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9 Eyes
Devils
PS, US Horror flavored glam rock (think Iggy, Dead Boys, Motörhead) from Helsinki now befriended by skateboarder Ram Margera.
456
CD
$10.25

Aberdeen City
Freezing Atlantic
PS, US Debut from Boston band is a gorgeous collection of stirring, somber, richly textured arrangements that resonate long after the music has stopped ranging from melancholy to airy.
Dovecote-003
CD
$12.50

Adverts
Anthology
PS, US This 'Anthology' is the definitive 'Adverts' article, comprising all 26 tracks they ever recorded in chronological order. One version of each song was hand picked by TV Smith, using all available resources - studio albums, singles & radio sessions for this ultimate collection. Tracks include the punk classic "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" (their biggest hit, reaching 18) "Bored Teenagers," "Safety in Numbers" & "No Time To Be 21" In addition, 'Anthology' includes a bonus disc recording of a 1978 concert, previously released as "Live At The Roxy" but actually recorded at a different venue, & a 24-page booklet, w/ shots from photographer Ray Stevenson & a low down on each track from TV Smith.
Fire-904
CD
$16.25

American Analog Set
Set Free
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Arts&Crafts-013
LP
$16.00

Annie
DJ Kicks
PS, US Here this Norweigan popster gets her chance behind the wheels. So if you can't get her regular album, might as well settle for a DJ set, right? Track list includes ALAN VEGA, LIQUID LIQUID, DEATH FROM ABOVE'79, BOW WOW WOW, ESG & even tracks from ANNIE herself. So put on your dancing pants & work it out.
K7-70190
CD
$16.75

Antony And The Johnsons
You Are My Sister
PS, US Antony & The Johnsons breakthrough album I Am A Bird Now has certainly touched fans and critics alike. His second full-length - released in February - stands as one of the most globally acclaimed albums of 2005. The album's latest single is the anthemic and heart-rending "You Are My Sister", presented as a duet between Antony and Boy George. Together these two vocalists climb to the highest peak of emotional vulnerability, providing for the listener one of the most touching and uncanny duets of the past decade. It's heartbreaking when Antony sings, "You are my sister / we were born / so innocent, so full of need / there were times we were friends / but times I was so cruel / at night I'd asked for to watch me as I sleep". With soaring and world-weary intensity, Boy George utterly commands the refrain: "You are my sister / and I love you / may all of your dreams come true." In "You Are My Sister," the pair sing from the depths of their hearts for the world. This extended single also includes three new, unreleased songs recorded during the I Am A Bird Now sessions. "Poorest Ear" is a harrowing and complex vision from the perspective of an alienated child. Responding perhaps to "You Are My Sister," Antony sings of a girl who wishes to save her imperiled brother in "Forest of Love." Finally, "Paddy's Gone" is a choral lament to long-lost man. These tracks all seem to support Antony's recent assertion; "Recently I have been imagining that we contain a family inside us... a mother, a father, a boy, a girl and a baby. I Am a Bird Now represents a dialogue between some of these figures."
SecretlyCanadian-130
CD5
$4.75

Ayler, Albert
The Complete ESP Recordings (4XCD)
PS, US 4CD box set contains Ayler's complete ESP-Disk' waxings: "Spiritual Unity", "Bells", "New York Eye And Ear Control", "Spirits Rejoice"
ESP-Disk
4CD
$43.25

Barbee, Ray
In Full View
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mush-023
LP
$11.50

Basement Apartment
Transistor!
PS, US Solo project of former Pilot Light guitarist Vince Caro. Inspired by AM pop of Caro's youth, Transistor! continues w/ lo-fi DIY attitude. Collaborators include Tim Ritter (Astronaut Wife), Moon Wells (My Liquid Head), Jesse Peterson (Medication). Previous EP selected for Sound Unseen Film Festival in 2003.
MPLSLTD-006
CD
$11.00

Bellrays
At the Barfly
PS, US Live performance from London's Barfly club in Camden, recorded 4/29/05. 5 of the songs feat. here are brand new, haven't yet been recorded in a studio & are currently unavailable anywhere. Also inc an 18 min interview with band members.
Punkervision-008
DVD
$19.75

Black Taj
S/T
PS, US The debut album from this group led by IDYLL SWORDS guitarists DAVE BRYLOWSKI (formerly of POLVO) and GRANT TENNILLE, along with bassist STEVE POPSON (Polvo) and drummer TOM ATHERTON. Nine solid tracks with riffage that gestures towards the expansive and cone-rattling string sorcery of the 1960s and '70s.
Amish-021
CD
$14.75

Bling Kong
Do The Awesome
PS, US Rock extravaganza built around 4 cheerleaders, 3 drummers, 2 guitarists, bassist and a video DJ. Queens and kings of all things super-fantastic whose foray into
world domination begins with this EP
Redder-008
CD
$11.00

Brokaw, Chris
Incredible Love
PS, US In stark contrast to CHRIS BROKAW's (COME, CODEINE, PULLMAN, NEW YEAR, et al.) prior 12XU albums, Incredible Love is a full electric-with-vocals affair, comprising nine new Brokaw originals, the co-authored (with TOM MORGAN) "My Idea," and a cover of Suicide's "I Remember." Easily Brokaw's most powerful work to date, the album showcases his deft touch as a guitarist and knack for songwriting. Guests include DAVID CURRY (EMPTY HOUSE COLLECTIVE), NOAH CHASIN, KEVIN COULTAS (RODAN), JEFF GODDARD (KARATE), MATT KADANE (NEW YEAR, SILKWORM, CONSONANT), and JONAH SACKS.
12XU-026
CD
$14.50

Bunyan, Vashti
Lookaftering
PS, US Lookaftering is anchored around Bunyan's voice and picked acoustic guitar, and Richter's piano playing and arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, recorder, flute, hammer dulcimer, glasses, harmonium, and Rhodes piano, and it features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers, Currituck County).
Dicristina
CD
$15.00

Burning Brides
Leave Burning Brides
PS, US Released for the first time is the 12" vinyl edition of 2004's LEAVE NO ASHES (CD released on V2 records). 1000 were pressed on red vinyl. Included is a bonus 7" with two unreleased tracks: ON THE CLOUDS and BEEN KNOCKED DOWN. There is also a full color 10 X 40 pullout poster of the Winston Smith (Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra, Green Day, etc. artist) cover artwork.
FullFrame-006
LP
$11.00

Caroline
Where's My Love
PS, US Born and raised in Okinawa, Japan, Caroline (last name: Lufkin) elicits that rare EVERYONE HAS TO HEAR THIS RIGHT NOW response that bounces inside your head when you hear music that feels like an epiphany. Produced by Sweden-born Andreas Bjorck, "Where's My Love" sparkles like crystal wind chimes, with Caroline's fragile, angelic voice like a siren's breath against your cheek. Combining minimalist electronic instrumentation, classic arrangements, and vocals that seem supernaturally transparent, "Where's My Love" is virtually autonomous, defying referential impulse. It's the sound of a million tiny shards of recognizable sound (Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Boards of Canada, Portishead, Lali Puna, Sigur Ros, and Aphex Twin, for starters), poured into a totally unique new mold. This is the sound we were waiting for.
TemporaryResidenceLtd-088
CD5
$4.00

Colder
Heat
PS, US The follow up to 2003's Again, this album features slick production, harking back to the style of PIL & Suicide, yet w/ an unmistakable 21st century feel. Heat breaks down Again's earier Can-style hypno-grooves into minimalist Joy Division machinations.
Output-085
CD
$20.00

Conrad, Tony
Early Minimalism Vol. 1
PS, US In 1962 Tony Conrad's amplified strings introduced the sustained drone of just-intonation into what came to be known as "minimal" music. Utilizing long durations and precise pitch, he and his collaborators forged an aggressively mesmerizing "Dream Music" - denying the activity of composition, elaborating shared ideas of performance, and articulating the Big Bang of "minimalism". However, the many rehearsal and performance recordings from this period were repressed, inaccessibly buried. In 1987 Conrad set out on a ten-year return expedition to the site of these entombed fragments; from them he reconstructed and regenerated the epic EARLY MINIMALISM. Reaching back through time, Tony Conrad weaves a mobile narrative over and under minimalism: making music out of history, and history out of music.
TableoftheElements-033
4xCD
$36.75

Crenshaw, Marshall
Good Evening
PS, US
WoundedBirdRecords
CD
$14.00

Cristal
S/T (FULL ALBUM)
PS, US First full length, members from LABRADFORD & AIX EM KLEMM use a variety of devices, sources & recording locations to improvise & compose. Sound is very post-strucuralist sound collage that results in beautiful, relaxing, chaotic or challenging; sometimes all at once. "By turns lilting, dark & noisome, this music feels like a sharp fingernail circling your naval slowly..." -The Wire
AllisNumber-003
CD
$13.75

Current 93
Judas as Black Moth
PS, US
Castle
CD
$18.25

Dabrye
Additional Productions 1
PS, US Value priced collection of remixes & non-album cuts, with many new or previously unavailable on CD. Incl. contributions from BEANS, T. RAUMSCHMIERE, TRANS AM, BUS, NOMO.
Ghostlyl-045
CD
$10.50

Dead Can Dance
Memento: The Very Best of Dead Can Dance
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$17.25

Dead Science
Frost Giant
PS, US
AbsolutelyKosher
CD
$14.00

Demon Hunter
The Triptych
PS, US
Tooth&Nail
CD
$14.00

Dentists
Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.25

Dirty Faces
Super American
PS, US The Dirty Faces thrive on contradiction as well as adversity. A series of personnel changes has seemingly only made them a stronger, more creative and more dedicated band. They are fiercely loyal to Pittsburgh, yet their guitar player lives in Brooklyn. Their live shows are noisy, messy affairs, but their albums contain surprising moments of quiet lucidity.While they are equally influenced by both American and British art punk (The Fall, Pere Ubu) and 1970's classic rock (Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top), along with (of course) a healthy admiration for the primal rock of Iggy & the Stooges, AC/DC and everything hip hop, they manage to boil these influences down into something at once recognizable yet wholly their own. Originally founded in 1997 by singer T Glitter as a way to set his lyrics to his idea of what punk rock meant back then, the band soon became known for their energetic, often confrontational live shows. Band lineups shifted, but core members Tricky Powers and Glitter have remained constants. Their first album, Covered in Lime (Rickety Records, 1998), was described by Index magazine as "classic Rust Belt punk, a frenzied take on drug use and crumbling relationships in a city where everybody knows everybody." The album made the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's year-end Top Albums list. In 2002 the band released their second album-the less conventional, more experimental More Lies (Rickety Records, 2002)-to favorable reviews, while the live shows maintained their scary nature.
JAGBR003
CD
$12.00

Dondero, David
South Of The South
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove-005
LP
$12.50

Dondero, David
South Of The South
PS, US Former SUNBRAIN singer/guitarist, this is a richer, more worn-in feel than any of his previous records. ERIC BACHMAN (CROOKED FINGERS), MIKE VASQUEZ, TOM HEYMAN, DAN CARR, & CHRIS HEINRICH collectively bring decades worth of musical wisdom that spreads all over these songs like the dust from a pickup peeling out on a dirt road. Of course it wouldn't feel right without longtime cohort CRAIG D on drums, & longtime Dondero fans can take comfort in his presence. This determined, eerie, country-stomper--finds Heyman manipulating a reverb heavy slide guitar line, while Bachman lays a blanket of keys. Nice
TeamLove-005
CD
$12.50

Drift, The
Noumena
PS, US Anticipation for the debut album by San Francisco's The Drift has grown much faster than anyone could have predicted, following the sought-after "Streets"/"Nozomi" 12". With the debut full-length, Noumena, the band leaves no stone unturned. Taking their name to heart, The Drift do just that - from ambient noise and elegant guitar rock to mournful jazz ballads and stunted, down-tempo hip-hop - all with the subtle grace that is to be expected from veterans of the sound. As The Drift, Danny Grody (Tarentel, Furniture), Safa Shokrai, Jeff Jacobs, and Rich Douthit (Halifax Pier) comfortably expand on the cinematic bliss that Tarentel willfully abandoned long ago for more chaotic landscapes. Existing somewhere between Miles Davis's In A Silent Way and Tarentel's From Bone To Satellite, The Drift compose predestined soundtracks for everyday life - not only perfect for a night on the beach, but just as suitable for the long drive getting there. Their music is inescapably passionate, executed with just enough wide-eyed improvisation to sound eternally fresh.
TemporaryResidenceLtd-086
CD
$12.00

Drift, The
Noumena
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd-086
DLP
$15.00

Driver, Toby
In the Li Li LibraryLoft
PS, US Beautiful collection of modern compositions by the brilliant young mastermind of Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot, a cutting edge band combining a classical ear for structure & orchestration w/the power & immediacy of heavy & black metal. Four moody masterpieces of magic & horror.
Tzadik-8019
CD
$16.50

Drones
Wait Long By The River & The Bodies Of Your Enemies
PS, US Summoning the dirge/garage grime of The Cramps, and the hollow bellow of Nick Cave or Jon Spencer, The Drones aren't afraid of hiccups & raw, explosive guitar scrawl. They can be compared to early Green on Red, fellow Australians The Scientists, early Birthday Party, Suicide, Hank Williams, Towes Van Zant, Black Flag, & Dirty 3 w/ their live performance conveying an unmatched intensity. This album is proof that The Drones are well & truly of one of the most intense & gifted bands in the world, on stage & record.
AllTomorrow'sParties-018
CD
$16.00

Earlies, The
These Were the Earlies
PS, US Produced on both sides of the Atlantic and with a palette of sounds almost as wide; The Earlies debut album These Were The Earlies brings together their first self released singles and subsequent EP's. Originally released in 2004 on Names/679 Recordings in the UK, Secretly Canadian is proud to present this gem to the long-deprived people of North America. Working with manipulated performances by a collective of English and American musicians These Were The Earlies combines layered vocals with imaginary and more traditional instruments to produce a unique pop sound where sonic exploration can still take place. Residing in Northern England and Western Texas The Earlies are united by a shared love of The Band, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, and The Beatles. All get a gracious nod on The Earlies debut album together with a unique mix of obscure psychedelic, progressive, leftfield and country influences. It's very apt that Brian Wilson has waited until recently to unveil his masterpiece Smile, it could be said The Earlies have provided us with the 21st Century equivalent. The variety of instrumental texture, layered harmonies and electronic tweaks - complete with a strong American lead vocal - could easily make The Earlies a Jason Pierce, Neil Young, and Phil Spector side project were they all decided to let their hair down and have a bit of fun for a change. Traversing some of the same territory inhabited by Deserter's Songs-era Mercury Rev and Olivia Tremor Control, The Earlies truly steer their own ship
SecretlyCanadian-137
CD
$12.00

Edan
Tortue Chamber
PS, US What do you get when you cross Boston s finest beatmaker / emcee with JURASSIC 5 s premier producer/DJ & a legendary Bronx-bred lyricicst? The answer is EDAN remixed by CUT CHEMIST featuring PERCEE P - Percee is in fine form here, Edan counters like a man possessed, Cuts remix is haunting & eerie over a killer beat. Flipside is EDAN s original version from the "Beauty & the Beat" LP/CD.
Lewis-010
12
$7.25

Farina, Geoff/Luther Gray/Dan Littleton
New Salt
PS, US
Xeng
CD
$15.25

Fiery Furnaces
Rehearsing My Choir
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RoughTrade-30060
LP
$17.25

Fiery Furnaces
Rehearsing My Choir
PS, US Based, with liberal heaps of poetic license, around their 83 yr old grandmother. As they trade off on vocals, signaling quick shifts in time & perspecitve, the music barrels along at their heels, changing up instruments & arrangements to match the action. It largely takes place in mid-20th century Chicago & reflects how the average person's aspirations & experiences were different enough then to seem almost alien now.
RoughTrade-30060
CD
$15.00

Fischerspooner
The Other Side Of New York
PS, US The Other Side, a joint venture between Time Out (international weekly publication) and Deaf Dumb & Blind (multifaceted entertainment company), is an interactive guide to the bleeding edge of the world's great cities. Each edition is comprised of two elements: a mixed CD compiled by a native audio pioneer, and a DVD guide to "the other side" of the city - a visual handbook for both the frequent flyer and the armchair traveler. The New York installment is compiled and mixed by Fischerspooner, who have crafted an adventurous and genre-bending mix that perfectly showcases their eclectic musical vision. On the DVD, Casey Spooner, the band's vocalist, takes you on a guided tour of the other side of NY. Track list includes Bloc Party, Laurie Anderson, Martin Rev, Legowelt, David Carreta, Model 500, Pixeltan, and many more.
BreakbeatScienceRecordings
CD
$18.00

Flavor Crystals
On Plastic
PS, US "Splendid debut of oneiric floaty rock, spins in its own easygoing, spacey orbit"-The Onion "droning riffage, gossamer guitar webs & lazy-eyed vocals"-Rob Van Alstyne, Pulse of the Twin Citites
MPLSLTD-007
CD
$11.00

Genders
There's Something in the Treats
PS, US They break you heart w/ spartan Casiotonal pitter pat, make you question your feelings w/every growling bassline & make you dance w/every disco hymn. Touring w/ Adult.
Tigerbeat6-123
CD
$11.00

George
A Week of Kindness
PS, UK The second full-length album from the Manchester duo of MICHAEL VARTY and SUZY MANGION (who has collaborated with PIANO MAGIC and ARBOL). A strange kind of music not easily described: odd without being flagrant, more of a result of old props and sleight-of-hand than special effects and attention seeking. A cabinet of curiosities performed with vocals, guitars, bass, drums, loops, Wurlitzer organ, drones, bells, chimes, birds, strings, keyboards, and chairs.
PickledEgg-056
CD
$15.00

Girls from Hawaii
From Here to There
PS, US Six guys from Belgium w/ an intoxicating blend of vocal harmonies, subtle synths & acoustic guitars that melds over a vast rhythmic landscape, with catchy melodies & hooks a plenty.
Titan
CD
$15.25

Goblin Cock
Bagged & Boarded
PS, US Faux metal brainchild of ROB CROW from PINBACK, THINGY, HEAVY VEGETABLE, OPTIGANALLY YOURS, TEAM SLEEP. Offputting/hilarious cover art by Mike Sutfin (Magic, Star Wars).
AbsolutelyKosher-034
CD
$15.50

Gravenhurst
Fires in Distant Buildings
PS, US Another curveball from Nick Talbot is full of sprawling experimental rock music suggesting influences as diverse as MBV, Slint, Richard Thompson & VU.
Warp-132
CD
$16.00

Grizzly Bear
Horn of Plenty
PS, US Coinciding with the 1 year anniversary deluxe CD reissue, Kanine also pressed up this special vinyl edition w/5 of the most popular original Grizzly Bear tracks plus four of the most upbeat remixes appropriate for dance floors. Incl. remixes by DNTEL of POSTAL SERVICE, SOFT PINK TRUTH, SIMON BOOKISH & PHIILIIP. LIMITED!
Kanine-161
LP
$12.00

Gun Club
Mother Juno
PS, US ecordIndustry A polished album that's both sobering & sober. Produced by ROBIN GUTHRIE (COCTEAU TWINS), he spins a delicately layered web of sound. BLIXA BARGELD (EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, BAD SEEDS) guests. This is thought by many to be their last important & extremely essential
release.
SFTRI-765
CD
$13.75

Healthy White Baby
S/ T
PS, US Chicago's Danny Black (The Blacks), Laurie Stirratt (Blue Mountain, Laurie & John) & Ryan Juravic. The trio wanted to keep the recording simple & stripped down & was inspired by the sound & simplicity of Velvet Underground & CCR records. They used vocals, guitar, bass & drums & few overdubs. "Healthy White Baby" is a line in one of Black s favorite movies, Raising Arizona.
Broadmoor-2004
CD
$13.25

Horror Of 59
Screams From The Cellar
PS, US They're from the dark streets of Cleveland, OH. This deranged monster of a band draws from the whole history of 70s & 80s punk, 60s garage rock, 50s rock'n' roll, & even a little bit of classic metal. Lyrically, the band is inspired not just by horror films, but by real life horrors, local ghost stories & the legends of their northeast OH stomping grounds.
SonicSwirl-034
CD
$12.00

Hypstrz
S/T
PS, US This reissue from a 1980 true punk-ified garage soul album. A high-speed hurricane of mid-'60s Brit snot & MC5 revolutionary rama lama says the Minneapolis City Pages. This 37-track reissue includes their first EP, the album "Hysperization", + many bonus tracks, extensive liner notes & cool packaging.
Bomp!-4092
CD
$13.75

Inquisition
Revolution, I Think It's Called Inspiration
PS, US Only a band of arresting importance could be regarded as the foundation of such mighty conquests as STRIKE ANYWHERE, ANN BERETTA, & RIVER CITY HIGH. A band that remains highly influential inspite of their breif mid-90s lifespan. Notably, all kinds of bands, from an assortment of scenes have sighted them as a necessary inspiration for their songwriting: Dashboard Confessional, Ensign, Anti-Flag, Hot Water Music, Avail, etc.
AFRecords-044
CD
$13.00

Jam
Live
PS, US Reissue of rocking 1993 24 track live comp incl. classics like "Town Called Malice," "'A' Bomb on Wardour Street," "Modern World" & Kinks' "David Watts"
IslandUK-
CD
$11.75

Johnson, Calvin
Before the Dream Faded...
PS, US Ten new songs from Calvin Johnson, compiled on his second album as a solo artist. Calvin's first album, What Was Me (KLP117) is a Spartan kalang of guitar and voice; Before the Dream FadedŠ is a collection of collaborations, with a slate of guest producers including Khaela Marricich (the Blow), Mirah yom tov Zeitlyn, Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) and Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) livening things up the with their ideas about arrangements and textures. Other guest players, including Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu, VERSION), Jona Bechtolt (Y.A.C.H.T.), Warren Lee and Devin Welch (Chromatics, Shoplifting) add a psychic twist, dramatizing all that is unholy in the Olympia underground schematic. This album was recorded at the Dub Narcotic studio in Olympia, Wash., except "I am without", recorded by Johnny Jewel at his D/E/A/T/H D/I/S/C/O studio in Portland, Ore., and "Delverance", recorded by Phil Elverum, Nowhere, Anacortes, Wash. Calvin Johnson is the founder of K and operates the Dub Narcotic Studio, where he has recorded such stalwarts as Mirah, Tender Forever, Yume Bitsu, the Gossip, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Old Time Relijun and Fitz of Depression. He has released numerous records with the bands Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System and the Halo Benders, and toured across the United States scads of times, and will continue to do so after Before the Dream FadedŠ is released.
KLP170
CD
$12.00

Johnson, Calvin
Before the Dream Faded...
PS, US Ten new songs from Calvin Johnson, compiled on his second album as a solo artist. Calvin's first album, What Was Me (KLP117) is a Spartan kalang of guitar and voice; Before the Dream FadedŠ is a collection of collaborations, with a slate of guest producers including Khaela Marricich (the Blow), Mirah yom tov Zeitlyn, Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) and Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) livening things up the with their ideas about arrangements and textures. Other guest players, including Adam Forkner (Yume Bitsu, VERSION), Jona Bechtolt (Y.A.C.H.T.), Warren Lee and Devin Welch (Chromatics, Shoplifting) add a psychic twist, dramatizing all that is unholy in the Olympia underground schematic. This album was recorded at the Dub Narcotic studio in Olympia, Wash., except "I am without", recorded by Johnny Jewel at his D/E/A/T/H D/I/S/C/O studio in Portland, Ore., and "Delverance", recorded by Phil Elverum, Nowhere, Anacortes, Wash. Calvin Johnson is the founder of K and operates the Dub Narcotic Studio, where he has recorded such stalwarts as Mirah, Tender Forever, Yume Bitsu, the Gossip, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Old Time Relijun and Fitz of Depression. He has released numerous records with the bands Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System and the Halo Benders, and toured across the United States scads of times, and will continue to do so after Before the Dream FadedŠ is released.
KLP-170
LP
$10.50

Kingdom, The
Unitas
PS, US A surreal paean to legendary Baltimore Colts quarterback. Conceptually complete & enthusiastically performed song-cycle finds singer/mastermind Charles
Westmoreland re-imagining Johnny Unitas as a mythical deity hurling "the sun across the sky to the locomotive horse w/ dove wings," & goes on to tell of a hero "in love & covered in horses blood" who plays a cosmic game of football in the heavens. Transformation of easily recognizable trappings of contemporary indie rock (melodic guitar jangle, low-budget keyboards) into something otherworldly & divine.
ArenaRock-052
CD
$9.25

LaSalle
Expedition Songs
PS, US A dynamic 3 some feat. ex-members of SMALL BROWN BIKE. Full of haunting male/female melodies, angular & intimate guitars & pulsing drums that burst with fervor. Charts new territory without getting lost along the way. An excellent record of trial & triumph. RIYL Las Savy Fav, Cursive, Jawbox .
Thick-114
CD
$13.75

Legendary Pink Dots
Stained Glass Soma Fountains
PS, US Double disc of early rarites, back in print. This collection of songs brings together tracks from numerous rare cassettes, compilations & unreleased recordings, including the oldest surviving recording of the LPDs, made when the band was still called One Day.
Soleilmoon-046
DCD
$17.50

Magik Markers
NxCxHxC V. 1
PS, US Early Markers compiled here in sort of a best of retrospective. This band has won more than it has lost playing w/ Dinosaur Jr,
Sonic Youth & Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Chaotic, joyful, moving & stunning, the Markers are really one of the best outfits of the 21st Century thus far.
Lafleurs-001
LP
$14.50

Marah
A Christmas Kind of Town
PS, US Made a Christmas album for number of reasons. To make a Yuletide record we had to record it in the middle of the blistering NYC summer heat. A great Noel number is your best shot at being played on the radio. Christmas music makes most people really happy.
YepRoc-2104
CD
$16.00

MC5
Live @ Saginaw CivicCentre
PS, US
GetBack-140
LP
$12.75

Milemarker
Ominosity
PS, US They return from their 3 year hiatus to create their most ambitious & innovative album to date. Guest appearances from alumni BEN DAVIS (among others) & the fresh perspective of being on a new label, are just a few things that set this album apart from their already successful catalog.
Eyeball-046
CD
$13.00

Modeselektor
Hello Mom!
PS, US Gernot Bronsert & Sebastian Szary, 2 bon vivants from Berlin. This works like a sampler for acute def contemporary wicked electronic music blatancy. Their adaptation of urban catchwords like elektro-IDM, booty house, euro-crunk, continental grime, ghettobass, dubstep & such a things even get the most bored know-it-all off the stools.
BPitchControl-115
CD
$16.00

Montgolfier Brothers
All My Bad Thoughts
PS, US 3 years in the making, "All My Bad Thoughts" sees The Montgolfier Brothers reach their destination w/a resigned sigh & a wink. The ingredients of Mark Tranmer
& Roger Quigley's 1st 2 long players, '99's "Seventeen Stars (Vespertine) & '02's "The World Is Flat" (Poptones), are still there: a rich melodiousness recalling Michel Legrand, Vini Reilly & Michael Nyman, combined w/a lyrical subtlety deriving humour from despair.
Vespertine&Son-005
CD
$14.75

Nadja
Truth Becomes
PS, US An ambient metal monster fronted by multi-talented Toronto musician & writer AIDAN BAKER. Certainly a part of the outsider metal movement, but with a much heavier use of ambient aesthetics & influences. RIYL: Sunn(O)), Isis.
Alien8-058
CD
$14.50

No Depression
#60
PS, US Special "Lost in the Flood" NEW ORLEANS issue w/reports and reflections by Robert Doershuk, Alex Rawls, Mary Gauthier, Peter Holsapple & Grayson Capps plus articles on Neil Young, Bettye lavette, Blue Rodeo, Laura Veirs, Cherryholmes, tons more.
ZINE
$4.75

Northern Song Dynasty
S/T
PS, US JESSE EDWARDS (Red Morning Chorus) & JESSICA BAILIFF come together to complete this album. They sing about relationships, man/woman, parent/child, friend/friend which results in moody, psychedelic pop w/ a hint of folk & electronic tunes creating a vocal & musical perfect balance. Previously released as limited CDR.
AllisNumber-002
CD
$13.75

Nurse With Wound
Livin' Fear Of James Last
PS, US The Best Of Nurse With Wound." STREETDATE 10/25. A defining collection which spans almost the entire exsistence of STEPHEN STAPLETON's career. Feat. tracks as far back as the early '80s & branching out to almost the present day, it emcompasses the many sublime & macabre musical & lyrical
ideas that make up their world.
Castle-36228
DCD
$20.00

Peltier, Tommy
Chariot Of Astral Light
PS, US Singer/songwriter Tommy Peltier started in the 1960s as a trumpet player, releasing LPs with Roland Kirk under the name The Jazz Corps. In 1970, Tommy switched to guitar and vocals and formed a close friendship with Judee Sill that would last throughout her life. With an acid folk sound not unlike Tom Rapp & Pearls Before Swine, these early 1970's recordings with Judee are released for the first time. Besides Judee Sill on vocals, guitar, and keyboards, the CD also features Lynn Blessing and Wolfgang Melz of the Gabor Szabo Quintet and Dave Parlato of Frank Zappa's Sleep Dirt LP. This enhanced CD also includes a video from 1973 of Peltier, Sill, and others performing in a television studio.
BlackBeauty-72008
CD
$14.50

Pierce, Jeffrey Lee
Wildweed
PS, US This album back in print after 8 years from the frontman of THE GUN CLUB. Obsessed with an inevitable apocalyptic destiny, he took his lowlife background as an explaination for feverish longing for decay. The material presented here isn't much different from "Miami" or "The Las Vegas Story"
Plenty of howls & some driving beats.
SFTRI-764
CD
$13.75

Pinetop Seven
The Night's Bloom
PS, US Pinetop Seven began in 1996 as a loose collective of young Chicago musicians interested in re-working the notion of popular American music; co-opting elements from diverse musical traditions (Tango, Funeral Dirges, 20th Century Classical, Eastern European, Asian Gamelan) and blending them with American Folk and Country-Blues. Over the group's 8 year/ 5 album history, twenty three men and women have contributed to the records or participated as touring members, among them past or present members of Bright Eyes, Wilco, the Boxhead Ensemble, and Rilo Kiley. Despite the ever-changing cast, the mission statement remains unchanged, and anchored by songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Darren Richard, Pinetop Seven continues to quietly assemble compelling collages of sounds and words, mini-epics of storytelling, and snapshots of an America that Norman Rockwell would never recognize. The Night's Bloom continues the band's tradition of pairing abstract storytelling with an unusual musical sense, drawing inspiration from the likes of John Fahey's "American Primitives" (Skip James, Dock Boggs) to the avant-garde musics of Harry Partch and Moondog. From the singer-songwriter laments of Jackson Frank and Tim Hardin, to the haunted film scores of Angelo Badalamenti (David Lynch) and Nino Rota (Federico Fellini). The cryptic tales are stark and personal, and bring to mind the narratives of Jim Jarmusch, Raymond Carver and John Fante.
EmpyreanRecords-011
CD
$12.00

Pinetop Seven
The Night's Bloom
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
EmpyreanRecords-011
DLP
$12.00

Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Swamp Tech
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Tigerbeat6-119
LP
$11.50

Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Swamp Tech (CD/DVD)
PS, US Raw, organ driven electronic dance music blended w/psychedelic puppet theater incl. DVD feat. MP's puppet powered mini-movie "The Electric Swamp"
Tigerbeat6-119
CD
$16.25

Quio
Like Oooh!
PS, GEMANY Quio is a Berlin-based MC, singer, and performer who started MCing in 1997 as MC Looney Tunes. This is her first full-length album, and her second release for AGF Producktion. She performed with drum n' bass and hip-hop DJs in Berlin and throughout Europe, going on to meet DJ G-Serve from Audiotaxi and DJ Christine Lang. Quio is also a part of a radio show on Berlin's former pirate radio station TWEN FM. Quio met AGF (Antye Greie) when they both performed in a club, and various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different herkunft, to come up with some unique new combinations of hip-hop lyrics and experimental electronic beats - mixing drum n' bass MC rhymes with anthem-like sad tracks. Between walking to playgrounds, talking to mothers, saving babies from being driven over, spoon feeding, clothes washing and food shopping, Quio has compiled an album full of eclectic combinations - uptempo beats and sweet, melancholy tunes; two-steps and Greek string guitars; heavy metal and electroclash. Quio wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. She will break unbearable content into amusing snippets of new sense, or break up nonsense while replacing them with playful clichés. Her ability to MC along with a vast array of breakbeat music such as drum n' bass, U.K. garage, hip-hop etc. has gifted her with both twisted and profound lyrical content. Guest artists include 15 year-old singer Lise, Dr. Dee, AGF, Audiotaxi, Daddy Jotka, DJ G-Serve, MC Chubba, Dr. Data, and Lempapa.
AGF-004
CD
$16.25

Radio Reelers
Next Best Thing
PS, US Some of their strongest material to date. You get more of their signature amped up Chuck Berry riffin, slosh n roll rockers. They also throw a nod back to Jeffs old
band, THE FELLS, where they delve into mid tempo territory. An extra video that contains some cool footage of them at their best....fucked up & rockin across Europe
DeadBeat-060
CD
$13.00

Radio Reelers
Next Best Thing
PS, US LP contains an EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACK called Stay Home Carista!!!
DeadBeat-060
LP
$9.50

Red Sparowes/Gregor Samsa
Split
PS, US GREGOR SAMSA shine bright here with 2 tracks of serene & dark ambient/rock music while RED SPAROWES continue to steer into amazing directions. In fact, both bands harken back to the glory days of showgazing's past without compromising their modern spin on powerful & innovative independent music. LIMITED to 1200 copies.
RoboticEmpire-044
LP
$11.75

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S/T
PS, US This finds the unadulterated anger & political edge that fueled VIC BONDI (ARTICLES OF FAITH) & injects them into a more modern, but no less searing, sonic
arrangement that flirts with post-hardcore but manages to stay more hardcore than post. Feat. J. ROBBINS (JAWBOX) songs feuled by the social & political mire that is America.
AlternativeTentacles-341
CD
$13.75

Rogue Wave
Descended Like Vultures
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$11.75

Rogue Wave
Descended Like Vultures
PS, US Their second full-length for Sub Pop is a velvety, darkly dichotomous album: pop vs. despair; hope vs. realism. It's the sound of four people's ideas colliding. "Descended" finds Zach Rogue's unapologetic hooks and soaring melodies built up skyscraper high by bandmates and multi-instrumentalists Pat Spurgeon, Gram LeBron, and Evan Farrell, who've grown close and road weary, thanks to a year of intensive international touring with The Shins, Helio Sequence, TV On The Radio, and Mates Of State. This is Zach's warmest, most brash album yet.
SubPop
CD
$13.75

Saints
Nothing Is Straight in My House
PS, US
UnitedOpportunity
CD
$15.25

Services
Your Desire Is My Business
PS, US Feat. TRZTN (FLUX INFORMATION SERIVES) & CHRISTOPHER PRAVDICA (SUPREME DICKS). Tape loops & heavy metal riffs cut-up & rearranged, stripped down & filled with mysterious hooks make their songs witty & powerful with sloganeering lyrics that evoke Dadaism & Surrealism. Smart, stop n go machine-gun fire of beats & sample driven rock played in real time without a sequencer.
ATouchOfClass-9004
CD
$12.50

Silver Sunshine
A Small Pocket of Pure Spirit
PS, US With their eponymous debut receiving glowing reviews, Silver Sunshine are being depicted as "the band that could bring pop psychedelia to a new generation" (HARP). Experimenting with different instruments, harmonies, and moods, Richard Vaughan (guitar, vocals), Conor Riley (guitar, vocals), Stuart Sclater (bass), and Iain Andrew (drums) have honed their craft for intricate song structures and winding melodies, bestowing upon their fans "A Small Pocket of Pure Spirit". Silver Sunshine are viscerally being pulled into darker and heavier territory without resistance, creating songs woven with themes ranging from the end of the world to Greek mythology, thereby revealing a glimpse of the progression to be heard on their next full-length without losing any of their pop sensibility or hooks. Continuing on this path of whimsical pop perfection, one can only wonder what's next.
EmpyreanRecords-010
CD5
$4.75

Skygreen Leopards, The
Jehovah Surrender
PS, US The Skygreen Leopards present Jehovah Surrender, a six song EP that documents the changing of seasons in a world of whippoorwill moans. Electric guitar howl like a farmers hound, fuzz bass stampedes, and drums trot and gallop like the finest of wild horses. Donovan & Glenn write: "Not long ago the band was visiting a friend in Port Costa, California. After sharing a bottle of wine and enjoying the moonlight dances of his two daughters-the friend wanted to share a secret. He pulled an oversized key out of his overalls pocket and lead them out back to his shed. In the shed was an ancient drumset and a cobwebby electric guitar. The man said he knew Arlo Guthrie and that he was once in a band called Hobo Splendor.Well that's all it took for the Skygreen's to lose their hearts and heads to a new muse.We played All the Young Dudes and Hobo Jesus Blues all night long and the daughters danced ballroom. This e.p. is inspired by the man from Hobo Splendor-get better my friend!"
JagJagWar-092
CD5
$7.75

Sons Of Cyrus
Monkey Business
PS, US This singles & rarities collection contains everything the band has recorded excluding their 2 full lengths.An epic 20 song disc includes their essential 6 singles, a
song from the 1st demo, some of their incredibly hard to find comp. trax & their two tribute trax (Nomads &a very competant Stones cover)! It is in essence a retrospective & captures the band at their earliest, most primitive stage all the way up to the present.And from beginning to end, this disc just docements one of Swedens most talented contemporary bands! RIYL Hellacopters, Reigning Sound, Paybacks, Radio Birdman.
DeadBeat-059
CD
$13.00

Spacemen 3
Translucent Flashbacks
PS, US A collection of tracks with versions previously available only on the first three 7-inches released by SPACEMEN 3 between 1986 and 1988. Ten tracks including "Walkin' With Jesus," "Feel So Good," "Transparent Radiation," and "Take Me To The Other Side."
Fire-003
CD
$16.25

St. Christopher
Art of Dreaming
PS, US
AeriaRecords
CD
$11.00

Sun Ra
The Complete ESP Recordings (4XCD)
PS, US Sun Ra's complete recorded output for the legendary avant jazz label:"The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra vol.1 & 2, "Nothing Is...", "Concert For The Comet Kohoutek".
ESP-Disk
4CD
$43.25

Tall Dwarfs
Weeville
PS, US Remastered reissue of the 1990 masterpiece.The influence of CHRIS KNOX & ALEC BATHGATE's fractured pop has been felt far & wide in the American independent music community for many years, with their lengthy list of fans including Pavement, Yo La Tengo, & Neutral Milk Hotel. Includes a beautiful 20-page bk. They have made music together since 1977, as founding members of one of NZ's first punk bands called THE ENEMY, then formed the band TOY LOVE & then broke up. In 1981 Chris & Alec returned as the TALL DWARFS.
Cloud-006
CD
$12.00

Tall Dwarfs
Fork Songs
PS, US Brilliant 1991 album by this New Zealand duo. Songs that will seep into your cells & live inside you for many years to come. The sound is perfect & resonates pure joy with lyrics that send your thoughts colliding & then stilled in full appreciation of this perfect moment. Also includes their classic EP "Dogma" from 1987.
Cloud-007
CD
$12.00

Tallest
Future Burns the Sun
PS, US The Tallest were formed during the winter of 1997 in picturesque Lexington, Kentucky by good pals Atom Plasma, Johnny Xybot, and Sherman Yorkshire. Plasma and Johnny have been playing music together since their eighth grade talent show in Henry County, KY (1993). Just before the turn of the millennium, the band relocated to Chicago, Illinois. In 2003, they recorded most of what was to become their first full-length album in good ol' Shelby County, Kentucky with Jim James
and Johnny Quaid of My Morning Jacket. After signing on with SVW in 2004, the band spent some time ironing out a few technical kinks in their record (a feat mostly made difficult by the lack of quality studios using 1-inch analog tape anymore) and we are proud to bring you the results of their hard work and perseverance. Their melodic rock debut is sure to please listeners who look for new music that doesn t sound just like all their other records. "Influenced by everybody from Sesame Street to Sepultura."
SquidVsWhale-008
CD
$12.50

Television Personalities
And They Lived Happily Ever After
PS, US Quite possibly the finest cult band in the UK. Since forming in 1977, they have released 8 studio albums involving numerous changes in personnel centered around the constant figure of songwriter DAN TREACY. This is a NEW 24 track compilation arranged by Treacy of rare & unusual material culled from his endless archives. Material dates from 1981 right through to 2005.
DamGoods-245
CD
$15.50

Thunders/Kane/Nolan
You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
PS, US ON January 4th, 1987, core members of the NEW YORK DOLLS, THUNDERS, KANE & NOLAN performed an informal reunion at the Roxy in LA. Sadly, of the 3 only KANE lived long enough to briefly enjoy the Dolls formal reunion. This piece of rock n roll history feat. 18 songs inc. electric & rare acoustic performances.
MVD-4456
DVD
$14.75

Tristeza
Bromas
PS, US This is the first single from Tristeza's highly anticipated third full-length, "A Colores". It features the "Bromas" single edit, an extended mix, and two exclusive b-side tracks; all driving, atmospheric grooves updating Tristeza's classic post-rock-instrumental sound.
BetterLookingRecords
CD5
$5.50

Various
Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit For Hurricane Katrina Relief
PS, US Lagniappe was born on 09/02/05; the result of watching the surreal events unfolding in New Orleans & the greater Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Old favorites, new faces, & friends of Saddle Creek record-ed this menagerie of mostly new songs, a couple of B-sides, a demo song, whatever people could contribute. All of the profits from sales are being donated to the Red Cross for their relief efforts. Feat. CURSIVE, BRIGHT EYES, THE GOOD LIFE, CRITERIA, THE FAINT, etc.
SaddleCreek-087
CD
$12.50

Various
This Bird Has Flown: Rubber Soul (40th Anniversary Tribute to The Beatle's Rubber Soul)
PS, US Mirrors the sequencing of the original album & incl. SUFJAN STEVENS, FIERY FURNACES, BEN KWELLER w/Albert from STROKES, DONNAS, RHETT MILLER, TED LEO, COWBOY JUNKIES, DAR WILLIAMS, LOW, BEN HARPER, more.
Razor&Tie
CD
$18.98

Various
Stubbs the Zombie
PS, US Video game soundtrack feat. specially commissioned, EXCLUSIVE covers of 50's era songs from the game by DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, DANDY WARHOLS, CAKE, FLAMING LIPS, RAVEONETTES, PHANTOM PLANET, BEN KWELLER, ORANGER, CLEM SNIDE, WALKMEN, MILTON MAPES.
Shout!-36778
CD
$18.98

Various
Like A Rug In A Lake
PS, US A six-years-in-the-making collection of experimental, pop-noise, lo-fi, electronics, jazz, and more with proceeds to go to KREAMY 'LECTRIC SANTA's PRITA RAY and spinal cord injury research. You get tracks from MINUTEMEN, SONIC YOUTH, DEERHOOF, HARRY PUSSY, REYNOLS, QUINTRON, TO LIVE & SHAVE IN LA, COCK ESP, and many others.
FreedomFrom-171
CD
$11.25

Various
Hootenanny Vol. 1
PS, US Best described as a roots, rockabilly, blues, punk lifestyle event with an edge. It's eclectic mix of the innovators & originators affords it the honor of being one of the biggest & most anticipated events of the year. This collection feat. JOE STRUMMER, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, JOHN DOE, DAVE ALVIN, MANIC HISPANIC, JUNIOR BROWN & others! Region 0
Hootenanny-001
DVD
$16.25

War Against Sleep
Invitation to the Feast
PS, US Debut proper from Duncan Fleming. Demands that the effort be made to keep eyes & minds wide open. "Hearing Sun Ra & Captain Beefheart had a big impact. Not so much in terms of style - more that I was inspired by their total disregard for convention & their ability to convey subtle ideas"
Fire-091
CD
$16.25

Waxed Apples
S/T
PS, US West Country, UK electronica band has unconventional use of strings, percussion, live samples, heavy beats, & soulful vocals. Riotous energy of the Prodigy w/ groove of Daft Punk & depth of Death in Vegas. Has opened for LCD Soundsystem, Prefuse 73, & Ozmalti. "Twisted electronica, loaded w/ heavy bass & drums giving it substance & resonating vocals & strings to hook you in"-Hanna Judge Brown
MPLSLTD-008
CD
$5.75

Wedren, Craig
Lapland
PS, US The label debut from the acclaimed art-rock frontman of BABY & SHUDDER TO THINK. Feat. KEVIN MARCH (GUIDED BY VOICES), bassist JAMES ELIOT, & guitarist KEVIN MCGINNIS. Also featuring a collection of songs that would have appeared on the next Shudder To Think album (if they were still active) & rare songs Craig has composed for film. "Team Love is a real home for my music, versus some relative P.O. box of a major label, with a real artist at the helm, versus some bean counter who's worried about losing his or her job," says Wedren. "In this particularly grisly time in the music industry, working with this label is a blessing, an honor & a total relief."
TeamLove-004
CD
$12.50

Windsor For The Derby
Empathy for People Uknown (remix)/Gunboats
PS, US As a companion piece to their latest full-length Giving Up The Ghost, Windsor For The Derby offer up this limited edition 12". The A-Side features Anticon Record's man of the hour, odd nosdam (cLOUDDEAD) producing a stellar remix of WFTD's lead-off single "Empathy For People Unknown". On the B-Side we find an outtake from the Ghost sessions in the form of a cover of the classic Swell Maps cut "Gunboats." Yeah, Windsor For The Derby was spinning this seminal band's reissues (released last year on Secretly Canadian) as they recorded their new album. Many parallels can be drawn between the two bands - both Swell Maps and WFTD are ruthlessly experimental with their craft and refuse to be pigeonholed. While WFTD began ten years ago as forerunners in the Texas minimalist non-explosion, they've since moved beyond the drone into deeper waters, and with "Gunboats" we find them right at home amidst a sprawling piece of feedback, hushed vocals, and never losing sight of the melody. Limited to 600 copies worldwide.
SecretlyCanadian-136
12
$7.75

Wroom
What We Mean By Hot & Co
PS, US Electroacoustic duo (pronounced "room"). "We wanted to make music for a nature documentary that exists only in your mind." Like a plant shown growing in a time-lapse film, the percolating compositions of Wroom unfurl at a measured pace. Songs & seeds both need time to germinate, some of the kernels on the duo s debut double album date back four years.
ArenaRock-047
CD
$15.25

Yorkston, James
Hoopoe
PS, US Brand new solo mini album. More stripped down than the two albums Yorkston has made w/ his backing band, The Athletes, it showcases his beautifully rich voice and subtle skills as a songwriter that remain untouchable. Five new and exclusive songs, plus one re-working of the song "Heron" from the album "Just Beyond The River" album.
HoustonParty-128
CD
$13.75

Zammuto
Solutiore of Stareau
PS, US 2001 release from NICK FROM THE BOOKS. "Use of soft static & environmental atmospheres, combined with warm, deep bell-tones, gives the album a restful air more in keeping with contemporary ambient than Zammuto's (NICK FROM THE BOOKS) usual stylistic compatriots in Berlin." - john bush / allmusic
infrac-002
CD
$11.00

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Forthcoming Releases

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Angels of Light
How I Loved You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 23RD)
PS, US This is the 2nd Angels Of Light album to be released in limited edition on Important. Like the 1st, this is limited to 500 copies on deluxe double virgin vinyl.
Important-067
DLP
$27.00

Astronomer
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US The first of a three-album concept based around a body of over eighty songs written this year alone by Chicago-based musician CHARLES KIM (SINISTER LUCK ENSEMBLE/PERISHABLE, PINETOP SEVEN/TRUCKSTOP, PAN AMERICAN producer/Kranky) and is a more hopeful, song oriented cousin to his previous works. These songs were written, performed, and recorded in his home studio. Envision a collection of songs recorded underground through conversations deciphered through static and short wave, within the bounds of folk heroes long gone as well as more recent indie-rock troubadours, that conceptualizes the ambient atmosphere and rudimentary electronics of early EG records material. Imagine George Harrison's debut LP as filtered through a Brian Eno production, or The Band's second album with the textural innovations of Can.
Fireworking-001
CD
$11.25

Ayler, Albert
Slugs Saloon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, US "One of the most advanced music minds on the planet."-Wire. COMPLETE Ayler quintet recorded live in 1966 at Slug's Saloon in NYC. An incredible 80 min performance with Donald Ayler, Michael Sampson, Lewis Worrell & Ron Jackson. Incl. historic liners & photos, digitally remastered.
ESP-Disk-4025
DCD
$20.00

Bellakun
Bendicion Maldita (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US Second album from members of EGON & newcomers who merge to create "a modern soul band sprinkled with Tristeza & Three Mile Pilot." Builds on their first album but has the benefit of being born from a band more comfortable in its own skin. 11 songs that stir emotions ranging from exuberence to depressive darkness. Chill enducing. RECOMMENDED.
HasAnyone-013
CD5
$9.25

Beta Band
Best Of (2XDVD) ||| DELAYED ||| (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Double DVD retrospective treat incl. work from all their album plus 2 documentaries & live show.
Astralwerks-36624
DVD
$23.25

Beta Band
Best Of ||| DELAYED ||| (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Double CD retrospective treat incl. work from all their album plus bonus CD w/exclusive live show from 2004 fairwell tour.
Astralwerks-36621
DCD
$22.25

Big Star
In Space (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DBKWorks-115
LP
$13.75

Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Summer in the Southeast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US A live set of classic Bonnie songs (& the odd Palace number) affected by their players & the environment to climb new heights time & again. Rocking & raging, dropping to whisper & lilting where they once ran, the songs are part of the joyous affair between Bonnie & his fans. The energy of these shows is in the recordings along with the music-for you to feed off of too! The band feat. PINK NASTY, MATT SWEENEY, PETER TOWNSEND & others.
Seanote-011
CD
$12.75

Bouncing Souls
Live (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US They started as a band playing basements, bars, parties & clubs to anyone who cared. Over the years they have made records, toured the world, met people & created countless memories together. Through it all the live show has remained the essence of the band & here it's captured in a DCD.
Chunksaah-025
DCD
$16.00

Clorox Girls
This Dimension (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US Contains 12 tracks of hard-edged pop picking up where their finely crafted debut left off. short, sharp & wasting not a second, they have honed their pop sensibilities & clearly found a sound of their own.
SmartGuy-021
CD
$12.00

Clorox Girls
This Dimension (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SmartGuy-021
LP
$12.00

Cluck, Diane
Countless Times (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Growing up around Pennsylvania's Amish, Diane longed for their kind of clarity and simplicity. These traditionalist roots are ever-present in her recordings and her general disinterest in "fancy stuff". Her fifth solo album is a collection of naked songs filled with movement and metamorphosis. At times the sound is risky, awkward, abrupt, and haunting in the most intimate of ways. The rest of the time the rhythm is fascinating and the innovative melodies harmonize perfectly. Diane sings the kind of songs that make you want to fall to your knees and profess your love to your best friend or confess all your vices to your family, or maybe confront them about theirs
Voodoo-Eros
CD
$14.50

Comet Gain
City Fallen Leaves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Comet Gain are from the same underground British pop scene that brought you Huggy Bear, Clinic, Cornershop, and Belle And Sebastian. Songwriter/front man David Feck is inspired in equal parts by The Go-Betweens, Godard, Irma Thomas, dance parties, Dexy's Midnight Runners, falling in love, mod, and hootenannies. "City Fallen Leaves" is an exploration of what happens in your 30's when you still love all the things you did in your early 20's, when music and love still mean everything but most of your friends have settled into oblivion. There are songs about burn-outs, the end of relationships, boredom, hope, and dreams lost and born again.
KillRockStars
CD
$14.50

Corm
Audio Flame Kit (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Best known as John Davis' band just prior to Q and Not U, Corm was a band from 1990 to 1997. Audio Flame Kitwas their first and only full-length and was originally released on Dischord/Shute in 1996 before falling out of print. In the spring of 2005, Audio Flame Kitwas remixed and remastered at Silver Sonya/Inner Ear Studios by TJ Lipple who has worked on several of the Dischord remasters and is a member of Aloha.
Polyvinyl-098
CD
$10.25

Dolour
Matter of Time '00/'05 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US This compilation puts 14 of their best songs together for the 1st time on 1 CD. Be prepared to start singing-a-long after just 1 listen. With songs like Cleopatra Eyes, Menage a Trois, Iceland, Cheer Up Baby & Before Tonight's Big Party - this will be a instant indie classic for any road trip or house party. John Richards (Program Director for KEXP, Seattle) has called leader Shane Tutmarc "one of the best songwriters in Seattle, let alone the rest of the music world". This collection also offers a few rarities released for the 1st time. For fans of classic Weezer, Wilco, The Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips & other indie darlings like Belle & Sebastian, Rilo Kiley, & Sufjan Stevens.
Quince-029
CD
$14.75

Double Leopards, The
A Hole Is True (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US NYC leaders of the new noise underground, Double Leopards release their first record with proper distribution. The band has been repsonsible for the sudden popularity of the psychedelic noise underground. Recent tours with Sonic Youth and Wolf Eyes seal the deal.
TMU
LP
$12.50

Elyse
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US Reissue of this rediscovered 1968 psych-folk classic -- an attention-grabbing mixture of death-fixated medieval folk, imaginative pop arrangements and rockers drenched in sound effects, not to mention one song feat. Neil Young on guitar!
Isota-032
LP
$13.75

Faith Healers
Peel Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US 1990's Too Pure band feat. their last known recordings & are UNRELEASED. Cool!
BaDaBing-045
CD
$14.50

Fire Engines
Codex Teenage Premonitio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Second in series of great early 80's Scottish pop explosoin reissues incl. 5 tracks that were to be their debut album but weren't, 10 from live bootlegs incl. 3 from their first gig, & 3 US bonus tracks incl. 2 early Peel Session tracks & their side of the split w/Franz Ferdinand doing their "Jacqueline"
Domino-068
CD
$16.00

Galaxie 500
Peel Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US First official release of 1989/90 Peel Sessions incl. faves & unexpected covers incl. Buffy St. Marie, Modern Lovers, Young Marble Giants & Sex Pistols.
20/20/20-002
CD
$11.00

Get Hustle
Rollin' In The Ruins (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Intense, explicit & ahead of it's time.
ThreeOneG-048
LP
$10.00

Goblin Market
Haunted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US "Heavy...pure velvet-textured sheets of LSD hardbound for Victorian-library bookshelves."-Magnet. Longawaited second release by side project of GREEN PAJAMAS members JEFF KELLY & LAURA WELLER. Their debut release "Ghostland" garnered lavish praise for musically rendering the morbid & occult sexuality of the pre-Raphaelite movement, & their new release examines a current analog of this milieu for another mind-bending excursion into the themes of gothic literature. Features songs inspired by the novels & poetry of celebrated American author JOYCE CAROL OATES. Their mutual fascination with this prolific & masterful author & her uniquely dark vision resulted in this collection of songs, the source material for which mines a broad range of her work including lesser-known short stories, a novel under Oates' nom de plume, and poetry. The musical style blends alternative and folk-rock sensibilities with rich vocal harmonies. Prior exposure to Oates' work is not required for appreciation of the beauty & wonder which Kelly and Weller have achieved.
CameraObs-073
CD
$15.00

Green Day
Bullet In a Bible (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Their first live DVD, it captures the explosive band on the biggest tour in its career, in support of the Grammy-winning, quadruple-platinum, #1 charting "American Idiot" punk-rock epic. From 2 performances filmed in 06/05 in England, documentary segments, & in-depth insights on the making & meaning of the album.
MusicVideo-38658
DVD
$25.00

Greenhornes
Sewed Soles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 29TH)
PS, US Comps out of print, b-sides & unreleased tracks produced by JACK WHITE, BRENDAN BENSON & JOHN CURLEY (AFGHAN WHIGS). Incl. Jack White produced "Shadow of Grief" unreleased on CD. Just off tour w/WHITE STRIPES.
V2
CD
$13.00

Gris Gris
For the Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman-083
LP
$9.75

Gris Gris
For the Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US GREG ASHLEY & crew return w/second LP of lysergic/folk/garage noise that mesmerizes & hypnotizes. Equal parts 13th Flr Elevators, VU, Skip Spence & Krautrock.
Birdman-083
CD
$15.25

Grouper
Way Their Crept (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 22ND)
PS, US Beautiful & haunting release of processed vocals, keys & guitar for fans of TG, Xiu Xiu & Eno/Budd. Deluxe package w/ hand sewn booklet.
FreePorcupine-014
CD
$15.25

Guided By Voices
Briefcase 2: Return of Milko Waif: Suitcase 2 Abridged (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVERMBER 8TH)
PS, US Blissfully abridged version that somehow features only the very finest nuggets from the meticulously culled 100 song 4 CD box set. A grueling process to be sure.
Recordhead-087
LP
$15.50

Harvey Danger
Cream And Bastards Rise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US This alt-pop quartet was formed in Seattle in 1994 and this release represents a dramatic change of musical direction. A piano-driven, classic pop sensibility reigns, and while the band's signature melodic knack remains fully charged, the lyrics point to a more sanguine, less-caustic perspective on the old themes of love, regret, and global politics. It also rocks. This EP features songs from the soon to be self-released album "Little By Little". The band plays regularly throughout the Pacific Northwest and receives extensive airplay on both KNDD and KEXP.
KillRockStars
CD
$7.75

Head Wound City
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Here you can listen to fingernails singing on the chalkboard. 2 parts BLOOD BROTHERS, 2 parts THE LOCUST & one part YEAH YEAH YEAHS, this isn't your average super group project. This is the redefining of bastardized musical genres, a wake up call too all horse shit bands out there. As JORDAN BILLIE puts it, "It's kinda like...if Alien & Predator started a band instead of fighting each other."
ThreeOneG-047
CD5
$7.75

Headlights
The Enemies EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Headlights are at the forefront of the resurgent scene happening in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana. By exhibiting an uncanny ability to merge electronics with the barest of pop elements, Headlights carve a unique niche for themselves that falls nicely between My Bloody Valentine and The Postal Service. Originally released as a limited edition CDEP, Headlights have sold over 1,500 copies of their The Enemies EP through two national tours and sales on the Polyvinyl website. This release paves the way for the forthcoming Headlights full-length on Polyvinyl.
Polyvinyl-099
CD5
$6.25

Hella
Concentration Face/Homeboy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US The groundbreaking spaz-rock duo freak-out that is Hella is back with their first live DVD release, accompanied by an EP of new, super-thrashing tracks. Now fans can witness the carnage and mayhem of a live Hella show. "Concentration Face" compiles various sets of maniacal beauty, mostly from the band's Japanese tour, and it's both exciting to watch and fun to rock out to, all in the privacy of your own home.
5RueChristine
CD
$16.00

Hella
Concentration Face Homeboy (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 18TH)
PS, US The groundbreaking freak-out, spaz-rock duo are back. Finally, both die-hard & brand new fans will be able to witness the carnage & mayhem that is the HELLA live show. The DVD compiles various sets, mostly from their recent Japanese tour & brings their maniacal beauty to your home television or computer! The CD/EP "Homeboy" offers up 4 new super-thrashing tracks.
5RueChristine-044
CD
$16.00

Hidden Hand
Devoid Of Color (Dual Disc) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Double sided disc w/ the audio side containing 5 brand new songs recorded in the summer of 2005. A special audio preview of the new direction the band will take on their forthcoming album. And on the DVD Side, over 1 hour of live performances & in the studio footage. Featuring the band playing their hometown at the Black Cat & candid behind the scenes footage. This is the 1st time any live footage of Wino has been officially issued.
SouthernLord-052
CD
$15.25

Hives
Tussles in Brussels (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Debut DVD featuring a 20 track 2004 gig from the Belgian capital. Also incl documentary by Kalle Haglund charting the history of the band from their first gig in hometown Fagersta, all seen through the eyes of fictional investigative reporter DW Johnson & is narrated by LITTLE STEVEN VAN ZANDT of E STREET BAND. Also incl 8 music videos.
Interscope
DVD
$15.00

Japanther
Yer Living Grave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Japanther have now officially been tearing it up since 2002, since then they've played over 800 shows, toured the country 19 or who knows how many times, and have created a ravenous following. They still live in NYC, but you'd never know, as they're never here. On their new 8 song ep "yer living grave, Japanther come to the party with a sound more faithful to their live show than we've heard on previous recordings....this is an instant classic. Japanther are simply 2 people, ian vanek and matt reilly, but it's amazing what a solid wall these 2 create, and what an incredible live experience they are to behold. Since their last album they've toured europe, the u.s.a 2 more times, and have taken part in two live play/shows. Most recently a play/live show based on their 2003 album, dump the body in rikki lake, where the entire inside of the space was painted to look like the artwork of the album, and eleven foot high puppets battled to the sounds of japanther...no, they're not becoming actors, and yeah, probably some sort of dvd release is in the cards for the future, but for now, enjoy this latest 8 song offering....and if you're lucky it shouldn't be long before they play your town soon.
MenloPark-7038
CD5
$10.25

Jarboe
Men Album (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US SWANS chanteuse collaborates w/Blixa Bargeld (EINSTüRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), Alan Sparhawk (LOW), Iva Davies (ICEHOUSE), Jim Thirwell (FOETUS), Edward Kaspel (LEGENDARY PINK DOTS), David Torn (BOWIE, SYLVIAN), Chris Connelly (MINISTRY, REVCO), David J (BAUHAUS, LOVE & ROCKETS). Examines the dreams of a woman & the exploration therein of her identity as seen through the "masculine gaze."
Atavistic-167
DCD
$20.75

Jazzanova
Remixes 2002-2005 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US This DCD is a testament to their standard for production in the electronic jazz world. Spanning only 3 years the group has assembled their entire remix output onto a disc that is utterly indispensable for those who appreciate their brand of innovative soul. Feat. songs from ROY AYERS, EDDIE GALE, CALEXICO, HEAVY & others, they morph them into well-produced bossa beat jazz workouts without forsaking the original intent of composition.
SonarKollectiv-077
DCD
$18.00

July, Miranda
Benet-Simon Test (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Reissue release on the heels of her massively successful feature-length film, "Me and You and Everyone We Know". She has no genre & no boundaries. Listen with headphones in the dark of your room at night..
KillRockStars-296
CD
$14.50

July, Miranda
10 Million Hours A Mile (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Reissue- produced by Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening)
KillRockStars-281
CD
$14.50

Kites
Peace Trials (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Larger nekkid cover art!
Load-081
LP
$13.50

Knut
Terraformer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Knut is the best band you've never heard of, yet they existed in an embryonic and potent form long before most of today's mascara wearing, distortion-peddling metal-ites were out of their short pants. Hybridizing metal, noise, and hardcore while searching for new musical frontiers in their early career, Knut embodied much of what many bands today are still seeking to achieve and did so in splendid form. Ten years on and many albums later, they're still at the chopping block, prophesying a future for heavy music that will take many years for most of us to see, but will only take a listen to appreciate.
Hydrahead
CD
$13.75

Lucy Show
Mania (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 15TH)
PS, US Reissue from '86. Includes 5 unreleased tracks in this classic album from the pop-punk quartet from London. Trend setting & relevant as any member of England's movement of artists in the '80s that coated 60s sound w/ modern usages of reverb & feedback, ie. My Bloody Valentine. "A harmonious pop attack! 4 Stars" -Q Magazine
WordsonMusic-018
CD
$12.75

Major Organ Donor & The Adding Machine
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US An oft misunderstood modern psych-pop masterpiece created by principle members of Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power and Of Montreal. As twisty and turny as records get with songs that stick in your head for days on end. First time on vinyl
Isota-031
LP
$13.75

Mangum, Jeff
Live At Jittery Joe's (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Isota-030
LP
$13.75

Mars Volta
Scab Dates (Live Album) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Over 70 minutes of live music. "Music you must see to believe."-LA Times.
Universal
CD
$15.50

Morricone, Ennio
Crime & Dissonance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 29TH)
PS, US Collection of tracks compiled by Mike Patton & the Morricone estate running from 1969-74 over 39 songs over 2 CDS at a budget price. Psychedelic sitars, heavy breathing, screams, screeches, electric guitar feedback from the Italian maestro.
Ipecac-066
CD
$21.50

My Dad Is Dead
A Divided House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US Twelfth release over a 20 year span for seminal late 80's/early 90's indie rock group follows albums on Homestead, Scat, Emperor Jones & <ahem> Cargo. Mark Edwards again gets help from Cleveland luminarios & constant musical companions Scott Pickering & Chris Burgess (both of PRISONSHAKE), Scott Lasch & Tim Gilbride. An unexpectedly upbeat album where Edwards lowkey vocals work over music veers away from the downcast work of his earlier music into almost peppy territory bordering on some of Sugar's territory. "12th album from singer, songwriter, & multi-instrumentalist Mark Edwards and it's his strongest since the 1988 Homestead release 'Let's Skip the Details.'"-Chicago Reader. "Downright heavenly."-Cleveland Scene. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Unhinged-001
CD
$12.00

Noriko, Tujiko & Aoki
Takamasa 28 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This album is the result of over 3 years worth of collaboration, coming together to form a beautiful marriage of sweet female vocals, alongside pristine, lusciously textured & layered electronics, & some clever yet funky beat programming. 28 has the feeling of a classic electronic album. Often built up in overlapping layers, Noriko's voice is beautifully recorded & placed w/in the mix. Added alongside the gentle loops & textures of the music, everything fits & flows together as the album unfolds w/ an organic, slowly unfurling logic.
FatCat
CD
$13.75

Nurse with Wound
Salt Marie Celeste (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 22ND)
PS, US Reissue. Studio LP presented in lavish digipak format contains one of the most radical pieces the band have ever recorded; similar in concept to Gavin Bryars' "Sinking of the Titanic." Delves even deeper into the theme of dropping into unknown darkness and ultimate demise. Recorded by Steven Stapleton & electronic wizard Colin Potter in 2002. A landmark recording in the field of contemporary electronic music. Art by Wallis+Santini.
UnitedJnana-2001
CD
$15.25

Ocean
Here Where Nothing Grows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This is the debut full length album of 3 rogue waves clocking in at a full 65 fathoms. It's a slow ancient doom harnessing the deep low end drone of Sunn 0))), Burzum's screams, the crushing heaviness of Buried At Sea, & even the art rock of Mogwai. Originally recorded by a physically & emotionally exhausted band at Volume Studios in Chicago w/ Sanford Parker (Buried At Sea/Pelican) at the tail end of a self destructive mini tour, the group returned home minus a drummer unhappy w/ the results of the Chicago sessions. W/ a new drummer in tow they immediately settled in to a familiar studio in their hometown & began the arduous task of re-recording the album on their own. 2 months later they emerged victorious w/ an album mastered to be played LOUD. SOOO VERY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!
Important-073
CD
$13.75

Pinback
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 29TH)
PS, US First time available on limited edition colored vinyl!
AceFu-007
LP
$14.50

Primeridian
Da All Nighta (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Without surrendering to the average nowadays rap status quo, they standout here with stylish yet positive lyrics. Steering driven attempts to raise political & social awareness. With most of the production on the album being handled by themselves, they take the opportunity to enhance personally designed tracks with live instruments. Managing a sound & essence that s reminiscent of hip hop beats of past. Involving warm bass lines, & soulful drums with comprehensive concepts from song to song. 19 tracks of colorful emceeing & solid song writing with revolving similarities.
AllNatural-039
CD
$12.50

Ranaldo, Lee/Leah Singer
Drift (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 29TH)
PS, US Collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo of SONIC YOUTH. An immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes. DRIFT has been performed live in museums, galleries, concert halls and performing arts centers worldwide since 1991. Presented with a 5.1 surround sound mix and accompanied by a 112 page book of full-color images and poetry, a conversation with Ranaldo and Singer, and texts by experimental filmmaker Jonas Mekas, artists Sam Durant and Tom Leeser, writer/musician Alan Licht, curator Roland Spekle and DRIFT exhibition curator Lea Rekow.
Plexifilm-022
DVD
$28.75

Red Lights
Unlucky Genes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Debut from wine country Californians full of layers and layers of guitar & the beautifull uncommon vocals of singer James Paasche. Favorable comparisons to everybody from Modest Mouse to Bedhead to New Order have been spewed, but in the end they're just uniquely them
SquidVsWhale-009
CD
$12.50

Residents
Play Wormwood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US Live in Wormwood Bonn, Germany, 7/16/99 with guests MOLLY HARVEY, NOLAN COOK, TOBY DAMMIT, CARLA FABRIZIO. This 105 min performance was taken from a web cast for Museumsmeile.
Euroralph-4476
DVD
$19.75

Rosenfeld, Marina
Joy of Fear (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 17TH)
PS, US Brings into focus a new phase in the music of Rosenfeld. On this record, the improvisatory, experimental mode of her turntablism merges in a new & extraordinary way with a true compositional practice, resulting in pieces of a profoundly musical nature that seem to transcend the category "experimental". Infused with the sound of her original acetate records, or dub plates, that have been the idiosyncratic content for almost a decade of improvised live work & recordings, this disc reintroduces the acoustic instruments & compositional practice of her earliest musical life. Rosenfeld's delicate writing for cello & piano fuses dissonant, floating harmonies & minimalist repetition, acoustic recording with computer manipulation. She writes: "One aspect of working with dub plates is that the sound on the records is in a continual process of intermingling with the material of the plate itself, which, like memory & music, is unstable & subject to transformation with time & handling. Another is the clumsiness, th furniture-ness of the record player, whose popular history of pleasure & invention
both matches & recasts the different 'sublime' of cello & piano. With this record, I feel like I've come full circle in some way, with the very concept of sonic disappearance that has driven much of my music for turntables beginning to disappear behind a new, more expansive idea or musical structure..." Opens with the sound of an ancient 78 disc played on lowest speed, & concludes with a complex symphony of ambient noise, cello harmonics & vocal fragments. A beautiful, & challenging work. On SOFTL MUSIC an experimental music division of TOMLAB.
Softl/Tomlab-501
CD
$17.25

Songs of Green Pheasant
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, UK Songs Of Green Pheasant is the solo project of Duncan Sumpner, a 30-year-old artist / teacher from Sheffield, England. These are - at the most basic level - a set of simply beautiful, beautifully sung and played songs. A lazy ear might peg the album down as another in an ever-burgeoning line of modern folk releases, yet in honesty its sphere of reference lies closer to an uneven lineage of singer/songwriters and dreampop imagineers that would include Butterfly Child, Talk Talk (and Mark Hollis), Simon and Garfunkel, Flying Saucer Attack, Jewelled Antler Collective, Richard Youngs, and Galaxie 500. The album makes use of a kind of rustic visual language and timeless scenarios, attempting to utilise simple formats (folk / lovesong) in order to say complex things. Whilst the lyrics retain a slightly opaque audibility, what imagery does seep through speaks of of nature, the elements, and the universality of basic human experiences like love / hate / death - all shot through with a sense of melancholic nostalgia. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
FatCat
CD
$15.00

Spoon
Sister Jack (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US The new single from Spoon's break out success, "Gimme Fiction". A song as fine as any in the Lennon/McCartney pantheon, "Sister Jack" will be blasting from stereos worldwide well into the new year. Includes a QuickTime video for "Sister Jack" directed by Peter Simonite. Limited edition.
Merge
CD5
$5.50

Stevens, Sufjan
Illinois (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AsthmaicKitty-014
DLP
$14.50

Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Wedlock (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US 2005 release taken from recordings in Alaska on the Summer Solstice.Features a beautifully designed heavy duty gatefold sleeve with 2 inserts featuring many photos from the trip to Alaska as well as some pictures from Northern California from the same tour. A truly stunning album!
Eclipse-054
LP
$21.00

Sutekh
Born Again: Collected Remixes: 1999-2005 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US Definitive collection of remixed by eclectic West Coast producer Seth Horvitz feat. reworked tracks by HANNE HUKKELBER, KAMMERFLIMMER, WOBBLY, MURCOF, CHESSIE, more.
Leaf-052
DCD
$17.25

Todd, Mia Doi
Ewe & the Eye (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 22ND)
PS, US Reissue of her 1997 debut & harbinger of today's folk revival boom. 3 songs specially re-recorded for this release. 16pp bklt.
CityZen-002
CD
$14.50

Tristeza
March of White Lies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 22ND)
PS, US The return of Tristeza in their first new album since 2nd guitarist Jimmy Lavelle left to pursue the Album Leaf full time. Restocked with top shelf players Alison Ables on guitar and new keyboardist Sean Ogilvie, Tristeza are back with a fresh perspective! The songs collected here are a nearly seamless flow of beautifully crafted home studio recordings. Recorded in Mexico in their secret dome-home studio, most capture a darker, dubby more dense and slightly lo-fi feel, like a half way meeting between Chris & Cosey and Broadcast, but done in their own unique style. A couple things differ from what you ve come to expect from Tristeza s previous output, mainly a first time track with vocals (done by drummer Jimmy Lehner) and the majority of tracks are done with programmed vintage drum machines, instead of live drums. This special release is a properly pressed and souped up version of a tour cdr they took on their last US tour. The very limited tour disc was met with some of the best reactions they ve ever received and due to demand was pushed into this, it's newly revamped form. This time remastered and mixed with a couple bonus tracks tossed in for good measure. This pressing, limited to 1000, features new art work from Brazilian artist A and special fold out die-cut jacket. The perfect pre-cursor to their new studio album and full US tour launching this fall!
RocketRacer-026
CD
$13.00

Twink
Broken Record (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US It's MIKE LANGLIE's toy piano band! They piece together musical tidbits from hundreds of vintage children's records, creating crazy new songs with a modern feel. The tunes put a new spin on some old favorites & take some familiar bedtime stories in bizarre direction.
Seeland-529
CD
$13.00

Waters, Patty
Complete ESP Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 1ST)
PS, US Incl. "Sings" & "College Tour." "A sound controu never before heard in American music & poetry...it transcends virtuosi vocalizing."-Village Voice.
Despite her brief musical career (consisting of only two albums released during the mid-60s), vocal pioneer managed to redefine the use of the human voice, while simultaneously exploring the darkest & most anguished corners of the female soul. Although Waters more traditional vocals have the same raspy & brooding quality of Billie Holiday, she uses this base as a mere springboard for avant-garde vocal acrobatics, which range from wordless bone-chilling shrieks & heart-rending wails, to barely audible, breathless whispers. Arriving in NYC in the early 1960s, Waters began performing with several jazz musicians including Charles Mingus, Bill Evans & Jaki Byard, & soon drew the attention of Albert Ayler who introduced her to his label where she recorded & released her debut in 1965. Her even more daring second LP, "College Tour", was recorded at one of her live performances shortly thereafter, & features pianists Ran Blake & Burton Greene. Although Waters all but disappeared from the music scene after the late 60s, she was a major influence for many other vocal innovators, including Yoko Ono & Diamanda Galas. Original art. Digitally remastered
ESP-Disk-4019
CD
$18.25

Windy & Carl
Dream House/Dedications (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 7TH)
PS, US In many ways their simplest & most straight forward release, concentrated as it is on 2 evolving pieces. They are capable of sustaining melodic ideas & patiently apply attention to singular musical gestures. Windy says it's about "death & dreams & beliefs & leaving & moving on. The 2nd CD are gentle tributes to a departed canine friend. A DCD selling for the price of a single. Fancy posters available upon request.
Kranky-090
DCD
$13.75

Wolf, Patrick
Tristan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US Third single is the dark heart from his enrapturing new album sees Patrick possessed by a great new brave spirit: out of the ashes of his chaotic personal fires of 2005 comes "Tristan," part Cornish legend, part Wagnerian opera, part possession. CD incl. 2 EXCLUSIVE B-sides, "Idumea," Patrick's new arrangement of an ancient folk song from America's deep south & CD5 incl. "The Hazelwood" NOT AVAILABLE ON THE 7" or LP, with lyrics taken from WB Yeats. Both b-sides PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED. Artwork for CD5 is different from 7".
Tomlab-049
CD5
$7.00

Wolf, Patrick
Tristan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 31ST)
PS, US LIMITED 7" incl. UNRELEASED B-side, "Idumea" NOT AVAILABLE ON ALBUM. Art for 7" is different from CD5.
Tomlab-049
45
$6.75

Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice
The Flood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Troubleman-168
LP
$9.75

Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice
The Flood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 8TH)
PS, US This is an exploration of the goodness inherent in the human heart & how that decency can help transform the world into a better place. Sound grandious? Well, revolutions do have ambition. Long-held beliefs state that every morning that one rises from bed they have cheated Death once more through the grace of God. Through the extension of this theme, every good deed a person performs during those waking hours may very likely stand as a mark against the Reaper on the great cosmic score sheet.
Troubleman-168
CD
$11.25

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Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

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Alias & Ehren “Lillian” CD $16.25

Alias & Ehren “Lillian” LP $17.25

Black Wire “S/T” CD $13.75

Blue Aeroplanes “Friendloverplane” CD $16.25

Boy from Brazil “Pointless Shoes” CD $16.25

Burning Star Core “Mes Soldats Stupides” DCD $16.50

Convertino, John “Ragland” CD $16.25

Cortes, Lula e Zé Ramalho “Paebiru” CD $17.00

Crimson Sweet “Eat The Night” CD $13.25

Cripples “Culture” CD $13.25

Dark Fog “Cosmic Tone” CD $9.25

Dipsomaniacs “Whatever Planet” CD $12.75

Frontier Index “S/T” CD $15.25

Glue “Sunset Lodge” CD5 $9.25

Golightly, Holly “My First Holly Golightly” CD $13.75

Moore Brothers “Bee” CD5 $4.75

Morning After Girls “S/T” CD $15.25

Mystery Meat “Profiles” CD $17.00

Olvis “The Blue Sound” CD $21.25

Pest “All Fall Out” CD $16.00

Pope “Jazzman Cometh” CD $7.50

Pulp “Separations” CD $16.25

Pulp “It” CD $16.25

Pulses, The “Gather Round & Destroy All Of Our Records” CD $14.25

Red Thread “Ship in the Attic, Birds in the Subway” CD $14.50

Rigby, Amy “Little Fugitive” CD $17.00

Rose, Jack “Kensington Blues” CD $14.50

Skoro, Robert “That These Things Could Be Ours” CD $13.25

Space Mtn “Drawing Of A Memory Of A Photograph Of You” CD $14.25

Teenage Fanclub “Deep Fried Fanclub” CD $16.25

Teenage Fanclub “Catholic Education” CD $16.25

Unknown Instructors “Way Things Work” CD $12.75

Why? “Elephant Eyelash” CD $16.25

Xiu Xiu “Life & Live” CD $17.00

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