle, John
Smash Your Head Against The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 14TH)
PS, US One of the most influential & talented bassists in the history of rock music. As a member of The WHO, his outstanding bass work brought the lowly bass man into the forefront of rock'n'roll. This debut solo album took his playing off in new directions although the overall sound is a Who at their heaviest.
Earmark-42084
LP
$16.75

Frazer, Paula
Now It's Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman-095
LP
$15.00

Frazer, Paula
Now It's Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US This is a heartbreaking, beautiful testament to love & loss, w/ a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends alternative country roots w/ dark, psychedelic tones & warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. This is a return to form for those who miss Tarnation, & an incredible starter for beginners.
Birdman-095
CD
$15.00

Future Conditional
We Don't Just Disappear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, UK Future Conditional is the all-new electro-pop project from Piano Magic mainstays Glen Johnson and Cedric Pin. Drawing inspiration from classic analog synth-pop by the likes of New Order, Kraftwerk, OMD and Section 25, the album We Don't Just Disappear updates the retro-futurist mix with a stellar selection of guest vocalists, including Melanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Bobby Wratten (Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars), Angele David-Guillou (Klima/Piano Magic), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby). The 10-track album was produced by Glen and Cedric in 2006. Standout tracks include Switchboard Girl (sung by Melanie), Broken Robots (sung by Angele) and the title track, featuring Bobby. "Future Conditional isn't just an exercise in nostalgia. We are, in some way paying homage to the groups we love and inspire us, but we're also experimenting with the glacial electro/human emotional interface. The future is a robot with a human heart." (Glen Johnson). Piano Magic will release their new album Part-Monster in May 2007, and featured vocalist Angele will release an album as Klima on Peacefrog in March. Windsor for the Derby contributed to the soundtrack of the latest Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette, and Trembling Blue Stars also release a new album in spring 2007. Busy people!
LTM-2478
CD
$16.25

Giant Skkyflower Band
Blood of the Sunworm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US During a sabbatical from regular duties in THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Glenn Donaldson (never one to rest) dreamt of Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multiinstrumentalist Shayde Sartin to "smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs, " and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal "Magick Brother" as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. The duo's debut offering examines in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities' "Painted Word" LP in the mid-80's, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like-minded acts such as Nagisa Ni Te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, Blood of the Sunworm consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together - on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters.
SoftAbuse-019
CD
$12.00

Great Lake Swimmers
Hands in the Dirty Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Limited edition, hand numbered out of 500, 6 song LP. Includes exclusive tracks, alternative versions, live recordings: with a version of Tom Wait's 'Innocent When you Dream'
MagWheel-040
LP
$16.00

Health
Where You From (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Greensboro, NC local heroes led by Jonathan Moore (also of Tigerbearwolf) unleash their backwoods Americana slacker anthems and call to mind a woozy night around the hookah listening to Pavement, The Velvet Underground, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Unforgettable songwriting, quietly unique passages of instrumentation, and unexpectedly big hooks. Addicitve.
ErnestJenning
CD
$12.25

Horns Of Happiness, The
What Spills Like Thread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US HORNS OF HAPPINESS provide the two sides to the second half of their newnew sound with "What Spills Like Thread". With the follow-up 12" to last year's "Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline", they're now navigating the waters of hypnotic, organ-driven thump rock. On this record, the HoH have expanded into a trio, with new member ELAINA MORGAN providing the bottom end to the disjointed fuzz of AARON DEER and SHELLY HARRISON'S organ/drum combo. Played out in two extended jams, side A evokes ESG on the dance floor with Can at an absinthe-fueled afterparty, while side B is a woozy pop-drone undulation.
SecretlyCanadian-122
12
$7.50

Hume, Kevin
The Truth About Ants and Aphids (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US An 11-track, four-part song cycle; sounds like indie pop/folk with classical elements, songs centered around vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, etc, but also prominently features strings, brass and woodwinds, performed by some of the finest musicians in New Mexico (no lie); lead single "Towns Where We Live" was featured several times on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Kevin Hume previously released 2 albums on cdr label Asaurus under the name Black Spartacus, The Seven Dreams of the Leviathan and Andromeda. Seven Dreams received modest but very positive critical reaction.
PremiumFantasy-001
CD
$9.75

I Am Robot And Proud
The Catch & Spring Summer Autumn Winter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Reissue. The Catch is I AM ROBOT AND PROUD's debut full length CD. It was originally released in 2001 by Catmobile Records (UK). Spring Summer Autumn Winter was an EP released in 2002 by Mira Records (Germany). Darla Records is pleased to offer a reissue comprising both these out-of-print indie electronic pop music classics. Revamped cover art by Shaw-han Liem aka I AM ROBOT AND PROUD.
Darla-181
CD
$12.00

I'm From Barcelona
Let Me Introduce My Friends [expanded domestic version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH)
PS, US PRICE TO BE ANNOUNCED! WILL BE OFFERED ON SALE FOR INITIAL ORDERS. Mute's U.S. version comes with two bonus tracks: "Glasses" and "The Painter".
Mute
CD
$0.00

Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US With 11 new, memorable & genuinely moving songs, this is the kind of intimate recording where each note seems essential. From the socially conscious opening track, to the longful closing lines, Peris's hauntingly beautiful voice communicates w/ immediacy. The tracks are further lit by gentle lines of melodic piano, upright bass and baritone acoustic guitar.
Badman
CD
$15.00

Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Badman
LP
$15.00

Jatun
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Jatun is Alan Grosvenor (guitar, keys, bass, loops) and Scott Worley (vocals, keys, guitars, laptop). Alan and Scott met in Portland,OR circa '04, and started writing the songs that would slowly form into the mish-mash of cables, circuits, ivory and alcohol known as Jatun. They began recording their self-titled debut album in September 2005, and it's been engineered/mixed by Scott & Alan and mastered by Carl Saff. The first recorded Jatun song was "Ion Crush," which was featured in a Nike SB promo video for the Zoom Tre shoe and is also featured on the Signal Snowboards webpage. The songs "Ghost and Grey", and "The Temptation of Joy" have been used by Norwegian company Helly Hansen, accompanying snowboard and ski team imagery on two videos. Additionaly the video clips are being used on the Helly Hansen website as a part of their HHTV program. Influenced by an expansive range of artists, genres and styles, Alan and Scott have learned to interpret and appreciate sound from a broad perspective. Such open ears have facilitated an understanding of sonic interplay, and acute attention to arrangement and detail. Armed to the teeth with an arsenal of quality, vintage gear and a penchant for capturing the resultant noises, they craft music thoroughly and thoughtfully. Lush, enveloping and hyper-textured, Jatun's songs blanket themselves around your ears and saturate your head with warm and intoxicating, Orange-tinged tones. For Fans Of: Morr Music, 4AD, Warp, Anticon, Temporary Residence Limited.
OtherElectricites-004
CD
$12.25

Jawbone
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK Jawbone was born from the ashes of The Mirage and Turquoise, two of the UK's greatest cult pop-psych bands (and both recently anthologized on RPM and Rev-Ola respectively) and their lone 1970 album rounds off their stories perfectly. They were thrown together after guitarist Ray Glynn and drummer Dave Hynes decided to re-form The Mirage after a short stint in The Spencer Davis Group came to an end in 1969 (they appear on the excellent "Short Change" single and ill-fated Funky album). Vocalist Pete Hynes and former bassist Dee Murray was swiftly poached for Elton John's band so they recruited keyboard player and former Mirage sidekick/songwriter Kirk Duncan who called up another former colleague, Jeff "Gus" Peters of the recently defunct Turquoise to handle bass duties. Dave Hynes secured the band a deal with Merv Cohn's newly minted Carnaby label and they changed their name to The Portebello (sic) Explosion for a single coupling the dreamy, Beatlesque pop-sike of "We Can Fly" and a tough, hard-edged cover of Bubble Puppy's minor US hit "Hot Smoke And Sassafras". The single went nowhere but album sessions began regardless in late 1969 with the re-recording of three old Mirage tunes - "How's Ya Pa?", "Chicago Cottage" and "Jeremiah Dreams" (mis-titled "Jeremiah's Dream" on the eventual album), a suitably demented re-working of their unreleased 1967 psychedelic opus "Ebeneezer Beaver". When "How's Ya Pa?" was released as a single in early 1970, it was credited to yet another new moniker, Jawbone. Typically for this period, Dave Hynes had become obsessed by The Band and set about remodeling the group in their image. Consequently, titles like "Honeysuckle Redwood Cabin", "Homestead" and "Mister Custer" came thick and fast, bearing the distinct influences of The Band and The Byrds.
Rev-Ola-195
CD
$13.00

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

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

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

Little Heroes
Cinematic Americana (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH)
PS, US The record begins with the steady hum of a cello contrasted with an off-timed picked acoustic guitar, soon joined by soft, sparse vocals, the low thump of bass & drums, and eerie piano, building to a beautiful blistering crescendo. Their strength is in the simple diversity of their songwriting, switching effortlessly between sweaty noise pop to subtle soundscapes. A definite must for fans of The Shins, Pete Yorn, & Red House Painters
Wednesday-1403
CD
$8.50

Loch Lomond
Lament for Children (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Ritchie Youngs solo recording project. EP complies live performances from 2003-2006, ranging from Young by himself to a ten-person band. During this time, many different recording sessions took place in various studios & homes. "The hopeless tone in Ritchie Youngs voice tells of a terrible life of unfortunate circumstances. Even the old Scottish folk song from which Loch Lomond takes its name is the story of a broken heart & the springtime weather that does nothing to heal it. It works, though, because Youngs voice-with its gloomy, morose manner-needs the subhuman relief that noise readily provides. Ultimately it is a record wallowing in its own despair as much as it is a record that took great, inspired care to make-and its definitely a record to avoid after a breakup." -Rolling Stone
Hush-069
CD5
$10.50

London, Julie
Lonely Girl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK Yes the girl who single handedly launched the Torch Singer genre...and opened the door for every imperfect but sexy vocalist since..... The most remarkable thing about Julie London is remarkable indeed: that she used her erotic persona not so much to interpret songs as to change the nature of them to become something other than when sung by anyone else. She used her breathy, sexy, sultry voice not to sing a version of a song that could compete with someone else's on a scale of good to better to best, but to change it's meaning. This, her second album, carries on from where her first left off...soft eroticism and single entendre...songs of yearning and loneliness in Julie's own bedroom whisper...just try to resist! The acclaim and success enjoyed by our issue of her first album legendary "Julie Is Her Name" tells you all you need to know....what a woman, what a record...I'll go and lie down now... One of the most erotic albums of all time.
Rev-Ola-197
CD
$13.00

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3rd)
PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which
should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant.
OtherElectricites-006
CD
$12.25

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Low Low formed in March 2004 when Kelly Dyson met Natalia Brightmore in the George over a pint, two days after he'd split from his long-time partner and moved from Carlisle to Buxton with a handful of songs. The pair clicked and work began on turning Kelly's rough acoustic songs into rough acoustic songs with a female harmony. The album was quite a sparse thing for the main part, though Ellis Dyson expanded a few tracks with drums and electric guitars. The process from there was pretty quick - the album was polished (to Low Low's standards) within a few months was released on the *Birds and the Rodents Label (UK)*. Through their earnest, stripped-down approach to song writing, Low Low taps into your head and heart before you've even noticed; and by then it's too late to turn back (not that you'd want to anyway). The vulnerability and undeniable necessity of love, loss, heartache and hopefulness abounds in each affected lyric, and is further evoked by every subtle bend and pull. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Songs of Green Pheasant, Nick Drake.
OtherElectricites-007
CD
$12.25

Lunch, Thomas
Diagrams Without Instructions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Debut from Washington, DC native who "has seemingly come out of nowhere with...an indie/electro offering that will have yer ass shaking by song two."-thetripwire.com. Digipak.
TompkinsSquare-101
CD
$14.75

Lynx and Ram
The System's on And It's Flashing Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, CANADA Lynx And Ram was formed in 2005 by Carli Vierke and Julian Fane. After an extremely well received debut album for Planet Mu Records, Fane was looking for a collaborative project while Vierke, a classically trained vocalist with a background in rythm and blues, wanted to escape the confines of traditional music to create something she was truly passionate about. Combining machinegun rock drums with mashed guitars, blasting synths, and Vierke's full throttle electro punk vocals, Lynx And Ram create music on the verge of spontaneous combustion. If you like Le Tigre or chicks on speed your going to really love Lynx and Ram.
Sublight-3101
CD
$12.25

Mandelbrot Set
All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, UK Mandelbrot Set is a loud band. They like their drones and their converse-gazing, they like to use sample pedals and to change instruments during sets, but mainly they like to be loud, and they like to do it differently. Formed by Keung, from the ashes of his previous band, Hentai, of whom Drowned In Sound remarked "It's a relief to know that not all angsty teenagers listen to Radiohead and spend the rest of their adolescence trying to emulate Muse. Some of them stick Boards Of Canada stickers on their guitars, acquire DD-5 sample pedals and violin bows, and proceed to work the Mogwai-esque quiet / loud / louder / apocalyptic dynamic till their ears bleed." Mandelbrot Set take their love of all things on the Constellation label, their penchant for electronics, effects pedals and live sampling, their Shellac-esque rhythmic aggression, and combine it all into a wall of noise, melody and epic structure that would make Kevin Shields envious.
HighpointLowlife-021
CD
$17.00

Marsmobil
Minx (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US U/S debut of PETER KRUDER (KRUDER & DORFMEISTER) produced slice of psychedelic space pop inspired by the trashy analog sound aesthetics of the '60's & '70's, merging Retro & Future, Space-Pop, & Burt Bacharach-like orchestrations to "the most wonderful & organic music of the new musical millenium."
Gstone-030
CD
$17.50

Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke
Electric Dress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, US Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including Merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. Documents one of nowadays very rare Merzbow's all analog live shows, one of Jim O'Rourke's rare live appearances since his move to Japan and the culmination of Carlos Giffoni's Japan Synth Destruction Tour. All this at the same time! 100% Essential! Electric Dress is recommended for fans of analog period Merzbow, early noise and Industrial Music, academic electronic and analog synth music-And for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music.
NoFunProductions-015
CD
$12.25

Microphones
Don't Smoke/Get Off The Internet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US It has been a while since the last album or concert by "the MICROPHONES". Lately "MOUNT EERIE" has been taking up that space. Now we have this new miniature record out of nowhere (actually out of Anacortes, Washington, the awkward town up on the edge of Canada where Phil Elverum, the originator of all this music and hubbub, runs the family record label and publisher). These 2 songs are a 2007 modifi cation of punk directness. "Do as I say"-style lyrics and "feel as I feel"-style music. It s quite different from the introspective metaphorical state park parking-lot songs the Microphones have become known for. Over moden grunge, these songs say "There is no God. Deal with yourself. Clean up your mess. Take responsibility."
P.W.ElverumAndSunLtd.-012
45
$4.75

Moaners
Blackwing Yalobusha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US North Carolina-based garage-blues duo decided to revisit their Mississippi roots & record their latest album with former Squirrel Nut Zippers founder & producer Jimbo Mathus. Amid the thousand-pound heat the female duo churned out a slow burning collection of songs that chant & spit their way through the spirit world of the old south. The songs tell tall tales of barstool black belts & monkey tongues while tuned-down slide guitar tumbles through the delta landscapes of Faulkner & O'Connor.
YepRoc-2140
CD
$14.50

Money Mark
Brand New By Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Brushfire
LP
$10.75

Money Mark
Brand New By Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US The Great Leap Forward into real songwriting w/11 finely wrought & buoyantly tuneful songs wrung from heartbreak.
Brushfire
CD
$15.00

Mouthus
Follow This House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Perhaps appropriately, Follow This House was recorded following a European tour in a state of profound limbic haze and completed and finalized during the unforgettable heat wave of July 2006. These facts make a whole lot of sense since Follow This House sounds like your entire record collection melting in the trunks of a hundred junkyard cars on a hazy, steamy, sweltering hot summer afternoon. Follow This House by Mouthus is a companion piece to their 2005 full length for Important titled The Long Salt. Picking up right where The Long Salt left off, Follow This House is a record chock full of manic bad mood energy, crunching resin-soaked jams and hundred year old instrumentation emerging from the soggy mire only to be slowly pushed back in by poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Mouthus are on a stated mission to incorporate new sounds and new instrumentation into their recordings. Never repeating themselves Follow This House is less fractured and more minimal, embracing the Mouthus sludgefest like a settling foundation.
Important-121
CD
$12.00

MSTRKRFT
Work on You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Ex-DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979er Jesse Keeler & sidekick AHP drop new single incl. "Album Version," "Radio Edit," "Para One Remix" and "Community Revolution in Progress."
LastGang
12
$5.75

Mutumbajoy, Santiago
Yagé Pinta! Psychedelic Shaman Songs Of Santiago Mutumbajoy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US "Yage Pinta!" collects nearly 80 minutes of hypnotic, droning wild microphone field recordings of shamanic ceremonies recorded in Columbia's Putamayo Basin by celebrated anthropologist MICHAEL TAUSSIG. Proceeds from the sale of this compact disc will be go to FUNDACIÓN RENACER, A BOGOTA, COLUMBIA based outreach & rehabilitation organization for sexually exploited children and adolescents.
LocustMusic-005
CD
$11.50

My Brightest Diamond
Tear It Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND'S SHARA WORDEN has decided to set loose her bobby pins and let her hair fly on the ambient dance floor. Her latest semi-collaboration with 13 different remixers, entitled "Tear It Down", reworks songs from the highly acclaimed album, "Bring Me The Workhorse" featuring tracks by ALIAS, LUSINE, MURCOF, STAKKA and GOLD CHAINS. Oh, it's international too! With diplomatic representatives from Belgium, France, Mexico, The UK and America (East and West Coasts baby!), the remixes range from drum-n-bass, to glitchy ambient, minimalism, and get-your-booty-on-the-dance-floor club music.
AsthmaticKitty-030
CD
$11.50

Nadja
Touched (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Second release by the up & coming ambient doom band. Ambient music pushed to its' breaking point. Parts of the album feature the use of clean undistorted vocals, which is rather unique in the genre and hints at the sound of such bands as Codeine, Swans, & Joe Preston's Thrones project.
Alien8-077
CD
$12.50

Oasis
Morning Glory: Classic Album Under Review (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Oasis (What's The Story?) Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review is a documentary film which revisits and re-assesses this powerhouse of a record. With the use of archive footage, long forgotten videos and contributions from those around at the time, this program uncovers why the bands second album is arguably their most satisfying. Features include live and studio performances of tracks from Morning Glory, reviewed by a panel of esteemed experts, band interviews, rarely seen photographs and archive footage. Bonus feature; When Oasis Met Blur the full recording from the moment the Britpop heavyweights met at the same radio station in 1995.
SexyIntellectual-516
DVD
$17.00

Obscurus Advocam
Verbia Daemonicus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Feat. members of already acclaimed black metal outfits GLORIOR BELLI, TEMPLE OF BAAL & WOLFE, this band already has its nails clawed deep w/in the underground in terms of what kind of quality you can expect fromthese guys. This fuses styles found w/in great bands like Deathspeel Omega while harking back to the days of Judas Iscariot & Burzum.
SouthernLord-067
CD
$14.00

Odawas
Raven and the White Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Like watching an avalanche crushing a Bavarian cottage or a man being attacked by a lion, listening to ODAWAS while nestled safely in your phono-womb is an exercise in tuning into sublime frequencies from safe carriage. That huge dial has never made your hands so child-like, that cookie jar so high. Odawas skirt the cliff's edge like JACK NIETZSCHE hanging Christmas lights on the shark cage, NEIL YOUNG stoking the campfire in his babylon treefort, or a JANDEK aria in a black armband march. Odawas' 2005 debut on JAGJAGUWAR, "The Aether Eater," was a fiery space oddity detailing the brave, the lost, and the maligned. The journey was epic. But the obstinate darkness and disastrous side-effects of space travel are getting lost, and thus turning inward on their follow-up album "Raven And The White Night." This LP package ALSO COMES WITH A GRATIS COMPACT DISC VERSION OF THE ALBUM.
Jagjagwar-108
LP+CD
$11.50

Okkervil River
Black Sheep Boy (Definitive Edition) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US This is the definitive double-disc set which brings together OKKERVIL RIVER's ground-breaking "Black Sheep Boy" project in its entirety - including the original album, the 7-song "Black Sheep Boy Appendix" EP, the song "The Next Four Months" (originally released on the "For Real" CD single), the "For Real" video as well as a new video of a magical alternate slower take of "No Key, No Plan". Enjoy this panoramic perspective of a modern masterpiece and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the new millennium. "Black Sheep Boy" is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record to date, a love story and adult fable carved in lacerating rock and roll, desolate late-night country weepers, and a few shining moments of sheer, shameless pop.
jagjagwar-120
DCD
$11.50

Orb, The
Orbsessions v.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, UK Few artists have created such visionary and influential electronic music as Alex Paterson and his various incarnations of The Orb. The Orb's blissed-out music helped define the emerging ambient-techno/house genres blending natural sounds, spoken-word, dub bass lines and constantly shifting beats with a sense of humor, rolling rhythms and exhilarating samples to revolutionise UK dance clubs and '90s rave culture. Now after the resounding success of the earlier limited edition, Malicious Damage is proud to re-release this glorious first volume of Orb treasures from Alex Paterson's spherical archives. Covering fifteen years of conspiracy and collaboration with some of the biggest names in electronic music including Jimmy Cauty, Andy Hughes, Thomas Fehlmann, Nina Walsh, Fil le Gonidec, Vincent McDonald, Guy Pratt, Dom Beken and Aki Omori. Track Listing 1- Yungle 2-Sail 3-Chromatik [Orbzone] 4-Eurofen 5-Sun Of 6-73.5 feat. nitraM 7-Steel Horse 8-Something Like 9-Pluto Calling [Twinkle] 10-Angel 3 Dub . The track "Mummy Don't" has been replaced by "angel 3 dub"
MaliciousDamage-603
CD
$15.50

Orchids
Good To Be a Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, SPAIN The enigmatic five piece band formed in Glasgow have released some of the finest pop songs of their generation since humble beginnings in Penilee, a suburb of the city, where the three founder members grew up and started the band in 1986. Their first six singles and three albums were met with widespread critical acclaim, much of this from out-with the UK. They graduated from the gentle lo-fi craft of their first album, Lyceum, in 1989 ("A minor classic - don't let is pass you by" said NME) through to the ground breaking and progressive sounds of their third, aptly titled, Striving For The Lazy Perfection ("lithe, evocative and memorable music" - M M) in 1994 with "sixth member" Ian Carmichael of One Dove at the studio controls. In the intervening years they released Unholy Soul in 1991 ("Sarah Records answer to the Beach Boys Pet Sounds") and some truly original singles & EPs that, in keeping with a stance sometimes perceived as awkward and single minded, were always kept apart from album projects. The ethos was always more about value for money for their fans than genuine stubbornness, however. The singles included what many believe to be the high point of their career to date, Something For The Longing as well as final single Thaumaturgy in 1993. Reformed in 2004 after a break of Paddy McAloon proportions they are now ready to take another swipe at the tedious world of the music business with an album that takes them back to their musical roots. Recorded at Riverside Studios, home to other better known homegrown acts such as Travis, Teenage Fanclub and Trash Can Sinatras, their new record Good To Be A Stranger is a fabulous collection of new songs that will feed the hungry appetite of the fan base that has grown over the intervening years. Ahead of their time in the early 90's, it is only now that many have realised how fascinating and mature those earlier releases were. Good To Be A Stranger is released on Madrid based label Siesta on --- March 2007 and the band will be heading out to play live gigs for the first time in twelve years to promote the new release - nothing like keeping your fans waiting! Offers of gigs in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Singapore and the USA illustrate how the World Wide Web has allowed their global reputation to grow. Later in 2007, a cover of The Go Betweens' song Magic In Here will also appear on a Grant McLennan tribute album, Love Goes On, released on USA's Rare Victory Records. You can also currently hear one of the new songs Down To The Ocean on Siesta Records compilation Erre Que Erre. "The best Scottish pop band since Orange Juice" - Melody Maker "A blissful mix of the best Scottish bands of the last few years" - NME" "Eclectic. Every single song is a gem" - Exclaim "Luxuriant textures, immaculate pop fizz with enviable purpose" - MM "Songs of emotional wit and sparkling indie pop" - All Music Guide "Languid and alluring" - Tangents "The tension between wanting to wig out and grow more evanescent is evident" - Uncut "They brought together all the best parts of the 80's Scottish music scene, while adding something that's hard to pin down, yet made them so very special" - Exclaim!
Siesta-226
CD
$14.00

Orthodox
Gran Poder (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US An amazing debut that is just the first stone of the sonic monolith they're going to build step by step. In this first recording, their musical influences (Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Melvins, Earth, Sleep) get mixed w/ their peculiar perception of the south-spanish religious folklore. The result is a lethargic music with obsesive repetitions, minimalism, feedback, distortion and end-less drones creating a primitive trance inducing atmosphere. Feat. one exclusive bonus track- cover of Venoms' classic "Genocide."
SouthernLord-069
CD
$14.00

Pagoda
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Pagoda spent a solid month in Luca Amendolaras studio to record most of what has become this premier CD. Over 40 songs were recorded as well as a handful more back in his hometown of Brooklyn. By the end of '04 the tracks had been whittled down to songs which exist on this 1st disc. The current line up is a blazing trio w/ Reese Carr on drums & Willy Paredes on bass.
EcstaticPeace-058
CD
$9.25

Pantaleimon
Cloudburst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US (Pronounced "Pan-ta-lay-mon") is the adopted moniker of vocalist & composer ANDRIA DEGENS. Sometimes collaborating with friends, though often alone, she creates beautifully haunting and meditative music. This feat. 4 tracks of hypnotic vocal passages that together form a long conceptual piece, which, she says, "is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime... the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven & Earth."
DurtroJnana-003
CD
$10.00

Parkins, Zeena
Nightmare Alley (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Step right up and meet the astounding ZEENA PARKINS, the world's greatest electric harpist. Forget about angelic choirs; Zeena cites Jimi Hendrix as a major inspiration, and her harp work is similarly explosive, often blurring into fuzz-distorted terrain. Parkins is a lightning bolt of a performer, and a much sought after collaborator; she works frequently with SONIC YOUTH'S THURSTON MOORE, LEE RANALDO and JIM O'ROURKE, has performed with COURTNEY LOVE and YOKO ONO, and has recorded extensively and toured the world several times with Icelanic avant-pop diva BJÖRK. Recorded in 1992, "Nightmare Alley" was Zeena's first solo release and the first CD on TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS. A hypnotic classic, it lures the listener into a parallel world of sensations, one that is disorienting and surreal, strangely pleasurable and more than a little dangerous. Step inside if you dare - you won't believe your ears!
TableOfTheElements-202
CD
$13.00

Perfect Rat
Endangered Languages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US GREG GINN from BLACK FLAG w/ GARY ACRE, BILL STINSON & JACK BREWER (SACHARINE TRUST).
Alone-016
CD
$13.75

Photo Atlas
No, No Me, Never (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 16TH)
PS, US Denver emo punk boys who play with precision timing & an aggressive urgency that is entirely gripping. Jagged guitar lines, thumping bass, relentless beats & machine gun melodic vocal yelps marries the energy of classic post punk (Wire, Go4) with the thick modern aggression of Fugazi & At the Drive In.
StolenTransmissions
CD
$13.75

Rameses III
Honey Rose (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire and Type. On "Honey Rose", the group's first release for Important, the South London trio builds a bucolic soundtrack to Jon Spira's mysterious short film "Suityman". Whilst the influence of Bruce Langhorne, Boxhead Ensemble and much of the 4AD roster can be keenly felt on this six song EP, so too can the wondrous drone narratives that are such a feature of Rameses III's previous works. More structured and melodious then much of their output, "Honey Rose" is the perfect place for a newcomer to begin exploring the music of one of the finest purveyors of ambient drone operating in music today.
Important-121
CD5
$8.25

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

Religious Knives
Remains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US A psychedelic epic, completely beautiful, dark and overtaking. Remains is Religious Knives first full length CD and is full of beautiful synth melodies, atonal guitar, twisted percussion and haunting vocals. Definitely one of those mythical releases dedicated to all believers of infinity. Religious Knives is Mike, Maya (both members of Double Leopards) and Nate Nelson (Mouthus.) Remains is a collection of completely out of print and long gone material that was released on small vinyl and CD-R pressings, all re-mastered by James Plotkin for maximum audio quality. The first two tracks Bind Them and Electricity and Air, are from their No Fun Productions LP which was limited to 300 and completely sold out in 2 weeks. Their Heavy Tapes 7" Blackbird (which was limited to 200) is also included in its entirety, and finally The Train -from a tour only CD-R limited to 100 copies which was re-mixed for the occasion closes the epic that is Remains. An essential audio document of the beginnings of a young band already commanding cult status, and that this year already plans to be releasing material on a variety of important labels including Troubleman Unlimited and Ecstatic Peace, touring Europe and participating in No Fun Fest.
NoFunProductions-013
CD
$12.25

Revutsky, Roman
Incomplete (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, MEXICO Roman Revutsky possesses a genuine sensibility of pop that stands either way over sad structured rock or complex electronic music sequences. Roman is a singer/songwriter who, directly from the four walls of his house in freezing Siberia, still has the warmth to keep his tender heart alive, pumping strange stories told by a soft and charming voice that will hardly be unnoticed. With a naïve attitude, Revutsky fills the gap nineties indietronica left between rock and electronic music: earnestness and reality. Though his music doesn't properly fit in that genre, Roman will probably enchant enthusiast followers of this kind of pop music with his awkwardly hypnotic lyrics. "The tracks he has recorded and made available are irresistibly charming (his voice, prominantely accented, is reserved but strangely moving, like a Siberian Stephin Merritt), and though its impossible to be sure of how his album will sound once completed, I have a hard time imagining it being anything less than stellar." MOCKING MUSIC (CA).
SoundSister-06
CD5
$7.50

Rhys, Gruff
Candylion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US 8 ON PITCHFORK!!! New solo album from SUPER FURRY ANIMALS frontman. "Candylion was raised by bears in Micronesia. Trained as a chef in Paris & following a City & Guilds diploma in desk top publishing at Tregoedwig polytechnic transformed himself into a card assembly image of his former self & arranged for the kind lady at the post depot to mail him back flatpack to his bear brothers & sisters. Safely back in the palm forrest he was given lessons in exotic guitar pickin' by a passing oxymoron" says the MySpace.
TeamLove-012
CD
$13.50

Robins, Marty
Rockin' Robins (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK Marty Robbins was a wildly popular and innovative Arizona-born country singer and guitarist who dominated the Billboard Country charts for 30 years between 1953 and 1983, scoring such chart-topping hits as "Singing The Blues", "A White Sport Coat", "Don't Worry", "Devil Woman" and the epic "El Paso". Robbins even outdid in some ways even Johnny Cash, producing the acclaimed 'concept' albums of Gunfighter Ballads for which he is best remembered. Marty Robbins Joined The Grand Ole Opry in 1953 and hosted his own TV show in the 1970s before dying prematurely in 1982 (aged 57). This compilation concentrates on the brief period between 1954 and 1957 when he took on Elvis and the early rockabillies with some sparkling country rockers which graced a fistful of cool US Columbia 45s and an iconic 10" LP. Tracks include his country covers of Elvis' "That's All Right" (#7 1955), Chuck's "Maybelline" (#9 1955) and his peerless originals of "Singing The Blues" (#1 1956), "I Can't Quit" (#7 1956) and "Knee Deep In The Blues" (#3 1957). And a slew of live outbursts of Rockin' mania you won't believe! As one might expect of a man who not only prefigured Nick Cave but introduced the fuzztone guitar to the pop world (in 1961!) this is seriously rocking stuff....a new discovery for some, and bound to garner some serious column inches!
Rev-OlaBandstand-012
CD
$13.00

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

Rough Bunnies
Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available
only in Sweden.
Yipsilanti-032
LP
$15.00

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

Serpent Power
Ourobouros (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US "Ourobouros" is a deliciously hairy off the cuff live document of the band's second incarnation recorded at KPFA in 1969. BOB CUFF (of the great art rock band THE MYSTERY TREND), JIM MOSCOSO, JEAN-PAUL PICKENS, fellow poet / seer CLARK COOLIDGE & DAVID MELTZER were joined by DANIEL MOORE, leader of The Floating Lotus Opera Company and a mystery friend named Christian for a session of spontaneous, combustive agro hippie jams.
LocustMusic-081
LP
$16.25

Siberian
Hey Celestial (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Seattle band's music "skates a delicate balance between gorgeous pop melodies & unique compositions which create a sound that is as interesting as it is beautiful.
SonicBoom-023
CD5
$7.75

Silmaril
Voyage of Icarus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to SILMARIL. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of SYD BARRETT, ROY HARPER and MEL LYMAN by the name of MATTHEW PEREGRINE. "The Voyage of Icarus" captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately pressed album, "Given Time... Or the Several Roads," and their dormant, unreleased follow up "No Mirrored Temple."
LocustMusic-087
CD
$11.50

Sincere Trade
Between You And Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, CANADA Carl W. Heindl aka Sincere Trade has been creating a stir in the Toronto electronic music scene for the past couple of years and we are pleased to give you Sincere Trade's second album "Between You And Me" the follow up to his debut album "If You Cannot Beat Them" (Dross:tik Records). Sincere Trade shows his penchant for cerebral micro-dot dance music, texturing complex beats that twist and decay over lush gloomy pads, the chatter of static and broken vocal shards, A deeply emotional weave of melody and rhythm lending to a massive cinematic sound. Highly evocative.
Sublight-3601
CD
$12.25

Six By Seven
4 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Fourth LP from Limeys now incl. ex-SPIRITUALIZED & JULIAN COPE members creating beautifully elegant soundscapes, w/earnest, untouchable melodies & a touch of electronics. Space rock fans rejoice! "Their visceral art-rock retains the kind of sonic power most bands couldn't make with a vanload of plastic explosives."-NME
TheFirstTime-016
CD
$13.75

SJ Esau
Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US This Bristol-based bedroom production virtuoso's debut is a masterful balance of songcraft & sonic manipulation. Spanning 12 alternately expansive & explosive tracks this treads the common ground between Slint, Arab Strap, Fog, Sonic Youth & Mogwai, which is to say, it's an album that successfully integrates genre-less exploration, detailed composition, inspired collaboration, & a sense of humor.
Anticon-070
CD
$15.00

SJ Esau
Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon-070
LP
$14.25

Smack Dab
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, SPAIN Steve Wynn's (Dream Sydicate) new album! Do coincidences happen? If you think about the film "Los amantes del Círculo Polar", you will possibly say yes. And if somebody tells you the story of Smack Dab you will never stop thinking about "Los amantes del Círculo Polar". Perhaps Julio Medem should direct a video for this new band formed by Steve Wynn, Paco Loco and Linda Pitmon. The factual trio of 2006. 2004, a beach in Cadiz, a hot summer day. Out from the water comes Paco Loco, one of the icons of Spanish indie music in the nineties, musician and producer of Australian Blonde, Nacho Vegas, Cosmic Rough Riders and Josh Rouse, among many others. He sees a man sitting on the beach, all dressed in black, boots and coat included! A peculiar guy. Paco doesn't care. He dries himself, puts his glasses on, gets the magazine he brought to the beach to read and... he's amazed. On the cover of the magazine there is a photograph of the guy who sits next to him, the one who dresses in black and reads a novel by George Pelícanos. It's Steve Wynn, the leader of The Dream Syndicate and Gütterball, the star of classic underground rock of the last twenty years! That very moment, a woman emerges from the water and lays on the towel beside Steve. It's Linda Pitmon, his girlfriend, drummer of Golden Smog and of Wynn's backing band (The Miracle 3). It's a tiny world. Paco wants to say hello. But in 2004 he doesn't speak English yet. Luckily, or coincidentally, Steve speaks some broken Spanish. They meet for lunch. A friendship is born and from that friendship comes the idea of recording an album between the three of them. It was the kind of recording session made for pleasure and fun. With no business yearning. Two weeks of experimenting and jamming in a relaxed mood. A year and a half passed, and Steve and Linda threw a party. Coincidentally they played these songs. It was a riot. Everybody danced, everybody congratulated them, it was clear to everybody that they had to release the album. They kept an ace up their sleeve and it had been accumulating dust for a year! Straight away, they rang John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Kills) for him to do the mixing. And he's done an a-m-a-z-i-n-g job. Each song in the album works in an individual way. From one of them, California says hello with narcotic fuzz face, in another one it's New York's mirror ball and disco sound, before we get assaulted by an almost sweet soul music cover of Three Dog Nit's "Never Been To Spain". A song that climbed to number one in the US charts in the early seventies. Curiously enough (or should we say coincidentally?) the first record Steve Wynn bought in his life was "It Ain't Easy", by this Californian band. "Smack Dab" is a driving and emphatic album, one that connects with the spirit of comradeship that was unique of the Los Angeles scene in the early eighties. This comradeship allows the main characters to let themselves go, be it to twist their style guide or to do the same old thing. Whether they knock us out in a surprising way or with well-known weapons, you will always find them relaxed and daring. An example of the first would be "I'm Not Listening": even though Wynn has always placed himself on the crossroads run by the feedback guitar flow of the Velvet Underground, it's always regarding to see how he jumps into a new pool and puts Lou Reed on the dance floor. On the second, "My Cross To Bear": you feel you're back in 1993 again, in front of Gütterball, the super-group leaded by Steve that gave high-intensity garage rock a good name. In short: 1) Mr. Wynn shows, (again!) why The Strokes should hire him as their Classic Underground Rock instructor. He knows how to draw life from each record, there is life after that debut, boys! 2) Paco Loco has managed to rise to the occasion; 3) the sticks and percussion of Linda Pitmon make the guitars dance, shooting them with an intravenous rhythm in the hips. In short again: It wouldn't be fair to say that this is just an attractive quirk record. Because it's one of the best recordings in the careers of these three artists, and that is saying enough. Even though, like we said before, it all happened by coincidence, like so many of the great lovers' stories.
HoustonParty-142
CD
$13.50

Small Sails
Similar Anniversaries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Small Sails is a music and film making collective from Portland, Oregon. The music is a gorgeous post-electronic tribal thing and the films are performed live at their shows using original reel-to-reel footage and dual projectors. A field of dandelions plowed over, inner-city kids jumping double-dutch in gritty streets, birds and waterfalls, playground vocals, clicky electronics and warm, spacey melodies - that's what Small Sails looks and sounds like. Small Sails are a busy bunch - having toured extensively - performing almost 100 shows in North America in 2006. They're deeply loved in Portland, where they've shared the stage with kindred souls such as Deerhoof, Styrofoam, The Helio Sequence, Her Space Holiday and Mice Parade. Their new music is different, too: chanting, humming vocals hint at tangibility while remaining half-submerged; rhythms are a baby-bouncing jumble of eclectic percussion and twittering electronics; and achingly gorgeous melodies get stripped down to the still-gleaming bone. To experience Small Sails' live show is to become immersed in a seemingly unparalleled rhythm and energy. The visual and sonic interplay are hypnotic and their on-stage chemistry and fluidity are nothing short of warm and inviting. Through their unique, multi-faceted coaxing of the senses, they create an environment that commands undivided attention and adoration. Reviews for Small Sails: Fans of like-minded souls the Books and Prefuse 73 will find cuddly tunes here, as the pastel-hued instrumentals float by with breezy ease. - San Francisco Weekly Small Sails is a full-on pop machine with half-chanted vocals over tight percussion, bass-heavy beats, and micro-condensed indiepop riffs. - Portland Mercury. The words are sparse and nonsensical, but somehow such ambiguity is what helps make Small Sails so compelling, both on record and in person. - San Francisco Bay Guardian Small Sails sounds at once instantly familiar and strangely foreign. - Ithaca Times.
OtherElectricites-005
CD
$12.25

Sneaky Thieves
Accident(s) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6th)
PS, US Sneaky Thieves are a Seattle-based band that formed in 2003, comprised of two loving sets of brothers and a good friend; Robert Bale (bass/samples), Freddy Bale (vocals/acoustic guitar/keys), Darby McDevitt (electric guitar/keys), Brendan McDevitt (drums) and Bryant Moore (electric guitar/keys). Live, they juxtapose many sounds, flashing from abrasive and clashing, to mellow and heartfelt. Influenced by many of life's pretty things, they construct music incidentally and without undue stress. Their debut release, accident(s), was recorded after a car wreck settlement came many years too late to do any real good. So, a small, tidy amount of money was set aside and used to create an album with local producer Jeramy Koepping (founding member of Voyager One, producer for Asahi, Jen Wood, Kinski) in the lovely Park Place Studio. This record is the essence of those sad, peculiar moments of a life disjointed. The tracks on accident(s) are based on recurring themes that appear very often in dreams and nightmares. Many refer to struggles with substance abuse, addiction, and vague recollections of difficult histories. Ultimately, this album is a musical response to the constant loose ends of life - trying to sonically replicate the "bellyache" in the middle of the night. Praise for accident(s): "A thoughtful and minimalist epic indie charmer..." - Treblezine "Think of the feeling you get when alone and awake late at night you start to ponder the inevitability of your own death and your helplessness to stop it. The fear. The chill. Moments on this album capture that feeling perfectly, especially with headphones. In fact, the Sneaky Thieves are extremely gifted at capturing and even more so at creating moods and emotion." - Spacelab. RIYL: Nick Cave, Will Oldham, Bedhead, Talk Talk. "Thumbs up" - CMJ New Music Monthly. "Sneaky Thieves slide from a Jeremy Enigk melancholy to a Jeff Buckley grace, sometimes with a Sparklehorse inventiveness, and still manage to keep a grasp on a consistent theme through to the end." - The Big Takeover.
OtherElecticites-003
CD
$12.25

Sonic Youth
Destroyed Room: B-Sides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Goofin-012
DLP
$16.00

Sparrow House
Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US On this 6-song EP VOXTROT'S JARED VAN FLEET works to bring together lo-fi intimacy & bedroom songcraft with the lush orchestral pop arrangements hes explored in his other band. "Falls" pulls from material Van Fleet developed for his honors thesis at the University of Texas, before becoming an active participant and leader in Austins newly-thriving indie songwriter scene. "From the chopped-up electro-glitch micro-symphony opening the record through the way it exercises restraint in bringing in the horn section until the EP just cant cling to life for another second without it, [Falls] is a record that practically typifies what it means to sound painstaking." -Stylus Magazine
PaperArmyMedia-001
CD5
$6.75

Striborg
Nefaria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US Cult Tasmanian Black Metal legend SIN (Sumerian cresent moon god)- NANNA (the god of winds in slavonic mythology). Bleak, misanthropic, depressive black metal with blurry guitars, clean ephemeral bass & plodding relentlessly pounding rhythms that create a very dark & ghostly atmosphere.
SouthernLord-073
CD
$14.00

Sunken
Trawler (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Ambitious second album from Kiwis inhabiting opposite ends of New Zealand's North Island, the distance giving a physical sense of space to the duo's spatial, glacial formations. Not unlike a warm golden calm in the midst of winter's brutal tempest, Sunken's collection of haunting, highly textured, buzzing compositions offer security in their encompassing presence. With the aide of ridiculously amplified electric fan-powered organs, intercoms and voice (augmented with whatever instruments that happen to be within reach at the time), Sunken create swampy yet joyous sounds comparable to The Skaters, Grouper and the Double Leopards family of sound. Melodies appear and disappear into the mélange, while the duo channel the spirit of the sea shanty, seeking to lose themselves in the howling ecstasies of 'the drone.'
SoftAbuse-020
CD
$12.00

Taylor, Maria
Lynn Teeter Flower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US This collection reveals a woman settling into her role as a solo artist, peeling back some of the layers of her last album ("11:11") to reveal a more organic sound. "Lynn Teeter Flower" mixes together soaring guitars, bubbly electronics, feathery farfisa organs, and sugary layers of vocals into the sweetest confection of an album you'll hear all year. Taylor's voice is as smooth and sweet as honey, spinning marvelous, insightful tales of the world around us with much aplomb.
SaddleCreek
CD
$11.50

Unsane
Visqueen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, US Near legendary East Village noise/scum rockers who, while less heralded, mopped the floor with their contemporaries in Helmet, Cop Shoot Cop & Pussy Galore. Now back with their trademark crunch displayed over a more diverse pallette. Produced by Adam Schneider (Cave In, Daughters). Woo!
Ipecac-085
CD
$15.25

Vanishing Voice
Nordic Visions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Nordic Visions was originally released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies which sold out immediately. Here it is by demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release. While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven The Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy
Nolan joined Nonhorse in an abandoned textile factory, boiling out these ballads of suspended disbelief and hope for the better world.
Important-132
CD
$12.00

Vanishing Voice
Stone Tablet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Total Can-style audacity from Brooklyn drone stew Edward Goreyian broken house wanderers the Vanishing Voice. The Vanishing Voice head down from the mountain for another dip in a lake of elephant seals. A misty warbling leads down a twisted path where molten earth and crust collide. This is the beginning of the end of the beginning. A lot has been said bout these Brooklyn teen idles: "They're chasing rainbows!" "They're graveyard sponge heads!" "A pregnant poo-bah frolicking in the forest!" No dice...
Important-122
CD
$12.00

Various
Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, UK 19 tracks. LTM are proud the present the first audio book CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933. The spoken word element centers on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The CD also includes contributions from the school's third and final director, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and teacher Josef Albers. All interviews are in the English language. The music content of the CD features piano pieces written between 1919 and 1925 by six composers associated with the Bauhaus: Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil, Stefan Wolpe and H.H. Stuckenschmidt. Several of these pieces reflect surrealism and 12-tone technique; Steffen Schleiermacher performs most on piano. With a generous running time of 72 minutes, the CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Bauhaus images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward.
LTM-2472
CD
$14.25

Various
Diamond Joe A Treasure Chest Of Rarities & CD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK As the infamous Tea Chest tapes continue to remain an enigma, we open up our own box of masters to discover some hitherto un-issued Meek produced recordings, plus other recordings long since unavailable. With release timed to coincide with the general notice being given to the 40th Anniversary of Meeks death (February 1967), this collection will suit those looking for something new to extend their Meek collection. The collection brings with it great examples of the Meek production sound. From Glenda Collins, Meeks best known female artist, is an unreleased version of her apocalyptic single recorded in Stereo. Two of the Ray Dexter tracks are also in Stereo, a rare format in the early 60's when these were made. Ray Dexter, a singer songwriter who was busy right through the 60's with singles released on many labels, is included with four of his songs released for the first time. Backing is by the Tornados, and include his demo of You Took My Love For Granted, a song he wrote and Meek recorded with John Leyton as the b-side of the international hit 'Wild Wind'. We also have the four John Carter and Ken Lewis recordings Meek produced which have been unavailable for a long time, plus real rarities from Joy and Dave, the Moontrekkers and complete unknowns Johnny Garfield, The Ramblers and Dauphine Street Six. - As it says on the tin, extremely rare and collectable Joe Meek recordings. - Includes previously unreleased, such as Ray Dexter (& the Tornados). - Includes John Carter and Ray Dexter personal insights of working with Meek. TRACK LISTING: 1/ TWO TIMING BABY - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 2/ ATLANTIC TWIST - RAY DEXTER 3/ DIAMOND JOE - JOY AND DAVE 4/ CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND - RAY DEXTER* 5/ TELL ME - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 6/ DREAM LOVER - RAY DEXTER* 7/ TAKE IT AWAY - THE RAMBLERS 8/ PARADE OF TIN SOLDIERS - THE SAINTS 9/ FICKLE HEART - JOHNNY GARFIELD 10/ IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IT (UNRELEASED STEREO VERSION) - GLENDA COLLINS* 11/ RESCUE ME - RICKY WAYNE 12/ YOU TOOK MY LOVE FOR GRANTED - RAY DEXTER* 13/ THEY TELLS US NOT TO LOVE - JOY AND DAVE 14/ WILL IT HAPPEN TO ME - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 15/ MY BROKEN HEART - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 16/ JUST LIKE YOU - RAY DEXTER 17/ I GOT - RAY DEXTER* 18/ HAPPY TALK - THE SAINTS 19/ JOHN BROWNS BODY - THE MOONTREKKERS 20/ GRANDFATHER CLOCK - THE MOONTREKKERS 21/ ON A HILLSIDE - THE DAUPHINE STREET
SIX * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
RPM-325
CD
$14.00

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

Various
Laughin' At The Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, UK A hilarious and scurrilous collection of R&B and comedy like you've never heard! I guess most of these artists need no introduction; I'm sure you know all about Scatman Crothers (star of The Shining and er...Hong Kong Fuey), Redd Foxx, the outrageous Rudy Ray Moore, Slim Gaillard, Sammy Davis, Moms Mabley and Pearl Bailey. Dusty Fletcher was the originator of the enduring international success "Open The Door, Richard!" (and a #2 Billboard R&B hit in 1947 for him). The Spirits Of Rhythm included comedians George "Blues Man" Vann and the seminal Leo "Scat" Watson. Al Jackson had been half of the hilarious Patterson & Jackson comedy team. Little Arthur Matthews had been the "Dope" half of the popular West Coast comedians "Mope & Dope". He later joined Johnny Otis' R&B revue as a singer/comedian. Otis and his band back Matthews on these two sides. Her signature piece, comedienne Effie Smith had a national R&B hit in 1965 with a recut of the two-part "Dial That Telephone", recorded originally for Aladdin in 1953: this two-parter is the 1956 first expanded re-recording for her own Spot Records. She discovered rock 'n' roll act Don & Dewey and her son was Los Angeles producer/song-writer Fred Sledge Smith of Bob & Earl, and The Olympics fame. Both of them worked at Stax until the label closed down. All round entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr had by 1949 made a big name for himself as part of the Will Mastin Trio with his uncle and father and was signed to Capitol Records, there he recorded fine straight ballads.... in addition to producing parodies of the R&B sounds of the day under the pseudonyms Charlie Green and Shorty Muggins.- A must for serious R&B fans....and anyone with a sense of humor! TRACK LISTING: 1/ REDD FOXX - SHAME ON YOU (SAVOY 645) 2/ DUSTY FLETCHER - OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARD! (PARTS 1 & 2) (NATIONAL 4012) 3/ HARRY "THE HIPSTER" GIBSON - WHO PUT THE BENZEDRINE IN MRS MURPHY'S OVALTINE? (MUSICRAFT 346) 4/ SLIM GAILLARD - EATIN' WITH THE BOOGIE (CLEF 8970) 5/ BABS GONZALES - HOUSE RENT PARTY (KING 4885) 6/ SCATMAN CROTHERS - PAPA (RECORDED IN HOLLYWOOD 142) 7/ THE SPIRITS OF RHYTHM - SHE AIN'T NO SAINT (BLACK & WHITE 23) 8/ HARRY "THE HIPSTER" GIBSON - TWO CATS (ALADDIN UNISSUED) 9/ AL JACKSON - IT AIN'T GONNA BE LIKE THAT (ROOST 608) 10/ SLIM GAILLARD - FEDERATION BLUES (CLEF UNISSUED) 11/ REDD FOXX - REDD FOXX BLUES (SAVOY 631) 12/ RUDY RAY MOORE - THE BUGGY RIDE (FEDERAL 12259) 13/ LITTLE ARTHUR MATTHEWS - SOMEDAY BABY (FEDERAL 12232) 14/ RUDY RAY MOORE - I'M MAD WITH YOU (FEDERAL 12253) 15/ LITTLE ARTHUR MATTHEWS - I'M GONNA WHALE ON YOU (FEDERAL 12232) 16/ BABS GONZALES - SHE'S JUST RIGHT FOR ME (KING 4885) 17/ DUSTY FLETCHER - PUT THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT ON BILL (NATIONAL 4018) 18/ REDD FOXX - FINE JELLY BLUES (SAVOY 631) 19/ AL JACKSON - LET'S DRINK SOME WHISKEY (ROOST 607) 20/ SHORTY MUGGINS (AKA SAMMY DAVIS JR) - WE'RE GONNA ROLL (CAPITOL 70052) 21/ EFFIE SMITH & THE SQUIRES - CHAMPAGNE MIND WITH A SODA WATER INCOME (VITA 124) 22/ JACKIE "MOMS" MABLEY & PEARL BAILEY - SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY (COLUMBIA 38660) 23/ PEARL BAILEY - I CAN'T ROCK AND ROLL TO SAVE MY SOUL (MERCURY 70926) 24/ SHORTY MUGGINS (AKA SAMMY DAVIS JR) - GOTTA GREAT BIG SHOVEL (CAPITOL 70052) 25/ EFFIE SMITH - DIAL THAT TELEPHONE, PART 1 (SPOT 103) 26/ EFFIE SMITH - DIAL THAT TELEPHONE, PART 2 (SPOT 103) 27/ THELMA BAXTER - HENRY (YES, MY LOVE) (COSMOPOLITAN 520).
Rev-OlaBandstand-011
CD
$12.00

Velcro Stars, The
Hiroshima's Revenge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US I can hardly wipe the smile off my face as I listen to The Velcro Stars. Their mid-90's Chapel Hill, NC-esque sound is enveloping my person as I type this. It's certainly one of the most exciting things going on in the revitalized (and...pssssssst.....quite "hip") Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN independent music scene along with How I Became The Bomb, Ghostfinger, and The Turncoats. Initially comprised of Shane Spresser (guitar/vocals) and Keith Pratt (guitar/vocals), they began writing songs together after high school. They were joined in 2001 by Rebekah Kidd (keyboards/vocals). Danial Norman was a high school acquaintance and joined them as their bassist in 2001. After going through several drummers, Andy Spore filled the position and began playing with them in 2005. "The Velcro Stars are one of the most interesting, original, and level-headed bands to come out of Murfreesboro in a long time. Their songs are simplistic and well arranged, and bring with them hints of Pavement, Blake Babies, and Superchunk." (nashvillezine.com) Enter Grand Palace Records. Grand Palace is an independent record store in Murfreesboro, TN. It's also a loft space that houses a recording studio and screen-printing shop. Owned and operated by Murfreesboro music scene luminaries, they decided to capitalize on the revitalized scene by recording
some of their favorites (Velcros included). Thus, Grand Palace Records (the label) began. "Hiroshima's Revenge" is the first full-length to be released on Grand Palace Records (a joint co-release with much help and support from Athens, GA's Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, who became smitten with the band after their show-stopping performance at the 2006 Athens Popfest). With the recording of "Hiroshima's Revenge", the Velcros finally make good on the promise of the "Heart Disease / Shock and Awe" Demo as well as their self-titled 7-track EP from 2005. This album is a pleasant reminder of the pure joy, immediacy, and lack of pretension that's at the heart of all great three-chord rock and roll. Songs such as "Brand New" and "B-Side of Love" will make you scream with pure delight as you dance around your living room to the pop-tastic codas contained within. "Ninety-nine percent of pop I hate", says Shane Spresser, "but that one percent is my favorite music in the world". Welcome to that one percent... RIYL: Pavement, Superchunk, Bunnygrunt.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-082
CD
$10.25

Venetian Snares
Pink+Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD)
PS, CANADA Venetian Snares, aka Gonk the 8-legged Viking, is back with yet another record that sounds nothing like Boards of Canada! From the catchy title track opener "Pink + Green" which blends demented punk vocals with hyper-complex grooves and gut gurgling bass blasts you can just tell this is something fresh and funky from producer Aaron "funk" Funk. Not to worry though the sub-rattling low-end blasts and jackhammering hardcore anthems are still here and in full effect on tracks like "Sporto Fucking Sellout Cocksuckerface" and "Husikam Rave Dojo" that revisit the days of pilled out candy raving. This is cyberpunk at it's finest! Welcome to the interzone! 15 year old K-heads will love this shit! If you hated albums like Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole and Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006, you will hate this even more! This is not some crybaby n00bcore bullshit, this is rave at it's roughest like only Mr. Snares can bring it.
Sublight-204
CD
$12.25

Villalobos, Gina
Miles Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH, 2007)
PS, US Gina's nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. She's the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are. Hailed as the new "Queen of Country Rock" and seemingly out of nowhere. Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection. And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audience's out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts. Eventually nothing else exists...it is a truly transcendent experience. Though she's been knocking around the music business since the mid 90's, it wasn't until she released her critically acclaimed 'Rock N Roll Pony' in 2005 that Gina made that all important international breakthrough, with an endorsement from BBC radio 2 DJ Bob Harris - making the record a must have commodity. Avoiding the sophomore jinx, Gina's second offering succeeds. She unveiled her new album 'Miles Away' in the UK on May 8th 2006 to the same, if not more enthusiastic, critical plaudits, and support from BBC radio 2 her acclaimed predecessor, Rock N Roll Pony received. This along with a 6 week US national tour supporting World Party sets the stage for her upcoming US release of 'Miles Away', which is widely anticipated in the Americana/Alt Country circles in which she first gained attention.
FaceWest-KM-003
CD
$10.50

Volt
Rorhat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Brilliant 3 piece out of Chemnitz, Germany. This is hard rock. Boris the drummer hits so hard, you won't believe that the shells & skins can stand it! Nico the bass player creates some utterly inhuman rumble, and then there's Andre. HIs growl is so unworldly that to describe it as vocals would lead you astray. His voice is an instrument of terror that makes the body tremble. For fans of all honest music
ExileOnMainstream-023
CD
$14.00

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

Yellow6
Painted Sky (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, UK A debut on Resonant from a man with a wealth of back catalogue on labels such as Enraptured, Darla, Bearos, Ochre, Awkward Silence and many, many more, spanning almost a decade. Yellow 6 is the solo project of Jon Attwood, a guitarist based in Leicestershire (the first UK-based artist to release an album on Resonant!) who has released six full length albums, five live albums and one remix album, on top of several mini-albums and EPs, singles and contributions to numerous compilations. Painted Sky was recorded between 2004 and 2006, and strips away many of the layers of previous outings, resulting in a collection of melodic, organic guitar and piano soundscapes backed with subtle percussion. More ambient than post rock, Painted Sky draws comparisons to Labradford, Cocteau Twins, Durutti Column, Slowdive, Windy & Carl and Erik Satie, as opposed to the quiet/loud exponents; this is quiet/quiet, with an overall air of wistful melancholy. The previous releases of Yellow 6 have established a solid following, both in terms of fanbase and press.
Resonant-022
CD
$13.00

Zincs
Black Pompadour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH)
PS, US They have succeeded in marrying their classic song-forms w/ a brighter electric sound to make a vital album for the times. What makes them such a singular band is how they weave such dark prose into their beautiful melodies, a reward that the casual listener could miss on first hearing. From the electric chimes to the pulsing synthesizers, this dashes expectations like a bullet through a fish-bowl & represents that rare thing amongst groups, a genuine progression. Feat. EDITH FROST
ThrillJockey-178
CD
$ 13.25

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

17 Pictures (Weschel Garland) "17 Pictures" CD $13.00
Affair "Yes Yes To You" CD $14.50
Animal Collective "People" CD $7.50
Barlow, Lou "Mirror The Eye" CD5 $9.00
Birchville Cat Motel "Curved Surface Destroyer" 3XCD $18.00
Cut City "Exit Decades" CD $13.00
Deathprod "Deathprod (4XCD)" CD-BOX $45.25
Doiron, Julie "Woke Myself Up" LP $11.25
Doiron, Julie "Woke Myself Up" CD $11.50
Fennesz "Endless Summer" CD $14.00
Four Star Alarm "S/T" CD $10.00
Garneau, Chris "Music For Tourists" CD $13.00
Hammerlock "Forgotten Range" CD $12.50
Hersh, Kristin "Learn To Sing Like A Star" CD $14.50
Ideal Free Distribution "S/T" CD $10.25
Isles, The "Summer Loans" CD $7.50
Juvelen "Juvelen EP" CD5 $10.00
La Jr "Dos Casas" CD $13.00
Lovers "Sleep with Heat" CD $11.50
Madeline "The Slow Bang" CD $11.50
Magic Whispers, The "Carousels and Music Boxes" CD $15.00
Martinez "Restructured Layers" CD $15.00
McLean, Jackie "4, 5, & 6" CD $12.50
MFSB "Muthafunkinsonofabitch: The Truth Behind the Philly Legend" CD $15.00
Miyatani, Daisuke "Diario" CD $13.00
MV & EE with Bummer Road "Green Blues" CD $10.00
New Young Pony Club "S/T" CD5 $9.00
Not Breathing "The Old Black Pueblo" CD $12.00
Nurse & Soldier "Marginalia" CD $11.50
Octoberman "These Trails Are Old & New" CD $12.00
Officerfishdumplings "Officerfishdumplings Finds Your Way Home" CD $11.50
Oxfords, The "Flying Up Through the Sky" CD $19.50
Pines, The "It's Been a While" CD $12.00
Rafter "Music For Total Chickens" CD $11.50
Red Red Red "Mind Destroyer" CD $10.00
Saradon "The Completist's Library" CD $10.75
Siberia "Inom Familjen" CD $13.00
Sleeping In The Aviary "Oh, This Old Thing?" CD $9.00
Smithereens, The "Meet the Smithereens: A Tribute to The Beatles" CD $17.00
Star You Star Me "Simple Things" CD $15.00
Stars of Track and Field "Centuries Before Love and War [re-release]" CD $8.50
Summer at Shatter Creek "S-T" CD $14.50
Sweptaways, The "Cry Cry Christmas" CD5 $10.00
Sweptaways, The "Ooh Aah" CD $13.00
Symbion Project "Wound Up By God or the Devil" CD $12.50
Transitional Phase "S/T" CD $12.50
Triclops "Cafeteria Brutality" CD $7.50
Winning "This Is an Ad For Cigarettes" CD $13.00
Wright, Jack "Indeterminate Existence" CD $12.50
Yndi Halda "Enjoy Eternal Bliss" CD $13.50
Yndi Halda "Enjoy Eternal Bliss" DLP $14.00
You Am I "Convicts" CD $14.50

Parasol New Arrivals • February 20, 2007
Hello friends, Well, it’s Tuesday again which means we survived Monday with our heads calibrated. Let’s dive face first into the jive, shall we? So last week we were yammering on about how cold it was and how we had been barricaded in for a good couple of days but the tables have turned, my friend, oh yes, they have turned. Now the temperatures are climbing into the 40s here, in Urbana which means the collaboration of Black Ice meets Swampsville will be sticking around until May or so. Ok, enough with the weather updates. Let’s get on to the update and cleaner channels. It seems we’ve reverted back to the mid-nineties and we’re rediscovering some of our favorite records from that decade. Currently, we have Seam’s “The Problem With Me” blaring throughout the building and it’s never sounded so good. Don’t get us wrong. There are plenty of great new records dropping this week but sometimes the familiarity of old records and old friends rejuvenate the soul. Get your insatiable scrolling finger ready because this update is golden. New records from M. Ward, Explosions In The Sky, Richard Swift and a state-side version of Audionom’s “Retrospectiv” to boot. With that said, throw on your goggles and check your eyelids for pinholes. We’re down, out, and on the side, Roy/Paul & The Parasolarians
Below is a list of new arrivals for this week. To search for a specific item or to browse our entire catalog click here. Or, click here to go back to the Parasol Home Page. Click here to see previous weeks new arrivals.
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	Girl Talk "Night Ripper" CD $11.00 (Illegal Art) Third album is focused less on beat-fuckery & more on bringing heat to the party. Current hip-hop hits, soft-rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers & rock anthems are all layered & pieced together into one nonstop celebration of pop & excess. Declared a plunderphonics party record by Mark Hosler of Negativland. "In a time when kids can barely sit through an entire album by just one artist, this A.D.D. mix will keep them sedated and/or spastic."
New from Parasol's Galaxy Gramophone Imprint
	The Chrysler "Cold War Classsic" [expanded US edition] CD $9.00 (Galaxy Gramophone-PLG) The U.S. release for The Chrysler's latest album, with five bonus tracks. Cold War Classic is the second full-length release from mysterious Swedish folk-pop band The Chrysler, recorded in a little cabin outside Katrineholm, Sweden; an album filled with hope, agony, and clarinets. The band’s debut album Failures And Sparks was well-received by music writers, who have compared The Chrysler's enigmatic, bonfire folk and baroque, jangling pop to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Lambchop, and Norway’s Kings Of Convenience. Sound samples on front page and here.
New Releases 60 Watt Kid Time Change PS, US Kevin Litrow left the racket dance sounds of Dance Disaster Movement for a psychedelic acoustic collage which he dubbed as 60 Watt Kid. This EP captures the most beautiful moments of the now out of print full length with the addition of 3 unreleased tracks. Intergalactic pop with plenty of acoustics & electronics. This EP is stripped down yet incredibly epic! Oedipus-009 CD $8.25 8-Bit Operators Tribute to Kraftwerk PS, US Feat. interpretations of classic Kraftwerk songs, arranged primarily on Lo-bit microchip & handheld controlled synthesizers, such as Gameboys, NES systems & Commodores & a selection of the best musical innovators, & several of the inventors themselves. These are not merely faithful reproductions of songs, but truly inspired re-interpretations that use a relatively limited technological framework to its furthest reaches. Astralwerks CD $13.25 A Sunny Day In Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal PS, US Using mandolins, banjos, noise, samplers, lots of cuttin' n pastin', and all of the normal band instruments, Philadelphia's A Sunny Day in Glasgow adds lush female vocals and dance-y rhythms to make dreamy pop music. Distorted guitars alongside Robin and Lauren's vocals glisten for thirteen storied tracks on "Scribble Mural Comic Journal." The album succeeds in marrying Cocteau Twins' otherwordliness, JAMC white noise, the best aspects of early Aphex Twin, and the jangle of "Strawberry Wine" era MBV to create pop music that somehow makes sense despite making no sense. (4 stars) Like Grizzly Bear, ASDIG's got a steep pop-to-noise curve, so their most gorgeous melodies become thick and swampy before you've noticed the tide has come in. Even the brightest colors look black if you smear them all together." - Pitchfork " (9 out of 10) Captivating. Stunning. A Sunny Day in Glasgow has single-handedly returned the shoegazer genre to its former glory. One of the best releases of 2006!" -Under the Radar Notenuf CD $12.25 AA Tigre Felicidades PS, SPAIN The songs are stretched about as if tensed by strings manipulated by struggling automatons whom are unpredictable, deconstructing the structure until they are impregnated with a personality which is deliberately imperfect as an unfinished sketch, as an analgesic dissolving within an organism, taking effect slowly, and opting to use the label of autistic folk, due to his rejection to that which has been stipulated, and his almost harmful sensibility. Aarecords-10 LP $17.50 Air Formation Daylight Storms (ON SALE) PS, UK After last years astounding 57 Octaves Below EP, Brighton's Air Formation are back with their third album. Recorded over the Summer with producer Pat Collier, mastered by Shimmydisc/Bongwater maestro Kramer Daylight Storms is their most accomplished work to date. Drawing from the likes of eighties shoegazers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, as well as lesser known noise-dreamers like the fabulously mysterious Flying Saucer Attack, Air Formation sit comfortably alongside the current crop, Sigur Ros, Long-View, Mew et al while at the same time following a path of their very own making. Think Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, the sound of jet engines. Air Formation can go from breathy escapism to futuristic terrorcaust in a matter of minutes whilst still encapsulating the listener. Live shows are rare but stunning, recent supports have included Mark Gardner, Ulrich Schnauss and Rachel Goswell. The band will be back to delight in the Spring. ClubAC30-304012 CD $15.00 Analogue Minefield A Fine Adjustment Of Time PS, UK Blending elements of trip-hop, reggae, drum & bass and ambient, Dublin-based Analogue Mindfield's music was described by Cheshire Cat of Leftfield as "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with a vibrant brass-driven trip - they skank like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts". Analogue Mindfield are Snapper J, Gizzy D, Lariman, Yolazy and Kitty B. Their Mission Statement is simple "Create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes." - Gizzy D. The band have worked on a number of collaborations for these recordings including: Tim Bran Subsonar, Dreadzone, Transmission] Dr Das [Asian Dub Foundation], Eric Rico [producer/remixer Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, Tupac Shakur Tribute album], Belka & Strelka [The Orb, The Transit Kings] Electric Forgiveness [Jon Dawson - Third of Never, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick - the Who, Bob Marley]. Snapper J and Gizzy D met while playing with Irish urban guerrillas The Subtonics. Snapper J began his musical career fronting one of Ireland's most popular reggae bands Keltic Posse, gigging with reggae legends Derrick Morgan and Laurel Aiken as their support band, whilst in their own right headlining at The Montreaux Jazz festival. Gizzy D, founding member and resident producer of Loop Studios in Dublin has worked with Primal Scream, The Thrills, Shane McGowan, Thin Lizzy, Relish, Andy Rourke [The Smiths], The Frames, Jerry Fish, Blood or WhiskeyŠ and more. He is also a director of www.cpu.ie, Ireland's biggest online music resource. Nigerian-born Lariman originally shot to fame in Turkey where he was the leader in the vibrant reggae scene that swept the country in the 90's. Moving from there to Ireland he became the resident MC for the legendary Firehouse Skank Soundsystem performing alongside Brother Culture [Trojan Soundsystem] and supporting reggae superstars Lee Scratch Perry and The Skatalites. Kitty B's reputation as one of Dublin's most respected session vocalists, brought her to the attention of Snapper J and Gizzy D, who recruited her for the current album. Since then she has worked with Belka & Strelka and is due to record with labelmates Transit Kings [Alex Paterson, Dom Beken, Guy Pratt] in the near future.Yolazy, musician/producer/remixer first began working with Analogue Mindfield when he added some drum tracks and mastered their first album. He has worked with Colm O'coisoig [My Bloody Valentine], Leroy [The Prodigy], Nina Hynes, Produkt, The Pale, Stano, and has remixed and mastered for a host of others. MaliciousDamage-621 CD $16.00 Analogue Minefield A Fine Adjustment Of Time PS, UK Blending elements of trip-hop, reggae, drum & bass and ambient, Dublin-based Analogue Mindfield's music was described by Cheshire Cat of Leftfield as "a heavyweight mix of reggae, old school dub with a vibrant brass-driven trip - they skank like a mouthful of liquorice allsorts". Analogue Mindfield are Snapper J, Gizzy D, Lariman, Yolazy and Kitty B. Their Mission Statement is simple "Create auditory soundscapes of challenging yet accessible music, whilst retaining an inspired socially conscious theme to our tunes." - Gizzy D. The band have worked on a number of collaborations for these recordings including: Tim Bran Subsonar, Dreadzone, Transmission] Dr Das [Asian Dub Foundation], Eric Rico [producer/remixer Jurassic 5, Pharcyde, Tupac Shakur Tribute album], Belka & Strelka [The Orb, The Transit Kings] Electric Forgiveness [Jon Dawson - Third of Never, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick - the Who, Bob Marley]. Snapper J and Gizzy D met while playing with Irish urban guerrillas The Subtonics. Snapper J began his musical career fronting one of Ireland's most popular reggae bands Keltic Posse, gigging with reggae legends Derrick Morgan and Laurel Aiken as their support band, whilst in their own right headlining at The Montreaux Jazz festival. Gizzy D, founding member and resident producer of Loop Studios in Dublin has worked with Primal Scream, The Thrills, Shane McGowan, Thin Lizzy, Relish, Andy Rourke [The Smiths], The Frames, Jerry Fish, Blood or WhiskeyŠ and more. He is also a director of www.cpu.ie, Ireland's biggest online music resource. Nigerian-born Lariman originally shot to fame in Turkey where he was the leader in the vibrant reggae scene that swept the country in the 90's. Moving from there to Ireland he became the resident MC for the legendary Firehouse Skank Soundsystem performing alongside Brother Culture [Trojan Soundsystem] and supporting reggae superstars Lee Scratch Perry and The Skatalites. Kitty B's reputation as one of Dublin's most respected session vocalists, brought her to the attention of Snapper J and Gizzy D, who recruited her for the current album. Since then she has worked with Belka & Strelka and is due to record with labelmates Transit Kings [Alex Paterson, Dom Beken, Guy Pratt] in the near future.Yolazy, musician/producer/remixer first began working with Analogue Mindfield when he added some drum tracks and mastered their first album. He has worked with Colm O'coisoig [My Bloody Valentine], Leroy [The Prodigy], Nina Hynes, Produkt, The Pale, Stano, and has remixed and mastered for a host of others. MaliciousDamage-622 DLP $28.50 Aqueduct Or Give Me Death PS, US If you're familiar w/ Aqueduct you'll be happy to hear that David Terry's love of the pop hook has only gotten stronger w /time. However, unlike" I Sold Gold's" huge blown out drum sounds & blip-pop synths, "Or Give Me Death" finds him broadening his tonal horizons to encompass mariachi horns, Gershwin-esque strings, looped & layered vocals, & grand piano. There's also quite a lot more electric guitar, & it contains the best song about The Princess Bride EVER! Super cool cover art includes interactive acetate skull layer. Barsuk-063 CD $11.75 Arab Strap Ten Years of Tears PS, SCOTLAND Recently disbanded Scot's swan song compilation of singles, rarities, demos and live recordings. Includes 2 bonus songs (hidden?) at the end: a 1995 demo by Aidan called 'Bon Voyage' and a cover of 'It's A Heartache' recorded in 2006. Official tracklist: 01 Preface: Set The Scene / 02 Islands (demo) / 03 The First Big Weekend / 04 Gilded (live) / 05 I Saw You / 06 The Clearing / 07 Packs Of Three (2006) / 08 (Afternoon) Soaps / 09 Rocket Take Your Turn / 10 To All A Good Night / 11 Turbulence (Bis remix) / 12 The Shy Retirer / 13 Blood (live) / 14 (If There's) No Hope For Us (Rogue version) / 15 Where We've Left Our Love / 16 The Girl I Loved Before I Fucked (with full band) / 17 Oxytocin (demo) / 18 There Is No Ending ChemikalUnderground CD $15.50 Arkansaw Man S/T PS, US Here is the unlikely CD debut of ARKANSAW MAN, a wildly obscure San Francisco art-punk band that flickered to life all so briefly in 1981. 25 minutes of music, 25 years ago and sayonara. Still, the best things in life - in the life of music, anyway - often are tucked away where they are hard to find. With a brilliant economy of means and sparseness reminiscent of dub, the band got an amazing jump start on post-Rock. It revels in terse and choppy guitar, the languid, sour leakage of keyboards and horns, and occasional lyrics sung as ironic disclaimer, while the spare yet vaguely ominous bass lines recall the Gang of Four played back at 4 RPM. A quarter of a century ago, the spindly funk machinery and discordant scraping guitars of Arkansaw Man failed to give the world much to latch onto, so its music got lost, abandoned in a locker at pop culture's bus depot, the key left floating in a gutter somewhere one day to be scavenged. There's no better place to find a glimmer of artistic gold. TableOfTheElements-805 CD5 $9.00 Ashley, Greg Painted Garden PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Birdman-098 LP $10.50 Ashley, Greg Painted Garden PS, US The mastermind behind THE GRIS GRIS & THE MIRRORS is going solo for the first time since 1993. Beautifully orchestrated, sometimes fragile & always fuzzy, the album features great tunes, proof that the young songwriter's star is still on the rise. Written, produced & performed almost entirely by the artist, this is a true vision realized, & puts him right up there w/ the great musical minds of the day. Birdman-098 CD $13.25 Audionom Retrospectiv [domestic version] PS, US Formed from the ashes of punk/experimental legends Apparat (not the German Apparat, the Swedish one) and PVC in the late 90's, Audionom is a Stockholm supergroup that quickly became a popular live act known for its abrasive shows that also integrated the films of member Martin Malm. The band's hypnotic pummeling sound took inspiration from their love for such early experimental visionaries as Hawkwind, Brian Eno, and Neu! Nowhere is this more evident then on their full length debut Retrospektiv, which is comprised of material taken from various recordings and incarnations spanning 1999-2002. Repetition is definitely a reoccurring theme on Retrospektiv. Whether it's the punishing monotonous sound in opener "Ljusets Krigare", the electronically-keyed "Kristall," or avant Joy Division-esque "And You Said I Was The Only One," the merging of electronic and punk rock is repeated throughout the entire record. Kemado-028 CD $13.00 Awesome Color S/T PS, US Brooklyn's (by way of Ann Arbor) AWESOME COLOR's debut full-length is a mother of a scorched groover. Just check out the track "Free Man," it says it all. Guitarist DEREK STANTON, drummer ALLISON BUSCH, and bassist MICHAEL TROUTMAN have been blowing minds with heavy, cosmic guitars and a rhythm section like a freight train. When they play, they're often joined by brothers and sisters grabbing instruments and getting loud: barefoot guitar solos, sax in the aisles and wolf dancing all around. Produced by THURSTON MOORE, ANDREW KESIN and the band. Pressed on red vinyl and packaged in gatefold sleeves. CD released on Ecstatic Peace. AmericanDust-101 LP $9.50 Bark Haze, The Unititled PS, US This limited edition lp was pressed in an edition of 500 with letterpressed covers done by Manifesto. These are completely different recordings than the Bark Haze compact disc also on Important Records. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth etfuckingcetera). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops et al). Their name came from a mis-hearing of the radical early 70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mis-hearing and allegiance to presenting the mis-hearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity. So far all concerts have taken place in Western Massachusetts and once in the confines of Cambridge, MA's Twisted Village record emporium. They anxiously await their debut gig in the UK at the Nightmare Before Christmas event curated by Moore. As the heroic and potentially bonkers Carpenters refrained We've Only Just Begun. Damn straight. Important-128 LP $12.75 Barn Burning Werner Ghost Truck PS, US Darker & more diverse landscape than their first album. Second release is a journey through soundscapes, moods & stark images- filled with the sounds of empty rooms, cold stairwells & shortwave radio frequencies. Whispered, quiet finger-picking exploding into loud guitars & distorted violins then dying back down again into whispers & piano pieces: Alt-folk/Dark Indie Country. Tarnished CD $10.00 Barr Summary PS, US His most musical BARR record to date, Brendan explores more of a pop sensibility (w/out ever becoming poppy) w/ a new means of lyrical narrative & execution. The collection of works spans 5 tumultuous months of triumphs, failures, loss & growth & evokes a spectrum of raw emotion, as would a novel, a movie, a sonnet, or a classical concerto. 5RueChristine-065 CD $13.25 Barr/This Song Is A Mess Split PS, US An amazing effort by two of Los Angeles' most innovative artists. Electronic L.A. posterchildTSIAM contributes an apocolyptic dance revolution while Kill Rock Stars recording artistBarr dares to ask the question "remember how we all liked modest mouse?" Limited to 550 copies and comes with an exclusive pictureby Xiu Xiu tour manager David Horovitz Oedipus-005 45 $5.50 Bear Colony We Came Here To Die PS, US The unfortunate inspiration behind the composition of this album came from primary songwriter Vince Griffins misdiagnosis of Crohns Disease. Vince was bedridden for several months & began writing the songs as an outlet. Leaning on his musician friends around him, Vince began sharing the early BC material over the internet & the collaborative process began. The core nucleus of the group became Vince, Brooks Tipton (UNWED SAILOR), Adam Putnam, Matthew Putnam (ex-LOVEDRUG), Chase Pagan (MILITIA GROUP label) & Kyle Smith. What began as a fun tape swap among friends to escape from the mundane quickly became a true band of seven members, all bringing their own contribution to the creative collective table Esperanza-009 CD $12.50 Beauty Shop Crisis Helpline PS, US Their edgy lo-fi country noir sound owes as much to J Mascis as it does to Johnny Cash. Beautiful. Essential. They turn acoustic punk rock down to 9 1/2 instead of up to 11, with a little taste of alt.country thrown in for good measure. Snapper-943 CD $15.75 Bermon, Victor Arriving At Night PS, US Where did the quiet romantic composers working within electronic music's own folk form go? We need them back, which is maybe why Victor Bermon seems like a rebel whose cause is already lost in the slipped-stream of popular opinion. Tracks glide on backbeats that hearken back to crate-dug jazz records, warm wide chords & layers of melodic counterpoint. Acoustic guitars strum in the background, or pick their way through the fore, but they always welcome the dawn. Hefty-060 CD $11.25 Berner, Martha Ten Tiny Little Pieces PS, US 4-Song EP including an amazing cover of The Velet Underground's "Sunday Morning". "Ten Tiny Little Pieces E.P." was recorded on a crisp, sunny, fall afternoon in October. October 8, 2006 to be exact. It was Sunday and all songs were, for the most part, recorded live on that day. The weekend would be a whirlwind of arranging, rehearsing, rehearsing and arranging, and these rough, acoustic demos had no idea what was about to happen to them. This combination of talented players would prove to be just the right blend of personalities and musical tastes to take them on. Martha blends acoustic folk with the energetic passion of rock & roll. MachineRecords- CD5 $7.00 Besnard Lakes, The The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse PS, US Rich with BEACH BOYS style harmonies, ROY ORBISON reverbs and orchestra, PINK FLOYD's pacing and FREDDY MERCURY's falsetto, "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse" is a luxurious foray into sound and music. This is the second record by THE BESNARD LAKES, Montrealers by way of Western Canada. Their independently released previous record, "Volume I", came out in 2004, and it was noticed by critics but was largely overlooked by the public at large. On both records, The Besnard Lakes have shown that they are masters of finely-honed experimental pop songs that invoke the eerie Lynchian setting as aided and abetted by the music of Julee Cruise. But, on "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse", the band throws into the mix a mad dash of FLEETWOOD MAC proportioned swagger and ambition. Not so incidentally, The Besnard Lakes have created a masterpiece that will resonate within all quarters, amongst critics, casual and not-so-casual rock listeners, garden variety pop fans and headphone junkies. Jagjagwar-106 LP $10.25 Besnard Lakes, The The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse PS, US Rich with BEACH BOYS style harmonies, ROY ORBISON reverbs and orchestra, PINK FLOYD's pacing and FREDDY MERCURY's falsetto, "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse" is a luxurious foray into sound and music. This is the second record by THE BESNARD LAKES, Montrealers by way of Western Canada. Their independently released previous record, "Volume I", came out in 2004, and it was noticed by critics but was largely overlooked by the public at large. On both records, The Besnard Lakes have shown that they are masters of finely-honed experimental pop songs that invoke the eerie Lynchian setting as aided and abetted by the music of Julee Cruise. But, on "The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse", the band throws into the mix a mad dash of FLEETWOOD MAC proportioned swagger and ambition. Not so incidentally, The Besnard Lakes have created a masterpiece that will resonate within all quarters, amongst critics, casual and not-so-casual rock listeners, garden variety pop fans and headphone junkies. Jagjagwar-106 CD $11.50 Bethany & Rufus 900 Miles PS, US The duo comprised of BETHANY YARROW (daughter of Peter Yarrow) & RUFUS CAPPADOCIA, refine their vast influences through the minimalist combo of voice & cello, while focusing their attn on traditional songs from America's gritty folk past. Hyena CD $16.25 Big Takeover, The #59 (Decemberists Cover) PS, US RESTOCKED!!! Interviews: Decemberists (cover), Sonic Youth, Fiery Furnaces, Jello Biafra, Long Blondes, Franz Ferdinand pt. 2, Hidden Cameras, Richey Furay (Buffalo Springfield/Poco), Neil Innes (Rutles), Bats, New York Dolls pt. 2, St. Etienne, Nick Garrie, Pernice Brothers, Art Brut, Magic Numbers, Futureheads, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate) Snow Patrol, Alejandro Escovedo, Freeheat (ex-JaMC), Calexico, Phoenix, Happy Hate Me Nots, Denver Bands. Editorials: Rabid: Farewell to CBGB/Bowery, Ackerman: Rock's Great B List Bands, Sommer: Neu! and Motorik. Live Reviews: Jon Auer, Avengers, Belle & Sebastian, The Boys (reunion), Buzzcocks, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, English Beat, Golden Smog, Ipanema (ex-Mega City 4), Mission of Burma, Radio Birdman, Radiohead, Rogue Wave, Voxtrot, The Who. CD Reviews: Don McGlashan (ex-Mutton Birds), Humphreys & Keen (Abel Tasmans), Libertines U.S., Roddy Frame, Rifles, Greg Graffin, Wild Carnation, Shack, Neil Young, Fields, Lemonheads, The Sound, Robert Pollard, Black Watch, Bad Brains, Wire Jerry Lee Lewis, Byrds, Fats Waller, Camera Obscura, and more. BigTakeover ZINE $5.75 Black Lips Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo PS, US Now 22 years old, The Black Lips are grizzled veterans and kings of the psychedelic garage rock underground and legends in the scene. Playing the self-coined "flower punk" in the vein of Nuggets-faves The Seeds and The 13th Floor Elevators, live or on record it's hard to hide the fun these boys have and impossible to describe their unpredictable live show and how uninhibited the audiences are. This record is an amazing primer of Black Lips greatest hits. Contains new versions of tracks taken from their three previous albums and multiple singles. The music is every bit as deceptively sweet and dangerous as the city they recorded in - Tijuana Vice CD $10.75 Black Rose Band Hot Box/Hoochie Poochie PS, US 500 Black Vinyl. 2 tracks . King Louie's post-disaster outfit, with other NOLA citizens including the guitar player from The Detonations & members of the Scrips & Kondor. Both songs really have a hot & sweaty Southern rock vibe w/ a devil-may-care 'tude. A must have for any Harahan Fats fan & includes lyrics on the back sleeve. Contaminated-011 45 $5.00 Black To Comm Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun... PS, GERMANY "Wir können leider nicht etwas mehr zu tun..." is the rather weird title for Black To Comm's 2nd Album release within 12 months, this time coming out on a gorgeous vinyl-only double-LP with a beautifully strange gatefold sleeve in a limited edition of 500 copies. Black To Comm is the nom de plume for Hamburg's Dekorder label head honcho Marc Richter's sonic voyages. In 2006 he released a 7" lathe cut picture disc ("Levitation"), his debut album "Rückwärts Backwards" on CD and very limited vinyl and compilation tracks for the Finnish 267 Lattajjaa and Ukrainian Quasipop labels. While the first album was mainly constructed from dusty vinyl and shellac loops, the new album is based on "real" instruments including several antique organs, electric harmonium, acoustic & electric guitars, bells, clattery percussion, vintage effect pedals and tape loops thereof. Richter builds up massive psychedelic one-chord drones, minimal yet dense and heavily layered, full of spacious details and swirling melodies buried within. Each track is slowly building, drifting and floating hypnotically into a warm and shimmering black ocean of sonic liquid, creating a mesmerizing and mysterious mass of sound. While most of the works are thick monotone layers of organic sound there's some sort of simple songwriting gleaming constantly through the mist, making this a highly accessible drone album. Guest musicians are Hamburg visual artist Renate Nikolaus on electric & acoustic guitars and voice and electro-acoustic musician Gregory Büttner on trumpet. Dekorder-19 DLP $17.50 Black Velvet Is It Me You Really Love PS, US Another in the hidden gems series from Blacktop Records. This one's taken from the master tapes which have been remixed & remastered w/ instrumental versions of the 2 tracks now included. Teenage female vocal trio sing about the blurry lines between love & sex. A slow jam w/hard hitting drums on a CLASSIC. Flip is more conventional funk w/extra Jersey "crack" that sets it apart. LatinExpress-014 12 $6.25 Bob & Gene If This World Were Mine PS, US Presented in its entirety for the first time. Bob & Gene's full length album. Some of the deepest & sweetest Soul sides ever carved into wax. Features recordings only previously available on rare 45's in the hands of a few collectors, as well as unreleased material. Daptone-010 LP $14.50 Boyracer It's Not True Grit PS, US HappyHappyBirthdayToMe 45 $4.00 Bunny Rabbit Lovers & Crypts PS, US A record of midnight freestyle nursey rhymes bred through the martyrs of hip hop, punk & folk. The essential delivery of nightmarish prophecies, hallucinogenic dark beats, seductive sweet melodies & raunchy raps are said to arouse feelings of "deep seeded shame & inexorable ass shaking." She's also produced tracks & toured w/ CocoRosie. VE-004CD CD $13.25 Bunyan, Vashti Lookaftering PS, US FINALLY!! Deluxe gatefold jacked w/tip-on style sleeve. Incl. contributions from JOANNA NEWSOM, DEVENDRA BANHAT, ADEM, MICE PARADE, CURRITUCK COUNTY DiCristina-006 LP $13.50 Call Me Lightning Soft Skeletons PS, US Milwaukee trio create frenetic post-punk informed by Talking Heads' quirky pop & Jesus Lizards' rambunctious absurdism. Follow up to 2004 debut, Soft Skeletons is an 11 song blast of youthful energy, wicked riffery & unapologetic fun. FrenchKiss-029 CD $14.50 Calla Strength In Numbers PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BeggarsBanquet LP $10.75 Calla Strength In Numbers PS, US Calla's sophomore effort encompasses their signature experimental raw sound. Written and recorded while on tour abroad and in their hometowns, the band had a chance to focus on their collections of field recordings for this release. They've created their own identity, while at the same time have been compared to Nick Cave and Low. "Burrowing into dark corners of new wave's shiny, happy side, the band Calla finds something more than brooding and vintage black couture" - NY Times. "Calla prove that emotional savagery can be a beautiful thing" - Rolling Stone. BeggarsBanquet CD $13.25 Campbell, Glen Best of The Glen Campbell Music Show PS, UK The best of 3 performances in the early 70's - the peak of Campbell's career. This DVD represents the best performances from a string of concerts filmed by Ember in the early 70s - the peak of Campbell's career. The first was a recording of a show at The Talk Of The Town in '72, then through '75 Campbell six TV shows broadcast by the BBC. Backed by his then regular band and the BBC Concert Orchestra, Campbell performed live his greatest hits plus other favorite songs of his choosing. The performances are brilliant, the backing very tight, the sound recording excellent, and all filmed in gloriously gaudy 1970s color schemes. This includes his best known hits and interesting covers. Song Titles: Dream Baby, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Mary In The Morning, Try A Little Kindness, Gentle On My Mind, Ocean In His Eyes, Time In A Bottle, The Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife, Help Me Make It Through The Night, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Country Boy, Oklahoma Sunday Morning, It Must Be A Sin When You Love Somebody, The Moons A Harsh Mistress, Aint No Sunshine, Oh Happy Day RPM-2 DVD $12.75 Casiotone For The Painfully Alone/Foot Foot It's a Crime (Split) PS, US Oedipus 45 $5.50 Chelsea Faster, Cheaper & Better Looking PS, US Brand new album from veterans of the original U.K. Punk movement! First studio album in over a decade & the first time the trio of James Stevenson (ALARM, CULT, GENERATION X), Chris Bashford & Gene October have played on a record together since 1979! The boys are joined by Tony Barber of the BUZZCOCKS on this tour de force of a comeback album. Great `77 style Punk Rock- melodic but fast & with great, poignant lyrics. TKO-164 CD $12.75 Chrysler, The Cold War Classic [U.S. Edition] (ON SALE) PS, US Domestic release for The Chrysler's second album, with 5 bonus tracks. 'Cold War Classic' is the second full-length release from mysterious Swedish folk-pop band The Chrysler, recorded in a little cabin outside Katrineholm, Sweden; an album filled with hope, agony, and clarinets. The band's debut album 'Failures And Sparks' was well-received by music writers, who have compared The Chrysler's enigmatic, bonfire folk and baroque, jangling pop to The Byrds, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Drake, The Band, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Lambchop, and Norway's Kings Of Convenience. Guest appearances by Laakso vocalist Martin Krunnegard and Swedish songstress Britta Person. As with their debut album 'Failures And Sparks', released in late-2005 by Galaxy Gramophone/PLG, the U.S. edition of 'Cold War Classic' will be augmented with five bonus tracks, the songs from their Blue Gold and First Blood EPs, including their cover of Bob Dylan's "Changing of the Guards". CD $9.00 Circle Tower PS, US Although still bearing the moniker 'New wave of Finnish heavy metal', this one definitely bares more relationship to In a Silent Way than Aces High. No sign of vocals at all, just chilled-out grooves that still have Prospekt at their core (though perhaps their exterior is more like a heavily sedated Soft Machine?). The line-up is the current core of Circle + Mika Rintala (Verde) so he is listed here as special guest super-star LastVisibleDog-112 CD $11.75 Conn, Bobby King For A Day PS, US "Its about my desperate attempt to lose myself in a candy-colored fantasyland of freaks & fairies. Its an urge that I think lots of us share, especially these days as the real world is getting increasingly grim. The album starts w/ an 8-min epic w/ strings, a choir singing in Latin, a blinding, atonal guitar solo & birds singing before the dawn. There are psychedelic interludes & instrumental passages between more conventional 'pop' songs & the album ends w/ a triumphant/tragic piano ballad," says Bobby. Feat. The Glass Gypsies & members of The Detholz! & Mahjonng & 3 bonus videos ThrillJockey-177 CD $13.25 Daniels, David Karsten Sharp Teeth PS, US A compelling exploration of moral ambiguity & perhaps-unavoidable human disconnection, suggesting modern American folk music in the Southern tradition: often deathly slow, like life in the South, and haunted by religion- but unable to find answers in its Bible. The sounds of the South appear as well; Nashville's slide guitars, nods to Dixieland Jazz, drums, horns, choirs & epic string arrangements take their places in songs that, despite their grand scale, manage to be concise & immediate, conveying a distinct love of pop music. FatCat-051 CD $13.25 Dark Fog Ultimate Cult of Psychedelic Psychosis PS, US Sophmore release from this Chicago psyche quartet delivers siren songs summoned from realms of incantation, trance & dream w/ high mass revelations channeled from subvert parallel universes. Starkly subtle yet profound, lurid & alluring, this album goes off the edge & at the same time leaps into the light. OriginalSound-009 CD $6.75 Deerhoof Friend Opportunity PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ChildrenOfHoof-025 LP $15.00 Diagram Brothers Some Marvels of Modern Science + Singles PS, UK 24 tracks. Digitally remastered from the original studio tapes, Some Marvels of Modern Science + Singles features 24 tracks and runs for 74 minutes. In addition to all 14 tracks from their 1981 album on the New Hormones label (founded by Buzzcocks), the CD also features ten bonus tracks from all four singles released between 1980 and 1982, including the cult favourites Bricks and Discordo, as well as the ultra-rare Diagram Brothers German EP. Often compared to XTC, Gang of Four and Fire Engines in their day, The Diagram Brothers invented and defined their sound 'discordo' as follows: "The music was made to a strict formula, or set of rules. All the guitar chords were based on discordant notes, all the beats were very simple rock or disco, and all the words very straightforward and down to earth." Some Marvels Of Modern Science drew warm reviews on release in 1981: "The Diagram Brothers play an extraordinary, quirky, jerky brand of speedo funk, as if some Pavlovian behaviourist has got hold of The Gang of Four and started to do tricky experiments on them... Science before sentience, the didactic before the ecstatic seems to be the unusual anti-rock n' roll idea... This is an album of observations which are never dull, and of music which - in spite of being clinical - is never cold. I quite warm to this kind of off-beat fun and to the proof that the English eccentric spirit needn't necessarily take twee grown-up public schoolboy forms." (NME). The CD booklet features a deluxe 16 pages booklet featuring facsimile artwork and detailed liner notes. LTM-2480 CD $15.00 Distance My Demons PS, US Debut album from Bromley, England's top dubstep producer. A resident DJ on influential UK radio station Rinse 100.3 FM, he rose to prominence w/ Sting Records tracks. This new album is another leap into uncharted dubstep territory. It collects all the dubs the artist's been working on over the past year incl. the haunting "Mistral," the booming breaks of "Weigh Down" & the long-awaited "Night Vision". PlanetMu-170 CD $15.00 Distance My Demons PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PlanetMu-170 DLP $18.75 Dolorean You Can't Win PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc-2109 LP $14.50 Dolorean You Can't Win PS, US Another collection of melancholy & stunningly beautiful folk pop songs. Singer Al James completed the eleven new songs here after Dolorean's 2005 European tour & before long, the band performed the set live at two gigs within two weeks at one bar in their hometown of Portland, OR. After these two brief outings, James & cohorts promptly went into the studio & recorded all the basic tracks in one weekend. Cinematic & haunting in their imagery, the songs on- from the spooky opening percussion on the title track to the closing notes of "My Still Life" YepRoc-2109 CD $14.50 Dora Flood We Live Now PS, US Over the course of their five LPs and one EP, Dora Flood has produced some of the most notable shoegazing dream pop to come out of the United States. Their brand new effort, We Live Now, is perhaps the acclaimed San Francisco group's heaviest sounding release to date with nods to late '60s and early '70s interstellar boogie rock spliced into the heady mix. With praise coming from discerning music magazines like The Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Losing Today and Ptolemaic Terrascope, it is no wonder that audiences leave Dora Flood's shows feeling that they witnessed something of a secret, psychedelic phenomenon. These live close encounters, as well as their classic studio work, leave listeners with bold memories of pounding grooves, lush orchestration, and melodies so timeless that they take up residence in the heads of those fortunate enough to cross their path. ElephantStone-1016 CD $11.00 Eats Tapes Dos Mutantes PS, US Here they triumphantly return w/ 10 relentless brain smashers! Feat. a battery of hardware sequencers, synths, modified drum machines, cassette players & a midi Nintendo. They specialize in noisy, spazzy techno bangers w/ irresistible hooks. Fusing a variety of influences, they comfortably straddle the San Francisco Bay Area's myriad club, psychedelic noise, & art-rock scenes. Tigerbeat6 CD $15.00 Eluvium Copia PS, US Following a string of increasingly remarkable albums, ELUVIUM's MATTHEW COOPER set out to broaden his instrumental palette, while maintaining the uncanny emotional resonance that has become his trademark. The result is "Copia", an hour-long epic that applies Eluvium's heartache-inducing ether to a symphony of strings, brass, keyboards and piano. Noticeably absent but hardly missed are the washes of guitars that color most of Eluvium's previous material. The deliberate exclusion of traditional rock instrumentation serves as sufficient proof that the instrument is not Eluvium's driving force. At best it is a catalyst, a vehicle to that netherworld in the back of your head, where your life starts to uncontrollably reevaluate itself. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-110 CD $11.50 End Elementary PS, US RECENT. An incredible listen, this sees them find their own unique voice; balancing world-class musicianship w/ fiery songs that bare the soul & expose the essence of what it means to be real/human. Awe inspiring songs look deep into the heart of human experience & emotion, burining w/ a passion seldom heard in modern music. RIYL: Tool, Isis Relapse-6593 CD $13.25 Erasure On the Road to Nashville (CD/DVD) PS, US Mute CD/DVD $17.50 Eternals Heavy International PS, US International sounds homogenize through twisted, dirty avenues, where the high-rolling boom-box dub kings cruise tropical boulevards, tops down, stereos ablaze at twilight, while the jazzy ladies line up. The Chicago trio's strange rawar style stretches the sonic palette like Reed Richard's (Fantastic Four), whose creator Jack Kirby, plays influence to vocalist Damon Lock's intricately woven album covers depicting dark, rugged city-scapes. The group's third album ups the anti with all chips on the table. Diving deeper into uncharted waters, the musical monsoon continues to saturate their diverse sounds in their own unique vision. Aesthetics-044 CD $12.50 Eternals Heavy International PS, US Double LP comes w/ free sticker & poster. Aesthetics-044 DLP $15.75 Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone PS, US Thirty seconds is all you'll need to believe in the tragedy-turned-majesty of "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY's long-awaited, very eagerly anticipated fourth album. The hands-over-your-face, drop-to-your-knees opening track is only the beginning of the dominating brilliance of this record. Recorded by JOHN CONGLETON (THE ROOTS, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, the album is a massive leap forward, showcasing a broader instrumental range and their most focused, efficient songwriting. It's also within arm's length of matching the overwhelming glory of their legendary live shows, trading in the crystalline production of "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-099 DLP $14.25 Explosions In The Sky All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone PS, US (Limited number of special edition w/ bonus disc). Thirty seconds is all you'll need to believe in the tragedy-turned-majesty of "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone," EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY's long-awaited, very eagerly anticipated fourth album. The hands-over-your-face, drop-to-your-knees opening track is only the beginning of the dominating brilliance of this record. Recorded by JOHN CONGLETON (THE ROOTS, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS) at Pachyderm Studios in rural Minnesota, the album is a massive leap forward, showcasing a broader instrumental range and their most focused, efficient songwriting. It's also within arm's length of matching the overwhelming glory of their legendary live shows, trading in the crystalline production of "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" for a paint-peeling intensity that blurs the lines between studio and live performance. TemporaryResidenceLtd-099 CD $11.50 Fane, Julian Our New Quarters PS, US His new pieces are grounded in live percussion, great swaths of strings, indecipherable high-pitched vocals & lush, sweeping synth effects. These elements, along w/ a strengthened vocal presence, give the music a powerful emotional core. The album wallows deliciously in vast, guitar-laden melancholy, & certain tracks achieve a pristine beauty almost classical in tone. PlanetMu-161 CD $15.00 Faust In Autumn (3XCD/DVD) PS, UK Krautrock legends Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set. Recorded last year in the UK, their performances featured many Faust enduring classics performed live for the very first time after all these years. The first two CDs in the set are a complete unedited show from the Carling Academy, Newcastle. CD 3 is a collection of tracks culled form other dates on the tour. The DVD also compiles the finest footage form the tour. This tour was hailed as the best so far from Faust since their reformation in 1992, and this fantastic box set really captures a legendary band at the absolute top of their game and truly on fire.32 page booklet and liner notes from Jean-Herve Peron. DirtierPromotions-059 CD-BOX $50.00 Feelers Just Can't Get Enough PS, US 200 color vinyl. Original press was July 2006 - 500 black vinyl. The vocals sound rougher & the guitars form a solid wall-of-punk sound that can't really be fucked with. The title track is their trademark schizophrenic-punk taken up a notch, definitely the "hit". On the B side things back up, slow 'em down a little again, & just clamp down hard & get into some serious business. Contaminated-010 45 $5.00 Field Music Tones Of Towns (ON SALE) PS, US Whereas their eponymous debut was played & executed with care -dryly produced, ambitiously skewed, multilayered, & engineered to gradually reveal intricacies over repeated listens -this album pushes & scratches at the boundaries of their debut, moving in several directions at once, & taking big risks. MemphisIndustries-074 CD $14.00 Frames The Cost PS, US One of Ireland's most successful bands, known for their sell-out performances to 20,000 fans in their homeland, as well as their relentless touring schedule across the globe. With their sixth studio album, they've returned to an earlier, simpler mode of recording, in order to finally capture the intensity and ecstasy of their live performances. Retaining the signature Frames feel and texture but with more space and warmth, "The Cost" is, in leader Glen Hansard's words, "our 70's folk record¿Gordon Lightfoot, early Elton John, that kind of feel." With their catchiest songs to date and the intimate feel of their lauded live performances, "The Cost" will lift The Frames alongside bands like Coldplay to inspire and exhilarate us. ANTI CD $14.75 Frith, Fred The Happy End Problem PS, US Consists of two, related, small-ensemble works for 6 & 7 musicians respectively - mostly strings, with percussion, flute, clarinet & electronics. FRED, violinist CARLA KILSTEHT & percussionist WILLIE WYNANT play throughout as the music constantly unfolds into new textures & dialects, never hesitating & never marking time. The necessity & simplicity of these pieces conceals a catalogue of experimental techniques and novel ideas - there are those whod have squeezed a score of albums from this material. ReR-005 CD $16.00 Frith, Fred Impur PS, US In 1996, Fred organized an event at Lecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France involving students grouped according to their departments & separated, each playing musical material Fred had prepared for them. In order to co-ordinate all the groups, everyone followed a precise time-score prepared by Fred. The entire event was recorded on 4 A-DAT machines, & this CD is the result: a lurching, complex & capricious beast w/ many heads: an orchestra tuning up; a salute to Sonny Blount; a roiling chaotic mass of sound splitting into layers, colliding back together, pullulating, ululating, roaring & sometimes mewing like a kitten. ReR CD $16.00 Frivolous Midnight Black Indulgence PS, US This marks a watershed in DANIEL GARDNERr's career. For the first time, influences & inspirations are clearly discernible. Moments of pure dance ecstasy are followed by string interludes or appear next to jazz ballads. The connections he makes are of a convincing, almost compelling logic, & derive from his many yrs in the mid-'90s, peddling the new European minimalist sound as a club DJ in Vancouver. Scape-043 CD $16.00 F-Space Preliminary Impact Report PS, US Powerful, unparalleled musical project by San Francisco artists ETHAN PORT (SAVAGE REPUBLIC) & Scott Jenerik also featuring CHROME drummer Aleph Kali & sometimes MAN IS THE BASTARD DRUMMER Joel Connell. While referencing traditionial rock, punk & ethnic melodies, they also bring in metal, springs, strings & other hardware, often immersing the band in 15 foot fire balls! An apocalyptic giant is born! Played 8 DIY Hit & Run performances from the back of a van at Burning Man last year Mobilization-501 CD $13.25 Fu Manchu We Must Obey PS, US CenturyMedia CD $16.00 Future Of The Left Fingers Become Thumbs! + The Lord Hates A Coward b/w The Fibre Provider PS, US In retrospect the end of mclusky was no great surprise. Strong personalities with strong feelings on many things don't always share the same feelings. No worries though as mclusky mainman Andy Falkous and mclusky drummer Jack Egglestone have teamed up with bassist Kelson Mathias and have seemingly picked up right where mclusky left off. Pure 45 $3.75 Future Pilot AKA Secrets From The Clockwise PS, UK Secrets features collaborations & appearances from members of The Go-Betweens/Sonic Youth/Belle & Sebastion/Can /Stooges/Fire Engines/Concerto Caledonia/Unkle Bob/ Karine Polwart & Alasdair Gray. Some highlights - "TERY BINA (NOTHING WITHOUT YOU)" Kicking off with a cyclic rendition of the classic Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan track featuring vocals contributions from Pilot family members Vinita Dade and 4-year-old Anurudh (pilot in training) singing over a shimmering dulcimer led track. "EYES OF LOVE" Recording very much with the spirit of Two-Tone in mind and the energy of early Kinks, this uplifting summer groover is sung by Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch & Sarah Martin. "IT'S IN THE HEART OF EVERYONE" Simple Mathematics with former Lydia Lunch /Swans/Current 93 collaborator Joe Budenholzer with harmonies from Karine Polwart -minus 4 equals 7 indeed. "BOOMERANG" Slight return-the second coming of our man Joseph Budenholzer. "THE CITY OF LIGHT" The Go-Betweens Robert Forster & Grant McLennan do a 'reading' of this miniscule pop gem, 58 seconds of undiluted Pop to spring clean your mind! "NUCLEAR WAR" Members of Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon), The Fire Engines (Davy Henderson) and Stooges/Minutemen bass legend (Mike Watt) pay homage to the spirit of jazz giant Sun Ra ,on this one of his minimalist compositions from the 70's.This track also features a rare recording of the 'fu-horn' performed by iconic radio producer Stewart Cruickshank. "SHENANDOAH" This haunting folk song features chilling vocals and waterfall piano by Karine Polwart alongside young Glasgow improv percussionist Alex Neilson on loan from Scatter/Glasgow Improviser's Orchestra. "FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS" This historic track documents a genuine piece of 'instant composing' featuring a live jam across the telephone exchange, Sushil K Dade performs on acoustic guitar in Glasgow whilst Damo Suzuki (Can) listens to the chords 'down the line' from his Cologne HQ and responds with his hauntingly poignant, crackly telephone vocals. CreepingBent-091 CD $14.00 Giant Robot #46 PS, US Ura-Harajuku Godfather, Gong Li, Towa Tei, Bons Brigade, Thai Cowboys, and Gloomy Bear! ZINE $4.75 Gowns Red State PS, US Their debut CD sketches out a vision of what the future of rock could be. Their over the counter psychedelia draws no lines between acoustic guitars & feedbacked pianos. MAE SHI vocalist, Ezra Buchla, AMPS FOR CHRIST guitarist, Erika Anderson & former member of MOUNTAIN GOATS & CURTAINS percussionist Corey Fogel have brought the American West Coast a fertile marriage of eerie folk murmur & crushed, twisted electronics. The sound conjured up is a digitally- ruptured, gospel valentine to the heartlands. Cardboard-005 CD $10.00 Group Doueh Guitar Music From the Western Sahara PS, US This Saharan sand-blizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp. They play raw & unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. The sound is distorted, loud & unhinged w/ an impressive display of virtuosity & style only known in this part of the world. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl & comes in a gatefold full color jacket stocked w/ great photos of the musicians & liner notes. LIMITED TO 1000. Sublime LP $21.00 Grubbs, David & Susan Howe Souls of the Labadie Tract PS, US This takes as its starting point a substantial new poem by HOWE that will appear in a collection bearing the same title, to be published in 2007 by New Directions. The Labadists were a Utopian Quietest sect that moved from the Netherlands to Cecil County, Maryland in 1684. The community dissolved in 1722. This sustains a sound world of buzzing reeds & electronics. BlueChopsticks-017 CD $13.50 Half Cocked The Movie PS, US Indie rock/indie film classic where girl & friends steal van of musical instruments & morph into a real band. Featuring the music (and frequently the acting) of RODAN, POLVO, GRIFTERS, UNWOUND, RUBY FALLS, CRAIN. Also incl the feature "Radiation," following the expoits of a tour promoter taking US bands across Spain. RECOMMENDED. Rumur-004 DVD $17.00 Harry Roche Constellation Spiral / Sometimes PS, UK The last great psychedelic album, 'Spiral' and it's successor 'Sometimes' are restored to the catalogue (together here) for the first time in over thirty years. Completely overlooked when it was first released and quickly deleted, original copies of 'Spiral' have long been the holy grail for collectors, changing hands for ridiculous money. This album crosses over onto the jazz-lounge scene where 'Spiral' is right up there with Roy Budd's 'Get Carter' score. The famous title track features the vocals of Claire Torrey who contributed to Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon'. El-100 CD $13.00 Hauschka Room To Expand PS, US The alias of Dusseldorf-based pianist/composer Volker Bertelmann, whose work is based upon an exploration of the possibilities of the "prepared" piano. Volker explores & influences the outcome of his playing by getting right down inside the instrument- clamping wedges of leather, felt or rubber between the strings; preparing the hammers with aluminium paper or rough films; or weaving guitar strings around the piano's guts. The resulting tracks are composed both originally & charmingly, forming vivid, unconventional pieces made through what Volker terms a playful "research-enthusiasm," much informed by modern electronica or Indonesian gamelan as it is by any classical cannon. FatCat-1306 CD $13.25 Hayman, Darren Under Eastbourne Lights PS, UK So like the third doctor, Jon Pertwee. Here is the third EP (in a four holiday series) from Darren Hayman. A dandy of a record , it might as well be on purple vinyl in a purple velevet sleeve. With the static brothers in UNIT family mode whilst Mr Hayman parks his yellow car and adjusts his eye patch. So a dandy indeed , four more tracks that touch all the familiar bases and satisfy all your needs, and anyone that disagrees can meet us outside for a venusian karate fight. StaticCaravan-123-7 45 $7.25 Haysi Fantayzee Battle Hymns for Children Singing: The Best of Haysi Fantayzee PS, UK Haysi Fantayzee were formed in 1981 by fashion photographer Kate Garner, former Animal Magnet member Paul Caplin and Jeremy Healy, a well known face on London's club scene. Together they set about injecting a sense of fun and adventure into the music scene, wearing outlandish, self designed costumes and dreadlocks, and writing songs that married sexual subversion with deliberately disposable and cocksure dayglo pop. Their 'Dickensian Rasta' look was an immediate hit and saw their debut single 'John Wayne Is Big Leggy' rise to number 11 in the national charts. In their brief career they would also enjoy chart success with 'Holy Joe' and 'Shiny Shiny'. All three hits are reprised on this CD, as is their sole album, Battle Hymns For Children Singing. The package also features a host of bonus tracks, remixes, and sleevenotes written with the co-operation of both Healy and Garner. The former went on to become one of the UK's most successful DJs, while the latter is an accomplished and in-demand photographer for artists including Sinead O'Connor, Bjork, David Bowie and others. CherryPop-3 CD $13.00 Hazard County Girls Divine Armor PS, US The group started as a duo w/ drummer Sharon Heather & guitarist Christy Kane. Crustacean-067 CD $9.25 Hidden Hand Resurrection of Whiskey Foot PS, US Lyrically the band has evolved from their previous politically charged content also incorporating historical story based lyricism. Musically there is a subtle southern or classic rock vibe (ala killer slide playing from WINO & even some Harp by MICHAEL ANTONY MILLER) that creeps into the foundation of their brand of dark, heavy, progressive rock. Only a lineup consisting of the capable ""rock-veterans"" can properly pull off an album of this magnitude. SouthernLord-070 CD $14.00 High Llamas Can Cladders PS, US They're back & rolling out their sounds w/ soul & bounce hitherto unheard in their halcyon days. The acoustic flavor of "Beet, Maize & Corn" remains present here: a string quartet lays the harmonic bed of the material, joined there by a quartet of female vocalists. All of which lends the gospel truth to the Llamas traditional group profile of piano, bass & drums w/ vibes, organ & a bit of gut-string acoustic for good measure. After all the planning & arrangements, it's a happy record, as happy as we are today. DragCity-317 CD $13.50 High Llamas Can Cladders PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-317 LP $13.50 High Strung Moxie Bravo PS, US A listener might mistake its energy & bombastic sound for one hell of a party record. But if that listener were to allow his ears to fasten onto the songs, he would discover that it's onto something wholly unique. Malermans lyrics sound more like an eerie childrens novel than they do the traditional canon of be-my-girl rock 'n roll. And for this, and for the sheer originality of their arrangements, Moxie Bravo is something to be experienced rather than felt. ParkTheVan-013 CD $13.00 Higney, Kenneth Attic Demonstration PS, US Available again -- the long-planned reissue of this loner/Real-People album originally issued in 1976 by Higney himself, reissued on CD in 2004. "Kenneth Higney was a struggling singer-songwriter when he cut Attic Demonstration in 1976, a demo record of such massive outsider vision that it dropped straight into the void, as well as the deep pockets of a band of committed record collectors. Initially intended as a calling card to help him get his songs covered by other artists, Higney soon branched out into selling the disc as an actual album, placing low key ads in a couple of NY papers and sending out a bunch of review copies. Only Trouser Press took the bait, saluting Attic Demonstration's 'cross between Lou Reed and Neil Young without the aid of melody.' Now 'officially' available for the first time, Attic Demonstration is one of the most endearing and intensely human 'real people' discs to turn up for a while, boasting Modern Lovers-styled road ballads sung with a Jagger-esque sneer and propelled on pegleg rhythms that would do The Shaggs proud, through meandering tonal wastelands where Higney's eye wateringly unarmoured vocals are supported by minimal chord patterns that progress according to the position of the stars. Best of all is the addition of both sides of Higney's funk/punk tribute single, where he namechecks contemporaries like The Dead Boys and Johnny Thunders and rhymes 'dirty downtown bar' with 'the sissy music of John Denver'. Almost too good to be true." -- David Keenan/The Wire. Kebrutney CD $12.50 Holy Ghost Revival City Drugs PS, US Ttb-001 LP $10.75 Hot Cross Risk Revival (Digipack Packaging) PS, US EqualVision CD $13.00 Hubcap City Superlocalhellfreakride PS, US BILL TAFT and WILL FRATESI are luminaries of Atlanta's indie rock avant-garde - Taft's legacy as a key player in SMOKE and Fratesi's tenure as the rickety percussionist behind such lonely and urbane Southern specters as CAT POWER and TENEMENT HALLS culminates in HUBCAP CITY with slow, serpentine miasma. "Superlocalhellfreakride" is a guided tour through Atlanta's underbelly; a survey of the acoustics found in its burned-out buildings, graveyards and long-abandoned mills. The humid ghosts of Hubcap City's ancestors, including Smoke, the Jody Grind and Atlanta's seminal Destroy All Music Festivals in the 1980s all echo in these folkish dirges of melody and noise. With each lazy and uplifting honk of the horn over a clatter of strings and metal the group pushes the old weird Atlanta into deeper and higher levels of beautiful imprisonment, and the only way out is through. TableOfTheElements-112 CD $13.00 Jain, Essie We Made This Ourselves PS, US Accompanied by piano & guitar (as well as other instruments, like drums by JIM WHITE of The Dirty Three), her vocals breathe in the space between the words & phrases. The results are a stunningly emotional album. At the core, the songs are touching, haunting melodies that can strike out on one fragile, repeating note. Yet, they sound indestructible. BaDaBing!-051 CD $13.00 Jesu Conqueror PS, US J.K. Broadrick's second full-length is packed with eight gorgeously hypnotic tracks. "Conqueror" exhales a dreamlike mist of weighty celestial ambience, underwater phantasms, and slow-rolling nebulae, fomenting the kind of kaleidoscopic rapture - brimming with lush electronics, dulcet guitar textures, massive riffs, and lavish atmospheric hues - that makes us swear we're on drugs. HydraHead CD $13.50 Joakim Monsters & Silly Songs PS, US Multi-talented artist, DJ, & producer has returned with a new musical vision. Heavily influenced by artists like John Carpenter, Aphex Twin & Arthur Russel, M&SS focuses on live instrumentation & performance with a healthy dash of pop melody. K7 CD $17.00 JVC Force Force Field PS, US One of the most overlooked middle school Hip Hop groups, even though "Strong Island" was a classic hit. On this album, the MCs, B-Luv & AJ Rock ripped a hole into the record. Really they are one of the greatest duos of all time. This album showed a higher evolution of skill that completely surpasses "Doin Damage". If you're sleeping, its not too late to wake up. Traffic-2722 CD $13.25 Kiev Cuando Nieva S/T PS, SPAIN Produced by Rafael Martinez del Pozo (JR), each musical instrument seems to have achieved its due place by a force which has been propelled by a persistent intensity which has made it fundamental. As for the rest, that which was left it has been swiftly swept away by the northern Cierzo wind, or even one from the steppe. Banjos, faulty keyboards, drums which resound as if machinery, guitars that find a space in which to dialogue between the ghostly reminder of a bass that isn't there. The fragile voices make their way among this estranged beauty, and speak of forest keepers, subalterns, trips to hermitages, coincidences, and get-togethers with friends. The record shapes up as the listening continues, like a panoramic view of a world amazed by the smallest details, by the daily baroque, by the melancholy and the humor. AARecords-12 CD $13.50 Kuupuu Unilintu PS, GERMANY "Unilintu" is the second of two vinyl-only LP's on the Dekorder label compiling the best material from Kuupuu's first four CD-R and cassette releases, this time presenting a slightly darker and even more coherent sonic vision compared to last year's gorgeous "Yökehrä" LP which we sold out immediately (2nd edition is now available). Here's what we said about the first LP: Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu is one of the main movers of the (deservedly) much hyped Finnish Psychedelic Free Folk scene. Originally hailing from Tampere she is known as a core member of Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kukkkiva Poliisi and Maniacs Dream. She has recently started Hertta Lussu Ässä with Lau Nau and Islaja and has collaborated with Tomutonttu (aka Jan Anderzen of Kemialliset Ystävät) and Paavi (as Lussu ja Paavi). This LP is a beautiful collection of haunting home baked freeform folk songs, strange lo-fi loops, vocal drones and psychedelic cut-ups, made using weirdly tuned plucked and strummed strings, bells, clattery percussion, unidentifiable wind instruments, backwards tape loops and a ton of other noisemakers played and recorded by herself; accompanied by her distinctive voice in her native Finnish language making the whole atmosphere even more haunting and mysterious. Jonna Karanka creates an intimate space where the listener feels like sitting next to her in a small chamber or outside in the woods. References: Fursaxa, Vashti Bunyan, Kemialliset Ystävät, Colleen, Animal Collective, Lau Nau, Jewelled Antler, Wooden Wand. "Of all the many travelers in the Finnish psychedelia scene, Kuupuu is surely one of the most enigmatic. (The Wire, September 2006). Dekoder-018 LP $13.25 La Buena Vida Sencillos PS, SPAIN Digibox with 5 CD singles. There is jovial cheer for the festive season and we are happy to announce a special event. Many people have waited years and years for this release to come out. Loyal followers of pop heartthrobs La Buena Vida will want to rush out to record stores to pick up this singles box set, which spans the band's career from 1992-2000. A gladiatorial thumbs-up gesture from the public is expected on this occasion as most of the material included in this special and deluxe box set is sold out (EP tracks only available on vinyl and classified "on the long deleted" and "impossible to find") including a whole load of rarities and cover versions. "Sencillos" contains 5 CDs that rescue the old times of the best Spanish band of the 1990's. La Buena Vida were the definitive Spanish cult indie pop band, marking the beginning of the smooth guitar pop explosion and seminal to the effervescence of Donosti-pop (Family, Le Mans, Daily Planet and El Joven Bryan). Seen as Siesta heavyweights they remained with us from 1992 to 2003 and left a trademark sound and a formidable discography. Their tasty songs have made them as a historic name with a devoted loyal fan base and they have sparked an underground movement. The early material is a riot of exuberant energy, taking stylistic cues from peers like The Smiths, Orange Juice, BMX Bandits or New Order to the adored big names (Beatles, Love, Beach Boys, Nick Drake). Although they are sometimes pigeonholed as cutie twee-pop, their pieces range from elegant bossa-nova to Motown-soul, from chamber pop to danceable synth-pop. Their cult status in Spain is similar to other examples in Britain such as The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Cure o Prefab Sprout. The outfit was formed in San Sebastian during the summer of 1988. The line-up was singer Irantzu Valencia, guitarists Mikel Aguirre and Javier Sanchez, bassist Pedro San Martin, keyboardist Borja Sanchez, and drummer Raul Sebastian. They finally signed to the fledgling Siesta label in 1992. CD 1: October 1992- the legendary "Historia de un verano" 7"-vinyl EP was released. The quintessential debut EP remains vibrant and punchy today as the best example of innocent, sparkling, iridescent, infectious and refreshing pop, like sunlight on water (Hoy es domingo/ El tren/ Historia de un verano/ Mi reloj). Not strangely it was sold out in just a few months. We have added Tardes de café to the original tracklisting. This song was featured in the Seven Summers compilation (Tweenet / Kindercore) for US and Germany. CD 2: .La Buena Vida's debut LP followed in October 1993, and seven months later the band resurfaced with the EP Mira a tu Alrededor inc. 4 exclusive tracks under another extraordinary jacket artwork by Javier Aramburu. Again the seven inch vinyl got immediately sold-out. The overall tone of the record is a sunshine day with shades that accentuate the brilliance. Each track (Mira a tu alrededor/ Malabares/ Velomar/ La gran familia) is a three minute burst of pop heaven. A bonus track Bajo el paraguas originally included in the Europop EP (Siesta 15) completes the CD. CD 3: September 1995- Magnesia (Magnesia/ Menta y agua/ A pesar de todo/ En bicicleta 1995) was the new pop effort which rocketed the band (being fashioned while being elegant and still having a very eighties feeling). A perfect record for fans of any form of contemporary or retro electronic music, we would dare to say that this was released at the peak of the band's work. The epitome of pop perfection. CD 4: May 2000, Maxi-CD/-EP "Eureka" featuring sophisticated electro pop (Otra vez tú/ Guillermine). As extra tracks, two well crafted and melodic pop gems that appeared in some Siesta mythical compilations Dulce y callado (Expreso) and Mil ventanas abiertas (Sombrero). You'll find yourself humming these indelible tunes all day long... CD 5: Cover Versions: 1994- That summer feeling (Jonathan Richman) and Candy Says (Velvet Underground). 1995- Here, there and everywhere (The Beatles). 1997- Mas yo no tengo nada (Formula V) and a song inspired by the film "Night of the Hunter" from Charles Laughton, H. Powell. 1998- Old man (Love). 2000- Más dura será la caída (Gabinete Caligari) and Cómo pudiste hacerme esto a mí (Dinarama). If you are a LBV fan or completist, this release is absolutely worthy of purchasing. Siesta-208 CD-BOX $29.75 La Jr S/T PS, SPAIN This is the vinyl edition of CD Album released by Acuarela. AARecords-00 LP $14.00 La Jr El Campo PS, SPAIN The lyrics, drama naked (although full of exciting words), compels you to hold the context in the music. Rafa uses a bare bones narrative that forces us to live the world that LA JR musicians proposes. Musicians who long time ago left apart their influences to be an influence. A black sun that extends its shade and heat to each listening. Soon you can hardly live withou them. Deep inside their oblique glance and its adventurous attitude towards creation, LA JR keeps a clear and warm nucleus carefully buried in a field. "El campo". AARecords-13 10 $17.50 Larval/Bill Brovold Surviving Death/AliveWhy PS, US Fifth album from the ever changing lineup featuring some of the best musicians in Detroit and led by composer BILL BROVOLD. It is an amalgamation of styles and approaches to music, from quiet and thoughtful passages to an aggressive onslaught of screaming horns, guitars and assorted strings. This new studio recording & a second disc covering seven years of potent live work both showcase their unique experimental rock that often combines wall-of-sound guitars, bass and drums with saxes and violin, and is very direct and powerful. Brovold studied painting of the School of Visual Arts in NYC and received his degree in 1982. While there he was making music (and sounds) for film makers and performance artists. in 1983 he joined the ensemble of experimental/no- wave legend Rhys Chatham as guitarist and stayed on until 1988. In 1994 he moved to the Detroit area, where he formed Larval. He is still active in the making of visual arts, and continues making art and exhibiting around the country as well as making music for film makers and dancers. "Bill Brovold's music blows me away. Larval is the shit."- ZORN. "The band completely eschews solos, or any other display of instrumental might.... Larval are willing to sacrifice the glory of the individual for a tightly wound whole."- PITCHFORK Cuneiform-248 DCD $17.00 Les Breastfeeders Les Matins de Grand Soirs PS, US Montreal's 60s mod rock sextet is back full force with a new album that serves justice to the bands sound & energy. Franco-rock, gorgeously garagey, frenetic & contagious. "If albums could smoke, 'Les Matins de Grands Soirs would be a smokestack in a world of skinny cigarette fashionistas. Instead of hiding behind smoke clouds, let me be clear: I really love this record- [...] This will surely prove to be a significant release, elevating the sextet into some very combustible (and electrically charged) rock n roll company..." -Jay Jay BlowtheFuse-008 CD $12.50 Louvin, Charlie S/T PS, US A true living legend -- hello LOUVIN BROTHERS -- who has influenced everybody from Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons & the Byrds to Uncle Tupelo & the Handsome Family, is joined by an amalgam of hip guests incl. JEFF TWEEDY (WILCO), WILL OLDHAM (PALACE), GEORGE JONES, BOBBY BARE SR, TIFT MERRITT, DAVID KILGOUR, TOM T. HALL & MARTY STUART along w/members of BRIGHT EYES, LAMBCHOP, SUPERCHUNK, BLANCH & CLEM SNIDE. Goodness! Incl. several Louvin Bros. classics plus country classics popularizeed by Jimmie Rodgers, Delmore Brothers, Carter Family & Monroe Brothers along w/a moving tribute to his late brother Ira. TompkinsSquare-1042 CD $14.75 Luscious Jackson Greatest Hits PS, US Capitol CD $17.25 M. Ward To Go Home PS, US The first single from his recent masterpiece "Post-War" is an instant pop classic written by the inimitable DAN-IEL JOHNSTON. With 3 non album tracks incl. the epic JIMMIE DALE GILMORE penned "Headed For A Fall," feat. special guests NEKO CASE (who also lends backing vocals to "To Go Home"), NELS CLINE, MIKE MOGIS & JIM JAMES. Merge-288 CD5 $4.00 Makelberge, Nicolas Dying In Africa PS, SWEDEN Sounds like Peter Gabriel fronting the Junior Boys, with a more carefree, less moody aesthetic. One of the freshest and most promising new Swedish acts, set for interesting things. Nice package, two strong singles, should appeal to Embassy/Twee/smart-pop people. Rico-002 CD $13.50 Makes Nice Candy Wrapper & Twelve Other Songs PS, US THE MAKES NICE explode with music-think freakbeat, Nuggets 2, Les Fleurs de Lys, Creation, Small Faces, Pretty Things, The Who, Cindermen, Light, Tomorrow, Idle Race, Powder, etc. Psychedelic pop with soaring, Wilson-esque vocal harmonies, bashing drums, and giant fuzz shred solos. Features current and former members of THE FUCKING CHAMPS, HAROLD RAY LIVE IN CONCERT, and THE MOTHBALLS. Frenetic-025 CD $13.25 Marcia Blaine School For Girls, The Halfway Into The Woods PS, UK With a name based on the fictional school in 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie', The Marcia Blaine School For Girls is actually comprised of three Glaswegian lads who have been forging their own particular approach to electronic music for the past few years, melding such disparate styles as American minimalism, Detroit techno and the blunted groove of dancehall and then adding their own distinct signature treatments of crushed rhythms and affecting haunting melodies. Since their inception they have released a steady stream of material for labels including Static Caravan, Benbecula, Awkward Silence, Dalriada, Expanding, Struktur and Stuff Records, and also previously curated a compilation of Scottish electronica for Highpoint Lowlife. 'Halfway Into The Woods' is their debut full-length, and finds them incorporating vocals for the first time, and expanding upon the recurring themes and ideas hinted at on previous releases. There's a whole rich seam of electronic history running through this album from Orbital to Autechre, through to the modern IDM players. HighpointLowlife-024 CD $15.50 Meat Beat Manifesto In Dub 5.1 Surround PS, US An electronic audio experience with visuals created specifically for the beats. This is a 5.1 Surround Sound DVD. Ideally, it is meant to be played on a 5.1 Surround Sound home theater system but it will also play on regular DVD stereo systems and sound exactly as the artist has intended. To hear the music in optimum fidelity, please follow the menu instructions for your setup. This DVD is primarily an audio experience with specially created visual accompaniments to the music of Meat Beat Manifesto. Featuring DJ Collage on the mike & Lynn Farmer on drums & percussion. Tracks: Introduction Dub, Echo In Spave Dub, Spining Round Dub, Fromage Dub, Intermission Dub, Super Soul Dub, Caramel Dub, Happiness Supreme Dub, Retrograde Dub, Radiation Dub, This Is A Test. Song Titles: Introduction Dub, Echo In Space Dub, Spinning Round Dub, Fromage Dub, Intermission Dub, Super Soul Dub, Caramel Dub, Happiness Supreme Dub, Retrograde Dub, Radiation Dub, This Is A Test, Deep Field Recording #3 MVD-33791 DVD $9.00 Medicine Head New Bottles, Old Medicine PS, UK When, in early 1970, legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel ventured up to Wolverhampton's Lafayette club to do a gig, he came upon two guys who called themselves Medicine Head, the uniquely configured duo of John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans. So impressed was Peel that he signed Medicine Head to his label, Dandelion Records and later that year released "New Bottles, Old Medicine" the 1st of three studio albums that Medicine Head would release on the revered label. The walrus-mustached Fiddler would simultaneously sing, play guitar and operate a bass drum and hi-hat cymbal with his foot, augmented by the equally hirsute Hope-Evans on harmonica, jaws harp, mouth bow and strange concoctions of percussion. More art school than rock'n'roll, Medicine Head wrote poetic, spiritual, thoughtful, folk-rock tunes that have stood the test of time. Now the band's debut album can be enjoyed again as Cherry Red Records continues it's program of re-releasing classic albums from the Dandelion catalogue. "New Bottles, Old Medicine" follows hot on the heels of re-issues by Dandelion artists Bridget St John; Clifford T Ward; Principal Edwards Magic Theatre and also the acclaimed compilation box-set "Life Too, Has Surface Noise. CherryRed-314 CD $13.00 Milenasong Seven Sisters PS, US Berlin-based Sabrina Milena. The songs unravel as if written by a delicate hand on rice paper, stories which border between dream & realty. The vocal melodies flicker like eyelids in REM sleep & her unusual voice is a whole choir in itself. Her music weaves together Norwegian folklore, English folk-rock, forgotten memories & poetry. Her sound is related to such artists as His Name Is Alive, Sandy Denny, This Mortal Coil, Roy Harper & Vashti Bunyan. Monika-053 CD $15.50 Milenasong Seven Sisters PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Monika-053 LP $14.75 Minsk The Ritual Fires of Abandonment PS, US Relapse CD $14.50 Minus The Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso PS, US Their 1st remix record! And while this act can frequently reek of self-indulgence w/ most bands, the resulting record here offers a fresh & varied look into a band that has sadly been reduced to the more pop corners of the earth. They have much more in common w/ chronic noise masters in Dalek than you might think: their records are frequently steeped in atmospherics & peppered w/ some serious prog-rock tendencies. Feat. remixes by TYONDAI BRAXTON, OKTOPUS, ALIAS & many others SuicideSqueeze-062 CD $13.25 Minus The Bear Interpretaciones Del Oso PS, US Minus The Bear's records are frequently steeped in atmospherics and peppered with some serious prog-rock tendencies. Their most recent full-length, "Menos El Oso", was heavy on samples and their live set finds guitarist David Knudson playing his pedals more frequently than his guitar, hunkered over the side of the stage, syncopated and spastic. As the band transforms, this record achieves that rare remix goal of presenting an already esteemed record in an entirely new light. SuicideSqueeze CD $13.50 Monosov, Ilya Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis PS, US I created a group of airy, diffuse, diaphanous, unfocused cello sounds, using the extended corpus of the cello as a unified vibrational field, & expressing the point at which cello sound production breaks up into unspecific matter, or diffuses, freeing itself of singular pitch or any other characteristics lending specificity...the sounds are neither processed nor manipulated in any way & the recording is a single take played to a close condenser microphone onto analog tape..."" - Charles Curtis (2004). Composed By Ilya Monosov For the Fluxus 40th Anniversary Exhibit. Recorded & Mixed by Preston Swirnoff at The Habitat in San Diego, CA w/ assistance from Roy Silverstein. All sound recorded live in one take w/ no multitracking or layering of any kind. LIMITED TO 500 Eclipse CD $13.25 Monsters From Mars Surfing Through a Creepy Castle PS, US 4 surf & garage tracks including a cover of Joe Meek's Telstar & a unique version of Brittany Spears "Toxic". Instrumental surf quartet from San Diego, CA. A lovely but crusty experiment in bouncy, foamy horror. Sounds like The Mummies. Dick Dale, Murder City Devils, Man...or Astro-Man? TicTacTotally-001 45 $3.50 Montgomery, Roy Inroads: New & Collected PS, US Reissuing seventeen out-of-print instrumentals (and introducing five unreleased ones) by seminal NZ guitarist Roy Montgomery (Dadamah, Hash Jar Tempo). Hypnotic ragas, floating sound-clouds and ecstatic rock. Rebis-010 DCD $15.00 Morricone, Ennio Arena Concerto Ps, CANADA Morricone's first DVD release in the U.S., something long out of print elsewhere. Includes a rare interview with him talking about his process for writing music for films. 130 mins. 1.8SecRecords-18005 DVD $18.00 Moskitoo Drape PS, US 12k kicks off its 11th year with a new release that takes the label down new sonic pathways. Caught between the organic and electronic minimalism that 12k is known for and the unconventional Japanese pop musings and songwriting style of Happy, Moskitoo's Drape is an infectiously strange, bleepy, and dreamy debut release. Sanae Yamasaki (Moskitoo) hails from Sappporo, Japan in Hokkaido, the country's northern-most prefecture. Perhaps a reaction to the cool climate of her home, her multi-instrumental talents bring a wide range of warm tones and textures to Drape by means of guitar, metallophone, organ, drum machines, synthesizers and nostalgic toy instruments. Yamasaki's gentle, airy vocals play off of broken beats and aqueous sound drops evoking half-awake memories lost and found. Influenced by visual art (she painted the cover image), modern electronic music and abstract pop, such as Eno's explorations in the 1970's, Yamasaki does not set out to write a particular style of music, but rather, lets her creative process emerge naturally, following whims and experiments. Drape is, by far, the most structured and song written release on 12k to date. It's a release that signifies not a complete directional change for the label but the creative go-ahead to add new nuances to the already established sound that the label has pioneered. 12K-1041 CD $12.00 Munly, Jay Galvanized Yankee Smooch PS, US REISSUE from this SILM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB so-songwriter & frontman. Lovingly remastered by Bob Ferbrache, he reveals subtle touches not audible in the original mix. This album has also become one of Munly's most sought after albums. Smooch-014 CD $11.00 Nice Boys, The S-T PS, US Birdman CD $15.00 Nico All Tomorrow's Parties: Nico Live (2 shows on one double album) PS, UK One of the most fascinating figures of rock's fringes, Nico hobnobbed, worked, and was romantically linked with an incredible assortment of the most legendary entertainers of the '60s. Nico first rose to fame as a European supermodel, also landing a bit part in Fellini's La Dolce Vita film. In the mid- 1960's she moved to New York, where Andy Warhol installed her as a vestigial presence and occasional lead singer for the Velvet Underground. The band never really accepted her as a bona fide member and she departed in 1967, but not before contributing unforgettable deadpan vocals to three of the songs on their classic 1967 debut album. Nico embarked on a solo career, recording folk-rock-flavored songs for her debut Chelsea Girl album with assistance from Jackson Browne, Lou Reed, and John Cale. Her 1969 follow-up, The Marble Index, was a dramatic departure that unveiled her doomladen, gothic persona, produced by Cale and prominently featuring her deep vocals, impenetrable lyrics, and ghostly harmonium. Her subsequent '70s albums explored much the same territory, with assistance from Cale and influential art rockers like Brian Eno. She fought a constant struggle with a massive drug habit and tangled personal life and eventually died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Ibiza in 1988. The original goth rocker, Nico's albums are demanding and bleak, but map a unique and starkly powerful vision that has become more influential with age. - A brand new, previously unreleased double-album featuring 2 shows from one of the great all-time rock music icons - Nico. - All Tomorrow's Parties" features extremely rare material from two shows Nico played in the UK in the early 1980's. CherryRed-25 DCD $13.00 No Depression #68 PS, US THE SHINS on the cover!!! Features on them, Ry Cooder, Joe Ely, Frames, Carlene Carter, James Brown, & tons more! Plus all the other great alt-country news you get from this fine, fine zine. ZINE $4.25 Noriko, Tujiko Solo PS, US While still maintaining her trademark version of experimental Japanese pop, here the edges have been polished w/ some of her most accomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of Gerhard Potuznik & Tyme (from Mas). One could even say a work of great maturity. EditionsMego-078 CD $16.25 Normanoak A Double Gift of Tongues PS, US CHRIS BARTH re-emerges with "A Double Gift Of Tongues" to share once again NORMANOAK's mysterious fibrillation of heart and lung. Unbound from his share of duties with THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES, Barth chronicles a world "of acorns, blood, and sacrifice; of the holy hexagram of intertwined triangles; of the holy books writ in the sands of madness; Of the language behind language and the seeds of the unspeakable." Barth's ability to chew up, unbuckle, and alternate between sanguine sanctity and life's whimsical playfulness has never shown itself in a purer light than throughout the 14 song landscape of this limited vinyl release. Fans of the inwardly mobile mysticism of DONOVAN or the soul damaged guitar skree of GEORGE BRIGMAN's "Jungle Rot" in its most minimal state should book their ticket to "A Double Gift Of Tongues" immediately. SecretlyCanadian-124 LP $11.50 Olvis Bravado PS, UK Third album from Icelandic maverick Orlygur Thor Orlygsson, following last year's much-adored second full length "The Blue Sound" and the previous year's eponymous debut. Continuing the linear progression evident from first album to second, "Bravado" raises the bar further, with an equal split between lush instrumentals and hypnotic full vocal tracks (in his native tongue). With comparisons and appeal across the board, from chillout to Richard Hawley, Olvis' music defies classification, but ultimately has a heartwarming, relaxing, all-encompassing feel that renders pigeonholing unnecessary. As with "The Blue Sound", "Bravado" features the A-list of Reykjavik musicians as a supporting cast within its fourteen tracks: SIGUR ROS drummer Orri Dyrason plays drums on four tracks, with fellow SIGUR ROS member Georg Holm playing bass on two tracks, along with percussion and drums on three tracks from APPARAT ORGAN QUARTET's Arnar Geir Omarsson and violin from Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir from AMINA (Sigur Ros' string quartet) on one track. The whole album was written and produced by Orlygsson himself, and was recorded mainly at Sigur Ros' Sundlaugin studio during the fall of 2005, and lyrically touches upon Orlygur's disillusionment with global capitalism and US hegemony - not that you'd know it, unless you speak Icelandic. Resonant-021 CD $13.50 One AM Radio This Too Will Pass (Digipack Packaging) PS, US Dangerbird CD $12.50 P.G. Six Slightly Sorry PS, US In addition to the Anglo-Irish quasi-folk influences, you get some Garth Hudson attempts, some Roger McGuinn-izations, the odd Crazy Horse-ism & a pretty nifty cover of a song by Youngbloods pal Jeffrey Cain. After all influences have been calculated, the roots-informed, detail-obsessed, defiantly handspun sound & the transcendantly glossy results of such alchemy, make the truth about P.G. Six. Feat. SUE GARNER (RUN ON), MEGAN REILLY, ROBERT DENNIS, BOB BANNISTER, DEBBY SCHWARTZ (AQUANETTAS), HELEN RUSH & others. DragCity-305 CD $13.50 P.G. Six Slightly Sorry PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity-305 LP $13.50 Panda Bear Bro's PS, US Exhibits the classic traits of Noah Lennox's musical personality- a fluidity & functional rhythmic accessibility stemming from a deep love of DJ culture; a delight in texture & depth; a playful use of samples & electronic processing; plus a foregrounding of sweet, poppy hooks in the vocal & instrumental melodies. B-side features an exclusive remix of "Bros" from Terrestrial Tones. A somewhat slower, slightly darker versioning of the original. Vinyl only release. FatCat-059 12 $7.75 Papercuts Can't Go Back PS, US This is JASON QUEVER's cathedral of sound, a place for the desperate worship of all things analog & devotion to the musicianship of the old world. This a marriage of timeless songs, richly textured studio sounds, classic rock/pop hookery, & focused narratives- all delivered w/ his warm voice & wonderfully layered melodies. Gnomonsong-004 CD $12.00 Papercuts Can't Go Back PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Gnomonsong-004 LP $13.25 Perkins, Elvis Ash Wednesday PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! XL LP $10.75 Perkins, Elvis Ash Wednesday PS, US On his debut, Perkins combines emotional intimacy with a warm-hearted studio sound that recalls Nick Drake and "Astral Weeks"-era Van Morrison. Compelling, dreamlike songs with lyrics that teeter between the specific and the surreal. "We were sold on the spot - fuss-worthy folkies just don't come easy...double bass, harmonica, and strings color these lyrical laments, but the man's easy melodicism is the real charm" - Stereogum. XL CD $13.25 Pink Mountaintops Single Life/My Best Friend PS, US So we asked STEPHEN McBEAN to help us out with the description of this 7-inch slice of vinyl heaven he created. We got the following key phrases out of him: "European car ads" and "4 am dancing shoes". The first song called "Single Life" is yet another in a long line of great fuzzed out Velvet-styled gems by Pink Mountaintops, sped up ever so slightly to be in synch with the minds of akathisiacs everywhere. And the reverse side, "My Best Friend", is the more affecting and spiritual of the two, perhaps McBean's most beautifully crafted song to date. JagJagWar-109 45 $3.75 Pink Reason Cleaning The Mirror PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Siltbreeze-084 LP $13.50 Pink Reason Cleaning The Mirror PS, US This is almost always Kevin DeBroux & practically never anyone else. Dominated by creeping synths, stark strums & rickety percussive splats that complement his heartscraping vocal catharsis, it journeys far beyond any known perspective Siltbreeze-084 CD $13.50 Quellet, Israel Oppressum PS, US This music is not really outsider sound art, but it shares strong similarities w/ it. It explores a debarred universe almost impossible to escape. It's a minute, albeit exploration of sound (particularly through saturation), mystical discourse & excesses. Sound materials come from a number of sources: the local church's organ, rented or borrowed percussion instruments, various objects being struck, pipes, faucets, telephone touch pads, power tools, sound-producing toys, voice, mouth sounds, throat sounds, & wheelbarrows. SubRosa-244 CD $14.00 Rakes Remixes PS, US Anything that sounds good will be nicked & used in their music. Lyrically, the 1st album was a mix of regular personal diary like notes of 1st person events to more abstract/conceptual songs. This feat. remixes from "Capture/Release" w/ UNCLE BUCK, LOVING HANDS, STATIK, FLITHY DUKES SOCIETY & WEIRD SCIENCE. DimMak-104 CD5 $6.25 Rare Bird Epic Forest PS, UK Though it made little commercial impact on its release in 1972, Rare Bird's 'Epic Forest' has since been widely acclaimed as a classic of the pre-punk era: a unique album that fuses the emotional reach of classical music with the harmonies of Sixties pop. This album is somewhere between Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and West Coast Psychedelia, and 'Epic Forest' is one of the masterpieces of progressive rock (file under prog and sunshine pop). We are restoring it to the catalogue in its classic form with three superb additional tracks that were given away as a 33rpm 7" with the first edition of the original album. El-99 CD $13.00 Riley, Terry Reed Streams PS, US This is his 1st album, originally released in 1966, & incl. first recordings Riley made using his 2 personal Revox reel-to-reel tape machines later heard on his groundbreaking "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band All Night Flight". This has been remastered from the original tapes. Also incl. a psychedelic big-band version of "In C (Mantra)" recorded under the direction of renowned Canadian composer & conductor Walter Boudreau in '70. ElisionFields-104 CD $13.50 Rio En Medio Bride Of Dynamite PS, US An intricate collage of layered vocals, delicately plucked ukulele, ghostly samples & gritty, deconstructed electronics. It features texts lifted from sources as disparate as William Blake, Paul Eluard, John Ashbery & a 1920s Baghdad travelogue. The songwriting is rarely autobiographical, yet it maintains a very personal tone Gnomonsong-003 CD $12.00 Rjd2 You Never Had It So Good PS, US XL Recordings is very excited to be releasing the new Rjd2 record next month and to get all of you excited too we've got this hot 12", a Matador Direct exclusive. While Rj's new album has expanded his music into new realms you'll notice that this 12" shows that it is still grounded by the same fundamentals that have always driven his music. Get ready for a good time because really, you've never had it so good. XL 12 $6.25 Samamidon But This Chicken Proved PS, US Collaboration between Sam Amidon (STARS LIKE FLEAS, DOVEMAN, NICO MUHLY) & Thomas Bartlett (DOVEMAN, CHOCOLATE GENIUS, ELYSIAN FIELDS) is a wonderful modern folk statement, simultaneously channeling & transcending the past. Filled with obscure songs from the American roots canon, the duo have injected their own lives into these songs and found a voice that is all theirs. Includes cover of Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels" PlugResearch-079 CD $14.50 Saturday Looks Good To Me Money In The Afterlife PS, US Fred Thomas and Co. return with 2 brand new hits including the first single from their late 2007 full-length. The band is in their most rock and roll mode to date, with two raved up guitar based track, both of which feature our hero Fred on lead vocals. Limited 1000 ErnestJenning-027 45 $4.50 Shuttle 358 Chessa PS, US 12k is very happy to announce the much-asked-for and long-awaited re-release of not only one of the label's most popular and critically acclaimed albums but one of highlights of the entire micro sound genre: Shuttle358 Frame. Complete with the original recording and video, Frame has been repackaged for 12k's Limited Series into a unique chipboard sleeve on which all graphics and text are printed only with white ink. The re-issue of this classic album will give a new generation of 12k followers a listen to one of the label's most defining moments. The original press-release text (from 12k1011, Shuttle358 Frame): Frame is the much-anticipated follow up release to 1999's debut optimal. lp, a compact disc which caused quite a bit of critical stir as a very impressive and original work for a new artist. Dan Abrams (aka: shuttle358) seamlessly blends stark textures/drones with digital dysfunction. Clicks, skips and tiny mechanized rhythms intertwine in hypnotic form that Abrams allows to evolve in a very organic way. Frame picks up where Optimal.lp left off. A bit more distant with excursions into deeper realms of Abrams' signature skittish minimalist rhythmic work. Frame includes a video, filmed and directed Abrams himself, in DVCAM for the opening title track of the album. It is available on the cd in Quicktime format, as well as a separate high-res VHS release (12k9004). The use of movement and abstracted forms along with a subtle color palette of whites, blues and yellows is a perfect visual accompaniment to the fragile rhythms of his work. 12K-2005 CD $12.00 Snowglobe Me and You PS, US Memphis's SNOWGLOBE plays an entrancing blend of cosmic American music that owes as much to pioneering psychedelic country/pop legends like THE BYRDS and GRAM PARSONS as it does to modern-day fellow travelers like THE FLAMING LIPS. Having played together since high school, the members of Snowglobe have a unique ability to create complex songs with a rich pallet of sounds in a seemingly nonchalant way. The Memphis-based band continues the long lasting tradition of playing honest music for the right reasons. Many comparisons to NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, and ELEPHANT 6 recording company have been made to Snowglobe, and as natural as the comparison seems, it seems to be an easy way out; Snowglobe has advanced far beyond this. Snowglobe sounds like MERCURY REV, the piano balladry of TIM HARDIN, early '70s BEACH BOYS, and THE KINKS. Snowglobe is a band that takes form past genres and pushes those influences a step or two forward. This is a very song-oriented band. The noises and kitchen sink extremities aren't thrown in nonchalantly; they are precise and subtle flourishes that add texture. SaintIves-015 LP $11.50 Sodastream Reservations PS, UK For Fans Of: Low, Nick Drake, The Go-Betweens, Will Oldham Over the course of ten years, three albums, countless months in the backs of vans throughout Europe and North America, the duo of Karl Smith and Pete Cohen have been progressively expanding the musical world of Sodastream from scratchy lo-fi and barely whispered mournful melancholy through to lush expansive pop with horn sections and singalongs. But now they're home, and settled, and on Reservations, their fourth studio album, a darkness has settled in. Karl Smith (vocals, guitar) and Pete Cohen (double bass and deeply baritone backing vocals) effortlessly jump from acoustic introspection and instrumentals to raucous singalong shanties without any hint of affectation. Even with the additions of horns, harmonicas, and the drums of Marty Brown (Art of Fighting and Clare Bowditch's Feeding Set) on their studio albums, the core of their sound remains the same as it is live - Smith's acoustic guitar, Pete's driving double bass and some of the best, most beautiful songwriting to come out of Australia in years. Sodastream's previous albums, Looks Like A Russian, The Hill for Company and A Minor Revival, along with many EPs and live recordings, have been released throughout the world on some of the most renowned indie labels including Tugboat, Rough Trade, Drive-in Records and Acuarela Discos. FortunaPop-071 CD $15.50 Soft Lights Say No To Being Cool Say Yes to Being Happy PS, US Former front man for THE INCREDIBLE MOSES LEROY joins new friends to create the technicolor culmination of his musical evolution. Blends joyful pop experiments w/a dizzying array of instruments, sounds & textures. From breezy sun soaked goodness to glitchy electronica. A celebration of child like wonder, play & beauty. Modular-044 CD/DVD $14.75 Souleyman, Omar Highway to Hassake: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria PS, US Since 1994, he & his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. The music often has an overdriven sound consisting of phase-shifted Arabic keyboard solos & frantic rhythms. At breakneck speeds, these shrill Syrian electronics play out like forbidden Morse-code, but the moods swing from coarse & urgent to dirgy & contemplative in the rugged anthems that comprise Souleyman's repertoir. SublimeFrequencies-031 DCD $16.25 Southern Culture on the Skids Countrypoltian Favorites PS, US Southern Culture on the Skids are giving us a glimpse into their private record collections by compiling 15 one of a kind covers, recorded at singer Rick Miller's Kudzu Ranch recording studio. From Mary Huff's sultry take on "Funnel of Love" (made famous by Wanda Jackson), to Miller's version of the Don Gibson classic, "Oh Lonesome Me," and their swingers-on-the-rocks duet, "Let's Invite Them Over" (an Onie Wheeler original), SCOTS have recorded what might be the definitive countrypolitan soundtrack to a life lived on the skids. YepRoc-2124 CD $14.50 Stern, Marnie In Advance of the Broken Arm PS, US In this debut, her music is culled from songs written by herself in her bedroom over a 2 yr period, w/ production & drum work by HELLA's ZACH HILL. Her songs are of the earth, birthed in an organic process where the finished product is much more striking than the individual parts. The most vibrant, original, empowering & groundbreaking record released in a long time. KillRockStars-446 CD $13.25 Strollers, The Waiting Is... PS, SPAIN WhonRecords-006 CD $17.00 Subjects With The Ease Grace Precision & Cleverness of Human Beings PS, US Like many prog-rock bands, they met in high school video production class. Unlike many bands, two of the members were students & two were teachers. They rehearsed secretly & managed to keep things under wraps until graduation. Recorded soon after, their self-produced, self-released EP received notable recognition in SPIN, Punk Planet, Music for Robots, CMJ & others. Their new full-length moves from well-crafted, high-energy moments to quiet the experience of age. PrettyActivity-008 CD $12.25 Swift, Richard Dressed Up For The Letdown PS, US RICHARD SWIFT has confidently composed yet another original masterpiece; employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Playing a vast majority of the instruments on "Dressed Up" himself, by virtue Swift has created something that is characteristically his. And considering his rough-around-the-edges exterior, one could rightly assume that Swift desires the listener to accept him as an ordinary honest man with some honest songs -- unmasked blemishes and all. Yet when one engages with Swift on this narrow-road-less-traveled, one immediately ignores the subtle imperfections shadowed by the all-consuming white light of well-crafted pop songs in an analog heaven. In effect he's saying, "Just listen to my songs... the riffraff in the background is inconsequential." Sure Swift... whatever you say. SecretlyCanadian-133 LP $10.25 Swift, Richard Dressed Up For the Letdown PS, US RICHARD SWIFT has confidently composed yet another original masterpiece; employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Playing a vast majority of the instruments on "Dressed Up" himself, by virtue Swift has created something that is characteristically his. And considering his rough-around-the-edges exterior, one could rightly assume that Swift desires the listener to accept him as an ordinary honest man with some honest songs -- unmasked blemishes and all. Yet when one engages with Swift on this narrow-road-less-traveled, one immediately ignores the subtle imperfections shadowed by the all-consuming white light of well-crafted pop songs in an analog heaven. In effect he's saying, "Just listen to my songs... the riffraff in the background is inconsequential." Sure Swift... whatever you say. SecretlyCanadian-133 CD $11.50 Tanakh Saunders Hollow PS, US A warm bouquet of songs that range from poppy-jazz, through renaissance remembrances, sweet folk, to dark drines and dreamy electronics and even straight up raunchy blues. A place full of inviting mystery and rich texture, with musical twists and turns of every type, leaving the listener in a state of reflection on all things past. Gentle bass, scorching electric guitars, lilting tablas, Asian-strummed ukuleles, swirling electronics, violins, vibes, harpsichords, organs, juke joint piano, sax, folky guitar, lap steel, drums and honeyed vocals propel the dreamy landscapes. "Oppulent and low key."- The Wire CameraObscura-078 CD $13.25 Trans Am Sex Change PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey-182 LP $11.00 Trans Am Sex Change PS, US With 2 yrs of separation fueling them, the band began in June 2006 on a program of sporadic rendezvous, reconvening briefly on several continents to work on what would become the most joyous & upbeat rock album of their chronicle. Perhaps the bands geographical liberation was the inspiration for the creation of this, their most international & exhilarating album to date. Whatever the reason may be, it's a welcome & forceful return by a band that has been a consistent innovator & touring machine for over a decade. ThrillJockey-182 CD $13.25 Tresestrellas 5 PS, GERMANY Drums and cavernous electric guitars, with echoes from Neil Young and Crazy Horse, with anxious and cut dry blows which behave like dried paper acting upon the humidity of the songs, almost always based on ringlets made of a few solemn chords, which are left to sound with calmness. A soloist voice with a real, yet complex understanding of the drama which perfectly shapes the density of the song: where the dandyishness of Nick Cave invades passages where time is suspended, where the slow core is pinpointed, coming up and coming down, whispering, stammering...threading word after word until it becomes a sentence. And if we read between the lines we can even detect the hypnotic stoicism of old country blues from Skip James or the Carter Family. AARecords-11 CD5 $11.00 Triffids, The Calenture [re-issue] PS, US The campaign to re-issue their entire catalog continues, two decades after their original releases. A deluxe double CD package with slipcase and 24-page booklet. Disc one includes the complete album and all the b-sides from various singles at the time. Disc two is a mythical "Calenture" from a parallel universe assembled from studio and rehearsal recordings. DominoRecordingCo. CD $14.00 Triffids, The In The Pines [re-issue] PS, US IN THE PINES is the 1991 reissue of Australian folk rockers The Triffids featuring "Suntrapper," "In the Pines," "Kathy Knows," and "Love And Affection." DominoRecordingCo. CD $12.50 U2 Achtung Baby: Classic Album Under Review PS, US This DVD contains the ultimate review and critical analysis of U2's most pivotal album. It offers a previously unobtainable level of insight into the band during the recording of their most dynamic and well-respected album. Via the use of live footage, long forgotten videos and the review, criticism and insight of a panel of highly opinionated experts, this package delivers the finest documentary film yet to emerge on Dublins favorite sons. Achtung Baby was the album that fired U2 into the 90s when the four-piece dramatically overhauled their traditional approach to songwriting. SexyIntellectual-515 DVD $16.25 Utah Carol Rodeo Queen PS, US Third full length from Chicago duo Grant Birkenbeuel & Jinja Davis. Described by Mojo Magazine as "an addictive blend of bittersweet Americana & art-pop, sounding like a hillbilly fairground taken over by a couple of kids on mushrooms." Under the boy-girl harmonies, guitars & bass, you'll hear foot stomping, horn instruments, vintage organs & synthesizers, loops, slide, bells & tamborine. The March 07 issue of Mojo Magazine says "Gently strummed psych-folk redolent of Neutral Milk Hotel'. StompingGround CD $9.25 Various Labrador 100: A Complete History Of Polpular Music PS, SWEDEN 4xCD box set. We celebrate our 100th release and 10 years as a label with an exclusive 4 CD Box with one song from each release ever. 100 songs + thick booklet with Labrador history and interview, comments on each track, the bands list their Labrador favorites and more. Labrador-100 CD-BOX $33.75 Various Raga for Peter Walker (Digipack Packaging) PS, US TompkinsSquare CD $14.00 Various Risky Dazzle: A Service Party Shuffle PS, US Service is Sweden's #1 independent label, responsible for the new sound of Swedish pop: digital yet warm, melody based yet clubby, young yet confident. Service represents many of the Sweden's top acts and is the most reliable source for the freshest new Swedish pop: Jens Lekman, The Embassy, TTA etc. This label compilation: At the same time an introduction, a round-up of the Service times so far and a nice box of highlights, rare and unreleased stuff. Always at your service. Service-024 CD $14.00 Various High School Reunion: A TRIBUTE TO THOSE GREAT 80'S FILMS! PS, US 20 song tribute to important 80s films that spoke to us as teenagers. Favorite indie artists covering songs from popular teen films (Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, etc). Includes tracks from Matthew Sweet, Frank Black, Lori McKenna, Dresden Dolls, Dipsomaniacs, Caulfied Sisters, & more. FaceDown/AmericanLaundromat-413 CD $9.75 Various Halleluwah #1 PS, US EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION LP compiled for the first ever music/art/film oriented fest held this past Labor Day in Portland, OR at Disjecta. Features 12 EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED tracks by fest performers DEERHOOF, MICHAEL HURLEY, TARA JANE O'NEIL, SIR RICHARD BISHOP, YACHT, ALELA DIANE, VALET & more, plus a nonexclusive track by festival headliner VASHTI BUNYAN. Stunning artwork printed on mylar boards which function as the covers. Pressed on thick vinyl & mastered by some dude in Brooklyn. Yeti LP $13.25 Various Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych from Viva Records PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Sundazed LP $16.25 Various Ain't It Hard! Garage & Psych from Viva Records PS, US The short-lived Viva Records label was one wildly eclectic outfit. Helmed by hitmaker Snuff Garrett, this Los Angeles-based imprint targeted the teen marketplace with a series of extraordinary garage/psych/pop singles. The label's command of popular styles prevailed across these Top 40 hopefuls, ranging from the stomping beat of the Shindogs to the psych-fuzz nirvana of the Sound Sandwich. And there's Class of '66 garage-grunge from the Wailers and the Second Helping (yes, that's a teenage Kenny Loggins howling at the moon on the positively snarling 'Let Me In,' among other selections). With a supporting cast led by Leon Russell and J.J. Cale and bolstered with choice Snuff Garrett Productions like Gypsy Trips and Sunday Servants, Ain't It Hard! stands as an essential anthology of Sunset Strip sixties sounds! Sundazed CD $17.00 Various From Brussels With Love PS, UK 19 tracks. LTM is proud to announce the very first CD release of the classic 1980 compilation album From Brussels With Love, also the debut release from chic Belgian indie label Les Disques du Crepuscule (TWI 007). Originally released as a deluxe cassette/book package in November 1980, From Brussels With Love featured 22 exclusive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the contributing artists include Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, Bill Nelson, New Order and Michael Nyman. The programme also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau. Writing in NME in 1980, journalist Paul Morley praised From Brussels With Love thus: "This is a reminder - without really trying, without being obvious - that pop is modern poetry, is the sharpest, shiniest collection of experiences, is always something new." And according to Dave McCullough in Sounds: "This tape, a long mysterious piece of collective modern overdrive, points to a future somewhere." This new CD edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 75 minutes of material. Most of the tracks remain featured here unavailable elsewhere. LTM-2479 CD $15.00 Very Hush Hush Mourir C'est Facile PS, US Using a hundred plus recorded tracks, TVHH create melancholy & tender songs exploring the sad decay of the industry, polluted relationships & the resulting beautiful sunsets. It at once enraptures & bereaves as it searches for a concrete foothold in a transient & amorphous world; it is a sublime declaration that everything you experience- the hidden mantras, the garish filth, the unexpected happiness- is worth of meditation & revelry. SaoBentoMusic-007 CD $10.00 Vocokesh All This & Heironymus Bosch PS, US Eighth album marks more departures from previous formulas, resulting in some of their finest & freshest sonics yet. Synthesizers & electronics take more of a backseat role while the sitar bubbles strongly to the surface. The result lends an Eastern-tinged vibe to many of the tunes, a late 60s consciousness-elevating cool. Masterful guitar work is still in rich abundance, but many of the dark psych passages Vocokesh are known for is offset by some sunnier trajectories. A surrealistic depth rarely matched in instrumental rock these days. StrangeAttractors-048 CD $13.00 White Barons Up All The Night With The White Barons PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Gearhead-075 LP $8.25 White Barons Up All The Night With The White Barons PS, US Feat. the eye-popping psychobilly singer Eva Von Slut, they play a blend of punk & rock n' roll infused w/ infectious backing "whoa" style vocals reminiscent of The Misfits in their heyday. Fueled by an unholy mixture of booze, drugs, & rock n' roll fury, the Bay Area band formed less than a yr ago & are already generating repeat requests for live appearances up & down the West Coast. Gearhead-075 CD $11.50 Williams, Lucinda West PS, US Perhaps her most personal work to date w/songs touching on both darkness & redemption. At turns strikingly spare & compellingly muscular. Produced by HAL WILLNER. LostHighway CD $14.00 Williams, Lucinda West PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LostHighway LP $17.50 Wold Screech Owl PS, US "Gaining a reputation as one of the most unique and bizarre black metal enigmas today, Canada's WOLD are an entity like no other. By combining the very elements of raw black metal, noise, ambient, and power electronics, this mysterious cult from the barren prairies of Saskatchewan are an artistically surreal act that the extreme music scene in Canada has never encountered...ever." ProfoundLore-021 CD $11.50 Young, Dennis Shadow PS, US The latest recording from songwriter/guitarist/percussionist DENNIS YOUNG (founding member of legendary 80s NYC band Liquid Liquid), moving his music to a new place w/dark, rustic songs, moody vocals & percussive acoustic guitar. Guests include STEPHAN EICHER, JOANNA FERRAR, & SAL PRINCIPATO FireDog-010 CD $9.25 Young, Neil Under Review 1966-1975 PS, US This documentary film reviews the music and career of one of rocks true giants during his formative and most creative years. It features obscure footage, rare interviews and rarely seen photographs of and with Neil Young. Throughout the film, live and studio recordings of Young classics are reappraised by a panel of contributors. Also included are reviews, comments, criticism and insights from John Einarson (Young's biography author), Robert Christgau (Village Voice), Barney Hoskins (author, critic), Nigel Williamson (Uncut), Dave Zimmer (ex-editor of BAM magazine), Bruce Tergesen (house engineer on Mr. Soul), Johnny Rogan (CSNY biographer)and many others. SexyIntellectual-503 DVD $16.25 Forthcoming Releases +/- (Plus/Minus) vs. Bloodthristy Butchers Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US +/- specializes in dynamic, loud, Radiohead-ish indie-rock & simultaneously laptop-pop. Experimentation with interesting time signatures & negative space within a hooky hard pop structure. Here, they take on three Bloodthirsty Butchers songs & make them their own. BB was formed in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1987. With their ultra loud almost emo, heavy alterna-rock, transparent & melodious sounds, they are now one of the best band that Japan can boast to the world. The two bands became fast friends while touring Japan & decided to record this split EP. Each band covers three of the others songs. Artwork by famous Japanese illustrator Yoshitomo Nara. Enhanced with live video footage of both bands on stage in Japan. Teenbeat-383 CD5 $8.25 31Knots The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $11.50 31Knots The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US The best music is always truly indefinable. Words can't truly describe Tom Waits'caterwaul the same way they can't explain what it feels like to experience thedeafening volume of a J. Mascis guitar solo. Portland, Oregon's prolific 31Knots have described their sound as "post-apocalyptic Vaudevillian punk," and whilethat's an apt description, it doesn't begin to express the level of demented-popbrilliance on the band's latest full-length, The Days and Nights of EverythingAnywhere.Thanks to an expert mixing job by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and engineering byJay Pellicci (Deerhoof engineer), 31Knots have transformed their musical landscape into a skewed fantasy world located somewhere between Alice In Wonderlandand Cursive's Happy Hollow. Polyvinyl CD $11.50 Adult. Why Bother? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH) PS, US Uneasy listening music for uneasy times. A time to contextualize "folk" for our intent & advocate the importance of being folk. Folklore defines a distinctive culture, the common people, real people. Uncomfortable, restless, disturbed, perturbed, awkward & anxious. This hopes to spread the word of weird... Abnormal motivations, ready & willing. This album, of all their albums, they feel is the most accurate culmination of our disordered hysteria ThrillJockey-185 CD $14.25 Adult. Why Bother? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ThrillJockey-185 LP $14.00 Alsace Lorraine Dark One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 5TH )(ON SALE) PS, US Alsace Lorraine is the delicately delicious and unique electronic/guitar pop creation of seminary professor Paul Francke. We're pleased to announce that our favorite singer on Earth, Argentinean Singer/Artist Isol has joined Alsace Lorraine to sing on four of the album's 14 tracks too. Isol sings here in English for the first time! Isol left her band Entre Rios (Elefant {Spain}/Darla {US}) when the group signed with EMI Latin America because the deal demanded too much time away from her profession as an Artist/Illustrator. Caitlin Brice sings backing vocals on two tracks. Jane Francke (Paul's sister) sings one track. The sophomore Alsace album Dark One, though not literally very "Dark", was recorded and mixed by Paul at Paul's home studio in Chicago. Isol's warm, exotic, sensual vocals were recorded in Isol's bedroom studio in Buenos Aires. Paul's unique bedroom uber-pop soundtrack provides the perfect music bed to Isol's vocal. The result is a unique blend of Astrud Gilberto, Wolfgang Press, Eurythmics, Pale Saints, St. Etienne, Magnetic Fields, Hope Sandoval, as well as The Wake, Section 25 and other Factory-esque influences. Hopefully, Paul and Isol will make more beautiful music together. Alsace Lorraine sounds romantic; thoughtful, sensuous and smart. Comment from Paul Francke: I began the album begun during college on the south side of Chicago and completed it while working in Campbeltown, on the end of the Kintyre Peninsula, the most remote part of mainland Britain. Between those points I worked on the record in an Episcopalian seminary dormitory in Alexandria, Virginia, while training to be a seminary professor. It couldn't have been done without my brilliant, non-religious friends: Isol sings four of the best songs on the album, but she also made important suggestions for changes to the lyrics and music. We share a lot of beliefs regarding art and beyond, and it has been fascinating to work with her. Her friend Nico recorded her vocals in a studio in Buenos Aires. Caitlin Brice, the lead singer from the previous album, sings excellent backup on two songs here. Joe Moore plays guitar on one song, and my younger sister Jane sings on one song as well. Darla-178 CD $12.25 Anorak Synthetic Pop Covers from the European Space Agency (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, SPAIN Rhonda/HoustonParty-09 CD $14.25 Antibalas Security (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Building from the revolutionary blueprint of afrobeat, the dozen-strong members of Brooklyn's Antibalas weave Latin, jazz, funk, and horn-laden soul into a blend that's both polyrhythmic and political, independent and infectious. Produced by John McEntire (Stereolab, Tortoise, Sea and Cake, Tom Ze) who has upped the harmonic density in the band's sound, creating a rich tapestry of harmelodic color that owes as much to Mingus and Coltrane and Can as it does to Fela Kuti. Anti CD $14.50 Antiguo Automata Mexicano Kraut Slut (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine, a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas". StaticDiscos-019 CD $12.25 Arcade Fire Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US This eagerly anticipated 2nd album exceeds all expectations...written, produced, arranged, performed, recorded throughout 2006 in Quebec, New York, Budapest, & London w/ recording help from Markus Dravs (Bjork, Brian Eno) & Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls). W/ string & orchestral arrangements by the band's own OWEN PALLET (FINAL FANTASY) & Regine Chassagne, it's full of both half-assed punk rock mistakes & meticulously orchestrated woodwinds. Processed strings & mandolin. Quiet & loud rumbles. Merge-285 CD $11.75 Arcade Fire Neon Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge-285 DLP $17.50 Arcade Fire Neon Bible (Deluxe Version) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Deluxe version LIMITED & packaged in a paperboard clamshell box with a lenticular (3-D) cover. It incl. two 33 image flip books designed by the band. Merge-285 CD $17.50 Axolotl Memory Theater (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl's out of print cdrs and vinyl only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards and various other acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl. In the last couple of years Axolotl have released numerous cd, cdr and vinyl releases many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on ebay. Memory Theater collects the best of these out of print releases into one convenient package designed by Karl Bauer. Axolotl has collaborated with the likes of the Skaters, Magik Markers, Yellow Swans, Inca Ore, Skygreen Leopards, Religious Knives, and Mouthus. Axolotl has toured Europe and the United States and shared the stage with the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Boris, Charlambides, Chris Corsano, Double Leopards, Excepter, Sightings, the Skaters, Terrestrial Tones, Tomutonttu, and Yellow Swans. Important-120 CD $12.00 Baikal S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US New burner from BARDO POND brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow members Clint Takeda & Jason Kourkonis. This time they ventured down the route of heavy free-improvisation & a Last Exit style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks each weighing in at over 30 minutes in length it's clear that Baikal is a deep voyage underseas with yet another mindblowing side project. Important-119 CD $12.50 Baikel Baikal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. This time they ventured down the route of heavy free-improvisation and a Last Exit style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks each weighing in at over 30 minutes in length it's clear that Baikal is a deep voyage under seas with yet another mind-blowing Bardo Pond side project featuring Bardo brothers John & Michael Gibbons as your tour guide - and it's a heavy trip indeed. Dive in. Important-19 CD $12.00 Bark Haze, The Untitled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US This exclusive CD release is entirely different from the LP release on Important, which is also untitled. The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of GOWN (nom de plume of one Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth, etc). Auxiliary members have been know to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops et al). Their name came from a mishearing of the radical early 70s R+B group the Bar-Kays and from that moment the concept of mishearing and allegiance to presenting the mishearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze's identity. So far all concerts have taken place in Western Massachusetts and once in the confines of Cambridge, MA's Twisted Village record emporium. They anxiously await their debut gig in the UK at the Nightmare Before Christmas event curated by Moore. As the heroic and potentially bonkers Carpenters refrained We've Only Just Begun. Damn straight. Important-127 CD $12.00 Big Business Here Come The Waterworks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Big Business feature members of The Melvins. This is their second full-length and it's harder, faster, and catchier than the first, unfurling all the mammoth riffs, furious vocals, and blazing drum work you've come to expect from this LA band. "Some of the most relentless, unyielding, and profound music in heavy metal today" - Thrasher Magazine. "These guys manage to deconstruct, reinvent, and then rebuild the typical noise rock formula" - Chord. HydraHead CD $12.50 Black Hollies/Dansettes SPLIT (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US The Black Hollies return on side A with a brilliant cover of the Joe South by way of Deep Purple classic "Hush," featuring backing vocals & Hammond accompaniment from THE DANSETTES. On the flip, The Dansettes step to the front w/their sultry, soulful vocals tearing the roof off of the brand new Motown-infused "40 Days." A classic pairing of bands joined together in perfect harmony. ErnestJenning-029 45 $5.00 Bright Eyes Four Winds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US This is presented here along w/ 5 exclusive B-sides. Retaining the simmering glow of its predecessors, this is full of the magic that brought Bright Eyes to international attention. Carefully played, deftly poetic & quietly enchanting, the release has a wandering country charm & all of the story-telling seductiveness of earlier work. SaddleCreek-101 CD5 $4.75 Bright Eyes Four Winds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SaddleCreek-101 12 $10.50 Brokaw, Chris Forestry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US The legendary Boston guitarist and drummer for Come, Codeine, Pullman, Consonant, Kahoots, and then some, offers up his first solo 7-inch. Coming on the heels of two critically acclaimed solo records, "Incredible Love" and "Red Cities", this EP showcases another side of Chris's work. It features three instrumental outtakes from his score to Leslie McCleave's feature film "Road", as well as a drum-heavy dub mix from a Kahoots recording session. Gorgeous glossy cover images photographed by Brokaw himself and ultra high-quality transparent green vinyl make this a package worthy of wall display. I&EarRecords CD5 $4.75 Burning Star Core Blood Lightning 2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Full of creeping drones, strange mutilated vocal incursions, and compositions full of unidentifiable sounds both acoustic and electronic. Another classic in organized sound and idea from the mind of Mr. C. Spencer Yeh. Blood Lightning is the third in a series of very particular BxC works in theme and scope, beginning with "Three Sisters Who Share an Eye" (No Fun limited LP series), and then "Everyday World of Bodies" LP (Ultra Eczema.) Ideas of drone, 'minimalism,' and human themes are heavily a concern, and unlike other recent and upcoming major works, BxC on these albums is kept intimate, primarily operated by C. Spencer Yeh. Instrumentation includes the current BxC trinity of voice, violin and electronics, surrounded by a whole host of other methods. In recent years the BxC line-up both live and in-studio has included Robert Beatty and Trevor Tremaine (of Kentucky/Michigan-based maniacs Hair Police) and solo sound artist Mike Shiflet- Who all appear on the last track of this release. Burning Star Core began in 1993 in Cincinnati, Ohio where it currently resides with primary member C. Spencer Yeh. It is considered a project and not a pseudonym. Not married to any traditional line-up, method or sound, Yeh's eclecticism separates him from his peers. BxC will be appearing live throughout the first half of 2007, including a tour of US and Canada with Carlos Giffoni and Prurient, a weekend of festivals in Germany, a collaborative appearance with Zaimph at No Fun Fest 2007, and other individual events. NoFunProductions-12 CD $12.25 Cashmore, Michael Snow Abides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US A new solo mini-album from this longtime CURRENT 93 guitarist & contributor. Comprised of 5 thematically linked songs, w/ texts composed by DAVID TIBET (Current 93) & vocals by ANTONY (Antony & The Johnsons). Presented in an elegant, full-color digipak, this is his most accomplished & poignant work to date, solo or otherwise DurtroJnana-002 CD $10.00 Castanets/Dirty Projectors Unusual Animals, Vol. 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Volume 2 of ASTHMATIC KITTY's Unusual Animals limited edition vinyl series finds Brooklyn residents CASTANETS and DIRTY PROJECTORS splitting sides. Castanets offer up "BlackWater," a bloody and muddy dubbed-out blues track, penned while on their epic and catastrophic sailboat tour with Jana Hunter and Peter & the Wolf in the Summer of 2006, and recorded upon the first day of final harbor. After a deep idiosyncratic investigation of electronic music and classical orchestration on "The Getty Address" and the "New Attitude" EP, Dirty Projector's DAVE LONGSTRETH turns to the live band as his compositional tool with the nine-minute epic "Silence in the Lands." AsthmaticKitty-402 10 $9.00 Celestial Dream On (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty. "Precious songs, in the Sarah Records vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo "stay true to their roots and produce a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows no limits." - 4 Lighthouses "wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice to JAMC in five songs" - Groove SkippingStones-009 CD $9.50 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Dalek Abandoned Language (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US After two long years, their masterpiece is finally unveiled, an album the band have described as their "Dark Side of the Moon" or "Pet Sounds" a la Dälek. Still as layered as their previous work but complex enough for fans of avant noise while being accessible enough for mainstream hip hop audiences. Packed w/avant hip hop guests incl. ROB SWIFT (X-MEN). Incl. 16pp booklet w/art by Paul Romano (MASTODON). ErnestJenning-031 DLP $18.25 Dawn of Man In the Bronze Age (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Brian Clancy (BLUETIP) has been grinding his teeth on his fretboard since the old Balt./DC basement punk days where he met producer David Sitek (TVOTR). Sitek uses the pounding drums & overdriving bass to produce a backbeat that's an inseparable part of each song's emotional substance. The melodic pop heart of the EP are keys & layered feedback with guitar riffs, along with the confrontational & intimate vocals. Postfact-008 CD $6.00 Dean & Britta Back Numbers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US New album from rock's coolest couple DEAN WAREHAM & BRITTA PHILLIPS! As if a pedigree that includes LUNA & GALAXY 500 wasn't enough, they're now releasing their second duo album w/famed producer TONY VISCONTI (DAVID BOWIE, T. REX). The spotlight remains on their vocal interplay but also includes covers of 60's gems "Our Love Will Still Be There" by The Troggs & Lee Hazlewood's 'You Turned My Head Around." Zoë CD $16.00 Dengue Fever Escape From Dragon House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Fronted by Cambodian pop star Chhom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop-heavily influenced by American surf, rock & early psychedelic garage bands-with their own eclectic mix of American & international styles. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness & girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the bands own. M80 CD $16.75 Denver Gentlemen Introducing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Incl. members of 16 HORSEPOWER, SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB, DEVOTCHKA, MUNLY & THE LEE LEWIS HARLOTS, WOVEN HAND & TARANTELLA. Although heavily influenced by traditional roots music, they tone down the twang, opting for a gothic-cabaret sound full of piano, accordion, & glockenspiel. In 2001, they reassembled to celebrate the belated release of the group's 1rst album recorded back in '95. Smooch-016 CD $10.00 Do Make Say Think You, You're a History In Rust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Constellation-045 LP $15.50 Do Make Say Think You, You're a History In Rust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US The fifth album from one of the most consistently inventive instrumental rock bands of the past decade. Creative, thoughtful and challenging. CD is in a deluxe 6 panel cardstock jacket. Constellation-045 CD $14.50 Dobson, Bonnie Good Morning Rain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK After the acclaimed issue of Bonnie Dobson's first, self-titled RCA album...here we are with her second one! Again, a collection of outstanding songs written by herself and others, great well arranged folk-rock which has caught the attention of DJs and movers everywhere....Bonnie will be playing shows this February in the UK for the first time in far too long....to miss them would be sheer foolishness! I'll wager she'll also be doing a fair few interviews and so on....you know it makes sense. Rev-Ola-194 CD $13.00 Downbeat 5 Smoke & Mirrors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Formed in 2003 by lead guitarist JJ Rasler ( DMZ & The Queers) and singer/rhythm guitarist Jen D'Angora (ex-The Dents). Drawing on British Invasion bands like the Yardbirds & Animals, The Downbeat 5 spikes the brew with the toughest female vocals this side of a woman's prison riot & tops it all off with decades worth of aggression, attitude & volume. First live CD brings12 adrenaline-fueled shots of pure, real, raw rock & roll that grab you by the ears & cut straight to the bone. SteelCage-061 CD $11.75 Dr. Dog We All Belong (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Recorded on a 24-track, 2-inch tape machine as opposed to their previous releases, the method introduced new possibilities as well as new challenges. They managed to make an album that captures the organic spirit so important to the band while introducing new layers of vocal harmonies & textured instrumentation the band had only been able to imagine prior. "Loaded w/ three-part harmonies, orchestral strings, heavy reverb & fuzzy guitars." -Rolling Stone ParktheVan-012 CD $13.25 Draper, Linda Keepsake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake" brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer) left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City. The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK) PlantingSeeds-048 CD $12.25 Echoboy Elekrik Soul Psymphonie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US First new album in nearly 4 years follows '03's "Giraffe" (Mute). A new leftfield instrumental electronic masterpiece. "Faust via Stereolab."-Tme Out London TheFirstTime-019 CD $13.75 Einsturzende Neubauten Palast Der Republik (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more. Song Titles: Haus Der Luege, Armenia, Weilweilweil, Youme & Meyou, Perpetuum Mobile, Dead Friends (Around the Corner), Grundstueck, GS:1, GS:2, Unseasonable Weather, GS:3, Vox Populi, Was Ist Ist, Ein leichtes leises Saeuseln, Sabrina, Alles. Plus: Encore performances of Die Befindlichkeit des Landes and Redukt. MVD-4564 DVD $17.00 Eleh Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. This record is pressed in a deluxe edition of 400 on audiophile quality 180 gram vinyl mastered and pressed at RTI with letter pressed jackets done by Manifesto Letterpress. Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing) Eleh is as much of a physical experience as it is an audio one. To be heard and felt correctly the listener must be sitting with ears at speaker height at least 7 feet away. Noise canceling headphone use is also recommended for the optimum listening experience. Important-125 LP $12.50 Elope 9 Distilled Dreams (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2007) PS, SWEDEN COMING SOON! Perhaps Elope's finest album to date...and that's saying something consideing how brilliant 'The No Name Record' and '3WD' are... It is also their very mellowest. '9 Distilled Dreams' is the mainly acoustic companion piece to the rocking '3WD' released earlier this year. Check out Jim's Pick page for a sound sample. Gravitation-026 CD $10.50 Entwistle, John Smash Your Head Against The Wall (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 14TH) PS, US One of the most influential & talented bassists in the history of rock music. As a member of The WHO, his outstanding bass work brought the lowly bass man into the forefront of rock'n'roll. This debut solo album took his playing off in new directions although the overall sound is a Who at their heaviest. Earmark-42084 LP $16.75 Frazer, Paula Now It's Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Birdman-095 LP $15.00 Frazer, Paula Now It's Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US This is a heartbreaking, beautiful testament to love & loss, w/ a touch of redemption at the end. Like classic Tarnation, Frazer blends alternative country roots w/ dark, psychedelic tones & warm instrumental accompaniments that perfectly frame her ethereal voice. This is a return to form for those who miss Tarnation, & an incredible starter for beginners. Birdman-095 CD $15.00 Future Conditional We Don't Just Disappear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, UK Future Conditional is the all-new electro-pop project from Piano Magic mainstays Glen Johnson and Cedric Pin. Drawing inspiration from classic analog synth-pop by the likes of New Order, Kraftwerk, OMD and Section 25, the album We Don't Just Disappear updates the retro-futurist mix with a stellar selection of guest vocalists, including Melanie Pain (Nouvelle Vague), Bobby Wratten (Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars), Angele David-Guillou (Klima/Piano Magic), Carolyn Allen (The Wake) and Dan Matz (Windsor for the Derby). The 10-track album was produced by Glen and Cedric in 2006. Standout tracks include Switchboard Girl (sung by Melanie), Broken Robots (sung by Angele) and the title track, featuring Bobby. "Future Conditional isn't just an exercise in nostalgia. We are, in some way paying homage to the groups we love and inspire us, but we're also experimenting with the glacial electro/human emotional interface. The future is a robot with a human heart." (Glen Johnson). Piano Magic will release their new album Part-Monster in May 2007, and featured vocalist Angele will release an album as Klima on Peacefrog in March. Windsor for the Derby contributed to the soundtrack of the latest Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette, and Trembling Blue Stars also release a new album in spring 2007. Busy people! LTM-2478 CD $16.25 Giant Skkyflower Band Blood of the Sunworm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US During a sabbatical from regular duties in THE SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, Glenn Donaldson (never one to rest) dreamt of Giant Skyflower Band, an exotic, flowery and crumbling new recording project with nods to fruity new age, psych, prog, folk, and pop songwriting. Donaldson quickly invited multiinstrumentalist Shayde Sartin to "smoke marijuana & make up strange pop songs, " and thus the band was born. With Gong's seminal "Magick Brother" as a starting point and a sitar close at hand, the duo created a dark, peregrine pop transmission from their shoddy analog recording studio in San Francisco. The duo's debut offering examines in detail the idiom of Bummer Psych; the strain of damaged Anglo-pop music pioneered by Syd Barrett that arguably reached its apex with The Television Personalities' "Painted Word" LP in the mid-80's, but found new life in Japan via the genius of Tori Kudo and like-minded acts such as Nagisa Ni Te and Tenniscoats. Indeed, Blood of the Sunworm consists of depressing pop songs and damaged instrumentals - teeth bared and falling apart as they are cobbled together - on a hazy, cryptic journey through a busted kaleidoscope, behind a dusty mirror & up through the rafters. SoftAbuse-019 CD $12.00 Great Lake Swimmers Hands in the Dirty Ground (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH) PS, US Limited edition, hand numbered out of 500, 6 song LP. Includes exclusive tracks, alternative versions, live recordings: with a version of Tom Wait's 'Innocent When you Dream' MagWheel-040 LP $16.00 Health Where You From (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Greensboro, NC local heroes led by Jonathan Moore (also of Tigerbearwolf) unleash their backwoods Americana slacker anthems and call to mind a woozy night around the hookah listening to Pavement, The Velvet Underground, and The Flying Burrito Brothers. Unforgettable songwriting, quietly unique passages of instrumentation, and unexpectedly big hooks. Addicitve. ErnestJenning CD $12.25 Horns Of Happiness, The What Spills Like Thread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US HORNS OF HAPPINESS provide the two sides to the second half of their newnew sound with "What Spills Like Thread". With the follow-up 12" to last year's "Would I Find Your Psychic Guideline", they're now navigating the waters of hypnotic, organ-driven thump rock. On this record, the HoH have expanded into a trio, with new member ELAINA MORGAN providing the bottom end to the disjointed fuzz of AARON DEER and SHELLY HARRISON'S organ/drum combo. Played out in two extended jams, side A evokes ESG on the dance floor with Can at an absinthe-fueled afterparty, while side B is a woozy pop-drone undulation. SecretlyCanadian-122 12 $7.50 Hume, Kevin The Truth About Ants and Aphids (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US An 11-track, four-part song cycle; sounds like indie pop/folk with classical elements, songs centered around vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, etc, but also prominently features strings, brass and woodwinds, performed by some of the finest musicians in New Mexico (no lie); lead single "Towns Where We Live" was featured several times on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Kevin Hume previously released 2 albums on cdr label Asaurus under the name Black Spartacus, The Seven Dreams of the Leviathan and Andromeda. Seven Dreams received modest but very positive critical reaction. PremiumFantasy-001 CD $9.75 I Am Robot And Proud The Catch & Spring Summer Autumn Winter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Reissue. The Catch is I AM ROBOT AND PROUD's debut full length CD. It was originally released in 2001 by Catmobile Records (UK). Spring Summer Autumn Winter was an EP released in 2002 by Mira Records (Germany). Darla Records is pleased to offer a reissue comprising both these out-of-print indie electronic pop music classics. Revamped cover art by Shaw-han Liem aka I AM ROBOT AND PROUD. Darla-181 CD $12.00 I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends [expanded domestic version] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH) PS, US PRICE TO BE ANNOUNCED! WILL BE OFFERED ON SALE FOR INITIAL ORDERS. Mute's U.S. version comes with two bonus tracks: "Glasses" and "The Painter". Mute CD $0.00 Innocence Mission We Walked In Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US With 11 new, memorable & genuinely moving songs, this is the kind of intimate recording where each note seems essential. From the socially conscious opening track, to the longful closing lines, Peris's hauntingly beautiful voice communicates w/ immediacy. The tracks are further lit by gentle lines of melodic piano, upright bass and baritone acoustic guitar. Badman CD $15.00 Innocence Mission We Walked In Song (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Badman LP $15.00 Jatun S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Jatun is Alan Grosvenor (guitar, keys, bass, loops) and Scott Worley (vocals, keys, guitars, laptop). Alan and Scott met in Portland,OR circa '04, and started writing the songs that would slowly form into the mish-mash of cables, circuits, ivory and alcohol known as Jatun. They began recording their self-titled debut album in September 2005, and it's been engineered/mixed by Scott & Alan and mastered by Carl Saff. The first recorded Jatun song was "Ion Crush," which was featured in a Nike SB promo video for the Zoom Tre shoe and is also featured on the Signal Snowboards webpage. The songs "Ghost and Grey", and "The Temptation of Joy" have been used by Norwegian company Helly Hansen, accompanying snowboard and ski team imagery on two videos. Additionaly the video clips are being used on the Helly Hansen website as a part of their HHTV program. Influenced by an expansive range of artists, genres and styles, Alan and Scott have learned to interpret and appreciate sound from a broad perspective. Such open ears have facilitated an understanding of sonic interplay, and acute attention to arrangement and detail. Armed to the teeth with an arsenal of quality, vintage gear and a penchant for capturing the resultant noises, they craft music thoroughly and thoughtfully. Lush, enveloping and hyper-textured, Jatun's songs blanket themselves around your ears and saturate your head with warm and intoxicating, Orange-tinged tones. For Fans Of: Morr Music, 4AD, Warp, Anticon, Temporary Residence Limited. OtherElectricites-004 CD $12.25 Jawbone S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK Jawbone was born from the ashes of The Mirage and Turquoise, two of the UK's greatest cult pop-psych bands (and both recently anthologized on RPM and Rev-Ola respectively) and their lone 1970 album rounds off their stories perfectly. They were thrown together after guitarist Ray Glynn and drummer Dave Hynes decided to re-form The Mirage after a short stint in The Spencer Davis Group came to an end in 1969 (they appear on the excellent "Short Change" single and ill-fated Funky album). Vocalist Pete Hynes and former bassist Dee Murray was swiftly poached for Elton John's band so they recruited keyboard player and former Mirage sidekick/songwriter Kirk Duncan who called up another former colleague, Jeff "Gus" Peters of the recently defunct Turquoise to handle bass duties. Dave Hynes secured the band a deal with Merv Cohn's newly minted Carnaby label and they changed their name to The Portebello (sic) Explosion for a single coupling the dreamy, Beatlesque pop-sike of "We Can Fly" and a tough, hard-edged cover of Bubble Puppy's minor US hit "Hot Smoke And Sassafras". The single went nowhere but album sessions began regardless in late 1969 with the re-recording of three old Mirage tunes - "How's Ya Pa?", "Chicago Cottage" and "Jeremiah Dreams" (mis-titled "Jeremiah's Dream" on the eventual album), a suitably demented re-working of their unreleased 1967 psychedelic opus "Ebeneezer Beaver". When "How's Ya Pa?" was released as a single in early 1970, it was credited to yet another new moniker, Jawbone. Typically for this period, Dave Hynes had become obsessed by The Band and set about remodeling the group in their image. Consequently, titles like "Honeysuckle Redwood Cabin", "Homestead" and "Mister Custer" came thick and fast, bearing the distinct influences of The Band and The Byrds. Rev-Ola-195 CD $13.00 Lewis, Wyndham The Enemy Speaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by WW1, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism. Lewis spent the war years 1939-45 in penniless exile in America , yet carried on writing even after going blind in 1951. His many books include Tarr (1918), The Apes of God (1930), Blasting & Bombardiering (1937), The Revenge for Love (1937) and the trilogy The Human Age. His artworks include Workshop (1913), A Battery Shelled (1919), Tyro (1920) Red Portrait (1937), The Surrender of Barcelona (1937) and Portrait of T.S. Eliot (1938), and are regularly exhibited by galleries including the Tate, Hayward, Imperial War Museum and others. The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song, recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy that so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in his dug-out near Ypres in 1917. The CD features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Lewis images as well as historical notes by James Hayward. The CD has been prepared with the full co-operation of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. LTM-2411 CD $15.25 Lindt, Virna Play/Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK The first release on CD of 'Play/Record', the second album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organization in 1985. Written and produced by Virna Lindt during a three-week holiday in London, Play/Record tackles girls who cannot stand the colour red, the numbing effect of the new media, and subterfuge and skulduggery in her adopted home town (the single My Home Town). The album has been digitally remastered by close collaborator Tot Taylor, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. Unfortunately Virna abandoned music forever after creating Play/Record, leaving the world a poorer place. Contemporary reviews for Play/Record: "Ms Lindt deftly conveys a sense of breezy, delirious Sixties camp. Arch instrumentals such as the title track and Add It Up are nothing short of wondrous, and the album is a delightful and accurate evocation of a period when music was allowed to be fun" (Melody Maker); "A uniquely crafted voiceover masterpiece, the diverse tempo moves from the sunny waft of single My Home Town to the more sombre tones of Any Colour But Red" (Sounds); "Lush, intelligent and very, very sexy" (Underground). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and liner/recording notes. LTM-2489 CD $16.25 Lindt,Virna Shiver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UKAn extended CD reissue of 'Shiver', the debut album by Swedish pop sophisticate Virna Lindt, originally released by The Compact Organisation in 1983. Written and produced by Virna Lindt and Tot Taylor, the acclaimed Shiver album offers 12 slices of chic, Cold War pop informed by 1960s spy thriller soundtracks and musique concrete, including the singles Attention Stockholm and I Experienced Love. The album has been digitally remixed and re-modelled from the original mastertapes, and now sounds even more immaculate than before. The new edition of Shiver also features bonus track The Windmills of Your Mind, a rare Michel Legrand cover version from The Thomas Crown Affair originally recorded for the Crepuscule movie compilation Moving Soundtracks. Contemporary reviews for Shiver:"Intrepid undercover agent disguised as a top international fashion model sets out on a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, armed only with a firm sense of fair play and a gadget-filled powder compact" (NME); "Euro-eccentric. Virna Lindt casts herself as a mysterious blonde in a loving pastiche of Continental movie music" (Sounds); "Only the surly amongst you can fail to acknowledge the splendour of Virna Lindt's new single I Experienced Love, and the equally thrilling Shiver lp, the epitome of Compact's sleek, chic Sixties tease" (The Face); "Imagine a pastiche of all those old Sixties spy series, like Danger Man, The Avengers and The Man From Uncle. Well, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go with it" (London Evening Standard). The CD also features a deluxe 12 page booklet featuring original artwork and detailed dossier on Virna Lindt. Also available: Virna Lindt: Play/Record (LTMCD 2489), V/a : A Young Person's Guide to Compact (LTMCD 2488). LTM-2487 CD $16.25 Little Heroes Cinematic Americana (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH) PS, US The record begins with the steady hum of a cello contrasted with an off-timed picked acoustic guitar, soon joined by soft, sparse vocals, the low thump of bass & drums, and eerie piano, building to a beautiful blistering crescendo. Their strength is in the simple diversity of their songwriting, switching effortlessly between sweaty noise pop to subtle soundscapes. A definite must for fans of The Shins, Pete Yorn, & Red House Painters Wednesday-1403 CD $8.50 Loch Lomond Lament for Children (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Ritchie Youngs solo recording project. EP complies live performances from 2003-2006, ranging from Young by himself to a ten-person band. During this time, many different recording sessions took place in various studios & homes. "The hopeless tone in Ritchie Youngs voice tells of a terrible life of unfortunate circumstances. Even the old Scottish folk song from which Loch Lomond takes its name is the story of a broken heart & the springtime weather that does nothing to heal it. It works, though, because Youngs voice-with its gloomy, morose manner-needs the subhuman relief that noise readily provides. Ultimately it is a record wallowing in its own despair as much as it is a record that took great, inspired care to make-and its definitely a record to avoid after a breakup." -Rolling Stone Hush-069 CD5 $10.50 London, Julie Lonely Girl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK Yes the girl who single handedly launched the Torch Singer genre...and opened the door for every imperfect but sexy vocalist since..... The most remarkable thing about Julie London is remarkable indeed: that she used her erotic persona not so much to interpret songs as to change the nature of them to become something other than when sung by anyone else. She used her breathy, sexy, sultry voice not to sing a version of a song that could compete with someone else's on a scale of good to better to best, but to change it's meaning. This, her second album, carries on from where her first left off...soft eroticism and single entendre...songs of yearning and loneliness in Julie's own bedroom whisper...just try to resist! The acclaim and success enjoyed by our issue of her first album legendary "Julie Is Her Name" tells you all you need to know....what a woman, what a record...I'll go and lie down now... One of the most erotic albums of all time. Rev-Ola-197 CD $13.00 Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love Ends of June (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3rd) PS, US Initially intended as musical outlet for Kelly Dyson, Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love's full inception came in the form of a sudden, unplanned collaboration between Kelly and vocalist Natalia Brightmore. Instant musical chemistry coupled with a brief period of writing & recording yielded a complete body of bittersweet, forthright folk songs, self-released on the band's own Birds and Rodents label (UK) in 2004. Two years later, after randomly stumbling upon some breathtaking Low Low clips online, Portland, OR label Other Electricities realized there was something unique brewing overseas. The band with the impossibly long name occupied space in their ears and repeated listens only further reinforced the fascination. The two parties eventually got to talking and came to the conclusion that this music needed to reach a wider audience; these sounds just couldn't be slept on much longer. Ends of June is Low Low's second outing and first U.S. release, boasting twelve new, intimate tracks saturated in the same undeniable warmth and familiarity offered on their debut. Here, the music's immediacy and accessibility fails to wane even slightly, building upon the solid groundwork laid in the first album. Natalia's amicable departure and a change in line-up, currently featuring Kelly Dyson (guitar, lead vocals), Ellis Dyson (drums, clarinet, percussion), Chris Robinson (guitar, vocals), Hugo Edwardes (bass), Nick Guy (vocals, percussion), and Brian Lutchmiah (vocals, percussion), has filled out Low Low now more of a band then an "acoustic folk duo". Despite these alterations, no element of overall sound is compromised as new paths are traversed with regards to instrumentation and arrangement. Self recorded and produced in Ellis' bedroom studio, Ends of June showcases Low Low's progressive and deft grasp on songwriting. From the pensive yet infectious "The Way You Play," to the fluid lullaby "Happiness at the New Day," it's near-impossible to deny the resultant intrigue of each composition, and of the record as a whole. These songs beckon to be taken in again and again... Collectively, the band members live and work in and around Manchester, England. To date, they have shared stages with the likes of Regina Spektor and Six Organs of Admittance. Plans are currently being made for a re-master/reissue of Low Low's s/t debut, which should be available in wider release mid-2007. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Nick Drake Songs of Green Pheasant. OtherElectricites-006 CD $12.25 Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Low Low formed in March 2004 when Kelly Dyson met Natalia Brightmore in the George over a pint, two days after he'd split from his long-time partner and moved from Carlisle to Buxton with a handful of songs. The pair clicked and work began on turning Kelly's rough acoustic songs into rough acoustic songs with a female harmony. The album was quite a sparse thing for the main part, though Ellis Dyson expanded a few tracks with drums and electric guitars. The process from there was pretty quick - the album was polished (to Low Low's standards) within a few months was released on the Birds and the Rodents Label (UK). Through their earnest, stripped-down approach to song writing, Low Low taps into your head and heart before you've even noticed; and by then it's too late to turn back (not that you'd want to anyway). The vulnerability and undeniable necessity of love, loss, heartache and hopefulness abounds in each affected lyric, and is further evoked by every subtle bend and pull. "As acoustic documents of the breakdown of a long-term relationships go, this is up there. Recorded lo-fi style - in a bedroom apparently - this affecting release combines breathless harmonies and fragile tunes to achieve a strange warmth. Also makes Belle & Sebastian sound like Motorhead." - The Crack "Rooted firmly in the world of low/no-fi folk, this is a charming record that recalls the same juxtaposition of fragility and strength of character that suffused the early Elliott Smith albums." - Tangents. For Fans Of: Devendra Banhart, Iron & Wine, Six Organs of Admittance, Songs of Green Pheasant, Nick Drake. OtherElectricites-007 CD $12.25 Lunch, Thomas Diagrams Without Instructions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Debut from Washington, DC native who "has seemingly come out of nowhere with...an indie/electro offering that will have yer ass shaking by song two."-thetripwire.com. Digipak. TompkinsSquare-101 CD $14.75 Lynx and Ram The System's on And It's Flashing Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, CANADA Lynx And Ram was formed in 2005 by Carli Vierke and Julian Fane. After an extremely well received debut album for Planet Mu Records, Fane was looking for a collaborative project while Vierke, a classically trained vocalist with a background in rythm and blues, wanted to escape the confines of traditional music to create something she was truly passionate about. Combining machinegun rock drums with mashed guitars, blasting synths, and Vierke's full throttle electro punk vocals, Lynx And Ram create music on the verge of spontaneous combustion. If you like Le Tigre or chicks on speed your going to really love Lynx and Ram. Sublight-3101 CD $12.25 Mandelbrot Set All Our Actions Are Constantly Repeated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, UK Mandelbrot Set is a loud band. They like their drones and their converse-gazing, they like to use sample pedals and to change instruments during sets, but mainly they like to be loud, and they like to do it differently. Formed by Keung, from the ashes of his previous band, Hentai, of whom Drowned In Sound remarked "It's a relief to know that not all angsty teenagers listen to Radiohead and spend the rest of their adolescence trying to emulate Muse. Some of them stick Boards Of Canada stickers on their guitars, acquire DD-5 sample pedals and violin bows, and proceed to work the Mogwai-esque quiet / loud / louder / apocalyptic dynamic till their ears bleed." Mandelbrot Set take their love of all things on the Constellation label, their penchant for electronics, effects pedals and live sampling, their Shellac-esque rhythmic aggression, and combine it all into a wall of noise, melody and epic structure that would make Kevin Shields envious. HighpointLowlife-021 CD $17.00 Marsmobil Minx (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US U/S debut of PETER KRUDER (KRUDER & DORFMEISTER) produced slice of psychedelic space pop inspired by the trashy analog sound aesthetics of the '60's & '70's, merging Retro & Future, Space-Pop, & Burt Bacharach-like orchestrations to "the most wonderful & organic music of the new musical millenium." Gstone-030 CD $17.50 Merzbow/Carlos Giffoni/Jim O'Rourke Electric Dress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, US Electric Dress covers the full spectrum of sound color possibility, from totally brutal walls of destructive noise to beautiful minimal synthetic interplay, analog drone and shifting alien electronics. A total mind melting collaboration recorded live in tokyo using synths and a variety of custom analog equipment, even including Merzbow's classic spring/junk metal instrument. Warm, varied, and obsessive this is what industrial music should have been, the sound of infinite machines demolishing a planet and creating a new structure where live organisms have been eradicated. Edited and mastered by Jim for maximum sonic annihilation. Documents one of nowadays very rare Merzbow's all analog live shows, one of Jim O'Rourke's rare live appearances since his move to Japan and the culmination of Carlos Giffoni's Japan Synth Destruction Tour. All this at the same time! 100% Essential! Electric Dress is recommended for fans of analog period Merzbow, early noise and Industrial Music, academic electronic and analog synth music-And for those adepts of beautiful and invigorating evil music. NoFunProductions-015 CD $12.25 Microphones Don't Smoke/Get Off The Internet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US It has been a while since the last album or concert by "the MICROPHONES". Lately "MOUNT EERIE" has been taking up that space. Now we have this new miniature record out of nowhere (actually out of Anacortes, Washington, the awkward town up on the edge of Canada where Phil Elverum, the originator of all this music and hubbub, runs the family record label and publisher). These 2 songs are a 2007 modifi cation of punk directness. "Do as I say"-style lyrics and "feel as I feel"-style music. It s quite different from the introspective metaphorical state park parking-lot songs the Microphones have become known for. Over moden grunge, these songs say "There is no God. Deal with yourself. Clean up your mess. Take responsibility." P.W.ElverumAndSunLtd.-012 45 $4.75 Moaners Blackwing Yalobusha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US North Carolina-based garage-blues duo decided to revisit their Mississippi roots & record their latest album with former Squirrel Nut Zippers founder & producer Jimbo Mathus. Amid the thousand-pound heat the female duo churned out a slow burning collection of songs that chant & spit their way through the spirit world of the old south. The songs tell tall tales of barstool black belts & monkey tongues while tuned-down slide guitar tumbles through the delta landscapes of Faulkner & O'Connor. YepRoc-2140 CD $14.50 Money Mark Brand New By Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Brushfire LP $10.75 Money Mark Brand New By Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US The Great Leap Forward into real songwriting w/11 finely wrought & buoyantly tuneful songs wrung from heartbreak. Brushfire CD $15.00 Mouthus Follow This House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Perhaps appropriately, Follow This House was recorded following a European tour in a state of profound limbic haze and completed and finalized during the unforgettable heat wave of July 2006. These facts make a whole lot of sense since Follow This House sounds like your entire record collection melting in the trunks of a hundred junkyard cars on a hazy, steamy, sweltering hot summer afternoon. Follow This House by Mouthus is a companion piece to their 2005 full length for Important titled The Long Salt. Picking up right where The Long Salt left off, Follow This House is a record chock full of manic bad mood energy, crunching resin-soaked jams and hundred year old instrumentation emerging from the soggy mire only to be slowly pushed back in by poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Mouthus are on a stated mission to incorporate new sounds and new instrumentation into their recordings. Never repeating themselves Follow This House is less fractured and more minimal, embracing the Mouthus sludgefest like a settling foundation. Important-121 CD $12.00 MSTRKRFT Work on You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Ex-DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979er Jesse Keeler & sidekick AHP drop new single incl. "Album Version," "Radio Edit," "Para One Remix" and "Community Revolution in Progress." LastGang 12 $5.75 Mutumbajoy, Santiago Yagé Pinta! Psychedelic Shaman Songs Of Santiago Mutumbajoy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US "Yage Pinta!" collects nearly 80 minutes of hypnotic, droning wild microphone field recordings of shamanic ceremonies recorded in Columbia's Putamayo Basin by celebrated anthropologist MICHAEL TAUSSIG. Proceeds from the sale of this compact disc will be go to FUNDACIÓN RENACER, A BOGOTA, COLUMBIA based outreach & rehabilitation organization for sexually exploited children and adolescents. LocustMusic-005 CD $11.50 My Brightest Diamond Tear It Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND'S SHARA WORDEN has decided to set loose her bobby pins and let her hair fly on the ambient dance floor. Her latest semi-collaboration with 13 different remixers, entitled "Tear It Down", reworks songs from the highly acclaimed album, "Bring Me The Workhorse" featuring tracks by ALIAS, LUSINE, MURCOF, STAKKA and GOLD CHAINS. Oh, it's international too! With diplomatic representatives from Belgium, France, Mexico, The UK and America (East and West Coasts baby!), the remixes range from drum-n-bass, to glitchy ambient, minimalism, and get-your-booty-on-the-dance-floor club music. AsthmaticKitty-030 CD $11.50 Nadja Touched (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Second release by the up & coming ambient doom band. Ambient music pushed to its' breaking point. Parts of the album feature the use of clean undistorted vocals, which is rather unique in the genre and hints at the sound of such bands as Codeine, Swans, & Joe Preston's Thrones project. Alien8-077 CD $12.50 Oasis Morning Glory: Classic Album Under Review (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Oasis (What's The Story?) Morning Glory: A Classic Album Under Review is a documentary film which revisits and re-assesses this powerhouse of a record. With the use of archive footage, long forgotten videos and contributions from those around at the time, this program uncovers why the bands second album is arguably their most satisfying. Features include live and studio performances of tracks from Morning Glory, reviewed by a panel of esteemed experts, band interviews, rarely seen photographs and archive footage. Bonus feature; When Oasis Met Blur the full recording from the moment the Britpop heavyweights met at the same radio station in 1995. SexyIntellectual-516 DVD $17.00 Obscurus Advocam Verbia Daemonicus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH) PS, US Feat. members of already acclaimed black metal outfits GLORIOR BELLI, TEMPLE OF BAAL & WOLFE, this band already has its nails clawed deep w/in the underground in terms of what kind of quality you can expect fromthese guys. This fuses styles found w/in great bands like Deathspeel Omega while harking back to the days of Judas Iscariot & Burzum. SouthernLord-067 CD $14.00 Odawas Raven and the White Night (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Like watching an avalanche crushing a Bavarian cottage or a man being attacked by a lion, listening to ODAWAS while nestled safely in your phono-womb is an exercise in tuning into sublime frequencies from safe carriage. That huge dial has never made your hands so child-like, that cookie jar so high. Odawas skirt the cliff's edge like JACK NIETZSCHE hanging Christmas lights on the shark cage, NEIL YOUNG stoking the campfire in his babylon treefort, or a JANDEK aria in a black armband march. Odawas' 2005 debut on JAGJAGUWAR, "The Aether Eater," was a fiery space oddity detailing the brave, the lost, and the maligned. The journey was epic. But the obstinate darkness and disastrous side-effects of space travel are getting lost, and thus turning inward on their follow-up album "Raven And The White Night." This LP package ALSO COMES WITH A GRATIS COMPACT DISC VERSION OF THE ALBUM. Jagjagwar-108 LP+CD $11.50 Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy (Definitive Edition) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US This is the definitive double-disc set which brings together OKKERVIL RIVER's ground-breaking "Black Sheep Boy" project in its entirety - including the original album, the 7-song "Black Sheep Boy Appendix" EP, the song "The Next Four Months" (originally released on the "For Real" CD single), the "For Real" video as well as a new video of a magical alternate slower take of "No Key, No Plan". Enjoy this panoramic perspective of a modern masterpiece and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the new millennium. "Black Sheep Boy" is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record to date, a love story and adult fable carved in lacerating rock and roll, desolate late-night country weepers, and a few shining moments of sheer, shameless pop. jagjagwar-120 DCD $11.50 Orb, The Orbsessions v.1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, UK Few artists have created such visionary and influential electronic music as Alex Paterson and his various incarnations of The Orb. The Orb's blissed-out music helped define the emerging ambient-techno/house genres blending natural sounds, spoken-word, dub bass lines and constantly shifting beats with a sense of humor, rolling rhythms and exhilarating samples to revolutionise UK dance clubs and '90s rave culture. Now after the resounding success of the earlier limited edition, Malicious Damage is proud to re-release this glorious first volume of Orb treasures from Alex Paterson's spherical archives. Covering fifteen years of conspiracy and collaboration with some of the biggest names in electronic music including Jimmy Cauty, Andy Hughes, Thomas Fehlmann, Nina Walsh, Fil le Gonidec, Vincent McDonald, Guy Pratt, Dom Beken and Aki Omori. Track Listing 1- Yungle 2-Sail 3-Chromatik [Orbzone] 4-Eurofen 5-Sun Of 6-73.5 feat. nitraM 7-Steel Horse 8-Something Like 9-Pluto Calling [Twinkle] 10-Angel 3 Dub . The track "Mummy Don't" has been replaced by "angel 3 dub" MaliciousDamage-603 CD $15.50 Orchids Good To Be a Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, SPAIN The enigmatic five piece band formed in Glasgow have released some of the finest pop songs of their generation since humble beginnings in Penilee, a suburb of the city, where the three founder members grew up and started the band in 1986. Their first six singles and three albums were met with widespread critical acclaim, much of this from out-with the UK. They graduated from the gentle lo-fi craft of their first album, Lyceum, in 1989 ("A minor classic - don't let is pass you by" said NME) through to the ground breaking and progressive sounds of their third, aptly titled, Striving For The Lazy Perfection ("lithe, evocative and memorable music" - M M) in 1994 with "sixth member" Ian Carmichael of One Dove at the studio controls. In the intervening years they released Unholy Soul in 1991 ("Sarah Records answer to the Beach Boys Pet Sounds") and some truly original singles & EPs that, in keeping with a stance sometimes perceived as awkward and single minded, were always kept apart from album projects. The ethos was always more about value for money for their fans than genuine stubbornness, however. The singles included what many believe to be the high point of their career to date, Something For The Longing as well as final single Thaumaturgy in 1993. Reformed in 2004 after a break of Paddy McAloon proportions they are now ready to take another swipe at the tedious world of the music business with an album that takes them back to their musical roots. Recorded at Riverside Studios, home to other better known homegrown acts such as Travis, Teenage Fanclub and Trash Can Sinatras, their new record Good To Be A Stranger is a fabulous collection of new songs that will feed the hungry appetite of the fan base that has grown over the intervening years. Ahead of their time in the early 90's, it is only now that many have realised how fascinating and mature those earlier releases were. Good To Be A Stranger is released on Madrid based label Siesta on --- March 2007 and the band will be heading out to play live gigs for the first time in twelve years to promote the new release - nothing like keeping your fans waiting! Offers of gigs in the UK, Sweden, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Singapore and the USA illustrate how the World Wide Web has allowed their global reputation to grow. Later in 2007, a cover of The Go Betweens' song Magic In Here will also appear on a Grant McLennan tribute album, Love Goes On, released on USA's Rare Victory Records. You can also currently hear one of the new songs Down To The Ocean on Siesta Records compilation Erre Que Erre. "The best Scottish pop band since Orange Juice" - Melody Maker "A blissful mix of the best Scottish bands of the last few years" - NME" "Eclectic. Every single song is a gem" - Exclaim "Luxuriant textures, immaculate pop fizz with enviable purpose" - MM "Songs of emotional wit and sparkling indie pop" - All Music Guide "Languid and alluring" - Tangents "The tension between wanting to wig out and grow more evanescent is evident" - Uncut "They brought together all the best parts of the 80's Scottish music scene, while adding something that's hard to pin down, yet made them so very special" - Exclaim! Siesta-226 CD $14.00 Orthodox Gran Poder (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH) PS, US An amazing debut that is just the first stone of the sonic monolith they're going to build step by step. In this first recording, their musical influences (Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Melvins, Earth, Sleep) get mixed w/ their peculiar perception of the south-spanish religious folklore. The result is a lethargic music with obsesive repetitions, minimalism, feedback, distortion and end-less drones creating a primitive trance inducing atmosphere. Feat. one exclusive bonus track- cover of Venoms' classic "Genocide." SouthernLord-069 CD $14.00 Pagoda S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Pagoda spent a solid month in Luca Amendolaras studio to record most of what has become this premier CD. Over 40 songs were recorded as well as a handful more back in his hometown of Brooklyn. By the end of '04 the tracks had been whittled down to songs which exist on this 1st disc. The current line up is a blazing trio w/ Reese Carr on drums & Willy Paredes on bass. EcstaticPeace-058 CD $9.25 Pantaleimon Cloudburst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US (Pronounced "Pan-ta-lay-mon") is the adopted moniker of vocalist & composer ANDRIA DEGENS. Sometimes collaborating with friends, though often alone, she creates beautifully haunting and meditative music. This feat. 4 tracks of hypnotic vocal passages that together form a long conceptual piece, which, she says, "is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime... the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven & Earth." DurtroJnana-003 CD $10.00 Parkins, Zeena Nightmare Alley (reissue) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Step right up and meet the astounding ZEENA PARKINS, the world's greatest electric harpist. Forget about angelic choirs; Zeena cites Jimi Hendrix as a major inspiration, and her harp work is similarly explosive, often blurring into fuzz-distorted terrain. Parkins is a lightning bolt of a performer, and a much sought after collaborator; she works frequently with SONIC YOUTH'S THURSTON MOORE, LEE RANALDO and JIM O'ROURKE, has performed with COURTNEY LOVE and YOKO ONO, and has recorded extensively and toured the world several times with Icelanic avant-pop diva BJÖRK. Recorded in 1992, "Nightmare Alley" was Zeena's first solo release and the first CD on TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS. A hypnotic classic, it lures the listener into a parallel world of sensations, one that is disorienting and surreal, strangely pleasurable and more than a little dangerous. Step inside if you dare - you won't believe your ears! TableOfTheElements-202 CD $13.00 Perfect Rat Endangered Languages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH) PS, US GREG GINN from BLACK FLAG w/ GARY ACRE, BILL STINSON & JACK BREWER (SACHARINE TRUST). Alone-016 CD $13.75 Photo Atlas No, No Me, Never (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 16TH) PS, US Denver emo punk boys who play with precision timing & an aggressive urgency that is entirely gripping. Jagged guitar lines, thumping bass, relentless beats & machine gun melodic vocal yelps marries the energy of classic post punk (Wire, Go4) with the thick modern aggression of Fugazi & At the Drive In. StolenTransmissions CD $13.75 Rameses III Honey Rose (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire and Type. On "Honey Rose", the group's first release for Important, the South London trio builds a bucolic soundtrack to Jon Spira's mysterious short film "Suityman". Whilst the influence of Bruce Langhorne, Boxhead Ensemble and much of the 4AD roster can be keenly felt on this six song EP, so too can the wondrous drone narratives that are such a feature of Rameses III's previous works. More structured and melodious then much of their output, "Honey Rose" is the perfect place for a newcomer to begin exploring the music of one of the finest purveyors of ambient drone operating in music today. Important-121 CD5 $8.25 Reininger, Blaine L. Elektra / Radio Moscow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis. TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981. Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in 2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently divides his time between Italy and Greece. LTM-2482 CD $16.25 Religious Knives Remains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US A psychedelic epic, completely beautiful, dark and overtaking. Remains is Religious Knives first full length CD and is full of beautiful synth melodies, atonal guitar, twisted percussion and haunting vocals. Definitely one of those mythical releases dedicated to all believers of infinity. Religious Knives is Mike, Maya (both members of Double Leopards) and Nate Nelson (Mouthus.) Remains is a collection of completely out of print and long gone material that was released on small vinyl and CD-R pressings, all re-mastered by James Plotkin for maximum audio quality. The first two tracks Bind Them and Electricity and Air, are from their No Fun Productions LP which was limited to 300 and completely sold out in 2 weeks. Their Heavy Tapes 7" Blackbird (which was limited to 200) is also included in its entirety, and finally The Train -from a tour only CD-R limited to 100 copies which was re-mixed for the occasion closes the epic that is Remains. An essential audio document of the beginnings of a young band already commanding cult status, and that this year already plans to be releasing material on a variety of important labels including Troubleman Unlimited and Ecstatic Peace, touring Europe and participating in No Fun Fest. NoFunProductions-013 CD $12.25 Revutsky, Roman Incomplete (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, MEXICO Roman Revutsky possesses a genuine sensibility of pop that stands either way over sad structured rock or complex electronic music sequences. Roman is a singer/songwriter who, directly from the four walls of his house in freezing Siberia, still has the warmth to keep his tender heart alive, pumping strange stories told by a soft and charming voice that will hardly be unnoticed. With a naïve attitude, Revutsky fills the gap nineties indietronica left between rock and electronic music: earnestness and reality. Though his music doesn't properly fit in that genre, Roman will probably enchant enthusiast followers of this kind of pop music with his awkwardly hypnotic lyrics. "The tracks he has recorded and made available are irresistibly charming (his voice, prominantely accented, is reserved but strangely moving, like a Siberian Stephin Merritt), and though its impossible to be sure of how his album will sound once completed, I have a hard time imagining it being anything less than stellar." MOCKING MUSIC (CA). SoundSister-06 CD5 $7.50 Rhys, Gruff Candylion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US 8 ON PITCHFORK!!! New solo album from SUPER FURRY ANIMALS frontman. "Candylion was raised by bears in Micronesia. Trained as a chef in Paris & following a City & Guilds diploma in desk top publishing at Tregoedwig polytechnic transformed himself into a card assembly image of his former self & arranged for the kind lady at the post depot to mail him back flatpack to his bear brothers & sisters. Safely back in the palm forrest he was given lessons in exotic guitar pickin' by a passing oxymoron" says the MySpace. TeamLove-012 CD $13.50 Robins, Marty Rockin' Robins (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK Marty Robbins was a wildly popular and innovative Arizona-born country singer and guitarist who dominated the Billboard Country charts for 30 years between 1953 and 1983, scoring such chart-topping hits as "Singing The Blues", "A White Sport Coat", "Don't Worry", "Devil Woman" and the epic "El Paso". Robbins even outdid in some ways even Johnny Cash, producing the acclaimed 'concept' albums of Gunfighter Ballads for which he is best remembered. Marty Robbins Joined The Grand Ole Opry in 1953 and hosted his own TV show in the 1970s before dying prematurely in 1982 (aged 57). This compilation concentrates on the brief period between 1954 and 1957 when he took on Elvis and the early rockabillies with some sparkling country rockers which graced a fistful of cool US Columbia 45s and an iconic 10" LP. Tracks include his country covers of Elvis' "That's All Right" (#7 1955), Chuck's "Maybelline" (#9 1955) and his peerless originals of "Singing The Blues" (#1 1956), "I Can't Quit" (#7 1956) and "Knee Deep In The Blues" (#3 1957). And a slew of live outbursts of Rockin' mania you won't believe! As one might expect of a man who not only prefigured Nick Cave but introduced the fuzztone guitar to the pop world (in 1961!) this is seriously rocking stuff....a new discovery for some, and bound to garner some serious column inches! Rev-OlaBandstand-012 CD $13.00 Rockey, Lee Lee Rockey Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE DECEMBER 1ST) PS, US Portland Oregon, art museum, early 1976. In the auditorium, drums electric violin & cello played thru an echoplex, a 4 channel tape deck was playing pre-recorded electronic skronks, flutes, & off speed voices, dancers were holding video cameras, connected to a Paik video synth that was creating a live video projection. The music was crazed, scary & funny & beautiful. This was the 2nd (and last) of his full blown personal music / art world performances. Destijl-060 LP $16.00 Rough Bunnies Weisse Westen, Dreck Am Stecken (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH) PS, US LIMITED TO 200. I once saw an interview with the members of Nirvana talking about when they toured with Shonen Knife and would cry every night while they watched their set out of sheer joy and unrivaled beauty. I didn't think much about it or even try to understand that feeling until my band played a festival in Sweden last year and the Rough Bunnies played right before us. Hailing from Malmo, this duo (with occasional guests) encapsulates a sense of innocence, joy, confusion and real youth style feelings and communicates them in a way so honestly it's hard to look away, whether or not you like the music. All the elements of ameturish-yet-immediate songwriting and musicianship that go into the songs of the Rough Bunnies could illicit comparisons to bands that came before with a similar vibe; the Velvet Underground, Beat Happening, the Vaselines, Moldy Peaches, Shonen Knife, et al.. but paying attention and really getting to know the group, you come to understand that they're not just another band that SOUNDS like those lifechanging, unsung, widely overlooked and underrated groups, nor are they trying to coyly mimic that feeling. The Rough Bunnies are the next band on that page of history, a beautiful and amazing, if dog-eared and tea stained page. This LP is their first, following three extremely limited CDRs available only in Sweden. Yipsilanti-032 LP $15.00 Satie, Erik Cubist Works 1913-1924 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 8TH) PS, UK A new CD in our series by visionary French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925), following the success of previous releases Vexations, Socrate, Musique de la Rose + Croix and Dada Works, on which we present selected Satie recordings with explicit links to the unconventional, the mystic and the avant-garde. Cubist Works offers four works composed by Satie between 1913 and 1924 for his collaborations with the artist Pablo Picasso. These include piano and orchestral versions of his scores for the celebrated 'Cubist' ballets Parade (1917) and Mercure (1924), as well as the seldom-heard organ 'diversion', The Statue Found (1923). The 60 minute CD also includes The Puppets Are Dancing, written for the French Futurist dancer and poet Valentine de Saint-Point in 1913, and the ludic Trois Valses distinguées du précieux dégouté ('Three Disgustingly Precious Waltzes'), a barbed swipe at rival composer Maurice Ravel and premiered at an exhibition of works by Picasso, Matisse and others in 1916. The solo piano works on this CD are performed by Bojan Gorisek. The booklet includes archive images and detailed liner notes by James Hayward. LTM-2406 CD $16.25 Serpent Power Ourobouros (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US "Ourobouros" is a deliciously hairy off the cuff live document of the band's second incarnation recorded at KPFA in 1969. BOB CUFF (of the great art rock band THE MYSTERY TREND), JIM MOSCOSO, JEAN-PAUL PICKENS, fellow poet / seer CLARK COOLIDGE & DAVID MELTZER were joined by DANIEL MOORE, leader of The Floating Lotus Opera Company and a mystery friend named Christian for a session of spontaneous, combustive agro hippie jams. LocustMusic-081 LP $16.25 Siberian Hey Celestial (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Seattle band's music "skates a delicate balance between gorgeous pop melodies & unique compositions which create a sound that is as interesting as it is beautiful. SonicBoom-023 CD5 $7.75 Silmaril Voyage of Icarus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Awash in fuzz boxes and acid trips, the dozens of other overlooked groups from the psychedelic era bear little resemblance to SILMARIL. While others buzzed within the hippie epicenters of Haight Street and the Lower East Side, Silmaril formed in haunted, industrial Milwaukee. Other bands might have met at a love-in; Silmaril were friends from a Catholic youth retreat bound together by a doomed figure in the eccentric madman tradition of SYD BARRETT, ROY HARPER and MEL LYMAN by the name of MATTHEW PEREGRINE. "The Voyage of Icarus" captures the dark, mysterious, and achingly beautiful acid folk & Christian themed psychedelic sounds that emanated from 1973's highly collectable privately pressed album, "Given Time... Or the Several Roads," and their dormant, unreleased follow up "No Mirrored Temple." LocustMusic-087 CD $11.50 Sincere Trade Between You And Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, CANADA Carl W. Heindl aka Sincere Trade has been creating a stir in the Toronto electronic music scene for the past couple of years and we are pleased to give you Sincere Trade's second album "Between You And Me" the follow up to his debut album "If You Cannot Beat Them" (Dross:tik Records). Sincere Trade shows his penchant for cerebral micro-dot dance music, texturing complex beats that twist and decay over lush gloomy pads, the chatter of static and broken vocal shards, A deeply emotional weave of melody and rhythm lending to a massive cinematic sound. Highly evocative. Sublight-3601 CD $12.25 Six By Seven 4 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Fourth LP from Limeys now incl. ex-SPIRITUALIZED & JULIAN COPE members creating beautifully elegant soundscapes, w/earnest, untouchable melodies & a touch of electronics. Space rock fans rejoice! "Their visceral art-rock retains the kind of sonic power most bands couldn't make with a vanload of plastic explosives."-NME TheFirstTime-016 CD $13.75 SJ Esau Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US This Bristol-based bedroom production virtuoso's debut is a masterful balance of songcraft & sonic manipulation. Spanning 12 alternately expansive & explosive tracks this treads the common ground between Slint, Arab Strap, Fog, Sonic Youth & Mogwai, which is to say, it's an album that successfully integrates genre-less exploration, detailed composition, inspired collaboration, & a sense of humor. Anticon-070 CD $15.00 SJ Esau Wrong Faced Cat Feed Feed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anticon-070 LP $14.25 Smack Dab S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, SPAIN Steve Wynn's (Dream Sydicate) new album! Do coincidences happen? If you think about the film "Los amantes del Círculo Polar", you will possibly say yes. And if somebody tells you the story of Smack Dab you will never stop thinking about "Los amantes del Círculo Polar". Perhaps Julio Medem should direct a video for this new band formed by Steve Wynn, Paco Loco and Linda Pitmon. The factual trio of 2006. 2004, a beach in Cadiz, a hot summer day. Out from the water comes Paco Loco, one of the icons of Spanish indie music in the nineties, musician and producer of Australian Blonde, Nacho Vegas, Cosmic Rough Riders and Josh Rouse, among many others. He sees a man sitting on the beach, all dressed in black, boots and coat included! A peculiar guy. Paco doesn't care. He dries himself, puts his glasses on, gets the magazine he brought to the beach to read and... he's amazed. On the cover of the magazine there is a photograph of the guy who sits next to him, the one who dresses in black and reads a novel by George Pelícanos. It's Steve Wynn, the leader of The Dream Syndicate and Gütterball, the star of classic underground rock of the last twenty years! That very moment, a woman emerges from the water and lays on the towel beside Steve. It's Linda Pitmon, his girlfriend, drummer of Golden Smog and of Wynn's backing band (The Miracle 3). It's a tiny world. Paco wants to say hello. But in 2004 he doesn't speak English yet. Luckily, or coincidentally, Steve speaks some broken Spanish. They meet for lunch. A friendship is born and from that friendship comes the idea of recording an album between the three of them. It was the kind of recording session made for pleasure and fun. With no business yearning. Two weeks of experimenting and jamming in a relaxed mood. A year and a half passed, and Steve and Linda threw a party. Coincidentally they played these songs. It was a riot. Everybody danced, everybody congratulated them, it was clear to everybody that they had to release the album. They kept an ace up their sleeve and it had been accumulating dust for a year! Straight away, they rang John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Kills) for him to do the mixing. And he's done an a-m-a-z-i-n-g job. Each song in the album works in an individual way. From one of them, California says hello with narcotic fuzz face, in another one it's New York's mirror ball and disco sound, before we get assaulted by an almost sweet soul music cover of Three Dog Nit's "Never Been To Spain". A song that climbed to number one in the US charts in the early seventies. Curiously enough (or should we say coincidentally?) the first record Steve Wynn bought in his life was "It Ain't Easy", by this Californian band. "Smack Dab" is a driving and emphatic album, one that connects with the spirit of comradeship that was unique of the Los Angeles scene in the early eighties. This comradeship allows the main characters to let themselves go, be it to twist their style guide or to do the same old thing. Whether they knock us out in a surprising way or with well-known weapons, you will always find them relaxed and daring. An example of the first would be "I'm Not Listening": even though Wynn has always placed himself on the crossroads run by the feedback guitar flow of the Velvet Underground, it's always regarding to see how he jumps into a new pool and puts Lou Reed on the dance floor. On the second, "My Cross To Bear": you feel you're back in 1993 again, in front of Gütterball, the super-group leaded by Steve that gave high-intensity garage rock a good name. In short: 1) Mr. Wynn shows, (again!) why The Strokes should hire him as their Classic Underground Rock instructor. He knows how to draw life from each record, there is life after that debut, boys! 2) Paco Loco has managed to rise to the occasion; 3) the sticks and percussion of Linda Pitmon make the guitars dance, shooting them with an intravenous rhythm in the hips. In short again: It wouldn't be fair to say that this is just an attractive quirk record. Because it's one of the best recordings in the careers of these three artists, and that is saying enough. Even though, like we said before, it all happened by coincidence, like so many of the great lovers' stories. HoustonParty-142 CD $13.50 Small Sails Similar Anniversaries (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Small Sails is a music and film making collective from Portland, Oregon. The music is a gorgeous post-electronic tribal thing and the films are performed live at their shows using original reel-to-reel footage and dual projectors. A field of dandelions plowed over, inner-city kids jumping double-dutch in gritty streets, birds and waterfalls, playground vocals, clicky electronics and warm, spacey melodies - that's what Small Sails looks and sounds like. Small Sails are a busy bunch - having toured extensively - performing almost 100 shows in North America in 2006. They're deeply loved in Portland, where they've shared the stage with kindred souls such as Deerhoof, Styrofoam, The Helio Sequence, Her Space Holiday and Mice Parade. Their new music is different, too: chanting, humming vocals hint at tangibility while remaining half-submerged; rhythms are a baby-bouncing jumble of eclectic percussion and twittering electronics; and achingly gorgeous melodies get stripped down to the still-gleaming bone. To experience Small Sails' live show is to become immersed in a seemingly unparalleled rhythm and energy. The visual and sonic interplay are hypnotic and their on-stage chemistry and fluidity are nothing short of warm and inviting. Through their unique, multi-faceted coaxing of the senses, they create an environment that commands undivided attention and adoration. Reviews for Small Sails: Fans of like-minded souls the Books and Prefuse 73 will find cuddly tunes here, as the pastel-hued instrumentals float by with breezy ease. - San Francisco Weekly Small Sails is a full-on pop machine with half-chanted vocals over tight percussion, bass-heavy beats, and micro-condensed indiepop riffs. - Portland Mercury. The words are sparse and nonsensical, but somehow such ambiguity is what helps make Small Sails so compelling, both on record and in person. - San Francisco Bay Guardian Small Sails sounds at once instantly familiar and strangely foreign. - Ithaca Times. OtherElectricites-005 CD $12.25 Sneaky Thieves Accident(s) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6th) PS, US Sneaky Thieves are a Seattle-based band that formed in 2003, comprised of two loving sets of brothers and a good friend; Robert Bale (bass/samples), Freddy Bale (vocals/acoustic guitar/keys), Darby McDevitt (electric guitar/keys), Brendan McDevitt (drums) and Bryant Moore (electric guitar/keys). Live, they juxtapose many sounds, flashing from abrasive and clashing, to mellow and heartfelt. Influenced by many of life's pretty things, they construct music incidentally and without undue stress. Their debut release, accident(s), was recorded after a car wreck settlement came many years too late to do any real good. So, a small, tidy amount of money was set aside and used to create an album with local producer Jeramy Koepping (founding member of Voyager One, producer for Asahi, Jen Wood, Kinski) in the lovely Park Place Studio. This record is the essence of those sad, peculiar moments of a life disjointed. The tracks on accident(s) are based on recurring themes that appear very often in dreams and nightmares. Many refer to struggles with substance abuse, addiction, and vague recollections of difficult histories. Ultimately, this album is a musical response to the constant loose ends of life - trying to sonically replicate the "bellyache" in the middle of the night. Praise for accident(s): "A thoughtful and minimalist epic indie charmer..." - Treblezine "Think of the feeling you get when alone and awake late at night you start to ponder the inevitability of your own death and your helplessness to stop it. The fear. The chill. Moments on this album capture that feeling perfectly, especially with headphones. In fact, the Sneaky Thieves are extremely gifted at capturing and even more so at creating moods and emotion." - Spacelab. RIYL: Nick Cave, Will Oldham, Bedhead, Talk Talk. "Thumbs up" - CMJ New Music Monthly. "Sneaky Thieves slide from a Jeremy Enigk melancholy to a Jeff Buckley grace, sometimes with a Sparklehorse inventiveness, and still manage to keep a grasp on a consistent theme through to the end." - The Big Takeover. OtherElecticites-003 CD $12.25 Sonic Youth Destroyed Room: B-Sides (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Goofin-012 DLP $16.00 Sparrow House Falls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US On this 6-song EP VOXTROT'S JARED VAN FLEET works to bring together lo-fi intimacy & bedroom songcraft with the lush orchestral pop arrangements hes explored in his other band. "Falls" pulls from material Van Fleet developed for his honors thesis at the University of Texas, before becoming an active participant and leader in Austins newly-thriving indie songwriter scene. "From the chopped-up electro-glitch micro-symphony opening the record through the way it exercises restraint in bringing in the horn section until the EP just cant cling to life for another second without it, [Falls] is a record that practically typifies what it means to sound painstaking." -Stylus Magazine PaperArmyMedia-001 CD5 $6.75 Striborg Nefaria (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US Cult Tasmanian Black Metal legend SIN (Sumerian cresent moon god)- NANNA (the god of winds in slavonic mythology). Bleak, misanthropic, depressive black metal with blurry guitars, clean ephemeral bass & plodding relentlessly pounding rhythms that create a very dark & ghostly atmosphere. SouthernLord-073 CD $14.00 Sunken Trawler (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Ambitious second album from Kiwis inhabiting opposite ends of New Zealand's North Island, the distance giving a physical sense of space to the duo's spatial, glacial formations. Not unlike a warm golden calm in the midst of winter's brutal tempest, Sunken's collection of haunting, highly textured, buzzing compositions offer security in their encompassing presence. With the aide of ridiculously amplified electric fan-powered organs, intercoms and voice (augmented with whatever instruments that happen to be within reach at the time), Sunken create swampy yet joyous sounds comparable to The Skaters, Grouper and the Double Leopards family of sound. Melodies appear and disappear into the mélange, while the duo channel the spirit of the sea shanty, seeking to lose themselves in the howling ecstasies of 'the drone.' SoftAbuse-020 CD $12.00 Taylor, Maria Lynn Teeter Flower (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, US This collection reveals a woman settling into her role as a solo artist, peeling back some of the layers of her last album ("11:11") to reveal a more organic sound. "Lynn Teeter Flower" mixes together soaring guitars, bubbly electronics, feathery farfisa organs, and sugary layers of vocals into the sweetest confection of an album you'll hear all year. Taylor's voice is as smooth and sweet as honey, spinning marvelous, insightful tales of the world around us with much aplomb. SaddleCreek CD $11.50 Unsane Visqueen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, US Near legendary East Village noise/scum rockers who, while less heralded, mopped the floor with their contemporaries in Helmet, Cop Shoot Cop & Pussy Galore. Now back with their trademark crunch displayed over a more diverse pallette. Produced by Adam Schneider (Cave In, Daughters). Woo! Ipecac-085 CD $15.25 Vanishing Voice Nordic Visions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Nordic Visions was originally released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies which sold out immediately. Here it is by demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release. While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven The Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse in an abandoned textile factory, boiling out these ballads of suspended disbelief and hope for the better world. Important-132 CD $12.00 Vanishing Voice Stone Tablet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US Total Can-style audacity from Brooklyn drone stew Edward Goreyian broken house wanderers the Vanishing Voice. The Vanishing Voice head down from the mountain for another dip in a lake of elephant seals. A misty warbling leads down a twisted path where molten earth and crust collide. This is the beginning of the end of the beginning. A lot has been said bout these Brooklyn teen idles: "They're chasing rainbows!" "They're graveyard sponge heads!" "A pregnant poo-bah frolicking in the forest!" No dice... Important-122 CD $12.00 Various Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH) PS, UK 19 tracks. LTM are proud the present the first audio book CD to explore the highly influential Bauhaus school of art and architecture, which operated in Germany between 1919 and 1933. The spoken word element centers on a revealing talk by Walter Gropius, the architect and theoretician who founded the Bauhaus in 1919. The CD also includes contributions from the school's third and final director, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and teacher Josef Albers. All interviews are in the English language. The music content of the CD features piano pieces written between 1919 and 1925 by six composers associated with the Bauhaus: Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil, Stefan Wolpe and H.H. Stuckenschmidt. Several of these pieces reflect surrealism and 12-tone technique; Steffen Schleiermacher performs most on piano. With a generous running time of 72 minutes, the CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring archive Bauhaus images and detailed historical notes by James Hayward. LTM-2472 CD $14.25 Various Diamond Joe A Treasure Chest Of Rarities & CD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK As the infamous Tea Chest tapes continue to remain an enigma, we open up our own box of masters to discover some hitherto un-issued Meek produced recordings, plus other recordings long since unavailable. With release timed to coincide with the general notice being given to the 40th Anniversary of Meeks death (February 1967), this collection will suit those looking for something new to extend their Meek collection. The collection brings with it great examples of the Meek production sound. From Glenda Collins, Meeks best known female artist, is an unreleased version of her apocalyptic single recorded in Stereo. Two of the Ray Dexter tracks are also in Stereo, a rare format in the early 60's when these were made. Ray Dexter, a singer songwriter who was busy right through the 60's with singles released on many labels, is included with four of his songs released for the first time. Backing is by the Tornados, and include his demo of You Took My Love For Granted, a song he wrote and Meek recorded with John Leyton as the b-side of the international hit 'Wild Wind'. We also have the four John Carter and Ken Lewis recordings Meek produced which have been unavailable for a long time, plus real rarities from Joy and Dave, the Moontrekkers and complete unknowns Johnny Garfield, The Ramblers and Dauphine Street Six. - As it says on the tin, extremely rare and collectable Joe Meek recordings. - Includes previously unreleased, such as Ray Dexter (& the Tornados). - Includes John Carter and Ray Dexter personal insights of working with Meek. TRACK LISTING: 1/ TWO TIMING BABY - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 2/ ATLANTIC TWIST - RAY DEXTER 3/ DIAMOND JOE - JOY AND DAVE 4/ CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND - RAY DEXTER* 5/ TELL ME - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 6/ DREAM LOVER - RAY DEXTER* 7/ TAKE IT AWAY - THE RAMBLERS 8/ PARADE OF TIN SOLDIERS - THE SAINTS 9/ FICKLE HEART - JOHNNY GARFIELD 10/ IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE IT (UNRELEASED STEREO VERSION) - GLENDA COLLINS* 11/ RESCUE ME - RICKY WAYNE 12/ YOU TOOK MY LOVE FOR GRANTED - RAY DEXTER* 13/ THEY TELLS US NOT TO LOVE - JOY AND DAVE 14/ WILL IT HAPPEN TO ME - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 15/ MY BROKEN HEART - CARTER LEWIS & THE SOUTHERNERS 16/ JUST LIKE YOU - RAY DEXTER 17/ I GOT - RAY DEXTER* 18/ HAPPY TALK - THE SAINTS 19/ JOHN BROWNS BODY - THE MOONTREKKERS 20/ GRANDFATHER CLOCK - THE MOONTREKKERS 21/ ON A HILLSIDE - THE DAUPHINE STREET SIX * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RPM-325 CD $14.00 Various The Camp Burlesque Original Soundtrack Album [CD+DVD] (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE EARLY 2007) PS, US Features songs and performances by Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, Dave Alvin, Big Sandy, Peter Case, John Doe, Rick Vito, Tito & Tarantula, the Cruzados (featuring Bob Dylan), the Martini Kings, and many more. Initial pressing will include the movie on DVD. BirdSong-102 CD $11.00 Various Laughin' At The Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, UK A hilarious and scurrilous collection of R&B and comedy like you've never heard! I guess most of these artists need no introduction; I'm sure you know all about Scatman Crothers (star of The Shining and er...Hong Kong Fuey), Redd Foxx, the outrageous Rudy Ray Moore, Slim Gaillard, Sammy Davis, Moms Mabley and Pearl Bailey. Dusty Fletcher was the originator of the enduring international success "Open The Door, Richard!" (and a #2 Billboard R&B hit in 1947 for him). The Spirits Of Rhythm included comedians George "Blues Man" Vann and the seminal Leo "Scat" Watson. Al Jackson had been half of the hilarious Patterson & Jackson comedy team. Little Arthur Matthews had been the "Dope" half of the popular West Coast comedians "Mope & Dope". He later joined Johnny Otis' R&B revue as a singer/comedian. Otis and his band back Matthews on these two sides. Her signature piece, comedienne Effie Smith had a national R&B hit in 1965 with a recut of the two-part "Dial That Telephone", recorded originally for Aladdin in 1953: this two-parter is the 1956 first expanded re-recording for her own Spot Records. She discovered rock 'n' roll act Don & Dewey and her son was Los Angeles producer/song-writer Fred Sledge Smith of Bob & Earl, and The Olympics fame. Both of them worked at Stax until the label closed down. All round entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr had by 1949 made a big name for himself as part of the Will Mastin Trio with his uncle and father and was signed to Capitol Records, there he recorded fine straight ballads.... in addition to producing parodies of the R&B sounds of the day under the pseudonyms Charlie Green and Shorty Muggins.- A must for serious R&B fans....and anyone with a sense of humor! TRACK LISTING: 1/ REDD FOXX - SHAME ON YOU (SAVOY 645) 2/ DUSTY FLETCHER - OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARD! (PARTS 1 & 2) (NATIONAL 4012) 3/ HARRY "THE HIPSTER" GIBSON - WHO PUT THE BENZEDRINE IN MRS MURPHY'S OVALTINE? (MUSICRAFT 346) 4/ SLIM GAILLARD - EATIN' WITH THE BOOGIE (CLEF 8970) 5/ BABS GONZALES - HOUSE RENT PARTY (KING 4885) 6/ SCATMAN CROTHERS - PAPA (RECORDED IN HOLLYWOOD 142) 7/ THE SPIRITS OF RHYTHM - SHE AIN'T NO SAINT (BLACK & WHITE 23) 8/ HARRY "THE HIPSTER" GIBSON - TWO CATS (ALADDIN UNISSUED) 9/ AL JACKSON - IT AIN'T GONNA BE LIKE THAT (ROOST 608) 10/ SLIM GAILLARD - FEDERATION BLUES (CLEF UNISSUED) 11/ REDD FOXX - REDD FOXX BLUES (SAVOY 631) 12/ RUDY RAY MOORE - THE BUGGY RIDE (FEDERAL 12259) 13/ LITTLE ARTHUR MATTHEWS - SOMEDAY BABY (FEDERAL 12232) 14/ RUDY RAY MOORE - I'M MAD WITH YOU (FEDERAL 12253) 15/ LITTLE ARTHUR MATTHEWS - I'M GONNA WHALE ON YOU (FEDERAL 12232) 16/ BABS GONZALES - SHE'S JUST RIGHT FOR ME (KING 4885) 17/ DUSTY FLETCHER - PUT THE LAST CLEAN SHIRT ON BILL (NATIONAL 4018) 18/ REDD FOXX - FINE JELLY BLUES (SAVOY 631) 19/ AL JACKSON - LET'S DRINK SOME WHISKEY (ROOST 607) 20/ SHORTY MUGGINS (AKA SAMMY DAVIS JR) - WE'RE GONNA ROLL (CAPITOL 70052) 21/ EFFIE SMITH & THE SQUIRES - CHAMPAGNE MIND WITH A SODA WATER INCOME (VITA 124) 22/ JACKIE "MOMS" MABLEY & PEARL BAILEY - SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY (COLUMBIA 38660) 23/ PEARL BAILEY - I CAN'T ROCK AND ROLL TO SAVE MY SOUL (MERCURY 70926) 24/ SHORTY MUGGINS (AKA SAMMY DAVIS JR) - GOTTA GREAT BIG SHOVEL (CAPITOL 70052) 25/ EFFIE SMITH - DIAL THAT TELEPHONE, PART 1 (SPOT 103) 26/ EFFIE SMITH - DIAL THAT TELEPHONE, PART 2 (SPOT 103) 27/ THELMA BAXTER - HENRY (YES, MY LOVE) (COSMOPOLITAN 520). Rev-OlaBandstand-011 CD $12.00 Velcro Stars, The Hiroshima's Revenge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH) PS, US I can hardly wipe the smile off my face as I listen to The Velcro Stars. Their mid-90's Chapel Hill, NC-esque sound is enveloping my person as I type this. It's certainly one of the most exciting things going on in the revitalized (and...pssssssst.....quite "hip") Murfreesboro/Nashville, TN independent music scene along with How I Became The Bomb, Ghostfinger, and The Turncoats. Initially comprised of Shane Spresser (guitar/vocals) and Keith Pratt (guitar/vocals), they began writing songs together after high school. They were joined in 2001 by Rebekah Kidd (keyboards/vocals). Danial Norman was a high school acquaintance and joined them as their bassist in 2001. After going through several drummers, Andy Spore filled the position and began playing with them in 2005. "The Velcro Stars are one of the most interesting, original, and level-headed bands to come out of Murfreesboro in a long time. Their songs are simplistic and well arranged, and bring with them hints of Pavement, Blake Babies, and Superchunk." (nashvillezine.com) Enter Grand Palace Records. Grand Palace is an independent record store in Murfreesboro, TN. It's also a loft space that houses a recording studio and screen-printing shop. Owned and operated by Murfreesboro music scene luminaries, they decided to capitalize on the revitalized scene by recording some of their favorites (Velcros included). Thus, Grand Palace Records (the label) began. "Hiroshima's Revenge" is the first full-length to be released on Grand Palace Records (a joint co-release with much help and support from Athens, GA's Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, who became smitten with the band after their show-stopping performance at the 2006 Athens Popfest). With the recording of "Hiroshima's Revenge", the Velcros finally make good on the promise of the "Heart Disease / Shock and Awe" Demo as well as their self-titled 7-track EP from 2005. This album is a pleasant reminder of the pure joy, immediacy, and lack of pretension that's at the heart of all great three-chord rock and roll. Songs such as "Brand New" and "B-Side of Love" will make you scream with pure delight as you dance around your living room to the pop-tastic codas contained within. "Ninety-nine percent of pop I hate", says Shane Spresser, "but that one percent is my favorite music in the world". Welcome to that one percent... RIYL: Pavement, Superchunk, Bunnygrunt. HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-082 CD $10.25 Venetian Snares Pink+Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 3RD) PS, CANADA Venetian Snares, aka Gonk the 8-legged Viking, is back with yet another record that sounds nothing like Boards of Canada! From the catchy title track opener "Pink + Green" which blends demented punk vocals with hyper-complex grooves and gut gurgling bass blasts you can just tell this is something fresh and funky from producer Aaron "funk" Funk. Not to worry though the sub-rattling low-end blasts and jackhammering hardcore anthems are still here and in full effect on tracks like "Sporto Fucking Sellout Cocksuckerface" and "Husikam Rave Dojo" that revisit the days of pilled out candy raving. This is cyberpunk at it's finest! Welcome to the interzone! 15 year old K-heads will love this shit! If you hated albums like Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole and Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006, you will hate this even more! This is not some crybaby n00bcore bullshit, this is rave at it's roughest like only Mr. Snares can bring it. Sublight-204 CD $12.25 Villalobos, Gina Miles Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH, 2007) PS, US Gina's nothing if not dead serious. Her music is deeply rooted in time, place, and history. She's the real thing: an artist, someone who can show you where you are. Hailed as the new "Queen of Country Rock" and seemingly out of nowhere. Gina has rapidly established a growing cult following in the UK and the US for her infectious, raw, simply irresistible, roots rock influenced songs. Knowing when to whisper and when to unleash, she finesses words into new meaning with the slightest inflection. And for her live performances, where her willingness to expose herself completely takes her audience's out of the moment, to a place up above the chaos, alone with their thoughts. Eventually nothing else exists...it is a truly transcendent experience. Though she's been knocking around the music business since the mid 90's, it wasn't until she released her critically acclaimed 'Rock N Roll Pony' in 2005 that Gina made that all important international breakthrough, with an endorsement from BBC radio 2 DJ Bob Harris - making the record a must have commodity. Avoiding the sophomore jinx, Gina's second offering succeeds. She unveiled her new album 'Miles Away' in the UK on May 8th 2006 to the same, if not more enthusiastic, critical plaudits, and support from BBC radio 2 her acclaimed predecessor, Rock N Roll Pony received. This along with a 6 week US national tour supporting World Party sets the stage for her upcoming US release of 'Miles Away', which is widely anticipated in the Americana/Alt Country circles in which she first gained attention. FaceWest-KM-003 CD $10.50 Volt Rorhat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH) PS, US Brilliant 3 piece out of Chemnitz, Germany. This is hard rock. Boris the drummer hits so hard, you won't believe that the shells & skins can stand it! Nico the bass player creates some utterly inhuman rumble, and then there's Andre. HIs growl is so unworldly that to describe it as vocals would lead you astray. His voice is an instrument of terror that makes the body tremble. For fans of all honest music ExileOnMainstream-023 CD $14.00 Voyces, The Kissing Like It's Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 24TH) PS, US After one listen to The Voyces Planting Seeds Records' debut -"Kissing Like It's Love" - and you'll be hooked to their glowing tuneful style. The band echoes the sounds of pop music's past as well as its ever so fervent future. Principal songwriter Brian Wurschum creates the well crafted pop song, recalling the mid 60's era of The Beatles, the folk rock of Simon & Garfunkel, and the 70's mini rock epics ala Pink Floyd. Their style maybe placed in a box and labeled anywhere from: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic Folk Rock, New York Folk, and everywhere in between. The sunny California shine of the title track "Kissing Like It's Love" launches the groups long awaited LP with it's sugary sweet chorus. The soft ballad "Hair Up High" follows with its elegant smooth guitar strums and the band's signature harmonies. The majestic beauty of "Call It Home" continues the album's melodic element, while the introspective acoustic interlude "Please Wash Away" appears with its stripped down heartfelt vocals, acoustic guitar and light piano taps. "Humming" chimes in with one of the catchiest refrains you'll hear this decade - instantly memorable. "Top Of My Lungs," showcases even more of the Wurschum magic: Jangly guitars, soaring harmonies, and a song destined to be a classic. The album's closing number - the delicate "Where The Little Girls Still Throw Roses," features Brian's warm vocal, light guitar picking and makes for the perfect ending. Whether blending funky pop, epic rockers or near psychedelia, "Kissing Like It's Love" collects ten tracks of pure pop heaven you're sure to fall for. The Voyces are led by singer/songwriter Brian Wurschum (Guitar, Vocals) and also features Jude Kastle (Vocals), Frank Careno (Bass), Steve Dawson (Lead Guitar) and Eric Puente (Drums). The band was formed in 1999, with its origins in Southern California. Brian and company later moved east to New York City and was quickly embraced by the east villages' anti-folk scene. The Voyces have shared stages with acts as diverse as America, Cracker, and Regina Spektor among countless others - while frequenting venues (both in California and New York) such as the famed Whiskey A-Go-Go, The Troubadour, The Bowery Ballroom, The Mercury Lounge, The Knitting Factory and The Roxy. Live dates are sure to follow in support of "Kissing Like It's Love." The Voyces have created an impressive catalog of music. Their first self released LP, 2003's "The Angels Of Fun" showcased their fine blend of folk rock and celestial harmonies. The acoustic gem "Relate To Me" was featured on Jack Johnson's Motion Picture Soundtrack, "Thicker Than Water" (2003) furthering the groups worldwide fan base. They followed in 2004 with an appearance on Planting Seeds Records critically acclaimed collection "Sunsets And Silhouettes," which also features amazing performances from Linda Draper, Camera Obscura, Mark Gardener (Ride) and Freeheat (Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of The Jesus & Mary Chain) among the 18 tracks. In 2006 the band contributed the song "Poor Little Fool" to a loving tribute to rock legend and country rock pioneer Rick Nelson, titled "Easy To Be Free: The Songs of Rick Nelson" - with performances from pop Icons Marshall Crenshaw, Jeffrey Foskett (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson), John Beland (Flying Burrito Brothers), Nic Dalton (The Lemonheads), John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Primary 5 (ex Teenage Fanclub) and many more. The band also released "Love Arcade" in 2006 - a collection of the bands hits, demos, and fan favorites. PlantingSeeds-049 CD $12.25 Yellow6 Painted Sky (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH) PS, UK A debut on Resonant from a man with a wealth of back catalogue on labels such as Enraptured, Darla, Bearos, Ochre, Awkward Silence and many, many more, spanning almost a decade. Yellow 6 is the solo project of Jon Attwood, a guitarist based in Leicestershire (the first UK-based artist to release an album on Resonant!) who has released six full length albums, five live albums and one remix album, on top of several mini-albums and EPs, singles and contributions to numerous compilations. Painted Sky was recorded between 2004 and 2006, and strips away many of the layers of previous outings, resulting in a collection of melodic, organic guitar and piano soundscapes backed with subtle percussion. More ambient than post rock, Painted Sky draws comparisons to Labradford, Cocteau Twins, Durutti Column, Slowdive, Windy & Carl and Erik Satie, as opposed to the quiet/loud exponents; this is quiet/quiet, with an overall air of wistful melancholy. The previous releases of Yellow 6 have established a solid following, both in terms of fanbase and press. Resonant-022 CD $13.00 Zincs Black Pompadour (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 20TH) PS, US They have succeeded in marrying their classic song-forms w/ a brighter electric sound to make a vital album for the times. What makes them such a singular band is how they weave such dark prose into their beautiful melodies, a reward that the casual listener could miss on first hearing. From the electric chimes to the pulsing synthesizers, this dashes expectations like a bullet through a fish-bowl & represents that rare thing amongst groups, a genuine progression. Feat. 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