Hi everybody,

We’ve got great new releases from Kid 606, Doves, Blonde Redhead, Russian Spy Camera, Goldstoned, and many more. Be sure to check out the Pre-Order section, because many amazing albums will be landing next month.

Be well,

Roy

Acid Mothers Temple
Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky?
PS, US More improvisational freakouts entertwining psych w/prog, hard rock, krautrock & avant.
AceFu-041
CD
$17.00

Adamson, Barry
Stranger on the Sofa
PS, US New album of noir-ish film jazz from legendary composer & bassist for MAGAZINE and NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS on his own label. A DIY masterpiece picking up where "King of Nothing Hill" left off. Darkly cinematic, with its tale of future past, memories lost & dying love. Doesn't shy away from sentimentality but leaves enough slack for blistering prog work outs.
CentralControlInt'l-001
CD
$16.25

Alien Heat
Awake In A Dream
PS, FINLAND The debut album by Teemu Elo (Circle, Office Building). Beautiful songs with Syd Barret and J.J. Cale moods with very crafty playing and beautiful arrangements.
Fonal-027
CD
$15.00

Amplifier
Issue #54
PS, US TWILIGHT SINGERS cover plus Sparks, Field Music, Human Television, Tommy Keene, Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Stereolab, Jon Auer, Maritime, Black Tie Dynasty.
Amplifier-054
ZINE
$4.00

Andrews, Kyle
Amos In Ohio
PS, US Nashville indie rock artist writes catchy, bedroom rock that might be compared to Eels or Bright Eyes . Electronic tinged acoustic rock.
Badman-943
CD
$14.50

Angell, Theo
Dearly Beloved
PS, US Member of HALL OF FAME & JACKIE O'MOTHERFUCKER contributor. Well-structured songs with inventive orchestration & accomplished playing. References a diverse array of sounds: the dark folk of Michael Gira's Angels of Light; the surreal & gothic lyrical inventions of Nick Cave;& Syd Barrett's more ambling work, where lyrical & musical lines veer & coast along without a clear destination.
Amish-025
CD
$14.50

Angell, Theo
Dearly Beloved
PS, US Member of HALL OF FAME & JACKIE O'MOTHERFUCKER contributor. Well-structured songs with inventive orchestration & accomplished playing. References a diverse array of sounds: the dark folk of Michael Gira's Angels of Light; the surreal & gothic lyrical inventions of Nick Cave; & Syd Barrett's more ambling work, where lyrical & musical lines veer & coast along without a clear destination.
Amish-025
CD
$14.50

Arden
Conceal
PS, BELGIUM Arden, the band, unites forward-thinking micro-forces: Mitchell Akiyama, aMute, sogar, Jeuc Dietrich, Christophe Bailleau, and Sébastien Roux. Their debut, Conceal, was conceived across a three day production bender at an old house nestled in beautiful Belgian country. The album's style marries a minimal-electronic approach with post-rock sensibilities from each artist's sonic palette to birth an entirely unique improvisational sound. Conceal is a delightful production piece with unlimited moments of candid melodic beauty that spring into dynamically intense yet masterfully contained emotive exaltations. ARDEN BAND MEMBERS: Mitchell Akiyama (Canada) Do we wave to present him again ? 2 critically acclaimed album with his band Désormais, one album on the highly regarded German Raster Noton and Canadian Alien8recordings and 2 albums on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. He's also the boss of Intr-Version but above all an over talented musician. Jérôme Deuson (Belgium) Also known as aMute, Jérôme released his first album on the Intr-Version label in 2004 and immediately found success among press and audience. Since then he performed in Europe and Canada and runs Stilll with his friend Alain Lefebvre. He's currently working on an ep and an album for Intr-Version. Jürgen Heckel (Germany) Under the Sogar moniker lies Jurgen Heckel who released 2 albums on the New-York based label 12K, one album on the French label List and one "Live in Japan". Extremely gifted guitarist and sound process man, Heckel's work in full of innovation and beauty. Sébastien Roux (France) Sebastien is a busy fellow : After releasing several tracks on the 12K imprint, Sebastien finally released is first solo album on Apestaartje last year. He is also working for the highly regarded IRCAM in France where he is a production assistant of some of the biggest names in nowadays contemporary music. Christophe Bailleau (Belgium) Bailleau's music is clever, dense and worried. After evolving in several famous Belgian bands, he decided to focus and his
solo career and released "Madame Colère" on the French label "Le Cri de la Harpe". Guitar process is one his endless skills. Jeuc Dietrich (Belgium) Probably one of the most skilful cellist in Belgium, Dietrich is also a renowned film director and music composer. He's actually involved in several new cinematographic projects. He worked with people like Supertramp in his past but his head is definitely turned toward future.
Stilll-001
CD
$16.00

Atone
Un An
PS, FRANCE This utterly mastered first album is built around a unique frame, where the acoustics of an accordion, of a voice, of a piano or of drums, are combined with pulses & textures of chiseled sounds. Discover a text & frame which are unique - and embark on a marvelous introspective journey recommended for fans of Cliff Martinez, Colleen, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Jules Verne.
AutresDirectionsInMusic-015
CD
$17.75

Audionom
Retrospective
PS, SWEDEN Possibly one of the most interesting post-rock bands coming out of Scandinavia since Silverbullit was conceived. "Sweden's best band" (Goteborgs-Posten).
Welcome to AUDIONOM - legends and icons of the Swedish alternative rock scene, possibly one of the most interesting bands coming out of Scandinavia since Silverbullit was conceived. "Retrospektiv" is their full length debut proper enabling us all to behold their genius allover the world. AUDIONOM was formed in Stockholm in the end of the 90's when two bands collided; Johan Hinders and Henrik Hannebo's experimental outfit APPARAT and Koffe Berger's punk band PVC. The crash merged into AUDIONOM - a project turning their radical political ideas into the sound of an anarchistic bulldozer of hypnotic avant punk rock. Repetition - meditation by a wall of noise - repetition. A Einstürzende Neubauten vs Hawkwind was born. Industrial music vs kraut-rock rising from the ashes. Anarchism becoming sound - dark, with guitars and synthesizers in huge intense chunks thrown your face. Accompanied with few repeated words/lyrics. Used as integrated musical elements of the music. Equal to the other instruments and to the films of member Martin Malm (of which some is included on this enhanced CD+ format).

AUDIONOM is not a fixed band, but rather a loose circa nine-headed beast of a collective. The number nine is significant but they have'nt revealed why. Anarchospiritualistic reasons remain a mystery under the powerful Audionom-banner.
Ideal
CD
$15.00

Aunt Mary
Janus
PS, US The third (and best) album by this great Norwegian band is a rarity and much sought-after among collectors of '70s progressive rock, both for its excellent musical content as well as its cover art. The first three tracks on side A flow together as a kind of musical suite that is over 12 minutes long, and in which the musicians mix hard-rock with inspired progressive inflections. The captivating, guitar-heavy and bluesy style of Bjørn Christiansen plays a leading role, weaving aural tapestries with the moog and organ playing. 180gm
Akarma-354
LP
$22.50

Aus
Sonorapid
PS, US You've been up all night. your ready to crash. but it's not time yet. the best part of the day is coming up. time to sit by the window, or outside on the closest hillside. the sun
breaks over the horizon, and your ready for another day. "sonorapid" by tokyo's "aus" is the soundtrack to this moment. shimmering electronics, soft vocals, and the sunrise.
intricate drum programming, subsonic frequencies, and female vocals are the plan. the sound of urban bedroom pop."
MusicRelated-014
CD
$12.50

Avotor
Nothing But Surrender
PS, US LIMITED EXCLUSIVE TRACK!!! Recorded in the middle of Aotearoa's winter in 2005. The result of a new line-up in the band & a further evolution in the sonic experiment of Avotor. More raw & organic than tracks previously released, this 7" is a great change to the brooding listener-intense tracks of the past & is more direct in its approach.
Midium-011
45
$7.50

Awesome Color
S/T
PS, US Arbor trio via Brooklyn (of course!). "Some of the group's songs evoke Sabbath as played by Germans in the '70s, with Stanton's terse riffs cruising atop crisp, loping grooves provided by bassist Michael Troutman and drummer Allison Busch. Other tunes come across like lean, airy impressions of classic Southern rock (the three met in Ann Arbor, Michigan-the northernmost Southern state-before setting up together in Bushwick). But the most indelible image from an Awesome Color show is the rapt joy in Stanton's face when he backs away from the microphone for a solo."-Time Out NY.
EcstaticPeace-6867-02
CD
$10.00

Baby Calendar
Gingerbread Dog
PS, US Baby Calendar is Tom Gorrio, Jackie Biver, and Arik Dayan. Somewhere between music nerds and punk rockers, these three crazy kids spent the better part of 2005 on the road touring the U.S., playing shows in basements, living rooms, venues, record shops and DIY spaces, and selling through hundreds of copies of their first two self-released albums. The trio's hometown of Miami, FL is a subtropical city full of diversity, sunshine, and heavy traffic that has heavily influenced their own bouncy take on indie-pop. Plans for 2006 and beyond include releases on Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, a move to Athens, GA, and lots more touring.
HHBTM-074
CD
$10.75

Badgerlore
Stories For Owls
PS, US 2nd LP from bona fide beard-core summit featuring Ben Chasny (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON FIRE), Tom Carter (CHARALAMBIDES), Pete Swanson (YELLOW SWANS) & Rob Fisk (ex-DEERHOOF, 7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE). Beautifully lush, organic pieces. CD out on Free Porcupine. VERY LIMITED LP
YikYak-008
LP
$13.75

Black Dice/Rothenberg
Gore
PS, US Full color 128pp flexibound book feat. photos & artwork documenting the band's everyday tastes & creative sensibilities & serves as their 5th album. Help from longtime friend & photographer Jason Frank Rothenberg. Found images, collage, photos & altered documentation abound.
PictureBox-0971367086
BOOK
$28.00

Black Flag
Damaged
PS, US
SST-007
LP
$9.25

Black Flag
Six Pack
PS, US
SST-005
45
$4.25

Black Flag
Nervous Breakdown
PS, US
SST-001
45
$4.25

Black Helicopter
Invisible Jet
PS, US Birthed from the smoking embers of GREEN MAGNET SCHOOL & KUDGEL & "are the real deal - a classic sense of rock heaviness & infectious melody in league with Satan. But they are their own thing, deep & distinctive."-Thurston Moore (SONIC YOUTH). "Banging away like a redneck Big Black, or like Cop Shoot Cop without all that NYC junkie terrorist jive."-Noise Magazine.
EcstaticPeace-6869-02
CD
$10.25

Bloc Party
God Bless Bloc Party
PS, US A 1 hour DVD documentary filmed around Bloc Party's June '05 shows at the El Ray Theater in LA, & a half hour live performance filmed in July '05 at a festival in France. Featuring 13 blistering live performances, backstage footage, interviews w/fans & interviews w/the band discussing their music & how they are navigating their newfound notoriety.
Junketboy-08536-53163-2
DVD
$17.50

Blonde Redhead
Secret Society of Butterflies
PS, US Fans of Blonde Redhead's latest masterpiece, "Misery Is a Butterfly", will definitely want to own this UK import. Not only does it include "Messenger" featuring David Sylvian (Japan), but includes a non-album tracks ("Tons Confession") & two alternate versions of "Melody" & "Misery", & is enhanced w/videos for "Equus" & "Melody".
JunketBoy-65263-72503-2
CD5
$7.50

Boy Least Likely To
Best Party Ever
PS, US "Best Party Ever", which compiles the 1st 3 singles plus 5 new tracks from UK based Boy Least Likely To, shares that youthful, existential whimsy found in classics like Calvin & Hobbes. This isn't children's music, but it takes a child like eye to Postcard bedsit pop awash in '60s California sunshine w/hints of country & soul. Recorders, twinkling synths, handclaps, banjos, & glockenspiel accompany the requisitely shambling
acoustic guitar on songs about tigers, monsters, growing up, & "Warm Panda Cola." A thing of wonder, made out of rubber & springs, heartache w/a sense of humor. 8.5" Pitchfork
Junketboy-03730-02036-2
CD
$14.25

Bozulich, Carla
Evangalista
PS, US A devastating, elegiac, brutally honest cd that is heartrending and gut -wrenching. Carla's work with ETHLY MEATPLOW, GERALDINE FIBBERS, SCARNELLA & RED-HEADED STRANGER(with Willie Nelson) has spanned over 20 years. She consistently delivers spine-tinglingly beautiful music. This is her first cd for Montreal's Constellation label, and the label's first by a non-regional artist. Recorded with multi-instrumentalist SHAHZAD and various other Montrealers from the Constellation orbit.
Constellation-041
CD
$15.50

Breut, Francoiz
Une Saison Volée
PS, SPAIN MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Repress! FRANÇOIZ is not a composer, she's a performer, so she sings the songs that others make for her. This record includes among others the collaborations of Joey Burns (Calexico), Herman Düne, Dominique A, The Little Rabbits, Souvenir, Jerôme Minière,... In the same way that people order custom-made suits, FRANÇOIZ BREUT farms out songs which suit her perfectly. Once
she has appropriated those songs, they belong to her and are hers forever. She is a performer full of passion and sensibility, taking others' words and singing them in her own way.
GreenUFOs-017
CD
$19.25

Brightblack Morning Light
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
DLP
$16.75

Brightblack Morning Light
S/T
PS, US
Matador
CD
$13.50

Bronx
S/T
PS, US LP out 1 month before their Island CD. 2 VINYL ONLY bonus tracks in embossed gatefold w/ lyrics not in CD package.
Swami-1341
LP
$10.50

Budos Band
S/T
PS, US Their exciting new afro-influenced take on instrumetal music has been captivating listeners at gigs across the NY area. 11 members in all, their debut is hard evidence of their dramatic eruption onto the funk & soul scene.
Daptone-005
LP
$14.50

Burnt Hills
To Your Head
PS, US A free jamming project where five guitarists, three drummers and a bass player were locked inside a low budget recording studio and let loose. the result is s serives of cacaphonous improvised workouts that attempt a more psychedelic version of what was going down with various European jazz/improve ensembles during the late 70's and early 80's.
FlippedOut-015
CD
$9.50

Calloway, Cab
The Hi-De-Ho Man
PS, UK Cab Calloway. International Jazz Hall Of Famer. Broadway actor. Professor of Jive, whose dictionaries of African-American slang were the official reference works in the New York Library for decades. Bandleader and King Of Hi-De-Ho - indeed His Hi-De-Highness of Ho-De-Ho - whose immense popularity allowed him to enjoy a six decade recording career, despite the fact that his biggest hits from the 1930s referenced the Harlem drug culture. His signature song "Minnie The Moocher", which first topped the Pop best-seller chart at the height of the jazz age in 1931 and last climbed the R&B chart 47 years later at the height of the disco era, two years before Cab donned his tails to perform the song memorably on screen in "The Blues Brothers". Revived countless times afterwards in films on both the big screen ("The Mask") and small ("Jeeves & Wooster") and ads galore, inspiring Joe Jackson to release a whole LP as a tribute, titled "Jumpin' Jive" after Cab's massive 1939 hit song of the same name. Cab Calloway
who became a hero to millions of British kids in the mid 1980s with his Hula Hoop adverts and is introduced to a new generation of American kids with his appearance in Janet Jackson's "Alright" video in 1989. This compilation, chosen from the best of Cab's 1940s swing era output, includes the powerful 1942 recut of "Minnie" along with his R&B chart hits "The Honeydripper" and "The Calloway Boogie" and covers of big hits like "Shot Gun Boogie", "The Jungle King" and "One For My Baby". Also included is an uberrare soundtrack recording of "Geechee Joe" from the 1943 blockbuster movie "Stormy Weather". Minnie The Moocher / Your Voice / The Hi-De-Ho Man / Everybody Eats When They Come To My House / Foo A Little Bally-Hoo / Two Blocks Down, Turn To The Left / Boo Wah! Boo Wah! / One For My Baby / Are You All Reet? / Que Pasa Chica? / The Calloway Boogie / Ol' Joe Louis / Frosty Morning / Come On With The "Come On" / The Jungle King / The Honeydripper / Roomin' House Boogie / Hey Now!
Hey Now! / I Beeped When I Shoulda Bopped / I Want To Rock / Are You Hep To The Jive? / Shot Gun Boogie / A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird / Oh! Gram'pa / San Francisco Fan / Geechie Joe (from the film Stormy Weather).
Rev-Ola-164
CD
$14.75

Camper Van Beethoven
Discotheque: Live in Chicago
PS, US On October 29, 2004, the band recorded live at the Metro in Chicago. 7 songs.
Junketboy-01570-70902-2
CD5
$7.75

Captain Beefheart
Prime Quality Meat
PS, US For years only available as a "bootleg", this disc includes studio tracks as well as live tracks from three live performances in 1974.
Ozit-7003
CD
$18.00

Cepia
Atlantic Blood
PS, CANADA Featuring tracks by Mr.. Projectile, Tiki Obmar, Miles Tilmann, Tim Koch and the man behind the curtain Huntely Miller aka Cepia. Having met wide acclaim for the majestic machine clatters and subterraneous melodies of the Dowry EP (Ghostly International), Minneapolis's Cepia now graces Sublight with "ATLANTIC BLOOD", a CD collection of remixes and new material that runs a remarkable stylistic gamut. Cepia brings a one-two punch with a propulsive mix of Mr. Projectile's "You Need" and an icy reworking of Tiki Obmar. Elsewhere, the ocean beats of "X to M" by Tim Koch are complemented beautifully by the skeleton-hop of "Naoise" by Dosh, while the lush digital grain of original pieces "574" and "Arount" exhibit the versatility of Cepia's Midas touch. Also including reinterpretations of Fog and Miles Tilmann, Atlantic Blood is a compelling addition to the oeuvre of one of the most original voices in modern electronic composition, and a tantalizing precursor to his debut.
Sublight-1801
CD
$13.50

Charade, The
A Real Life Drama
PS, US CD digipak. The Charade follow on the heels of their critically acclaimed debut with their second release of sunny Swedish pop, "A Real Life Drama," just in time for summer. Magnus Karlsson contributes the jangly guitar that he perfected in the groundbreaking indie pop group Happydeadmen. Mikael Matsson, from Red Sleeping Beauty and The Shermans, adds more complexity to this album, from layers of keyboards and organs to background
" strings." The "gorgeous and airy" vocals of singer and spouse Ingela Matsson defines a beauty and space in each song. The Charade easily blend their influences from one song to the other, paying homage to 60s girl groups, Motown and the warm feelings of early 70s hits from The Carpenters to Burt Bacharach without missing a beat. The colors of the Swedish flag will be emblazoned on the digipak CD. In honor of the Swedish National Soccer team's entry into the World Cup this summer in Germany, The Charade has written, "Dressed in Yellow and Blue" for the team. "A Real Life Drama" continues with the sweet, sunny popmusic that we know and love from their debut. I especially like the jangly guitars and the male/female vocal harmonies from singers Magnus Karlsson and Ingela Matsson - beautiful! Eardrums
SkippingStones-006
CD
$10.50

Chevreull
Capoeira
PS, US The dynamic duo of Tony C. and Julien F. Four amplifiers, one keyboard, one guitar, one drum kit and NO overdubs. Recorded by Steve Albini. For fans of Battles, Don Caballero & Cheval De Frise. Special guest vocals on track 10 by Jamie Stewart (XIU XIU).
Sickroom -35
CD
$13.50

Chordettes, The
Close Harmony
PS, UK The best known of all girl acappella barbershop groups, The Chordettes epitomise the romance of idealised pre-rock & roll America. They combine technical precision with charm exemplified by their unforgettable American number One hit 'Mr Sandman'.
EL-080
CD
$14.75

Christmas
Heritage
PS, US The second album by these Canadians, is a savage combination of heavy '70s prog, with influences of psychedelic rock and folk rock. Led by the young and talented guitarist / multi-instrumentalist Bob Bryden, of Reign Ghost, Christmas debuted in 1970 with a self-titled album that was met with moderate public and critical acclaim. Just six months later they released this more substantial second album, which immediately became an underground favorite, particularly in Europe. Unfortunately the album was not promoted very well, and the band decided to part ways (only to reform in '71 as Spirit Of Christmas). 180gm
Akarma-355
LP
$20.00

Chromatics
Nite
PS, US
Troubleman-174
12
$11.00

Chromatics
Nite
PS, US The songs are AWESOME. Johnny from GLASS CANDY produced them, & if you know the direction this guy is going in, you know it's genius. He never disappoints. And the partnership/chemistry between Adam of the CHROMATICS & Johnny is perfect. This record is AMAZING.
Troubleman-174
CD
$9.25

Clique, The
Varesse Paid
PS, UK From Texas we have the extraordinary Clique. Produced by Los Angeles-based SoftPop legend Gary Zekley (of Yellow Balloon and Jan & Dean fame!) fresh from his work with those other brilliant Texans, The Fun And Games! Containing strains of bubblegum, psych, pop rock and soft pop, this fantastic album also features the original version of "Superman", the fab Zekley-penned tune later turned into a mega-hit for REM. Also features songs written by Smokey Roberds of The Parade (who had a hit with 1967's "Sunshine Girl"), Tommy James (who also produces some of the bonus tracks), and Mr Zekley himself. If this isn't enough, the album - originally released during the final hours of the White Whale label in 1970 - also features the Top 20 smash, the Tommy James-penned "Sugar On Sunday."
Rev-Ola-162
CD
$14.75

Cloudland Canyon
Requiems Der Nature 2002-2004
PS, US
TeePee-069
LP
$19.00

Cloudland Canyon
Requiems Der Nature 2002-2004
PS, US Kip Ulhorn (PANTHERS) & Simon Wojan, German multi-instumentalist combine to create rattlling, sprawling experiments that fuse their musical discoveries. Within, strictures of German new age & electronic music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with analog burble & echoes of woodwinds. Contributions by Jacob Morris (DOUBLE), Jerry Fuchs (TURNING MACHINE/JUAN MACLEAN), & Ulhorn's wife, Kelly Winkler, fortified the sessions with further points of view. Then the tapes were traded & processed even further by the musicians, until the resulting product became complete. For fans of Animal Collective, Boards of Canada, This Heat, Gong, etc.
TeePee-069
CD
$17.25

Collett, Jason
Idols of Exilie
PS, US BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE guitarist joined by BSS cohorts creates "a gorgeous collection of Dylanesque folk, soulful alt-country, sunny indiepop & various combinations thereof."-National Post. Incl guests from STARS, METRIC, APOSTLE OF HUSTLE, DO MAKE SAY THINK & FEIST.
Arts&Crafts-010
LP
$10.75

Comsat Angels
Waiting for a Miracle [Renascent Expanded]
PS, UK
Renascent
CD
$22.00

Comsat Angels
Fiction [Renascent Expanded]
PS, UK
Renascent
CD
$22.00

Couch
Figur 5
PS, US
MorrMusic-067
LP
$18.25

Couch
Figur 5
PS, US First post-MATADOR album continues their instrumental pop songs for a ready to break up mood. Euphoric hymns of minimal scope but great depth.
MorrMusic-067
CD
$18.25

Creatures
Bestiary Of...
PS, US Compiles 18 tracks of sought after material recorded by Siouxsie & Budgie of SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES incl. 5 cuts from the "Wild Things" EP, 10 tracks from "Feast" & 3 non-LP singles from 1983. 4 1/2 Stars-AMG. RECOMMENDED.
Polydor
CD
$13.50

Curtains
Alphabet Series N
PS, US The Curtains started in 2000 w/the current lineup on this release is just Chris Cohen (recently from DEERHOOF) singing & overdubbing piano, bass, guitar, & drums. A sweet & bitter atmosphere is spread all over the place. Jan from Tomlab wondered if rough pop gem "Go Lucky" was about lazy German design students failing their tests - but Cohen wouldn't say. The "World's Most Dangerous Woman" is a little more complex. Chris saw a missing person flyer - a man was searching for his lost love. Convinced that she had become a spy for the KGB, or was possibly involved with the Ukranian mafia, this flyer warned people to be careful - that she was "the world's most dangerous woman!' The colorful but ambiguous mood of the song portrays the woman's exotic adventures across the world. "Spazz-pop" with dabs of early hip-hop and the only thing you can kinda compare it directly to is the Go! Team.
Tomlab-067
45
$6.50

David J
V For Vendetta
PS, US Bauhaus' David J teamed V For Vendetta creator and fellow Northampton, UK hipster Alan Moore in 1983 to write a "soundtrack" to Moore's graphic novel. At turns dark and atmospheric, edgy and thrilling, twisted and sardonic, this 27 minute EP is the perfect sonic partner to Moore's futuristic tale.
Plain-123
CD
$10.25

Deep Blue Organ Trio
Going To Town
PS, US "Live @ The Green Mill". DVD version. Incl. interview special feature. High resolution stereo, DTS and Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.
Delmark-1569
DVD
$22.50

Deep Blue Organ Trio
Going To Town
PS, US "Live @ The Green Mill". The album takes us direct to the legendary Green Mill where DPOT created their sound & have been exciting crowds Tuesday nights for the last 3 years.
Delmark-569
CD
$14.50

Distance
Traffic
PS, US Big on the dub scene for the last 6 months. Based around a heavy metal guitar riff and grungy bass sounds.
PlanetMu-148
12
$12.00

Doves
Live From Eden (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US The ultimate gemstone for all DOVES completists. This EP is only available at select indie stores across America, & features live versions of favorites from all 3 releases (Some Cities, Last Broadcast, Some Souls). Recorded live in concert at the Eden Sessions, Cornwall.
Junketboy-72434-74601-2
CD5
$8.00

Dream Magazine
#6 + CD
PS, US Another mind blowing issue of Dream, with features on A HAWK AND A HACKSAW, ADRIAN CROWLEY, CURRENT 93, MICHAEL GIRA, LICHENS, ERIC MATTHEWS, MY CAT IS AN ALIEN, VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA, WINDY AND CARL and lots more. CD features previously UNRELEASED MATERIAL BY ABSALOM, NICK BENSEN, NICK CASTRO, DONOVAN'T BRAIN, WINDY AND CARL and more. Also a rare track from MICHAEL GIRA.
Dream-06
ZINE
$9.00

Dulli,Greg
Amber Headlights (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US Dulli gives us 9 previously unreleased songs for his 1st solo disc. The album was shelved after the death of his friend Ted Demme.
Junketboy-001
CD
$17.50

Edwards, Kathleen
Live from Bowery Ballroom (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US 3 live songs w/videos. Teeming w/ roots & w/alternative country oozing from every note, the singer tends to stand outside the conventional box, but her voice easily recalls Lucinda Williams at her most vulnerable.
Junketboy
CD5
$7.75

Elephant's Memory
Songs From Midnight Cowboy
PS, US The career of Elephants Memory can be summed up as a case of gilt by association. Having had two songs on the soundtrack of an Oscar-winning film in 1969's Midnight Cowboy, they were then fortunate enough to be selected by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as their backing band. Given that the newly solo Beatle was at the time one of the music world's biggest names, you couldn't get much more famous. You can also count singers Carly Simon and Martha Velez as one-time members. Yet as fast as fame and fortune arrived it disappeared, and nowadays the band is but a footnote in rock history. An enjoyable one, though, as this, their first album from 1969, shows. With the album originally titled 'Elephants Memory', the connection with Midnight Cowboy occurred by chance after the tracks 'Jungle Gym At The Zoo' and 'Old Man Willow', were selected to appear on the film's soundtrack. The Buddah label decided to cash in on the attention the band was getting from the film, hence the re-packaging of the album as 'Songs From Midnight Cowboy Plus Their Hit Singles'. Further weight was added to the film connection with the addition of a version of 'Everybody's Talkin'', Nilsson's hit from the soundtrack, with Michal Shapiro taking the vocal lead. John Barry's achingly sad instrumental theme, already a US Top 10 hit for Ferrante & Teicher that year, was another addition, with trumpet and saxophone replacing the original harmonica and wordless vocals from Shapiro. Whilst this record will have obvious appeal to Lennon fans, it also maintains the groove to stand alone as a great, fun piece of psychedelic rock memorabilia. Tracks: Everybody's Talkin' / Old Man Willow / Midnight Cowboy / Jungle Gym At The Zoo / Crossroads Of The Stepping Stones / Don't Put Me On Trial No More / Super Heep / R.I.P. Yogurt Song / Band Of Love / Takin' A Walk / Hot Dog Man / Brief Encounter.
Lemon-086
CD
$14.75

Elizabethtown
Songs From Brown Hotel (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US Nancy Wilson, Elvis Presley, My Morning Jacket, Patty Griffin, Bill Monroe, Sun Kil Moon.
Junketboy
CD5
$8.25

Es
Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys
PS, FINLAND Kaikkeuden kauneus ja käsittämättömyys (The Beauty and Inconceivebility of Everythingness) is the third solo album by Fonal Records founder Sami Sänpäkkilä, who describes it thusly : "Recorded on various locations and with equipment varying from the most hi-fi studio to a small Onkyo dictaphone. These songs were different from what I had been playing live. They are more poppy, melodic and the structures are somewhat more conventional. Most importantly they have lyrics. I am still puzzled with this album. It still feels fresh. The songs are almost like thoughts I have mistakenly spoken out aloud, extremely personal and strangely fragile."

Dusted Magazine says: "The ten songs on KKJK creep with glacial melodies reminiscent of Sigur Rós. Not glacial in the pithy Nordic sense, but in the millennial creep of monolithic objects. Sänpäkkilä swathes his airy, cascading drones sparingly with piano fragments, violin, French horn and slide trombone (played by Avarus member Kevin Regan), levitating the songs above easy sentiment."
Fonal-028
CD
$15.00

Escovedo, Alejandro
Room of Songs (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US 2 disc set recorded live w/a string quintet at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, TX 2/28 & 3/1, 2005! Packaging is like an old fashioned LP gatefold cover, 1 CD on each side.
Junketboy
DCD
$22.75

Fall
Live at Deeply Vale
PS, US Live at Deeply Vale (1978) represents one of the earliest recordings of this seminal British band. The Fall played on what John Peel billed as "New Wave Afternoon," tearing through 11 tracks without a soundcheck, all the while battling pouring rain. The recording of the set is an ideal portrait of an early raw but brilliant band captured in the act.
Ozit-786
CD
$17.00

Fallopian
Dammit, Eat Your Pudding
PS, US One of the most eclectic records you're likely to hear. Recorded live to 24-track tape, these 4 authentically teenage girls let their imaginations & talents run wild. Starting off with the MySpace underground hit "Sex With A Tree," they careen between doo-wop, sub 30 second white hop punk rock, punkabilly, a cappella, tv music, rap & everything in between.
Avebury -14010
CD
$12.00

Fast Fourier
Tomorrow, Tomorrow
PS, US They make reality seem fuzzy enough to just get past the peripheral & on to the dance floor. At times smooth & delaying, at others jagged & Pollyanna-ish, they consistently spit out lullabies infected with the clear-cut catchiness where you'll be smitten with for weeks. Syrupy-sweet vocals enveloped in icy, rumble beats backed up with a heaping helping of moog crunch & bass guitar bohemia.
Narnack-7040
CD
$12.75

Fernando
Enter to Exit
PS, US Oregon-based pop songsmith Fernando Viciconte & his band- Portland stalwarts Jeff "Chet" Lyster & Derek Brown (EELS), Paul Brainard (RICHMOND FONTAINE), Qwee & Lewi Longmire (a journeyman in the NW's roots-rock & country scene). Coupling gorgeous melodies & lush vocals with haunting lyricism, "Enter To Exit" is another dose of Fernando's dark, haunting world wrapped in a pretty, sparkling package. Melodies are always spot-on, as is his voice, while his lyrics paint a different picture, one of sadness, sorrow & demos.
InMusicWeTrust-025
CD
$12.75

Field Mob
Light Poles & Pine Trees
PS, US
Geffen-01
CD
$15.25

Figurine, James
Forgive Your Friends
PS, US James Figurine is Jimmy Tamborello (POSTAL SERVICE, DNTEL) & these remixes feature tracks from his album "Mistake Mistake", by artists The Field, John Tejada & David Figurine. The album will be released on CD by Plug Research.
Monika-048
LP
$10.50

Final Fantasy
He Poos Clouds
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Tomlab-069
LP
$14.25

Final Fantasy
He Poos Clouds
PS, US On his second album, Owen Pallet presents a clearly enhanced concept of his solo project Final Fantasy. The core sound of his 2005 debut, "Final Fantasy Has A Good Home," was mainly based on Pallet's violin and his expert handling of the loop pedal. He now proves his skills as an arranger, working with an abundantly staffed chamber music ensemble, featuring a string quartet, piano, harpsichord and percussion. Still, Owen's ingenuity for catchy melody lines and surprising idioms is captivating.!Regardless of the more extended scope for this album, it was produced to maintain a certain intimacy. The overall atmosphere carries the ease of an afternoon dress rehearsal, as if the ensemble members played for themselves one last time before the crowd rushs in. Owen"s mostly introverted vocals also express this mood of privacy. The musical language is eclectic without letting its influences act as bare quotations for themselves. Traces were smeared with care and everything is consolidated and processed in such a distinct way that one cannot clearly designate the culprits any longer. He even integrates an amazing variety of stylistic spheres within the individual songs. String arrangers for ARCADE FIRE. Fans of Andrew Bird tingle w/delight. Full US tour coming in Fall.
Tomlab-069
CD
$14.25

First Nation
Self-Titled
PS, US Follows their debut single & a buttload of touring w/their Raincoats/Slits influenced debut. Loose pop songwriting like cohorts in Animal Collective but brought quieter & more introspective w/a laid back trancey, tribal vibe backing the whole thing.
PawTracks-11
CD
$16.00

Flaming Lips
20 Years of Weird: '86-'06 (SPECIAL ORDER ONLY)
PS, US Originally produced as a ltd. ed. EP that band friend Bradley Beasley would pass out at a Fearless Freaks screenings at SXSW '05, we have gotten together w/The Lips to make it available to fearless freaks like yourself! The tracks are mostly taken from various live shows throughout the band's career, & also includes the track "Free Radicals" that is from the April 4 '06 release "At War with the Mystics". Tracks: 1.Wayne's Intro 2.Free Radicals 3. Enthusiasm for Life defeats Existential Fear... 4. With You 5. Whole Lotta Love Can't Stop the Spring 6. Shine on Sweet Jesus 7. Space Age Love Song 8. Moth in the Incubator 9. When You Smile 10. Sleeping on the Roof 11. The Observer
Junketboy
CD
$16.50

Flecton
Never Took a Wife
PS, US Flecton returns to his '97 home & records several tracks w/members of the GRIFTERS. While these sessions yield 7 tracks, Flecton feels no desire to properly release them, instead they find their way onto CD-Rs & become known around Ottawa as the "Memphis EP." Between 2001-03 Flecton plays sporadic gigs in & around Ontario & Quebec. During this time, Flecton & members of CALIFONE discuss a mutual desire to collaborate musically. In 09/2003, 3 days are booked in Chicago. These sessions culminate in 5 more tracks. Once back home, Flecton decides both sessions together will make for a strong release & he includes one live cut from an Ottawa show to tie it all together. Complete w/ humid & heavy atmospheric production & left-field instrument selections & explorations (marimba, hand rub, pump organ, rocking chair). Heavy CALIFONE influence
KelpRecords
CD
$15.25

Flying Burrito Bros
Gilded Palace/Burrito
PS, US THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN allowed two former BYRDS, GRAM PARSONS & CHRIS HILLMAN, to fully explore country music. Several selections, notably "Christine's Tune" and "Wheels," succeeded in capturing the joys of Nashville-inspired rock, but the group proved equally adept at interpreting southern soul standards. Parsons' aching vocal on Dan Penn's "Dark End Of The Street" articulated the dilemmas of infidelity, while on his own composition, "Hot Burrito No. 1," he revealed a vulnerability unusual in a male singer. "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow explored the sonic possibilities of the pedal steel guitar rather than employing orthodox country embellishments, emblematic of the desire to question preconceptions that gives this album its unique qualities. BURRITO DELUXE contains at least one more Hillman/Parsons classic ("Cody Cody") and several typically impassioned covers, not the least of which is Parsons' tilt at the Rolling Stones'"Wild Horses.
A&M-540704-2
CD
$13.50

Four Tet
Pockets-DJ Kicks EP
PS, US 2 NEW, EXCLUSIVE tracks incl. "Pockets" & "Pockets (Minimal Version)".
StudioK7-120203
LP
$10.50

Futureheads
News and Tributes
PS, US Second album gets US release incl. 3 UNRELEASED TRACKS limited to the first pressing & incl the UK single "Area."
StarTime-436
CD
$16.00

Giant Robot
Issue #42
PS, US UGLY DOLLS on cover plus Start Your Own Boy band, Chucky vs. Jet Li, Boy on Boy manga for girls, Loudness, Ricetafarians, Scrabbel, Asians!
GiantRobot-42
ZINE
$4.75

Gilberto, Astrud & Wanderley, Walter
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
PS, UK Is there any need for an introduction to Astrud Gilberto, The Girl From Ipanema, who brought the nonchalant 'Vaga' vocal style of the Brasilian New Wave to international attention and launched a thousand indie-girl records and fantasies in a time and place she never imagined...? I think not, as we present her finest album. A collaboration with the Space Age, Jetsons-go-Bossa sound of the immortal Walter Wanderley, Brasil's finest organist/arranger and his excellent trio, augmented by American friend percussionist Bobby Rosengarden (of Miles Davis fame) and Bossa Nova master Joao Gilberto on guitar, this is as close as we are going to get to a totally perfect album! The wonderfully erotic vaga stylings of the timeless Astrud whisper from the Sci-Fi bachelor party soundscapes and unique arrangements of
Walter Wanderley in a way that either grabs your heart, or quite frankly you are dead in the water....maybe only one or two singers can do this for me... but that's another story! A Certain Smile / A Certain Sadness / Nega Do Cabelo Duro / So Nice (Summer Samba) / Voce Ja Foi Bahia / Portuguese Washerwoman / Goodbye Sadness (Tristeza) / Call Me / Here's That Rainy Day / Tu Mi Delirio / It's a Lovely Day Today. BONUS TRACKS: The Sadness of After / Who Needs Forever?
Rev-Ola-161
CD
$14.75

Glaciers
Moonlight Never Misses an Appointment
PS, US Starring JACKIE LINGE & IAN STYNES of THE MENDOZA LINE. What started as a simple experiment later turned into a multi-layered & textured sound, as friends came & went & added their instruments & melodies to multiple tracks. Built on the morals of melodies & retracing of regrets, the collection of songs merge together in an intimate collection of music & compatriots. Guests incl. Bob Hoffnar (HEM, MOJAVE 3, RAINER MARIA) & Gerald Menke (MERCURY REV), Nate Wooley (MR.BUNGLE). Julia Rhydholm (ESSEX GREEN).
EskimoKiss-12
CD
$12.00

Goldstoned
Le Connoisseur
PS, JAPAN Sergeant Pop is back. Mistaken by many for the unlawful child of Paul McCartney and Ronnie Spector, nephew of Belle & Sebastian, and/or cousin of Paul Weller, he is in fact heir to the complete Henry Mancini and Burt Bacharach catalogue as well as Mayor of Motown: Patrick Goldstein is his name, GOLDSTONED is his game. International peddler of luxurious production, sparkling melodies and trader in jangling guitars, on "Le Connoisseur"--his fourth release from Japan--solo artist and multi-(instru)mentalist GOLDSTONED even crosses over into Kraftwerk and Steely-Dan territory. Our Man In Berlin ensures an early spring with his spirit lifting "Don't look down", gives you the Thomas Crown feeling with "One for the Lovers" and gets heavily funky with soulful brass and mean guitars on the late 70s Londonesque "She is Love"... Ah, if only you, dear reader, could hear what I have heard. This is Pop. Live. Direct. And in Technicolor. Get GOLDSTONED!
QuinceRecords-34
CD
$14.25

Gonzalez, Delia/G Russom
Relevee
PS, US Delia & Gavin return with a special new EP w/the original track from "Days of Mars" reworked here by heavyweights like CARL CRAIG, DFA & BABY FORD. Enhanced CDS incl. stunning video.
DFA-60719
CD
$8.25

Gonzalez, Delia/G Russom
Relevee
PS, US Double 12" vinyl.
DFA-60719
LP
$16.00

Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers
Sleepless Nights
PS, US
Fontana
CD
$13.75

Grupo Salvaje
Aqui Hay Dragones
PS, SPAIN Grupo Salvaje took its name from the classic Sam Peckinpah film, The Wild Bunch, a logical decision given their love for alt-country songs that slice and abandon traditional country-western lyrical topics. Three years after their debut (In Black We Trust) they come back with Aquí hay dragones - expression used by the first cartographers to designate the Earth's unexplored zones. Grupo Salvaje sound now totally out of time, scenes and tricks. More confluences than influences, you can detect the inspired echo of Tom Verlaine, Cash, the Leonard Cohen of Death of a Ladies' man, Elvis (both of them) and Bakunin.
Acuarela-1065
CD
$14.75

Holy Molar
Dentist the Menace
PS, US Jam packed with footage covering the band's west coast tour consisting of tons of live footage including the first show ever, people getting beat to hell, nudity, stupidity & infamous desert birthday party "gig." Their resume consists of members from Locust, Das Oath, Get Hustle, Some Gils, Cattle Decapitation, head Wound City, Antioch Arrow & many more!Additional features on the DVD include: alternate takes synced to studio tracks, commentary by fans as well as the band & footage of the Molar's legendary opening support Death Bread (featuring Don Bolles of Germs fame).
ThreeOne-50
DVD
$13.75

Holy Shit
Stranded at Two Harbors
PS, US MATT FISHBECK (PUSH KINGS) & ARIEL PINK's first recorded collaboration. Fishbeck on lead vocals & guitars leaving Ariel to work out the beats & bass lines. The urgency of the lyrics & melody is positively countered by timelessness of songwriting & an overall catchiness. The rhythms are genuinely contagious & most of them are created by Ariel's mouth. One can sense an affinity in this music for 80s pop icons as well underground classics.
UnitedAcoustic-007
CD
$13.75

Holy Sons
Decline of the West
PS, ITALY Brand new album of Portland based hero Emil Amos aka Holy Sons. Hook-driven-straight-to-the-jugular phrases and no-rule-mixing method. An album recorded in late night sessions that stretched over 3 years where he plays every instrument and then mixed and re-mixed each track. Holy Sons want to get under your skin. The intimacy on Decline of the West seeps existential dread like an oily terror-sweat. Often classified as lo-fi, this music may be at first deceptively minimal - plucked guitar, hushed organ, drum machine - but upon repeated listens one notices the intricacy and elaborateness of the arrangements, and every track is different enough to warrant praise for the album's diversity. Influenced by the avant German bands of the 70's he used nature recordings, radio transmissions and old Halloween tapes as source material to create slabs of musique concrete-style texture to surround and inhabit the songs. The basic message is an apocalyptic one, with the songs investigating the tensions between 'human nature', capitalistic culture, conformism, the inner self and the inevitable destiny of a society that has values such as ours...
AwfulBliss/SlightRecord
CD
$12.00

Hot Chip
The Warning
PS, US
DFA-62808
DLP
$20.25

Hot Chip
The Warning
PS, US New album is a huge step forward w/more infectious, melodic & engaging songs. Immaculately layered pop voyeurism. Follows hugely successful tour w/ Stereolab.
DFA-62808
CD
$19.00

Hughes, John
Immediate Action #11
PS, US IA #011 is a tight six-track EP. Features 5 new tracks & a collaboration with label-mate Eliot Lipp with Jasia 10 & Leo 123. The music was composed almost entirely on Hughes's modular synths. Hughes also records as Slicker & is one half of the Some Water & Sun duo. LIMITED!!!
Hefty-055
12
$8.75

Islaja
Meritie
PS, FINLAND Islaja is a certain young woman that has sang and played an album full of heart-rending intimate music. Half a year of quietly working in her homestudio brought about a cluster of transcendental tunes that are now released as an album called Meritie. At times it is impossible to tell where the sounds are coming from. The variety of instruments is vast, but all have their space and strong belief in the power of individual sounds can be heard. Islaja has exceptional sense of harmony that alone can make the album a magical listening experience. The voice of Islaja sounds bravely over the screaming crazed sea-gulls. It is stunningly honest. This is a great victory in these times of sadness. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "Isjala combines gestures from various genres, but in an off-hand, almost careless way, like a roughshod Joni Mitchell. Isjala twists, bends and often breaks her forms, struggling to lace the psychedelic folk and the avant garde of the present with the remnants of childhood piano lessons..."
Fonal-032
CD
$15.00

Islaja
Palaa Aurinkoon
PS, FINLAND Finland's Islaja plays music for staring, so long as you don't expect your visions to coalesce into anything recognizable or "pretty" in the traditional sense. Her acoustic-based music soundtracks a hangover, or the scary part of a mushroom binge-- which is different than saying it sounds good when you're hung over or strung out. Rather, her kind of folk music is closer to real life than I want to be in the darkest moments, only intermittently letting the light peek through. Through blurry layers of harmonium, multi-tracked (though not always harmonized) vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, wooden blocks of percussion and bells, she's got more in common with an abstract expressionist painter than a folk musician, using her palette to fill in the details of subconscious experience... Kindred to Charalambides, Syd Barrett, and many of her Fonal label mates in this regard: strangely accomplished, but alien and evocative of nothing in particular."
Fonal-036
CD
$15.00

Jordan/Parker/Drake
Palm of Soul
PS, US Kidd Jordan, William Parker, & Hamid Drake. An exquisitely captured studio recording of these 3 masters & the fruition of AUM's long time desire to bring legendary tenor master/New Orleans music patriarch Kidd Jordan up from N.O. to record this trio. Planned well prior to, but recorded in Brooklyn just 3 weeks following Katrina's devastation of his city & home.
AumFidelity-038
CD
$13.75

June Panic
Bellybuttonless Boy
PS, SPAIN 6 tracks. June Panic is a singer-songwriter and sonic experimenter from Fargo (US). Bob Dylan, Marc Bolan and Skip Spence all come to mind when listening to Panic: Dylan because he begins with traditional American music forms and then twists them to fit his own idiosyncratic vision, often to nearly unrecognizable extremes; Bolan for his penchant for pomp and outrageous-even ridiculous- imagery; and Spence because of a neurotic claustrophobia that acts as the common tread among his disparate styles. After a good number of releases on the US label Secretly Canadian, this new EP is an Acuarela exclusive.
Acuarela-044
CD5
$9.00

Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Remixed
PS, US A killer collection of remixes, previously only released on 2 limited edition 12" EPs. Besides the 8 mixes by JAN JELINEK, SUTEKH, AOKI TAKAMASA, SECONDO, RADIAN, NOZE, DAVID LAST & LUMP200 which appeared on the vinyls, this CD also incl. 2 excl. bonus mixes by HANS APPELQVIST & DAVID LAST again, now under his POCKET PET alias.
Staubgold -070
CD
$17.00

Keane
Under the Iron Sea
PS, US
Interscope
CD
$13.00

Kemialliset Ystavat
Lumottu Karkkipurkki (Vapaa Systeemi)
PS, FINLAND "Lumottu karkkipurkki" ('the enchanted candy jar') is a musical work of two concepts: a song cycle based on an obscure finnish children's book of the same name. The plot is simple; a boy buys a candy jar from an old 'witchy' shopkeepress. Every time the boy takes a colourful drop his surroundings change unexpectedly and completely. He meets strange beings in the nearby forest. The atmosphere is exciting and slightly scary. Ville eats all the drops and craves for more, but the woman with the shiny green ring is gone and so are the candies... The other concept, Vapaa systeemi ('free system') has something to do with plucking stringed instruments growing moss and the speed control, but we don't want to get too specific here. Lumottu karkkipurkki was the first release after Mr. Anderzén abandoned his harem (& the couple obligatory eunuchs) in order to work his way out in a more solitude manner, with his bare hands and the four tracks. So, besides from being darn good late night drooling accompaniment, this music has some sort of historical significance. (Ralf Normaali)
Fonal-038
CD
$15.00

Kemialliset Ystavat
Alkuharka
PS, FINLAND Dusted Magazine says: "The [KY] collective's hermetically-sealed mastermind Jan Anderzén instead uses abstract maps that fit David Toop's description of the modern 'sound object': "a shifting open lattice in which new ideas can hang, or through which they can pass and interweave." Each piece on Alkuhärkä is rampantly eclectic, making a list of instrumentation untenable. One can, however, pull out a few threads from Anderzén's tangled ball of yarn. After an intro of sizzling electronic noise and primal grunts, a radical jump cut transforms "Hirvikärpästen hovissa" into a whirling dervish dance of nasal horns and pulsating howls. The shift mimics the spirit, but not the form, of gamelan's crack-the-whip movements. Like Harry Partch's compositions, which used gamelan elements even more prominently, some of KY's music has a majestic mood, like court music for some imaginary kingdom."
Fonal-033
CD
$15.00

Kemialliset Ystavat
Kellari Juniversumi
PS, FINLAND Psych-folk experimentation. Reissue of this album, originally released in 2002. Kellari Juniversumi has been hailed as a masterpiece and has been out of print for a long time. Reprint includes a new 24-page booklet.

"Many are the rumors that revolve round the Tamperean tribe called Kemialliset Ystävät (Chemical Friends), regarding for instance the recipe for their brand of magic potion and their ethnic background. Contradicting the common beliefs, this group, which is now, depending on how you count, releasing its first or tenth album, does not consist of elves, gnomes or some lesser-known folk of the forest, but is mainly the product of one human risen from the rotten ditch of Nekala (a Tampere suburb). With his vast set of allies he has by the power of his spirit carved a whole multitude of caves into the cellar of an otherwise unsuspect looking house. From that Cellar Yuniversum (a rough translation of the disc's name) originates this record, which I myself regard rather as the first, as its many predecessors have been either halves of a long player, virtually unobtainable or partial rereleases. Now, at last, as we venture deeper into the cellar than ever before, we see the aforementioned elves and gnomes in their festivities, as the urbanization process has cut down the Tampere backwoods and has thus forced them to flee into the caves of Kemialliset Ystävät, who naturally are in good terms with all tiny earthlings with pointed ears." (Ralf Normaali)
Fonal-021
CD
$15.00

Kid 606
Pretty Girls Make Raves
PS, US A 45 minute tribute to analog synths, overdriven vocals, Baltimore club & throbbing bass-heavy techno music designed to keep the bassbins thumpin' and the dance floor moving.
Tigerbeat6-132
CD
$11.00

Kiefer, Christian
Czar Nicholas Is Dead
PS, US "A beautiful musical evocation of a page of Americana. Environmental recordings and electronics wrap up a slow-changing bed of loops consisting of simple folk guitar lines, banjo, accordion, and voices (both singing and reciting)."-AMG on "Exodust" (Extreme, 2002). A soundtrack to a tundra wasteland filled with lonely soldiers, ornate towers crumbling into ruin, and desolate, blood-soaked snowscapes written from the confines of Kiefer's Northern California home. An essentially ambient project with minimal instrumentation, "Czar Nicholas Is Dead" captures Russia as a fever dream, a strange and disorienting place that lay on no map, but rather resides entirely in the author's imagination. On the one hand, the subject of Kiefer's project is a strange one to be sure, particularly since most of his recorded output-including the similarly epic and minimalist instrumental project "Exodust" (2002) -has been rooted strongly in American soil. But Kiefer's work has always also been rooted in history and in academic and intellectual pursuits. For research, Kiefer turned to thick volumes on the assassination of the Romanoff family, the tradition of Russian folk music, and to early Russian silent film. Kiefer brought in a handful of his favorite musicians and asked them to improvise with him live in the studio with a handful of simple instructions. The material was then worked over further in the studio, edited, rearranged, and produced, often with additional parts being added or subtracted as the musical force of the album began to reveal itself. The end result is part collective improvisation on a conceptual and musical theme, and part constructed and composed musical work. "I have one thing to say about Christian Kiefer: It's GREAT to hear new music!"-Thurston Moore
CameraObscura-075
CD
$14.75

Kiila
Silmat Sulkaset
PS, FINLAND Dusted Magazine says: "Kiila carefully blend primarily acoustic instruments with scattered electronics, resulting in delicate, spacious constructions that breathe. The vocals are of particular note; beautifully layered harmonies that range from the ghostly chants of the opening "Kelmeja" to the madrigal-inspired "Mina - Laulu" and the traditional folk style of "Vasailyn Luostari." It's these vocals that distinguish Kiila's new album among others currently following in the psych-folk format, adding a gorgeous tinge of melody to the underlying songs. The only band that approaches this combination is Japan's Ghost, who bear a resemblance to some of Kiila's more acoustic pieces."
Fonal-029
CD
$15.00

Kiila
Heartcore
PS, FINLAND Heartcore was originally recorded and released in 2001 when the band was still a duo. It features the compositions of Fonal Records founder Sami Sanpakkila, who has released records under the moniker Es, and Niko-Matti Ahti. The language of the songs moves from English to Finnish, and the human voices rest on a warm texture of sounds from an array of acoustic and electronic instruments. Carefully arranged songs alternate with those improvised on the spot, all bearing the mark of a handcrafted article.
Fonal-015
CD
$15.00

Konono No. 1
Congotronics
PS, CANADA From Congo, KONONO N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts and plugged into amplifiers. There's also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a sound system featuring megaphones dating from the colonial period. Instead of apologizing for the heavily distorted sounds of such DIY amplification, KONONO N°1 have embraced them, provoking a radical mutation of their sound, and has accidentally connected them with the aesthetics of today's most underground forms of music as much through their sounds as through their sheer volume (they play in front of a wall of speakers) and merciless grooves. Hailing from Africa and rooted in a very social form of folk music making, KONONO N°1 is one of the main exponents of a spectacular style of music which has developed in the suburbs of the capital city of Kinshasa. The Congolese refer to this style as "tradi-modern", meaning electrified traditional music. These are musicians who have left the bush to settle in the capital and, in order to both continue fulfilling their social role and make themselves heard above the urban din, they have resorted to DIY amplification of their instruments, and the use of megaphones.
Ache-021
LP
$13.00

Like A Fox
Self-Titled
PS, UK Featuring the primary members of 90's noise-pop band Lenola, the self-titled debut by Like A Fox is a full-blown Technicolor rock album that unifies classic songwriting with acoustic & electronic textures, sweeping synths and jagged-edge balls-out guitar crunch. "glistening, daydreamy pop music" - chromewaves.net RIYL: Super Furry Animals, Flaming Lips, Eno, Grandaddy, Delgados, ELO.
Tappersize -018
CD
$10.75

Lithops
Queries
PS, US Jan St. Werner of MOUSE ON MARS. Contains rare and previously unreleased material form 1995-1999 offering an enlightening view of a time when abstract sounds established themselves as significant elements in electronic music.
Sonig-052
CD
$15.00

Luna
Very Best of Luna
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$17.25

Luna
Tell Me Do You Miss Me
PS, US
Rhino
DVD
$17.25

Mead, David
Tangerine
PS, US New album from David Mead.
Tallulah
CD
$15.25

Meneguar
Bury a Flower
PS, US Recorded in the bands living room/studio in Brooklyn in March 2006. Limited edition 7-inch w/ two exclusive tracks not on the re-issue of their debut. A taste of what is to come on the new record, due out in early 2007. Limited to 1,000 copies on color vinyl. Beautifully packaged.
Troubleman-178
45
$5.75

Minutemen
Post Mersh Vol. 3
PS, US Includes Paranoid Time 7'', Joy 7'' 2CD
SST-165
CD
$16.25

Moistboyz
Live Jihad
PS, US Notorious 18-song set filmed & recorded at Bowery Ballroom in NYC on September 10th 2005 spans material from all four Moistboyz records. Formed in 1994 and comprised of songwriter/guitarist Mickey Moist (a.k.a. DEAN WEEN) and lyricist/frontman Dickie Moist, the Moistboyz here present their anti-P.C. worldview punctuated by subversive humor in one intense f*cking punk-metal performance on their very first DVD. "Pure, unadulterated, punch-your-balls-off-with-aflowerpot rock."-Jason Josephes (Pitchfork).
MVD-4499
DVD
$19.75

Mondo Topless
Take It Slow
PS, US Yes, they're still around. The band's new cd is their 2nd for Get Hip. Taking a page from the book of Lou Reed, the band claims this is "the best thing we've ever done." Three chords and a cloud of dust rock and roll.
GetHip-1132
CD
$14.25

New Alchemy, The
Organic Universe
PS, SWEDEN "Organic Universe" is the second full length album of The New Alchemy; the sounding output for multi-faced artist Per Svensson, born in Gothenburg in 1965, now based in the beautiful south-west of Sweden. Svensson is comfortably moving between sound art and noise experiments, poetry, psych-rock, and conceptual art. The borders are cloudy and unimportant. This is all as important to the world you are to know as The New Alchemy. Per Svensson was since the very early 80's involved in the Gothenburg punk scene [Union Carbide Productions] and bands like Rabies and also in the legendary society Garageligan. He has slowly created an artistic language of his own and since 1987 he is earning his living as an artist. "Organic Universe" is alchemic rock with an honest power. There's a lot of nerve, and Svensson is allowing time to evolve the songs... There's echoes of rock music from the 60's and on. And echoes of mysticism, alchemy and occultism - colouring the music and the lyrics of course. Timeless music.
Ideal
CD
$15.00

New Grenada
Modern Problems
PS, US Detroit four-piece is a bold conglomeration of dynamic rhythms, thundering riffs, soaring synths & lilting vocals that alternate between male melodicism & female snarling. NG has ascended the ranks of the indie scene in every conceivable corner. In a few short years, the band has amassed a back catalog to fill a career, including compilations such as Narnack's "Confuse Yr Idols: A Tribute to Sonic Youth," from which their cover of "Eric's Trip" earned a stamp of approval from the late DJ John Peel. "New Grenada explores where Detroit don't go; they aren't a sound, they're a place, & they're where I want to be." - Roddy Bottum (Imperial Teen/Faith No More).
Contraphonic-049
CD
$15.00

Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays
Back To Detroit
PS, US
DollarRecord-017
LP
$12.75

Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays
Back To Detroit
Ps, US Now after 25 years she releases a new album of all original material. A mixture of classic Nikki & the Corvettes sound & all of the great powerpop & punk rock that preceeded it & that it inspired. From the Chuck Berry/MC5 driven title track "Back To Detroit" to the pure power pop of "I've Got A Heartbreak" , the summertime sound of "Just Can't Say" & the '77 NY punk swagger of "So, Kiss Me", this offers just what Nikki's die hard & new fans have been waiting for-high energy rock & roll.
DollarRecord-017
CD
$12.75

No Depression
Issue #64
PS, US ELVIS COSTELLO & ALLEN TOUSSAINT on the cover! Features on them, Los Lonely Boys, Frank Black, Darrell Scott, Irma Thomas, & more. Plus all the other cool stuff from the past, present, & future of American music.
NoDepression-064
ZINE
$4.75

OCS
Cool Death of the Island
PS, US Pounds of delicious, California sunshine poured over top the pop of Donovan!
Narnack-7036
LP
$12.75

OCS
Cool Death of the Island Raiders
PS, US Feat. 13 tracks of a pure acoustic/folk/synth-pop with a bounce. Tunes only a soulless vampire couldn't enjoy, like snappy, teddy bear anthems for the lingering 10 yr old in all of us. It's as if they threw a sheet of fresh, pathological playfulness over a dusty loft mattress, creating by far thee best goo-rock, bedroom folk our world has ever heard.
Narnack-7036
CD
$12.75

Odd Clouds
Cavernous End
PS, US Roving collective of Detroit's most touched savages led by the restless vision of bandleaders Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum/Tasty Soil Records) and Jamie Easter (formerly of the Pirhannas and Little Claw, now touring solo as a performance artist of the most disturbing caliber.) After about a year of existence, we're glad to unleash "The Cavernous End" as the first full-fledged album by this tribe, a face-melting record composed of three extended feral-psyche jams. The group is prone to impromptu and somewhat confrontational public performance, lysergic deep-woods jamming and the like, and their bone-through-the-nose approach to music comes through strong on wax. Gutteral grunting, animalistic howls, blathering bursts of woodwinds and electronic noise bubble up to the surface of primal percussion and sounds of creatures dying and being born. Sounding like a field recording of a late-60's cult
farmhouse celebration or a private-press psyche record of the same era, "The Cavernous End" is moody, scary and beautiful, and hints at the depths of future weirdness the Clouds will send our way. Only 300 copies were made, and the packaging is a beautifully silk-screened line art collaboration between Easter and Pottinger of some fucked up creatures doing their thing in the woods. LIMITED. LP
Ypsilanti-026
LP
$13.50

Office Building
To See Only Shadows
PS, FINLAND The debut album from the most unique pop group in Finland. Packaged in a deluxe 6-page digipak with a 12-page booklet containing lyrics. 8 songs in 45 minutes of melancholy and sadness. DUSTED MAGAZINE: "Tragic melancholia - reminiscent of Radiohead's dark acoustic moments."
Fonal-016
CD
$15.00

Offthesky
It Is Impossible To Say Just What I Mean
PS, BELGIUM It Is Impossible To Say Just What I Mean, a line in T.S. Eliot's poem "The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", fits apropos as title-to-idea for the artists on-going struggle to transcend innate social limitations. And in the process of completing this album, Offthesky (Kentucky based Jason Corder) successfully crossed many boundaries through working with countless musicians to form a diverse sound. It Is Impossible To Say Just What I Mean deftly fuses atmospheric-electronic sensation with heart-felt, post-rock melodies that exists truly as a work of poetry i
n motion. Very very nice.
Stilll-002
CD
$16.00

Others aka 22PP, The
Monochromeset
PS, FINLAND The Others aka 22PP is a 22-Pistepirkko side project playing covers, exploring their influences and having a rip-roaring time doing it! Yes, there's another band called The Others, hence the "aka" addendum. For "Monochrome Set" they've carefully picked just a few from their broad setlist: songs by The Kinks, Jody Reynolds, The Troggs, Link Wray, Buddy Holly, and The Everly Bros. The band 22-Pistepirkko has been around for almost 25 years and has recently released their 10th album "Drops & Kicks" (2005). Years ago they've started to also play shows under the name THE OTHERS (aka 22PP), dedicated to mainly cover songs they like. Those shows have been very well appreciated throughout Finland and Scandinavia. "Monochrome Set", released on their own Bone Voyage label is the first official recording of this concept.
BoneVoyage-052
CD
$12.00

Paavoharju
Yha Hamaraa
PS, FINLAND

Pitchfork says: "If forced to choose a kindred Finnish group, Es' grave soundtracks would be closest in dusty elegance, but Paavoharju presents a more curious mixture-- a Fursaxa/Cocteau Twins B-Movie soundtrack, Sigur Rós locked in an underground cavern with Slowdive, or perhaps Syd Barrett jamming with Incredible String Band beneath a waterfall... Yhä hämärää possesses the magical giddiness of an unknown radio station tapped into momentarily while traveling unfamiliar back roads."
Fonal-037
CD
$15.00

Pants yell!
Recent Drama
PS, US Pants Yell's sophomore album is a co-release between The Paper Cities and Asaurus Records. As with Songs for Siblings, this record was recorded with Tim Shea (Black Helicopter) at his Analog Divide studio. These 11 songs show the next level of Pants Yell!, with lush arrangements and vocals and unexpected twists and turns in the songwriting, all while maintaining a clever simplicity akin to The Clean or the Pastels. Comes inside a lovely digipak designed by Andrew Churchman and Martin Pavlinic.
Asaurus-051
CD
$10.75

Parenthetical Girls
Safe As Houses
PS, US Two years in the making, the sophomore release from Pacific Northwest experimental-pop band Parenthetical Girls makes exceptional bounds forward both sonically and narrativelya more confident vision that is at turns more confrontational and more delicate. Featuring Sam Mickens and Jherek Bischoff of the Dead Science.
SlenderMeansSociety-005
CD
$12.50

Phoenix
It's Never Been Like That
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks
LP
$18.25

Plastik Explosives
Songs of the Doomed
PS, US This band upholds the threats that rock music first imposed in the '50s, perfected in the rebellious '60s, screamed about in the punk '80s & seemingly forgot about in present day; keeping the sounds of the Who, the MC5 & Rolling Stones close to heart. Feat. ex-members of MASHERS, MUSHUGANAS, TALL DARK STRANGER & THE REPOS. Together, these 5 individuals form the loudest, most explosive rock band you've ever seen.
ThreatRecords-004
CD
$12.00

Ponies In The Surf
Ponies on Fire
PS, US Format: CDR. The debut full-length from the already beloved Ponies in the Surf. Camille & Alexander have always thought their songs are best suited for 3 AM or early afternoon, since those are often the moods they're trying to recapture in sound. You know, like when you have an epiphany while washing dishes late at night after all your friends have gone home? These thirteen songs form the perfect record for the winter months, even though you'll find it suits the summertime just as well.
Asaurus-049
CD
$4.75

Pop Project
TGIF
PS, US Tribute to TV theme song composer Jesse Frederick. Covers four popular early 90s sitcom theme songs: Family Matters, Full House, Step by Step, & Perfect Strangers. Includes five minute "making of" documentary video. "Antithesis to Detroit gee-rage w/ keyboard-guitar driven indie sings-alongs." -Detroit Metro Times
SuburbanSprawl-014
CD
$3.75

Price & Walsh
Temptation Eyes: The Price Walsh Songbook
PS, UK From forgotten, dusty closets and disorganized publishing vaults comes a Rev-Ola classic. Mike "Harvey" Price and Dan Walsh--two hard working Los Angeles-based songwriters--not only had it in them to pen one of the GRASS ROOTS finest moments ("Temptation Eyes"), they also cut dozens of other gems. The finest cuts are collected here in this first-ever Price & Walsh compendium. The two men explore many avenues here: bubblegum/soft pop/psych/rock and beautiful balladry; unknowingly concocting a masterwork that will intrigue fans of said genres for many years to come. Includes a brilliant, previously-unearthed demo of "Temptation Eyes" that was the blueprint for the Grass Roots hit version. Also includes several previously unheard sides that were originally intended to be part of a never-released GARY ZEKLEY produced 1968 LP. This unfinished album was to be LA's answer to "Sgt. Peppers," and features classic mindblowing LA studio wizardry. (What were these lads smoking?) - First time EVER collection of Price And Walsh...All sides NEVER BEFORE ON CD ! Most tracks never before available on vinyl either! - Comprehensive liner notes in full inimitable Rev-Ola splendor. - Includes exclusive track-by-track annotation from Price & Walsh themselves! - Rare previously-unpublished photos! - A must for all fans of the West Coast Sound....of The Grass Roots...of Gary Zekley productions....and so much more...
Rev-Ola-156
CD
$14.75

Priestess
Hello Master
PS, US Escaping the banality & redundance of current rock, they conjure enough powerful riffage to brand itself into brain tissue. Pure sonic bliss via genuine heviosity & uncompromised melodic hookery.
AceFu-042
LP
$16.00

Principle Edwards Magic Theatre
Soundchecks
PS, UK There are whispers of Cherry Red Records releasing a luxurious Dandelion 45's (singles) Box Set with the participation of Clive & Shurley Selwood and many of the legendary label's artists? Whilst John Peel fans and music collectors alike wait with anticipation to see if the rumours are true, Cherry Red releases two albums from the Dandelion catalogue to whet the appetite, both from the curiously spectacular, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. The multi-media PEMT cut a compellingly original swathe through a late-1960s music scene seemingly inhabited by wall-to-wall blues bands. Their first ever gig was witnessed by benefactor and producer John Peel. The legendary DJ promptly signed them to his Dandelion label. 'I guess he liked what he heard,' says guitarist and chief songwriter Root Cartwright. A stand-alone single released before the first album, 'Ballad (Of The Big Girl Now And A Mere Boy)'/ 'Lament For The Earth', is included in this package as a bonus track. 'Soundtrack' hit the record racks in August 1969, the third Dandelion long-player to be released in short order following debut efforts from folksingers Bridget St John and Beau.
CherryRed-306
CD
$14.75

Principle Edwards Magic Theatre
The Asmoto Running Band
PS, UK
CherryRed-307
CD
$14.75

Rainy Day Saints
Diamond Star Highway
PS, US From high concept to one man band and finally , a full fledged rock & roll combo. From the jangly to the distorted, from the pretty to the raw, from the rocked out to the acoustic and from the earthbound to the outer space, this cd has it all.
GetHip-1131
CD
$14.25

Red Pony Clock
Tunes from Terrace Towers
PS, UK Red Pony Clock is a 12 member psychedelic-indiepop mini-orchestra from San Diego, CA. RPC's endearingly ramshackle live performances are known through-out the Western US for their tendency to veer from lush orchestral passages, to stand-up comedy, to beautiful Beach Boys inspired harmonies, to cathartic punkish screamfests, followed by weird dixieland freak-outs, sometimes all in the same song. Whether that sounds appealing on paper or not, rest assured that it's a rare concert-goer who isn't moved in some form by the sheer spectacle of it all. At home, RPC continues to strive for lo-fi greatness by continuing to test the limits of home recording. Their projects have gone above and beyond what's expected of a one man band (Gabe) recording alone in his apartment Of course, he'd be a fool not to tap into the resources of the talented Red Pony Clock band, so he makes sure they contribute when they find the time. "Tunes from Terrace Towers" is filled with 21 psychedelic indie-pop songs that will make you smile and cry and probably jump around a little bit. The record comes inside a wallpaper-crafted sleeve with a specially-made Red Pony Clock patch affixed to the front. It is even more cute than it sounds.
Asaurus-052
CD
$6.50

Risto
S-T
PS, FINLAND Pop music of a sort, haunted with weirdness and occasional danger. Names dropped include Calexico, the American freak-folkies, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, etc.
Fonal-034
CD
$15.00

Rodeo Carburettor
S/T
PS, US Japanese rock n roll trio that will set your soul on fire! They draw from many US influences like Reverand Horton Heat, John Spencer Blues Explosion & Rocket from the Crypt. yeehow!! Using extremely refined distortion noises & a raging tension as their primary arsenol in their live performances, the audience is left in utter amazement & excitement.
DenkoSecco-002
CD
$12.00

Russian Spy Camera
You Are A Vulture
PS, US Russian Spy Camera started as a sole recording project and is currently a duo consisting of guitarist/singer Ryan White and drummer Andy Turner. Their home is Athens, Georgia. They play an eclectic rock and roll sound with lots of hooks. Their new critically acclaimed album, "You Are A Vulture", was released in March of 2006 and was recorded by Jason NeSmith at Bel*Air Studios here in Athens. They are crazy and want to cover you in mayonnaise.
HHBTM-072
CD
$10.75

Schramms
RockPaperScissorDynamite
PS, US Continuing the saga that started with "Walk To Delphi," the Schramms establish themselves of virtuosos of variety, rocking with "Her Darkness" & "Welfare of Your Enemy," serenade with "Cycle of Days," twang with "How May Lives" & tripping the psychedelic with a cover of the Saints' "In The Mirror." Dave Schramm's also been a featured guitarist on current works by Richard Buckner, Soul Asylum, the Replacements & Whiskeytown. Catch the prowess here.
ESD-81032
CD
$11.00

Schramms
Little Apocalypse
PS, US 3rd release from America's favorite literary rock & folk band. "Little Apocalypse" is more rock & roll than the 1st two. The sound ranges from very gentle to very hard & even contains the definitive Lucinda Williams' cover "Side of the Road."
ESD-80952
CD
$11.00

Schramms
Walk To Delphi
PS, US Debut album from these legendary lit-rockers. Originally released in 1990 on the tiny OKra Records outta Ohio, CTD picks up the re-release. It's Emily Dickenson meets the Buffalo Springfield, Charles Baudelaire meets Television. It's guitar virtuoso Dave Schramm's coming out effort after his stint with Yo La Tengo.
ESD-81022
CD
$11.00

Seabear/Grizzly Bear
Alphabet Series I
PS, US Tomlab's series of ULTRA limited singles (500 for the world). Anyone remember the "The Bad News Bears"? This time it`s good news for the bears! SEABEAR is 23-year old Sindri Már Sigfússon from Iceland. He writes beautiful songs using acoustic guitar and piano, gentle vocals, tinklywinkly mallets, synth flourishes, and restrained percussion. GRIZZLY BEAR is a young collective from New York, also floating in a similar mood. Folkyexperimental songs with lot`s of charm and love in it. Get the bears! VERY LIMITED
Tomlab -058
45
$6.50

Services
Element of Danger
PS, US The anticipated 1st single from the album, "Your Desire Is My Business". A-side features a dance-rockin' remix by the highly sought after production duo MSTRKRFT (DFA 1979) & the B-side features a killer breakbeat influenced remix by the ATOC impressarios.
ATouchofClass-019
12
$7.75

Shitmat
Hang The DJ
PS, CANADA After his very successful Full English Breakfast collection and the The Lesser Spotted Burberry E.P. for planet mu records England's infamous bad boy DJ Shitmat gives us "HANG THE DJ" a heavy 13 track album of classic ravage, gabber and indecent pop mashups. Brighton DJ Shitmat (aka Henry Collins) brings his brainsick flavor of "UK Mashcore" and endlessly brilliant craziness to Sublight. HANG THE DJ is a night at the top 40 club gone sour as shitmat throws the pounding hardcore in a blender with heaps of funny/catchy pop song fragments. Likely the most fun you will have listening to an album this year!
Sublight-1601
CD
$13.50

Shogun Kunitoki
Tasankokaiku
PS, FINLAND Pitchfork says: "Finnish electro-instrumentalist quartet breezily mix the minimalist repetitions of Terry Riley with the analog shimmer of Broadcast." The Helsinki based instrumental quartet Shogun Kunitoki demonstrates the way forward by looking backward. The future is that of the ring modulator and the spring reverb, the outcome of the highest musical evolution, in history and beyond! Shogun Kunitoki's debut album, Tasankokaiku, released by Fonal in early 2006, stands as a culmination of the group's long search for their own musical language. Tasankokaiku consists of seven instrumental compositions that retain touches of the more angular feel of their earlier, sequenced songs, but are fleshed out using a looser, semi-improvised approach made possible by the use of live keyboards. The result has been described by reviewers as fresh and unique but strangely familiar at the same time, a timeless kaleidoscope of sounds culled from five decades of electronic music, psychedelia and minimalism.
Fonal-041
CD
$15.00

Shout Out Louds
Combines
PS, SWEDEN Another nifty, inexpensive EP teaser from Swedish neo-new-wavers The Shout Out Louds. Features a brand new song, the New Order-ish "I Meant To Call", plus sassy, comprehensive reworkings of four songs from their last album: "The Comeback" remixed by Ratatat, a remix of "Seagull" by Konstruction & Subliminal Kid, "Very Loud" remixed by Architecture In Helsinki, and lastly, "Shut Your Eyes" remixed by Harlem.
Capitol/BudFox
CD5
$2.00

Sincere Trade
If You Cannot Beat Them
PS, US Another young musician from the underbelly of Toronto's vast music culture, Sincere Trade (Carl Heindl) presents his debut album, "If You Cannot Beat Them". Sincere Trade has quickly become a recognizable artist in the Toronto music scene and is now set to deliver his musical vision to the world. With a knack for twisted and crunchy skipping percussion, and a love for warm and dirty vintage synthesizers, Sincere Trade bridges familiar retro sounds with modern production skills. Call it IDM if you want - but this music has groove and is meant just as much for the dancefloor as it is for the shoe-gazing chin-strokers. Sincere Trade adds a different dimension to Dross:tik, as the label continues to redefine its musical direction with each release. The brainchild of Carl Heindl, Sincere Trade has been creating a stir in the Toronto electronic music scene for the past couple of years with numerous live
performances and self-CDR releases. With the release of his debut album "If You Cannot Beat Them" (Dross:tik Records), Heindl has crafted a sound uniquely his own. Drawing on the early influence of Skinny Puppy, Depeche Mode, Muslimgauze, Kraftwerk and Brian Eno; Sincere Trade has crafted an album that draws from the past while shaping the future. Various appearances in local Toronto magazines and regular radio exposure on college and commercial airwaves (including Brave New Waves on CBC) have set the stage for a highly anticipated debut album. Sincere Trade is also busy at the grass roots level as a promoter (along with events partner Knifehandchop), responsible for the now infamous "Math Hooker" events that feature a variety of electronic music styles, dj's and live acts all under one roof. Breaking through the traditional mold of music and culture has become standard practice for this motivated young musician.
Dross:Tik-006
CD
$14.25

Siouxsie & the Banshees
Twice Upon a Time-Single
PS, US GREAT 1982-92 retrospective of their later singles. Incl. "Dear Prudence" which is worth the price of admission by itself plus "Dazzle," "Melt!," "Kiss the for Me" & the comeback club hit "Cities in Dust".
Polydor 517160-2
CD
$13.50

Siouxsie & the Banshees
Once Upon a Time-Singles
PS, US GREAT 1978-81 retrospective of their amazing run of early singles incl. "Hong Kong Garden," "Love in a Void," "Happy House," & "Christine."
Polydor 831542-2
CD
$13.50

Six Organs of Admittance
Sun Awakens
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-312
LP
$14.50

Six Organs of Admittance
Sun Awakens
PS, US Erupted like lava from what we'd previously thought a mountain, this album flowers red & hot from the earth, destroying in a completely organic fashion. This isn't all happy beans, so you know, in fact it's their darkest album yet. The inspiration is Hermann Nitsch, a little Popul Vuh, as well as Hapshash & the Colured Coat.
DragCIty-312
CD
$14.50

Slow Signal Fade
Steady
PS, US Debut from Los Angeles, CA-based shoegazer outfit, recorded & produced by Steve Albini. Rich, textured sound is that of sonic familiarity which is anything but derivative. Their evocative style, colorful melodies & engaging percussions provide the foundation for the beautiful, timeless & ethereal vocals. With their delayed guitars, clever lyrics & gauzy vocals, SSF is one of those rare bands that aren't concerned with writing the perfect 3-minute pop song. What you will find is an expansive wall of sound that alternates between sleep-like calm, wired impulses & careful destruction.
InMusicWeTrust-024
CD
$12.75

Small Sins
Self-Titled
PS, US Toronto band previously known as LADIES & GENTLEMEN blends literary, minimalist songwriting w/smooth synch lines & complex instrumentation to bring us achingly addictive pop.
Astralwerks-59844
CD
$14.50

Smith, Kenny
One More Day
PS, US Reissue from 1st ever career retrospective (1965-1973) from Midwest soul legend.
ShakeIt-551
CD
$13.75

Smog
Rock Bottom Riser
Ps, US Two heavy, heavy cuts from "River Ain't Too Much To Love" open this disc w/ accompanying videos. Feat. Chloe Sevigny & Bill Callahan. Also incl. 2 non-album songs, a pre-folk gospel song & a countrypolitan romp full of bon sequitirs that somehow manages to fear & gash at one w/ the power of a lion at play.
DragCity-302
CD5
$5.75

Sonic Youth
Kitchen Archives, Vol. 3: Amplified New Music Meets Rock 1981-1986
PS, US
OrangeMountain
CD
$18.00

Sonic Youth
Rather Ripped
PS,US The now O'Rourkeless quartet return with a "straight up SY field on fire, with a compact potency of rock n roll enlightenment. 12 songs of forward motion & harmonic/melodic surprise".
Geffen-6757-02
CD
$14.50

Sonic Youth
Rather Ripped
PS, US Exclusive vinyl edition of SY's latest mayhem. Vinyl only cover art.
Goofin'-11
LP
$13.50

Spoerri, Bruno
Gluckskugel
PS, UK Finders Keepers present the first ever collection of musical works of BRUNO SPOERRI, the mythical character who used to work with member of legendary Krautrockers CAN and composed music for engineering companies and made motivational music for industrial sites and factories utilizing concrete techniques, primitive sampling techniques and contemporary experimental psych-rock and funk musicians. Bruno also composed embryonic pre-Nintendo sprite-themes for the Germanic equivalents of It's A Knock Out and various Takeshi's Castle style fantasy sporting events - as well as educational robot sex films and art school cinematic anomalies. Packed with rare and previously unseen photographs and detailed liners by Bruno, and following the success of Jazzman Records long deleted and HIGHLY collectable 7" reissue a few years ago, this unique collection of Bruno's vast, and largely unheard until today, body of work is sure to go on to similar critical and commercial success! Finders Keepers continues to go from strength to strength and are now at the forefront releasing unlikely cult classics such as JEAN CLAUDE VANNIER'S "L'ENFANT ASSASSIN DES MOCHES" (FKR001), "WELSH RARE BEAT" (FKR003) - compiled with GRUFF RHYS (SFA), and STANLEY MYERS "SITTING TARGET" (FKR005). PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED on any format!! Deluxe vinyl and CD with exclusive pics and extensive liner notes written by Bruno and Andy Votel Remastered by Bruno Spoerri from the original reels taken from his own personal library.
FindersKeepers-006
CD
$16.25

Staggering Statistics
All of This & More...
PS, US From Cincinnati comes a Television/Pavement style of rock n' roll. Bassist John Curley (AFGHAN WHIGS) teams up w/ friends to create a tsunami of sound. What started off as just instrumentals evolved to instrumentals w/ words & not long after that...the 1st local gigs.
ShakeIt-553
CD
$12.75

Stars
Set Yourself on Fire
PS, US Third LP was intended to be a straight-up sex record but ended up being a sex & death & robots record. Incl. members of BSS.
Arts&Crafts-009
LP
$10.75

Still Flyin'
Time Wrinkle EP
PS,US Feat. members of TRACK STAR, AISLERS SET, LADYBUG TRANSISTOR, DEAR NORA, LOVE IS ALL, MASERATI, and RED PONY CLOCK, Still Flyin' is a bit of a San Francisco based supergroup. But even without the stellar indie-rock pedigree, Still Flyin' would be a force to be reckoned with. The band's hybrid of Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, and U-Roy style Dub plays out in energetic and joyfully chaotic live shows that have gotten even the most skeptical and frumpy indie rock asses shaking. What might have begun as a lighthearted nod to good times has become a juggernaut that no one in the band expected andthe groupis nowa San Francisco phenomenon.
AntennaFarm-517
CD5
$8.50

Still Flyin'
Time Wrinkle EP
PS, US Feat. members of TRACK STAR, AISLERS SET, LADYBUG TRANSISTOR, DEAR NORA, LOVE IS ALL, MASERATI, and RED PONY CLOCK. Vinyl version.
AntennaFarm-517
12
$8.50

Stop Smiling
Issue 26 w/ Thrill Jockey CD
PS, US UK issue. "Underneath the Arches" features eight Thrill Jockey artists -- some old favorites (SAM PREKOP, CALIFONE, HOWE GELB, BOBBY CONN) and some new flavor (ARBOURETUM, EXTRA GOLDEN, PIT ER PAT, JOHN PARISH) -- offering their respective takes on the UK vibe. The compilation is the result of a creative vision meant to complement the issue's particular theme. The UK Issue is a comment on the influence of the UK's culture on our own. Thrill Jockey asked some of its bands to record a song, inspired by a favorite British ditty, "Underneath the Arches," a song made famous by Flanagan and Allen, and later by Gilbert & George in their Singing Sculpture performances, and see what would happen. The results are all over the map. Gelb and Parish also interview each other in the issue's Intercontinental Conversation. This will be the first in a series of such compilations from STOPSMILING. 4 different covers feat. Comedian RRICKY GERVAIS, filmmaker LYNNE RAMSAY, director BRUCE ROBINSON & a special illustrated self-portrait by artist RALPH STEADMAN.
StopSmiling-26
ZINE
$8.00

Studiofix
Will Change Your Life
PS, US Unadorned, unaffected rock 'n' roll faithfully played by three teenagers who survived Catholic school together. They combine the innocence of Eddie Cochran, the funky grooves of James Brown and some good old-fashioned in your face female sexuality.
Avebury -14011
CD
$12.00

Submarine Races
S/T
PS, US Debut release from new band featuring PONYS guitarist IAN ADAMS. Jangled guitar-pop that's so calculated to be derivative it's practically sleeping with the entire catalog of mid-80's twee Brit bands.
IntheRed-134
CD
$14.50

Submarine Races
S/T
PS, US Vinyl version LP
IntheRed-134
LP
$11.50

Successful Failures
S/T
PS, US Dipsomaniacs' singer-songwriter, Mick Chorba, has come of age & flown. Originally created to be a solo lo-fi side-project with alt-country overtones, The Successful Failures evolved into a full rock & roll outfit with a sound reminiscent of Guided By Voices, Superdrag, & the Shins mixed with the jangly pop sounds of artists such as Marshal Crenshaw & the Moberlys. Keeping the songs under the 3 minute mark & the production sparse, the band captured an exciting sound that should appeal to fans of a variety of musical styles.
FaceDownRecords-027
CD
$12.75

Svenonius, Ian
Psychic Soviet
PS, US The essays, written in a scholarly yet engaging style, should clear up much of the prevailing confusion regarding events of the last millenium by exploring the use of rock n' roll & art by the ruling class, & the sinister machinations behind popular fiction, film & TV serials. Indispensable for anyone who wonders where rock n' roll comes from, where it's going & what it really means. IAN is from WEIRD WAR, MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES, & CUPID CAR CLUB.
DragCity-307
BOOK
$16.00

Sweetness
Ashtray Floors
PS, JAPANThis charming band comes to our shores way of Japan's Quince Records, but Sweetness hail from California. The quartet took a lot of time with their garage-y, bossa-nova-y, fuzzy country-ish boogie-woogie mish mash songs. The results sound like a blend like of Heavenly, The Cardigans, The Smiths, The Replacements, Joao Gilberto and Motown. It's worth mentioning, though, that lead singer, Marie, is closer to Fairground Attraction's Eddy Reader than to the Cardigans' Nina. "Ashtray Floors" was originally released on the band's own label in 2005. This Japanese edition is remastered and features new artwork and a bonus track.
Quince-033
CD
$14.25

Tam
S/T
PS, US Veteren guitarist & refugee from Django Reinhardt & Oasis cover bands gets tape to THURSTON MOORE who gets addicted & compiles this album of material from her hours of work. Most are originals w/a few well-placed covers incl. Arcade Fire's "No Cars Go."
EcstaticPeace-6934-02
CD
$10.25

Teatteri Moderni Kanuuna
Ooperse Le Feti...
PS, FONAL Teatteri Moderni Kanuuna is a freelance theatre company established in 2000. The plays performed by the company are written by Mika Rättö, known for his contributions to bands such as Circle and Kuusumun Profeetta. "Oopperse Le Feti Le Grande Anaale" is the soundtrack to a play of the same name, performed in Pori in late 2002. Even though the album follows the structure of the original script, it is an independent work and merely references the music heard in the play. Alongside Rättö, the musicians on the album are Pasi Salmi and Harri Sippola (Magyar Posse), as well as Jussi Reunamäki who also recorded the album. The album also features nearly the full cast of the play and a host of guest musicians.
Fonal-030
CD
$15.00

Tex La Homa
Into Timeless Shadows
PS, SPAIN 6 tracks. Into timeless shadows is the new release from UK's hidden pearl Tex la homa. The sound this time is full of acoustic instrumentation, voices, field recordings, subtle electronics and percussion. There are songs about hope, animals, falling in and out of love, people disappearing, and looking for something that cant be found. These songs were influenced by a year of almost dying, being lost, finding out that everything is ok (maybe), the smell of rain after weeks of long hot dry weather, the influence of loved ones, Neal Cassady and the Beats, Robert Graves, Douglas Coupland, The Incredible String Band, Brian Eno and Can.
Acuarela-059
CD5
$9.00

Thing
Action Jazz
PS, US After raking in huge press for 2004's "Garage" album (4 stars in UNCUT) & playing wSituhp Feorjuarz Tzet & Prefuse 73, MATS GUSTAFSSON, PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE & I. FLATEN come back with their strongest work yet. Here they bring the power of their unique mixture of raw power, filthy sound & punk fury to bear on songs by Ornette Coleman, Swedish jazz legend Lars Gullin, Japanese jazz master Yosuke Yamashita, noise duo Lightning Bolt, Cato Salsa Experience & 2 originals. Recorded analog w/only acoustic instruments so what you hear is the sheer power of breathe, wood, metal & muscle. PURE ACTION JAZZ!
Smalltown-123
CD
$16.00

Thomas, Fred
Sink Like a Symphony
PS, US Though more renowned for the work he's done with his band Saturday Looks Good To Me, Michigan insomniac Fred Thomas has been slowly chiseling a solo career for the last five years by way of living room tours, acquired opening spots and late-night cdR burning marathons. Following three limited cdr albums "Sink Like A Symphony" emerges as Thomas' first widely-available if not technically official solo debut. Regardless of scale, the scope of the work makes it hands-down the best. 14 songs played almost entirely by Thomas, with some friends & neighbors chiming in occasionally. A step away from the ultrabubblegum glitter of SLGTM, but still rooted in the magic of the pop song, the music on "Sink" is heartbreakingly serious, ridiculously personal and still stuck in your head all day. Akin to the hyper-wordy spiritual side of Neutral Milk Hotel or the experimental lo-fidelity alchemy of The Microphones, these songs clatter and shake with hope and pain, always on the Virgo of falling into themselves, and sometimes do, coming out of a two minute pop song into a fuzz explosion or a fiveminute drum circle. The entire pressing is on clear vinyl and comes with a lyric booklet not included with the CD version, which comes out later on Corleone records. LIMITED
Ypsilanti-029
LP
$13.50

Tower of Rome
World War I
PS, US A kick in the face aural attack that pulvarizes listeners with frenzied vocals, chaotic 1000mph double-bass blast beats & a wave of powerful, convoluted and
ultimately dirty guitar and bass work.
HeWhoCorrupts-014
CD
$10.50

Trad Gras Och Stenar
Djungelns Lag
PS, US In English, this band is Trees, Grass & Stones. That's right, a psych band! Recorded live in Sweden 1971, originally released on the band's own Tall imprint 1972 in an edition of 1,000, reissued here for the 1st time from the original master tapes & w/reviously unreleased material. One of the finest albums from these Swedish psych/kraut/stoner legends, the true bliss of these trance inducing, throbbing hallucinatory jams, its Ornette-esque guitar lines & liebzeit/Tony Allen voodoo drumming, deserves to be heard by more than the psycho psych collectors. Our time has come, people!
1/2Special-1
DCD
$14.50

Trad Gras Och Stenar
Mors Mors
PS, US Recorded live in Sweden & Denmark 1972, originally released on the band's own Tall imprint 1972 in an edition of 1,000, reissued here for the first time from the original master tapes & w/previously unreleased material.To quote from the sticker: "TGS is one of the best heavy psych improv folk blues rock bands EVER. Toss the tired Krautrock & supposed buried treasures of 'acid folk' & catch the True Communal Wave!"- STEPHEN MALKMUS
1/2Special-2
DCD
$14.50

Triple Burner
Self-Titled
PS, CANADA Triple Burner is a duo comprised of Harris Newman (solo, Hrsta) and Bruce Cawdron (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Esmerine). Triple Burner's roots trace to Harris Newman's debut solo album, 2003's Non-Sequiturs (Strange Attractors Audio House). Bruce Cawdron appeared on several tracks, adding a palette of percussive textures to compliment Newman's meditative acoustic guitar. In the years following, the duo developed their hypnotic, otherworldly sound through recording and performances in various cities throughout the American north-east. Triple Burner's stripped-down, propulsive sound is an intricate marriage of numerous compositional schools - psychedelic folk, early minimalism, stuttering krautrock, traditional folk songs, Delta blues, and raga all dance and whirl around each other, resulting in familiar yet wholly unique structures. The duo creates a lush, complex universe of sounds with the simplest of means, Newman on guitar and Cawdron on drums, percussion, and glockenspiel, often all at once. The duo also performs together in the group Esmerine alongside cellist Beckie Foon and percussionist Eric Craven. "[Cawdron's] drumming helps meld motorik German rock and American primitive guitar in a way that's as evocative as Cul De Sac's pioneering work." --David Keenan, The Wire
Madrona-003
CD
$16.25

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re
Pregnant Fantasy
PS, US Debut album from Toyko, Japan power trio. Unique, creative, weird, funny, funky, cute and frightening.Japanesque rock as only Japanese grrls can do. All songs have great guitar riffs and heavy bass with skillful drum playing.
AustralianCattleGod-001
CD
$12.00

Turner, Ike & Tina
The Soul Anthology
PS, US This 44 song, 2 cd set contains some of the best and most soulful studio Material ever recorded by the dynamic ike & tina turner. This comprehensive, digitally remastered set boasts 4 complete studio Albums, while also featuring the classic original phil spector produced Hit version of "river deep mountain high" This, along with informative liner notes, photos and much more makes it the One ike & tina turner collection you must own! This 2 cd set is a great value quality release and is sure to get great attention.
CherryRed-26
DCD
$14.75

Turquoise
The Further Adventures Of Flossie Fillett
PS, UK Cult UK pop-psych heroes Turquoise burst forth from Muswell Hill with two of the most perfectly formed pop singles of 1968 then went the way of so many of their contemporaries and vanished back to the building sites and tax offices of north London. But this story goes a lot deeper than that... Friends and neighbours of Ray and Dave Davies, Ewan Stephens, Vic Jansen and Jeff Peters would watch with envy as The Kinks rose to global fame during the mid-1960s, eventually forming a band of their own. A little of the brothers' influence inevitably rubbed off on The Brood (for 'twas they) with Dave producing demo sessions for them and touting the results round the labels to no avail. Through Dave, they were soon being managed by John Mason, the infamous 'car dealer to the stars', who had his clients Keith Moon and John Entwistle produce another session for them in 1967. Mason then hooked The Brood up with another of Mason's clients, Tom Keylock, The Rolling Stones' tour manager, who, along with Kirk Duncan of the Spencer Davis agency, secured them a recording contract with Decca, a publishing deal with Apple and a name change to Turquoise. The next few months were spent rehearsing at the Stones' space in London's Docklands, visiting various London recording studios, running with The Who and The Kinks and generally having a ball being young pop stars in swinging London. Although only two singles appeared - "53 Summer Street"/"Tales Of Flossie Fillett" and Woodstock"/Saynia", now much-loved classics of the psychedelic pop genre - the band cut several tracks during this time which remained unreleased until now. However, the lack of a hit single and the fickle nature of the pop business inevitably resulted in Turquoise's premature demise in 1969. Ewan Stephens forged a solo career, cutting further singles for Decca while Jeff Peters and latter day Turquoise member Barry Hart formed the hard-rockin' Slowbone who cut the album "Tales Of A Crooked Man" in 1974. "The Further Adventures Of Flossie Fillet" brings together every surviving recording made by The Brood and Turquoise between 1966 and 1969, including a virtual album's worth of prime 1968 pop in a Kinks/Who/Small Faces/Move style as well as alternate versions and demos. It features liner notes by noted psych/Apple authority Stefan Granados and brand new in-depth interview material with Turquoise main man Jeff Peters. The complete surviving recordings by this cult north London pop-psych act, most of which have never been heard before! Features the much-loved singles "53 Summer Street", "Tales Of Flossie Fillett", "Woodstock" and "Saynia"! Mates of The Kinks, The Who, Apple and the Spencer Davis agency. Ultra-hip credentials! Beautifully re-mastered in the usual Rev-Ola style! In-depth liner notes by Stefan Granados featuring brand new interview material with Turquoise main man Jeff Peters. Stuffed to the gills with fantastic original photos and memorabilia from the band's own archives !A landmark release and a MUST for all fans of quality UK '60s pop, pop-psych, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, The Beatles...Hell, everybody really!
Rev-Ola-160
CD
$14.75

TV Resistori
Intiaanidisko
PS, FINLAND Fonal goes Pop with this release by Turku, Finland's TV-Resistor. Synthy, playful pop with childlike energies, likened to estemeed electro acts like Stereolab, Stereo Total, and Silver Apples, and any other non-dreary, ultra-cheery electro-pop act with brains.
Fonal-035
CD
$15.00

TV Resistori
Serkut Rakastaa Paremmin
PS, FINLAND TV-Resistori's debut album came out in 2004. With their childlike melodies and cheezy synthesizer tunes names like Stereolab, Raymond Scott, Karkkiautomaatti and Mouse On Mars might pop up. If Fonal ever has a hit single it might very well come from Tv-Resistori. Yrjö's and Päivi's male/female vocal duets have become more and more the center of the songs. Now with the apt record engineering skills of the drummer Aleksi they have truly found their own sound Tv-resistori will release their follow up "Serkut rakastaa paremmin" (translates as Cousins Love Better).
Fonal-044
CD
$15.00

Unfortunaut
Of Here and Now
PS, US The result of more than a years worth of Irish whiskey, drunken discussions & late nights out to see the new breed of heavy/loud Chicago bands. Take a Kyuss & a Mogwai fan who worked at CTD, a guitar whiz who can't get enough Jawbox & a drummer who's a veteran of the Detroit hardcore scene & you get a lesson in restraint, volume & forward motion. Crushing, melodic, intense, graceful, manic, pummelling, UNFORTUNAUT is the new loud, presenting three 8 minute epics in unwound energy. Recorded by Sanford Parker (Pelican/Minsk/Buried at Sea.)
FeastoftheUnicorn-01
CD5
$5.75

Vandermark/Nilssen
Love Seven
PS, US Third album from Oslo's PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE & Chicago's KEN VANDERMARK wShuop hearjvaez zpreviously worked together in SCHOOL DAYS & FME follows their 2 "Dual Pleasure" releases. While it seems barely possible, the duo have become even more groovy on this third album. Free Jazz w/ roots in both the American & European traditions: warm, groovy, melodic & funky at the same time as it is raw, wild & energetic. The pure art of spontaneous music. Independent underground jazz at its very best & a free jazz masterpiece.
Smalltown-119
CD
$16.00

Various
Secrets & Sounds
PS, US The definitive sound to Animal Disguise recordings, packed full w/22 tracks & 74 minutes. All unreleased tracks from Growing, Hair Police, Nautical Almanac, Neon Hunk, Viki, Zombi, Football Rabbit, Meerk Puffy & so many more.
AnimalDisguise-025
CD
$9.25

Various
Shadowplayer: FACTORY RECORDS & MANCHESTER POST-PUNK 1978-81
PS, US Multi region format. Shadowplayers is a feature-length documentary tracing the early history of iconic Manchester record label Factory Records between 1978 and 1981. The film was made by director James Nice. The Facts and fictions are explored through candid interviews with 22 key participants, including Anthony H. Wilson (founder) and Peter Saville (designer), as well as musicians including Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order), Vini Reilly (Durutti Column), Simon Topping and Martin Moscrop (A Certain Ratio), Chris Watson (Cabaret Voltaire) and Howard Devoto (Buzzcocks/Magazine). Other interviews include members of Section 25, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Minny Pops, Swamp Children and Thick Pigeon, as well as other eyewitnesses and insiders such as Richard Boon, Annik Honore, Lindsay Reade, Richard Jobson, Graham Massey and Killing Joke. The film runs for more than 2 hours and is divided into 19 chapters, covering subjects such as The Factory Club, sleeve art and graphic design, genius producer Martin Hannett, the riot at the Joy Division concert at Bury in April 1980, the Factory Benelux connection, the tragic suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, the beginnings of New Order, and the decline of the post-punk culture in 1981. Shadowplayers is based exclusively on new spoken word interviews, with soundtrack music by Section 25 and New Order, and rare images and graphics. The cover art is based on the first Factory design (Fac 1) by Peter Saville from 1978. DVD extras include individual profiles for each interviewee.
LTM-2391
CD
$20.75

Various
Stilllysm
PS, BELGIUM Since Aprl 2005, Stilll label's reputation has continued to grow. The Brussels-based label's first compilation, Stilllysm, confirms a commitment to best in organic electronic postpop music with melancholic tinge. The comp includes music from established artists such as Mitchell Akiyama, Aoki Takamasa, aMute, Ghislain
Poirier, Peter Principle, Off The Sky, Benjamin Lew... as well as newer names, including the post-jazz duo Tangtype, the sonic destructured post-rock of Mikale De Graff, extremely talanted and catchy Holiday for Strings (who will soon release their official debut album as a co - production between Stilll and Intr-Version) and many other excellent surprises such as Immune and Nox, both future releases from Stilll. Sometimes melodic and dynamic, other times vast, contemplative and ambient, Stilllysm is a cohesive and powerful record that will listeners in anticipation of the great things to come from this new label.
Stilll-003
CD
$16.00

Various
Club AC30 #7
PS, US Seventh limited split CD single incl. tracks from THE BROTHER KITE, Ottawans DAYDREAM NATION (members of BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE & WARLOCKS) & Club AC30 faves HELICONIA with a new original.
ClubAC-3055
CD
$6.50

Various
Transmissions from Radio Thailand the Tropical Kingdom
PS, US Recorded over a 15-year period from 1989-2004. These 23 collage tracks have been assembled & distilled from dozens of cassette & mini-disc recordings captured on location from the capital of Bangkok to Chaing Mai & Isan Province in the north to Hat Yai in the south. It's relentlessly mystifying & seductive: Molam, Luk Thung, Kantrum, folk & pop, classic Thai guitar rock, antique ballads, novelty tunes, traditional ceremonial music & other miscellaneous styles rarely heard outside the Kingdom.
SublimeFrequencies-028
DCD
$18.75

Various
Coalescence
PS, US From New Zealand's METERMAN, JAKOB, AVOTOR & Chicago's NO FUNERAL. 1st in a series of 4 12" EP releases! For fans of Mono, Jesu, Labradford & Godspeed!
Midium-010
LP
$12.00

Various
Tured In Been
PS, NETHERLANDS On Records continues with what started the label: compiling electronic music offering only the finest electronix. To satisfy this ambitious task, On Records brings on a new exciting release that will delight even the more demanding ear. Among well known artists like Kettel, Adam Johnson and Funckarma this cd gives you the opportunity to discover the talents of the still anonymous Ard Bit and Aver Boodi. It also shows you the electronic side of Belgium on the names of Herrmutt Lobby, Kadah/Vresky (DUB) and Rawakari (Elf Cut) and amazes you with a great track from the Spanish Eedl where they did some releases on the spa.RK label. Additional bits come from Slemper (ETR, Prospect, Thin Consolation) and Loden (ETR, Colony Productions) and Secede who debuted with the US "Merck" label and did a fantastic release with the Dutch label "Sending Orbs" in 2005. L'Usine and E.O.G. will be represented by tracks which previously appeared on Various Artists On001, what keeps the quality of the compilation to On's original level. Finally, you will get inspired by the sofar to "On" exclusive artist Nynack with a new astonishing track (think Aphex style). In essence, this is an awesome mix of international artists that you will enjoy over and over and is guaranteed to make you beg for more music to keep you On.
OnRecord-306
CD
$15.50

Various
Project Bicycle
PS, CANADA Track list: 1) Aelters - Roulé Brouillé 2) Jab Mica Och El Side Car Bicycle 3) Sun Ok Papi K.O. - Pizza Boy's Bike 4) Secret Mommy Gas Prices 5) DJ Elephant Power Bikebou 6) TU M' - Ladri Di Biciclette 7) Romanhead - Bicycle Work 8) Uské Niko - Les Klaxons de Madame Dupont 9) Greg Davis - Sagres (v.6) 10) Wobbly Flee You 11) Jason Forrest* Breaking Away 12) original sample. Eleven electronic / electro-acoustic artists from eight countries unify to pay homage to what listeners of BBC Radio 4's You and Yours radio program have voted as the most significant invention since 1800, beating computers, the internet, and even the combustion engine with more then half the total votes. The concept is simple: Give a handful of todays most progressive sound designers only one sample to work with. They are able to manipulate this sample in any way they choose, but their entire song most be composed entirely from the single sound byte. The supplied sample is a studio recording of a bicycle, recorded by Jesse
Gander at The Hive Studios in Vancouver. This gives equal importance to the materials as well as the method used in PROJECT: BICYCLE. This, along with the beautifully written essay on bicycle riding and it's social, environmental, and physical benefits by Green Party Candidate, Sean Orr, offers a deeper concept to the project. With the inevitable threat of peak oil in our not too distant future, it is time we opened the lines of communication to other forms of energy and transportation. The incredibly international list of artists (USA, CANADA, FRANCE, BELGIUM, GERMANY, DENMARK, ENGLAND, and ITALY) also furthers the concept, illustrating that peak oil, and global warming is everyone's concern, not just one country or region. Each artist has chosen to tackle the project uniquely, embracing his own particular style. Whether it's the playful, electrifying outbursts of Sun Ok Papi K.O's "Pizza Boy's Bike"(Belgium) and AELTERS' "Roulé Brouillé" (France), or the smoother approaches of WOBBLY's "Flee You' (USA), and ROMANHEAD's "Bicycle Work"(UK), the various techniques in composition and style offer an incredibly dynamic listen given PROJECT: BICYCLE's strict guidelines. Perhaps the most interesting piece, GREG DAVIS'Sagres (v.6) (USA) is a collection of manipulations of the original sample played back threw a handheld tape player while he rides around town on his own bicycle, pushing the boundaries of music, as well as this project. PROJECT: BICYCLE is open sourced, meaning the original sample appears untouched at the end of the compilation. This gives the listener a point of reference for each artists song, offering an inside perspective on what each musician chose to do with the supplied sound. It also encourages the listener to get involved on more then an audience level, offering the means to create a song themselves, removing the hierarchal relationship between artist and fan.
Ache-025
CD
$13.75

Various
Soul Gospel 2
PS, US This mixes elements of Soul, Gospel, Rare Groove Funk & New York Underground Disco & brings you celebrated gospel artists such as The STAPLE SINGERS , CLARA WARD & MARION WILLIAMS, alongside many lesser known gospel artists like The SENSATIONAL CYMBALS, & The LOVERS OF GOD, who you're unlikely to find mentioned in any discography of either gospel or soul music. All the artists on this album are unique in that they grew up in the church & their music includes the emotional & spiritual depth & soaring vocals of what would become the defining ingredients of Gospel's secular counterpart - Soul Music
SoulJazz-129
CD
$24.25

Velvolino
Tango
PS, FINLAND *Limited Stock*
Fonal-012
CD
$15.00

Venetian Snares
Calvacade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
PS, US The true followup to last year's jungle techno masterpiece. Consisting of 10 tracks written over the last 18 months.
PlanetMu-150
CD
$16.25

Venetian Snares
Calvacade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
PS, US Double vinyl version.
PlanetMu-150
DLP
$20.50

Virgin Insanity
Illusions of the Maintenance Man
PS, US Legitimate reproduction of an unbelievable, unassumingly great rare recordings from Texas, circa 1971. 4 kids stones & alone & aware of the big things. For the fan of gripped mind & dropped jaws, this is austere, smart, aware vibes that slowly imply the king of American folk privates. Its connection within the dep timbre of the private psych/folk family tree is hazy, but think Arthur Lee Harper, Pete Fine,Fenner/Leland/O'Brien, Timnothy & the Backs. LIMITED
Destijl-046
LP
$18.25

Viva La Foxx
I Knew It Wasn't Love...
PS, US The sound of this rn'coed rn'r outfit skronks out is akin to a pulsating Bikini Kill smeared w/ a blues dirge that comes off as an amphetamine-soaked version of the Scientists. It's been a long time coming but one of Cincinnati's most notorious have landed their 1st CD.
ShakeIt-552
CD
$7.50

Walker, Scott
Humble Beginnings
PS, US Early singles recorded under the name Scott Engel range from unabashed rock n roll to tried & true pop.
Empire-545450839-2
CD
$16.25

Weavers, The
At Carnegie Hall
PS, UK Formed in 1948 in New York City, The Weavers had the most extraordinary musical pedigree and pre-history of any performing group in the history of folk or popular music. More than 50 years after their heyday, however, their origins, the level of their success, the forces that cut the group's future off in its prime, and the allure that keeps their music selling are all difficult to explain as, indeed, none of this was all that easy to explain at the time. How could a song as pleasant and tuneful as "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" be subversive? The quartet went from being embraced by the public, and selling four million records, to being reviled and rejected over the political backgrounds of its members, and disbanding after only four years together. Yet, despite the controversy that surrounded them, and the fact that their work was interrupted at its peak, the Weavers managed to alter popular culture in about as profound a manner as any artist this side of Bob Dylan. Indeed, they set the stage for the 1950 folk revival, bridging the gap between folk and popular music, and folk and the topical song. Cut off in their hit-making prime by accusations of Communist sympathies at the height of the mcCarthy witchhunts, the group had by 1955 become a cause celebre, and were able to book a comeback concert at the prestigious Carnegie Hall packing the venue and performing their repertoire in a simpler more honest style than their pop hit versions... and the public still loved them! Rev-Ola proudly presents a legendary recording of a legendary night....in our series "Americana/Unamerican", in which the Leftist, unconventional, non-conformist, and just plain contrary sides of Americana are showcased...from The Weavers to John Jacob Niles it's a wonderful world... you bet! Darling Corey / Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / Pay Me My Money Down / Greensleeves / Rock Island Line / Around the World / Wimoweh / Venga Jaleo / Suliram (I'll Be There) / Shalom Chaverim / Lonesome Traveler / I Know Where I'm Going / Woody's Rag/900 Miles / Sixteen Tons / Follow the Drinking Gourd / When the Saints Go Marching In / I've Got a Home in That Rock / Hush Little Baby / Go Where I Send Thee / Goodnight Irene.
Rev-Ola-165
CD
$14.75

Wiese, John & Ortmann, Andy
Recorded Out of Tune
PS, US Another collaboration w/ PANICSVILLE'S Ortmann & Wiese who has been a member of both SUNN0))) & MERZBOW. Definitely expect an experimental noise product like that of previous Ortmann/Wiese records.
Nihilist-039
CD
$11.00

With Love
A Great Circle
PS, US Since the late 90s, WL has been a constantly evolving presence on the Italian DIY scene. They have mutated from the all-out thrash/ hardcore of their early EPs to a more experimental & abstract variety of sounds, informed by the likes of Liars, Men's Recovery Project, Black Dice, etc. The CD portion is a 32-minute album composed & performed by WL; the accompanying region-free DVD is a 32-minute film by vocalist Vascellari.
GSL-116
CD
$14.75

Wooden Finger
All This Time Still We're Lost
PS, US An eclectic, genre-skipping blend of influences ranging from classical/baroque to bluegrass/folk that creates an amalgam of sound. The thematic content of their material takes the listener on a poignant journey through human emotions of loss, sorrow, hope & redemption that is ultimately brought together in a cohesive fashion that has best been described as eerie stories disguised brilliantly as songs. Think "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" meets a scene from a David Lynch film with haunting female vocals. Twin Peaks in Mississippi soundtrack form.
Esperanza-006
CD
$12.75

Xiu Xiu
Tu Mi Piaci
PS, SPAIN 5 tracks. Thankfully, 2006 will not pass without Jamie Stewart's impassioned shouts and murmers. Apart from releasing their next album, The Air Force, in September/October on 5RC (on Acuarela ONLY for Spain and Portugal), their new release is a five-song covers EP (think 2003's Fag Patrol and its Stewart-centric acoustic focus) with fascinating style and instrumentation and titled Tu mi piaci ("I like you", in Italian). Unlike Fag Patrol, however, these covers target non-Xiu Xiu material from folks like Air Force comrade Nedelle, Bauhaus, Alex Chilton/This Mortal Coil, Pussy Cat Dolls, and Nina Simone.
Acuarela-058
CD5
$9.00

Yokota, Susumu
Wonder Waltz
PS, US On what may be his most unusual album yet, SY is joined by Iva Bittova (BANG ON A CAN), Japanese singer & fashion icon HAHIMI KARIE, & French DJ ALEX FROM TOKYO. A phantasmagoria of unusual sounds, textures, spectral voices & deep beats that could have been directed by Ingmar Berman or Ang Lee. A deep web of sound encompassing everything from dub, folk, techno, gamelan, guitar raga, classical & avant garde.
LoRecordings-057
CD
$16.25

Zu
Igneo + Remixes
PS, US This power packed Italian band sojourned into Electrical Audio with Steve Albini to record with saxophonist Ken Vandermark & trombonist Jeb Bishop. While modern jazz cellist Fred Lomberg-Holm adds another dimension to this trio's high octane melding of progressive rock, free jazz & more. At times, they spark notions of a 70s King Crimson fusing free jazz with thrash rock to coincide with the windswept intensity of a tornado.
Frenetic-024
CD
$13.75

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Forthcoming Releases

Adored, The
A New Language (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US LA's Adored create a sound that mixes danceable Brit-pop vibe with power-pop hooks over a classic punk backbone. With constant shows in the Southern California area, a critically acclaimed EP last year, and a growing MySpace buzz, The Adored have built up a loyal fan base that has made them one of THE bands to watch in 2006. "Suggests Pulp and The Jam playing a dance party celebrating the British Invasion" - LA Times. "...super-clean guitars, elastic pop hooks, bracing harmonies, big choruses, and LA-centric themes exploring the city's shiny faces and facades-with a more late-70's Brit-stomper edge, The Adored maintain a groove that makes you move" - LA Weekly.
V2
CD
$13.75

Albatross
Blessphemy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Deluxe gatefold, colored-vinyl.
GSL-122
LP
$12.75

Alcian Blue
Alcian Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 26TH)
PS, US Though this CD is Alcian Blue 's debut full-length,the Washington, DC-based group, whose early limited-edition EPs drew favorable comparisons to the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain,have been been around for almost five years, recording records in their basement and developing an underground fan base both locally and globally.The sudden departure of their drummer late last year left them wondering what the future held for DC 's loudest rock band. It was right at this time that vocalist/guitarist Jake Reid and his then girlfriend (now wife) Kim started writing a batch of new songs with heavy drum machine beats and walls of synths and guitars. Blending the neo-shoegaze influences from their past releases with the haunting landscapes of early '80s icons like Joy Division/New Order,The Cure,and prime time Depeche Mode,the new sound showcased on Alcian Blue presents a fresh perspective and groundwork for exploration. Fans of the aforementioned legends,as well as modern groups like Interpol,The Editors,and Film School will love Alcian Blue. If this record isn't loud enough,head to one of their shows and see why the comparisons to My Bloody Valentine aren't due to the music but the sheer volume in which they present their dark ominous sound.
ElephantStone-1015
CD
$12.00

Allison, Mose
Sings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US Rudy Ven Gelder Remaster Series. Featuring: Addison Farmer, Ronnie Free, Nick Stabulas, Taylor La Fargue, Frank Isola.
Fantasy-30011
CD
$13.00

Almeida, Laurindo
Brazilliance (Volume 1) (Featuring BUD SHANK) Concert Creations for Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, UK The Brazilian guitarist and composer Laurindo Almeida was closely identified with four different major genres across a lengthy career which began as a staff guitarist and bandleader at a radio station in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian music remained an essential constituent of much of his subsequent work, whether played straight or combined with his other major loves, jazz and classical music. A unique combination of two historic recordings made in the early fifties by the famous Brazilian jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida. "Brazilliance", which combines Almeida's guitar with West Coast saxophonist Bud Shank was one of the most important and popular jazz records of the fifties. It anticipated the bossa nova explosion at the end of the decade that through the work of Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto would change the face of international pop music. "Concert Creations for Guitar" is Alemeida's first album from 1950. It is a beguiling set of intimate unaccompanied pre-bossa guitar pieces that Almeida performed alone, unamplified onstage in those days which compliments "Brazilliance" perfectly. The music of Laurindo Almeida showcased on this album is cool, sensuous and modern. It is the definitive contemporary beach or cafe music. The attention Tropicalia is bringing period Brazilian music and the fact that original Bossa Nova is consistently popular in Japan and America ensures export potential. Due to the Barbican hosting a "Tropicalia" season there will be a lot of media attention devoted to this style of music..
FiveFour-10
CD
$14.75

Alvarius B
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US 32 instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo0fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles. Abrasive to delicate, these tracks employ appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash & alien tunings. Recorded from 1981-1989 by himself (aka ALAN BISHOP/SUN CITY GIRLS). Incl. 4 unreleased bonus tracks.
Abduction-004
CD
$16.25

Angelic Upstart
Independent Punk Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 5TH)
PS, US This collection of A-sides from all 17 Angelic Upstarts singles is your chance to get up close and personal with these Oi! pioneers. Formed in the UK in 1977, they blended music with outspoken lyrics about the plight of the working class & the powers that be (in the vein of Sham 69) and made history with their anti- racist / anti-fascist stance at a time when many skinhead bands were fast becoming right-wing extremists.
GetBack-153
DLP
$18.25

Animal Collective
Polly/Purple Bottle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, US ORDER NOW FOR ANY HOPE AT FILL. VERY limited (500) collectible single is the Nirvana cover b/w "Purple Bottle" (Rare O.G. version/ Stevie Wonder Mix).
DMD-1
45
$8.25

Antena
Love is to Blame / Remixes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 3RD)
PS, UK LTM is proud to present a 12" single (vinyl only) featuring four remixed tracks from Toujours du Soleil, the superb new album by chic French electrosamba trio Antena. Antena's groundbreaking mix of Kraftwerk, Suicide and the breezy tropicalia of the Gilberto family (Joao, Astrud and Bebel) sounds as fresh in 2006 as in 1982, when John Foxx produced their debut single, The Boy From Ipanema, and future Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant tagged them ˜electro-samba". The label still applies, and echoes of the Antena sound can be heard in artists as diverse as Stereolab, Electralane and Thievery Corporation. "Essential! 2005's most charming musical surprise (Mojo, December 2005). The remixed Antena trio for 2006 consists of main songwriter Isabelle Antena together with daughter Penelope Fasy (replacing her father Sylvain) and hip Brussels dj Axailes Solar. The 12" remix single features four tracks including: *two versions of energetic stepper Le Spinner (already familiar from the Samsonite ad
campaign) by Denis Moulin and Maks Konings. *an outstanding remix of Love Is To Blame by Ursula 1000. * Issy est d'Ailleurs remixed by DJ Miny & Mr Cricket.
LTM-12-2475
12
$9.00

Astor, Pete
Injury Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK Pete Astor, as a prime mover in The Loft and The Weather Prophets, was one of the major figures in the formative days of indie guitar music and the cabal of eccentrics around Creation Records....as a solo artist, he not only continued in this vein, but his thoughtful lyrics and intimate performance style endeared him not only to the chill out tendencies of the Rave cohorts, but to the European audience...and so it was that one of the finest Gentlemen Adventurers of Rock n Roll was taken to the bosom of the French: "big in europe/ troubadour schtick... les inrocks support/ deification - really! I was in a typically gallic great men supplement that came w/ the mag....the prerequisite being that you had to smoke and, uh, be in some way great y'know, me, Serge, Leonard & Nick" "Many travels around around the European continent , note book in one hand, the other superglued to my forhead, palm outwards...the muse following..."
El-123
CD
$14.75

Attack, The
About Time: The Definitive Mod-Pop Collection 1966-1968 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK Making up the four great bands of the 1966 pop-apocalypse were The Who, The Action, The Creation and finally The Attack. Four names that in their brevity summed up the instant flash of mod-pop appeal. They had more energy than an H-bomb after flash, and they hit the senses and the soul with a long awaited wake up call. Led by ex Ready Steady Go dancer Richard Shirman, aka Jivin'K. Boots (!), and future Nice guitarist David O'List , the Attack recorded four singles for Decca, plus a number of unreleased tracks and a radio session. All included here. A definitive collection, which includes such stand outs as -Try It "bugged out insanity, with sexual overtones blowing the Standells version into oblivion"; We Don't Know "a tight explosion of modsoul" ; Anymore Than I Do "a freak beat classic" - plus of course their pre-Jeff Beck version of Hi Ho Silver lining. A special package by Phil Smee, with full involvement of Richard Shirman. - A Must for all Mod Collectors. - Includes for the first time on CD all four Decca singles. - Includes previously unreleased material.
RPM-317
CD
$16.25

Audience
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US Audience is one of the most interesting groups in the British panorama of the late 60s/early 70s. Their sound was a manifestation of their desire to experiment with & masterfully blend different musical styles, such as rock, folk, jazz & blues. If we must make comparisons, Jethro Tull immediately leaps to mind, particularly for the band's use of flute. Audience gained moderate notoriety thanks to their constant gigging & they soon released this 1969 self-titled debut, which featured an excellent use of (predominantly acoustic) guitar (Howard Werth) and equally high-quality flute, sax & clarinet playing (Keith Gemmell), not to mention the distinctive voice of Werth, and their simple, but effective arrangements (in a period when pomp prog rock reigned supreme). "Maiden's Cry," brings to mind "Stairway To Heaven," but it was actually written 2 years before the Zeppelin-penned opus. An excellent debut here feat. 3 bonus tracks.
Akarma-357
CD
$17.25

Audion/Ellen Allien
Just a Man/Woman (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US New tracks incl. a fine slice of noir electro from Allien & Audion emphasizes the strongest elements of underground guise.
SpectralSound-1036
12
$8.25

Baier, Sibylle
Colour Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
PS, US These songs were written in Germany between 1970-1973. Recorded in her home on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the songs on Colour Green are intimate portraits of life's sad and fragile beauty. It is a gem of an album that will blow your mind. Sibylle is a star who chose to shine for her friends and family instead of the whole world. First time on vinyl.
Isota-036
LP
$13.75

Balun
Something Comes Our Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Electro-acoustic pop outfit that composes soft & sweet rhythmic sound collages, simple guitar riffs & subdued glitchy beats with bells, violin & accordion. Music for when you realize you've wandered into an unfamiliar place, but you don't mind that you're lost. Although influenced by American & European indie bands (Ulrich Schnauss, Múm, Boards of Canada), they still exhibit a sonic attachment to their native Puerto Rico. Their waterfalls of sound, with hollowed-out melodies & haunting rhythms, have been showcased on a number of EPs & compilations.
Brilliante-020
CD
$15.00

Banhart, Devendra
Cripple Crow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
DLP
$19.00

Bardot, Brigitte
The Girl in the Bikini (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, UK The biggest female name in cinema, brigitte bardot is the embodiment of all that is sensuous and exciting about fifties and sixties pop culture. This is the soundtrack to "The Girl in the Bikini", Brigitte's second film made in 1952. The original vinyl edition of this album is an almost impossible rarity; amongst the most sought after of all Bardot artifacts. Brigitte Bardot's enormous international reputation is based on her incredble beauty and intelligence and the work she did in film with Roger Vadim and in Pop with Serge Gainsbourg. Brigitte Bardot-the name has generated headlines and cinema queues over five decades. Her very initials are known far and wide and signal instant revolution in films, fashion, lifestyles, sexuality. She is undoubtedly one of he most famous Frenchwomen of all and there has rarely been any woman from anywhere creating such an impact on her times-reverberating still in her retirement, as film-makers and actresses, designers and jet-setters,continue to pour through the doors of permissivity she kicked open with elan. Credible with every pop generation. simply a living legend.
El-81
CD
$14.75

Battisti, Lucio
Unamamente Uomo: Il Sogn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH )
PS, US Known for for his ability to reach the primal core of emotional matters, Battisti did some of his very best songwriting in his early '70s collaborations with the cryptically named lyricist Mogol. This 1972 album, the title of which translates to "Humanly Man: The Dream," features Battisti's gorgeous melodies wrapped up in soft, warm orchestral arrangements. Battisti's experimental pop is worth discovering on this first time U.S. CD release. Original artwork and new detailed liner notes.
Water-175
CD
$15.25

Baxter, Les
Ritual of the Savage/The Passions (featuring BAS SHEVA) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK ABSOLUTELY MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! The amazing genius of LES BAXTER....MOR hitmaker, Jazz innovator, member of Mel Tormes innovative Mel-Tones....innovative and acclaimed A&R man and producer to everyone from Yma Sumac to a series of Biker movies..electronic music pioneer..and here, the Stravinskyesque grand master of EXOTICA in his acknowledged masterpiece album Ritual Of The Savage!!....the inspiration for the entire EXOTICA genre all in one place....here coupled with Baxter's legendary and little heard tone poem The Passions where vocalist Bas Sheva goes absolutely nuts in a gamut of feelings...as Baxter's orchestra spirals to a crescendo of sound! All sounding better than ever in the inimitable Rev Ola style this is the DEFINITIVE Les Baxter CD!!! - The ORIGINATOR of Exotica....Mr. Les Baxter with his acclaimed careerdefining album which also defined the whole EXOTICA genre...AND his super-rare tone poem The Passions.... - Beautifully packaged by the master of outstandingly beautiful Photoshopping, Mr. Andrew Morten esq newly of the county of Zummerzet... - Annotated by the lovely Lounge Laura Taylor...Rev Ola's catwalk queen... - A must for all fans of Exotica!
Rev-Ola-171
CD
$14.75

Belafonte, Harry
An Evening With... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US The album, recorded in 1956, includes songs from Israel, Mexico, Haiti, and in particular, the USA with a Native American song, "Mary's Boy Child," that became a best seller in the UK. This album is proof that Belafonte was not just interested in producing hits, but in creating a kind of global folk music. This Universe reissue feat. 10 bonus tracks including alternate takes and single versions.
Universe-169
CD
$17.25

Bell, Chris
I Am The Cosmos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
PS, US Big Star guitarist Chris Bell was one of the unsung heroes of American pop music; despite a life marked by tragedy and a career crippled by commercial indifference, the singer/songwriter's slim body of recorded work proved massively influential on the generations of indie rockers who emerged in his wake. Lyrically poignant and melodically stunning, this lone solo album is proof positive of his underappreciated pop mastery. 180 gram vinyl.
4MenWithBeards-143
LP
$16.25

Big Star
3rd (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
PS, US Also known as Sister Lovers, Big Star's legendary 3rd album has been released and re-released countless times around the world with different track listings, different mixes, and different cover art. Now for the first time since it's debut release in 1978 is a re-release of the vinyl LP with the original cover art, incl. the innersleeve with the complete detailed liner notes and the original mixes and track listing. The master tape coming directly from Ardent Studios provides the highest sound quality of this vinyl classic - available as it was first released for the first time in 28 years. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
4MenWithBeards-142
LP
$16.25

Bill Fay Group
Tomorrow Tomorrow & Tomorrow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Feat. a new mastering of the material, a remix of "Planet Earth, Daytime" extending the song's length, & the inclusion of 3 tracks not on the CD ("Change Is Near," "Pear Tree" & "My Friend") in place of a montage of songs. This is a sequence that better serves the album format & provides a fresh listening perspective for those among us who've worn out their CD copies already. Additionally, he has written ext. notes, illuminating the period in which the album was written & the intentions with which it was undertaken.
DragCity-319
LP
$15.00

Black Merda
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Hailing from late-60s Detroit, Black Merda (pronounced "Murder") were both aesthetically and musically way ahead of their time. When most black groups (including Parliament/ Funkadelic) were still sporting suits, singing about love and using a horn section, Black Merda had already become a tight guitarheavy freak-funk four piece. By weaving guitar rock and psychedelia into soul and R&B they were the gods of the underground "black rock" movement which fell somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Parliament and MC5. But it wasn't just about the music the message was just as important. As with the original release, features a 30-second 11th track not mentioned in the track listing on the outer sleeve but present on the album.
Lilith-111
CD
$18.00

Black Merda
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Vinyl version. 180gm.
Lilith-111
LP
$18.00

Bleachers
Suspicion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
Ps, US Formed in 2003 under the auspices of approaching every aspect of its music: songwriting, arrangements, rehearsals, live performance - with a keen eye for detail & thorough preparation. Bears all the earmarks of an album sounding equally fresh & forward-thinking as it does anachronistic & obtuse. Lyrical vagueness hearkening to REM's early IRS years & schizophrenic musical urgency akin to the guerrilla-style recordings of vintage Clinic, wrapped all together in the steely gaze of Interpol.
VillageIndustries-3
CD
$11.50

BMX Bandits
My Chain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK "It's a blessing that such a curious and fragile pop oddity can exist in this blustery and busy modern world. Great songs"- N.M.E. "I'd heard about them and then I saw them as the years unfolded I continued to watch and listen filled with a kind of pleasurable envy until ultimately I got to play with them....But I myself am not worthy of untangling the guitar straps of some of the greats who have passed through their ranks. This is a band with an amazing history who still have an air of untapped potential about them...that is surely the sign of a great band...ladies and gentlemen....the BMX Bandits"-Stevie Jackson (Belle and Sebastian) "O.K. Here's the brief. There's a group, without which, there would¹ve been no Teenage Fanclub, no Future Pilot aka, no Eugenius, no Superstar, no Soup Dragons. Just to confuse the argument, it's a group of unique, original vision which deserves appraisal on it's own terms and not be hidebound by preconceptions. They are the BMX Bandits"- Brian Hogg (author of the Guinness history of Scottish Rock & Pop) Formed in Bellshill, Lanarkshire in 1985, the group revolves around vocalist/composer Duglas Stewart. In 1986 BMX Bandits released their first single E102. The single was declared "the worst record ever made" by music tabloid Sounds, Duglas was delighted. The Duglas penned 1992 single, Serious Drugs, in contrast, was single of the week in both Melody Maker and N.M.E. and was voted as one of the top ten tracks of that year in magazines in America, Japan and Spain. Over the years their ever changing line up has featured many of Scotland's finest musicians from bands that have gone onto to international fame and success. Oasis did their first ever tour supporting BMX Bandits and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), a major Bandits fan, announced on New York City radio he wished he could be in a band like BMX Bandits. Twenty years on from their first release the Bandits are still thriving with a new album My Chain being released in the UK June 2006 on Re-vola Records. My Chain is already been heralded by critics as the group¹s best set yet. The group¹s newest member Rachel MacKenzie, the first female Bandit, has brought a new dimension to the group¹s sound. Her beautiful vocals have been compared to Carly Simon and Linda Rondstadt. The band had a sell out tour of Japan in February 2006 and will be performing UK and international dates throughout the year. For more information and a full biography go to www.bmx-bandits.com - Another fabulous NOW SOUND release from RevOla, as this classic cult band return for their Twentieth anniversary of poptastic action! - Mastered and packaged in inimitable RevOla style..... - A must for all followers of the burgeoning Glasgow music scene....and lovers of amazing pop music anywhere, anytime....
Rev-Ola-166
CD
$14.75

Bodycode
Conservation of Electric Charge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Aka PORTABLE who has garnered near universal acclaim for their fusion of tribal rhythms & modern microhouse. Here his mesmerizing percussive arrangements & subtle melodic flourishes create an immediately engaging sound that lingers int he mind long after the club has closed.
SpectralSound -037
CD
$17.00

Bodycode
Conservation of Electric Charge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US
SpectralSound-037
DLP
$17.00

Bong-Ra
Stereohype Heroin Hooker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Packaging: color 12" sleeve. Contains the 4 Bong-Ra track from the CD, and none of the remixes.
AdNoiseam-4
12
$10.25

Bong-Ra
Stereohype Heroin Hooker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, GERMANY New full length CD by Bong-Ra, taking another shot at an updated, twisted rave sound. The god of hellfire is back to haunt every single DJ playlist on the planet, and confronts himself with a high profile crew of remixers.
AdNoiseam-064
CD
$14.75

Bonnie Prince Billy
Cursed Sleep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-316
12
$7.00

Bonnie Prince Billy
Cursed Sleep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Fuck yeah! Fresh cuts from BPB - so fresh that these sides aren't even on a full-length record yet. And 2 out of 3 ain't never will be, neither. From the forthcoming album "Then The Letting Go". Not enhanced but contains a video.
DragCity-316
CD5
$5.75

Boris
Pink (DELAYED) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US LIMITED DOUBLE VINYL.
SouthernLord-55
LP
$23.50

Brasilia
A Life Desired (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 3RD)
PS, US Brasilia is a New York City noisy shoegaze outfit kinda like Apse. Two of the group double duty in Mahogany. A Life Desired is Brasilia's debut full length release, on vinyl LP.
Unovis/Obscurist Press-011
LP
$13.50

Breitbarth, Rene/Bodycod
Spectral Sound Pres. V 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US First in "Spectral Sound Presents" series showcasing exclusive tracks from producers outside the label's core. Breitbarth provides 2 of his lushest tracks & BODYCODE is exclusively remixed by THE MOLE (Kompakt, Cynosure).
SpectralSound-999
12
$8.25

Bridge61
Journal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Given the logistical hiatus that Spaceways Inc. has found itself occupying, Ken Vandermark was seeking to create another mode of expression for those groove-centric hunks of sound...Ergo: the birth of BRIDGE 61, featuring KEN VANDERMARK, SPACEWAYS INC. bassist Nate McBride, VANDERMARK5 trapman Tim Daisy, and newcomer Jason Stein on bass clarinet. With tunes crafted by these stalwarts, and dedications to This Heat, Jackson Pollock & Sonny Sharrock- how can Bridge 61 miss?
Atavistic-172
CD
$15.25

Brook, Michael
Rock Paper Scissors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US New solo album from Grammy nominated artist/producer features guests LISA GERMANO, PAUL BUCHANAN (BLUE NILE), SIR RICHARD BURTON & NUSRAT FATEH ALIL KHAN (RIP).
HighWire-002
CD
$17.25

Brötzmann, Peter
Pica Pica (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US A sweet period piece from the FMP ARCHIVE (FMP1050), on Atavistic's Unheard Music Series- featuring Brötz, ALBERT MANGELSDORFF & GUNTER "BABY" SOMMER. "I remember at one period when Han Bennink couldn't make the gigs - he was playing with Misha most of the time - Albert and I had a trio with Fred Van Hove, and we used to play in a little bar in Cologne which was run by the son of Päffgen brewery, a famous little brewery where Kölsch is brewed. It was equipped with an upright piano and a 20-liter barrel of fresh beer, which was empty after the gig. Albert's generosity and open-mindedness, compared to many other jazz musicians in the period, was remarkable. When he started working with crazy Brötzmann and Bennink, some of his colleagues gave him a very hard time. But I think he profited from our work the same way we did from his experience and musicality."-Peter Brötzmann, Chicago, 10/05.
Atavistic-258
CD
$15.25

Bunyan, Vashti
Just Another Diamond Day (LP+7") (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
PS, US **NOW ON VINYL! ** 9.0 ON PITCHFORK!! Vinyl (+7" of bonus tracks) reissue for legendary pastoral folk album. "About 5 years after briefly surfacing as part of Andrew Loog Oldham's (Rolling Stones) stable, Vashti, now billing herself w/her full name, Vashti Bunyan, made her only album. A folkier & more serious minded effort than her initial mid-'60s recordings, it is a pleasing yet overly dainty slice of British rock tinged folk, produced by Joe Boyd . A certain similarity to some other acts under Boyd 's supervision, such as the Incredible String Band & Fairport Convention , was assured by contributions from the ISB 's Robin Williamson and Fairport 's Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol . For good measure, there were string & recorder arrangements by Robert Kirby , who had done some string arrangements for Nick Drake , another Boyd -produced artist. Comprised solely of original material &contained dignified yet slightly sad ruminations w/a pastoral, indeed rural feel, imbued w/ images of solitary meditations upon rain, wind, sunsets, & open fields. The drum-less, acoustic arrangements yielded an intimate ambience well-suited for Vashti's fragile, measured, almost despondently wispy vocals. CD reissue of this rarity (on Spinney)
is enhanced by four bonus tracks that, w/an oh-so-slight poppier bent, actually rate as the best material on the disc." -Richie Unterberger, AMG.
Dicristina-004
LP
$17.25

Bush, Kate
Under Review (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US 90-minute film reviews the music & career of one of the worlds most influential performers, singers and songwriters; arguably the most unique female artist ever. It includes rare musical performances never available before on DVD. Includes obscure footage, rare interviews & photos of & with Kate Bush from all periods of her astonishing career. Rarely seen promo films; interviews with Kate & colleagues, producers, musicians and friends; TV clips; location shots & a host of other features.
SexyIntellect-502
DVD
$19.75

Cairo Gang
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US They're 6 AM soothe-core for the puzzled, punch drunks of the world. They pick up smack dab where Elliot Smith left off, sporting true lemon drop tunes for the down trodden. Groovy & ghostly imprints that leave one feeling completely defeated yet wide-eyed enough to paint a few self-portraits without a single cringe. Deep, soft rock for tobacco tinged hearts.
Narmack-7038
CD
$12.75

Cash, Johnny
Man in Black-Denmark '71 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Stellar 1971 TV show recorded the year "The Man in Black" came out. Also incl. "I Walk the Line," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Boy Named Sue" & his then-current songs. Unreleased Cash at his prime now remastered pic & sound. Incl. "Johnny Cash Show" guest stars CARL PERKINS, STATLER BROTHERS & JUNE CARTER CASH.
Columbia-82876-85662-9
DVD
$14.00

Cash, Johnny
American V: Hundred Highways (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 4TH)
PS, US
LostHighway-2769-01
LP
$11.75

Castro, Nick & Young Elders
Come Into Our House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Gracefully balancing sixties/seventies British Isles acid balladry & Middle Eastern traditional music with heady, pan-cultural communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas & ocean-spanning folk transcendence. Easily his most far-reaching & deeply molecular outing yet. New band of musicians whose combined resumes include folk & avant rock ensembles Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Damo Suzuki's Network & Cul de Sac. An East-meets-West melting pot of instrumentation- from acoustic guitars, upright bass & piano to Celtic harp, Moroccan tabla & nyabinghi drum. A modern acid- folk masterwork.
StrangeAttractors-042
CD
$13.75

CSS
Cansei De Ser Sexy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$11.75

CSS
Cansei De Ser Sexy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US From Brazil, CSS is the first South American band Sub Pop has foisted upon the global marketplace. The title is Portuguese for "Tired Of Being Sexy" and the sound is a thick, pulsating thing full of haphazard synths and a come-on of call and response that tears down any attempt at posturing. It's equal parts rock mantra and throwback into something new, transcending boundaries of genre and geography. It goes full speed into dance territory, into the unknown and untouched, to emerge all hot and bothered with wild electro-rock. Quick, tightly-wound, unfastened, and supreme.
SubPop
CD
$13.75

Dashboard Confessional
Dusk & Summer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Four years in the making, their long awaited follow up to "A Mark, A Mission." Filled w/huge s3weeping hooks & massive rock anthems.
Vagrant-02
CD
$16.25

DeDionyso, Arrington
Breath Of Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US An energy conduit, driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance & the folk imagery of rock n roll. His first solo album since OLD TIME RELIJUN, & its sounds are hysterical, intellctual, magical, hilarious, sad, ecstatic & beautiful
K
CD
$14.50

DeNatale, Jesse
Soul Parade (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US second release highlights the Bay Area-based songwriter's eloquent merging of musical heritage - both folk music and Tin Pan Alley -- and contemporary song structures. No less than Tom Waits and Rambling Jack Elliott are fans (Waits calls him a "unique and original American voice").
Jackpin Social-011
CD
$14.50

Denny, Martin
Forbidden Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK This is an ESSENTIAL album. Presented here in both it's original Hi-Fi Mono version, and it's Spectrasonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed both originally simultaneously released) for your especial pleasure. Sumptuously packaged in Digipack, making a gatefold out of the wonderful original sleeve featuring SANDY WARNER The Exotica Girl! With brand new liner notes. In both MONO and STEREO...not mere cursory remixes, but two entirely DIFFERENT recordings ...the first time these legendary albums have appeared on CD in this form! A must for all fans of 1950's lounge and Exotica, anyone who wants to hear where ambient music started...and anyone who likes to relax with a Mai-Tai in hand on a late summer evening!
Rev-Ola-104
CD
$14.75

Denny, Martin
Exotica 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and INTENSIFIED releases of music from the 1950's and before....well, here we hit the Daddy of them all...MARTIN DENNY!....from the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises...this time it's probably what my aunt imagined she looked like going out formal yet sexy-looking in about 1962....to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an ESSENTIAL album.....Presented here in both it's Hi Fi Mono version, and it's Spectraphonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed!) for your especial pleasure....with a whole load of wonderful tracks to chill out to!.....Pour the cocktails and dim the lights...for Martin Denny! - The original hit album, carefully remastered in best Rev-Ola style! - Sumptuously packaged in Digipack, making a gatefold out of the wonderful original sleeve featuring SANDY WARNER The Exotica Girl! - With brand new liner notes. - In both MONO and STEREO...not mere cursory remixes, but two entirely DIFFERENT recordings...the first time these legendary albums have appeared on CD in this form! - A must for all fans of 1950's lounge and Exotica, anyone who wants to hear where ambient music started ..and anyone who likes to relax with a Mai-Tai in hand on a late summer evening!
Rev-Ola-105
CD
$14.75

Detroit Cobras
Lost & Found (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 8TH)
PS, US This features their earliest recordings (12 tracks recorded 1994-97). They've never soundeRde csoo rfdierce as on their first single, songs incl. A cover of Nathaniel Mayers "Village Of Love", The Deviants"Slum Lord", Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love", Lee Rodgers' " Sad Affair", Baby Washington's "I've Got a Feeling" , The Kinks' "Brainwashed" & many others!
SFTRI
CD
$13.75

Diamante, Herb
May I Light Your Cigarette? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US This will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery & sin. 11 tracks of alcohol, tobacco & desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. A long, tragic set of strange circumstances & sporadic insanity has somehow combined to create Herb's extended & sometimes frighteningly vivid hallucinatory universe
Abduction-037
CD
$16.25

DJ Spooky
In Fine Style-50,000 Vlt of Trojan Records (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US A 21st Century Jamaican sound system from the Trojan vaults inspired by Spooky's Jamaican summers spent as a child. Eclectic & charismatic comp feat. hits & rarities in an appetizing mix. Perry, Hold, Dekker, Tosh, Levy, Sly, Robbie. Liners by Spooky. RECOMMENDED
Trojan-06076-80558-2
DCD
$22.00

Dr. Octagon
Return Of Dr. Octagon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 23RD)
PS, US (KOOL KEITH, UlLTRAMAGNETIC MCs) Finally, back again to shock & thrill us after years out in the wilderness, he goes straight for the jugular with the release of his highly anticipated new album. Spliced & diced together by the man himself. Recorded in a twelfth century turret in the old quarter of Prague, as well as Byron Bay & Melbourne in Australia. A morphing twisted intelligent organism, an animal yet to be named. Also feat. DJ DEXTER (the AVALANCHES) for the Egyptian scratch flavor & PRINCESS SUPERSTAR.
CMH-9217
CD
$15.25

Elliott, Ramblin' Jack
I Stand Alone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Bob Dylan called him his "long lost father". He's a living link to Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee, and the beat poets. Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Kris Kristoffersen, Bruce Springsteen, and Beck all cite him as an inspiration. Now more than ever, Elliott stands alone, a crucial reminder of a proud and dying American tradition - a self-made wayfarer whose fifty-plus years of experience resonate in every note he sings. This is the most intimate recording of his career, cradled by a family of guests that include Lucinda Williams, David Hidalgo, Flea, Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline. Elliott offers an introspective look back at his career, through meditative takes on favorites and untried material. At 74, he still has plenty of hunt left in him.
Anti
CD
$15.00

Empire, Alec
Futurist (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Alec Empire's new album is the most fully integrated vision of his twenty-first century rebellion yet. A blistering alliance of primitive punk fury & advanced technological overload, "Futurist" heralds the return of the guitar to the center of Empire's musical vision.The characteristic shockwave aggression of his previous outings is still channeled for maximum impact, but the gun-to-temple blasts of tracks like "Gotta Get Out" deliver their powderkeg payloads with a newly discovered blood rush of excitement. Futurist is the most brutally uplifting Empire has ever sounded.
DigitalHardcore
CD
$17.00

Enduser
Bollywood Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, GERMANY Packaging: color 12" sleeve. Three tracks by Enduser, and remixes by LARVAE, MAD EP and LINE47. Originally released in October 2004, this 12" sold out very quickly. It was then re-released on CD, which also sold out. Here comes the long awaited repress of the 12", guaranteed to go very fast as well.
AdNoiseam-41
12
$10.25

Enduser & Larvae
Unraveled Ears (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, GERMANY Over the recent years, Enduser and Larvae have played live together, remixed each others, and appeared on several projects together. Now is the time for both acts to write a record together, in the form of his throbbing, hard and ground-shaking "Unraveled Ears" 12". One new track by each act and one remix by each act.
AdNoiseam-061
12
$9.75

Familea Miranda
Ensayo ? Error (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 17TH)
PS, Chile Formed in Santiago, Chile, in 1999 Familea Miranda is the confluence of three veteran musicians, survivors of the Chilean underground scene from the 90's. In their style, come together comfortably, elements of punk rock, obscure metal, instrumental and psychedelic noise-rock and spots of South-American folklore, always insisting on thematics (from politics, dadaist lyrics) dyed of a fine black humor and abstractions. In their six years of existence, they have known to distill a sound that brings to mind the intricate legacy of Shellac, the density of Melvins and the energy of Fugazi, always watching with distrust the traditionalism of the music generated at this side of the Los Andes mountains. This is their third album: the better in their career according to the critics. Raw noise and complex structures.
Quemasucabeza-013
CD
$14.75

Feist
Open Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US
Interscope
CD
$10.75

Felipe + Forte
Eke Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 30TH)
PS, Canada Popular & acclaimed fringe electronic musicians, Nick Forte and Dino Felipe team up yet again for Eke Out the second sand-blasted album from the dark alliance of Miami noise brewer DF and New York fragmentor NF. Their highly regarded first album, Shaggy Black, which Pitchfork deemed "gorgeous" and The Wire magazine called kinda genius, marked the beginning of a skewed and spewed musical endeavor. The 10 track Eke Out continues in a similar vein as it's predicesor, though perhaps playing up the binary bile and pushing the haze envelope even further. This thing floats with metallic harshness and a brutish pyschedelic clausterphobia, incorporating vocals, percussion, synths, guitars and computer into a frothy soup. Felipe and Forte's collaberative work has been compared to Boredoms, Black Dice, the Dead C and Fennesz.
Sublight-2301
CD
$13.50

Fiel Garvie
Caught Laughing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 8TH)
PS, US Signposts: Low, Sigur Ros, Mercury Rev, Björk, Stereolab. 'Caught Laughing' is the new record by the Norwich, England quintet FIEL GARVIE, and the band's second release for the Minneapolis-based WORDS ON MUSIC label. The collective has released five singles, one EP, and three albums in the decade since their formation in 1996. Produced by Geoff Allen (CAMERA OBSCURA, TEENAGE FANCLUB, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, MOGWAI) 'Caught Laughing' continues FIEL GARVIE's reformation of pop music through nine spellbinding new songs. Rather than abandoning the pop form altogether, FIEL GARVIE cunningly sidesteps its conventions with a distinctive flair and ambience that does not cloud the quintet's fluency in melodies and hooks. The album begins with the lullaby "Special Rate," whose string arrangements and whispered vocals by Anne Reekie pronounce the band as an exquisite practitioner of baroque chamber pop. Reekie's voice - often cited by critics for her poignant, unconventional delivery - is likewise not simply a lyrical conduit, but also a gateway to an enchanting, unfamiliar world of sound. "The Palace Lights," the album's first single, is a deceptively jaunty tale of seaside suicide, set to an insistent keyboard figure and borne along with the sweetest melody, designed to inveigle itself into your consciousness and stay there with a limpet-like sticking power. Mid-tempo songs like "Estimate" and "Daylight" gracefully march alongside AMERICAN ANALOG SET and YO LA TENGO, while "Air Song," the album's epic centerpiece, pulsates and loops in a manner that conjures up the work of STEREOLAB. "Dreaming is good because it outlasts us all," Reekie closes the album's second track "Estimate," and the passage is an apt account of the impressions left by this record. In 'Caught Laughing' Fiel Garvie create an enduring, hallucinogenic microcosmos inhabited by exotic, spherical keys, bashful peals of becalming guitars, subterranean basslines, and columns of percussion that announce themselves in sporadic, yet potent, intervals. 'Caught Laughing' launches Fiel Garvie into their second decade of delivering idiosyncratic pop music, and unqualifiedly continues their tradition of fearlessly flying their flag of independence. Fiel Garvie will tour Japan this summer and Italy and Spain this autumn in support of 'Caught Laughing'. The band has performed with a variety of acts including Camera Obscura, Magoo, Belly, Black Box Recorder, Muse, Deus, and The Telescopes.
WordsOnMusic-19
CD
$10.75

Fog
Loss Leader (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Lex-037
10
$12.00

Fog
Loss Leader (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US New EP from Andrew Broder feat. Markus Acher from NOTWIST. 27 minutes of new music incl. 2 new pop songs, 2 experimental pieces & a remake of "10th Avenue Freakout" w/ Markus.
Lex-037
CD
$12.00

Fosson, Mark
Lost Takoma Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Mark's sound will not be unfamiliar to anyone who's heard an album of solo acoustic guitar or two in their life. Here he plays his style with the same individual personality that former Fahey discoveries such as Kottke, Robbie Basho & Bola Sete had. The Fosson sound is light & smooth, perhaps best represented by the bright & melodious "Sky Piece" - though the entire album is a sweet listen. Over the years he's continued to play music, albeit in different styles than his acoustic guitar picking approach. He's landed songs in a number of movie & television projects.
DragCity-322
CD
$14.50

Free
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US
Liilith-08
LP
$18.00

Free
Self-Titled(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH )
PS, US The 2nd album from UK hard rockers Free was originally released in 1969. Released here with 2 bonus tracks "The Worm" and "Sugar For Mr. Morrison." Original artwork. Digipak.
Lilith-08
CD
$18.00

French Kicks
Two Thousand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US Doug Boehm produced new album "features the finest, most powerful, and also most beautiful, collection of songs by the French Kicks."
StarTime-435
CD
$14.25

French Kicks
Two Thousand (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
StarTime-435
LP
$7.75

Georgina, Cristina
Mapamundi (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 22ND)
PS, SPAIN Almudena López disguises as Cristina Georgina, in the shape of a romantic heroine. Key singer of Las Escarlatinas and Mate, Almudena is besides a prominent flute player, a reputed architect and a talented designer/ illustrator. She is undoubtedly someone with something genuine and personal to say. More importantly this timid Audrey Hepburn-delicate chanteuse is willing to redefine herself as one of the most beautiful singing voices in indiepop. Let's hope she can remain under the radar for a long time. "Mapa mundi" is her first solo album but it has all the necessary components for eternal alchemy and a sonic palette of pop numbers that make you think of Isobel Campbell/Gentle Waves, La Buena Vida, Beatles, Coralie Clement, Nico, Mate, Escarlatinas, Go- Betweens, Ephemera or Kiki D'aki. In few words, pure pop music under the usual blue-blooded production of Ramón Leal and Mateo Guiscafré. Cristina's voice is marvelous, her harmonies warm, and her approach devoid of crass commercialism. You will find no studio tricks here, just the best levels of pop polish, dizzying heights of charm and a reliance on good songwriting and tunes. In this eccentric and evocative guitar pop, you will discover something pure, peaceful and delicately quaint too. Like an old kitchen table draped with a red and white tablecloth sitting in a room with bright turquoise walls. There is also guitar jangling (dreamy guitar textures and playful romps) influenced from many different leanings: The Smiths, The Would-be-goods, Love, Trash Can Sinatras, Field Mice and La Buena Vida/ Le Mans into a unique and refreshing approach that stands at odds with most contemporary music. Mapa mundi is definitely a place where to go and seek shelter. And certainly as good and comforting as other historic pop records: La Buena Vida #1, Deseo Carnal, Cecilia 2, Popemas, Entresemana, Sol de Medianoche, Heliotropo, Soidemersol... Spanish pop at its best!
Siesta-222
CD
$18.50

Germano, Lisa
In the Maybe World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US New album from gifted lyricist & performer features some of her best work to date w/uniquely inventive self-produced arrangements & lyrics that still cut right to the core. Her voice carries gently into a world where distinctions between beauty, love, loss & pain tend to blur. Previous albums on 4AD & previous work with Bowie, Mellencamp & Gelb.
YoungGod-32
CD
$16.25

Glaxo Babies
Dreams Interrupted: The Bewilderment Years (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, UK The Glaxo Babies were born in the winter of 1977 shortly after the death of Elvis and at the tail end of the first wave of Punk. This compilation takes you on a journey through their life and out the other side and will leave you wondering why they weren't huge! Taking their inspiration from the likes of William Burroughs, Captain Beefheart, and Krautrock, it wasn't long before they were in the vanguard of the new Bristol music scene. They sat along side Wire and the Gang of Four - nobody else sounded anything like them, songs like "Who Killed Bruce Lee", "This is your Life" and the legendary "Christine Keeler". John Peel quickly got hooked offering sessions and a even rare chance to play at one of his much lamented road shows. Within a few gigs they were supporting The Only Ones, Adam and the Ants and the Cure. Those who experienced the savage intensity of their live performances, saw Dan Catsis playing guitar with a vibrator and Rob Chapman cutting himself with a glass....a hard act to follow. They released two albums on the Bristol based Heartbeat Records, both which made the Top 20 of the Independent charts in 1980. They were pre punk, post-punk, and not punk - Listening to bands like Franz Ferdinand and The Kaiser Chiefs? take note, we've heard it all before - 27 years ago.
CherryRed-291
CD
$14.75

Golding Institute
Final Relaxation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US High concept album released by NEIL HAMBURGER producer Gregg Turkington (Anton Lavey, Drag City's "Warm Voices" book) & Sydney based damaged electronics expert BRENDAN WALLS. Purported to be a Trojan horse from a radical cult masquerading as an educational record. A disturbing audio program that enables the listener to die simply by listening, using breathing techniques that shut down the body's organs one by one until the subject dies. File under NEIL HAMBURGER
Ipecac-078
CD
$14.50

Graffin, Greg
Cold As The Clay (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US At first listen, Graffin's record may seem a world apart from his punk rock roots as singer and founding member of Bad Religion. But the classic American music he pays homage to here forms the backbone of Bad Religion's epic tales of the young and the poor, mired in misery, poverty, and spit.
" Cold As The Clay" honors traditional folk music with original rock compositions that draw inspiration from the folk-rock of Gram Parsons and Neil Young. The album was recorded and mixed in seven days, capturing the authentic sound of musicians gathered around a single microphone. The result is a vivid, intimate recording that makes you feel as if you're sitting in a pine-floored cabin, listening in to haunting tales of the hard luck that lives around you.
Anti
CD
$15.00

Guryan, Margo
Take a Picture (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Originally released on Bell Records. Includes liner notes by David Rosner. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Sometimes when an cultily-adored obscurity is reissued, it becomes clear that a lot (if not all) of its mystique was due to its rarity. However, this time the buzz is justified: a '60s soft pop masterpiece. The sound is a delightful collision, with surprisingly funky electric piano and Steve Cropper-style guitar leads dueling over prominent, clunky drums and unobtrusive orchestrations. Over it all, Guryan's breathy overdubbed vocals--her wispy, wobbily-pitched babytalk style was clearly heavily influenced by bossa nova pioneer Astrud Gilberto, who covered this album's dreamy "Think of Rain"--give the album its most attractive feature. Guryan is as accomplished a songwriter as she is a singer; her main influences seem to be Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bacharach/David, and that combination of bossa nova and sleek pop sophistication is the watchword. Sweetly poppy, lightly jazzy, and completely irresistible, this is sunshine pop at its finest. 180gm.
Sundazed-5195
LP
$18.50

Hafler Trio/Colin Potter/Andrew Liles
Three Eggs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US First collaboration between Hafler Trio, Colin Potter & Andrew Liles. Originally recorded to be a tour only item. However, the tour had to be cancelled but the disc was not. Limited edition of 1000. Packaged in a deluxe 12 panel fold out cover.
Important-094
CD
$13.75

Hamilton, Dirk
Meet Me At The Crux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US A work considered by fans to be among Hamilton's most mature work, and an album defined years later by Rolling Stone as "one of the most unforgettable albums of the '70s, a gem that deserves rediscovery." Deluxe edition, feat. bonus tracks, lyrics and pictures from the period.
Akarma-352
CD
$17.25

Hamilton, Dirk & Bluesmen
Sometimes Ya' Leave The Blues Out On The Road (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US This time Dirk takes the stage with an all-new all-Italian line-up, to form one of the best contemporary blues bands out there, featuring killer axeman Roberto Formignani - whose forte lies in his ability to pull off amazingly complicated and creative solos - and an agile and robust rhythm section. On the DVD you will also find many other bonus tracks, including an amazing "The Relative Health Of Your Soul Inside" one of Hamilton's standards and interesting cover of "Stand By Me." Don't miss this happy moment in the epic career of this great American blues man, who reveals here one of the most beautiful sides of contemporary blues.
Akarma-349
CD/DVD
$29.00

Headlights
Kill Them With Kindness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US This record is alive w/ a pulse that beats w/ shoegaze spirit. Through its veins runs the lifeblood of an indie pop band not afraid to incorporate a synth wall of sound & a mod organ in consecutive songs, not afraid of anyhting at all. There's a synthesis of keyboards & guitars, of vocals, of ethereal programming & huge drums; a solidification of lyrics centered on the paradoxes, the ups & downs we all experience.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.75

Headlights
Kill Them With Kindness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.00

Hefner
Catfight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 3RD)
PS, US Hefner released records from 1996 through to 2002 and didn't worry the charts too greatly, 46 being their highest placing. They did however find a special place in the hearts of their devoted following who keep vigils for their reformation to this day. Their's is a special kind of 'small' music that rocks but doesn't beat its chest with any bluster, it beckons you with a little finger. Much of their notoriety comes from the patronage of John Peel who had them record 7 sessions for his radio show. Hefner were sometimes wrongly categorized as indie boys in need of a shag but its much truer to say that they had lots of sex, just with the wrong people. Hefner were really a folk band for the mid twenty city dwellers and their songwriter, Darren Hayman always had an ear for the details. Darren was also extremely prolific, although he would disagree; 'I'm not prolific, everybody else is lazy.' These 43 unreleased songs are drawn from a career that saw five albums in six years and 22 singles and eps. Much of the first disk includes songs that were destined to form the basis of Hefner's mellower 6th album and really shouldn't be considered outtakes. They show the band returning to their guitar roots after the electronic experimentation of their last album 'Dead Media'. The two CD then works backward with unreleased songs from all of their records, gradually revealing the scratchy lo-fi punk rock band that existed before their first album that has remained unheard until now. This record shows the spikey underbelly of Hefner, a record for fans that can also hold its own as an introduction to a peculiarly individual band that have their own dirty back alley in rock history.
DarrenHaymanLtd-02
DCD
$20.75

Helmet
Monochrome (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US Helmet reunites w/ producer WHARTON TIERS (Meantime, Strap It On) for a return to the dense, rich & intense analog sounds of their hayday (except it will be digital being on CD an all).
Warcon-011
CD
$15.75

Hodgkinson, Tim
Sketch of Now (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Tim co-founded HENRY COW along w/ Fred Frith in 1968. This work explores his compositional side along with his work as a soloist in recent compositions ranging from 2001-04. Exploring a variety of processes & influences-Korean & ritual Siberian music, improv, actual use of musique concrete & combinations/transformations of acoustic instruments w/electronics & tape. Liners by TH
Mode-164
CD
$18.25

Holcomb, Robin
John Brown's Body (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US A rare talent w/a foot in the singer/songwriter pop world & her roots in the downtown avant garde scene reaching back to the first generation of Studio Henry mavericks. An eclectic program ranging from fragile piano pieces & a powerful new string quartet to several songs feat. her own heartfelt vocals.
Tzadik-7716
CD
$16.50

Holland, Jolie
Springtime Can Kill You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, US Springtime's 12 track song-cycle is a crossroads where haunting meets joyful - a voice from the heavens singing stories of the underworld. Holland's songs rise and fall like heavy eyelids and convey the peace of that place between asleep and awake, creating a special place for you to be. There sounds from past and present-tense waltz together to a never-ending melody that flickers between folk, jazz, blues and pop. Holland's lyrics conjure characters and situations one might find in the surrealistic celluloid of Jim Jarmusch. As with all good dreams, there is an anything-goes spirit leading the way.
DBKWorks-123
LP
$13.75

Holly, Buddy
Gotta Roll (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK BUDDY HOLLY (First Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee in 1986). Features the complete, yes, all the existing demos cut by Buddy Holly before he signed his first commercial recording contract in January 1956, including the four rockabilly demos sent to Nashville in December 1955 resulting in his first contract with US Decca. Buddy plays rhythm, lead guitar and mandolin, accompanying himself, Bob Montgomery, Jack Neal, Sonny Curtis and Ben Hall; the complete Lubbock and Wichita Falls demos, made before sessions in Nashville, Clovis and New York City and before the influence of The Crickets, Norman Petty and Maria Elena. Includes his first known recording c.1949 singing Hank Snow's "My Two-Timin' Woman" both in the usual edited version and the rarer unedited cut. Also features covers of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and Elvis hits and celebrated Holly-billy such as "Gotta Get You Near Me Blues", "Down The Line", "I Wanna Play House With You" and the early demos of songs he later cut commercially - "Don't Come Back Knockin'", "Love Me", "I Guess I Was Just A Fool" and "Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight". A treasure trove of history in the making from this popular and beloved performer! A vital piece of Rock n Roll history in the making! Features, alongside Buddy, country and rock legends Bob Montgomery, Jack Neal, Sonny Curtis and Ben Hall! Beatifully packaged with rare memorabilia and extensive notes from our man in the 1950s, Mr. Dave Penny! A must for all his many fans...Rock n Roll Historians....and those who love music!
Rev-Ola-174
CD
$14.75

Holt, John
I Can't Get You Off My Mind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Features many of his top recordings produced by legendary CLEMENT DODD for the Studio One label. Songs like "Tonight," "Stranger In Love," & "My Heart Is Gone" topped the Jamaican charts & are considered true classics. "I Can't Get You Off My Mind" is one of the greatest reggae love songs ever recorded in Jamaica & showcases just why Holt is held in such esteem. Features rare stereo mixes w/3 tracks on CD for the first time.
StudioOne-116617794-2
CD
$19.00

Hubbard, Ray
Wylie Snake Farm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US New album from legendary Austin outlaw country hero juxtaposes impeccable lyrics w/dirty, primal grooves. Greasy, gnarly, rootsy & rude.
Sustain-001020-2
CD
$15.00

Hylozoists
La Fin du Monde (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Harmonically challenging, sustained, trance-like post rock instrumentals that enthrall & delight with elegance & virtuosity...an ecstatic blend. 4/5 stars."- UNCUT. Nova Scotia band taking their cue from bands like Tortoise & Stereolab, but who go a step further, synthesizing numerous pop influences into a sumptuous slice of lush, cinematic, post chamber pop.
Boompa-013
CD
$16.00

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
According To Plan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US This Austin band has crossed the country several times over in support of "Fear Is On Our Side", and is now releasing the first single from "According To Plan". Described by Res Magazine as an "ethereal anthem with a great bass hook and gently chiming guitars", the song transcends and destroys the generational gap that plagues so many bands these days who were influenced by Joy Division and new wave hookery. This single also includes the "Fear Is On Our Side" outtake, "Close To Here" and the newly recorded piece, "Better Strangers".
SecretlyCanadian
CD5
$5.50

Isan
Plans Drawn in Pencil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Fourth LP who gained notoriety for remixing Depeche Mode but have kept it by making electronic music high in concept that's easy on the ears. Serious pop music full of layered analaog & digital sounds arranged just so.
MorrMusic-068
CD
$16.00

Isan
Plans Drawn in Pencil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic
LP
$16.00

Isleib, Drew
Landing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US The third album from songwriter Drew Isleib is a home-recorded acoustic disc that may be his finest work to date. Conceived as a companion disc to his Summer 2006 100 Day Couch Tour, this is a much matured work from an artist known for his remarkable voice and subtle sense of humor.
ErnestJenning-022
CD
$10.75

Jazkamer
Metal Music Machine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 19TH)
PS, US Jazzkammer, or Jazkamer as they call themselves now, are the Norwegian king of noise, LASSE MARHAUG & JOHN HEGRE (of KAPTEIN KALIBER among others). During their 8 year existence they has explored different kinds of sound expressions & cooperated with different musicians, but the core has always been Marhaug and Hegre. In typical Jazzkammer manner their new album is a metal album! And they insisted on calling themselves Jazkamer, & to be on their own label called Smalltown Supernoise. They have made the album that Lou Reed did not make, taking Reed at his word & made metal machine music in the right meaning of the words. Jazkamer is part of the tradition of bands like Animal Collective, Wolf Eyes, Boredoms, Black Dice, Sunno))), Earth, and Lightning Bolt. Bands that mix the avantgarde with noise, kraut, metal & punk, creating new music with an unpretentious DIY aesthetic. Joined on this album by Jørgen "SIR DUPERMANN" Træen of TOY, Ivar Bjørnson of Norwegian black metal legends ENSLAVED & Iver Sandøy and Olav Kristiseter both of metalband MANNGARD. Art by legendary English coverdesigner SAVAGE PENCIL
Smalltown-118
CD
$16.00

Junior Boys
In The Morning / The Equalizer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Canada's Junior Boys have emerged with a pop statement that exhibits a confident mix of focus, clarity, and ambition. Both tracks are a mesh of futuristic pop romanticism and electronic funk. "In The Morning" is the product of a collaboration between the band and past tourmate, Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars, and a stunning example of the group's melodic prodigiousness. Meanwhile, the calm menace of "The Equalizer" is one of Jeremy
Greenspan's finest vocal performances to date and the crooked electronic twist hearkens back to the band's more avant side.
Domino
CD5
$5.50

Kaada
Music for Moviebikers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US New album feat. 22 piece orchestra to reveal in soft, relflective & mellow tones a style not normally associated with him. Concocted so the listener may construct mental imagery to coincide with the varying soundscapes
Ipecac-079
CD
$16.75

Kashmere State Band
Texas Thunder Soul 68-74 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US The greatest high school band ever who released 8 albums & 3 singles on the Kram label. An ever changing group of high schoolers who could give the JBs a run for their money. HEAVY big band action. Incl. Kashmere as sampled by DJ Shadow. Enhanced CD w/40pp book
NowAgain
DCD
$21.50

Kastner, John
Have You Seen Lucky? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 23RD)
PS, US Debut solo album by the lead singer/guitarist for ALL SYSTEMS GO! & the DOUGHBOYS. With appearances by Alex Lifeson (RUSH), Jim Cuddy (BLUE RODEO), Away (VOIVOD), Jonathan Cummings (BIONIC), Lee Ving (FEAR) & more, & recorded in multiple studios across Canada, this is an original & infectious album.
BossTuneage-005
CD
$14.25

Kastner, John
Have You Seen Lucky? (PRE-ORDER: JUNE 23RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BossTuneage-005
LP
$12.00

Keene Brothers
Blues and Boogie Shoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Tommy Keene and Robert Pollard pair up for this great release. Tommy wrote the music and Robert handles the vocal duties. Great stuff!
Recordhead
CD
$15.25

Klee
Honeysuckle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US The band takes their name from expressionist painter Paul Klee; an apt moniker for a group whose dreamlike musical cascade of guitars and synthesizers showcases extraordinary beauty not unlike a Paul Klee masterwork. Klee explore simple yet affecting new wave melodies and, using their mother tongue, prove German to be both magical and romantic. Three songs re-recorded in English exclusively for this release. Featuring a duet with Nina Hagen.
MintyFresh
CD
$15.25

Kunkel, Leah
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK Younger sister of uber-vocalist and super celebrity 'Mama' Cass Elliott. Wife of numero uno all-star rock drummer Russ Kunkel. Session vocalist extraordinaire (she provided ALL the backing vocals for James Taylor's huge JT album and remains the only female singer to ever sing back-up for Art Garfunkel). Songwriter and master interpreter. Leah Kunkel is all these things... and more! Schooled in the Greenwich Village folk scene where she hung with Fred Neil and John Sebastian, her life was changed by the arrival of The Beatles (wasn't everybody's?) and the international success of her elder sister's band The Mamas & The Papas. Leah visited Cass in Los Angeles and soon found herself among the new generation of Hollywood pop songwriters. She soon signed to Trousdale Music (home of P F Sloan and Steve Barri amongs others) and married old flame Russ Kunkel in 1968. She continued writing and demoing into the '70s as well as cultivating a career as an in-demand session vocalist, contributing to records by Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Art Gunfunkel, Dan Hill, Carly Simon and big sister Cass. In 1979 she released her first self-titled solo set, produced by (and featuring) husband Russ and featuring Jackson Browne on back-up vocals. It contains songs by The Bee Gees, John Phillips and Stephen Bishop alongside her own compositions and boasts a sleeve note by Art Ganfunkel. Its 1980 follow-up, I Run With Trouble, features songs by Jimmy Webb, Chip Douglas and Judy Henske as well as a guest appearance by Graham Nash and a sleeve from the lens of renowned photographer Duane Micheals. - First time ever on CD for these two West Coast soft-rock classics! - Released with the full involvement and support of Leah Kunkel herself! - Featuring guest spots from Russ Kunkel, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash! - Featuring in-depth liner notes, brand new interview material and rare and unseen photographs! - A must for fans of Jackson Browne, The Mamas & The Papas, Art Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb... that whole '70s West Coast scene.
Rev-Ola-167
CD
$14.75

Larvae
Dead Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH)
PS, GERMANY With their second album, Larvae strip their music out of the genres they had been associated with, and focus on a sincere reflection on their musical roots, their position as a band, and their place in the musical landscape. Integrating guitars on most tracks and vocals (by Jessica Bailiff, Shadowhuntaz, Hope For Agoldensummer and Scalper), Larvae give here birth to a very soulful and wonderfully produced album which can not be overlooked, a work of great substance and talent. "Dead Weight" is an album Larvae can be very proud of, and one which will leave its mark.
AdNoiseam-621
LP
$18.75

Larvae
Dead Weight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH)
PS, GERMANY With their second album, Larvae strip their music out of the genres they had been associated with, and focus on a sincere reflection on their musical roots, their position as a band, and their place in the musical landscape. Integrating guitars on most tracks and vocals (by Jessica Bailiff, Shadowhuntaz, Hope For Agoldensummer and Scalper), Larvae give here birth to a very soulful and wonderfully produced album which can not be overlooked, a work of great substance and talent. "Dead Weight" is an album Larvae can be very proud of, and one which will leave its mark.
AdNoiseam-622
CD
$14.75

Leadbelly
Last Sessions V.2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 27TH)
PS, US A great collection that will amaze the listener for the crystalline quality of its recordings. Leadbelly is undoubtedly one of the greatest bluesmen to ever appear on the face of earth and here it shows.
Universe-140/2
CD
$17.25

Les Savy Fav
3/5 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Reissue of their 1999 debut album more than ably produced by the then unfamous JAMES MURPHY (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, DFA). Finally professionaly mastered, redesigned & repackaged
FrenchKiss-003
CD
$16.00

Loess
Wind and Water (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 15TH)
PS, US Loess is back! And 'Wind and Water' is proof that their time away was well spent. As the follow up to their critic-favorite on Nonresponse, 'Wind and Water' simply put; is Loess' finest work to date. Having since escaped Philadelphia for retreat in the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey; Wind and Water is a meticulously focused reflection of these new surroundings while keeping echoes of their past haunts close at hand. The sounds on Wind and Water are both moving and breathing, and crumbling and decomposing, often within a single track. It is at times ominous and foreboding and other times hopeful and calming. It is within these elements that Loess finds a sense of balance. The album suggests a new respect for the two elements that embody these balances; the Wind and Water. for fans of : casino versus japan, Boards of Canada.
N5MD-138
CD
$13.00


Lords
Swords (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION VINYL ISSUE W/SILK SCREENED COVER. This combines the "get in the van" urgency of a forgotten era of SST-influenced punk rock with an awe-inspiring precision & swagger of late '80s American thrash metal. The heir apparent to the throne of the resurgent Louisville hardcore scene, LORDS deliver their unique brand of volatile thrash in a blaze of towering riffs, near heretical rants & throttling drums. Somehow LORDS cram a punishing wall of sound into an inconceivable 13 song, 22 minute long package. Swords is a torrid & unrelenting assault that will leave a trail of scorched earth in its path.
ColdSweat-004
LP
$14.75

Loud Family with Anton Barbeau
What If It Works? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Recording five acclaimed albums for Alias Records during the 1990s, the Loud Family, featuring Scott Miller and an ever-changing cast of musicians, made some of the best pop music of the decade. Aimee Mann (who told Pulse magazine's Brett Milano that Scott Miller is "the best songwriter out there right now") and Magnetic Fields'
Stephin Merritt (who raved about the Loud Family's "gloriously catchy hooks" in Time Out New York) hand-picked the Loud Family to open for them on tour. Members of the band's rabid Internet fan base traveled from all over the United States to catch their shows, flying, in some cases, several thousand miles to see them. Initially, Scott called it quits after the LF's final Alias release, 2000's "Attractive Nuisance." But he has finally been coaxed out of retirement to record "What If It Works?," which features the newest member of the Loud Family, Sacramento power pop hero Anton Barbeau is best known for his collaboration with England's Bevis Frond, "King of Missouri"). "What If It Works?" features several originals as well as dynamic covers of the Rolling Stones' "Rocks Off," the Zombies' "Remember You" and Cat Stevens' "I Think I See The Light."
125-013
CD
$13.50

Lucifer
Big Gun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Who is Lucifer? According to the liner notes (& photos), the group were 4 musicians who often played together in a cave in Arizona, & perhaps in the acidravaged mind of Peter "Lucifer" Walker (ex-Purple Gang) this version was a reality. But for the rest of us, Lucifer was Walker's solo project (meaning, he invented the other guys). Recorded in 1972 in the UK (& thankfully not in a cave), & originally released on Private Press. Like the original release, the LP is all black, w/ a poster insert w/ photos & track listing. This is an essential cult item! (& the moral of the story: just say no to drugs!). 180 gm LP.
Dynamic-030
LP
$16.50

Lusine
Emerald EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US International Rounds out the EP series w/a set of tracks dedicated to his hometown of Seattle. A visceral, eletro-infused rendering of seaboard cityscapes.
Ghostly-057
12
$8.25

Merzbow
Minazo Vol 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Masami Akita's tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Minazo died on October 4, 2005. He was 11 years old, young for an elephant seal whose life expectancy is 20 years on average. He was the only male elephant seal in Japan. Akita often visited Minazo & was allowed access to him behind the scenes.
Important-097
CD
$13.75

Midlake
Trials of Van Occupanthr (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Channels "Tusk" era Fleetwood Mac through Denton, TX's answer to Thom Yorke. Debut album was a quiet classic around here. Mojo & Uncut say 4 stars for the new one!
BellaUnion-412
CD
$16.00

Minutemen
We Jam Econo-Story Of... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US
Plexifilm-028
2XDVD
$22.75

Missing Numbers
No Anecdote (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, US Led by songwriter / instrumentalist Jimmy Peterson, this relatively new Minneapolis band is already creating a sound and vibe that are totally its own. The album is a collection of songs that are dark but melodic, totally modern but evocative of distant and dangerous times.
JackpineSocial-059
CD
$14.50

Model Morning
Your Worst Enemy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US ECHOBOY (Mute) bass player struck out on his own in 2004 forming a band w/shared love of 90's shoegazing & sounds of the now. Defying genrification, big guitars are backed by pounded beats, underlining vocals that almost recall Bowie, Bono or Mark Hollis. More to come from this Nottingham quintet soon!
ClubAC30-3042
CD5
$11.50

Moritmer
Mortimer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, UK Despite the reputation surrounding their highly sought-after 1968 LP, New York quartet Mortimer are probably best remembered for their association with The Beatles' Apple empire. Indeed they recorded a whole album with Peter Asher in 1969 which remains unreleased to this day, largely due to the arrival of Allen Klein at Apple and his culling of several projects. It wasn't the first time that Klein had axed the release of an album by the band. In 1966 the pre-Mortimer garage rock band The Teddy Boys were signed to the Cameo Parkway label where they issued two fine and furious singles and cut an album's worth of material. Klein entered the picture at Cameo in 1967 and nixed the release of the album. Regardless of these misfortunes, The Teddy Boys were hot property in the New York clubs and were soon signed up by B,B & D Productions, a company co-run by Englishman Daniel Secunda, brother of notorious UK pop manager Tony Secunda. They installed the band at their trendy manhattan night club, Arthur, and gave them a flat where they wrote new material in a more acoustic an d melodic vein. An album was duly recorded for Mercury using this acoustic approach and a couple of promo singles lifted. The irresistable opener "Dedicated Music Man" received heavy airplay in the New York area and the album reportedly sold 35,000 copies. Secunda suggested the band visit England in the summer of 1968 and they did so, securing the Apple contract almost immediately when George Harrison heard them play a floor show in the Apple offices. But that's another story... Re-issued for the first time on any format anywhere ever! Features rare bonus tracks and single mixes! Features in-depth liner notes and brand new interview material by Apple/psych authority Stefan Granados! A true collector's item and a must for all fans of late '60s pop-psych, soft rock, folk-rock and of course The Beatles!
Rev-Ola-172
CD
$14.75

Morton, Mandy & Spriguns
Magic Lady (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US One of the best albums of the talented Ms. Morton, who was active between 1976 and 1983 with six LPs. A true prog folk star, Mandy Morton's distinctive voice makes this reissue a sure delight for collectors and obscure albums searchers.
Akarma-324
CD
$17.25

Ms
Future Women (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PRC-100
LP
$11.75

Mutts
I Us We You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Nine track mini album serves up the band's strongest, most focused & fully realized set of recordings to date. Continuing to deliver garage menace & classic rock in spades, it nevertheless conveys a looser, more instinctive stance & displays a wider collective remit. The Mutts are stylised but refreshingly unpretentious; four personalities drawn together looking for excitement & release, and wanting to take the audience with them. They embrace everything from 50's rock n' roll, to blues, glam, rock, soul & beyond.
FatCat-054
CD
$12.50

My Education
Moody Dipper (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Formed in 1999 by members of Stars of the Lid, ultrasound, Cinders, and ST37, the seven-piece My Education is an instrumental hybrid: part space-rock cacophony, part punk rock sonic wipeout, and part ambient bad trip. My Education's 2002 debut, Five Popes, spawned regional tours, college airplay and much critical acclaim. Though comparisons to Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, and Mono were natural to follow, My Education's sound and instrumentation truly are its own. 2005's follow-up, Italian, fueled more national accolades and caught the ear of many musicians along the way. 2006 finds My Education's sound expanding and evolving, with a new EP, Moody Dipper, and an August tour to follow. The EP contains three new My Education tracks plus help from Kinski, Dalek, Red Sparowes, and Teith in the form of remixed Italian songs. Not being one to rest on its laurels or past achievements, My Education should be recording its next full-length release this fall. Track Listing: 01. Spirit of Peace (a variation on a theme by Popul Vuh) 02. Armistice Day 03. Dalek: Green Arrow - Deadverse Remix 04. Red Sparowes: Snake in the Grass - Greg Burns of Red Sparowes Remix 05. Teith: Green Arrow - Teith Remix (Trevor from Pelican) 06. Kinski: Puppy Love - Chris Martin of Kinski Remix 07. Moody Dipper.
ThirtyGhostsRecords-002
CD5
$9.00

North Atlantic, The
Wires In The Walls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Stark yet arrestingly lush music; a staggering blend of NY post-punk, Chicago noise rock, and San Diego punk, all tied together by drunkenly literate character studies and a penchant for textural embellishment and sonic layering.
WePutOut
CD
$13.75

Oneida
Happy New Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Over the past ten years, no one's come close to matching Oneida's output of dazzlingly creative, uncategorizable music. Psychedelia, minimalism, maximalism, one-step, infinite-wave, etc. It's all there. "Happy New Year" is the Brooklyn band's most eclectic and coherent to date. It flows flawlessly from a traditional hymn of grim beauty through hypnotic rounds, thunderous kraut grooves, severe ballads, and other indescribable music. Guest appearances include Phil Manley of Trans Am, Emily Manzo of the Fucking Champs, Shahin Motia of Ex Models, Brad Truax of Home, and frequent Oneida collaborator Barry London.
Jagjaguwar
CD
$14.50

Oneida
Happy New Year (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar
LP
$14.50

Ones, The
Picture Perfect (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US First 12" single to support the forthcoming debut full-length album. The ATOC Voxmaster is an incredible blend of Dirty Disco, Electro & Rock while the ATOC Dubmaster, w/ its hands-in-the-air break, screams for primetime action. HUSHHUSH (a.k.a. Mattie & Gabe of The Rapture) deliver a great electronic & very contemporary remix that will definitely do some serious damage. On the B-Side includes the radio crossover, "Dead or Alive"-esque track "TV Screen" produced by none other than Tasty Tim (T-Total).
ATouchofClass-018
12
$7.75

Our Brother the Native
Tooth & Claw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US A thrilling, beautifully jumbled rush & gush of ideas & emotions. With their campfire clap-alongs & skewed vocals & the use of circuit bent children's toys, OBTN might at times come on like the kid brothers of CocoRosie or Animal Collective, yet this is far from a derivative record. The band's fusion of disparate sounds, influences & approaches forms a unique whole that is very much their own. Performing a neat balancing act between the prettiness of their songs/melodies & the self-inflicted damage of the noise threatening to spew out from its seams or peel back/melt its edges.
FatCat-012
CD
$13.75

Paik
Magnesium Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Follow Paik though the trenches on a mesmerizing 9-year trip of mind expanding live performances! DVD spans performances from 1996- 2005, including an entire set at New York City's Irving Plaza. Experience the full spectrum of Paik as they hone their signature brand of neuron acceleration & progress to new levels of musicality. Over 80 minutes of footage spanning nearly a decade, including their SPACER single repressed as a bonus 3" CD, and a special hidden bonus featurette.
Beyonder -001
DVD
$19.50

Parsons, Gram
Fallen Angel (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
Ps, US On September 19, 1973, the musician and heir to a million-dollar fortune died under the influence of drugs and alcohol near his favourite place - the Joshua Tree National Monument in the Californian desert. As the founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, a member of the hit-making, legendary Byrds, an important influence on the Rolling Stones and the man who catapulted Emmylou Harris to fame, Gram Parsons made music history in only a few years. FALLEN ANGEL features music from Gram Parsons' groundbreaking career with the INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE BAND, BYRDS, FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, as well as highly acclaimed solo albums. Incl. interviews w/Emmylou, KEITH RICHARDS, CHRIS HILLMAN, STEVE EARLE, family & friends w/ great footage.
Rhino-970422
DVD
$21.50

Peaches
Impeach My Bush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
DLP
$21.00

Peaches
Impeach My Bush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Peaches is a phenomenon, a self-made, self-produced, DIY leader of the electro-punk movement and mistress of the original dirty lyrical classics. Unique with her minimal pumping beats and loved by true innovators and fans as diverse as Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Lil' Kim, Kelis, Too Many DJs, M.I.A., and LCD Soundsystem, you'll be heartened to know she hasn't cleaned up her act on her new release. Guests on this record include Joan Jett, and Josh Homme and Feist. "...old school synth loops, gritty drum samples, and a mouth that puts Lenny Bruce to shame" - Wired. "She's dirtier than most gansta rappers. She's a lip sync favorite among drag queens...She writes dance music that rockers will listen to and rock that disco queens will dance to" - Paper.
XL
CD
$14.50

Peden, Allie
With This Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US The piano stylings & vocal poise of Allie Peden reflect the talents of a young artist creatint the craft of a writer with twice her life experience. The melodious, piano-driven rock that compose her debut highlight the skills she has built over the past few years, since she began writing at the tender age of 15. What began as Allie & a piano several years ago has matured into a full-fledged sound colored with innovative horn parts, jazzy guitar tracks & masterful piano arrangements. RIYL Cranberries, Rosie Thomas, Eisley.
Esperanza-007
CD
$12.75

Psycho & the Birds
All That Is Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US
Recordhead-91
LP
$17.25

Psycho & the Birds
All That Is Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US An unoffical, sort of BOB POLLARD solo album sandwiched between two O-fishul BOB POLLARD solo albums. Though recorded spontaneously on a boom box & later worked over in the studio, this is no mere collection of throw aways. It is THE collection of throw aways. Heavy on the 5 Ps: pop, punk, prog, psych & purge.
Recordhead-091
CD
$16.25

Redding
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US St. Louis's Redding are full-time college students, aged 19 to 25, but these four young Anglophiles have created a mature, melodic, and atmospheric album that defies age and geography, venturing into the anthemic turf of Brit-pop (Coldplay, Travis) and the dark, intricate sensitivity of bands like Doves, Elbow, and Radiohead. This record is being released in conjunction with AntiMusic.com, an online music magazine.
RockRidge
CD
$9.50

Remains
Diddy Wah Diddy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Jukeboxes everywhere can rejoice, now that Sundazed is on the scene with red hot relief for those hopelessly worn to bits copies of Epic 5-10001 (better known as "Diddy Wah Diddy"/"Once Before", perhaps the most potent of all singles by the always authoritative Remains). Mid-60s Brit-influenced Americana never sounded so good.
Sundazed-181
45
$8.75

Rockets, The
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK Everything has a beginning, right? And before the classic, much imitated proto-grunge garage band sound of Crazy Horse was even a concept or option, Neil Young walked into an ill-attended show by the band he had discovered on the very recording you are holding....The Rockets, yet another maverick project from the amazing White Whale label....the timeless, hypnotic, crazy yet understated groove of Billy Talbot and Ralph Molin a captivated Young, Danny Whitten's out there ELECTRIC guitar, like a shower of sparks, touched a nerve in a man whose own contributions to out there guitar are not too shabby either!...with singer/songwriter /guitarists George and Leon Whitsell and the eerie electric violin of Bobby Notkoff completing the lineup, here we have another classic band who should have made it...just take a listen to this, their sole album, produced by Barry Goldberg, organist with another shoulda-been, The Electric Flag, and say it aint so! Fate had another plan for The Rockets, though, as Neil Young insisted he needed a road band just like er ...The Rockets....and recruited Danny Billy and Ralph, who rode of into history as 3/4 of the newly dubbed Neil Young and Crazy Horse, making in short order the classic "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (with Bobby Notkoff as a prominent guest player)...the rest you know, or darn well should you bloody fools! - The classic sole album by the band who became Crazy Horse....with the legendary sound already in evidence....it doesn't get much better, bub! - Beautiful packaging and notes by the amazing Steve Stanley. - A must for all fans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Electric Flag, West Coast Music in General...and the scary, wild groove which was Crazy Horse....and THE ROCKETS!!!!!!
Rev-Ola-168
CD
$14.75

Rooks
Search & Destroy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US B/W "Penetration" One of the RAREST of all '66 garage singles, the classic two-sider, "A Girl Like You"/"Empty Heart". From the original master tape, augmented with amazing photos. Why blow your retirement nest egg on an original copy when it sounds incredible on always-reasonably priced Sundazed vinyl.
Sundazed-182
45
$8.75

Sails
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Possesses radiant harmonies, vibrant energy & a powerful, sunshine sound. Delivers timeless songwriting dressed with intricately arranged vocals & instrumentation, covered with immense, brilliant guitar sound. Each track has a masterly musical web woven under instant, infectious pop melodies. A blend of psychedelic brit-pop with 21st century nods to the Beatles, the Byrds & Bowie.
RainbowQuartz-128
CD
$14.75

Salaryman
The Electric Forest (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US After a six-year silence, Salaryman re-emerges from the Silicon Prairie with their third full-length release: The Electric Forest, a ten song set of electronic instrumentals that bounce from the ambient to the aggressive and back again. The alter-ego of Champaign, Illinois stalwarts Poster Children, Salaryman owe as much to Joe Meek and Booker T. and the MGs as they do to Brian Eno and Kraftwerk, embracing technology while at the same time being unafraid to rock and never taking themselves too seriously. The Electric Forest is the perfect soundtrack for a midnight drive down a deserted highway or, in these days of skyrocketing fuel prices, the ideal background music for an evening spent at home watching the next-door neighbor's big screen TV through your living room window.
TwelveInch-016
CD
$10.00

Sammies
Self-Titled(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
Ps, US NC self-taught quartet who channel the early 80's Athens sound through Pavement, MC5 & Skynyrd. "Punk intensity w/a garage rock roar."-Indendent Weekly
MoRisen-087
CD
$12.75

Satie, Erik
Francis Poulenc Plays the Piano Music of Satie and Poulenc (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, UK Exquisite set of historic recordings from the early fifties of Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc piano music played superbly by Satie's friend Poulenc. This Poulenc plays Satie and Poulenc album is one of the most sought after by Erik Satie followers and completists. The sensitivity of the performance rivals any. With the interpretations of Aldo Ciccolini it is regarded as the finest and the sound is pristine. Satie and Poulenc are amongst the most important European composers of the 20th century. the work of both belongs to today and Satie especially is quoted as an inspiration by international modern musicians in the fields of jazz and rock and experimental music such as Frank Zappa and Brian Eno. Eno especially actively developed Satie's minimalism and ideas about furniture music toward the ambient music and "muzak" of today. A lovely performance of Satie¹s best known composition "Gymnopedie No 1" is included here along with other famous pieces such as "Gnossienne No 3" and "Descriptions Automatiques" The Poulenc numbers are also a delight. His most popular piece "Mouvements Perpetuels" which was used by Alfred Hitchcock in the film "Rope" is included in this programme along with "Suite Francaise" that was a hit of it's day and much admired by Stravinsky. Erik Satie's legacy is his position as a progressive composer and his cross pollination of musical forms and contexts that mixed the artistic high culture with the trivial. Since the sixties especially he has received worldwide appreciation and the recognition of his importance he so truly deserves.
El-078
CD
$14.75

Scorch Trio
Luggumt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY!!! LIMITED TO 500. Raoul Björkenheim represents the perfect balance between raw electricity & restrained elegance. Here he is paired w/ Norway's hottest young rhythm section, Håker Flaten &Paal Nilsen-Love, in what can only be described as a classic power trio, burning w/ an untamed, but still focused energy. We get some lovely free playing demonstrating the great interplay these musicians are capable of, beautiful soundscapes & some strange sounding Korean court music vibes. All recorded live in the studio w/o overdubs or edits, & once again to analogue tape.
RuneGrammofon-3040
DLP
$28.00

Screamin' Jay Hawkins
The Whamee (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK MUAHAHAHA.... Screamin' Jay Hawkins was..um... an eccentric man, who wore outlandish outfits, (Leopardskin and red leather were a favourite combo from the 1940's on) claimed to practice voodoo and carried a skull named Henry on stage with him every time he sprang from his casket to perform his amazing music. His "I Put a Spell on You" (1956) remains rock and roll's most singular recording, and was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song sets out the template for the man's career : big-voiced Hawkins singing an impassioned appeal to a lost love or some other banal thing. Very quickly, however, the performance becomes something unique: Hawkins seems positively demented as he sings, threatens wildly, screams, grunts and groans, and sounds utterly demoniacal in reclaiming the lady or whatever as his own, as he does here again and again.. Hawkins' legendary theatrical act was one of the first shock rock performances, and was the progenitor of much that came later in rock and roll, including George Clinton, Arthur Brown, Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, Screaming Lord Sutch, Warren Zevon, and Marilyn Manson, among the many who vied for Hawkins' title as a rock and roll madman. His starring roles in Jim Jarmusch's films Stranger Than Paradise and Mystery Train led to other movie performances, such as Álex de la Iglesia's Perdita Durango and Bill Duke's adaptation of Chester Himes' A Rage In Harlem....and his song "Frenzy" being featured in "The X Files". Touring with The Clash, Nick Cave and Tom Waits kept our man firmly in the news until his alleged death...
Rev-Ola-169
CD
$14.75

Sebadoh
III (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 8TH)
PS, US It's hard to call this the shot heard 'round the world, but in its own way, "III", along with "Slanted And Enchanted", opened up a creative way by ransacking the vestiges of the 80's American underground. The original album is a schizophrenic adventure, from Lou Barlow's plaintive songwriting to Eric Gaffney's noisier psychedelically minded etudes. Long out of print, this landmark album contains the 23-track original album on disc one and a whole album's worth of additional bonus material.
Domino
CD
$13.75

Second Story Man
Red Glows Brighter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 13TH)
PS, US Homies of MMJ & Follow The Train. FROM CINCINNATI CITY BEAT WEEKLY "On the forthcoming disc, the band increases their impact tenfold, resulting in a rich, phenomenally engaging effort that is as imaginative and full of surprises as anything you'll hear this year from the big-shot indie record labels. If you like the textured unpredictability and skewed, hypnotic Pop of artists like Modest Mouse and Stars, you're well advised to check out this compelling foursome." -- MIKE BREEN. FROM THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE KY "Second Story Man has grown into one of Louisville's most intriguing young bands, conjuring a sound that flirts with everything from classic pop to art rock, delivered with boy-girl harmonies that suggest Sonny & Cher raised on Sebadoh. Nearly as intriguing is the band's attitude. It has adopted a work ethic that has eluded many Louisville bands, much less one whose members are in their early 20s." -JEFFREY LEE PUCKETT. FROM CDREVIEWS.COM "This CD is so damn
good that it is a DAMN SHAME that this band is laboring in obscurity." -JOEL DUNMAN. FROM MUNDANESOUNDS.COM "Sometimes a band can make complex sounds and melodies look quite simple. I've been sitting here listening to Second Story Man's debut album, Pins and Needles, for the past day and a half, and I've been struck by how utterly enjoyable their album is." -JOSEPH KYLE.
Landmark-011
CD5
$8.25

Seven Degrees From Center
Catalog Debris (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Fourth full length from the hardest working band in Indianapolis, an engaging and colorful stroke of tangled emotional rock twisted around a rock solid instrumentall foundation. Inspired by the dark melodies of The Cure and the unrelenting passion of Nine Inch Nails. Always on tour.
Recordhead-001
CD
$14.50

Shys, The
Villain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Described as "the perfect hybrid of LA rock and classic British rock", southern California's Shys are a blistering four-piece featuring Iggy style vox and hints of all the Stones: the Rolling Stones, Stone Roses, and Sly And The Family Stone. Having already performed with The Color, Redwalls, Killers, and more, they're quickly making a name for themselves. This is their Sire debut.
Sire
CD
$11.75

Simms, Lee
Baby Mystery Loves Company (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US 12 new tracks of Dead Sea soundtracks for imagined films by Simms who wrote, recorded & performed all instruments & built all loops from scratch. Influenced by film noir & crime jazz, while peppered w/Latin influences.
AceFu-043
CD
$17.00

Smith, Bessie
Empress Of The Blues V.3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US A marvelous voyage into the music of Bessie Smith, "Empress of the Blues" as she was often called. Among the many musicians that accompanied her over the course of her brilliant career, Louis Armstrong, Bob Fuller, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins and Fletcher Henderson rise to the top of the list. Already released as a 3CD box, this collection is now available in three separate single volumes, ending now with this volume 3, Also includes an illustrated booklet with extensive liner notes.
Universe-137/3
CD
$17.25

Smiths
Under Review (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US 90 minute documentary film covering the full story and music of The Smiths. Features rare musical performances, videos, TV appearances, interviews with the band, and expert comment and review from an esteemed panel of experts. First of its kind in documenting the history of one of the most important bands of the 80s. Incl. contributions from: producers Stephen Street, John Porter and Kenny Jones; Smiths fifth member Craig Gannon; Author of Saint Morrissey Mark Simpson; Journalists Paul Morley, Nigel Williamson, Jake Kennedy and John Robb; Factory Records supreme Tony Wilson; and a host of other names.
SexyIntellect-504
DVD
$19.75

Snowglobe
Oxytocin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US Breezy pop songs undercut by darker lyrics. Unpretentious music with a homey, lived-in quality & gentle, unassuming lift. "What I about Snowglobe is the sense of weirdness that pervades, without being overbearing, like Mercury Rev, Modest Mouse & Flaming Lips, like they're high on titular nasal spray, even as trumpets blare in a mock soul celebration over feisty keyboards, or a Neil Young wind blow from the Canadian wilds." -Big Takeover
Makeshift-020
CD
$13.50

Som Tres
Toboga (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US A mad mix of styles that perfectly sums up the sound of late 60s Brazil! They have their roots in the bossa generation, but they're stretching out here with a flurry of 60s styles from mod instrumental pop, groovy psyched-out production, & endless strands borrowed from European & soundtrack modes of the time. Includes more than a few numbers that have been sought after for years by the Blue Brazil generation.
Odeon -54183
LP
$14.50

Some Girls
Crushing Love (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Second album from two thirds of the BLAKE BABIES (Juliana & Freida) joined by Heidi Gluck (Pieces) in a pop rock babe trio of sexy proportions. A ripe collection of angst riddled compostions of life on the edge. Inc. bonus DVD w/personal video shot during recording, rehearsal, gigs & life on the road.
Koch-4103
CD/DVD
$18.25

Sons Of Cyrus
Trigger-Happy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Based loosely on the German translation: "they set that 'over skirt' of its compatriots (Hellacopters, PSeuebptsehrorawnsi,a Gluecifer...) a proper portion garage toward & combine snatch up absolutely first class Raw Power with schnoddrigem Fuzz Punk. Above all singer Loverboy has singe an endowed voice, that the driving, rockigen the necessary Abgeklärtheit & Coolness lends. The Flaming Sideburns would take cover exclusively with a pile Stooges disks in a moldy garage, could be the result this disk." oookay?!
SoundsOf-077
CD
$20.50

Sons Of Cyrus
Trigger-Happy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US
SoundsOf-076
LP
$18.25

Southside Johnny & Asbury Jukes
Live @ Paradise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US In the early 70s New Jersey's music scene was dominated primarily by two great bands: Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Southside Johnny had a diverse sound that passed easily from effervescent R&B to boogie rock, to tender heartbreaking ballads. The recording on this CD is from 1978 and features Southside Johnny in top form playing Boston's famous Paradise Theater in 1978. The horn section is the real momentum behind the band, which amazingly is able to replicate its full-bodied studio sound. The tracks are written mainly by Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, but also include covers by Sam Cook and Leiber & Stoller.
Akarma-358
CD
$17.25

Sparhawk, Alan
Solo Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 1ST)
Ps, US The album length debut from a member of the minimalist-indie-pop band LOW. The entire album was recorded live using guitar loops & reverb allowing a greater immediacy & improvisation to the guitar work than a more orchestrated approach would allow. Without the constraints of working w/ any sounds not at the control of his hands or feet, Sparhawk is able to push his guitar to fill the entire audio spectrum. The disc shows both sides of guitar drone, the aggression of playing a guitar by beating it w/ a fist & the inherit peacefulness in a heavily reverbed slow crescendo.
Silber-049
CD
$12.00

Sparklejet
Beyond the Beyond (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US One of the better rock bands out of California lately had their third album captured here by STEVE ALBINI w/ the requisite crunchy guitars. They "skillfully write songs that cross-pollinate hints of country with a touch of 'classic rock', shards of punk against real emotion, other bands would cower at the prospect of taxing themselves in such a manner. Sparklejet excels".
LongLiveCrime-18
CD
$14.75

Spirit
Cosmic Smile (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US Creators of refined and original albums, Spirit are undoubtedly one of the most interesting groups in the panorama of American rock, thanks to drummer Ed Cassidy (ex-jazz drummer) and guitarist Randy California (friend of Jimi Hendrix, from whom he had obviously learned a great number of tricks). This album came to life between '91 and '95, but it is not a collection, it is a real album and of high quality.
Akarma-356
CD
$17.25

Spoon
Telephono & Soft Effects (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Out of print for almost 5 years, these are presented here REMASTERED in one specially priced deluxe package (with an added video & beautifully restored artwork). With amped-up acoustic guitars, jumpy song structures & a punk attitude, "Telephono", (originally released in '96 by Matador) was the shot across the bow from Austin, TX's fledgling rock heroes. '97's follow up EP, "Soft Effects", feat. 5 of their strongest songs & marks a leap forward in the band's repertoire signalling the great things to come.
Merge-290
CD
$13.75

Spores
Imagine the Future (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Trio fronted by Molly McGuire (MONDO GENERATOR, YELLOW NO. 5, EARTHLINGS, RHUDABEGA) who share stage time with alter-ego puppets. Molly has also appeared on records w/QOTSA, FRANK BLACK & MARK LANEGAN.
SideCho-1024
CD
$14.75

Stevens, Sufjan
Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US He gleaned 21 useable tracks from the abandoned material (from "Illinois"), incl. 3 alternate versions of "Chicago". Some songs were finished, others were merely outlines, gesture drawings, or musical scribbles mumbled on a hand-held tape recorder. Most of the material required substantial editing, new arrangements or vocals. At its best, this is an exercise in form, revealing the working habits of one of the most productive songwriters today. As an illustration, the avalanche refers to the snow & rubble that falls off the side of a mountain, or, in this case, the musical debris generously chucked from an abundant epic.
AsthmaticKitty-021
CD
$14.50

Stills, Chris
When The Pain Dies Down - Live In Paris (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US The son of Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fame) and best-selling French chanteuse Veronique Sanson makes a connection between the two countries close to his heart on this record. It showcases his immaculate sense of melody and earth shatteringly beautiful voice. Includes a studio version of the cleverly titled "Fanny", which is a French translation of The Band classic hit, "The Weight". Also features three tracks sung completely in French. Already featured on the front cover of Rolling Stone, Chris is ready for the world.
V2
CD
$8.75

Stone The Crows
Ode To John Law (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US 2nd album by this unforgettable Scottish band of the early '70s. The music that the band proposes is blues / soul laden heavy rock, distinguished by carefully arranged instrumental parts, a prominent guitar - played by the terrific Leslie Harvey - and above all, the peerless voice of Maggie Bell, elected "Britain's Top Girl Singer" of 1972.
Akarma-290
CD
$17.25

Strummer, Joe
Let's Rock Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Joe Strummer, the undisputed pioneer of punk and former front man for The Clash, is captured in this revealing and touching portrait. Dispelling the punk persona to reveal a die-hard performer who gives it all on-stage, then stays after the show to sign autographs for every last fan, the documentary hits the road with Strummer's new band, The Mescaleros, as they tour for their second album, Global a Go-Go. This insider's view was shot by filmmaker and long-time Strummer friend Dick Rude in the 18 months leading up to Strummer's death in 2002. An intimate and fascinating film, this DVD includes revealing back-stage footage, touching personal interviews, and live.
ImageEntertainment-3257
DVD
$27.00

Sumac, Yma
Mambo and More (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK Yes, THE classic early Rev Ola edition of this masterpiece of Exotica....complete with the outtakes and backing tracks that made it such a hit with not only fans, but on the amazing Miss Sumac's own website....eagerly sought after by everyone since it's deletion many years ago, this staple of the first Creation run of RevOla is once more available! This was the must-have Yma Sumac CD...the one which led to her rediscovery by ad agencies and movie music supervisors....looking and sounding even better!....Believe it!! Beautifully remastered from the original tapes! Contains sessions-in-progress and rarities from these amazing classic sessions....THE definitive edition of this masterpiece of Exotica....available once more....a total MUST for everyone!
Rev-Ola-175
CD
$14.75

Takeovers
Turn to Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US "Album of beautifully damaged pop-rock" from GUIDED BY VOICES alumni BOB POLLARD & GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko. Joined at the bar by a ton of guests incl. Sam Coomes of QUASI. GBV: The gift that keeps on giving.
Recordhead-090
CD
$16.25

Takeovers
Turn to Red (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Vinyl Version.
Recordhead-090
LP
$17.25

Thomas, Fred
Sink Like a Symphony (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 8TH)
PS, US Following three limited cd-r albums "Sink Like A Symphony" emerges as Thomas' first widely-available if not technically official solo debut. A step away from the ultra-bubblegum glitter of Saturday Looks Good To Me, but still rooted in the magic of the pop song, the music on "Sink" is heartbreakingly serious, ridiculously personal & still stuck in your head all day. Akin to the hyper-wordy spiritual side of Neutral Milk Hotel or the experimental lo-fidelity alchemy of The Microphones, these songs clatter and shake with hope & pain, always on the Virgo of falling into themselves, and sometimes do, coming out of a two minute pop song into a fuzz explosion or a five-minute drum circle.
Corleone-621
CD
$11.00

Thompson, Richard
1000 Years of Popular (DCD/DVD)(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Double album & DVD chronicling RT's attempt to tackle 1000 years of pop, which of course he handles with his usual flair and deftness. Runs the gamut from "King Henry V's Conquest of France" to "Kiss" & "Oops! I Did It Again".
CookingVinyl-320
DVD
$26.00

Tippett, Keith Group
You Are Here..I Am There (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US After a brief stint as guest pianist on King Crimson's first albums, Tippett produces this rare album, released only in the UK in 1970. The line-up includes Elton Dean on alto sax, Jeff Clyne on bass, Marc Charig on cornet and flicorn Nick Evans on trombone and Alan Jackson (formerly of the Mike Westbrook Orchestra) on drums. Keith Tippett's sound is in the vein of bands like Nucleus, Soft Machine and the above-mentioned Mike Westbrook Orchestra. Considered by many to be the Keith Tippett Group's best, but which has for many years been difficult to track down due to distribution problem180 gm.
Akarma-338
LP
$22.50

Tortoise
Lazarus Taxon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US LIMITED! After 12 yrs of expanding the definition of rock music, Tortoise will release a highly anticipated box set, including the long-out-of-print '95 album "Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters", rare singles from foreign releases & tour EPs, comp tracks, & previously unreleased material. This set is comprised of 3 CDs & a DVD, which feat. most of their music videos & live performance footage. Contains a 20-pg bk w/ archival photos & liner notes about each track's origin.
ThrillJockey-152
3CD/DVD
$22.00

Travers, Pat/C. Appice
Superstition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 22ND)
PS, US Put first-class guitarist Pat Travers (active since the early 70s) together with an extraordinary drummer like Carmine Appice (whose collaborations are far too numerous to list), bring in the full-bodied bass of Chuck Wright and Tony Franklin, and let them play the music they love (blues rock), and the result is one smoking album.
Akarma-353
CD
$17.25

Turner, Ike & His Kings Of Rhythm
Early Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK IKE TURNER (Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1991 with Tina Turner and into the Blues Hall Of Fame in 2005 alone). The best of the recordings of Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm following the huge success of "Rocket 88" a #1. Billboard R&B chart hit during the summer of 1951 and before he conquered St Louis in 1956 and hooked up with little Anna Mae Bullock from Nutbush. Turner had no more major chart successes until "A Fool For You" in 1960, but this compilation cherry-picks the best (with an emphasis on the most rockin') tracks from the five years following "Rocket 88". Ike sings, plays piano and plays guitar backing singers Billy "The Kid" Emerson, Clayton Love, Billy Gayles, Eugene "The Sly" Fox, Dennis Binder and others. This fascinating record traces Ike's musical quest for another hit, sometimes trying to emulate the sound of other artists hits (you will recognize the strains of Roy Brown, Percy Mayfield, Guitar Slim, Little Junior Parker, Lloyd Price Joe Turner and others here) and sometimes being chillingly original (witness the eldritch "Sinner's Dream") but always being unmistakably Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm! - All the most rockin' tracks by the ever elegant and sinister Mr. Turner....a man in on the very birth of Rock n Roll and Soul as we know and love it!
Rev-Ola-173
CD
$14.75

Unitus
Caretaker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 12TH)
PS, CANADA The Anti-Socialite of the Toronto breakcore scene, Unitus (Daniel Ross) makes his return to fame and fortune as he delivers his much anticipated second full length album, "Caretaker". The follow up to his debut album in 2002, "Cross Contamination" (D-Trash), "Caretaker" is an evolution in the Unitus sound, experimenting further with breakbeats and melody while still preserving that familiar dirty edge. Unitus has struck a balance of deep emotional melodies, while still laying waste to everything in his path with heavy industrial-guitar drones, slower bpm jungle beats and a gritty feel." Caretaker" is power noise with real power, industrial with an edge, techno without the presets, and breakcore with melody. Never conceived of as an alter ego, but rather as a container in which his eclectic musical tastes and experiences could be combined, Unitus was constructed by Daniel Ross in Toronto, Canada, during the summer of 2000. Informed as much by the visceral quality of early industrial artists like The Swans, Big Black, and Godflesh as by the detailed production work of later electronic artists like Aphex Twin, and Autechre, Unitus was an ambitious project from the onset. An early three track demo received welcome attention from Canada's own digital hardcore label D-Trash Records, and laid the foundation for the release of "Cross Contamination" in early 2002. A fusion of breakcore, drum & bass, industrial, guitars, and electronics into an unrelenting wall of sound, "Cross Contamination" proved to be an underground success. Having played alongside such artist as Venetian Snares, Merzbow and Heartworm, the Unitus live act is a simultaneous action of laptop beats, live guitar riffs and various distortion pedals and effects boxes. With the release of the newest album "Caretaker", on Dross:tik Records, Unitus has positioned himself as one of the top artists in Toronto's vibrant underground music scene.
Dross:Tik-005
CD
$14.25

Various
Belly of the Whale (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Conceived together by two of the prime movers in the Natural Art world: Interspecies & Greenmuseum. The goal was to create digital music from underwater sound samples of creatures including orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, Weddell & Bearded seals, lobsters, shrimp & water. A sample cd of 350 captured sounds was sent out to many of their favorite electronic artists. SCANNER, MERZBOW, YANNICK DAUBY, LAPCORE, JAYNE FENTON KEANE, KIM CASCONE & many others answered the call merging deep sea underwater sounds with their electronic aesthetics. This project is a unique blend of modern electronic music as well as an underwater educational experience.
Important-098
CD
$12.75

Various
Version Dread (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Collects 18 of the most sought after B-sides taken from Studio One 45's released between the years of 1966-82, range from straight versions like "Please Be True Version" and "Pick Up Version," to the more modern dub effects found on "Armagideon Version" & "Why Oh Why Version." Never collected before, and long in demand by fans and collectors. Filled with top Studio One rhythms from SOUND DIMENSION, LLOYD ROBINSON, HEPTONES. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
StudioOne-116617719-2
CD
$19.00

Various
Graciously: A Gulf Relief Compilation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US This CD's goal is to raise awareness of Wavelab Studio and its remarkable community of artists while giving one third of the net proceeds to New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity Musicians Village Project to aid in their work in the Gulf Coast area. All artists on this collection are affiliated with Wavelab and all songs are new and previously unreleased. Contributors include John Doe, Robyn Hitchcock, Howe Gelb with Scout Niblett, Calexico, Steve Wynn, Amelia White, Richmond Fontaine, Nik Freitas, Devotchka, Tony Furtado, Luca, and Friends Of Dean Martinez.
Funzalo
CD
$14.50

Various
Some Of The Interesting Things You'll See On A Long Distance Flight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM is pleased to announce the CD reissue of the classic Crepuscule 1982 tour souvenir compilation Some of the interesting things you'll see on a long distance flight. All tracks on the 76 minute CD were recorded live on the Dialogue North-South tour in February 1982, an ambitious multi-media package which visited London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and several other major cities. Organised by Les Disques du Crepuscule, the tour CD features exclusive live recordings by several key participants, including the legendary Durutti Column, Paul Haig (ex Josef K, here with Rhythm of Life), chic French electro-samba trio Antena, Belgian Factory band The Names, poet Richard Jobson and emcee Wally Van Middendorp (of Minny Pops). Long-deleted, the extended CD also features a deluxe booklet featuring many rare photographs, together with an on-the-spot report by journalist Johnny Waller, and liner notes by James Nice. A facsimile of the original tour programme is also included. The CD is a must for collectors of Crepuscule and Factory Records artists, not least because it includes songs by Durutti Column, Paul Haig and The Names which were never studio recorded, and do not appear elsewhere.
LTM-2467
CD
$17.00

Various
Silverware (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 19TH)
PS, US 5th anniversary compilation filled to capacity with AUDRAGLINT faves & rarities from their fertile homeland of Portland. 73 mins of UNRELEASED OR EXCLUSIVE tracks incl. TARWATER, GRIZZLY BEAR, VALET, CHARLES ATLAS, KID 606 & WAYNE SODABHERK, CAURAL, SIGNALDRIFT, NUDGE, SEMS, BUGSKULL, STRATEGY, tons more!
Audraglint-113
CD
$14.75

Various
It's A Trap Reader's Companion Volume 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Volume two of the It's A Trap! Reader's Companion series, 17 tracks from promising Scandinavian artists. This time almost half of the tracks are being heard here for the first time anywhere! Essential? Hell yes! Includes Hello Saferide, Ricochets, Viola, Björn Kleinhenz (exclusive), Plain Fade (exclusive), The Bear Quartet, Moonbabies (exclusive), Munck//Johnson, Phonophani, Money.Paper.ThePolice (exclusive), Det Gamla Landet (exclusive), The First Miles, Paris, The End Will Be Kicks (exclusive), Don Juan Dracula, Tiger Lou, The Grand Opening (exclusive). It's A Trap! is the premier Scandinavian music new and resource site, www.itsatrap.com, Jim goes there every day!
ItsATrap!
CD
$5.50

Various
Hello Radio: They Might Might Be Giants (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US 20 years after releasing their debut album, Bar/None puts together an interesting tribute to those 2 wise guys feat. FRANK BLACK, LONG WINTERS, OK GO, WRENS, HOTEL LIGHTS, JASON TRACHTENBURG & STEVE BURNS.
Bar/None-180
CD
$15.50

Various + Arthur Askey-Band Waggon
Big Hearted Arthur Goes to War (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 5TH)
PS, UK 22 tracks. CD41 are pleased to announce a 74 minute CD from the celebrated 1940s radio comedy Band Waggon, together with several vintage wartime recordings by the show's resident comedian, Arthur Askey. Band Waggon made stars of Arthur 'Big' Askey and Richard 'Stinker' Murdoch, and ran on BBC radio between 1938 and 1940. Attracting almost 20 million listeners at its peak, the program also spawned a hit stage show and a film, as well as a host of deathless catchphrases including "aythangyow", "what would you do, chums?", doesn't it make you want to spit", "don't be filthy" and "light the blue touchpaper and stand well clear". Band Waggon can also claim to be the first British sitcom. This digitally remastered CD includes the very last Band Waggon studio show from December 1939, as well as favourites such as Chestnut Corner and The Proposal. Also featured are several of Arthur's trademark "silly little songs" including the evergreen Bee Song. Askey recorded several topical comedy songs during the Second World War, including Get in Your Shelter, The Thing-Ummy-Bob, The Washing on the Siegfried Line, What a Nice Lot of Nazis, When That Man is Dead and Gone, Adolf (for which he was placed on a Gestapo arrest list) and Thanks for Dropping In Mr Hess, issued after the surprise arrival of Rudolf Hess in May 1941 and immediately withdrawn by order of the government. Band Waggon / Big Hearted Arthur Goes to War runs for 74 minutes, and features vintage photos and illustrations in the booklet, as well as a detailed history of the Band Waggon show. A must for all nostalgia, variety and comedy buffs!
CD41-012
CD
$17.00

Velvet Teen
Cum Laude (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US A sea change record wherein VT restlessly kick through genre barriers & eagerly change their sound & style for each release. Their new guise is a unique & dirty mix of IDM, frantic drumming & Nagler's soaring voice.
Slowdance-028
CD
$13.75

Web
I Spider (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US One of the hidden jewels of British prog, led by the prominent Hammond playing of Dave Lawson (soon to be of Greenslade). Blues / jazz-laced prog in the vein of Cressida and Titus Groan also featuring the sax and flutes of Tom Harris. The opening track, "Concerto For Bedsprings," is a 4-part suite that travels through rock and jazz territory, followed by the slow and dramatic title track "I Spider;" the use of Mellotron, sax and organ on "Love You" brings King Crimson to mind, "Ymphasomniac" is percussion dominated instrumental track bring to mind the best Gentle Giant; and Dave Lawson's jazzy vocals & excellent Hammond playing on "Always I Wait." Fans of Colosseum, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Titus Groan, Cressida, etc. will find what they're looking for, but WEB were no copy cats. They are innovators of the genre; after this album, they changed their name to Samurai (1971) and go on to make another great album. 180 gm
Akarma-336
LP
$22.50

White Whale
WWI (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 25TH)
PS, US Feat. the intrepid BUTTERGLORY; the fearless GET UP KIDS; THEE (fearsome) HIGHER BURNING FIRE; & the brave, chivalrous MATT SUGGS- Amassing the power of the Big Star with the fury of the Sabbath (Black) & the mesmerizing wiles of the Badfinger the gentlemen of White (F-in') Whale are not afraid to ask the musical question "What's an Ocean For?" Beware ye Decemberists & those who would set the Arcade (a)Fire, the Okkervil River can not contain the enormity here.
Merge-281
CD
$14.25

Wire
Pink Flag (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 15TH)
PS, US Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gm.
4MenwithBeards-508
LP
$16.25

Wire
154 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 15TH)
PS, US If Chairs Missing is the transition album from punk to post-punk, 154 is definitely of the latter genre. Synth moves to the forefront on this 1979 third album from Wire along with melodies that help humanize the electronic textures. Named for the number of gigs the band had played to that point, 154 shows how far this band had come in three years over three albums. Original artwork. First time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
4MenwithBeards-510
LP
$16.25

Wire
Chairs Missing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 15TH)
PS, US With its Eno-esque synth textures, Chairs Missing has been often cited as the evolutionary link between punk and post-punk. In general, the lyrics are darker than those on Pink Flag, even morbid at times; images of cold, drowning, pain, and suicide haunt the record, and the title itself is a reference to mental instability. Originally released in 1978 and now available for the first time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Original artwork.
4MenwithBeards-509
LP
$16.25

Wisp
Honor Beats (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 30TH)
PS, CANADA Wisp brings back the fractal speed breaks and sky painted melodies this time in a much more upbeat fashion with his latest album "HONOR BEATS". Leaving behind the gentle headiness of his smasher debut "Nrthndr" for super charged rave style assaults this essential and uncompromising new album does not disappoint to follow up Wisp's hugely successful debut release. HONOR BEATS is another unmissable, tight and headwrecking album from one of the best new producers in electronic music. "You must surrender to Wisp's sweet tunes, so beautifully arranged that they smoothen rhythms that otherwise would be called breakcore." Igloo Magazine. "Every Track is a bomb ... a bomb which explodes quiet in your head. Calm Electronica, wonderful melodies meet beats which force you to move your feet. Magic!" Cuemix Magazine.
Sublight-1003
CD
$13.50

Wooden O
A Handful Of Pleasant Delites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US An obscure and rare record from this folk act led by James Harpham, (who plays the recorder, an ancient flute-like instrument) the album was originally released by Middle Earth in 1969 - the same label as Arcanum and Writing On The Wall - and feat. an interesting blend of acoustic folk, baroque
medleys, jazz improvisations and experimental music constantly shifting from pastoral atmospheres to urban neurosis.
Akarma-322
CD
$17.25

Working Title
About-Face (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US "4 piece alternative rock band from Charleston, SC. TWT have toured with Mute Math, Switchfoot, Mae, Athlete, Our Lady Peace, Warped Tour, & Copeland. Currently out now with Augstana. "Emotional indie rock that never asksf ro forgiveness & always delivers hands-down some of the best
melodie rock this year."-Smother Magazine
Universal -02
CD
$10.75

XTC
Apple Box (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 18TH)
PS, US SPECIAL ORDER ONLY!!! This 4 disc set contains the complete Apple Works recordings incl. the demos of "Apple Venus" & " Wasp Star" which gives a fascinating insight into their recorded works. Beautifully packaged in a square white box w/ the Peacock feather motif varnished in gloss onto the box lid. Inside will be a special content card, fans can use to download 2 brand new tracks from their web site + a free ringtone. Each disc is packaged w/brand new artwork in a cardboard wallet w/ a 64 pg bk w/ new liner notes by Andy & Colin.
TVT-2532
4CD
$34.00

Yip-Yip
In the Reptile House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 27TH)
PS, US Yip-Yip is Brian Esser & Jason Temple. Formed in March 2001, they have played shows with acts like Lightning Bolt, Xiu Xiu, Glass Candy, MC Chris, Animal Collective, XBXRX & many more. They were chosen by Orlando Weekly as "Best Electronic Act" in 2004 & 2005.
SAF-013
CD
$13.75

Yorke, Thom
The Eraser (PRE-ORDER: SALERABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$17.00

Yorke, Thom
The Eraser (PRE-ORDER: SALERABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US This is Yorke's first solo album. "The Eraser" features nine new tracks and was produced by Nigel Godrich. Thom is currently on tour with Radiohead, who are showcasing brand new material alongside old favorites. Radiohead continue to tour through the summer, playing the US in June and festivals across Europe in August.
XL
CD
$15.00

Zoroaster
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 11TH)
PS, US Behold the debut of one of the most promising doom acts that the US has to offer. These Atlanta based doom metal masters will leave listeners flattened in their sonic barrage of amp-worshipping, guitar driven, low-ended tracks.
SouthernLord-057
CD
$11.75

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Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Anomaly ‘Long Road’ CD $14.50

Auto Da Fe ‘Spectre’ CD $14.50

Bardo Pond ‘Ticket Crystals’ CD $17.00

Barker, Sophie ‘Earthbound’ CD $14.50

Bassey, Shirley ‘Classics’ DCD $17.75

Can ‘Delay 1968’ CD $16.25

Charlatans UK ‘Live at Last: Brixton Academy [DVD]’ DVD $17.75

Deltahead ‘S-T’ CD $13.50

Erickson, Roky ‘Evil One’ DLP $17.75

Finn, Kevin ‘Vessels’ CD $11.00

Grief ‘Alive in Boston’ CD $15.25

Ingenting ‘Sommardagboken’ CD5 $10.50

Israelvis ‘The Israelvis Effect’ CD $12.00

Kettel ‘My Dogan’ CD $15.50

Lancaster Orchestra, The ‘With Help From Absent Friends’ CD $13.50

Lassie Foundation ‘Through And Through’ DCD $12.00

Lil' Hospital, The ‘Heavy Metal’ CD $9.00

Martyn, John ‘Live’ DVD $21.50

Mojave 3 ‘Puzzles Like You’ LP $10.25

Mojave 3 ‘Puzzles Like You’ CD $12.50

Mudhoney ‘It Is Us b/w Dig Those Trenches’ 45 $4.00

Paris ‘Secrets On Tape’ CD $13.50

Pissed Jeans ‘Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear b/w Love Clown’ 45 $4.00

Secret Ink, The ‘The Secret Ink’ CD $10.50

Staples, Stuart ‘Leaving Songs + Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04’ DCD $14.00

Tenniscoats ‘Live Wanderus’ CD $13.50

Tiny, The ‘Starring Someone Like You’ CD $13.50

Various ‘Fallin' Off the Reel V.1’ CD $12.75

Year Zero, The ‘Oceania, I Will Return’ CD $12.50

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