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New Releases

5ive
Hesperus
PS, US Boston's 5ive were a two-piece with no vocalist or bass player long before being instrumental and having an unorthodox band assemblage became "cool". They have a Kyuss style guitar tone without the bad vocals. Their debut full-length was one of Terrorizer magazine's top twenty of 2001. "Ben Carr's guitars are thickly layered without the sound becoming mushy. The distortion he gets out of his amp makes his riffing sound like balls of flame. Charlie Harrold's drumming complements the guitar playing exceptionally; these are two musicians that are well in tune with each other" - Brainwashed.com.
Tortuga
CD
$12.50

Accidental, The
Knock Knock (Tunng Mix) / Brave New World (Benge Mix)
PS, UK Fripp and Eno, Gainsbourg and Vannier, Kuti and Allen - two's company, and great musicians often travel in pairs. The Accidental is a pairing of Sam Genders (Tunng) and Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band, Gorodisch, co-founder of Trunk Records). This single is their first outing as well as a forerunner for a debut full-length album, due in Spring 2008. As a founder member of Tunng, Sam Genders is an extraordinary songwriter, melding Lewis Carroll's flights of fancy with all the pathos of a 19th Century Russian novelist - a tragic-comic outlook on life and fascination with both the natural and unnatural, like Gogol with a guitar. With Tunng, his well-drawn tales weave in and out of the bobbing electronics, crafting electro-tinged folk songs which pulse and caress with equal measure, combining an easy melodicism with the band's expansive touch. Stephen Cracknell has a similarly attuned ear for the properties which link the acoustic and pastoral with the synthetic sounds of electronica, managing to conjure an organically simple fusion of elements which is defiantly modern. Under the moniker of the Memory Band, Cracknell's sleight of hand has seen him essay that relationship between the traditional folk lament and the circular, glitchy stylings heard on his electronic output as Gorodisch. This seven-inch release marks the first airing of material by the Accidental, featuring remixes of two of the songs slated for inclusion on their forthcoming debut album. Knock Knock is remixed by fellow Tunng lynchpin Mike Lindsay, the scratchy atmosphere and booming beats lending it a distinctly tribal feel, while bass frequencies lurch and stretch underneath plaintive vocals. On the reverse is the Benge remix of Brave New World - a slice of blissful electronica akin to Four Tet sitting down for tea and scones with Animal Collective, while snaking rhythms rattle alongside cut-up vocals and odd percussive flourishes. Slip on the headphones and drift away. Limited to 500 copies on seven inch wax only. Vinyl comes in a harvest house bag with print.
StaticCaravan-158-7
45
$7.75

American Music Club
The Golden Age
PS, US Every AMC record is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression. "The Golden Age" is no exception: from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, this album is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music.
Merge
CD
$14.00

Angel
Kalmukia
PS, US This is Ilpo Vaisanen (PAN SONIC), Hildur Gudnadottir (Lost In Hildurness) & Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM). A vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melancholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery & a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other, creating a mesmerizing work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for.
EditionsMego
CD
$17.00

Apes, The
Ghost Games
PS, US POPMATTERS: "Forgoing lead guitar for shambling, sinister organ licks, DC post-punk outfit the Apes strike a strange middle-ground between minimalism and maximalism. Lacking guitar accompaniment, Jeff Schmid's drums and and Erick Jackson's bass tend operate in spare cages of plunging rhythms and blurting stabs, and when the keys afford them some space, the whole feels crisply open. However, just as often as organist Amanda Bynes allows herself to be constrained by the others' rhythms, she surges past and breaks free, letting her organ swell to fill every gap with psychedelic squeal."
GypsyEyes
CD
$15.00

Apples In Stereo
Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Apples In Stereo's third full-length album is a return to their early-'60s Beatlesque sound... Robert Schneider's lyrics are more emotional and personal here than on earlier releases, and the added intimacy, as well as the musical layers, make The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone an intricate, poignant lunar trip."
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Apples In Stereo
Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "One of the defining albums of the mid-'90s indie scene, the Apples in Stereo's full-length debut is one of those records that marks a sea change in musical attitudes, akin to Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick" or Pavement's early singles... The album that defines the post-grunge indie pop shift from sullen negativity into a kind of cockeyed, giddy optimism, and is also among the handful of albums that turned Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, and Burt Bacharach into cool names to drop at the record store... Fun Trick Noisemaker is a minor masterpiece."

Also available on re-issue: Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (2000) and Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Apples In Stereo
Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "the band's most overtly psychedelic record, it's also their most experimental, achieving a near-perfect balance between candy-colored popcraft and musique concrète-influenced interludes. In a sense, the disc is a response to the grand ambitions of fellow Elephant 6-ers Olivia Tremor Control and their likeminded Black Foliage album, but the Apples' integration of Beatlesque melodies and experimental noises is much more seamless; not only are Her Wallpaper Reverie's songs the best Robert Schneider's yet written, but they're produced with a new richness of detail -- from the wonderfully Lennon-esque "Strawberryfire" to the Kinks-ish "Ruby," the music positively shimmers."
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Architect
I Went Out Shopping To Get Some Noise
PS, GERMANY Reissue. Ever prolific, Haujobb's Daniel Myer returns for a second album as architect, I went out shopping to get some noise. Myer's previous architect album, 1998's galactic supermarket, leant toward the darker threads of technoid drum'n'bass (panacea, tarmvred, etc). For I went out shopping to get some noise, Myer reigns in the breaks to toss down thirteen mind-bendingly tight electro-acid-industrial-techno cuts, each bearing Myer's signature dark flair and impeccable production. Comparisons range from afx and caustic window on 'track 7' to emotive digital synthpop like early attaché on 'track 5.' not to be outdone by other sample-aholics, Myer ensnares the ultimate - Beethoven's moonlight sonata - and contorts it into a neoromantic opus on 'track 6.' if this is what Myer means by noise, the rest of the musical world has a lot of catching up to do to touch architect.
Hymen-737
CD
$15.50

Atlas Sound
Let the Blind Lead Those
PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania.
Kranky-114
CD
$11.00

Balmorhea
Rivers Arms
PS, US Mirroring the vast Texas skies, the soulful collection of songs on "Rivers Arms" is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. BALMORHEA'S shows have included dates with The Drift, Bexar Bexar, One AM Radio, Caspian, and more. They're currently planning a Spring tour to coincide with this release and working on a Summer tour with their Italian friends Port-Royal. The track "Baleen Morning" will be featured on an upcoming documentary about the company "Toms Shoes", which will premier the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
WesternVinyl-051
CD
$11.50

Bao, Billy
Dialectics of Shit
PS, US This screams freedom; freedom from presumptions, form, & safety. Its 10 tracks bludgeon wantonly w/ black metallic ferox, industrial rhythm jackhammering, & a gauntlet of free-swinging riffs designed to mash ears into the asphalt. The directions hinted at in his earlier works are given new purpose, let loose to manipulate any expectations brought in w/ the listener. Like the nihilistic pummel of the Brainbombs, the feral howl of early Nirvana, & the aluminum baseball bat dunt of New Zealand post-punkers The Gordons
PartsUnknown
LP
$11.25

Beach House
Devotion
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Carpark
LP
$17.00

Beach House
Devotion
PS, US The familiar organs, slide guitars & reverb are intact but they offer some new directions here. Having developed their craft exponentially since last year's debut, their new record is a crisp recording that showcases a set of fuller & richer songs, with the band taking the pop duo format to the limit. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With Devotion, Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound... Like Beach House, Devotion sounds like it was made for, and possibly in, the dead of night. This time, though, Beach House's dark moods have more shades, and even a little bit of light, making them all the more compelling."
Carpark
CD
$14.25

Beat Circus
Dreamland
PS, US This second full length album is a uniquely fierce and magical record composed by singer/songwriter Brian Carpenter, who delivers dark narrative songs of Deadwood saloons, gangsters from The Bowery, Coney Island sideshows, and the Santa Fe Railway. Loosely based on historical events associated with turn of the century New York, Dreamland is the culmination of a two-year effort by Beat Circus and marks the first installment of Brian Carpenter's Weird American Gothictrilogy. Brian leads a 9-piece band with a unique & exciting instrumentation: pump organ, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, accordion, jawharp, tuba, trombone, banjo, mandolin, saxophones drums and percussion. Dreamland was engineered and produced by legendary NY producer Martin Bisi (SONIC YOUTH, FOETUS, DRESDEN DOLLS, BARBEZ).
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

Beequeen
Sandancing
PS, US After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from 'The Bodyshop' (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). Well-rounded popsongs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the dark alley of pointless experiment. Orchestral in 'The Illogical Song', collage like in 'The Edie Three Step' or a simple rhythm machine in 'The Honeythief'. Beequeen does all, and with great care and seemingly ease. This album features also the help of Barry Gray, former (and first) guitarist of The Legendary Pink Dots, and would not have been the album that is without the invaluable production skills of Erik Drost.
Important-177
CD
$12.25

Beequeen
Sandancing Demos
PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track.
Important-186
10
$14.75

Belong
Colorloss Record
PS, US While BELONG still considers these cover songs, what we are presented with are shells, the ghosts of what we think we know about such a fleeting medium as music in the first place. And like the title implies, the music sounds weathered, a faded version of some original we might only imagine. As a record of covers, it sounds like the sonic palimpsest that it is exactly. On "Colorloss", one finds a humble treatment of the hierarchy of sounds. It is the equal attention given to each sound and its place in the mix that makes this a true musical democracy where each element shines in its own way, while propping up the others in a puzzle that would charm Archimedes. A wash of fuzz finds itself meandering thru a track holding hands with the vocals, the space between a breathe before the next submergence. What we have as a result is work of such staggering beauty and melodic thoughtfulness to stop KEVIN SHIELDS in his tracks at the wonder of it. And while the instrumentation and means might be different, this is a music that has as much in common with late 20th-century composition in the vein of JOHN CALE or TONY CONRAD as it does with the soundscapes of WILLIAM BASINSKI or MY BLOODY VALENTINE.
St.Ives-017
LP
$11.50

Big Sleep
Sleep Forever
PS, US Tighter, more focused & heavier than before, w/o losing any of the energy. It's guitar rock w/ a heavy dose of noise, & a big focus on rhythm. It's loud because the music needs to be felt.
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.25

Bitcrush
Epilogue in Waves
PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting.
n5MD-156
CD
$12.00

Blood On The Wall
Liferz
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!! "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "awesomer".
TheSocialRegistry-060
LP
$10.25

Boeoes Kaelstigen
Pan European
PS, SWEDEN "The music is sharp-edged, a suggestive hybrid of minimal, luxurious Giorgio Moroder Italo and melodramatic black and white air busses. Boeoes Kaelstigen's beats and desolate keyboard lines makes you long for a future in the sign of modernity."
Adrian-12
12
$10.50

Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar
LP
$11.50

Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
PS, US This debut is centered around a particular aesthetic; Justin Vernon, the primary force behind Bon Iver, moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter, alone for three months. This solitary time fed a bold, uninhibited new musical focus. All his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss, and guilt that had been stockpiled over the past six years was suddenly purged into song. The NY Times called this record "irresistible", and it was given a "Recommeded" rating by Pitchfork. RIYL: Iron & Wine, M. Ward, and Elliott Smith.
Jagjaguwar
CD
$11.50

Boris
Statement
PS, US They return w/ their first non-collaborative recordings in 2 yrs! The new track "Statement" is a preview of things to come on their forthcoming full-length album: "Smile" to be released by Southern Lord near the end of April 2008! The B side "Floorshaker" is excl. to this vinyl & will NOT be available anywhere else.
SouthernLord
45
$5.00

Bow Street Runners
S-T
PS, US 1996 reissue. "Flushed from Fayetteville, North Carolina -- where they thought they could remain comfortably obscure -- by our release of their only album, the Runners have recently re-surfaced. Issued in ultra-limited quantity by B.T. Puppy in 1970 -- and now changing hands for sums more familiar to NASDAQ -- this is an otherworldly blend of sweet female blotter acid harmonies, hypnotic Farfisa and high-octane fuzz guitar histrionics."
Sundazed
CD
$13.25

Boy Omega
Hope On The Horizon
PS, SPAIN On "Hope on the Horizon", Boy Omega (Swedish genius Martin Henrik Gustafsson) follows up his critically acclaimed 2006-albums "The Black Tango" and "The Grey Rainbow", with yet another impressive collection of songs that showcase the growth of his songwriting. As always when you hear a new Boy Omega-record, there's something new going on. This time it's a lot less electronic than before. This is something warm and analog, featuring big walls of strings, horns, acoustic pianos etc. It sounds melancholic and drenched with the bitter beauty of life. Besides from recording "Hope...", releasing two albums, a tour-cd (feat. 15 rare tracks and covers), two singles, the split CD "If we were oceans" and appearing on the Magnetic Fields tribute CD "Our love is meaningless", Boy Omega also managed to play more than 60 shows in 2006. Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and the UK were frequently visited. In the summer they played the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, The End of the road festival in the UK along with artists such as Ryan Adams, Ed Harcourt and Badly Drawn Boy. They also did shows together with Isobel Campbell, Akron/Family, The Hidden Cameras and Jason Collett. "Fans of Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith will feel a kinship to these allusive tunes ... A fascinating series of snapshots, both disarming and engaging ... something incredibly fragile and perfectly crafted." - UNCUT "Sad songs and little-boy-lost vocals recall Bright Eyes, but his settings are all his own, mixing lo-fi sensibilities with gnarly electronics, warm cellos, lustrous violins, banjo and sax to lush effect ... One to watch." - THE INDEPENDENT "Naked and bare but still powerful, and not self-pitiful as so many others in the same genre." - GROOVE
Acuarela-1079
CD
$13.50

Bridal Shop, The
From Seas
PS, US The Bridal Shop is a new young band emerging from the fertile land of Sweden, and From Seas is the result of a year spent painstakingly crafting perfect pop songs. Inspired by New Order and shoegaze bands like Field Mice and The Radio Dept, From Seas features prerecorded drum beats and delicate female vocals that date the band, whose true loves are bands from the 1980s. These seven songs are solid all the way through, and are sure to break hearts! SCATTERBRAIN: "If you're a fan of almost anything Sarah Records put out, especially bands like Blueboy and Brighter, then you'll probably love this."
MagicMarker
CD
$11.00

Brotzmann, Peter & Uuskyla
Born Broke
PS, US PETER BROTZMANN (tenor sax/clarinet) & PEETER UUSKYLA (drums) have once again joined forces & spirits picking up where their trio w/ Peter Friis-Nielsen left off & whose only known competition in the field is Vandermark & Nilssen-Love's Dual Pleasure implosion unit. A fresh double dose of soul purge from
free men.
Atavistic-185
DCD
$17.25

C.A. Quintet
Trip Thru Hell
PS, US 2 LP version, deluxe gatefold packaging, 1996 reissue; originally released 1968. "Something very, very strange was afoot in the Midwest during the '60s, and we're not talking about David Letterman's stint as a local TV weatherman. While L.A. was tiptoeing through the tulips, New York was groovin' and London was electrifying bananas, these brainiacs were booking a journey to Hades. Get your contact high from a safe distance with this intense, fuzz-ridden passel of ones and zeros. Our package contains the entire mind-bent original album plus bonus cuts, and a gatefold sleeve jammed with rare photos and notes, and more!"
Sundazed
DLP
$19.75

C.A. Quintet
Trip Thru Hell
PS, US 1995 reissue of this Mpls. garage rock "classic", originally issued as a private press LP in 1968. "Something very, very strange was afoot in the Midwest during the '60s, and we're not talking about David Letterman's stint as a local TV weatherman. While L.A. was tiptoeing through the tulips, New York was groovin' and London was electrifying bananas, these brainiacs were booking a journey to Hades. Get your contact high from a safe distance with this intense, fuzz-ridden passel of ones and zeros. Our package contains the entire mind-bent original album plus 12 bonus cuts, a fat booklet jammed with rare photos and notes, and more!"
Sundazed
CD
$17.75

Canisius, Keith
Ferris Wheel Makeout
PS, JAPAN Multi-instrumentalist, singer & producer Keith Canisius (main composer in RUMSKIB) puts a personal twist on classic shoegaze and dreampop with his creative playfulness and multi-layered compositions. Ferris Wheel Makeout, his solo debut, is a dizzying good dream affair stacked with strong melodies and excellent guitar work. Local friend Jonas Munk (aka Manual) helps out with drum programming and post production for the finishing touches. Altogether a mix that the shoegazers and dreampoppers out there will love, as will fans of Rumskib, Manual, Ulrich Schnauss, Cocteau Twins, MBV & Serena Maneesh.
Quince-58
CD
$13.50

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Dust Sucker
PS, UK Previously on CD, now on vinyl for the first time. "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. This 2LP set includes the 12 tracks from the Captain's own tape of the original Bat Chain Puller album (you will never have heard these tracks in this quality). When Mojo did a feature recently on classic lost albums, this was one of the main albums featured. There are a further 7 extra tracks, including 5 live recordings of tracks from 'Bat Chain Puller,' plus a version of 'Well Well Well' featuring Rockette Morton and a live festival performance of 'My Human Gets Me Blues.'
Ozit
DLP
$25.00

Cave
Hunt Like the Devil
PS, US New project form Warhammer 48K mastermind COOPER. Space rock rifffs, squalls of guitar freak-outs, repetititeve & hypnotic grooves and chanting, cult like vocals. LIMITED to 500, includes a FREE cd of the lp.
Southern
LP
$13.50

Club 8
Club 8 + 2
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the second of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's melancholic pop heroes. Club 8s self-titled third is released with original artwork and two (2) bonus tracks. It took three years from the previous album "The friend I once had" to the release of "Club 8" and listening to the albums after one and another it's obvious how much they'd changed in absence. This album definitely moved the band in a new direction. And you can tell directly from the first song on "Club 8". "Love in december" is breathtaking, soulful pop imbued by dark Scandinavian winter atmosphere and bittersweet melancholy. "If a lover's arms were as soft and sultry as the music on Club 8, returning to them again and again would pose little conflict, and the same goes for slipping into Club 8." ROLLING STONE
Labrador-018R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to announce the third of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's kings & queens of happysad indie pop. Club 8s third album "Spring came, rain fell" is released with original artwork and five (5) bonus tracks. "Spring came, rain fell" was the start of a whole new era for Club 8. They had just bought their own recording equipment and started the now famous Summersound Studio together with fellow band Acid House Kings and from this a whole new level of creativity emerged. You can tell Club 8 enjoyed their newly found freedom with a studio of thier own. "Spring came, rain fell" is sparkling of experimental lust. Without ever losing their touch for seductive pop melodies Club 8 here produces songs and sounds ranging from dub and electronica to smokey trip hop and folky and acoustic pop. They did everything just because they could do it and because they loved doing. "Club 8 use the studio to bring the best out in every song ... shafts of melodica shine a light through Komstedt's dewy fatalism. It may be bleak, but you can't stop returning." - MOJO "As summer slips away, wallow in some Scandinavian sadness with this Swedish duo's wonderfully soothing (UK) début." - TIME OUT (London)
Labrador-022R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
The Friend I Once Had + 6
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. With a glittery mix of jangly guitars, bossa nova and sophisticated, melancholic pop melodies, "The Friend I Once Had" was a big step forwards for Club 8. Their debut album "Nouvelle" may be regarded, as a twee pop classic by some but the band would happily rather bury most the songs under a rock. This is the album they wish was their debut. "All bubble-pop, break beats, and xylophones, Friend I Once Had was a step forward from the fey gestures Club 8 had once been known for." ALL MUSIC GUIDE "...showcases lusher, bouncier songs suitable for both easy listening and sophisticated grooving .... music that you will immediately cherish..." CMJ "It is absolutely essential to own at least one Lp by this group. I'd probably suggest this one as the place to start, but you really can't go wrong." 10 + INDIESPINZONE "The friend I once had" was not only a first step towards the band's characteristically elegant, yet melancholic, "Club 8 - sound"; it was a step towards a much bigger (and possibly wider) audience. The album gained critical success and reached thousands of new listeners in the US, Europe and Japan and they even had a minor hit with the single "Missing you". Ironically, this is the only song from the album parts of the band can no longer stand. "The Friend I Once Had" celebrates 10 years and remains a minor Swedish pop classic. A must have for just about anyone genuinely interested in quality POP.
Labrador-004R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
Strangely Beautiful + 5
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the fourth of four CD album re-issues by one of Sweden's most influential indie pop bands. Club 8s fifth album "Strangely beautiful" is released with original artwork and nothing less than five (5) bonus tracks. "Strangely beautiful" was the last of three albums in Club 8's productive peak between 2001 and 2003. Within a time frame of less than two years the band managed to release three full-length albums and two Eps without ever losing on quality. Quite the opposite, "Strangely beautiful" was by many considered their best album to date. "Strangely Beautiful is Club 8's best and most varied record to date...on this album, the band's trademark blend of soft indie pop guitars, perky dance beats, melancholy synthesizers, and sweet and innocent vocals remains intact, but Johan Angergard, the chief architect of Club 8's sound, seems to have spent some effort trying to expand their sound a little. The work pays off handsomely and the album sounds full of life and energy." ALL MUSIC Their previous album "Spring came, rain fell" had been a very diverse history ranging from electronica and dub to acoustic pop. Therefor it came natural for Club 8 to move in the opposite direction on their next album and make a more homogeneous album. "Strangely beautiful" mostly revolved around guitar based and melancholic pop music. But there was, as always, tracks that stood out as completely different from the rest. And in typical Club 8 manner this track, "Saturday night engine", was chosen to be the single. This noisy and Northern Soul-inspired track was a clear forerunner to The Legends "Up against the Legends". But that's another story.
Labrador-037R
CD
$13.50

Cobain, Kurt
About a Son
PS, US "Extraordinary!"-Salon. Deeply personal portrait using his own words & voice. Based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book ""Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public & they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood. 97 mins.
Shout!Factory
DVD
$14.00

Coltrane, John
Turning Point
PS, UK Over the all too brief 40 years of his life, John Coltrane had a profound and far-reaching effect on the world of jazz and beyond. Yet acclaimed as he already was after spells as a sideman with giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, it was only in 1957 that his musical vision began to truly find focus. The "spiritual awakening" of which he spoke prompted him to make wholesale changes in his lifestyle. Out, went the bad habits that had made many fears for his life, to be replaced by an all-consuming quest to make music that transcended national and cultural boundaries, bringing both player and listener to a state of connectedness with God. This edition illustrates that landmark year with selections from four important sessions; collaborations and first dates as leader with Tadd Dameron, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan and Red Garland. The listener will find abundant evidence of one of jazz's undisputed greats demonstrating total mastery of the music that succored him through his early years - blues, swing, bebop - and already beginning to hunger for fresh challenges. Coltrane's eclectic attitudes, encouraged by his friendship with Ravi Shankar, would soon inspire The Byrds ('Eight Miles High'), Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Tom Verlaine, The Stooges. Mating Call / Soultrane / On A Misty Night / Eclypso / Solacium / Bakai / While My Lady Sleeps / Chronic Blues / You Leave Me Breathless / Soft Lights And Sweet Music / Slow Dance.
FiveFour-027
CD
$15.50

Company
Old Baby
PS, US "Old Baby" is the latest record from COMPANY, a songwriting collective and rock band rooted in folk, punk, country, and psychedelic traditions. Evocative guitars, dynamic rhythms, uplifting harmonies, and lyrics by turns incisive and insightful interweave to create a homespun sound that is as striking as it is familiar. In these songs, simplicity shimmers, dreams pack the punch of hard facts, and the human heart is laid bare, weird, defiant, and lovely.
BrahRecords/JagJaguwar-012
CD
$11.50

Contents Are, The
Through You
PS, GERMANY The Contents Are: Dave Neumann (guitar, vocals); Paul Staack (drums, vocals); Larry Smith (bass, vocals); and Craig Hute (lead guitar, vocals) from Iowa. The Contents Are were one of many '60s bands from the Quad City's fertile garage music scene. With labels/studios like Fredlo and IGL, it was a very healthy regional area for bands with an unusually high per capita for record releases. Up until the recent discovery of an original copy a couple years ago, it was only rumored to exist and remained an enigma with hardcore record collectors. In most cases, The Contents Are were only known by astute collectors for their two excellent 45 releases (non-LP). Well the mystery is over, and here's your chance to hear one of the most rare and greatest garage records ever recorded. Here's the story about the record: four high school seniors from Iowa decide to release an album of all original tunes, exclusively sold at their live shows. Originally released on the Rok label (a subsidiary of the already obscure Fredlo label) in 1967 with only 100 copies pressed. These guys were not your typical garage band - talented players, professional grade vocalists and no cover songs! Their music is a nice blend of garage rock with hints of hipster folk and early psychedelic influences. As good if not better as other similar top-shelf rarities like Mystery Meat and the Bachs, but without a major quantity release, making original copies of their recordings ten times rarer. Get it or miss it! CD jewel case with 8-page booklet, plus 4 bonus non-LP tracks from singles.
Shadoks-090
CD
$16.25

Cryptacize
Dig That Treasure
PS, US Every song on "Dig That Treasure" is a miniature journey, a free fantasia, a dreamy habitat built out of the minimum of material. Sudden rhythmic gestures and frequent key changes will leave you feeling pleasantly disorientated in a song. But trust your tour-guides! You might feel as if you've come across a small tribe that speaks an unstudied language, and miraculously, find that you can speak it too! "Dig That Treasure" is humbly inspired by the larger-than-life emotions of West Side Story, the joyfully percussive guitar gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Wizard of Oz's bittersweet escapism, the other-world sentimentality of Sun Ra's Spaceship Lullaby, and Henry Cowell's ethereal piano string strumming.
AsthmaticKitty-38
LP
$10.25

Danava
UnonoU
PS, US VINYL!!!
Kemado
DLP
$21.75

Davies, Ray
Working Man's Cafe
PS, US Very enjoyable new solo album from Kinks frontman.
NewWest
CD
$17.25

Dead Science
Tomlab Alphabet Series: V
PS, US The "V" single, and the two songs contained therein, will be a sort of satellite of THE DEAD SCIENCE'S next album, "Villainaire", a record dealing with a very specific period of time in singer Sam Mickens' life and, more generally, in the embrace of personal nihilism and the potential psychic luxury of amorality. The A-Side, "Make Mine Marvel (Remix)" will be, in the style of R. Kelly's remix work, a completely new song, with completely new melodic and lyrical content, built on components of the original "make Mine Marvel" which will appear on "Villainaire". The B-Side, "White Mane," was a song initially intended and recorded for the album, but which will be exclusively here instead. "White Mane" is, in fragmentary and impressionistic fashion, about the American film actor Robert Blake, both in his own recent life and in terms of his relationship to certain past roles.
Tomlab-104V
45
$5.40

Denny, Sandy
S-T
PS, US Perhaps the greatest British folk singer of all time, she first came to prominence in the quintessential British folk band, the Fairport Convention. Her singing and songwriting took the band to unimaginable heights and proved her to be a true talent of the last century. After leaving Fairport in 1970, she continued to produce solo work. Sandy, released in 1972, is her second post-Fairport release and her pre-eminent solo effort. Featuring two bonus tracks from the soundtrack of the movie Pass Of Arms." 180 gram virgin vinyl.
VinylLovers
LP
$28.00

Diamond, Neil
Velvet Gloves and Spit
PS, UK Somewhere between his stint as a successful Brill Building songwriter (his songs 'I'm A Believer' and 'A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You' became mega-hits for The Monkees) cum-fledgling solo artist (scoring US hits with 'Solitary Man', 'Kentucky Woman' and 'Cherry, Cherry') and his world-conquering 1970s solo career, Brooklyn-born Neil Diamond released a string of inauspicious, low-selling albums in something more akin to a singer-songwriter/troubadour style. Velvet Gloves And Spit, recorded in New York before Diamond had perfected the Memphis-helmed sound of his subsequent hits, was his first for new label Uni and appeared in 1968 to little acclaim. However, following the single success of 'Shilo' in 1970, the song was tacked onto the album and it was reissued in a new sleeve. Stylistically, the album covers the whole spectrum of contemporary sounds from romantic ballads to tongue-in-cheek social commentary to brash pop gems not unlike his mid-'60s Brill Building output. TRACKS: Two-Bit Manchild, A Modern Day Version Of Love, Honey- Drippin' Times, Pot Smoker's Song, Brooklyn Roads, Shilo (Re-Recording), Sunday Sun, Holiday Inn Blues, Practically Newborn, Knackelflerg, Merry-Go-Round.
Rev-Ola-238
CD
$15.50

Dirtbombs, The
We Have You Surrounded
PS, US PS, US Jam-packed w/ more of their soulful, Detroit-style, fuzztone fueled garage-punkpop- rock 'n' roll that has made them a popular favorite w/ club-goers around the globe. This record carries on the tradition w/ fantastic takes on songs by comic artist Alan Moore, stalwarts Dead Moon, & labelmates Sparks. That said, the originals here are what you really want to write home about. From the Stooge-oid "Ever Lovin' Man" to the finger-poppin' "Indivisible" to the extendo free-form psych jam of "Race To The Bottom" to the Euro-pop of "La Fin Du Monde"
InTheRed
CD
$14.25

DJ Donna Summer
Panther Tracks
PS, UK He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as "Shamelessly Exciting" was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, "Panther Tracks" is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Breakcore, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B'more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, "Panther Tracks" builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like "Peepers" and "Boomshakalaka". While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Breakbeat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as "Party People", "Get Down" and "Rock Rock Rock". No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, "Panther Tracks" is like the ultimate Rave; it's fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long.
CockRockDisco-018
CD
$17.75

Dolly Rocker Movement, The
Electric Sunshine
PS, AUSTRALIA And now for something a little different; Sydney's DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT are equal parts VELVET UNDERGROUND, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE and georgeous west-coast folk. Blending quaint psychedelia and haunting jabs of love, DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT pervade a space in your brain that's reserved for acid. [As heard on Australia's TripleJ radio.] "WHY ISN'T ANY BAND IN AMERICA MAKING MUSIC THIS BEAUTIFUL" GREG SHAW (RIP) BOMP.
OffTheHip-7031
CD
$12.25

Dolly Rocker Movement, The
Purple Journey Into the Mod Machine
PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Sydney the Dolly Rocker Movement have developed a style and sound bearing a true influence of late 60's garage, psychedelia and freakbeat, with splashes of west coast folk. ...this album promises to be just as popular with the critics and paisley-clad-gentle-people.
OffTheHip-7036
CD
$12.25

Dot Tape Dot
Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007)
PS, US Daniel Romero is a multi-faceted musician based in Asturias, north of Spain. In a very short time he has molded a very personal discourse based on constructing low-budget electronic pop with lo-fi, toy instruments, combined with stunning homemade visuals. "Tomavistas" is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as dot tape dot, spanning the years 2002 - 2007. "Tomavistas" is born of love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clears out space for a new personal stockpile to be built. These 12 tracks are taken from limited edition compilations, vinyl only releases and "unofficial" albums, from labels in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output. 1. Come to me 2. Df fragment 3. Rosa Luxemburger 4. Slow Birds For Mayo T 5. Miracolo a Milano 6. A Russian Poet 7. Pal Talk 2 (morning) 8. Rounded Tree 9. Ventano 10. Disaster 11. Making Waves 12. With Paul (Bluehouse Edit)
OtherElectricites-012
CD
$12.25

Doubtful Guest
Acid Sauna
PS, US This debut ushers in a new era of acid. Gone are the electro party jams, gone is the funky squiggle. This dark, suffocating stuff is full of nightmares & claustrophobic details that send shivers up one's spine. Not afraid to show her classical upbringing (she trained as an opera singer) & jazz heritage (granddaughter of J.B. Floyd), Libby Floyd infuses the rave sound w/ doom & dread.
PlanetMu
CD
$16.00

Doubtful Guest
Acid Sauna
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu
3XLP
$18.75

Dreamers, The
Day For Night
PS, SWEDEN The Dreamers are an Anglo/Swedish duo featuring Sarah Nyberg Pergament (Action Biker) and Kevin Wright (Always and Mr. Wright, on él, Le Grand Magistery and Siesta). After meeting at a Swedish music festival in 2004, the pair began making music together via London, Stockholm and Helsinki, and fusing jazz pop, bossanova, and soundtrack music. With "Day for Night" the Dreamers have made--to paraphrase Michel Legrand on Tom Jobim- the sad music that makes the world a better place. Influences: Stan Tracey, Caetano Veloso, Colleen, Francoise Hardy, Kryzystof Komeda, Matching Mole, Anna Karina, Bill Evans, Monica Zetterlund, Nara Leao, Bernard Herrmann, Nico... "[A] male/female duo with the vocal texture and cadence of Broadcast's Trish Keenan, but with its own musicality, personality and atmosphere set in a breeze-blown, sun-drenched pasture, the record is really charming and full of self-assured confidence - light on its feet in that Brazilian way and positive in that modern indie way, but solid and thoughtfully written. The Dreamers are very easy to like but definitely not just another guilty pleasure." - Other Music, NYC
FriendlyNoise-055
CD
$13.50

Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time
Runout Groove
PS, UK 2007 release, the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Folk-Jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. 12 tracks.
Fruitcake
CD
$16.25

East Of Eden
Mercator Projected
PS, UK A milestone in the birth of "progressive" rock, East of Eden's debut album, "Mercator Projected" has been cited by Mojo magazine as a minor masterpiece. Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act, particularly in France, where the band had several Top Ten singles and major album success. An imaginative fusion of jazz, psychedelia and world music, "Mercator Projected" has been remastered from the original master tapes and features twenty minutes of bonus material, including previously unreleased extended demo versions of 'Waterways' and 'In The Stable of the Sphynx' and East of Eden's take on The Byrds' classic 'Eight Miles High'. All original artwork has been restored and the booklet features many unseen photographs and memorabilia.
EsotericRecordings-2033
CD
$20.25

East Of Eden
Snafu
PS, UK East of Eden's second album, "Snafu" was originally released in 1970 by Deram Records and saw the band take their particular fusion of jazz, psychedelia, world music and even blue beat, one step further. As ever, the instrumental prowess of Dave Arbus on violin dominated the music, leading eventually to Arbus playing the infamous violin solo on "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who. "Snafu" was the result of many months in the studio, before being shelved in favor of starting work on a fresh project. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes and features many unreleased bonus tracks, including five previously unreleased tracks from the aborted album sessions and alternate demo and single versions of their 1971 hit, "Jig-A-Jig". An extensive essay features interviews and previously unseen photographs.
EsotericRecordings-2034
CD
$20.25

Egg
The Polite Force
PS, UK This now legendary debut album by Egg featured the talents of Dave Stewart on Keyboards, Mont Campbell on Bass and Clive Brooks on Drums. Egg was associated with the so-called "Canterbury" style of rock music pioneered by artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine. The trio produced music of startling originality and energy, drawing on influences ranging from rock to jazz to psychedelia to classical. This fusion resulted in some of the most enduring releases to appear on Decca's Deram and Nova imprints and are now critically regarded as some of the more unique albums of the early 1970's. Egg's classic second album is re-mastered from the original tapes and appears alongside the reissue of "Egg". With these releases, the entire EGG back catalogue is now available on Esoteric Recordings.
EsotericRecordings-2036
CD
$20.25

Enduser
Left
PS, US END.USER is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music. Support from BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs and a list of DJs too long to fit on a one sheet, from many different genres, and releases across many platforms have built him into a juggernaut. A usually prolific artist, having recorded for Hymen, Ad Noiseam, Sublight, Cargo, and many others, he took 2007 off, working on something very special - his debut album on Ohm Resistance. Having relocated to San Francisco, a new lease on his creative power is demonstrated adroitly over the entire album. Album: left shows the most range of END.USER's album making career. Intensely personal, intensely musical, and just plain INTENSE at points, the album showcases a spectacular array of skills across the board. From radio play material ("black light") with Aussie vocalist Sol Thomas, to collaborations with and remixes by influential electronic acts SCORN and COUNTERSTRIKE, to absolutely stunning, no boundaries drum n bass, the album is diverse and full of powerful compositions. Compelling from start to finish, left is the culmination of more than a year's work. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell's Method of Defiance, to Enduser and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-07
CD
$12.25

English, Lawrence/Ai Yamamoto
Plateau
PS, US Over the past three years Ai Yamamoto and Lawrence English have been exploring the ideas and linkages between field recordings, texture and minimal electronics. Occasionally crossing paths around Australia and sharing the odd live performance together, the duo realized they shared a strong interest in the character of sound and the creation of sonic works that carry a strong sense of suggested narrative and memory (both invented and real). On Plateau, they create evocative and generously textured passages of sound that mask gentle field recordings collected across the globe including Yamamoto's home prefecture of Nara, Japan where English also spent time. Considered In worldwide as the "Bible" of modern, cutting edge and new music and in publication now for over 20 years is the U.K. monthly magazine, The Wire, here is what they had to say upon review of "Plateau" in the February 2006 edition: A man of many collaborations, Lawrence English joins fellow Australian sound artist Ai Yamamoto for Plateau, a somber album of impressionist fragments connected more by mood and ambience than by movement and composition. As in his previous work with Tujiko Noriko DJ Olive and Philip Samartzis, English applies a considerable amount of DSP-distilled polish to the ensuing sounds, whether they are textured field recordings, rasping tam-tams or post-Eno dronescapes. Considering that Plateau jumps from tonefloat shimmer to wintry Durutti Column guitar flourishes to a music box palindrome and back to a bout of ominous minimalism, English's production serves to encase the entire album with a consistent aura. Plateau's numerous stylistic transitions and melodic interludes never veer far from a compelling if fragile melancholy.
Phonostatique-007
CD
$15.00

Envy
Compiled Fragments 1997-2003
PS, US Celebrating the release of their incendiary new EP, "Abyssal", and in conjunction with their forthcoming North American tour, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LIMITED is proud to re-introduce the lion's share of ENVY'S colossal back catalog. Along with their second and third albums - "All the Footprints You've Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" and "A Dead Sinking Story", respectively - we are happy to finally bring you "Compiled Fragments 1997-2003". This collection of singles, rare tracks and unreleased gems maps Envy's storied transformation from pioneering spastic hardcore to masters of exquisite, triumphant doom. Originally released in 2003 on the group's own SONZAI RECORDS in Japan, this album has never been available in North America, and has never been previously released on vinyl.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-130
CD
$9.00

Envy
Compiled Fragments 1997-2003
PS, US CVINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-130
DLP
$14.25

Erickson, Roky & the Explosives
Halloween: Live 1979-1981
PS, US Live stuff from a key period for this Texan psych guitar great.
Steadyboy
CD
$15.75

Exillon
It's Ok To Dance
PS, GERMANY Exillon brings acid to IDM, speeds things up several notch, and bombs the dance floor with a high energy album of catchy twisted club tunes. Tapping on his high production skills, "It's OK to Dance" brings back life to twisted beats and complex rhythms and does it all with a smile. It's OK to take the acid test, and certainly impossible to resist. In 2006, Exillon had helped bear the grief of IDM with "The Keening Dithers", an album which brilliantly closed chapters both for this musician and for the kind of music he had been known for. Two years later, the keening has dithered for good, and Jay Fields (Exillon) has taken his art from the moody, glitchy and modest waters of his past electronica to more daring, club-oriented and uplifting ones. It might have to do with Jay Field's relocation to San Francisco, with a more energetic, dance floor-friendly trend in electronic music or just with the evolution of an artist per se; "It's OK To Dance" is a CD in which the clear, sharp and flowing sounds that Exillon has been using since his Debut in the early 200os get mixed and mashed in a lively, bouncy way. A party album for raving robots, this album is the meeting point of Exillon's hi-fi sounds and production and a deliciously retro, 90's acid sensibility. Not satisfied with just reviving the acid sound (something which has been done by many, without much soul or innovation), Exillon makes this sound his, and draws from his experience as a beat & tone trickster to bake a whole new recipe altogether. Mixing the best of both worlds, Jay Fields reclaims the dance floor, and manages to entertain his audience without insulting the brain (something which over the year has almost become an Ad Noiseam motto). Good trip guaranteed and yes, it is really OK to dance.
AdNoiseam-086
CD
$15.50

Fassler, Silvia & Billy Roisz
Skylla
PS, US This is the long-awaited debut collaboration between these long time associates of Viennese subculture; Silvia in various curatorial roles & Billy as video artist. Skylla is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer-generated sounds meshed w/ guitar & turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not
stupid.
EditionsMego
CD
$17.00

Few Nolder
No Mo
PS, US This follows this year's current trend for druggy wonk w/ a simple techno groove w/some floor-fuelling synthline progressions to make your head feel like it's getting smaller. "Brenn," on the flip, is a little more refined, attempting a more streamlined Kompakt or Traum style.
PlanetMu
12
$7.25

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings Rough Bunnies
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant <a href="http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?zoomtitle=75849">'Radiola'</a>. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub!

The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander

WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious."
Adrian-051
CD
$14.00

Fireflies
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon
PS, SWEDEN Fireflies is Lisle Mitnik. He grew up in the tundras of New England playing classical piano and one day he moved to California to go to school and decided to start writing songs. He bought a porta-studio and started recording, combining his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. He try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. We believe that this release will be loved by those who appreciate: The Clientele, Field Mice, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle & Sebastian, Fransoise Hardy and Trembling Blue Stars.
MusicIsMyGirlfriend-014
CD
$13.50

Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree (DELUXE)
PS, US Deluxe Edition features a DVD of behind the scenes footage, videos & interviews, as well as a pull-out poster, postcards and exquisite packaging.
Mute
CD/DVD
$21.00

Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree
PS, US This is written by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory & was recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside. It shimmers & shines w/ the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which singer Alison Goldfrapp's glistening voice soars.
Mute
CD
$16.00

Gone
Epic Trilogy
PS, US This is the band's 10th album in more than 20 yrs. It hits the ground running in true GREG GINN fashion, blending heavy guitar w/ funky, jazz infused chords & an edgy, surfer punk vibe. The driving repetition is almost hypnotic, but then, dramatically, it cuts to a groove that puts the FU in funk. Feat. HR on vocals.
SST
CD
$16.00

Grand Archives
S-T
PS, US While Seattle is famous for many things, sunlight isn't one of them. Yet illumination and warmth suffuse the self-titled debut from this Emerald City quintet. Dark times do not necessarily call for dark music. While singer/ guitarist Mat Brooke's previous ensembles (Band Of Horses, Carissa's Wierd) often shied away from light, he's changed direction with this band. Like the timeless classics of The Mamas & The Papas or The Turtles, it responds to the turbulent times of its genesis with hope, high spirits, and a sense of camaraderie.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Grand Archives
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Growing
Lateral
PS, US "Lateral'" finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. The textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within GROWING'S dense aural fog.
TheSocialRegistry-064
12
$10.25

Guapo
Elixirs
PS, US The album transcends any musical antecedents for which they've been acknowledged in the past. Instead, the music here explores the outermost regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, Moondog, & early-70s Miles Davis are present, as the dense orchestration & finespun virtuosity create a richness previously hinted at but until now never fully realized.
Neurot-052
CD
$14.25

Headlights
Some Racing, Some Stopping
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.00

Headlights
Some Racing, Some Stopping
PS, US To fully understand what went into Some Racing, Some Stopping, one must first understand what led up to it. Since Headlights' formation in 2004, the band has toured virtually nonstop, playing over 300 shows in the past two and a half years in support of both its debut The Enemies EP and its stunning 2006 full-length Kill Them With Kindness. Based around Tristan Wraight's acoustic guitar and Erin Fein's keyboards, the songs on Some Racing, Some Stopping purposefully lack much of the spacey atmospherics that define the band's earlier work. Instead the album is steeped in a classic pop sensibility, reminiscent of the '60s, Brill Building song craft, and Phil Spector production. Songs like the chiming, harmonic "Catch Them All," the light and airy "Cherry Tulips," the solemn "January," and the driving, string-touched "Market Girl" are evidence of an album that is more focused than any of the band's past work. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins).
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.00

Higgins, Gary
Red Hash (LP+7")
PS, US This is your chance to grab at a letter perfect reproduction of a folk rock classic from the early 1970s. Don't space!
DragCity
LP
$18.00

Higgs, Daniel
Plays the Mirror of the Apocalypse and Other Songs
PS, US CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpentine swirls of snake charmer melody & reverberating steel string shimmer. Raw & lo-fi for sure, but so darkly emotional, & dreamily hypnotic.
OpenMouth
CD
$11.50

Illusion of Safety
Quell & Sedate
PS, US One of a handful of American icons of experimental music. IOS has performed nearly 200 times in the US, Canada & Europe & has released material on labels such as Silent, Odd Size, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold & Tesco. For fans of: Roland Kayn, Zoviet France, Joe Colley, Dead Machines, Hafler Trio, musique
concrete.
C.I.P.
10
$12.00

Instant Orange
S-T
PS, GERMANY Besides home to the Hell's Angels, farmers and citrus grooves, San Bernardino, California was also where Instant Orange lived and released their first single in 1968. Terry Walters, Randy Lanier and Lynn McCurdy are Instant Orange with the help of Joe Bianchi and Bob Lautz. The band forged ahead and released another single (1973), album (1973) and two 10" EPs (1974 and 1975). All of their releases were small pressings of 100 copies and to this day, Instant Orange remains virtually unknown. Their homemade sound is a refreshing reflection of the West Coast folk-rock influences that were so prevalent during the '60s and early '70s. All original tracks with inspiration from bands like The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, Sandy Bull and others. Songs full of electric and acoustic guitars with nice doses of McGuinnesque 12-string riffing as well as many unexpected surprises (antiquated electronic effects, rambling rural explorations, long jams, experimental moves, stoner banter and other weirdness between songs, caveman fuzz, etc.). A solid listen with enough original imagination to keep it interesting without the band creating an identity crisis by trying too hard to be something other than themselves. Grab this before it becomes elusive like some of San Bernardino's motorcycle riding inhabitants.
Shadoks-091
CD
$16.25

Joy Division
Let The Movie Begin
PS, US Deluxe packaging, gatefold sleeves w/ pvc protective covers & 180gm vinyl. Ltd. to 1000 copies worldwide & contains extremely rare audio interviews w/ all members of Joy Division,some of which have never seen the light of day, plus spoken word contribution on 1 number from Martin Hannett along w/ superb & very rare live performance.
Ozit
DLP
$25.00

Kohncke, Justus
Safe & Sound
PS, US He focuses his work on the instrumental, floor-friendly side of things. These tracks resonate w/ the screams of today's dancefloor, while also feat. his long history of enigmatic dancefloor wisdom. What's new is a certain technoid rigor, a vehement approach to his music that is new to his oeuvre.
Kompakt
CD
$15.50

Kula Shaker
Strangefolk [expanded]
PS, US New album from British psych-o-nauts, aging gracefully.
CookingVinyl
CD
$15.75

Laven & MSO
Reach
PS, GERMANY Laven & MSO, the two producers from Frankfurt, put so much pop appeal into the vocal mix of "Reach" (feat. Malte) that colleagues like Fischerspooner should prepare themselves: the whole gorgeous ten minutes of this track have enough power to atomize every nightclub into dust. On the flip is a killer old school acid instrumental.
KlangElektronik
12
$9.50

Louris, Gary
Vagabonds
PS, US Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances.
Rykodisc
CD
$16.00

Lowe, Nick
Jesus of Cool [Bonus Tracks] (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US Reissue of his classic first solo record. Pop record making at it's finest. A must own!! 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's seminal 1978 album Jesus of Cool. The album, released in the U.S. as Pure Pop for Now People, marks the beginning of one of the most storied and influential solo careers in pop music and marks the true emergence of a songwriting monolith. The album is a literal compendium of 25 years of pop music history. Here, the sweet melodies of pre-Beatles pop, the energy of the British Invasion, the excess of glam and elements of ska and new wave don t blend but stand side by side on the field of battle, each one willing to lay down his life for the other. Jesus is the crossroads where pop music and pop culture collide, self-aware for the first time, fusing into a white hot chunk of rock n roll energy. Here, on this 30th anniversary edition of the album, the original and U.S. versions of the album are combined to include all material ever available on either release. In addition, seven bonus cuts are included making this the definitive version of this undisputed pop masterpiece.
YepRocRecords
CD
$15.50

Lulu
Something To Shout About
PS, UK Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie OBE, Glasgow's Princess of Pop, better known to adoring millions as LULU, comes to Rev-Ola! Or rather, we come to her, for we are not worthy! Since storming the charts at the tender age of 15 with The Isley Brothers' classic "Shout!", reinvented in a Brenda Lee-like rasp of amazing power, Lulu has been a star...films, TV Shows, Eurovision, recording pop-art classics and matching the best that Memphis and Muscle Shoals had to offer is all in days work for the Glasgow soul diva. Collaborations with David Bowie, Jennifer Saunders, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Duane Allman, Bert Berns, Take That and the star is always Lulu! Unbelievably, she has charted in five decades... look at the pics and weep! With notes by Brian Hogg, author of All That Ever Mattered, the definitive history of Scottish Rock and pop, this will be a pretty definitive take on Lulu's first hit-making couple of years. **Lulu's first smash album, including all her early monster hits!
Rev-Ola-239
CD
$15.50

Mancini, Henry
Touch Of Evil OST
PS, UK "Touch of Evil" is a masterpiece of 20th century cinema: Director Orson Welles' final Hollywood film and regarded as the last great film noir. Stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Welles himself as the crooked police chief Hank Quinlan, who always gets his man even if he has to concoct the evidence to do so! The searing semi-latin rock & roll score is considered (both by critics and the composer) to be one of Henry Mancini's finest. Barney Kessel, who featured on "Pet Sounds" and many of the Phil Spector and Monkeys' hits, plays guitar. Timeless and landmark cinema; the personification of cool.
El-134
CD
$15.50

Martha & The Vandellas
Dance Party
PS, US One of the top "girl groups" of all time, they dominated the female side of Motown of the mid 60s & made top ten hits into creations like "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave", "Nowhere To Run", "Honey Chile" & their anthem "Dancing In The Street". This classic '65 release is one of their best full lengths; not only does it feat. the hits, it's also packed w/ Motown dance standards of the day like "Mickey's Monkey", "Hitch Hike" & "The Jerk."
Lilith
LP
$21.50

May or May Not
Kaledioscope of Egos
PS, US A significant evolution from their first album, skipping around genres like a furious record collector (or digital music pirate, yarr!). Whether it's the psychedelic reminiscing sing-along "Do The Disaster" or the winding, prog-tinged anthem "Lavender Shell" the band's confidence to mine from the past is clear, but all with a fresh outlook for the future. First single "Boots" rides Aaron Brink's atmospheric guitar hooks & the thunderous, double-time drumming of Mike Brunette all the way through the assured singing of Amelia Styer, who shares vocals throughout Kaleidoscope with Maxwell & Reidell.
TwoThumbsDown-023
CD
$8.50

Mayet, Hisham
Musical Brotherhoods: From the Trans-Saharan Highway
PS, US Filmed in 2005, predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh, MorForcecqou, tehnisc iceasptures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live & unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string & drum specialists performing & manifesting the ecstatic truth. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must-see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins & the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes! Color; 60 min.; digipak; all-region DVD; NTSC format
Sublime
DVD
$21.50

Megafaun
Bury the Square
PS, US From the vibrant Southern quasi-capital of Durham emerge MEGAFAUN, wearing earnestness across the chest and abstraction along the sleeves. They pour forth dulcet harmonies, as seeking vocals tug banjo lines up the Appalachian mountains; redemptive noise soaks everything, like thick air wafting from the Atlantic. Clawhammer banjo and strummed acoustics lock and roll with electric guitars and electronic textures. They realize that folk implies deep, personal, intense expression, whether the instrument is a parlor piano with the lid thrown back or a distortion pedal with the case cracked loose. In this band, orthodoxy and unorthodoxy flow together as one.
TableoftheElements-815
CD
$13.00

Menche, Daniel
Glass Forest
PS, US Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his music on LP only or on DVD to accompany films he's been working on. Glass Forest is also the companion release to Body Melt which is being released simultaneously on Important on LP only. Recorded in the winter of 2005, Daniel Menches Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world that finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menches previous work but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on Glass Forest. Subsonic bass drums crawling underneath a massive sheets of glass-like sound layering infinitely into a thick and dense forest of delicate noise. For fans of Daniel Menche's ambient work and also his loud violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of these two polarities.
Important-176
CD
$12.25

Menche, Daniel
Body Melt
PS, US Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only on LP. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by Emily. Recorded in the Summer of 2007. Body Melt is a molting and simmering display of furious Hammond Organs & Native American Drums. Daniel Menche manages to merge together the powerfully fuzzed out organ drones along with hypnotically crushing and frenzied drums in a manor that is distinctly the graceful music style of Daniel Menche. Call it trance music for carnivores or ambient music for cannibals. Body Melt sits perfectly thronged on this limited vinyl LP release.
Important-175
LP
$14.75

Miss Massive Snowflake
Queen's Headache
PS, US Miss Massive Snowflake is Shane de Leon, who has been extremely active in a multitude of media throughout America and Europe for over 15 years. He has recorded with SOLEX, OVO and RONIN and collaborated with the BLACK HEART PROCESSION. The music is lush and orchestrated with an abundance of horns, percussion and electronics featuring two vocalists who are under ten. The feel is somewhere between an atheistic Danielson, and anarchistic Prince and a less technical Zappa. MMS will be touring in Europe this spring.
NorthPole
CD
$10.00

Moffat, Aiden John
I Can Hear Your Heart
PS, UK New solo album from Arab Strap frontman, warning: explicit content! AVERSION: "t should come as no surprise that the onetime Arab Strap singer's first solo album, a spoken-word poetry/prose affair that's usually accompanied by incidental music or other sound effects, is laden in tales of cheating lovers, sexual experimentation and soaked in booze. It might come as a surprise, though, to find out Moffat was holding back with Arab Strap, avoiding the stickiest situations, the dirtiest references and the most damning confessions that come forth in this semi-autobiographical audio tome."
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$15.75

Mojack
Under the Willow Tree
PS, US Greg Ginn's latest release w/ his funk rock band is full of twists & turns. 10 yrs in the waiting, this picks up where Home Brew left it hanging.
SST
CD
$14.00

Monade
Monstre Cosmique
PS, UK New album from Stereolab chantuese Laetitia Sadier's Monade! PITCHFORK: "Stereolab singer/lyricist Laetitia Sadier here takes a slightly more elegant take on her day job's search to find the pop in the avant-garde."
TooPure/Beggars
CD
$15.00

Monkeywrench
Gabriel's Horn
PS, US Celebrating 17 yrs of a great idea, they return w/ a new studio album. Feat. members of MUDHONEY, BIG BOYS, GASHUFFER & LUBRICATED GOAT, this is nothing less than a punk/grunge supergroup. The band kicks out the same glorious, fuzz-laden mess. There is a Texas roots taste spread through the tracks & the rhythm section lays down a fast & furious groove while dueling guitars engage in a race to the finish line.
Birdman-104
CD
$16.00

Mould, Bob
District Line
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$15.50

Mould, Bob
District Line
PS, US Guitarist/singer/songwriter Mould returns to form as a solo artist on his Anti debut. "District Line" combines the fire of his earliest work in Husker Du, the accessibility of his alternative rock, genre-defining trio Sugar, and the introspection found in his solo releases. He describes it as "stories of my simple life in a complicated town", that being his adopted city of Washington, DC. Working with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Mould has returned to the live band sound of Husker Du and Sugar to kick out ten songs that sound as youthful, energized, and immediate as anything he has ever recorded.
Anti
CD
$15.50

Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$14.00

Mountain Goats
Heretic Pride
PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Mt. St. Helens
Of Others
PS, US A more refined & concise version of their compelling, guitar driven sound. Of Others draws from influences as diverse as Unwound, Shudder to Think, Ride and Boards of Canada but the result is far from derivative. Guitar player Michael Sprague has constructed a cadre of masterfully spare guitar leads that are at once striking & hypnotic. Guitarist/vocalist Quinn Goodwillie's (also of acclaimed local group Sleep Out) voice has increased in range & fortitude and is
greatly bolstered by the stalwart rhythm section of Jason Sprague (bass) & Ben Geier (drums).
TwoThumbsDown-022
CD
$8.50

Neotropic
Whiter Rabbits
PS, US Whiter Rabbits is a deluxe re-release of the long out of print "White Rabbits" originally released on Mush Records which recieved a 7.7 on PITCHFORK. Featuring a bonus disc full of remixes by the artist, also including remixes by 10 SUI, GEORGE DEMURE, GRIM LIFE, and more "Riz Maslen (Neotropic) has become the female equivalent of Brian Eno" - IGN.
SquidsEye-006
DCD
$14.00

Neptune
Gong Lake
PS, US Behold: NEPTUNE, the most harrowingly original band on this planet - or the next. Its three members are, in turn, musicians, sculptors, scientists, blacksmiths, electricians, and industrial machinists; relentlessly inventive, possibly sane. Together, they construct all of their instruments, forging guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings, and miscellany from the trash. Electronics, and even cords, are homemade as well. The combined effect is a bizarre, post-apocalyptic mélange of steel, iron, wire, rust, rivet, knob, and cable; it's lunacy, arc-welded for maximum destruction. Concerts are seizures of motion. Wearing 40-pound guitars assembled entirely from scrap metal, the members don't play their instruments - they battle them, like mechanized golems. But make no mistake, this is not simply art with sharp edges and serious customs issues. Neptune rocks. Hard. Recalling the slapdash angularity of The Fall, the rhythmic ack-ack blasts of This Heat, and the sheer proto-clangor of Einstuerzende Neubauten, they count as one of the best experimental rock bands of any era. Their dynamic, expertly wrought songs and skilled improvisations don't start; they explode. "Gong Lake" is the band's first unlimited CD release, and with it the world will discover what fans of their live shows have known for years: Neptune is otherworldly.
TableoftheElements-811
CD
$13.00

Neptune
Gong Lake
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TableoftheElements-811
LP
$14.25

No Depression
#74
PS, US STRING THEORY, today's neo-traditionalists redefine their music. A new generation of string bands explores the past, present, & future of American music. Plus features on Daniel Lanois, Gary Louris, Kathleen Edwards, Jim White, & more. Plus all the other usual great stuff you've come to expect from No Depression.
ZINE
$5.00

No Kids
Come Into My House
PS, US "Come Into My House" is the first release by Vancouver, Canada trio NO KIDS, which is comprised of three-quarters of the critically revered pop band P:ANO. "Come Into My House" achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles over its 12 tracks. Golden era Hollywood musicals, Jam & Lewis-inspired production techniques, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's, disco, pop, and avant garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere.
Tomlab-108
CD
$12.25

Notorious Hi-Fi Killers
Which Side Are You On?
PS, UK Rocket Recordings are proud to announce the release of Which Side Are You On?, the debut album by Southeast London 3-piece The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers. Which Side Are You On? presents the trio's distinctive take on loud, throttling noise rock blended with manic psychedelia, taking the listener on a journey through ferocious 4-track blasts, analog tape space rock and intuitive heavy blues. This is the sound of a primal rock and roll band at their most uncompromising and dirtiest. From the one and a half minute biker-punk anthem of 'Queen O' Fuck' through the fuzzed-up blues of the Freddie King classic 'Going Down' to the 18 minutes of psychedelic bliss of 'Near The Final Destination' which crumbles into a mantra of noise, drones and horns, with the added assistance of Alexander Tucker, Duke Garwood and members of Part Chimp. The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers have been a common sight on the stages in their hometown of London and various dimly-lit warehouses across the country, playing alongside bands like The Heads, Lords, Parts and Labour, Shit & Shine and White Hills.
RocketRecordings
CD
$17.00

Ocrilim
Annwn
PS, US Mick Barr (ORTHRELM, OCTIS, CROM TECH) is described as an "american avant-garde metal guitarist", & while this may not be entirely accurate, it's probably as close as anyone will come to paraphrasing his genre defying compositions. This is composed entirely of pieces for mutiple electric guitars, & has as much to do w/ modern classical composition as it does w/ anything associated with the term "heavy metal".
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

O'Malley, Stephen, Attila Csihar
6: Degree Fskyquake
PS, US This debut collaborative is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored in conjunction w/ the American sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in the summer of 2007. The composition was captured at a recording session during the installation process at Team gallery, & later transfered to Gladstone as a recorded playback to the public. The composition runs a total of 8 hrs & 35 min. The contribution of lyrics, text & vocals by Hungarian black metal vocalist Attila Csihar were inspired by his journeys inside imperial Tokyo, bringing an emotional & meditative identity to the otherwise purely structural composition.
EditionsMego
CD
$18.00

Orwell
Le Génie Humain
PS, FRANCE A feast of an album from Jérôme Didelot aka Orwell. Pop par excellence, "Le génie humain" is packed with orchestral maneuvers, soaring synths, and silky, buzzy goodness that bring Eggstone, Louis Philippe and the space bossa moments of Testbild! to mind. With influences running from the early 60s through the early 80s, Jerome's songs have a folk-like delicacy, but sail on intricate arrangements featuring strings, voices, woodwinds and keyboards galore. "Le genie humain" features collaborations with Médéric Gontier (Tahiti 80), Alexander von Mehren, JP Nataf, Ruth Minnikin (Heavy Blinkers), Miss Aprilia Sari (White Shoes and the Couples Company) and Julien Lonchamp (Jack and the'), among others. Recommended for fans of all of the above, plus Julien Ribot, Fugu and High Llamas.
TwinFizzRecords-707
CD
$14.00

Our Sleepless Forest
S-T
PS, UK Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a frighteningly young three-piece from South London - their first full release, having had an early version of album track 'The Tinderbox' included on the Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation. Having met at school, Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara started experimenting with various musical instruments and sounds using software and basic recording equipment, inspired by the music they were into and with the aim of creating their own wall of sound. After 14 months they emerged with something they were sufficiently happy with to allow it to be heard by others, and ultimately that brings us to the present day - an eight-track, 45-minute debut. Our Sleepless Forest's music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard. Press to follow; opening track 'Nomads' was played by Mary Anne Hobbs a couple of months back, and influential Manchester-based website Angry Ape have lined up an interview with the band. TRACKLISTING: 1. Nomads 2. The Tinderbox 3. Doors In Limbo 4. White Bird 5. Aircastles 6. Afraid of You 7. The Clarion 8. Haze.
Resonant-028
CD
$15.00

Paint It Black
New Lexicon
PS, US This marks their 1st recording w/new drummer Jared Shavelson (Hope Conspiracy, None More Black) & boasts guest vocals from Jeff Pezatti (NAKED RAYGUN). Still, many of the best surprises occur behind the scenes. Rather than straining to re-create "lo-fi" in a studio, this rings in an aggressive clarity.
JadeTree
CD
$13.25

Panther
14 Kt. God
PS, US Two-headed effort of Charlie Salas-Humara (THE PLANET THE) on vocals, cello, guitar, & keys & Joe Kelly (31 KNOTS) on drums. Think Ian Curtis' convulsive intensity & James Browns spastic swagger & you still won't have PANTHER, but a sense of what-the-fuckness that all of them seem to call up.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.00

Peasant
On The Ground
PS, US Musical alter ego of Damien DeRose. Tender, weather-beaten vocals & fumbly, hypnotic hooks play in the long shadow of Elliott Smith. DeRose creates his own beautiful & unique style by finding comfort & satisfaction in the mostly dismal environment surrounding him.
PaperGarden
CD
$10.00

Pegasuses-XL
Antiphon
PS, US Mark Dale (Disband), Jeff Tobias (We Versus the Shark, Dark Meat), Joel Hatstat (Cinemechanica) & Jeff Rosenstock (Bomb the Music Industry, Arrogant Sons of Bitches) join forces based on their mutual admiration of bikes, coffee & books. Here they make music with whatever instruments they felt were appropriate, which is pretty much what you get when you mix those bands together anyway. Mostly keyboards & synths, the Antiphon is their response to questioning themselves. The music is everything they've ever done in life, crumpled up into 38 minutes of experimental/electronica/rock .
ErnestJenning-037
CD
$11.00

Perkins, Tony
The Prettiest Girl In School
PS, UK Best known of course for his indelible performance as homicidal transvestite Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Working also with Orson Welles, Tony Perkins illuminated fifties America with intelligence, sensitivity, talent and sex. After the death of James Dean, Perkins inherited the crown of America's leading teen idol and the ascendancy of his film career for a while complimented his precocious activities as a pop singer. "The Prettiest Girl in School" comprises all of Perkins' 1956-57 singles including the hit 'Moon-Light Swim'.
El-135
CD
$15.50

Planeta Imaginario
Biomasa
PS, US Planeta Imaginario are a creative and extraordinary 8 piece jazz-rock band that have emerged from the Catalan region of Spain. Founded in 1999 by keyboardist and leader Marc Capel, Planeta Imaginario originally performed psychedelic rock music but over time evolved into their present-day sound as the band grew in size and added musicians who added jazz and jazz-rock elements. Biomasa is their second album and with this release the band have a chance to have their music heard on a much wider basis. For fans of: Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged fusion works, Deus ex Machina, Gilgamesh, Pat Metheny, Soft Machine, Weather Report and Frank Zappa.
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25

Poor School
Holy Master
PS, US Feat. Bryan Ramirez (Ex-Cocaine). They obstensibly play full-tilt improv welded to tribal heavy rock, but there's so much more happening inside the thick folds of their hurtling jams that ripping them open & idenitfying the guts inside is like trying dissect pudding - eventually you just have to give up & eat it.
EcstaticPeace
LP
$12.25

Prins, Gert-Jans
Break Before Make
PS, US This is an arsenal of customized electronics, timpani & voice. Like its predecessor, this record investigates the sonic possibilities to be found in electronic devices & circuits. However, this is no noodling experimental stuff but a compact set of finely-crafted sonics. Short, sharp shocks w/ a bit of timpani thrown in.
EditionsMego
CD
$17.00

Printer
Can You Take More?
PS, SWEDEN Printer is a band that knows how to write heart aching pop songs but tired of staring down un empty glass they rise their arms and dance trough there sorrows. On recent works the band has taken a more dirty and danceable; say techno, approach, although still maintaining the emotional and intellectual focus. It's music to be moved by whether it'll be on the dance floor or in your sofa. It's electronic pop music at its best. And it's got power and depth. Add to that an interest for design and a live show of drinking-beer-energy and you'll get the perfect soundtrack for long volatile night.
Adrian-058
CD
$13.50

Psycho & the Birds
We've Moved
PS, US They are filled w/ undeniable likeability & pop goodness. A perfect combo of playful lyrics & flawless arrangement makes it hard to imagine that one entire half of the song was recorded on an $27 boombox. ROBERT POLLARD even pulls out some lyrics in "She Tears Out," first written, he says, as a kid.
HappyJack-016
CD
$14.25

Racer, Kris
Has A Banner Year
PS, US As former frontman for Ohio pop-punkers Tagline, Kris Racer came to Chicago & left the rest of the band behind, opting to unplug & become an acoustic, solo act. But staying true to his punkier roots, Kris Racer is more Mike Ness than open mic. Racer's new EP continues to explore the themes of adolescence redux he covered on his debut. It's that time you reach in your mid-20s when you're still not sure what you're exactly supposed to do with your life; it's that stage in the game when you're caught thinking about whether jobs should turn into careers or if girlfriends should become wives.
TwoThumbsDown-018
CD5
$5.00

Raveonettes, The
Lust Lust Lust
PS, US New album from Danish duo, can't wait! Coasting is the easy option. Having the balls to recognize that things aren't right and doing something about them is much harder. It may have taken The Raveonettes' Sune and Sharin a little while but they made the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively- and 'Lust, Lust, Lust' is where the two worlds collide. The songs cover the toughest decisions, the fondest of memories, the scariest of fears and the most tempting of desires all from the most personal viewpoint yet captured in The Raveonettes back-catalogue.
Vice
CD
$14.00

Reivers, The
Saturday [expanded re-issue]
PS, US 2002 re-issue of this acclaimed Austin band's 1987 masterpiece. Bonus tracks.
DualTone
CD
$9.50

Reivers, The
End of the Day [expanded re-issue]
PS, US 2002 re-issue of this acclaimed Austin band's 1989 album. Bonus tracks includes live favorite "Tell Me So", unreleased previously.
DualTone
CD
$9.50

Rites of Spring
All Through A Life
PS, US Reissue on heavy-weight vinyl. A must have and now you can.
Dischord
45
$4.00

Robinson, Eugene S.
FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking
PS, US CD version of OXBOW frontman's book. A black-eyed, split-lipped, bloody-knuckled journey into the black heart of the fistic arts. Details his decades of fight experience, along w/ articles written for Grappling magazine & Vice. Stop staring at yourself in the mirror & LISTEN.
HydraHead
DCD
$13.50

Rocket from the Crypt
R.I.P. (CD/DVD)
PS, US Their final live performance, fittingly on Halloween, at San Diego's Westin Hotel Ballroom. DVD incl. songs not on CD!
Vagrant
CD
$16.00

Section 25
Dirty Disco (Best Of)
PS, UK LTM are proud to present the first-ever Best Of compilation from cult Factory Records group Section 25, titled Dirty Disco (1978-2008). Formed in Blackpool (UK) by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, the band were initially mentored by Joy Division, and went on to record four albums with Factory Records between 1980 and 1986. The first of these, Always Now, combined harsh post-punk with spacey psychedelia, and was produced by Martin 'Zero' Hannett. Their third, From The Hip, produced in 1984 by Bernard Sumner of New Order, explored techno and electronica, and spawned the oft-sampled club hit Looking From A Hilltop. After disbanding in the late 1980s, Section 25 recently regrouped, releasing acclaimed new album Part-Primitiv in 2007, and playing a string of powerful live shows across Europe. Now recognized as a leading genre band, From The Hip was lauded as one of '1000 albums to hear before you die' by The Guardian newspaper. Dirty Disco celebrates 30 years of Section 25, and features eight key album tracks as well as the singles Knew Noise, Dirty Disco, Haunted, Beating Heart, Looking From A Hilltop, Crazy Wisdom and Bad News Week. The booklet features archive images and a detailed band chronology.
LTM-2515
CD
$17.00

Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto
S-T
PS, US YOSHIDA TATSUYA (drums,vocal), SATO KENJI (bass,vocal), KAWABATA MAKOTO (guitar). Recorded live at EARTHDOM (Tokyo 23rd October 2007), HELLUVA LOUNGE (Kobe 5th October 2007). For fans of Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Musica Transonic, Buckethead and Primus!
Vivo-2008034
CD
$15.00

Shitmat/DJ Scotch Egg (Scotchy & Shitty)
Rave Like A Headless Chicken 12"
PS, UK This 12" is the second in Wrong Music's 'Rave like a..." series which pay homage too the uk rave sound. Volume one featured 4 hardcore classics from Oen_flux and, Planet Mu's, Chevron. This time it's the infamous DJ Scotch Egg and Shitmat's turn to Bring the Hardcore! DJ Scotch Egg opens his side with a DJ Friendly (over 3mins long!) gameboy cover of 'Bonkers' star Hixxy's Happy hardcore Benchmark track 'Toytown'. In fact it's less of a cover when it gets going, feeling like a pumping 8 bit techno party. The ep progresses with another 3 tracks each one with a catchy melody as the next. On the last choon we get a heartfelt emo pop/hh banger, sounding like Bach using a gameboy instead of a piano. This could be Egg's most dancefloor release too date. After the massive success of 2006's 'HANG THE DJ' and 2007's 'GROOVERIDER' albums Shitmat combines both their styles for his side of the vinyl. The first track 'Nuff Respect' merges pounding Remarc_esque jungle beats, ragga vocals and a few cheeky pop samples to make another post jungle classic whilst gabber/hardcore tracks 'Loveheart Trilogy' and 'Happy Ending' take Shitmat's mashed up sense of humour to a euphoric crescendo.
WrongMusic-17
12
$14.00

Sian Alice Group
59.59
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TheSocialRegistry-062
DLP
$14.25

Sian Alice Group
59.59
PS, US THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is pleased to announce the debut full-length album from London-based band, SIAN ALICE GROUP, "59.59". The band is already on the rise in its native England having opened a string of shows for Spiritualized and received a flurry of attention in the press. "59.59" is a fully realized and album that moves through traditional pop songwriting and instrumental composition while tempering it with studio improvisation. It is an epic record that showcases the talent and range and of this young group, taking in elements of various genres and making them their own. At a time when the musical landscape seems inundated with derivative retrogressive guitar bands, or acts reliant on sequenced beats and oscillator knobs, Sian Alice Group's more classical inclinations show their willingness to tread their own path. 59.59 features guest appearances from DOUGLAS HART (Jesus & Mary Chain), JOHN COXON (Spiritualized, Spring Heel Jack) and BRIAN DEGRAW (Gang Gang Dance).
TheSocialRegistry-062
CD
$11.50

Silver Apples
Garden
PS, US After pioneering the use of electronics in rock music & releasing 2 groundbreaking albums, they were left w/ out a record label, not to mention a $100,000 lawsuit from PanAm over the "Contact" sleeve. Those tapes were thought to be lost until the day Dan Taylor found them in a cardboard box in his attic in '98. Also discovered was the master of a song they had written for the soundtrack of an Italian film called "The Lady & The Clown" which was never released before now.
Bully
CD
$14.00

Simon, John
John Simon's Album
PS, US
Water
CD
$15.50

Sleep Out
I Was Your Shroud
PS, US Having taken their brand of indie-rock to the masses through demos, shows, and radio appearances whilst receiving nary a death threat, Chicago quintet Sleep Out recorded their debut album I Was Your Shroud over the later months of 2005 through the earlier months of 2006. The result: eleven diverse compositions that toe the line between roadhouse donnybrooks & delicate lullabies. One canse sense the longing in "Cat or a Horse," or feel the whip cracking & taste the whiskey spitting while listening to "Stay of Execution." And batting clean up are bash brothers "It Wasn't Darkness" & "Old Mare.
TwoThumbsDown
CD
$8.50

Sleepers, The
Comeback Special
PS, US Some say 'real' rock n' roll is on its way back & these Chicago boys agree. They play some lowdown & dirty rock n' roll reflecting a time when anthemic choruses, extended guitar solos & a boozy swagger defined the genre. Powerhouse vocalist Tommy Richied leads the way on the hook filled title track "Comeback Special", then "Filthy Ways" & just never lets up. You'll also hear the incredible gritty guitar attack of Tony Manno & Kevin Bannon tear it up on "Loaded", "Crime Of The Century Blues", "Dirty Cop" & any solo they can get their filthy hands on. Oh yeah, every great rock band is only as good as its rhythm section...right? No problem, drummer Johnny "Action" Fields & bassist Chris Cormier are as tight as AC/DC & groove like The Stones.
Pravda
CD
$12.50

Slips, The
Girls at the Back Up
PS, US David Treahearn & Rob Haggett worked w/everyone from Madonna & Gwen Stefani to Bjork, Massive Attack & Fischer Spooner, before breaking out to form The Slips in the summer of '07. Their electronic jams have been described as pulsating glitch disco & UK Digitalism.
IamsoundRecords-007
45
$8.25

Stone, Carl
Woo Lae Oak
PS, US First ever CD of Carl Stone's debut album, originally released on Joan La Barbara's Wizard Records in 1983. "Woo Lae Oak" is a 54 minute tape piece based around minimal samples of strings and wind which layer, deconstruct and reform into an expansive, shimmering whole. Remastered for CD, with complete original artwork and new accompanying notes by Phill Niblock.
UnseenWorlds-03
CD
$13.00

subtractiveLAD
Apparatus
PS, US 'Apparatus,' SubtractiveLAD's fourth album, finds Stephen Hummel elaborating upon previous granular motifs. Those familiar with his progression will notice that Hummel's sound has matured and become grounded in an honest and open place. As such musical growth would imply, Apparatus is the album in which Hummel appears to be most comfortable with his ideas and usage of sound. It is this comfort, which allows Apparatus to envelop the listener in a profoundly personal way. Lofty classic ambient refrains, shoegaze splendor and muted broken beat trickery are all stylistic fair game. Comparisons can be made to a wide rage of artists such as Ben Frost, Eno, Namlook, and even label mate Bitcrush. As each SubtractieLAD album seems to top the previous, the anticipation is building for what is to come from this bright talent in electronic music.
n5MD-155
CD
$12.00

Suishou No Fune
Prayer for Chibi
PS, US This might be their ultimate album; w/ 2 disks & more than 2 hrs of music, the group finally stretches out & lets their music flow like it never has before. Much about them has had to do w/ volume, but this new set of duets adds forays into starker songwriting & a languid serenity.
HolyMountain
DCD
$17.25

Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue
PS, US "The third deluxe Ra reissue in the new O-Card format from the UMS, released in conjunction with El Saturn Records is here: a superb reissue of a delicious, seldom heard Saturn Records document from '70 - replete with two alternate takes of a previously unissued classic AND an 'Untitled' piece from the original '77 sessions... all available for the first time on CD!" ." -John Corbett, Chicago, October, 2007
Atavistic-265
CD
$15.00

Sunny Day Sets Fire
Strange: Remix
PS, US SDSF's music reflects their shared loves of 60s psych, the Beach Boys, classic Sun Rock and Roll. This EP features the first single off of the upcoming album, "Stranger," as well as remixes of SDSF songs by CSS, THE COOL KIDS, XXXCHANGE, MAD DECENT / DIPLO, THE SLIPS AND BARON
VON LUXXURY.
IamsoundRecords
CD
$5.00

Tad
Busting Circuits and Ringing Ears
PS, US Live show from 90s grunge-rock behemoths (in ore ways than one).
TAD
DVD
$14.50

Takeovers
Little Green Onion Man
PS, US This freaky little beast is a nice mini-movie comprised of 4 songs (3 of which are unreleased ROBERT POLLARD compositions) that warmly straddle the loosey-goosey psych-pop sounds of their 1st album as well as the white-knuckled rock pomp of their 2nd. Feat. John Moen of Stephen Malkmus/The Decemberists, Sam Coomes of Quasi/Blues Goblins & Brian Berg of 44 Long.
Off
CD5
$7.25

Testbild!
Une Teinte Intense
PS, SWEDEN "Une teinte intense" is a tribute to one of Testbild!'s greatest heroes: Isabelle Eberhardt, an explorer and writer who traveled the Sahara disguised as a man before dying in a flash flood in 1904 at the age of 27. Excerpts from her travel diaries float in a dreamy sound environment of Bedouin drums, echoing muezzin calls, and warm winds blowing in the distance, while pop melodies flow like spring water in the irrigation canals. Light as a mirage, this album bridges pop, jazz and exotica in the sun-bleached deserts of North Africa. Testbild! welcome the following influences into their Moorish tent: Louis Philippe, Gil Evans, Ludus, Edward Gorey, Eric Satie, the Hepburns, Jacques Cousteau, and Andrei Tarkovskij. "Excellent production qualities showcase a variety of modern, trans-continental pop, thanks to old-fashioned songwriting, and decorated with sampled bits and field recordings. What results sounds like the United Nations of Antena: a little dubby indie tropicalia here, a little Arabian ambient pop there, a little mod-pop Free Design/indielounge à la Sea and Cake there; but Testbild! maintain a skilled balance of sweet and mature throughout." - Other Music, NYC "Graceful, daring, inventive, full of charm and elegance." - Louis Philippe
FriendlyNoise-52
CD
$13.50

The Way We Live
A Candle For Judith
PS, UK "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. The classic 1971 album by UK band Tractor, appearing under a different name. Originally issued on Dandelion, the album is now expanded and remastered with extra tracks. A truly beautiful progressive/space rock album, it mixes the epic quality of Led Zep with a spacey Pink Floyd feel and the mushroom weirdness of The Pink Fairies and Hawkwind. 'Willow' is a masterpiece of UK underground rock and it's easy to see why John Peel signed this band way back in the early '70s."
Ozit
LP
$25.00

This Will Destroy You
S-T
PS, US This is their 2nd album, clocking in a 7 tracks & 52 min. It is a stunning & worthy follow-up to "Young Mountain." Darker & seamlessly more dynamic & emotionally gripping than its predecessor, this is primed & ready to push their entire genre forward & continue to win the band hearts & minds across the planet.
MagicBullet
CD
$13.50

Thompson, Mayo
Corky's Debt To His Father (LP + 7")
PS, US A fast 14 yrs later, it's our pleasure to bring this classic of 2-sided entertainment back to the table (the turntable, that is) w/ a special LIMITED-edition pressing. Wrapped in a jacket that recalls the halcyon days of solid LP dominance, this new pressing comes with a 7'' feat. the instrumental "Woof," which was recorded at the same sessions but not released until The Red Krayola's 2004 compilation CD Singles. The b-side is a neverbefore heard take on John Cage's "4'33''" played by fellow traveller Sergei McUgly.
DragCity
LP
$18.25

Throw Me The Statue
Moonbeams
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SecretlyCanadian-168
LP
$11.50

Throw Me The Statue
Moonbeams
PS, US Making waves throughout the latter half of 2007, we're super pleased to deliver Seattle's THROW ME THE STATUE'S debut album, "Moonbeams". Conceived and fronted by SCOTT REITHERMAN, "Moonbeams", was constructed with the help of CASEY FOUBERT (Sufjan Stevens, Pedro The Lion) to create a wondrous concoction of fuzzed out synths, brass ensembles and epic vocal melodies that have been noticeably absent since In the Aeroplane, Over The Sea first saw the light of day. At the album's core is a sharp sense of melody, a cutting lyrical honesty, and a bludgeoning beat that brings to mind the whimsy of Magnetic Fields, the lyrical expanse of The Microphones, and the lo-fi bliss of Eric's Trip. While the front of the album is nothing short of the next evolution of skewed Northwest bombast with "Lolita," "Yucatan Gold" and "About To Walk", the second half displays an unexpected maturity in young Reitherman. The title track oozes down tempo vulnerability while the closer, "The Happiest Man On This Plane" combines the best of Reitherman's predecessors Phil Elverum and Dave Bazan.
SecretlyCanadian-168
CD
$11.50

Tiger Lou
The Loyal
PS, US Domestic release for Tiger Lou's latest. A Spring 2008 tour is in the works as well! Meet Rasmus Kellerman. This is the guy behind Tiger Lou. It's a band; for all intents and purposes, he's the band. He writes the songs, plays and produces them. For now. Kellerman will tell you not to look too close at "just an indie band, like many other indie bands, with a big heart." But not listening closely to Tiger Lou would be to sell it short. The Loyal, the band's second album, is on the surface, just music. A bunch of songs written by some guy from Oxelösund, Sweden. Only these tunes breathe, they're dynamic, alive. Straight from the heart of some guy now living in Stockholm. And he wouldn't say the band had heart if, to some extent, he wanted you to know the music was sincere. Thirteen atmospheric, incorporeal (but alive) tracks that, if you put them under a microscope, would reveal a molecular pattern (and movement) identical to Kellerman's. Maybe that's why he'd like you to look plainly upon his work: he's already seen himself at such a high magnification, a potentially painful zoom into who and what he is, and where he came from.
Eyeball-077
CD
$9.50

Time Constant
Silent Phone Calls In The Fall
PS, US This journey into psychedelia, bringing mellow moods, and uplifting melodies sculpts an appreciation for the most beautiful and most difficult moments.... an emotional plateau! YOUR FRONTAL LOBE IS RESONATING! Heavily influenced heavily by the Milwaukee music scene, Board of Canada, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Autechre, Time Constant's music changed as he became increasingly exposed to nature and spiritual consciousness, the land, and the Universe. Comes with a print of an oil painting by Time Constant.
Macrometasomakosmos-001
LP
$6.75

Tractor
S-T
PS, UK "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. Great 30th anniversary edition reissue of one of John Peel's Dandelion Records' more successful bands. Tractor, two lads from Rochdale who managed to sound like a complete band, recorded this album in 1972. A classic of progressive rock (that at times sounds like The Pink Fairies' debut and Hawkwind), this remains a creation of rare beauty and inventiveness."
Ozit
LP
$25.00

Ulaan Khol
I
PS, US Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling & singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums/guitar/organ to craft a monolithic & expansive free form, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha & High Rise with Popul Vuh & Flying Saucer Attack. Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, 'Ceremony.' In the first installment of the trilogy, I, the tone is overwhelming bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan & crumble.
SoftAbuse-026
CD
$11.50

Various
Obsession
PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION!!!
Bully
DLP
$25.50

Various
Obsession
PS, CANADA Hotly tipped obscure psych compilation from the Canadian Bully label. "All songs were compiled by Mike Davis, owner of Academy Records in NY. Ranging from 1967 to 1973, and from countries such as Turkey, Uruguay and Peru, these are some of his rarest acquisitions over decades of record collecting. Includes some information about each band, even though some of it was practically impossible to track down." Artists include: Atomic Forest, Quarteto Nova Era, Arif Sag, Sonara Casino, Flavio Kurt, Erkin Koray, Novos Bahianos, Los Chikichaka, Arnaud Rodriguez, Ovni 87, Suely E Os Kantikus, Jean Paul 'El Troglodita', Ersen and La Barra De Chocolate.
Bully
CD
$13.75

Various
Living Bridge
PS, US A collection of ALL NEW & UNRELEASED songs (except for one) by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection and flow in one continuous track. Featuring The Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon, Black Dice, Fischerspooner, Rings, Doldrums, Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O'Neil, Palms, Avey Tare of Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall, and many more.
RareBookRoom-001
DCD
$13.00

Various
Trey Told 'Em
PS, US In celebration of their 15th Anniversary, Thrill Jockey opened up the vaults to Gregg Gillis (GIRL TALK) & Frank Musarra (HEARTS OF DARKNESSES), aka Trey Told 'Em & let them go to town. Exceeding all expectations, they managed to craft a 74 min. mega mix feat. nearly every artist old & new. The CD plays out as one continuous track & feat. some mind-blowing mash ups. Also incl. an OVAL mega mix that fits every single Oval song into one track & a special TORTOISE & TRANS AM mega mix.
ThrillJockey
CD5
$8.50

Various
Love & Circuits
PS, US 2 CDs featuring Matt & Kim, Oneida, Numbers, Japanther, Parts & Labor, Shy Child, High Places, Oh Sees, The USA Is A Monster, Gowns, Wilderness, These Are Powers, Maps & Atlases, & many more. 77.2% of the songs are exclusive to the comp. Of special note is the contribution from Trey Told 'Em (Girl Talk & Hearts of Darknesses' new remix project).
Cardboard
CD
$13.50

Various
Local Anesthetic
PS, US In 1981, Wax Trax Records co-owner Duane Davis formed the in-store label Local Anesthetic & released the debut single by Denver band Gluons feat. part-time Colorado resident Allen Ginsberg on vocals. This collection compiles all the 7'' singles released by the label, along w/ 3 other CO punk 7'' gems released prior to their creation. Feat. FRANTIX, WHITE TRASH, YOUNG WEASELS, BUM KON, JERI ROSSI, ROK TOTS, DEFEX, & NAILS.
Smooch-018
CD
$16.00

Various
New Folk Routes
PS, UK When visionary UK underground scene-maker and entrepreneur Joe Boyd started making records under his own Witchseason banner in 1967, he could have had little idea of the staggering amount of uber-influential artists he would go on to produce over the next few years. Step up Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny, Vashti Bunyan, Nico and Dr Strangely Strange to name but a few. He licensed most of these records out to the super-cool Island label where they joined the likes of Traffic, John Martyn and The Amazing Blondel and unwittingly formed the backbone of the now hugely revered and collectable British folk-rock movement of the late '60s and '70s. First issued in the '90s and promptly deleted, this set features Tracks from such great albums as Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief and What We Did On Our Holidays, Nick Drake's Pink Moon, John Martyn's The Tumbler, The Incredible String Band's Earthspan,Richard & Linda Thompson's I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die, Sandy Denny's Sandy, Fotheringay's Fotheringay, Mike Heron's Smiling Men With Bad Reputations and many more seminal cornerstones of the era. Hornpipe - John Locke, She Moves Through the Fair - Fairport Convention, John Barleycorn - Traffic, Road - Nick Drake, Black Jack Davey - The Incredible String Band, It Suits Me Well - Sandy Denny, I Was a Young Man - Albion Country Band, Seven Black Roses - John Martyn, When I Get to the Border - Richard & Linda Thompson, Peace in the End - Fotheringay, Long Odds/Mr. Cosgill's Delight - Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick, Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal - Dr. Strangely Strange, My Girl in the Month of May - Bunch, Matty Groves - Fairport Convention, Audrey - Mike Heron, Nutting Girl - Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick, Man of Iron - Sandy Denny, Siege of Yaddlethorpe - Amazing Blondel.
Rev-Ola-237
CD
$15.50

Venus
Spring 2008
PS, US Juliette Lewis on cover with a feature on Style Idols. Special issue featuring a list of the best female guitarists of all time! Kid Sister, Kate Nash, Kazu Makino, The
Lady Tigre & more.
ZINE
$4.25

VVEREVVOLF GREHV
Zombie Aesthetics
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00

VVEREVVOLF GREHV
Zombie Aesthetics
PS, US Debut album from the alter ego of Dapose (THE FAINT). This is a synthesis of IDM, sinister vocals, & visceral metal guitar.
Relapse
CD
$13.25

Walker, Scott
Scott 2
PS, US Originally released in 1968, Scott 2 made it all the way to number one on the UK pop charts. Features songs by Jacques Brel, Tim Hardin, & Bacharach/David.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.25

Walker, Scott
Scott
PS, US This is his 1st solo LP from '67 & feat. 3 of his own compositions along w/covers of songs by Brel, Tim Hardin, & the Brill Building team of Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann. A true original.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.25

Weakerthans
Reunion Tour
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epitaph
LP
$15.50

Weekend
Live At Ronnie Scotts
PS, UK The first titled reissue of this seminal mini album, originally released on Rough Trade in 1983 by pop fusion innovators, Weekend. The CD features 10 bonus tracks including 3 previously unreleased versions of tracks that weren't included on the original album. These were sourced from a pirate recording of the original gig in March 1983. Other bonus tracks include 3 tracks from a David Jensen BBC session and a recording from the legendary TV music program, Old Grey Whistle Test. The CD artwork has been expanded by Spike Williams, original band member and he has contributed some of his recollections of the night in question. Weekend was formed after the demise of the respected band, Young Marble Giants who featured Alison Statton as vocalist. Weekend went on to release 3 singles and two albums before calling it a day. Late Night - Where Flamingos Fly / Winter Moon / Nostalgia Disco -Weekend Off / A Day In The Life...Bonus Tracks - Past Meets Present (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / Woman's Eyes (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / A View From Her Room (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / A Day In The Life Of (Taken From NME Cassette 'Mighty Reel' NME 004) / The End Of The Affair (Recorded Live / For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Woman's Eyes (Recorded Live For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Weekend Off (Recorded Live For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Summerdays (Recorded Live For BBC Television's Old Grey Whistle Test) / Drumbeat For Baby (12" Version) / A View From Her Room (12" Version).
CherryRed-344
CD
$15.50

Weird Weeds
I Miss This
PS, US The Weird Weeds are a trio from Austin, TX that draws upon wildly divergent musical backgrounds and a common interest in non-traditional forms to create pop music that is experimental yet oddly palatable and well conceived. Since 2003 they have released two full-length albums and one EP and have extensively toured the U.S. and Canada. Their members have collaborated with a huge array of musicians including Jandek, Tom Carter, Arnold Dreyblatt, The Cherry Blossoms, Xiu Xiu, and many more. For their third album (and first for Austin's Autobus Records) I Miss This the band spent seven months recording at home and in the studio, a far more labor-intensive process than any previous record they've made. The album further develops their already highly refined approach, expanding their dynamic range and musical scope beyond 2005's acclaimed Weird Feelings . The songs go from the most raucous distorted guitar romps to the most delicate acoustic ballads, still continually indulging their penchant for complex harmonies, unconventional song structures, and strange noises. I Miss This is another meticulously crafted and beautifully executed album from a unique and talented band. "Beautifully unnerving" - Austin Chronicle. "Light years ahead of most bands" - Dusted Magazine. "Surprising and swiftly captivating" - All Music Guide.
Autobus-005
CD
$11.50

We're All Gonna Die
Kiss the Ground, Curse the Sky
PS, US The follow up to The Wreck Of The Minot finds these Boston bruisers keeping on & branching out. Jase from LAMONT fills in on bass on this groove & stomp into the ground rock n' roll bar brawl. Look for the band on the road in 2008.
Underdogma-025
CD
$11.00

Willits, Christopher + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ocean Fire
PS, US Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto's new release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. Sakamoto's gorgeous processed piano sound reflects Willits' beautiful shimmering clusters of notes, a new aspect of Willits' pioneering guitar/computer approach. Together, their sounds merge effortlessly, creating deep and seamless swells of gigantic melodic waves.
12K-1046
CD
$12.25

Wolfmangler
Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves
PS, US Vinyl version of the first ever full length from cult/kvlt underground legends. Features D. Smolken, Slavic mastermind of Dead Raven Choir.
AuroraBorealis
LP
$20.00

Xasthur
Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors
PS, US Includes definitive version of the album along w/ a 6 track bonus disc of unreleased material. This is the inception of the Xasthur we know today, as a one man force full of bleak and terrifying visions.
HydraHead
DCD
$12.50

Yellow Moon Band, The
Maybach EP
PS, UK Recorded in a clay studio with a Fiat Punto, a doll of Lindsay Buckingham, at the home of Steve Hackett in a Vicarage in Mexico City. Three tracks, all killers!! The band will play a pair of release shows. Firstly on Sat 9th Feb at the Gladstone - London, followed be a guest slot with MV+EE in Bristol on Feb 13th. Limited to 500 copies on seven inch wax only. Vinyl comes in a facsimile harvest house bag.
StaticCaravan-155
45
$7.75

Zdzislaw Piernik/Piotr Zabrodski
Namanga
PS, POLAND Unusual Polish Contemporary Music performed by tuba genius Zdzislaw Piernik! Additional musicians: Piotr Zabrodzki (piano, electric piano, doublebass, bass guitar, organ), Hubert Zemler ( percussion, vibraphone), Wojciech Kondrat (violin). All tracks composed by Piotr Zabrodzki - extremely talented artist, member of Blast Muzungu and Tatsuya Yoshida's (Ruins, Magaibutsu) cooperator.
Vivo-035
CD
$15.00

Forthcoming Releases

A Weather
Cove (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Like a postcard from the green & gray environs of Portland, this is moody & warm, rife w/ odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self & hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. The songs are marked w/ an intimacy so striking that it feels like you're eavesdropping on the pillow talk of 2 forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

A Weather
Cove (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove
LP
$12.50

Acid Mothers Temple
Never Ending Space Ritual (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US The acid mothers DVD "never ending space ritual _ history of " is finally complete. A 2 DVD set over 4 1/2 hours long covering the entire history from early days in Japan to recent footage, guest appearances, interview with Mankato plus other extras. disc 1. traces the band through its first decade featuring very rare early footage and special guest appearances from members of Ruins, Afrirampo, Guru Guru and others. Disc 2. Includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with ocitan queen of song rosina de peira, pink lady lemonade medley, dark star blues and other AMT epics, an exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto, live cuts of amt related units _ Acid Mother Temple And The Cosmic Inferno, SWR, Guru Guru, and Acid Mothers Gong. Also extra features. Ltd run of 1000.
Swordfish-DVD1/2
2XDVD
$43.25

Adorable
Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH)
PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives.
CherryRed-327
CD
$15.50

Aspen Woods
New World Disorder (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Aspen Woods debut 70 minute 10 track debut LP will be released on Razorblade records (home of Bristol shoegazers Secret Shine www.secretshine.co.uk and liverpudlian acoustic artist Vincent Callan). Covering subjects ranging from the ritual sacrifice of Princess Diana in 'Passing of a Moon Goddess' to the unbreakable mother and son bond in 'The Witch's Son', the woods have recorded as much of the album as possible live using traditional recording techniques, to capture the guts and spirit of their live shows much the same way as the bands influences would have done so in the hazy 60s and 70s. Latchman Manghat (whose previous works include the celebrated great lost HEADS psychedelic album and Julian Cope favorite 'At last' that was 'er never... lost!) at Rolling Rex Studios has engineered and expertly, painstakingly co-produced the album with the band. For the Woods its as much about the journey as well the destination, just like how you choose to live your life - there are too many people prepared to step on too many people to get to where they want - only to realize their not happy when they get there. Getting where you want is nothing without putting in the hard graft to feel the satisfaction. People want things to easy in this day an age, without being prepared to work for it or care about who they step on the way. US distribution has been secured with Tonevendor, and the band are now seeking UK distribution aiming for a February 29th '08 release date and live dates to be announced throughout 2008 after the band return from the US. Homing their psychedelic crafts on a fruitful Bristolian live scene. The band have played memorable psychedelic hypnotic wig out sets at the legendary Espionage club and the world famous Cube cinema (check the live footage over at www.aspenwoods.co.uk) and have supported a wide variety of bands from Italian space rockers UFO Mammut to Japan's instrumental wonders Mono. Marketing plans for the album will be advertisements and media assault on the major alternative music press UK and US.
Razorblade-05
CD
$15.75

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

Axelrod, David
Seriously Deep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, UK In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America's most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually attributed to Miles Davis - that of jazz-fusion, his reputation was cemented by his remarkable productions with Cannonball Adderley, David McCallum and Lou Rawls and by the religious albums Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath he created with the Electric Prunes. He was talked up by Frank Zappa and Sly Stone; George Harrison wanted him to record for Apple and Allen Ginsberg wanted him to set Howl! to music! His genius began to be re-discovered in the mid-nineties through the sampling by such hip-hop and dance record producers as DJ Shadow. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Axelrod¹s prodigious solo albums Songs of Innocence and Songs Of Experience were quickly re-issued. Then in 2000 he released a new album and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, where he conducted a one-off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. Originally released in 1975, and inexplicably out of print for three subsequent decades, Seriously Deep has become a kind of Holy Grail for samplers. Axelrod the composer is unmistakably present and what has also made the record a particularly sought-after item is the remarkable
interplay between Joe Sample's exuberant keyboards and the hypnotically intense drumming of Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler. This is the kind of thing that gets samplers - and indeed anyone with a finely tuned sense of rhythm - very excited indeed.
El-138
CD
$15.50

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Unlike many of his peers, he looks beyond the traditions of Fahey (whom he calls "a teacher" not a god), bringing portentous & progressive elements into his music, alongside a dreamy country lilt. He covers Krautrock legends Neu! ("Weissensee") & metal Vikings Judas Priest ("Winter"), & culls inspiration from prog heroes Yes on the closing epic "Rainbow." His music comes on like a creeping moss, verdant but threatening, comforting yet unsettling.
AmericanDust
CD
$16.00

Baldwin, Matt
Paths of Ignition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AmericanDust
LP
$16.00

Baltic Fleet
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, UK Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken and tracks gradually started to form into an album. A sound was born influenced by works from artists such as Eno, Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Written, produced and performed by Paul, the album also features contributions from Simon Finley on drums, Will Sergeant on guitar and Pete Wilkinson on Bass. Paul signed to Blow Up Records in April 2007, and the same Summer took his recordings into Studio B, The Premises in Hackney for additional production and mixing with Nick Terry (Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco). After some heavy-duty valve and analogue processing, the beats got bigger, the sound-scape was widened and the album was complete!
Blowup-041
CD
$16.25

Basinski, William + Richard Chartier
Untitled 1-3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. "Untitled 1" contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 2" contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3/3(reprise)" contains Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3" mixed by Basinski. "Untitled 3(reprise)" mixed by Chartier. "Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!" - William Basinski. Both William Basinski and Richard Chartier have been digging through their archival matter as of late. In fact, the majority of Basinski's recent output is the result of his discoveries, including his profound Disintegration Loops series. Chartier, meanwhile, based his recent production Archival1992 upon two older pieces evolved into a single-minded composition of subtle disquiet. LIMITED EDITION: 1000
Line-034
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bryars, Gavin
Hommages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981 and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers, which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger (Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah, Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson, as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars' early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new 63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise, and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc Borgers.
LTM-2503
CD
$17.00

Cash, Brent
How Will I Know If I'm Awake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, GERMANY The Marina label presents the debut release from Athens, GA-based Brent Cash. Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, How Will I Know If I'm Awake is overflowing with hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies and lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers and good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town and assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass and even a harp. The results are simply stunning. From the opening chords of "Everything That's Grey," we enter melody wonderland, a place where major 7 chords rule and beautiful vocal harmonies dazzle your mind. "Digging The Fault Line" is full of Byrds guitar jangle, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to cruise into golden California sunsets (with a great Wes Montgomery-like guitar solo along the way). "Only Time" explodes with 100 % fat-free youthful euphoria -- Roger Nichols meets The 5th Dimension. While deeply rooted in '60s songwriting -- influenced by Bacharach, Wilson, McCartney, and yes, The Monkees -- Cash certainly has his own unique signature style. Just listen to "And Had We Ever?" and "I Think I'm Falling In Love" -- with its complex, enchanting textures, ignoring conventional song structures. "Love Is Burning Down Tonight" -- a striking duet between Brent and Amanda Kapousouz -- is a special highlight of the album, while "Good Morning Sunshine" could be the theme song to the best TV series in the world -- the harpsichord-driven piece is chock-full of amazing twists and turns of melodic beauty. "This Sea, These Waves" moves us into bossa nova territory -- starting off in a classic Getz/Gilberto mould, the song soon morphs into heavenly orchestrated Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 elegance. "More Than Everything," clocking in at over six minutes, ends this beautiful song circle with a great final statement about overcoming heartbreak, delivered with the sincerity of a Carpenters record. Music made the way it was meant to be heard.
Marina
CD
$16.25

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

Chatham, Rhys & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977's "Guitar Trio" is composer RHYS CHATHAM'S signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xCD set, "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" The sprawling collection FEATURES MEMBERS OF SONIC YOUTH, SWANS, TORTOISE, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, HÜSKER DÜ, MODERN LOVERS, SILVER MT. ZION, TOWN AND COUNTRY, DIE KREUTZEN, 90-DAY MEN, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and many more; even TONY CONRAD gets in on the act. Together these artists celebrate Chatham's wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature. So, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to Liquefy. "Guitar Trio" endures.
TableoftheElements-813
CDx3
$21.00

Clint
Los Tipos Duros Tambien Bailan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, SPAIN Tough guys do dance! Three years ago, Clint were four blokes trying to express their particular vision through music without the impending need of using words. Their mantra was "a closed mouth gathers no flies" and "loose lips sink ships". After one year of devoted silence playing Battleship, their lengthy exploration of silence yielded Alégrame el Día (siesta 206 - 2005) , a vivid record that lifted the band to "New Talent" status and honors at Fnac and to the prestigious "best of the year" lists. They even captivated the international critical community like no other self-taught instrumental band ever did. Clint offered no opposition to tour the bullskin shape (=Spain) until they had to embrace a new assignment, a new challenge. A tough guy, initials E.G., proposed them to create the soundtrack for a silent film, any silent film actually. Clint revised their files thoroughly and interrogated another tough guy, L.J.M. They crystallized everything in a new vehicle to communicate their "duende", the imaginary soundtrack for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (1929) (Walter Ruttmann)/aka Berlin, Symphony of a Big City. Clint proved themselves as masters of luxuriant melancholy and found the blurred images of the last century as a true source of inspiration and a revelation to their lives.
Siesta-236
CD
$17.75

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

Coniglio, Enrico
'dyanMU (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album.
Psychonavigation-022
CD
$15.50

Constantines
Hard Feelings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US This is the first single off their new album "Kensington Heights" to be released on April 15, 2008. B-Side "Easy Money" is not appearing on the full length.
Arts&Crafts
45
$6.50

Corsano, Chris
The Young Cricketer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US "The Young Cricketer" is CHRIS CORSANO'S debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of "The Solo Drum Album". Corsano's flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a Milford Graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower Paul Flaherty and a cadre of collaborators and groups (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Vampire Belt, Michael Flower, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. This LP is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. Originally issued on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label as a CDR, this LP IS REMASTERED AND ISSUED IN A 600 EDITION.
FamilyVineyard-51
LP
$12.25

Country Funk
S-T [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, UK Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band's. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970 on Polydor, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of U.S. West Coast rock -- it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dear, Matthew
Asa Breed Black Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US It's not often an album containing bluesy guitar & brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, w/ this release, critics & audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to incl. remixes & re-envisionings from FOUR TET, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ KOZE & HOT SHIP! Also incl. "Don & Sherri" video!
GhostlyInternational
CD
$10.25

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

Diebold
Listen To My Heartbeast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Duo featuring Ian Ilvansky from A SILVER MT. ZION and Sofia Trudeau from GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR.
Bangor
CD
$14.25

DiskJokke
Staying In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, NORWAY Staying In, DiskJokke's debut release, is a tripped out mastodon of an album. This is the sound of Norwegian disco taken to its farthest, futuristic limits. It's epic, groovy, cinematic, poppy & most of all melodic. But at the same time, it is melancholic, and as the title suggests, staying inside the dark winter & autumn nights to make music certainly reflects the mood of the album. For years DiskJokke has been closely connected to Norway's premiere club night, Sunkissed, where he is resident DJ with G-HA, Olanskii & VinnyVillbass. "Bright, playful, spacey, and colorful, music for the nighttime that retains the warmth of an afternoon on the beach" -Pitchfork
SmalltownSupersound-145
CD
$15.25

Dixon, Andy
Mice of Mt. Career (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US This billows w/ a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, & multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing, & songwriting burst w/ a fresh, vibrant energy. Andy Dixon is in SECRET MOMMY.
Ache-036
CD
$12.00

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

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

Earth
Bee Made Honey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH)
PS, US This finds Dylan Carlson & the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel & impovisitory direction
framed by truly psychedelic production & blazing guitar sounds. They show their affinity w/ a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's & 70's, & the more spiritually aware & exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired & original metamorphosis. Feat. BILL FRISELL doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years!
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1977. First reissue of this now-extinct material featuring contributions from reggae greats Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Adrian "Homer" Miller & Bunny Brown from The Chosen Few. Heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar, percussion & Brown's wild style behind the controls.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$12.50

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LightInTheAttic
LP
$14.25

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

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
CD
$9.00

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
DLP
$14.25

Eprhyme
Punklezmerap (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Enter EPRHYME: a rapper with more on his mind than his money; a Jew with issues other than his mother. A cultural nomad with roots in seemingly contradictory cultural contexts, Eprhyme approaches both Judaism and Hip Hop with a profound respect for tradition, balanced by creative freedom and poetic license. Not afraid to experiment or cross boundaries of content and style, Eprhyme blends and juxtaposes seemingly divergent sounds and ideas into a swirling and seamless whole.
Krecords-114
45
$3.75

Erik M
Steme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concrete composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD that was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad8system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. ERIKM has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turn tabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better-equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music ; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience.
Room40-426
CD
$15.00

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US New band featuring CARLA BOZLICH. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes featuring Carla's incantatroy sung and spoken lyrics on the opening & closing tracks, with the rest of the record more overtly composed.
Constellation-050
CD
$14.25

Evangelista
Hello, Voyager (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Constellation-050
LP
$16.25

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

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

Fanu + Bill Laswell
Lodge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Artists: FANU is Finland's and perhaps the world's finest breakbeat splicer and re-imaging doctor. His programming, layering, and arrangements of classic breakbeats are truly some of the most innovative and by far the most realistic sounding - akin to a jazz drummer with no boundaries and seventeen available drum kits at once. BILL LASWELL is the Grammy award-winning producer of Herbie Hancock, bassist and arranger extraordinaire. Fresh off the amazing Method of Defiance record "Inamorata", he's completed this follow up recording, which also features Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer prominently. Album: If you took the electric period of Miles Davis, with less repetition, more funk, and mad scientist drummer, you might end up halfway to LODGE. Half time vamps swing with steady funk bass from Laswell and one of Bernie Worrell's most inspired keyboard performances since PFunk, LODGE turns it out with much more emphasis on the groove. Bits of drum n bass and floating trumpet maneuver over the core modular pieces; a much less harsh sound than the Method of Defiance project, more demonstrative of the soul of Laswell's funktronics. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell and his project Method of Defiance, to End.user and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-8
CD
$12.25

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

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

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

Glorytellers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US First release for this new project featuring Geoff Farina, frontman for KARATE & SECRET STARS. Abstract harmonies, urgent vocal style, pristine pre -WWII guitar & drum sounds, bass lines thumb-picked on an acoustic guitar , and 50 year old cymbals make this one hell of an interesting American songbook.
Southern
CD
$13.50

Glorytellers
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$13.50

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

Grand Volume
Send Me Your Champion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, UK Grand Volume are a unique proposition in the current musical climate, capable of knocking out two minute punk rock gems with consummate ease but equally comfortable venturing into more sophisticated prog-inspired territory. Of their peers only the Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age can match them for combining such musical dexterity with fiercely passionate intensity. Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Vocals, Guitar), Dan Larke (Guitar, Vocals, Tech) and Jon Green (Drums, Vocals, Bass, Tech) have made a ferocious statement of intent with their debut album for Fat Northerner Records, the provocatively titled 'Send Me Your Champion'. Opening track 'Summon' throws down the gauntlet in typically thunderous fashion, transporting the listener to the dirty side of early 90's Seattle before it's apocalyptic wall of noise eventually subsides and the clear, unashamedly English vocals of frontman Tom Sheals-Barrett reveal that this is a band as in thrall to Radiohead as they are to Soundgarden. Recent single 'History' follows and highlights again what a versatile outfit Grand Volume are; as tenacious, disciplined and economical as Fugazi or Minor Threat, yet as musically adventurous and intelligent as Devo or Television. 'Fire Come Soon' is another fine distillation of Grand Volume's prog meets punk philosophy - it's bombastic fire and brimstone lyrics are consumed in a maelstrom of sub-pop inspired thrash, which occasionally gives way to a gentler, fx-laden, bassdriven groove that wouldn't sound out of place on 'OK Computer'. The album closes with the beautiful 'Departure Lounge', a deeply introspective track that wouldn't sound out of place on any of the 4AD label's austere 80's gothic releases. The whole mood of the song emphasizes again that Grand Volume are a band well-versed in the whole canon of alternative rock, stretching their sound far further than the majority of their contemporaries. "An awesome racket. The missing link between classic stadium bombast and post-hardcore death noise" Dan Martin, NME. Championed by Bruce Dickinson
(BBC 6) Music and Huw Stephens (Radio 1).
FatNortherner-002
CD
$16.25

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

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

Hideki Spaghetti
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, SPAIN Is this the soundtrack of the first Japanese spaghetti-western? Is Hideki Kaji -the official emperor of Shibuya-ku pop- now in full cowboy gear or is he now a charming and romantic character alla italiana? Has Jez Butler sculpted another highly stylized retro futuristic fantasy? Will this Italian trip from the neo-aco heroe please the many legions of his fans? Did he use a time machine to travel to the good old days of lost pop? Well, Hideki Spaghetti is an italian adventure created by Hideki Kaji and Jez Butler. And all the responses can be found in this fantastic record.
Siesta-216
CD
$17.75

Hingley, Tom And The Lovers
Highlights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, UK Tom Hingley is also lead singer in The Inspiral Carpets. March 2008 sees Tom Hingley and the Lovers release their second album 'Highlights'. 3 years in the making it is a work of art. Poetic, melodic and well worth the wait. Highlights is the first release from the band since their critically acclaimed 2004 debut 'Abba Are the Enemy'. Where 'Abba' was a brash 200 mph Punk/Garage dash through topical subjects such as reality television, the Pop parade and War Mongering, 'Highlights' sees the band developing along a much more melodic soulful train of thought. Songs touch on such universal themes as love (Highlights), Religion ('All My Time'), Lions ('Venomous) Credit Crunch ('Kick out The Clocks') and the pretentious Manchester district of Chorlton Cum Hardy, which Tom can't afford to buy a house in and is not all at all bitter about ('EverGreen')
NewMemorabilia-10
CD
$16.25

Howlin' Rain
Magnificent Fiend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Feat. members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE & COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke.
Birdman
LP
$16.00

Judys, The
Washarama [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008)
PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

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

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

Julie Mittens
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US A Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording & the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do w/ Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, they consistently wreak havoc w/ lavish, textural, peakerblowing meltdown jams.
HolyMountain
CD
$14.25

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

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

Kid Kishore
The Social Club Nº 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Copenhagen native of Indian descent KID KISHORE strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. Self-described as anything from "Danish ghetto-tech" to "golden age Bollywood," his beat-heavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape.
TheSocialRegistry-057
45
$5.50

Koenjihyakkei
Hundred Sights of Koenji (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Legendary debut album, the original Japanese issue went largely unheard, Hundred Sights of Koenji returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, it includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya, Masuda Ryuichi, Kubota Aki & Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey to those hallowed fields of yore.
SkinGraft-090
CD
$14.25

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

Ladyhawk
Shots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-117
LP
$11.50

Ladyhawk
Shots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time.
Jagjaguwar-117
CD
$11.50

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

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

Lullatone
The Bedtime Beat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece, Lullatone presents the bedtime beat This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious "bathtime beat", which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let's March to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat!
SomeoneGood-003
CD5
$13.50

Maclean, Juan
Happy House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US This single is a dance tourist's window into the state of downtown clubbing in what has always historically been the worldwide capital for boogie. It is no longer as paranoid, as cold, as robotic. W/ remixes by PRINCE LANGUAGE & LEE DOUGLAS.
DFA
12
$8.00

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US His first record in three years. Malkmus' genius is that he knows exactly when to fetter. These songs may sprawl like the Central Valley (told you), they may spread out like a jet's flame, but when they reach that last tract house they gracefully spread their wings and head for the unclaimed land beyond. Indeed, although Malkmus makes the Pacific Northwest his home, this feels like a "California" album. Check out how "Real Emotional Trash" begins as a modern-day "Tonight's the Night," before evolving into a road trip from the Mexican border to Marin, in the tradition of Pavement's "Unfair." And dig those Allman Bros. leads (really!).
Matador
CD
$13.50

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$13.50

Miimo
Live at Super Deluxe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type), clamshell case. Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). "Live at Super Deluxe" was recorded at the most advanced club in Tokyo "Super Deluxe" in July, 2007. Their live performance is vivid and emotional. Steel Pan is featured on drum & electric double bass with electronic percussions. Each members control dubbed samplers/computers, playing their own instruments. Hybrid performance. Chill-out dubbed sounds and beat-driven groove(tr1), jazzy and tender arrangement(tr2), heavy bass onedrop(tr3), hypnotic beat with Melodica and Steel Pan(tr4). Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) as well as debut album.
Amorfon-2
CD
$15.00

Miimo
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type) in clamshell case. Cool melody & beat from Tokyo! Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Miimo's tracks have been already used for documentary movie and commercial spot as soundtracks in Japan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). Exotic electronic pop album "miimo" is their debut album including tunes like; impressive Pablo-like melody by Melodica (tr2), nice combination with jazzy sax and electric beat(tr3), mystic polyphonic song feat. J-pop female singer (tr4), chilled Steelpan 'dub' melody (tr6), feat. cut-up poetry reading in Spanish (tr8), etc. Describing romantic and chilled atmosphere in Tokyo with the sound. Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) in clamshell case. Like Morr, ~Scape and C.C.O., electronic and acoustic are crossovered nicely.
Amorfon-1
CD
$15.00

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

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

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

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

Murder By Death
Red of Tooth and Claw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Fourth and most accomplished release recorded by Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (QUEENS OF
THE STONE AGE, IGGY POP)
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Numbers
Tomlab Alphabet Series: W (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US NUMBERS emerges from the dusk of last year's full-length, "Now You Are This", with a pair of rollicking jams that refuse to let the summer set from our hearts and minds. "Is That Really True?" takes on the heavy question of real knowledge with a fuzz bass and drone organ before turning to an irresistible hum-along chorus. And prevailing question remains: "What can we know?" On the þip, the TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS classic "Crimson and Clover" experiences a fuzz rock reawakening shot through by pointedly triumphant guitars and dirty synth. All builds to an end with a brilliant reenactment of the tremolo chant "Crimson and Clover - over and over..." Summer may go, but it won't be gone forever. "Now Now You Are This' fuzzy guitar riffs and distorted synth melodies aren't just burning and propulsive, they're also strangely emotive. We like strangely emotive." - XLR8R
Tomlab-106-W
45
$5.50

OffOnOff
Clash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, NORWAY One half of Original Silence, Offonoff is comprised of Terrie Ex (THE EX), Massimo Pupillo (ZU) & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE. Similar to the sounds of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth, and The Ex. Noisy, intense, hard with rapid shifts & contrasts, heavy grooves. All free improvised!
SmalltownSupersound-147
CD
$15.25

Panther
14 Kt. God (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Vinyl version of cd recently released by KILL ROCK STARS. 180 gram
Marriage
LP
$14.25

Paper
An Object (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, SWEDEN Debut album from Swedish kraut-punk trio featuring Calle Olsson from The Bear Quartet and Paddington DC along with members of Audionom. The sound is based around the frustration of punk, the delicacy of pop melody and the hypnotic power of repetition. Think early Wire meets early Wire, simple, powerful.
Novoton-015
CD
$14.00

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

Port Royal
Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE March 4TH)
PS, US The much-delayed remix project finally surfaces, with a stellar line-up of remixers taking apart tracks from 'Flares', the much loved debut album from the Italian post-space-rock quartet. 'Flared Up' follows last year's sophomore long player 'Afraid To Dance' and was put together between June 2005 and December 2006, with finishing touches and fine-tuning preparing it for a Spring 2008 release. The album will be released in a limited edition one-off pressing of 1000 copies for the world. TRACKLISTING: 1. Mohn f/r port-royal (F.S. Blumm remix) (previously unreleased track) 2. Jeka (Fizzarum remix) 3. Spetsnaz (destroyed by Stafraenn Hakon) 4. Karola Bloch (Manual remix) 5. Jeka (Judith Juillerat remix) 6. Flares pt. 2 (d_rradio remix) 7. Flares pt.3 (Televise remix) 8. Karola Bloch (Dialect remix) 9. Spetsnaz (Skyphone remix) 10. Flares On The Water (Minamo remix) 11. Karola Bloch (OPN remix) 12. Stimmung (Ulrich Schnauss remix).
Resonant-027
CD
$15.00

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

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

Pwrfl Power
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US In spite of its populist facade, popular music still largely manages to maintain a number of strangely puritanical conventions. One exceptionally glaring case in point is the assumed mutual exclusivity of humor and "serious" music--the assumption that all "important" music is solemn, earnest, and marked with abject sincerity. Particularly in the realm of the singer/songwriter, sap and heart-sleeved sincerity are tantamount to authenticity, and humor is viewed at best as a suspicious novelty. Which is just one reason why PWRFL Power's Kazutaka Nomura doesn't especially care for pop conventions. Born to an architect and a calligrapher in Hokkaido, Japan in 1984, Kaz began studying Classical and Jazz guitar at the age of 13--moving to Seattle at 18 to study musical composition. Shortly after his arrival, the diminutive and charismatic Nomura co-founded (along with two other like-minded Japanese emigres) the city-conquering, genre-defying free-improv trio Na--who, before their residency-related demise in 2006, self-released over 40 recordings, and garnered ink in Wire, Spin, and The Stranger. Following the dissolution of his band, Nomura--now armed with a fancy music degree--decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique. In the year or so since his live debut, PWRFL Power has collected considerable local and national acclaim for his magnetically charming live performances--with high-profile appearances at Wham City's Whartscape festival, and a mainstage slot at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party (an appearance which resulted in Kaz being cast as himself in one of those weird, animated Esurance television commercialsÉ no, seriously--look for it in early 2008). With his self-titled full-length debut, PWRFL Power covers considerable aesthetic strides--from contemplative sparsity to bluesy dexterity to pure pop, and on through to a number scarcely definable alleyways in between--whilst spinning loving yarns about self-acceptance, internet dating,chopstick etiquette, loathsome cats, cocaine, obsessive-compulsive text messaging, and tomato throwing. And what's most awe-inspiring is that, in spite of this innate humor, PWRFL Power manages to transcend the potentially cloying confines of its subject matter--seemingly by sheer will-with thoughtfully constructed, elegantly played, and catchy as fuck compositions. So yes, the songs are meant to be funny. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take them seriously. PWRFL Power has performed with Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, No-Neck Blues Band, Spoon, Beach House, Sir Richard Bishop, No Age, Wooden Wand, Sage Francis, Marnie Stern, Barr, Aa, White Magic, Jana Hunter, Gang Wizard, and countless others.
SlenderMeansSociety-009
CD
$10.25

Rameses III
Basilica (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US `Basilica´ is Rameses III's eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed releases 'Honey Rose' (Important), 'Matanuska' (Music Fellowship) and 'Night Of The Ankou' (Type). 'Basilica' is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. Each artist approached to contribute to the 'Basilica' disc was given free range to experiment with the live files, to re-invent and re-interpret the recordings as they saw fit. Minimalist sound-sculptor Keith Berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of 'Basilica' and gave the album an early focus and provided inspiration for the glacial artwork. Gregg Kowalsky played the 'Rose Blood' remix as part of his own performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San Francisco using its tuned sinewave oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to induce, to quote the man himself, "a psychoacoustic listening experience".
Important-178
DCD
$13.00

Rusalnaia (ft. SHARRON KRAUS)
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded in two sessions through 2007 when SHARRON KRAUS & GILLIAN CHADWICK (Ex-Reverie) teamed up with engineer Greg Weeks, who helped capture the duo's organic & sometimes unusual instrumentation, from dulcimer & guitar to pennywhistles & goat's nail shaker, and contributed his own accents to a few tracks: acid Les Paul leads & vintage 70's synths. Eight tracks of haunting, ritualistic, magical pagan-folk were the result, varying from the darkly processional tale of dispossession, though the Comus-like ceremonies of the title track, to the extended forest folk trance on the concluding "Wild Summer"
CameraObscura-082
CD
$14.25

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

Solo Andata/Seaworthy/Taylor Deupree
Live In Melbourne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US One night in April, 2007, the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia was host to a small gathering of sound-lovers and curious passers-by descending on the venerable Northcote Social Club for a night of subtle soundscaping by Oz-natives Solo Andata and Seaworthy and New Yorker Taylor Deupree, who was in Australia for a tour. After a great meal and despite the ghosts of the BBC hijacking the audio system, the three artists set out to capture the focused listeners with beds of abandoned melodies and warm acoustic tangles. In hopes to capture the memories of the night, and a snapshot of live audio and all of its imperfections, Deupree recorded the evening with the intent of producing this CD. Live in Melbourne pairs labelmates Seaworthy and Deupree with Solo Andata, a newcomer to 12k, who all share in a similar sonic aesthetic. Solo Andata performed with laptop and a host of small instruments and electronics creating dense and careful beds of disjointed, yet beautiful music. Seaworthy transformed the stunning, sparse drones of his Map in Hand album into a live, improvised experience that captured all of the emotion that's created by a single musician and his guitar. Deupree rounded off the night with his characteristically sparse bed of tones and digital detritus. Live in Melbourne is strictly limited to 500 copies.
12k-2008
CD
$12.25

Soundpool
Dichotomies + Dreamland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US Forming in 2005 Soundpool is a NYC-based 5-piece shoegaze, space rock, audio/visual act with sweet girlie vocals, saturated guitar sounds, lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section. Soundpool's first album, On High, reached the top spot on the Tonevendor charts for well over a month in late 2006 - Soundpool has since quietly placed themselves in the center of the new shoegaze/dream pop movement of music, sharing the stage with great acts: Robin Guthrie, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Mahogany, Asobi Seksu, Spectrum, Star, Kyte, Auburn Lull and Butterfly Explosion to name a few. Soundpool's second full-length album Dichotomies & Dreamland is in many ways the classic psychedelic album in a post electronica age. Conceptually, the album can be broken into two parts... the conscious and the subconscious. Stylistically, the album follows a thread that perhaps starts in the mid-sixties when pop artists of the day started taking hallucinogens and making records that were a bit more eclectic, cerebral and daring... pushing the boundaries of what a rock & roll record could be. Dichotomies & Dreamland was made in the spirit of that sort of artistic attitude but it's not deliberately of even necessarily retro per se... in fact it is quite modern in an indie sort of way. Elements of Shoegaze, Dreampop, Space Rock, Psychedelic and Electronic are all present. Over a year and a half in the making... we hope you enjoy our latest bodywork! "Soundpool's drone and roll has had my ears for some time. Shoegaze is a genre always in need of new blood, and few new artists match Soundpool's vocal delivery and sonic awareness. While their drone teeters on the tip toes of instability, it's Kim Fields vocals that seamlessly hold the chaos together." -Musicisnotdead. "This sounds great! Of all the newer stuff I was able to come across, I especially like what you guys are doing." -John Cofer, Music Director WTBU. "I walked off Orchard St. on the Lower East side into Pianos, waded my way through the sea of heads and walked right into the "Exploding Plastic Inevtitable"... the multimedia sensory blast definitely conjured up the Velvet underground imagery but Soundpool's sound was closer to early 90's Stereolab. The crowd was diggin' the impressive performance... this was one of the best sets I've seen in a while by a band that could be labeled "shoegaze"". -Fiddle While You Burn "When Lush wrote Sweetness and Light at the height of shoegazing, I wonder if they had anticipated Soundpool, the latest act to breath life into a fondly missed genre? Cosmic, phased guitars combine with breathy, angelic vocals and sequenced programming. Yet beneath the swirl of effects beats a heart of pure pop." -Brett Spaceman, EVILSPONGE.
Aloft-02
CD
$12.25

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

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

Tammar
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Working out the kernels of their corn-fried haze, TAMMAR is an exercise in balancing minimalist riffs with maximalist peaks & valleys. While the usual rise-fall theory of rock is tired, with Tammar there's a focus on the jam rather then cold hard numbers. On stage they are always a bit different - moments are stretched and condensed at will, and on record its no different. Minimal keyboards and drums bring to mind early Suicide while tripping guitars and theatrical accented vocals bring to mind the more paisley moments of Felt and U2, respectively. This four-piece from just north of Louisville, KY recorded these songs primarily live off the cement floor of the basement of Grotto Home Studios by the deft hands of Daniel Burton. Bending the materials of the world until the band itself is a conduit for feelings hot and wet and primal as sex. But that's not all. Tammar tastes the psychedelic aether, visiting the realms above as well as below, transmitting those good vibrations. Turn down the lights, turn up your stereo and rock these five hits of ecstasy.
St.Ives-31
LP
$11.50

Teamforest
Leave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners.
Eglantine-015
CD
$13.50

Thing With Ken Vandermark
Immediate Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, NORWAY The Thing team up with their longtime friend Ken Vandermark to create some of their finest work. Recorded live at Chicago's Hide Out in April 2007, this album leans more towards the classical free jazz sound of the 60s - more American than European. With Vandermark on sax, The Thing gets more mellow, melodic & funky.
SmalltownSuperjazz-105
CD
$15.25

Tides/Giant
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Tides write gorgeously lush soundtracks to movies not yet made, filled w/ emotive guitar work, dynamic drumming, & huge production. Giant's sole track on this record weaves its way through both the heaviest of distortions & hauntingly euphoric passages. RIYL: Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Rosetta.
LevelPlane
CD
$9.00

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

Valet
Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION of CD on KRANKY. 180gram
Marriage
LP
$14.25

Valet
Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums."
Kranky-116
CD
$12.25

Various
The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008)
PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed.
Fallout
CD-BOX
$88.00

Various
Second Marriage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH)
PS, US 2 cds documenting the label. Disc one represents the more psychedelic elements(WHITE RAINBOW, ADRIAN ORANGE, PRIVACY). Disc two represents the open philosophy of the label: lounge-punks WATERY GRAVES, ROB WALMART'S hip hop jams and more. Die cut and handmade packaging.
Marriage
CD
$14.25

Various
Encyclopedia Asthmatica Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Nearly all of the ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS' roster, and many of their friends, make an appearance somewhere on this DVD: from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicking in shoes made of bread to the music of HALF-HANDED CLOUD, to the lovely abstraction of SUFJAN STEVENS' projectionist, DEBORAH JOHNSON; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live CASTANETS, to the crisp color footage of MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND at Northsix, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine.
AsthmaticKitty-40
DVD
$12.25

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

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

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

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

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

Whiskeytown
Strangers Almanac: Deluxe Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Expanded 2-disc re-issue of this 1997 album featuring a pre-Ryan Adams Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary (Tres Chicas) and Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter). PITCHFORK: "The first disc features the original album bolstered by five previously unreleased radio performances. The second disc is a veritable treasure trove: all but two of its 21 tracks are previously unreleased recordings from early sessions for the LP, known by bootleggin' fans as the "Barn's on Fire Sessions". "Kiss & Make-Up", "Indian Gown", "Barn's on Fire", "Streets of Sirens", "Breathe", "Nurse With the Pills", and "10 Seconds" all appear for the first time on any official Whiskeytown release. Acoustic demos of album tracks "16 Days", "Avenues", and "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart", covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner", Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone", and the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" round out the set."
Mood Food/Outpost/Geffen/Ume
DCD
$28.50

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

White Hinterland
Phylactery Factory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH)
PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only.
DeadOceans-009
CD
$11.50

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

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Alcest “Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde” CD $14.25
All Golden In The Afternoon “S-T” CD $8.25
Bell, The “Make Some Quiet” CD $13.75
Biirdie “Catherine Avenue” CD $11.00
Black Hollies “Casting Shadows” CD $11.50
Black Lips/Subsonics “Split” 45 $5.25
Blood On The Wall “Liferz” CD $11.50
Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Wilding in the West” CD $16.25
Box “Studio 1” LP $19.50
Box “Studio 1” CD $18.00
Carroll, Barton “Lost One” CD $15.00
Castanets “Strong Animal” 45 $3.75
Chessie “Manifest” CD $11.50
Collections Of Colonies Of Bees “Birds” CD $13.00
Conjerti, Morreale & Dibley “Earth Free” LP $14.00
Costa, Matt “Unfamiliar Faces [re-issue]” CD $15.00
Dead Meadow “Old Growth” DLP $19.00
Dead Western “S-T” 45 $5.25
Dengue Fever “Venus On Earth” CD $16.25
Destroy All Monsters “Live In Tokyo” CD $14.50
Drag the River “You Can't Live This Way” CD $11.00
Envy “All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting” CD $9.00
Envy “Abyssal” CD $9.00
Evangelicals “The Evening Descends” CD $11.50
Evangelicals “The Evening Descends” LP $11.50
Finn, Liam “I'll Be Lightning” CD $15.00
Finn, Liam “I'll Be Lightning” LP $18.25
Fleshtones, The “Take A Good Look” CD $14.50
Flower Travellin' Band “Satori” LP $20.00
Flying Lotus “1983” LP $10.00
Folk Spectre, The “The Blackest Medicine” LP $14.00
Food “Molecular Gastronomy” CD $17.00
Formby, Richard “Volume 1” CD $11.50
Handsome Ned “Name Is Ned” DCD $15.00
Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” LP $13.00
Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” CD $12.00
Hexlove “Knew Abloom (Life's Hood)” CD $13.25
Holland, Michael “Simple Truths and Pleasures” CD $15.00
Human Bell “S-T” CD $14.00
Ida “Lovers Prayers” DLP $14.00
Ida “Lovers Prayers” CD $11.50
Instruments Of Science And Technology “Music From The Films Of R. Swift” CD $11.50
Japancakes “If I Could See Dallas” CD $12.25
Japancakes “The Sleepy Strange” CD $12.25
Japancakes “Down The Elements” CD $9.00
Kessler, Matt “The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries” BOOK $7.00
Lightspeed Champion “Falling Off The Lavender Bridge” CD $13.00
Little Wings “Magic Wand” CD $16.00
Lungfish “Rainbows from Atoms” CD $10.25
Mahjongg “Kontpab” CD $11.50
Mahjongg “Kontpab” LP $10.25
Mangion, Suzy “The Other Side of the Mountain” CD $17.75
Matthews, Ian “Tigers Will Survive” CD $14.00
Matthews, Ian “If You Saw Through My Eyes” CD $14.00
McCombs, Cass “Dropping The Writ” LP $13.25
Metabolismus “The Social Club Nº 7” 45 $5.50
Mono “The Sky Remains The Same As Ever” DVD $14.25
Mueller, Jon “Metals” CD $13.00
Munch Munch “Wedding” 45 $5.50
Nurse With Wound “Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered]” CD $15.00
Owens, Buck “Live in Scandinavia” CD $18.75
Pascal (SWE) “Galgberget” CD $14.00
Picabia, Francis “La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse)” CD $17.00
Pollard, Robert “Superman Was a Rocker” CD $10.00
Radar Brothers “Auditorium” CD $13.00
Rafter “Sex Death Cassette” CD $11.50
Ringenberg, Jason “Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007” DCD $17.00
Road “Can't Talk” CD $17.75
Sambassadeur “Final Say [single]” CD5 $5.00
Single “Pianístico” CD5 $6.75
Sinier, Raoul (aka Ra) “Huge Samurai Radish” CD $15.25
Sneaky Pete Kleinow “Anthology” CD $18.75
Sons and Daughters “This Gift” CD $13.00
Speare, Jed “Sound Works 1982-1987” DCD $14.25
Stereo Total “Plastico EP” 45 $7.50
Taunus “Harriet” CD $16.00
Team Robespierre “Everything's Perfect” CD $10.00
Television Personalities “The Good Anarchist” 45 $7.50
Tempo No Tempo “Repetition” CD $6.00
Three Hour Tour “B Side Oblivion (ON SALE)” CD $14.00
Thuja “S-T” LP $14.75
Van Zandt, Townes “Rear View Mirror” CD $15.50
Various “I'm Not There [Dylan Biopic OST]” DLP $20.50
Various “Achtung! German Grooves: 20 Instrumental Dancefloor Killers from the 60s and 70s” CD $16.25
Various “Happy New Year 2008” 45 $7.50
Various “Soiree Du Coeur A Barbe: Festival Paris Dada” CD $16.00
Various “Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity” CD $13.75
Various “Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Music” CD $15.50
Various “Happy New Year 2008” CD5 $6.75
Warlocks “Heavy Deavy Skull Lover” LP $15.00
Weisman, Kurt “Spiritual Sci-Fi” CD $12.25
White Town “Don't Mention The War” CD $14.00
Whitest Boy Alive “Dreams” LP $22.00
Wire Magazine “#287” ZINE $10.50
Yellow Swans “At All Ends” DLP $18.25
Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core “S-T” LP $17.00

Parasol New Arrivals • February 26, 2008
Hi folks, Well, winter is continuously rearing its ugly head ‘round these parts and as Parasol pal Rachael Dietkus would say, it’s doin’ the two-step on my last nerve. But anyway, summer is right around the corner so enough with my complaining. Let’s move on to bigger and brighter things, shall we? The new Beach House album has arrived safe and sound at Parasol HQ today and it’s making quite a stir in our quiet community as is the bitchin’ new 7” by Boris. As always, there are scads of new records for you to sift through so with that said, check out the list and we’ll talk more next week. Be good, Roy & Paul
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	Beach House "Devotion" CD $14.25 The familiar organs, slide guitars & reverb are intact but they offer some new directions here. Having developed their craft exponentially since last year's debut, their new record is a crisp recording that showcases a set of fuller & richer songs, with the band taking the pop duo format to the limit. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With Devotion, Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound... Like Beach House, Devotion sounds like it was made for, and possibly in, the dead of night. This time, though, Beach House's dark moods have more shades, and even a little bit of light, making them all the more compelling."
New Releases 5ive Hesperus PS, US Boston's 5ive were a two-piece with no vocalist or bass player long before being instrumental and having an unorthodox band assemblage became "cool". They have a Kyuss style guitar tone without the bad vocals. Their debut full-length was one of Terrorizer magazine's top twenty of 2001. "Ben Carr's guitars are thickly layered without the sound becoming mushy. The distortion he gets out of his amp makes his riffing sound like balls of flame. Charlie Harrold's drumming complements the guitar playing exceptionally; these are two musicians that are well in tune with each other" - Brainwashed.com. Tortuga CD $12.50 Accidental, The Knock Knock (Tunng Mix) / Brave New World (Benge Mix) PS, UK Fripp and Eno, Gainsbourg and Vannier, Kuti and Allen - two's company, and great musicians often travel in pairs. The Accidental is a pairing of Sam Genders (Tunng) and Stephen Cracknell (The Memory Band, Gorodisch, co-founder of Trunk Records). This single is their first outing as well as a forerunner for a debut full-length album, due in Spring 2008. As a founder member of Tunng, Sam Genders is an extraordinary songwriter, melding Lewis Carroll's flights of fancy with all the pathos of a 19th Century Russian novelist - a tragic-comic outlook on life and fascination with both the natural and unnatural, like Gogol with a guitar. With Tunng, his well-drawn tales weave in and out of the bobbing electronics, crafting electro-tinged folk songs which pulse and caress with equal measure, combining an easy melodicism with the band's expansive touch. Stephen Cracknell has a similarly attuned ear for the properties which link the acoustic and pastoral with the synthetic sounds of electronica, managing to conjure an organically simple fusion of elements which is defiantly modern. Under the moniker of the Memory Band, Cracknell's sleight of hand has seen him essay that relationship between the traditional folk lament and the circular, glitchy stylings heard on his electronic output as Gorodisch. This seven-inch release marks the first airing of material by the Accidental, featuring remixes of two of the songs slated for inclusion on their forthcoming debut album. Knock Knock is remixed by fellow Tunng lynchpin Mike Lindsay, the scratchy atmosphere and booming beats lending it a distinctly tribal feel, while bass frequencies lurch and stretch underneath plaintive vocals. On the reverse is the Benge remix of Brave New World - a slice of blissful electronica akin to Four Tet sitting down for tea and scones with Animal Collective, while snaking rhythms rattle alongside cut-up vocals and odd percussive flourishes. Slip on the headphones and drift away. Limited to 500 copies on seven inch wax only. Vinyl comes in a harvest house bag with print. StaticCaravan-158-7 45 $7.75 American Music Club The Golden Age PS, US Every AMC record is an effort to experiment and extend the range of their expression. "The Golden Age" is no exception: from the Mariachi horns to the breezy Beach Boys harmonies to the unfolding layers of feedback, this album is full of varied, joyous, and generous pop music. Merge CD $14.00 Angel Kalmukia PS, US This is Ilpo Vaisanen (PAN SONIC), Hildur Gudnadottir (Lost In Hildurness) & Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM). A vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melancholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery & a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other, creating a mesmerizing work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for. EditionsMego CD $17.00 Apes, The Ghost Games PS, US POPMATTERS: "Forgoing lead guitar for shambling, sinister organ licks, DC post-punk outfit the Apes strike a strange middle-ground between minimalism and maximalism. Lacking guitar accompaniment, Jeff Schmid's drums and and Erick Jackson's bass tend operate in spare cages of plunging rhythms and blurting stabs, and when the keys afford them some space, the whole feels crisply open. However, just as often as organist Amanda Bynes allows herself to be constrained by the others' rhythms, she surges past and breaks free, letting her organ swell to fill every gap with psychedelic squeal." GypsyEyes CD $15.00 Apples In Stereo Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue] PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Apples In Stereo's third full-length album is a return to their early-'60s Beatlesque sound... Robert Schneider's lyrics are more emotional and personal here than on earlier releases, and the added intimacy, as well as the musical layers, make The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone an intricate, poignant lunar trip." OneLittleIndianUS CD $14.25 Apples In Stereo Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue] PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "One of the defining albums of the mid-'90s indie scene, the Apples in Stereo's full-length debut is one of those records that marks a sea change in musical attitudes, akin to Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick" or Pavement's early singles... The album that defines the post-grunge indie pop shift from sullen negativity into a kind of cockeyed, giddy optimism, and is also among the handful of albums that turned Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, and Burt Bacharach into cool names to drop at the record store... Fun Trick Noisemaker is a minor masterpiece." Also available on re-issue: Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (2000) and Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999) OneLittleIndianUS CD $14.25 Apples In Stereo Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue] PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "the band's most overtly psychedelic record, it's also their most experimental, achieving a near-perfect balance between candy-colored popcraft and musique concrète-influenced interludes. In a sense, the disc is a response to the grand ambitions of fellow Elephant 6-ers Olivia Tremor Control and their likeminded Black Foliage album, but the Apples' integration of Beatlesque melodies and experimental noises is much more seamless; not only are Her Wallpaper Reverie's songs the best Robert Schneider's yet written, but they're produced with a new richness of detail -- from the wonderfully Lennon-esque "Strawberryfire" to the Kinks-ish "Ruby," the music positively shimmers." OneLittleIndianUS CD $14.25 Architect I Went Out Shopping To Get Some Noise PS, GERMANY Reissue. Ever prolific, Haujobb's Daniel Myer returns for a second album as architect, I went out shopping to get some noise. Myer's previous architect album, 1998's galactic supermarket, leant toward the darker threads of technoid drum'n'bass (panacea, tarmvred, etc). For I went out shopping to get some noise, Myer reigns in the breaks to toss down thirteen mind-bendingly tight electro-acid-industrial-techno cuts, each bearing Myer's signature dark flair and impeccable production. Comparisons range from afx and caustic window on 'track 7' to emotive digital synthpop like early attaché on 'track 5.' not to be outdone by other sample-aholics, Myer ensnares the ultimate - Beethoven's moonlight sonata - and contorts it into a neoromantic opus on 'track 6.' if this is what Myer means by noise, the rest of the musical world has a lot of catching up to do to touch architect. Hymen-737 CD $15.50 Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those PS, US One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, this is the solo moniker of DEERHUNTER frontman/provocateur BRADFORD COX. This is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock & ambient electronic influences previously explored w/ Deerhunter in a new context, w/ newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned w/ guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy & mania. Kranky-114 CD $11.00 Balmorhea Rivers Arms PS, US Mirroring the vast Texas skies, the soulful collection of songs on "Rivers Arms" is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. BALMORHEA'S shows have included dates with The Drift, Bexar Bexar, One AM Radio, Caspian, and more. They're currently planning a Spring tour to coincide with this release and working on a Summer tour with their Italian friends Port-Royal. The track "Baleen Morning" will be featured on an upcoming documentary about the company "Toms Shoes", which will premier the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. WesternVinyl-051 CD $11.50 Bao, Billy Dialectics of Shit PS, US This screams freedom; freedom from presumptions, form, & safety. Its 10 tracks bludgeon wantonly w/ black metallic ferox, industrial rhythm jackhammering, & a gauntlet of free-swinging riffs designed to mash ears into the asphalt. The directions hinted at in his earlier works are given new purpose, let loose to manipulate any expectations brought in w/ the listener. Like the nihilistic pummel of the Brainbombs, the feral howl of early Nirvana, & the aluminum baseball bat dunt of New Zealand post-punkers The Gordons PartsUnknown LP $11.25 Beach House Devotion PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Carpark LP $17.00 Beach House Devotion PS, US The familiar organs, slide guitars & reverb are intact but they offer some new directions here. Having developed their craft exponentially since last year's debut, their new record is a crisp recording that showcases a set of fuller & richer songs, with the band taking the pop duo format to the limit. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With Devotion, Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound... Like Beach House, Devotion sounds like it was made for, and possibly in, the dead of night. This time, though, Beach House's dark moods have more shades, and even a little bit of light, making them all the more compelling." Carpark CD $14.25 Beat Circus Dreamland PS, US This second full length album is a uniquely fierce and magical record composed by singer/songwriter Brian Carpenter, who delivers dark narrative songs of Deadwood saloons, gangsters from The Bowery, Coney Island sideshows, and the Santa Fe Railway. Loosely based on historical events associated with turn of the century New York, Dreamland is the culmination of a two-year effort by Beat Circus and marks the first installment of Brian Carpenter's Weird American Gothictrilogy. Brian leads a 9-piece band with a unique & exciting instrumentation: pump organ, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, accordion, jawharp, tuba, trombone, banjo, mandolin, saxophones drums and percussion. Dreamland was engineered and produced by legendary NY producer Martin Bisi (SONIC YOUTH, FOETUS, DRESDEN DOLLS, BARBEZ). Cuneiform CD $14.25 Beequeen Sandancing PS, US After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from 'The Bodyshop' (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). Well-rounded popsongs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the dark alley of pointless experiment. Orchestral in 'The Illogical Song', collage like in 'The Edie Three Step' or a simple rhythm machine in 'The Honeythief'. Beequeen does all, and with great care and seemingly ease. This album features also the help of Barry Gray, former (and first) guitarist of The Legendary Pink Dots, and would not have been the album that is without the invaluable production skills of Erik Drost. Important-177 CD $12.25 Beequeen Sandancing Demos PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track. Important-186 10 $14.75 Belong Colorloss Record PS, US While BELONG still considers these cover songs, what we are presented with are shells, the ghosts of what we think we know about such a fleeting medium as music in the first place. And like the title implies, the music sounds weathered, a faded version of some original we might only imagine. As a record of covers, it sounds like the sonic palimpsest that it is exactly. On "Colorloss", one finds a humble treatment of the hierarchy of sounds. It is the equal attention given to each sound and its place in the mix that makes this a true musical democracy where each element shines in its own way, while propping up the others in a puzzle that would charm Archimedes. A wash of fuzz finds itself meandering thru a track holding hands with the vocals, the space between a breathe before the next submergence. What we have as a result is work of such staggering beauty and melodic thoughtfulness to stop KEVIN SHIELDS in his tracks at the wonder of it. And while the instrumentation and means might be different, this is a music that has as much in common with late 20th-century composition in the vein of JOHN CALE or TONY CONRAD as it does with the soundscapes of WILLIAM BASINSKI or MY BLOODY VALENTINE. St.Ives-017 LP $11.50 Big Sleep Sleep Forever PS, US Tighter, more focused & heavier than before, w/o losing any of the energy. It's guitar rock w/ a heavy dose of noise, & a big focus on rhythm. It's loud because the music needs to be felt. FrenchKiss CD $13.25 Bitcrush Epilogue in Waves PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting. n5MD-156 CD $12.00 Blood On The Wall Liferz PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!! "Liferz" is a portrait of a band at the top of their game - somehow they have managed to get even more "awesomer". TheSocialRegistry-060 LP $10.25 Boeoes Kaelstigen Pan European PS, SWEDEN "The music is sharp-edged, a suggestive hybrid of minimal, luxurious Giorgio Moroder Italo and melodramatic black and white air busses. Boeoes Kaelstigen's beats and desolate keyboard lines makes you long for a future in the sign of modernity." Adrian-12 12 $10.50 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar LP $11.50 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago PS, US This debut is centered around a particular aesthetic; Justin Vernon, the primary force behind Bon Iver, moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter, alone for three months. This solitary time fed a bold, uninhibited new musical focus. All his personal trouble, lack of perspective, heartache, longing, love, loss, and guilt that had been stockpiled over the past six years was suddenly purged into song. The NY Times called this record "irresistible", and it was given a "Recommeded" rating by Pitchfork. RIYL: Iron & Wine, M. Ward, and Elliott Smith. Jagjaguwar CD $11.50 Boris Statement PS, US They return w/ their first non-collaborative recordings in 2 yrs! The new track "Statement" is a preview of things to come on their forthcoming full-length album: "Smile" to be released by Southern Lord near the end of April 2008! The B side "Floorshaker" is excl. to this vinyl & will NOT be available anywhere else. SouthernLord 45 $5.00 Bow Street Runners S-T PS, US 1996 reissue. "Flushed from Fayetteville, North Carolina -- where they thought they could remain comfortably obscure -- by our release of their only album, the Runners have recently re-surfaced. Issued in ultra-limited quantity by B.T. Puppy in 1970 -- and now changing hands for sums more familiar to NASDAQ -- this is an otherworldly blend of sweet female blotter acid harmonies, hypnotic Farfisa and high-octane fuzz guitar histrionics." Sundazed CD $13.25 Boy Omega Hope On The Horizon PS, SPAIN On "Hope on the Horizon", Boy Omega (Swedish genius Martin Henrik Gustafsson) follows up his critically acclaimed 2006-albums "The Black Tango" and "The Grey Rainbow", with yet another impressive collection of songs that showcase the growth of his songwriting. As always when you hear a new Boy Omega-record, there's something new going on. This time it's a lot less electronic than before. This is something warm and analog, featuring big walls of strings, horns, acoustic pianos etc. It sounds melancholic and drenched with the bitter beauty of life. Besides from recording "Hope...", releasing two albums, a tour-cd (feat. 15 rare tracks and covers), two singles, the split CD "If we were oceans" and appearing on the Magnetic Fields tribute CD "Our love is meaningless", Boy Omega also managed to play more than 60 shows in 2006. Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and the UK were frequently visited. In the summer they played the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, The End of the road festival in the UK along with artists such as Ryan Adams, Ed Harcourt and Badly Drawn Boy. They also did shows together with Isobel Campbell, Akron/Family, The Hidden Cameras and Jason Collett. "Fans of Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith will feel a kinship to these allusive tunes ... A fascinating series of snapshots, both disarming and engaging ... something incredibly fragile and perfectly crafted." - UNCUT "Sad songs and little-boy-lost vocals recall Bright Eyes, but his settings are all his own, mixing lo-fi sensibilities with gnarly electronics, warm cellos, lustrous violins, banjo and sax to lush effect ... One to watch." - THE INDEPENDENT "Naked and bare but still powerful, and not self-pitiful as so many others in the same genre." - GROOVE Acuarela-1079 CD $13.50 Bridal Shop, The From Seas PS, US The Bridal Shop is a new young band emerging from the fertile land of Sweden, and From Seas is the result of a year spent painstakingly crafting perfect pop songs. Inspired by New Order and shoegaze bands like Field Mice and The Radio Dept, From Seas features prerecorded drum beats and delicate female vocals that date the band, whose true loves are bands from the 1980s. These seven songs are solid all the way through, and are sure to break hearts! SCATTERBRAIN: "If you're a fan of almost anything Sarah Records put out, especially bands like Blueboy and Brighter, then you'll probably love this." MagicMarker CD $11.00 Brotzmann, Peter & Uuskyla Born Broke PS, US PETER BROTZMANN (tenor sax/clarinet) & PEETER UUSKYLA (drums) have once again joined forces & spirits picking up where their trio w/ Peter Friis-Nielsen left off & whose only known competition in the field is Vandermark & Nilssen-Love's Dual Pleasure implosion unit. A fresh double dose of soul purge from free men. Atavistic-185 DCD $17.25 C.A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell PS, US 2 LP version, deluxe gatefold packaging, 1996 reissue; originally released 1968. "Something very, very strange was afoot in the Midwest during the '60s, and we're not talking about David Letterman's stint as a local TV weatherman. While L.A. was tiptoeing through the tulips, New York was groovin' and London was electrifying bananas, these brainiacs were booking a journey to Hades. Get your contact high from a safe distance with this intense, fuzz-ridden passel of ones and zeros. Our package contains the entire mind-bent original album plus bonus cuts, and a gatefold sleeve jammed with rare photos and notes, and more!" Sundazed DLP $19.75 C.A. Quintet Trip Thru Hell PS, US 1995 reissue of this Mpls. garage rock "classic", originally issued as a private press LP in 1968. "Something very, very strange was afoot in the Midwest during the '60s, and we're not talking about David Letterman's stint as a local TV weatherman. While L.A. was tiptoeing through the tulips, New York was groovin' and London was electrifying bananas, these brainiacs were booking a journey to Hades. Get your contact high from a safe distance with this intense, fuzz-ridden passel of ones and zeros. Our package contains the entire mind-bent original album plus 12 bonus cuts, a fat booklet jammed with rare photos and notes, and more!" Sundazed CD $17.75 Canisius, Keith Ferris Wheel Makeout PS, JAPAN Multi-instrumentalist, singer & producer Keith Canisius (main composer in RUMSKIB) puts a personal twist on classic shoegaze and dreampop with his creative playfulness and multi-layered compositions. Ferris Wheel Makeout, his solo debut, is a dizzying good dream affair stacked with strong melodies and excellent guitar work. Local friend Jonas Munk (aka Manual) helps out with drum programming and post production for the finishing touches. Altogether a mix that the shoegazers and dreampoppers out there will love, as will fans of Rumskib, Manual, Ulrich Schnauss, Cocteau Twins, MBV & Serena Maneesh. Quince-58 CD $13.50 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Dust Sucker PS, UK Previously on CD, now on vinyl for the first time. "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. This 2LP set includes the 12 tracks from the Captain's own tape of the original Bat Chain Puller album (you will never have heard these tracks in this quality). When Mojo did a feature recently on classic lost albums, this was one of the main albums featured. There are a further 7 extra tracks, including 5 live recordings of tracks from 'Bat Chain Puller,' plus a version of 'Well Well Well' featuring Rockette Morton and a live festival performance of 'My Human Gets Me Blues.' Ozit DLP $25.00 Cave Hunt Like the Devil PS, US New project form Warhammer 48K mastermind COOPER. Space rock rifffs, squalls of guitar freak-outs, repetititeve & hypnotic grooves and chanting, cult like vocals. LIMITED to 500, includes a FREE cd of the lp. Southern LP $13.50 Club 8 Club 8 + 2 PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the second of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's melancholic pop heroes. Club 8s self-titled third is released with original artwork and two (2) bonus tracks. It took three years from the previous album "The friend I once had" to the release of "Club 8" and listening to the albums after one and another it's obvious how much they'd changed in absence. This album definitely moved the band in a new direction. And you can tell directly from the first song on "Club 8". "Love in december" is breathtaking, soulful pop imbued by dark Scandinavian winter atmosphere and bittersweet melancholy. "If a lover's arms were as soft and sultry as the music on Club 8, returning to them again and again would pose little conflict, and the same goes for slipping into Club 8." ROLLING STONE Labrador-018R CD $13.50 Club 8 Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5 PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to announce the third of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's kings & queens of happysad indie pop. Club 8s third album "Spring came, rain fell" is released with original artwork and five (5) bonus tracks. "Spring came, rain fell" was the start of a whole new era for Club 8. They had just bought their own recording equipment and started the now famous Summersound Studio together with fellow band Acid House Kings and from this a whole new level of creativity emerged. You can tell Club 8 enjoyed their newly found freedom with a studio of thier own. "Spring came, rain fell" is sparkling of experimental lust. Without ever losing their touch for seductive pop melodies Club 8 here produces songs and sounds ranging from dub and electronica to smokey trip hop and folky and acoustic pop. They did everything just because they could do it and because they loved doing. "Club 8 use the studio to bring the best out in every song ... shafts of melodica shine a light through Komstedt's dewy fatalism. It may be bleak, but you can't stop returning." - MOJO "As summer slips away, wallow in some Scandinavian sadness with this Swedish duo's wonderfully soothing (UK) début." - TIME OUT (London) Labrador-022R CD $13.50 Club 8 The Friend I Once Had + 6 PS, SWEDEN Reissue. With a glittery mix of jangly guitars, bossa nova and sophisticated, melancholic pop melodies, "The Friend I Once Had" was a big step forwards for Club 8. Their debut album "Nouvelle" may be regarded, as a twee pop classic by some but the band would happily rather bury most the songs under a rock. This is the album they wish was their debut. "All bubble-pop, break beats, and xylophones, Friend I Once Had was a step forward from the fey gestures Club 8 had once been known for." ALL MUSIC GUIDE "...showcases lusher, bouncier songs suitable for both easy listening and sophisticated grooving .... music that you will immediately cherish..." CMJ "It is absolutely essential to own at least one Lp by this group. I'd probably suggest this one as the place to start, but you really can't go wrong." 10 + INDIESPINZONE "The friend I once had" was not only a first step towards the band's characteristically elegant, yet melancholic, "Club 8 - sound"; it was a step towards a much bigger (and possibly wider) audience. The album gained critical success and reached thousands of new listeners in the US, Europe and Japan and they even had a minor hit with the single "Missing you". Ironically, this is the only song from the album parts of the band can no longer stand. "The Friend I Once Had" celebrates 10 years and remains a minor Swedish pop classic. A must have for just about anyone genuinely interested in quality POP. Labrador-004R CD $13.50 Club 8 Strangely Beautiful + 5 PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the fourth of four CD album re-issues by one of Sweden's most influential indie pop bands. Club 8s fifth album "Strangely beautiful" is released with original artwork and nothing less than five (5) bonus tracks. "Strangely beautiful" was the last of three albums in Club 8's productive peak between 2001 and 2003. Within a time frame of less than two years the band managed to release three full-length albums and two Eps without ever losing on quality. Quite the opposite, "Strangely beautiful" was by many considered their best album to date. "Strangely Beautiful is Club 8's best and most varied record to date...on this album, the band's trademark blend of soft indie pop guitars, perky dance beats, melancholy synthesizers, and sweet and innocent vocals remains intact, but Johan Angergard, the chief architect of Club 8's sound, seems to have spent some effort trying to expand their sound a little. The work pays off handsomely and the album sounds full of life and energy." ALL MUSIC Their previous album "Spring came, rain fell" had been a very diverse history ranging from electronica and dub to acoustic pop. Therefor it came natural for Club 8 to move in the opposite direction on their next album and make a more homogeneous album. "Strangely beautiful" mostly revolved around guitar based and melancholic pop music. But there was, as always, tracks that stood out as completely different from the rest. And in typical Club 8 manner this track, "Saturday night engine", was chosen to be the single. This noisy and Northern Soul-inspired track was a clear forerunner to The Legends "Up against the Legends". But that's another story. Labrador-037R CD $13.50 Cobain, Kurt About a Son PS, US "Extraordinary!"-Salon. Deeply personal portrait using his own words & voice. Based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book ""Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public & they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood. 97 mins. Shout!Factory DVD $14.00 Coltrane, John Turning Point PS, UK Over the all too brief 40 years of his life, John Coltrane had a profound and far-reaching effect on the world of jazz and beyond. Yet acclaimed as he already was after spells as a sideman with giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, it was only in 1957 that his musical vision began to truly find focus. The "spiritual awakening" of which he spoke prompted him to make wholesale changes in his lifestyle. Out, went the bad habits that had made many fears for his life, to be replaced by an all-consuming quest to make music that transcended national and cultural boundaries, bringing both player and listener to a state of connectedness with God. This edition illustrates that landmark year with selections from four important sessions; collaborations and first dates as leader with Tadd Dameron, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan and Red Garland. The listener will find abundant evidence of one of jazz's undisputed greats demonstrating total mastery of the music that succored him through his early years - blues, swing, bebop - and already beginning to hunger for fresh challenges. Coltrane's eclectic attitudes, encouraged by his friendship with Ravi Shankar, would soon inspire The Byrds ('Eight Miles High'), Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Tom Verlaine, The Stooges. Mating Call / Soultrane / On A Misty Night / Eclypso / Solacium / Bakai / While My Lady Sleeps / Chronic Blues / You Leave Me Breathless / Soft Lights And Sweet Music / Slow Dance. FiveFour-027 CD $15.50 Company Old Baby PS, US "Old Baby" is the latest record from COMPANY, a songwriting collective and rock band rooted in folk, punk, country, and psychedelic traditions. Evocative guitars, dynamic rhythms, uplifting harmonies, and lyrics by turns incisive and insightful interweave to create a homespun sound that is as striking as it is familiar. In these songs, simplicity shimmers, dreams pack the punch of hard facts, and the human heart is laid bare, weird, defiant, and lovely. BrahRecords/JagJaguwar-012 CD $11.50 Contents Are, The Through You PS, GERMANY The Contents Are: Dave Neumann (guitar, vocals); Paul Staack (drums, vocals); Larry Smith (bass, vocals); and Craig Hute (lead guitar, vocals) from Iowa. The Contents Are were one of many '60s bands from the Quad City's fertile garage music scene. With labels/studios like Fredlo and IGL, it was a very healthy regional area for bands with an unusually high per capita for record releases. Up until the recent discovery of an original copy a couple years ago, it was only rumored to exist and remained an enigma with hardcore record collectors. In most cases, The Contents Are were only known by astute collectors for their two excellent 45 releases (non-LP). Well the mystery is over, and here's your chance to hear one of the most rare and greatest garage records ever recorded. Here's the story about the record: four high school seniors from Iowa decide to release an album of all original tunes, exclusively sold at their live shows. Originally released on the Rok label (a subsidiary of the already obscure Fredlo label) in 1967 with only 100 copies pressed. These guys were not your typical garage band - talented players, professional grade vocalists and no cover songs! Their music is a nice blend of garage rock with hints of hipster folk and early psychedelic influences. As good if not better as other similar top-shelf rarities like Mystery Meat and the Bachs, but without a major quantity release, making original copies of their recordings ten times rarer. Get it or miss it! CD jewel case with 8-page booklet, plus 4 bonus non-LP tracks from singles. Shadoks-090 CD $16.25 Cryptacize Dig That Treasure PS, US Every song on "Dig That Treasure" is a miniature journey, a free fantasia, a dreamy habitat built out of the minimum of material. Sudden rhythmic gestures and frequent key changes will leave you feeling pleasantly disorientated in a song. But trust your tour-guides! You might feel as if you've come across a small tribe that speaks an unstudied language, and miraculously, find that you can speak it too! "Dig That Treasure" is humbly inspired by the larger-than-life emotions of West Side Story, the joyfully percussive guitar gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Wizard of Oz's bittersweet escapism, the other-world sentimentality of Sun Ra's Spaceship Lullaby, and Henry Cowell's ethereal piano string strumming. AsthmaticKitty-38 LP $10.25 Cryptacize Dig That Treasure PS, US Every song on "Dig That Treasure" is a miniature journey, a free fantasia, a dreamy habitat built out of the minimum of material. Sudden rhythmic gestures and frequent key changes will leave you feeling pleasantly disorientated in a song. But trust your tour-guides! You might feel as if you've come across a small tribe that speaks an unstudied language, and miraculously, find that you can speak it too! "Dig That Treasure" is humbly inspired by the larger-than-life emotions of West Side Story, the joyfully percussive guitar gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Wizard of Oz's bittersweet escapism, the other-world sentimentality of Sun Ra's Spaceship Lullaby, and Henry Cowell's ethereal piano string strumming. AsthmaticKitty-38 CD $11.50 Danava UnonoU PS, US VINYL!!! Kemado DLP $21.75 Davies, Ray Working Man's Cafe PS, US Very enjoyable new solo album from Kinks frontman. NewWest CD $17.25 Dead Science Tomlab Alphabet Series: V PS, US The "V" single, and the two songs contained therein, will be a sort of satellite of THE DEAD SCIENCE'S next album, "Villainaire", a record dealing with a very specific period of time in singer Sam Mickens' life and, more generally, in the embrace of personal nihilism and the potential psychic luxury of amorality. The A-Side, "Make Mine Marvel (Remix)" will be, in the style of R. Kelly's remix work, a completely new song, with completely new melodic and lyrical content, built on components of the original "make Mine Marvel" which will appear on "Villainaire". The B-Side, "White Mane," was a song initially intended and recorded for the album, but which will be exclusively here instead. "White Mane" is, in fragmentary and impressionistic fashion, about the American film actor Robert Blake, both in his own recent life and in terms of his relationship to certain past roles. Tomlab-104V 45 $5.40 Denny, Sandy S-T PS, US Perhaps the greatest British folk singer of all time, she first came to prominence in the quintessential British folk band, the Fairport Convention. Her singing and songwriting took the band to unimaginable heights and proved her to be a true talent of the last century. After leaving Fairport in 1970, she continued to produce solo work. Sandy, released in 1972, is her second post-Fairport release and her pre-eminent solo effort. Featuring two bonus tracks from the soundtrack of the movie Pass Of Arms." 180 gram virgin vinyl. VinylLovers LP $28.00 Diamond, Neil Velvet Gloves and Spit PS, UK Somewhere between his stint as a successful Brill Building songwriter (his songs 'I'm A Believer' and 'A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You' became mega-hits for The Monkees) cum-fledgling solo artist (scoring US hits with 'Solitary Man', 'Kentucky Woman' and 'Cherry, Cherry') and his world-conquering 1970s solo career, Brooklyn-born Neil Diamond released a string of inauspicious, low-selling albums in something more akin to a singer-songwriter/troubadour style. Velvet Gloves And Spit, recorded in New York before Diamond had perfected the Memphis-helmed sound of his subsequent hits, was his first for new label Uni and appeared in 1968 to little acclaim. However, following the single success of 'Shilo' in 1970, the song was tacked onto the album and it was reissued in a new sleeve. Stylistically, the album covers the whole spectrum of contemporary sounds from romantic ballads to tongue-in-cheek social commentary to brash pop gems not unlike his mid-'60s Brill Building output. TRACKS: Two-Bit Manchild, A Modern Day Version Of Love, Honey- Drippin' Times, Pot Smoker's Song, Brooklyn Roads, Shilo (Re-Recording), Sunday Sun, Holiday Inn Blues, Practically Newborn, Knackelflerg, Merry-Go-Round. Rev-Ola-238 CD $15.50 Dirtbombs, The We Have You Surrounded PS, US PS, US Jam-packed w/ more of their soulful, Detroit-style, fuzztone fueled garage-punkpop- rock 'n' roll that has made them a popular favorite w/ club-goers around the globe. This record carries on the tradition w/ fantastic takes on songs by comic artist Alan Moore, stalwarts Dead Moon, & labelmates Sparks. That said, the originals here are what you really want to write home about. From the Stooge-oid "Ever Lovin' Man" to the finger-poppin' "Indivisible" to the extendo free-form psych jam of "Race To The Bottom" to the Euro-pop of "La Fin Du Monde" InTheRed CD $14.25 DJ Donna Summer Panther Tracks PS, UK He's back! It's been 2 years since Jason Forrest released his last full-length album, and 5 years since he's released as Donna Summer. So now he's back, this time with the slightly different moniker (DJ Donna Summer) and his first release for his own Cock Rock Disco label. Just as "Shamelessly Exciting" was a record that mixed different genres into a new mash of sampled sounds, "Panther Tracks" is a record comprised of different styles of dance music made solely with the intention to get people moving! From Booty to Breakcore, Happy Hardcore to Hardstyle, Techno to B'more Club Music, Forrest has it in there! Initially begun as a sort of remix record, "Panther Tracks" builds heavily on a variety of sampled heroes. One can hear Dj Chip and Dj Technics form the skeleton of more booty oriented tracks like "Peepers" and "Boomshakalaka". While some live recordings (on cassette) of old-school Uk Breakbeat Rave festivals by DJ Slipmat, Ratpack, and Ellis D are reconstructed to make new Breakcore styled dance tracks. Traces of Hardstyle, Techno and a whole lot of Breakcore yield such gems as "Party People", "Get Down" and "Rock Rock Rock". No style too hard or too cheesy to learn from, "Panther Tracks" is like the ultimate Rave; it's fun, slightly crazy, and will keep you dancing all night long. CockRockDisco-018 CD $17.75 Dolly Rocker Movement, The Electric Sunshine PS, AUSTRALIA And now for something a little different; Sydney's DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT are equal parts VELVET UNDERGROUND, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE and georgeous west-coast folk. Blending quaint psychedelia and haunting jabs of love, DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT pervade a space in your brain that's reserved for acid. [As heard on Australia's TripleJ radio.] "WHY ISN'T ANY BAND IN AMERICA MAKING MUSIC THIS BEAUTIFUL" GREG SHAW (RIP) BOMP. OffTheHip-7031 CD $12.25 Dolly Rocker Movement, The Purple Journey Into the Mod Machine PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Sydney the Dolly Rocker Movement have developed a style and sound bearing a true influence of late 60's garage, psychedelia and freakbeat, with splashes of west coast folk. ...this album promises to be just as popular with the critics and paisley-clad-gentle-people. OffTheHip-7036 CD $12.25 Dot Tape Dot Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007) PS, US Daniel Romero is a multi-faceted musician based in Asturias, north of Spain. In a very short time he has molded a very personal discourse based on constructing low-budget electronic pop with lo-fi, toy instruments, combined with stunning homemade visuals. "Tomavistas" is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as dot tape dot, spanning the years 2002 - 2007. "Tomavistas" is born of love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clears out space for a new personal stockpile to be built. These 12 tracks are taken from limited edition compilations, vinyl only releases and "unofficial" albums, from labels in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output. 1. Come to me 2. Df fragment 3. Rosa Luxemburger 4. Slow Birds For Mayo T 5. Miracolo a Milano 6. A Russian Poet 7. Pal Talk 2 (morning) 8. Rounded Tree 9. Ventano 10. Disaster 11. Making Waves 12. With Paul (Bluehouse Edit) OtherElectricites-012 CD $12.25 Doubtful Guest Acid Sauna PS, US This debut ushers in a new era of acid. Gone are the electro party jams, gone is the funky squiggle. This dark, suffocating stuff is full of nightmares & claustrophobic details that send shivers up one's spine. Not afraid to show her classical upbringing (she trained as an opera singer) & jazz heritage (granddaughter of J.B. Floyd), Libby Floyd infuses the rave sound w/ doom & dread. PlanetMu CD $16.00 Doubtful Guest Acid Sauna PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! PlanetMu 3XLP $18.75 Dreamers, The Day For Night PS, SWEDEN The Dreamers are an Anglo/Swedish duo featuring Sarah Nyberg Pergament (Action Biker) and Kevin Wright (Always and Mr. Wright, on él, Le Grand Magistery and Siesta). After meeting at a Swedish music festival in 2004, the pair began making music together via London, Stockholm and Helsinki, and fusing jazz pop, bossanova, and soundtrack music. With "Day for Night" the Dreamers have made--to paraphrase Michel Legrand on Tom Jobim- the sad music that makes the world a better place. Influences: Stan Tracey, Caetano Veloso, Colleen, Francoise Hardy, Kryzystof Komeda, Matching Mole, Anna Karina, Bill Evans, Monica Zetterlund, Nara Leao, Bernard Herrmann, Nico... "[A] male/female duo with the vocal texture and cadence of Broadcast's Trish Keenan, but with its own musicality, personality and atmosphere set in a breeze-blown, sun-drenched pasture, the record is really charming and full of self-assured confidence - light on its feet in that Brazilian way and positive in that modern indie way, but solid and thoughtfully written. The Dreamers are very easy to like but definitely not just another guilty pleasure." - Other Music, NYC FriendlyNoise-055 CD $13.50 Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time Runout Groove PS, UK 2007 release, the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Folk-Jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. 12 tracks. Fruitcake CD $16.25 East Of Eden Mercator Projected PS, UK A milestone in the birth of "progressive" rock, East of Eden's debut album, "Mercator Projected" has been cited by Mojo magazine as a minor masterpiece. Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act, particularly in France, where the band had several Top Ten singles and major album success. An imaginative fusion of jazz, psychedelia and world music, "Mercator Projected" has been remastered from the original master tapes and features twenty minutes of bonus material, including previously unreleased extended demo versions of 'Waterways' and 'In The Stable of the Sphynx' and East of Eden's take on The Byrds' classic 'Eight Miles High'. All original artwork has been restored and the booklet features many unseen photographs and memorabilia. EsotericRecordings-2033 CD $20.25 East Of Eden Snafu PS, UK East of Eden's second album, "Snafu" was originally released in 1970 by Deram Records and saw the band take their particular fusion of jazz, psychedelia, world music and even blue beat, one step further. As ever, the instrumental prowess of Dave Arbus on violin dominated the music, leading eventually to Arbus playing the infamous violin solo on "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who. "Snafu" was the result of many months in the studio, before being shelved in favor of starting work on a fresh project. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes and features many unreleased bonus tracks, including five previously unreleased tracks from the aborted album sessions and alternate demo and single versions of their 1971 hit, "Jig-A-Jig". An extensive essay features interviews and previously unseen photographs. EsotericRecordings-2034 CD $20.25 Egg The Polite Force PS, UK This now legendary debut album by Egg featured the talents of Dave Stewart on Keyboards, Mont Campbell on Bass and Clive Brooks on Drums. Egg was associated with the so-called "Canterbury" style of rock music pioneered by artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine. The trio produced music of startling originality and energy, drawing on influences ranging from rock to jazz to psychedelia to classical. This fusion resulted in some of the most enduring releases to appear on Decca's Deram and Nova imprints and are now critically regarded as some of the more unique albums of the early 1970's. Egg's classic second album is re-mastered from the original tapes and appears alongside the reissue of "Egg". With these releases, the entire EGG back catalogue is now available on Esoteric Recordings. EsotericRecordings-2036 CD $20.25 Enduser Left PS, US END.USER is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music. Support from BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs and a list of DJs too long to fit on a one sheet, from many different genres, and releases across many platforms have built him into a juggernaut. A usually prolific artist, having recorded for Hymen, Ad Noiseam, Sublight, Cargo, and many others, he took 2007 off, working on something very special - his debut album on Ohm Resistance. Having relocated to San Francisco, a new lease on his creative power is demonstrated adroitly over the entire album. Album: left shows the most range of END.USER's album making career. Intensely personal, intensely musical, and just plain INTENSE at points, the album showcases a spectacular array of skills across the board. From radio play material ("black light") with Aussie vocalist Sol Thomas, to collaborations with and remixes by influential electronic acts SCORN and COUNTERSTRIKE, to absolutely stunning, no boundaries drum n bass, the album is diverse and full of powerful compositions. Compelling from start to finish, left is the culmination of more than a year's work. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell's Method of Defiance, to Enduser and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer. OhmResistance-07 CD $12.25 English, Lawrence/Ai Yamamoto Plateau PS, US Over the past three years Ai Yamamoto and Lawrence English have been exploring the ideas and linkages between field recordings, texture and minimal electronics. Occasionally crossing paths around Australia and sharing the odd live performance together, the duo realized they shared a strong interest in the character of sound and the creation of sonic works that carry a strong sense of suggested narrative and memory (both invented and real). On Plateau, they create evocative and generously textured passages of sound that mask gentle field recordings collected across the globe including Yamamoto's home prefecture of Nara, Japan where English also spent time. Considered In worldwide as the "Bible" of modern, cutting edge and new music and in publication now for over 20 years is the U.K. monthly magazine, The Wire, here is what they had to say upon review of "Plateau" in the February 2006 edition: A man of many collaborations, Lawrence English joins fellow Australian sound artist Ai Yamamoto for Plateau, a somber album of impressionist fragments connected more by mood and ambience than by movement and composition. As in his previous work with Tujiko Noriko DJ Olive and Philip Samartzis, English applies a considerable amount of DSP-distilled polish to the ensuing sounds, whether they are textured field recordings, rasping tam-tams or post-Eno dronescapes. Considering that Plateau jumps from tonefloat shimmer to wintry Durutti Column guitar flourishes to a music box palindrome and back to a bout of ominous minimalism, English's production serves to encase the entire album with a consistent aura. Plateau's numerous stylistic transitions and melodic interludes never veer far from a compelling if fragile melancholy. Phonostatique-007 CD $15.00 Envy Compiled Fragments 1997-2003 PS, US Celebrating the release of their incendiary new EP, "Abyssal", and in conjunction with their forthcoming North American tour, TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LIMITED is proud to re-introduce the lion's share of ENVY'S colossal back catalog. Along with their second and third albums - "All the Footprints You've Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" and "A Dead Sinking Story", respectively - we are happy to finally bring you "Compiled Fragments 1997-2003". This collection of singles, rare tracks and unreleased gems maps Envy's storied transformation from pioneering spastic hardcore to masters of exquisite, triumphant doom. Originally released in 2003 on the group's own SONZAI RECORDS in Japan, this album has never been available in North America, and has never been previously released on vinyl. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-130 CD $9.00 Envy Compiled Fragments 1997-2003 PS, US CVINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-130 DLP $14.25 Erickson, Roky & the Explosives Halloween: Live 1979-1981 PS, US Live stuff from a key period for this Texan psych guitar great. Steadyboy CD $15.75 Exillon It's Ok To Dance PS, GERMANY Exillon brings acid to IDM, speeds things up several notch, and bombs the dance floor with a high energy album of catchy twisted club tunes. Tapping on his high production skills, "It's OK to Dance" brings back life to twisted beats and complex rhythms and does it all with a smile. It's OK to take the acid test, and certainly impossible to resist. In 2006, Exillon had helped bear the grief of IDM with "The Keening Dithers", an album which brilliantly closed chapters both for this musician and for the kind of music he had been known for. Two years later, the keening has dithered for good, and Jay Fields (Exillon) has taken his art from the moody, glitchy and modest waters of his past electronica to more daring, club-oriented and uplifting ones. It might have to do with Jay Field's relocation to San Francisco, with a more energetic, dance floor-friendly trend in electronic music or just with the evolution of an artist per se; "It's OK To Dance" is a CD in which the clear, sharp and flowing sounds that Exillon has been using since his Debut in the early 200os get mixed and mashed in a lively, bouncy way. A party album for raving robots, this album is the meeting point of Exillon's hi-fi sounds and production and a deliciously retro, 90's acid sensibility. Not satisfied with just reviving the acid sound (something which has been done by many, without much soul or innovation), Exillon makes this sound his, and draws from his experience as a beat & tone trickster to bake a whole new recipe altogether. Mixing the best of both worlds, Jay Fields reclaims the dance floor, and manages to entertain his audience without insulting the brain (something which over the year has almost become an Ad Noiseam motto). Good trip guaranteed and yes, it is really OK to dance. AdNoiseam-086 CD $15.50 Fassler, Silvia & Billy Roisz Skylla PS, US This is the long-awaited debut collaboration between these long time associates of Viennese subculture; Silvia in various curatorial roles & Billy as video artist. Skylla is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer-generated sounds meshed w/ guitar & turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not stupid. EditionsMego CD $17.00 Few Nolder No Mo PS, US This follows this year's current trend for druggy wonk w/ a simple techno groove w/some floor-fuelling synthline progressions to make your head feel like it's getting smaller. "Brenn," on the flip, is a little more refined, attempting a more streamlined Kompakt or Traum style. PlanetMu 12 $7.25 Fine Arts Showcase, The Sings Rough Bunnies PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant <a href="http://www.parasol.com/catalog/catalog.asp?zoomtitle=75849">'Radiola'</a>. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub! The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious." Adrian-051 CD $14.00 Fireflies Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon PS, SWEDEN Fireflies is Lisle Mitnik. He grew up in the tundras of New England playing classical piano and one day he moved to California to go to school and decided to start writing songs. He bought a porta-studio and started recording, combining his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. He try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. We believe that this release will be loved by those who appreciate: The Clientele, Field Mice, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle & Sebastian, Fransoise Hardy and Trembling Blue Stars. MusicIsMyGirlfriend-014 CD $13.50 Goldfrapp Seventh Tree (DELUXE) PS, US Deluxe Edition features a DVD of behind the scenes footage, videos & interviews, as well as a pull-out poster, postcards and exquisite packaging. Mute CD/DVD $21.00 Goldfrapp Seventh Tree PS, US This is written by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory & was recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside. It shimmers & shines w/ the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which singer Alison Goldfrapp's glistening voice soars. Mute CD $16.00 Gone Epic Trilogy PS, US This is the band's 10th album in more than 20 yrs. It hits the ground running in true GREG GINN fashion, blending heavy guitar w/ funky, jazz infused chords & an edgy, surfer punk vibe. The driving repetition is almost hypnotic, but then, dramatically, it cuts to a groove that puts the FU in funk. Feat. HR on vocals. SST CD $16.00 Grand Archives S-T PS, US While Seattle is famous for many things, sunlight isn't one of them. Yet illumination and warmth suffuse the self-titled debut from this Emerald City quintet. Dark times do not necessarily call for dark music. While singer/ guitarist Mat Brooke's previous ensembles (Band Of Horses, Carissa's Wierd) often shied away from light, he's changed direction with this band. Like the timeless classics of The Mamas & The Papas or The Turtles, it responds to the turbulent times of its genesis with hope, high spirits, and a sense of camaraderie. Subpop CD $12.50 Grand Archives S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Growing Lateral PS, US "Lateral'" finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. The textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within GROWING'S dense aural fog. TheSocialRegistry-064 12 $10.25 Growing Lateral PS, US "Lateral'" finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. The textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within GROWING'S dense aural fog. TheSocialRegistry-064 CD5 $7.50 Guapo Elixirs PS, US The album transcends any musical antecedents for which they've been acknowledged in the past. Instead, the music here explores the outermost regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, Moondog, & early-70s Miles Davis are present, as the dense orchestration & finespun virtuosity create a richness previously hinted at but until now never fully realized. Neurot-052 CD $14.25 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.00 Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping PS, US To fully understand what went into Some Racing, Some Stopping, one must first understand what led up to it. Since Headlights' formation in 2004, the band has toured virtually nonstop, playing over 300 shows in the past two and a half years in support of both its debut The Enemies EP and its stunning 2006 full-length Kill Them With Kindness. Based around Tristan Wraight's acoustic guitar and Erin Fein's keyboards, the songs on Some Racing, Some Stopping purposefully lack much of the spacey atmospherics that define the band's earlier work. Instead the album is steeped in a classic pop sensibility, reminiscent of the '60s, Brill Building song craft, and Phil Spector production. Songs like the chiming, harmonic "Catch Them All," the light and airy "Cherry Tulips," the solemn "January," and the driving, string-touched "Market Girl" are evidence of an album that is more focused than any of the band's past work. Original artwork by Parasol Pal Elzie Sexton (New Ruins). Polyvinyl CD $12.00 Higgins, Gary Red Hash (LP+7") PS, US This is your chance to grab at a letter perfect reproduction of a folk rock classic from the early 1970s. Don't space! DragCity LP $18.00 Higgs, Daniel Plays the Mirror of the Apocalypse and Other Songs PS, US CD version of a previously released limited cassette. Lengthy droning ragas, that drift hypnotically from deconstructed Appalachia to John Cale like slow-shifting skree (joined on those tracks by violin), to moody melancholy crawls, to thick serpentine swirls of snake charmer melody & reverberating steel string shimmer. Raw & lo-fi for sure, but so darkly emotional, & dreamily hypnotic. OpenMouth CD $11.50 Illusion of Safety Quell & Sedate PS, US One of a handful of American icons of experimental music. IOS has performed nearly 200 times in the US, Canada & Europe & has released material on labels such as Silent, Odd Size, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold & Tesco. For fans of: Roland Kayn, Zoviet France, Joe Colley, Dead Machines, Hafler Trio, musique concrete. C.I.P. 10 $12.00 Instant Orange S-T PS, GERMANY Besides home to the Hell's Angels, farmers and citrus grooves, San Bernardino, California was also where Instant Orange lived and released their first single in 1968. Terry Walters, Randy Lanier and Lynn McCurdy are Instant Orange with the help of Joe Bianchi and Bob Lautz. The band forged ahead and released another single (1973), album (1973) and two 10" EPs (1974 and 1975). All of their releases were small pressings of 100 copies and to this day, Instant Orange remains virtually unknown. Their homemade sound is a refreshing reflection of the West Coast folk-rock influences that were so prevalent during the '60s and early '70s. All original tracks with inspiration from bands like The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, Sandy Bull and others. Songs full of electric and acoustic guitars with nice doses of McGuinnesque 12-string riffing as well as many unexpected surprises (antiquated electronic effects, rambling rural explorations, long jams, experimental moves, stoner banter and other weirdness between songs, caveman fuzz, etc.). A solid listen with enough original imagination to keep it interesting without the band creating an identity crisis by trying too hard to be something other than themselves. Grab this before it becomes elusive like some of San Bernardino's motorcycle riding inhabitants. Shadoks-091 CD $16.25 Joy Division Let The Movie Begin PS, US Deluxe packaging, gatefold sleeves w/ pvc protective covers & 180gm vinyl. Ltd. to 1000 copies worldwide & contains extremely rare audio interviews w/ all members of Joy Division,some of which have never seen the light of day, plus spoken word contribution on 1 number from Martin Hannett along w/ superb & very rare live performance. Ozit DLP $25.00 Kohncke, Justus Safe & Sound PS, US He focuses his work on the instrumental, floor-friendly side of things. These tracks resonate w/ the screams of today's dancefloor, while also feat. his long history of enigmatic dancefloor wisdom. What's new is a certain technoid rigor, a vehement approach to his music that is new to his oeuvre. Kompakt CD $15.50 Kula Shaker Strangefolk [expanded] PS, US New album from British psych-o-nauts, aging gracefully. CookingVinyl CD $15.75 Laven & MSO Reach PS, GERMANY Laven & MSO, the two producers from Frankfurt, put so much pop appeal into the vocal mix of "Reach" (feat. Malte) that colleagues like Fischerspooner should prepare themselves: the whole gorgeous ten minutes of this track have enough power to atomize every nightclub into dust. On the flip is a killer old school acid instrumental. KlangElektronik 12 $9.50 Louris, Gary Vagabonds PS, US Through his two-decade stint as singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Jayhawks and as a member of alt-supergroup Golden Smog, Gary Louris has built a deeply compelling body of music whose artistry and integrity has earned him a loyal audience and the respect of critics and his peers. With his solo debut, Vagabonds, Louris steps out to deliver some of his most evocative and personal music yet with the aid of Black Crowes frontman and longtime fan, Chris Robinson, who produced the album's organically soulful performances. Rykodisc CD $16.00 Lowe, Nick Jesus of Cool [Bonus Tracks] (Digipack Packaging) PS, US Reissue of his classic first solo record. Pop record making at it's finest. A must own!! 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's seminal 1978 album Jesus of Cool. The album, released in the U.S. as Pure Pop for Now People, marks the beginning of one of the most storied and influential solo careers in pop music and marks the true emergence of a songwriting monolith. The album is a literal compendium of 25 years of pop music history. Here, the sweet melodies of pre-Beatles pop, the energy of the British Invasion, the excess of glam and elements of ska and new wave don t blend but stand side by side on the field of battle, each one willing to lay down his life for the other. Jesus is the crossroads where pop music and pop culture collide, self-aware for the first time, fusing into a white hot chunk of rock n roll energy. Here, on this 30th anniversary edition of the album, the original and U.S. versions of the album are combined to include all material ever available on either release. In addition, seven bonus cuts are included making this the definitive version of this undisputed pop masterpiece. YepRocRecords CD $15.50 Lulu Something To Shout About PS, UK Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie OBE, Glasgow's Princess of Pop, better known to adoring millions as LULU, comes to Rev-Ola! Or rather, we come to her, for we are not worthy! Since storming the charts at the tender age of 15 with The Isley Brothers' classic "Shout!", reinvented in a Brenda Lee-like rasp of amazing power, Lulu has been a star...films, TV Shows, Eurovision, recording pop-art classics and matching the best that Memphis and Muscle Shoals had to offer is all in days work for the Glasgow soul diva. Collaborations with David Bowie, Jennifer Saunders, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Duane Allman, Bert Berns, Take That and the star is always Lulu! Unbelievably, she has charted in five decades... look at the pics and weep! With notes by Brian Hogg, author of All That Ever Mattered, the definitive history of Scottish Rock and pop, this will be a pretty definitive take on Lulu's first hit-making couple of years. Lulu's first smash album, including all her early monster hits! Rev-Ola-239 CD $15.50 Mancini, Henry Touch Of Evil OST PS, UK "Touch of Evil" is a masterpiece of 20th century cinema: Director Orson Welles' final Hollywood film and regarded as the last great film noir. Stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Welles himself as the crooked police chief Hank Quinlan, who always gets his man even if he has to concoct the evidence to do so! The searing semi-latin rock & roll score is considered (both by critics and the composer) to be one of Henry Mancini's finest. Barney Kessel, who featured on "Pet Sounds" and many of the Phil Spector and Monkeys' hits, plays guitar. Timeless and landmark cinema; the personification of cool. El-134 CD $15.50 Martha & The Vandellas Dance Party PS, US One of the top "girl groups" of all time, they dominated the female side of Motown of the mid 60s & made top ten hits into creations like "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave", "Nowhere To Run", "Honey Chile" & their anthem "Dancing In The Street". This classic '65 release is one of their best full lengths; not only does it feat. the hits, it's also packed w/ Motown dance standards of the day like "Mickey's Monkey", "Hitch Hike" & "The Jerk." Lilith LP $21.50 May or May Not Kaledioscope of Egos PS, US A significant evolution from their first album, skipping around genres like a furious record collector (or digital music pirate, yarr!). Whether it's the psychedelic reminiscing sing-along "Do The Disaster" or the winding, prog-tinged anthem "Lavender Shell" the band's confidence to mine from the past is clear, but all with a fresh outlook for the future. First single "Boots" rides Aaron Brink's atmospheric guitar hooks & the thunderous, double-time drumming of Mike Brunette all the way through the assured singing of Amelia Styer, who shares vocals throughout Kaleidoscope with Maxwell & Reidell. TwoThumbsDown-023 CD $8.50 Mayet, Hisham Musical Brotherhoods: From the Trans-Saharan Highway PS, US Filmed in 2005, predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh, MorForcecqou, tehnisc iceasptures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live & unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string & drum specialists performing & manifesting the ecstatic truth. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must-see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins & the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes! Color; 60 min.; digipak; all-region DVD; NTSC format Sublime DVD $21.50 Megafaun Bury the Square PS, US From the vibrant Southern quasi-capital of Durham emerge MEGAFAUN, wearing earnestness across the chest and abstraction along the sleeves. They pour forth dulcet harmonies, as seeking vocals tug banjo lines up the Appalachian mountains; redemptive noise soaks everything, like thick air wafting from the Atlantic. Clawhammer banjo and strummed acoustics lock and roll with electric guitars and electronic textures. They realize that folk implies deep, personal, intense expression, whether the instrument is a parlor piano with the lid thrown back or a distortion pedal with the case cracked loose. In this band, orthodoxy and unorthodoxy flow together as one. TableoftheElements-815 CD $13.00 Menche, Daniel Glass Forest PS, US Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his music on LP only or on DVD to accompany films he's been working on. Glass Forest is also the companion release to Body Melt which is being released simultaneously on Important on LP only. Recorded in the winter of 2005, Daniel Menches Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world that finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menches previous work but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on Glass Forest. Subsonic bass drums crawling underneath a massive sheets of glass-like sound layering infinitely into a thick and dense forest of delicate noise. For fans of Daniel Menche's ambient work and also his loud violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of these two polarities. Important-176 CD $12.25 Menche, Daniel Body Melt PS, US Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only on LP. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by Emily. Recorded in the Summer of 2007. Body Melt is a molting and simmering display of furious Hammond Organs & Native American Drums. Daniel Menche manages to merge together the powerfully fuzzed out organ drones along with hypnotically crushing and frenzied drums in a manor that is distinctly the graceful music style of Daniel Menche. Call it trance music for carnivores or ambient music for cannibals. Body Melt sits perfectly thronged on this limited vinyl LP release. Important-175 LP $14.75 Miss Massive Snowflake Queen's Headache PS, US Miss Massive Snowflake is Shane de Leon, who has been extremely active in a multitude of media throughout America and Europe for over 15 years. He has recorded with SOLEX, OVO and RONIN and collaborated with the BLACK HEART PROCESSION. The music is lush and orchestrated with an abundance of horns, percussion and electronics featuring two vocalists who are under ten. The feel is somewhere between an atheistic Danielson, and anarchistic Prince and a less technical Zappa. MMS will be touring in Europe this spring. NorthPole CD $10.00 Moffat, Aiden John I Can Hear Your Heart PS, UK New solo album from Arab Strap frontman, warning: explicit content! AVERSION: "t should come as no surprise that the onetime Arab Strap singer's first solo album, a spoken-word poetry/prose affair that's usually accompanied by incidental music or other sound effects, is laden in tales of cheating lovers, sexual experimentation and soaked in booze. It might come as a surprise, though, to find out Moffat was holding back with Arab Strap, avoiding the stickiest situations, the dirtiest references and the most damning confessions that come forth in this semi-autobiographical audio tome." ChemikalUnderground CD $15.75 Mojack Under the Willow Tree PS, US Greg Ginn's latest release w/ his funk rock band is full of twists & turns. 10 yrs in the waiting, this picks up where Home Brew left it hanging. SST CD $14.00 Monade Monstre Cosmique PS, UK New album from Stereolab chantuese Laetitia Sadier's Monade! PITCHFORK: "Stereolab singer/lyricist Laetitia Sadier here takes a slightly more elegant take on her day job's search to find the pop in the avant-garde." TooPure/Beggars CD $15.00 Monkeywrench Gabriel's Horn PS, US Celebrating 17 yrs of a great idea, they return w/ a new studio album. Feat. members of MUDHONEY, BIG BOYS, GASHUFFER & LUBRICATED GOAT, this is nothing less than a punk/grunge supergroup. The band kicks out the same glorious, fuzz-laden mess. There is a Texas roots taste spread through the tracks & the rhythm section lays down a fast & furious groove while dueling guitars engage in a race to the finish line. Birdman-104 CD $16.00 Mould, Bob District Line PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anti LP $15.50 Mould, Bob District Line PS, US Guitarist/singer/songwriter Mould returns to form as a solo artist on his Anti debut. "District Line" combines the fire of his earliest work in Husker Du, the accessibility of his alternative rock, genre-defining trio Sugar, and the introspection found in his solo releases. He describes it as "stories of my simple life in a complicated town", that being his adopted city of Washington, DC. Working with Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, Mould has returned to the live band sound of Husker Du and Sugar to kick out ten songs that sound as youthful, energized, and immediate as anything he has ever recorded. Anti CD $15.50 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $14.00 Mountain Goats Heretic Pride PS, US The Mountain Goats have recorded four fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career. "It's rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life" - NY Daily News. 4AD CD $13.25 Mt. St. Helens Of Others PS, US A more refined & concise version of their compelling, guitar driven sound. Of Others draws from influences as diverse as Unwound, Shudder to Think, Ride and Boards of Canada but the result is far from derivative. Guitar player Michael Sprague has constructed a cadre of masterfully spare guitar leads that are at once striking & hypnotic. Guitarist/vocalist Quinn Goodwillie's (also of acclaimed local group Sleep Out) voice has increased in range & fortitude and is greatly bolstered by the stalwart rhythm section of Jason Sprague (bass) & Ben Geier (drums). TwoThumbsDown-022 CD $8.50 Neotropic Whiter Rabbits PS, US Whiter Rabbits is a deluxe re-release of the long out of print "White Rabbits" originally released on Mush Records which recieved a 7.7 on PITCHFORK. Featuring a bonus disc full of remixes by the artist, also including remixes by 10 SUI, GEORGE DEMURE, GRIM LIFE, and more "Riz Maslen (Neotropic) has become the female equivalent of Brian Eno" - IGN. SquidsEye-006 DCD $14.00 Neptune Gong Lake PS, US Behold: NEPTUNE, the most harrowingly original band on this planet - or the next. Its three members are, in turn, musicians, sculptors, scientists, blacksmiths, electricians, and industrial machinists; relentlessly inventive, possibly sane. Together, they construct all of their instruments, forging guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings, and miscellany from the trash. Electronics, and even cords, are homemade as well. The combined effect is a bizarre, post-apocalyptic mélange of steel, iron, wire, rust, rivet, knob, and cable; it's lunacy, arc-welded for maximum destruction. Concerts are seizures of motion. Wearing 40-pound guitars assembled entirely from scrap metal, the members don't play their instruments - they battle them, like mechanized golems. But make no mistake, this is not simply art with sharp edges and serious customs issues. Neptune rocks. Hard. Recalling the slapdash angularity of The Fall, the rhythmic ack-ack blasts of This Heat, and the sheer proto-clangor of Einstuerzende Neubauten, they count as one of the best experimental rock bands of any era. Their dynamic, expertly wrought songs and skilled improvisations don't start; they explode. "Gong Lake" is the band's first unlimited CD release, and with it the world will discover what fans of their live shows have known for years: Neptune is otherworldly. TableoftheElements-811 CD $13.00 Neptune Gong Lake PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TableoftheElements-811 LP $14.25 No Depression #74 PS, US STRING THEORY, today's neo-traditionalists redefine their music. A new generation of string bands explores the past, present, & future of American music. Plus features on Daniel Lanois, Gary Louris, Kathleen Edwards, Jim White, & more. Plus all the other usual great stuff you've come to expect from No Depression. ZINE $5.00 No Kids Come Into My House PS, US "Come Into My House" is the first release by Vancouver, Canada trio NO KIDS, which is comprised of three-quarters of the critically revered pop band P:ANO. "Come Into My House" achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles over its 12 tracks. Golden era Hollywood musicals, Jam & Lewis-inspired production techniques, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's, disco, pop, and avant garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere. Tomlab-108 CD $12.25 Notorious Hi-Fi Killers Which Side Are You On? PS, UK Rocket Recordings are proud to announce the release of Which Side Are You On?, the debut album by Southeast London 3-piece The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers. Which Side Are You On? presents the trio's distinctive take on loud, throttling noise rock blended with manic psychedelia, taking the listener on a journey through ferocious 4-track blasts, analog tape space rock and intuitive heavy blues. This is the sound of a primal rock and roll band at their most uncompromising and dirtiest. From the one and a half minute biker-punk anthem of 'Queen O' Fuck' through the fuzzed-up blues of the Freddie King classic 'Going Down' to the 18 minutes of psychedelic bliss of 'Near The Final Destination' which crumbles into a mantra of noise, drones and horns, with the added assistance of Alexander Tucker, Duke Garwood and members of Part Chimp. The Notorious Hi-Fi Killers have been a common sight on the stages in their hometown of London and various dimly-lit warehouses across the country, playing alongside bands like The Heads, Lords, Parts and Labour, Shit & Shine and White Hills. RocketRecordings CD $17.00 Ocrilim Annwn PS, US Mick Barr (ORTHRELM, OCTIS, CROM TECH) is described as an "american avant-garde metal guitarist", & while this may not be entirely accurate, it's probably as close as anyone will come to paraphrasing his genre defying compositions. This is composed entirely of pieces for mutiple electric guitars, & has as much to do w/ modern classical composition as it does w/ anything associated with the term "heavy metal". HydraHead CD $12.50 O'Malley, Stephen, Attila Csihar 6: Degree Fskyquake PS, US This debut collaborative is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored in conjunction w/ the American sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in the summer of 2007. The composition was captured at a recording session during the installation process at Team gallery, & later transfered to Gladstone as a recorded playback to the public. The composition runs a total of 8 hrs & 35 min. The contribution of lyrics, text & vocals by Hungarian black metal vocalist Attila Csihar were inspired by his journeys inside imperial Tokyo, bringing an emotional & meditative identity to the otherwise purely structural composition. EditionsMego CD $18.00 Orwell Le Génie Humain PS, FRANCE A feast of an album from Jérôme Didelot aka Orwell. Pop par excellence, "Le génie humain" is packed with orchestral maneuvers, soaring synths, and silky, buzzy goodness that bring Eggstone, Louis Philippe and the space bossa moments of Testbild! to mind. With influences running from the early 60s through the early 80s, Jerome's songs have a folk-like delicacy, but sail on intricate arrangements featuring strings, voices, woodwinds and keyboards galore. "Le genie humain" features collaborations with Médéric Gontier (Tahiti 80), Alexander von Mehren, JP Nataf, Ruth Minnikin (Heavy Blinkers), Miss Aprilia Sari (White Shoes and the Couples Company) and Julien Lonchamp (Jack and the'), among others. Recommended for fans of all of the above, plus Julien Ribot, Fugu and High Llamas. TwinFizzRecords-707 CD $14.00 Our Sleepless Forest S-T PS, UK Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a frighteningly young three-piece from South London - their first full release, having had an early version of album track 'The Tinderbox' included on the Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation. Having met at school, Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara started experimenting with various musical instruments and sounds using software and basic recording equipment, inspired by the music they were into and with the aim of creating their own wall of sound. After 14 months they emerged with something they were sufficiently happy with to allow it to be heard by others, and ultimately that brings us to the present day - an eight-track, 45-minute debut. Our Sleepless Forest's music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard. Press to follow; opening track 'Nomads' was played by Mary Anne Hobbs a couple of months back, and influential Manchester-based website Angry Ape have lined up an interview with the band. TRACKLISTING: 1. Nomads 2. The Tinderbox 3. Doors In Limbo 4. White Bird 5. Aircastles 6. Afraid of You 7. The Clarion 8. Haze. Resonant-028 CD $15.00 Paint It Black New Lexicon PS, US This marks their 1st recording w/new drummer Jared Shavelson (Hope Conspiracy, None More Black) & boasts guest vocals from Jeff Pezatti (NAKED RAYGUN). Still, many of the best surprises occur behind the scenes. Rather than straining to re-create "lo-fi" in a studio, this rings in an aggressive clarity. JadeTree CD $13.25 Panther 14 Kt. God PS, US Two-headed effort of Charlie Salas-Humara (THE PLANET THE) on vocals, cello, guitar, & keys & Joe Kelly (31 KNOTS) on drums. Think Ian Curtis' convulsive intensity & James Browns spastic swagger & you still won't have PANTHER, but a sense of what-the-fuckness that all of them seem to call up. KillRockStars CD $13.00 Peasant On The Ground PS, US Musical alter ego of Damien DeRose. Tender, weather-beaten vocals & fumbly, hypnotic hooks play in the long shadow of Elliott Smith. DeRose creates his own beautiful & unique style by finding comfort & satisfaction in the mostly dismal environment surrounding him. PaperGarden CD $10.00 Pegasuses-XL Antiphon PS, US Mark Dale (Disband), Jeff Tobias (We Versus the Shark, Dark Meat), Joel Hatstat (Cinemechanica) & Jeff Rosenstock (Bomb the Music Industry, Arrogant Sons of Bitches) join forces based on their mutual admiration of bikes, coffee & books. Here they make music with whatever instruments they felt were appropriate, which is pretty much what you get when you mix those bands together anyway. Mostly keyboards & synths, the Antiphon is their response to questioning themselves. The music is everything they've ever done in life, crumpled up into 38 minutes of experimental/electronica/rock . ErnestJenning-037 CD $11.00 Perkins, Tony The Prettiest Girl In School PS, UK Best known of course for his indelible performance as homicidal transvestite Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho". Working also with Orson Welles, Tony Perkins illuminated fifties America with intelligence, sensitivity, talent and sex. After the death of James Dean, Perkins inherited the crown of America's leading teen idol and the ascendancy of his film career for a while complimented his precocious activities as a pop singer. "The Prettiest Girl in School" comprises all of Perkins' 1956-57 singles including the hit 'Moon-Light Swim'. El-135 CD $15.50 Planeta Imaginario Biomasa PS, US Planeta Imaginario are a creative and extraordinary 8 piece jazz-rock band that have emerged from the Catalan region of Spain. Founded in 1999 by keyboardist and leader Marc Capel, Planeta Imaginario originally performed psychedelic rock music but over time evolved into their present-day sound as the band grew in size and added musicians who added jazz and jazz-rock elements. Biomasa is their second album and with this release the band have a chance to have their music heard on a much wider basis. For fans of: Chick Corea's Spanish-tinged fusion works, Deus ex Machina, Gilgamesh, Pat Metheny, Soft Machine, Weather Report and Frank Zappa. Cuneiform CD $14.25 Poor School Holy Master PS, US Feat. Bryan Ramirez (Ex-Cocaine). They obstensibly play full-tilt improv welded to tribal heavy rock, but there's so much more happening inside the thick folds of their hurtling jams that ripping them open & idenitfying the guts inside is like trying dissect pudding - eventually you just have to give up & eat it. EcstaticPeace LP $12.25 Prins, Gert-Jans Break Before Make PS, US This is an arsenal of customized electronics, timpani & voice. Like its predecessor, this record investigates the sonic possibilities to be found in electronic devices & circuits. However, this is no noodling experimental stuff but a compact set of finely-crafted sonics. Short, sharp shocks w/ a bit of timpani thrown in. EditionsMego CD $17.00 Printer Can You Take More? PS, SWEDEN Printer is a band that knows how to write heart aching pop songs but tired of staring down un empty glass they rise their arms and dance trough there sorrows. On recent works the band has taken a more dirty and danceable; say techno, approach, although still maintaining the emotional and intellectual focus. It's music to be moved by whether it'll be on the dance floor or in your sofa. It's electronic pop music at its best. And it's got power and depth. Add to that an interest for design and a live show of drinking-beer-energy and you'll get the perfect soundtrack for long volatile night. Adrian-058 CD $13.50 Psycho & the Birds We've Moved PS, US They are filled w/ undeniable likeability & pop goodness. A perfect combo of playful lyrics & flawless arrangement makes it hard to imagine that one entire half of the song was recorded on an $27 boombox. ROBERT POLLARD even pulls out some lyrics in "She Tears Out," first written, he says, as a kid. HappyJack-016 CD $14.25 Racer, Kris Has A Banner Year PS, US As former frontman for Ohio pop-punkers Tagline, Kris Racer came to Chicago & left the rest of the band behind, opting to unplug & become an acoustic, solo act. But staying true to his punkier roots, Kris Racer is more Mike Ness than open mic. Racer's new EP continues to explore the themes of adolescence redux he covered on his debut. It's that time you reach in your mid-20s when you're still not sure what you're exactly supposed to do with your life; it's that stage in the game when you're caught thinking about whether jobs should turn into careers or if girlfriends should become wives. TwoThumbsDown-018 CD5 $5.00 Raveonettes, The Lust Lust Lust PS, US New album from Danish duo, can't wait! Coasting is the easy option. Having the balls to recognize that things aren't right and doing something about them is much harder. It may have taken The Raveonettes' Sune and Sharin a little while but they made the right decision in the end- both personally and creatively- and 'Lust, Lust, Lust' is where the two worlds collide. The songs cover the toughest decisions, the fondest of memories, the scariest of fears and the most tempting of desires all from the most personal viewpoint yet captured in The Raveonettes back-catalogue. Vice CD $14.00 Reivers, The Saturday [expanded re-issue] PS, US 2002 re-issue of this acclaimed Austin band's 1987 masterpiece. Bonus tracks. DualTone CD $9.50 Reivers, The End of the Day [expanded re-issue] PS, US 2002 re-issue of this acclaimed Austin band's 1989 album. Bonus tracks includes live favorite "Tell Me So", unreleased previously. DualTone CD $9.50 Rites of Spring All Through A Life PS, US Reissue on heavy-weight vinyl. A must have and now you can. Dischord 45 $4.00 Robinson, Eugene S. FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked For Asking PS, US CD version of OXBOW frontman's book. A black-eyed, split-lipped, bloody-knuckled journey into the black heart of the fistic arts. Details his decades of fight experience, along w/ articles written for Grappling magazine & Vice. Stop staring at yourself in the mirror & LISTEN. HydraHead DCD $13.50 Rocket from the Crypt R.I.P. (CD/DVD) PS, US Their final live performance, fittingly on Halloween, at San Diego's Westin Hotel Ballroom. DVD incl. songs not on CD! Vagrant CD $16.00 Section 25 Dirty Disco (Best Of) PS, UK LTM are proud to present the first-ever Best Of compilation from cult Factory Records group Section 25, titled Dirty Disco (1978-2008). Formed in Blackpool (UK) by brothers Larry and Vin Cassidy in 1978, the band were initially mentored by Joy Division, and went on to record four albums with Factory Records between 1980 and 1986. The first of these, Always Now, combined harsh post-punk with spacey psychedelia, and was produced by Martin 'Zero' Hannett. Their third, From The Hip, produced in 1984 by Bernard Sumner of New Order, explored techno and electronica, and spawned the oft-sampled club hit Looking From A Hilltop. After disbanding in the late 1980s, Section 25 recently regrouped, releasing acclaimed new album Part-Primitiv in 2007, and playing a string of powerful live shows across Europe. Now recognized as a leading genre band, From The Hip was lauded as one of '1000 albums to hear before you die' by The Guardian newspaper. Dirty Disco celebrates 30 years of Section 25, and features eight key album tracks as well as the singles Knew Noise, Dirty Disco, Haunted, Beating Heart, Looking From A Hilltop, Crazy Wisdom and Bad News Week. The booklet features archive images and a detailed band chronology. LTM-2515 CD $17.00 Sekkutsu Jean + Kawabata Makoto S-T PS, US YOSHIDA TATSUYA (drums,vocal), SATO KENJI (bass,vocal), KAWABATA MAKOTO (guitar). Recorded live at EARTHDOM (Tokyo 23rd October 2007), HELLUVA LOUNGE (Kobe 5th October 2007). For fans of Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Musica Transonic, Buckethead and Primus! Vivo-2008034 CD $15.00 Shitmat/DJ Scotch Egg (Scotchy & Shitty) Rave Like A Headless Chicken 12" PS, UK This 12" is the second in Wrong Music's 'Rave like a..." series which pay homage too the uk rave sound. Volume one featured 4 hardcore classics from Oen_flux and, Planet Mu's, Chevron. This time it's the infamous DJ Scotch Egg and Shitmat's turn to Bring the Hardcore! DJ Scotch Egg opens his side with a DJ Friendly (over 3mins long!) gameboy cover of 'Bonkers' star Hixxy's Happy hardcore Benchmark track 'Toytown'. In fact it's less of a cover when it gets going, feeling like a pumping 8 bit techno party. The ep progresses with another 3 tracks each one with a catchy melody as the next. On the last choon we get a heartfelt emo pop/hh banger, sounding like Bach using a gameboy instead of a piano. This could be Egg's most dancefloor release too date. After the massive success of 2006's 'HANG THE DJ' and 2007's 'GROOVERIDER' albums Shitmat combines both their styles for his side of the vinyl. The first track 'Nuff Respect' merges pounding Remarc_esque jungle beats, ragga vocals and a few cheeky pop samples to make another post jungle classic whilst gabber/hardcore tracks 'Loveheart Trilogy' and 'Happy Ending' take Shitmat's mashed up sense of humour to a euphoric crescendo. WrongMusic-17 12 $14.00 Sian Alice Group 59.59 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TheSocialRegistry-062 DLP $14.25 Sian Alice Group 59.59 PS, US THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is pleased to announce the debut full-length album from London-based band, SIAN ALICE GROUP, "59.59". The band is already on the rise in its native England having opened a string of shows for Spiritualized and received a flurry of attention in the press. "59.59" is a fully realized and album that moves through traditional pop songwriting and instrumental composition while tempering it with studio improvisation. It is an epic record that showcases the talent and range and of this young group, taking in elements of various genres and making them their own. At a time when the musical landscape seems inundated with derivative retrogressive guitar bands, or acts reliant on sequenced beats and oscillator knobs, Sian Alice Group's more classical inclinations show their willingness to tread their own path. 59.59 features guest appearances from DOUGLAS HART (Jesus & Mary Chain), JOHN COXON (Spiritualized, Spring Heel Jack) and BRIAN DEGRAW (Gang Gang Dance). TheSocialRegistry-062 CD $11.50 Silver Apples Garden PS, US After pioneering the use of electronics in rock music & releasing 2 groundbreaking albums, they were left w/ out a record label, not to mention a $100,000 lawsuit from PanAm over the "Contact" sleeve. Those tapes were thought to be lost until the day Dan Taylor found them in a cardboard box in his attic in '98. Also discovered was the master of a song they had written for the soundtrack of an Italian film called "The Lady & The Clown" which was never released before now. Bully CD $14.00 Simon, John John Simon's Album PS, US Water CD $15.50 Sleep Out I Was Your Shroud PS, US Having taken their brand of indie-rock to the masses through demos, shows, and radio appearances whilst receiving nary a death threat, Chicago quintet Sleep Out recorded their debut album I Was Your Shroud over the later months of 2005 through the earlier months of 2006. The result: eleven diverse compositions that toe the line between roadhouse donnybrooks & delicate lullabies. One canse sense the longing in "Cat or a Horse," or feel the whip cracking & taste the whiskey spitting while listening to "Stay of Execution." And batting clean up are bash brothers "It Wasn't Darkness" & "Old Mare. TwoThumbsDown CD $8.50 Sleepers, The Comeback Special PS, US Some say 'real' rock n' roll is on its way back & these Chicago boys agree. They play some lowdown & dirty rock n' roll reflecting a time when anthemic choruses, extended guitar solos & a boozy swagger defined the genre. Powerhouse vocalist Tommy Richied leads the way on the hook filled title track "Comeback Special", then "Filthy Ways" & just never lets up. You'll also hear the incredible gritty guitar attack of Tony Manno & Kevin Bannon tear it up on "Loaded", "Crime Of The Century Blues", "Dirty Cop" & any solo they can get their filthy hands on. Oh yeah, every great rock band is only as good as its rhythm section...right? No problem, drummer Johnny "Action" Fields & bassist Chris Cormier are as tight as AC/DC & groove like The Stones. Pravda CD $12.50 Slips, The Girls at the Back Up PS, US David Treahearn & Rob Haggett worked w/everyone from Madonna & Gwen Stefani to Bjork, Massive Attack & Fischer Spooner, before breaking out to form The Slips in the summer of '07. Their electronic jams have been described as pulsating glitch disco & UK Digitalism. IamsoundRecords-007 45 $8.25 Stone, Carl Woo Lae Oak PS, US First ever CD of Carl Stone's debut album, originally released on Joan La Barbara's Wizard Records in 1983. "Woo Lae Oak" is a 54 minute tape piece based around minimal samples of strings and wind which layer, deconstruct and reform into an expansive, shimmering whole. Remastered for CD, with complete original artwork and new accompanying notes by Phill Niblock. UnseenWorlds-03 CD $13.00 subtractiveLAD Apparatus PS, US 'Apparatus,' SubtractiveLAD's fourth album, finds Stephen Hummel elaborating upon previous granular motifs. Those familiar with his progression will notice that Hummel's sound has matured and become grounded in an honest and open place. As such musical growth would imply, Apparatus is the album in which Hummel appears to be most comfortable with his ideas and usage of sound. It is this comfort, which allows Apparatus to envelop the listener in a profoundly personal way. Lofty classic ambient refrains, shoegaze splendor and muted broken beat trickery are all stylistic fair game. Comparisons can be made to a wide rage of artists such as Ben Frost, Eno, Namlook, and even label mate Bitcrush. As each SubtractieLAD album seems to top the previous, the anticipation is building for what is to come from this bright talent in electronic music. n5MD-155 CD $12.00 Suishou No Fune Prayer for Chibi PS, US This might be their ultimate album; w/ 2 disks & more than 2 hrs of music, the group finally stretches out & lets their music flow like it never has before. Much about them has had to do w/ volume, but this new set of duets adds forays into starker songwriting & a languid serenity. HolyMountain DCD $17.25 Sun Ra & His Arkestra Some Blues But Not The Kind Thats Blue PS, US "The third deluxe Ra reissue in the new O-Card format from the UMS, released in conjunction with El Saturn Records is here: a superb reissue of a delicious, seldom heard Saturn Records document from '70 - replete with two alternate takes of a previously unissued classic AND an 'Untitled' piece from the original '77 sessions... all available for the first time on CD!" ." -John Corbett, Chicago, October, 2007 Atavistic-265 CD $15.00 Sunny Day Sets Fire Strange: Remix PS, US SDSF's music reflects their shared loves of 60s psych, the Beach Boys, classic Sun Rock and Roll. This EP features the first single off of the upcoming album, "Stranger," as well as remixes of SDSF songs by CSS, THE COOL KIDS, XXXCHANGE, MAD DECENT / DIPLO, THE SLIPS AND BARON VON LUXXURY. IamsoundRecords CD $5.00 Tad Busting Circuits and Ringing Ears PS, US Live show from 90s grunge-rock behemoths (in ore ways than one). TAD DVD $14.50 Takeovers Little Green Onion Man PS, US This freaky little beast is a nice mini-movie comprised of 4 songs (3 of which are unreleased ROBERT POLLARD compositions) that warmly straddle the loosey-goosey psych-pop sounds of their 1st album as well as the white-knuckled rock pomp of their 2nd. Feat. John Moen of Stephen Malkmus/The Decemberists, Sam Coomes of Quasi/Blues Goblins & Brian Berg of 44 Long. Off CD5 $7.25 Testbild! Une Teinte Intense PS, SWEDEN "Une teinte intense" is a tribute to one of Testbild!'s greatest heroes: Isabelle Eberhardt, an explorer and writer who traveled the Sahara disguised as a man before dying in a flash flood in 1904 at the age of 27. Excerpts from her travel diaries float in a dreamy sound environment of Bedouin drums, echoing muezzin calls, and warm winds blowing in the distance, while pop melodies flow like spring water in the irrigation canals. Light as a mirage, this album bridges pop, jazz and exotica in the sun-bleached deserts of North Africa. Testbild! welcome the following influences into their Moorish tent: Louis Philippe, Gil Evans, Ludus, Edward Gorey, Eric Satie, the Hepburns, Jacques Cousteau, and Andrei Tarkovskij. "Excellent production qualities showcase a variety of modern, trans-continental pop, thanks to old-fashioned songwriting, and decorated with sampled bits and field recordings. What results sounds like the United Nations of Antena: a little dubby indie tropicalia here, a little Arabian ambient pop there, a little mod-pop Free Design/indielounge à la Sea and Cake there; but Testbild! maintain a skilled balance of sweet and mature throughout." - Other Music, NYC "Graceful, daring, inventive, full of charm and elegance." - Louis Philippe FriendlyNoise-52 CD $13.50 The Way We Live A Candle For Judith PS, UK "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. The classic 1971 album by UK band Tractor, appearing under a different name. Originally issued on Dandelion, the album is now expanded and remastered with extra tracks. A truly beautiful progressive/space rock album, it mixes the epic quality of Led Zep with a spacey Pink Floyd feel and the mushroom weirdness of The Pink Fairies and Hawkwind. 'Willow' is a masterpiece of UK underground rock and it's easy to see why John Peel signed this band way back in the early '70s." Ozit LP $25.00 This Will Destroy You S-T PS, US This is their 2nd album, clocking in a 7 tracks & 52 min. It is a stunning & worthy follow-up to "Young Mountain." Darker & seamlessly more dynamic & emotionally gripping than its predecessor, this is primed & ready to push their entire genre forward & continue to win the band hearts & minds across the planet. MagicBullet CD $13.50 Thompson, Mayo Corky's Debt To His Father (LP + 7") PS, US A fast 14 yrs later, it's our pleasure to bring this classic of 2-sided entertainment back to the table (the turntable, that is) w/ a special LIMITED-edition pressing. Wrapped in a jacket that recalls the halcyon days of solid LP dominance, this new pressing comes with a 7'' feat. the instrumental "Woof," which was recorded at the same sessions but not released until The Red Krayola's 2004 compilation CD Singles. The b-side is a neverbefore heard take on John Cage's "4'33''" played by fellow traveller Sergei McUgly. DragCity LP $18.25 Throw Me The Statue Moonbeams PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SecretlyCanadian-168 LP $11.50 Throw Me The Statue Moonbeams PS, US Making waves throughout the latter half of 2007, we're super pleased to deliver Seattle's THROW ME THE STATUE'S debut album, "Moonbeams". Conceived and fronted by SCOTT REITHERMAN, "Moonbeams", was constructed with the help of CASEY FOUBERT (Sufjan Stevens, Pedro The Lion) to create a wondrous concoction of fuzzed out synths, brass ensembles and epic vocal melodies that have been noticeably absent since In the Aeroplane, Over The Sea first saw the light of day. At the album's core is a sharp sense of melody, a cutting lyrical honesty, and a bludgeoning beat that brings to mind the whimsy of Magnetic Fields, the lyrical expanse of The Microphones, and the lo-fi bliss of Eric's Trip. While the front of the album is nothing short of the next evolution of skewed Northwest bombast with "Lolita," "Yucatan Gold" and "About To Walk", the second half displays an unexpected maturity in young Reitherman. The title track oozes down tempo vulnerability while the closer, "The Happiest Man On This Plane" combines the best of Reitherman's predecessors Phil Elverum and Dave Bazan. SecretlyCanadian-168 CD $11.50 Tiger Lou The Loyal PS, US Domestic release for Tiger Lou's latest. A Spring 2008 tour is in the works as well! Meet Rasmus Kellerman. This is the guy behind Tiger Lou. It's a band; for all intents and purposes, he's the band. He writes the songs, plays and produces them. For now. Kellerman will tell you not to look too close at "just an indie band, like many other indie bands, with a big heart." But not listening closely to Tiger Lou would be to sell it short. The Loyal, the band's second album, is on the surface, just music. A bunch of songs written by some guy from Oxelösund, Sweden. Only these tunes breathe, they're dynamic, alive. Straight from the heart of some guy now living in Stockholm. And he wouldn't say the band had heart if, to some extent, he wanted you to know the music was sincere. Thirteen atmospheric, incorporeal (but alive) tracks that, if you put them under a microscope, would reveal a molecular pattern (and movement) identical to Kellerman's. Maybe that's why he'd like you to look plainly upon his work: he's already seen himself at such a high magnification, a potentially painful zoom into who and what he is, and where he came from. Eyeball-077 CD $9.50 Time Constant Silent Phone Calls In The Fall PS, US This journey into psychedelia, bringing mellow moods, and uplifting melodies sculpts an appreciation for the most beautiful and most difficult moments.... an emotional plateau! YOUR FRONTAL LOBE IS RESONATING! Heavily influenced heavily by the Milwaukee music scene, Board of Canada, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Autechre, Time Constant's music changed as he became increasingly exposed to nature and spiritual consciousness, the land, and the Universe. Comes with a print of an oil painting by Time Constant. Macrometasomakosmos-001 LP $6.75 Tractor S-T PS, UK "The new Ozit vinyl sets are all deluxe in terms of packaging, gatefold sleeves with PVC protective covers and all 180 gram vinyl based on the Simply Vinyl type of special vinyl re-issues. These sets are limited to 1000 copies only worldwide and will not be around for too long. Great 30th anniversary edition reissue of one of John Peel's Dandelion Records' more successful bands. Tractor, two lads from Rochdale who managed to sound like a complete band, recorded this album in 1972. A classic of progressive rock (that at times sounds like The Pink Fairies' debut and Hawkwind), this remains a creation of rare beauty and inventiveness." Ozit LP $25.00 Ulaan Khol I PS, US Steven R. Smith has had a hand in creating some of the most compelling & singular instrumental psychedelic music of the past ten years. As Ulaan Khol, Smith digs in deep with a palette of drums/guitar/organ to craft a monolithic & expansive free form, feedback-heavy atmospheric din that bonds the disparate realms of Fushitsusha & High Rise with Popul Vuh & Flying Saucer Attack. Smith has planned a maximalist three-part suite, 'Ceremony.' In the first installment of the trilogy, I, the tone is overwhelming bleak as the pieces (all untitled) caterwaul, moan & crumble. SoftAbuse-026 CD $11.50 Various Obsession PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION!!! Bully DLP $25.50 Various Obsession PS, CANADA Hotly tipped obscure psych compilation from the Canadian Bully label. "All songs were compiled by Mike Davis, owner of Academy Records in NY. Ranging from 1967 to 1973, and from countries such as Turkey, Uruguay and Peru, these are some of his rarest acquisitions over decades of record collecting. Includes some information about each band, even though some of it was practically impossible to track down." Artists include: Atomic Forest, Quarteto Nova Era, Arif Sag, Sonara Casino, Flavio Kurt, Erkin Koray, Novos Bahianos, Los Chikichaka, Arnaud Rodriguez, Ovni 87, Suely E Os Kantikus, Jean Paul 'El Troglodita', Ersen and La Barra De Chocolate. Bully CD $13.75 Various Living Bridge PS, US A collection of ALL NEW & UNRELEASED songs (except for one) by bands who have previously recorded at the Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, NY. All songs but one were recorded exclusively for this collection and flow in one continuous track. Featuring The Silver Jews, Deerhunter, Enon, Black Dice, Fischerspooner, Rings, Doldrums, Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O'Neil, Palms, Avey Tare of Animal Collective, Blood On The Wall, and many more. RareBookRoom-001 DCD $13.00 Various Trey Told 'Em PS, US In celebration of their 15th Anniversary, Thrill Jockey opened up the vaults to Gregg Gillis (GIRL TALK) & Frank Musarra (HEARTS OF DARKNESSES), aka Trey Told 'Em & let them go to town. Exceeding all expectations, they managed to craft a 74 min. mega mix feat. nearly every artist old & new. The CD plays out as one continuous track & feat. some mind-blowing mash ups. Also incl. an OVAL mega mix that fits every single Oval song into one track & a special TORTOISE & TRANS AM mega mix. ThrillJockey CD5 $8.50 Various Love & Circuits PS, US 2 CDs featuring Matt & Kim, Oneida, Numbers, Japanther, Parts & Labor, Shy Child, High Places, Oh Sees, The USA Is A Monster, Gowns, Wilderness, These Are Powers, Maps & Atlases, & many more. 77.2% of the songs are exclusive to the comp. Of special note is the contribution from Trey Told 'Em (Girl Talk & Hearts of Darknesses' new remix project). Cardboard CD $13.50 Various Local Anesthetic PS, US In 1981, Wax Trax Records co-owner Duane Davis formed the in-store label Local Anesthetic & released the debut single by Denver band Gluons feat. part-time Colorado resident Allen Ginsberg on vocals. This collection compiles all the 7'' singles released by the label, along w/ 3 other CO punk 7'' gems released prior to their creation. Feat. FRANTIX, WHITE TRASH, YOUNG WEASELS, BUM KON, JERI ROSSI, ROK TOTS, DEFEX, & NAILS. Smooch-018 CD $16.00 Various New Folk Routes PS, UK When visionary UK underground scene-maker and entrepreneur Joe Boyd started making records under his own Witchseason banner in 1967, he could have had little idea of the staggering amount of uber-influential artists he would go on to produce over the next few years. Step up Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Sandy Denny, Vashti Bunyan, Nico and Dr Strangely Strange to name but a few. He licensed most of these records out to the super-cool Island label where they joined the likes of Traffic, John Martyn and The Amazing Blondel and unwittingly formed the backbone of the now hugely revered and collectable British folk-rock movement of the late '60s and '70s. First issued in the '90s and promptly deleted, this set features Tracks from such great albums as Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief and What We Did On Our Holidays, Nick Drake's Pink Moon, John Martyn's The Tumbler, The Incredible String Band's Earthspan,Richard & Linda Thompson's I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die, Sandy Denny's Sandy, Fotheringay's Fotheringay, Mike Heron's Smiling Men With Bad Reputations and many more seminal cornerstones of the era. Hornpipe - John Locke, She Moves Through the Fair - Fairport Convention, John Barleycorn - Traffic, Road - Nick Drake, Black Jack Davey - The Incredible String Band, It Suits Me Well - Sandy Denny, I Was a Young Man - Albion Country Band, Seven Black Roses - John Martyn, When I Get to the Border - Richard & Linda Thompson, Peace in the End - Fotheringay, Long Odds/Mr. Cosgill's Delight - Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick, Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal - Dr. Strangely Strange, My Girl in the Month of May - Bunch, Matty Groves - Fairport Convention, Audrey - Mike Heron, Nutting Girl - Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Ashley Hutchings & John Kirkpatrick, Man of Iron - Sandy Denny, Siege of Yaddlethorpe - Amazing Blondel. Rev-Ola-237 CD $15.50 Venus Spring 2008 PS, US Juliette Lewis on cover with a feature on Style Idols. Special issue featuring a list of the best female guitarists of all time! Kid Sister, Kate Nash, Kazu Makino, The Lady Tigre & more. ZINE $4.25 VVEREVVOLF GREHV Zombie Aesthetics PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Relapse LP $18.00 VVEREVVOLF GREHV Zombie Aesthetics PS, US Debut album from the alter ego of Dapose (THE FAINT). This is a synthesis of IDM, sinister vocals, & visceral metal guitar. Relapse CD $13.25 Walker, Scott Scott 2 PS, US Originally released in 1968, Scott 2 made it all the way to number one on the UK pop charts. Features songs by Jacques Brel, Tim Hardin, & Bacharach/David. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.25 Walker, Scott Scott PS, US This is his 1st solo LP from '67 & feat. 3 of his own compositions along w/covers of songs by Brel, Tim Hardin, & the Brill Building team of Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann. A true original. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.25 Weakerthans Reunion Tour PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Epitaph LP $15.50 Weekend Live At Ronnie Scotts PS, UK The first titled reissue of this seminal mini album, originally released on Rough Trade in 1983 by pop fusion innovators, Weekend. The CD features 10 bonus tracks including 3 previously unreleased versions of tracks that weren't included on the original album. These were sourced from a pirate recording of the original gig in March 1983. Other bonus tracks include 3 tracks from a David Jensen BBC session and a recording from the legendary TV music program, Old Grey Whistle Test. The CD artwork has been expanded by Spike Williams, original band member and he has contributed some of his recollections of the night in question. Weekend was formed after the demise of the respected band, Young Marble Giants who featured Alison Statton as vocalist. Weekend went on to release 3 singles and two albums before calling it a day. Late Night - Where Flamingos Fly / Winter Moon / Nostalgia Disco -Weekend Off / A Day In The Life...Bonus Tracks - Past Meets Present (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / Woman's Eyes (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / A View From Her Room (Taken From Live Pirate Recording) (Previously Unreleased) / A Day In The Life Of (Taken From NME Cassette 'Mighty Reel' NME 004) / The End Of The Affair (Recorded Live / For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Woman's Eyes (Recorded Live For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Weekend Off (Recorded Live For David Jensen "The Evening Show") / Summerdays (Recorded Live For BBC Television's Old Grey Whistle Test) / Drumbeat For Baby (12" Version) / A View From Her Room (12" Version). CherryRed-344 CD $15.50 Weird Weeds I Miss This PS, US The Weird Weeds are a trio from Austin, TX that draws upon wildly divergent musical backgrounds and a common interest in non-traditional forms to create pop music that is experimental yet oddly palatable and well conceived. Since 2003 they have released two full-length albums and one EP and have extensively toured the U.S. and Canada. Their members have collaborated with a huge array of musicians including Jandek, Tom Carter, Arnold Dreyblatt, The Cherry Blossoms, Xiu Xiu, and many more. For their third album (and first for Austin's Autobus Records) I Miss This the band spent seven months recording at home and in the studio, a far more labor-intensive process than any previous record they've made. The album further develops their already highly refined approach, expanding their dynamic range and musical scope beyond 2005's acclaimed Weird Feelings . The songs go from the most raucous distorted guitar romps to the most delicate acoustic ballads, still continually indulging their penchant for complex harmonies, unconventional song structures, and strange noises. I Miss This is another meticulously crafted and beautifully executed album from a unique and talented band. "Beautifully unnerving" - Austin Chronicle. "Light years ahead of most bands" - Dusted Magazine. "Surprising and swiftly captivating" - All Music Guide. Autobus-005 CD $11.50 We're All Gonna Die Kiss the Ground, Curse the Sky PS, US The follow up to The Wreck Of The Minot finds these Boston bruisers keeping on & branching out. Jase from LAMONT fills in on bass on this groove & stomp into the ground rock n' roll bar brawl. Look for the band on the road in 2008. Underdogma-025 CD $11.00 Willits, Christopher + Ryuichi Sakamoto Ocean Fire PS, US Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto's new release, Ocean Fire, is a sublime soundtrack for the ocean. It is an intense and stirring wash of cascading tones and textured harmony. Willits + Sakamoto surprise with rare form in this collaboration, creating a sound world unlike anything they have produced previously. Sakamoto's gorgeous processed piano sound reflects Willits' beautiful shimmering clusters of notes, a new aspect of Willits' pioneering guitar/computer approach. Together, their sounds merge effortlessly, creating deep and seamless swells of gigantic melodic waves. 12K-1046 CD $12.25 Wolfmangler Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves PS, US Vinyl version of the first ever full length from cult/kvlt underground legends. Features D. Smolken, Slavic mastermind of Dead Raven Choir. AuroraBorealis LP $20.00 Xasthur Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors PS, US Includes definitive version of the album along w/ a 6 track bonus disc of unreleased material. This is the inception of the Xasthur we know today, as a one man force full of bleak and terrifying visions. HydraHead DCD $12.50 Yellow Moon Band, The Maybach EP PS, UK Recorded in a clay studio with a Fiat Punto, a doll of Lindsay Buckingham, at the home of Steve Hackett in a Vicarage in Mexico City. Three tracks, all killers!! The band will play a pair of release shows. Firstly on Sat 9th Feb at the Gladstone - London, followed be a guest slot with MV+EE in Bristol on Feb 13th. Limited to 500 copies on seven inch wax only. Vinyl comes in a facsimile harvest house bag. StaticCaravan-155 45 $7.75 Zdzislaw Piernik/Piotr Zabrodski Namanga PS, POLAND Unusual Polish Contemporary Music performed by tuba genius Zdzislaw Piernik! Additional musicians: Piotr Zabrodzki (piano, electric piano, doublebass, bass guitar, organ), Hubert Zemler ( percussion, vibraphone), Wojciech Kondrat (violin). All tracks composed by Piotr Zabrodzki - extremely talented artist, member of Blast Muzungu and Tatsuya Yoshida's (Ruins, Magaibutsu) cooperator. Vivo-035 CD $15.00 Forthcoming Releases A Weather Cove (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Like a postcard from the green & gray environs of Portland, this is moody & warm, rife w/ odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self & hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. The songs are marked w/ an intimacy so striking that it feels like you're eavesdropping on the pillow talk of 2 forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with. TeamLove CD $12.50 A Weather Cove (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TeamLove LP $12.50 Acid Mothers Temple Never Ending Space Ritual (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US The acid mothers DVD "never ending space ritual _ history of " is finally complete. A 2 DVD set over 4 1/2 hours long covering the entire history from early days in Japan to recent footage, guest appearances, interview with Mankato plus other extras. disc 1. traces the band through its first decade featuring very rare early footage and special guest appearances from members of Ruins, Afrirampo, Guru Guru and others. Disc 2. Includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with ocitan queen of song rosina de peira, pink lady lemonade medley, dark star blues and other AMT epics, an exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto, live cuts of amt related units _ Acid Mother Temple And The Cosmic Inferno, SWR, Guru Guru, and Acid Mothers Gong. Also extra features. Ltd run of 1000. Swordfish-DVD1/2 2XDVD $43.25 Adorable Footnotes: Best Of (92-94) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives. CherryRed-327 CD $15.50 Aspen Woods New World Disorder (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Aspen Woods debut 70 minute 10 track debut LP will be released on Razorblade records (home of Bristol shoegazers Secret Shine www.secretshine.co.uk and liverpudlian acoustic artist Vincent Callan). Covering subjects ranging from the ritual sacrifice of Princess Diana in 'Passing of a Moon Goddess' to the unbreakable mother and son bond in 'The Witch's Son', the woods have recorded as much of the album as possible live using traditional recording techniques, to capture the guts and spirit of their live shows much the same way as the bands influences would have done so in the hazy 60s and 70s. Latchman Manghat (whose previous works include the celebrated great lost HEADS psychedelic album and Julian Cope favorite 'At last' that was 'er never... lost!) at Rolling Rex Studios has engineered and expertly, painstakingly co-produced the album with the band. For the Woods its as much about the journey as well the destination, just like how you choose to live your life - there are too many people prepared to step on too many people to get to where they want - only to realize their not happy when they get there. Getting where you want is nothing without putting in the hard graft to feel the satisfaction. People want things to easy in this day an age, without being prepared to work for it or care about who they step on the way. US distribution has been secured with Tonevendor, and the band are now seeking UK distribution aiming for a February 29th '08 release date and live dates to be announced throughout 2008 after the band return from the US. Homing their psychedelic crafts on a fruitful Bristolian live scene. The band have played memorable psychedelic hypnotic wig out sets at the legendary Espionage club and the world famous Cube cinema (check the live footage over at www.aspenwoods.co.uk) and have supported a wide variety of bands from Italian space rockers UFO Mammut to Japan's instrumental wonders Mono. Marketing plans for the album will be advertisements and media assault on the major alternative music press UK and US. Razorblade-05 CD $15.75 Autistic Daughters Uneasy Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements. Kranky-115 CD $12.25 Axelrod, David Seriously Deep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America's most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually attributed to Miles Davis - that of jazz-fusion, his reputation was cemented by his remarkable productions with Cannonball Adderley, David McCallum and Lou Rawls and by the religious albums Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath he created with the Electric Prunes. He was talked up by Frank Zappa and Sly Stone; George Harrison wanted him to record for Apple and Allen Ginsberg wanted him to set Howl! to music! His genius began to be re-discovered in the mid-nineties through the sampling by such hip-hop and dance record producers as DJ Shadow. Dr. Dre used a David McCallum cut ('The Edge') for "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001. Axelrod¹s prodigious solo albums Songs of Innocence and Songs Of Experience were quickly re-issued. Then in 2000 he released a new album and appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, where he conducted a one-off performance of his solo work. He was joined on stage by Richard Ashcroft who sang Holy Are You, originally recorded by The Electric Prunes. Originally released in 1975, and inexplicably out of print for three subsequent decades, Seriously Deep has become a kind of Holy Grail for samplers. Axelrod the composer is unmistakably present and what has also made the record a particularly sought-after item is the remarkable interplay between Joe Sample's exuberant keyboards and the hypnotically intense drumming of Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler. This is the kind of thing that gets samplers - and indeed anyone with a finely tuned sense of rhythm - very excited indeed. El-138 CD $15.50 Baldwin, Matt Paths of Ignition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Unlike many of his peers, he looks beyond the traditions of Fahey (whom he calls "a teacher" not a god), bringing portentous & progressive elements into his music, alongside a dreamy country lilt. He covers Krautrock legends Neu! ("Weissensee") & metal Vikings Judas Priest ("Winter"), & culls inspiration from prog heroes Yes on the closing epic "Rainbow." His music comes on like a creeping moss, verdant but threatening, comforting yet unsettling. AmericanDust CD $16.00 Baldwin, Matt Paths of Ignition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! AmericanDust LP $16.00 Baltic Fleet S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Whilst on a World Tour playing keyboards for Echo and the Bunnymen Paul Fleming began to write what would come to be his debut album. With a laptop and any instruments that were to hand he would capture, in music, what inspired him in each city around the world; from Texas to Barcelona to Berlin to Copenhagen to Reykjavik and back to the UK in Brighton. In hotel rooms, tour buses, planes, at the end of radio sessions and sound-checks, every opportunity was taken and tracks gradually started to form into an album. A sound was born influenced by works from artists such as Eno, Doves, NEU!, Sigur Ros and DJ Shadow. Written, produced and performed by Paul, the album also features contributions from Simon Finley on drums, Will Sergeant on guitar and Pete Wilkinson on Bass. Paul signed to Blow Up Records in April 2007, and the same Summer took his recordings into Studio B, The Premises in Hackney for additional production and mixing with Nick Terry (Klaxons, Simian Mobile Disco). After some heavy-duty valve and analogue processing, the beats got bigger, the sound-scape was widened and the album was complete! Blowup-041 CD $16.25 Basinski, William + Richard Chartier Untitled 1-3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. "Untitled 1" contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 2" contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3/3(reprise)" contains Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3" mixed by Basinski. "Untitled 3(reprise)" mixed by Chartier. "Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!" - William Basinski. Both William Basinski and Richard Chartier have been digging through their archival matter as of late. In fact, the majority of Basinski's recent output is the result of his discoveries, including his profound Disintegration Loops series. Chartier, meanwhile, based his recent production Archival1992 upon two older pieces evolved into a single-minded composition of subtle disquiet. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 Line-034 CD $12.25 Black Fortress of Opium S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Inspired by the lore surrounding a little town in Turkey , Afyonkarahisar, which translates into "Black Fortress of Opium." Their self-titled debut album was recorded in Brooklyn, NY by Martin Bisi (IGGY POP, SONIC YOUTH, DRESDEN DOLLS) over the course of seven months in 2007. The 10 original tracks are often reminiscent of Middle or Near Eastern sounds channeled through American folk instrumentation (mandolin, banjo) as well as e-bowed electric guitars, with female vocals that alternate between powerful and soulful to soft and mournful. Afyonkarahisar CD $10.00 Blackshaw, James Lost Prayers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US TompkinsSquare CD $14.75 Blackshaw, James Celeste/Sunshrine (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US After the success of his 2007 album "The Cloud of Unknowing," comes reissues of previous titles previously available only as tiny CDR pressings. "Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string acoustic guitar, picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios: stately, tolling ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging on tremolo, up above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of notes is not bustle but tranquillity." -The New York Times TompkinsSquare CD $14.75 Blau, Karl AM (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Karl Blau is a talented, busy guy. A member of the MICROPHONES, one third of D+ w/ Phil Elvrum & Bret Lunsford (BEAT HAPPENING), & most recently the bassist for LAURA VIERS' back up band. The landmark album of his career carried by up & coming Chicago label Whistler, AM is his psych-folk ode to author A.A. Milne. The music may evoke early Byrds, Syd Barrett & Skylarking-era XTC but its is unmistakably Karl Blau. Whistler CD $10.00 Borko Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!! Morr-080 LP $15.00 Borko Celebrating Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, GERMANY Celebrating Life is the first full-length release from Icelandic artist Björn Kristiansson and reflects a life in music full of experiences. The oldest of these eight tracks are up to six years old, and Morr label-head Thomas Morr has been their eager and attentive listener. How does a punch in the belly sound? Kristiansson has written a song about it called "Spoonstabber," where you'll hear an elegiac Tetris, encapsulated by delaying beats, tumbling samples, guitars, trumpets and a melody that goes on for an eternity. Borko - who also works as a musician for film and theater as well as a music teacher at a primary school in Reykjavik - expresses melancholy and nostalgia through rhythm-machines. His songs can reach dramatic heights with climbing melodies, as well as play up the stoicism of repetition and modulation. His work at the laptop and mixing desk live on stage have helped fuel his inspiration as well as childhood prog rock LPs, Jim O'Rourke's ear and electronica's warmth. Morr-080 CD $15.00 Braxton, Anthony Quartet (GTM) 2006 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Four-disc box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded with Braxton playing reeds, Carl Testa on bass, Aaron Siegal on percussion & Max Heath on piano. The box also contains a definitive essay by Braxton on his Ghost Trance compositions. Important-184 CD-BOX $26.50 Bryars, Gavin Hommages (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981 and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers, which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger (Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah, Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson, as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars' early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new 63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise, and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc Borgers. LTM-2503 CD $17.00 Cash, Brent How Will I Know If I'm Awake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, GERMANY The Marina label presents the debut release from Athens, GA-based Brent Cash. Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, How Will I Know If I'm Awake is overflowing with hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies and lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers and good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town and assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass and even a harp. The results are simply stunning. From the opening chords of "Everything That's Grey," we enter melody wonderland, a place where major 7 chords rule and beautiful vocal harmonies dazzle your mind. "Digging The Fault Line" is full of Byrds guitar jangle, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to cruise into golden California sunsets (with a great Wes Montgomery-like guitar solo along the way). "Only Time" explodes with 100 % fat-free youthful euphoria -- Roger Nichols meets The 5th Dimension. While deeply rooted in '60s songwriting -- influenced by Bacharach, Wilson, McCartney, and yes, The Monkees -- Cash certainly has his own unique signature style. Just listen to "And Had We Ever?" and "I Think I'm Falling In Love" -- with its complex, enchanting textures, ignoring conventional song structures. "Love Is Burning Down Tonight" -- a striking duet between Brent and Amanda Kapousouz -- is a special highlight of the album, while "Good Morning Sunshine" could be the theme song to the best TV series in the world -- the harpsichord-driven piece is chock-full of amazing twists and turns of melodic beauty. "This Sea, These Waves" moves us into bossa nova territory -- starting off in a classic Getz/Gilberto mould, the song soon morphs into heavenly orchestrated Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 elegance. "More Than Everything," clocking in at over six minutes, ends this beautiful song circle with a great final statement about overcoming heartbreak, delivered with the sincerity of a Carpenters record. Music made the way it was meant to be heard. Marina CD $16.25 Cassius Clay I Am The Greatest! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Yep, it's no empty boast...as the Sportsman of the last, this, or any other century does his thang in a hilarious and amazing collection of standup, poetry and rapping, just prior to entering the history books by becoming THE GREATEST EVER heavyweight champ of all time! Well on his way to becoming the idol of boxing fans and kids worldwide, and a role model to millions, the brash young Ali is as hilarious, insightful, and wise as ever; a moment of history captured forever! As a bonus, this CD includes the stunning take on Ben E. King's Stand By Me, an idea conceived by the great Sam Cooke, where Ali shows he could have been a contender in the charts too! In the specially prepared stereo remix done exclusively for the RevOla release, it sounds stunning A stone RevOla classic available for the first time in a decade! Beautifully remastered in true RevOla style and with lovely packaging as usual... With notes by Paul Gorman, author of the acclaimed bible of pop style, "THE LOOK" A must for Boxing fans, comedy fans, rap fans, poetry fans...and everyone who grew up when Muhammed Ali was KING! Rev-ola241 CD $15.50 Chatham, Rhys & His Guitar Trio All-Stars Guitar Trio Is My Life (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977's "Guitar Trio" is composer RHYS CHATHAM'S signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xCD set, "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" The sprawling collection FEATURES MEMBERS OF SONIC YOUTH, SWANS, TORTOISE, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, HÜSKER DÜ, MODERN LOVERS, SILVER MT. ZION, TOWN AND COUNTRY, DIE KREUTZEN, 90-DAY MEN, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and many more; even TONY CONRAD gets in on the act. Together these artists celebrate Chatham's wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature. So, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to Liquefy. "Guitar Trio" endures. TableoftheElements-813 CDx3 $21.00 Clint Los Tipos Duros Tambien Bailan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, SPAIN Tough guys do dance! Three years ago, Clint were four blokes trying to express their particular vision through music without the impending need of using words. Their mantra was "a closed mouth gathers no flies" and "loose lips sink ships". After one year of devoted silence playing Battleship, their lengthy exploration of silence yielded Alégrame el Día (siesta 206 - 2005) , a vivid record that lifted the band to "New Talent" status and honors at Fnac and to the prestigious "best of the year" lists. They even captivated the international critical community like no other self-taught instrumental band ever did. Clint offered no opposition to tour the bullskin shape (=Spain) until they had to embrace a new assignment, a new challenge. A tough guy, initials E.G., proposed them to create the soundtrack for a silent film, any silent film actually. Clint revised their files thoroughly and interrogated another tough guy, L.J.M. They crystallized everything in a new vehicle to communicate their "duende", the imaginary soundtrack for Berlin: Die Symphonie der Großstadt (1929) (Walter Ruttmann)/aka Berlin, Symphony of a Big City. Clint proved themselves as masters of luxuriant melancholy and found the blurred images of the last century as a true source of inspiration and a revelation to their lives. Siesta-236 CD $17.75 Coil The Ape Of Naples + The New Backwards (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE March 4TH) PS, US The Ape Of Naples/The New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies. This 4 LP set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own LP jacket that is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. A four panel poster is included and the box has a 5th color spot-gloss. This box set includes 2 albums. The first is the complete Ape Of Naples and the second is The New Backwards, which is only currently available in this box set. The New Backwards appropriately is part of the Ape of Naples set. The material is additional completed versions of songs that were left unfinished, whose early raw loops and demonstrational incarnations might sound familiar to some but have never officially surfaced. Important-174 4XLP $87.75 Coniglio, Enrico 'dyanMU (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album. Psychonavigation-022 CD $15.50 Constantines Hard Feelings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US This is the first single off their new album "Kensington Heights" to be released on April 15, 2008. B-Side "Easy Money" is not appearing on the full length. Arts&Crafts 45 $6.50 Corsano, Chris The Young Cricketer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US "The Young Cricketer" is CHRIS CORSANO'S debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of "The Solo Drum Album". Corsano's flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a Milford Graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower Paul Flaherty and a cadre of collaborators and groups (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Vampire Belt, Michael Flower, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. This LP is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. Originally issued on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label as a CDR, this LP IS REMASTERED AND ISSUED IN A 600 EDITION. FamilyVineyard-51 LP $12.25 Country Funk S-T [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, UK Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band's. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970 on Polydor, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of U.S. West Coast rock -- it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album. Fallout CD $16.25 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Crow Tongue Ghost Eye Seeker (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Crow Tongue's first full length finds them summoning distant howls from the fog of night. Fingerpicked strings & Eastern instruments recall CT's musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent electronics & mantric drones. "Ghost Eye Gaze" opens the album with a 5-part drone-raga, improvised to back a shamanic chant, pushing from free-folk to free-noise & back again. "Seeker" follows in 2 parts with bass dulcimer & tablas leading into an electric swarmandal excursion. The album closes with "Candle, Corpse, and Bell" where Crow Tongue shows their dub influence with guimbri & tabla-machine slowly spinning through the echochamber. Hand/Eye-034 CD $11.75 Crystal Castles S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Highly anticipated debut full length release from Toronto-based electro duo. Following a huge word-of-mouth fan base, the duo has recieved substantial support on PITCHFORK, and have remixed songs for BLOC PARTY and KLAXONS. LastGang CD $14.25 Cud Showbiz (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Having departed the independent world and signed with A&M in 1991, CUD proceeded to pursue the commercial success their previous releases had hinted at with 1992's Asquarius. Following this, their first hit album, proved to be the band s longest break between releases (largely the result of some inter-label disharmony), but they eventually emerged in 1994 with Showbiz. Recorded primarily in Scotland (at a studio owned by Fish of Marillion fame, no less), this record saw their sound mature and showcased a broader range of songwriting styles than previous efforts. It was well received on its release in April 1994, garnering favorable reviews, and spawned two UK hit singles in Neurotica and One Giant Love. Sadly, though, the album proved to be the band's last officially released effort as the pressures of life on a major and all that it entails took their toll on the band. This remastered version also includes a number of B-Sides from the album's single releases, as well as some unreleased out-takes and demo versions, including material intended for their next album, which hasn't seen the light of day before now. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were. A UK tour is also scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. SOMEBODY SNATCHED MY ACTION 2. ESP 3. WAVING AND DROWNING 4. STICKS AND STONES 5. MYSTERY DEEPENS 6. SLIP AWAY 7. ONE GIANT LOVE 8. I REEK OF CHIC 9. NOT NECCESSARILY EVIL 10. YOU LEAD ME 11. TOURNIQUET 12. NEUROTICA BONUS TRACKS 13. W.G.S. (NEUROTICA B-SIDE) 14. MY NEED TO HURRY (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 15. SKI BUM (STICKS AND STONES B-SIDE) 16. DOWN THE PLUG (SHOWBIZ OUTTAKE) 17. HERE COME THE OLD FLAMES (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 18. LIVING IN YOUR LOVE (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 19. LET YOU DOWN (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 20. TAKE THE TIME AND READ MY MIND (POST-SHOWBIZ SESSIONS) 21. WANTING ISN'T GETTING (POSTSHOWBIZ SESSIONS) CherryRed-357 CD $15.50 Cud Leggy Mambo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Following the release of their debut When In Rome, Kill Me and 1990 s Elvis Belt compilation (CDMRED355), Leeds indie heroes CUD set to work on their next album for Imaginary Records. Recorded during the Summer of 1990, Leggy Mambo proved to be a step in all the right directions, cementing the sound developed over their previous releases and capitalizing on the band s pop sensibilities to provide their most immediately accessible collection of songs to date. Produced by XTCs Dave Gregory and released in October 1990, the album spawned the well-received singles Robinson Crusoe and Magic (both of which might have achieved greater success had they been released on a larger label) and generated a huge amount of industry interest, eventually leading to their signing with A & M the following year. This Cherry Red Gold top Copy version of the album features the newly remastered original disc, as well as a collection of demos and alternate versions, all of which have been hand picked by the band themselves. This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006 s Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007's well received reissues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and it's accompanying releases. TRACKS: 1. NOW! 2. HEART 3. HEY, BOOTS 4. LOVE IN A HOLLOW TREE 5. LOVE MANDARIN 6. NOT EXACTLY D.L.E.R.C. 7. ROBINSON CRUSOE 8. EAU WATER 9. CARL'S 115TH COACH TRIP NIGHTMARE 10. MAGIC 11. SYRUP AND SOUR GRAPES 12. BRAIN ON A SLOW TRAIN BONUS TRACKS 13. ROBINSON CRUSOE (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 14. NOW! (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 15. EAU WATER (PATCHBAY SESSIONS DEMO) 16. L.O.P.H.E. (ROBINSON CRUSOE B-SIDE) 17. LOVE MANDARIN (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) 18. MAGIC (DEMO MIX) 19. ROBINSON CRUSOE (DUNGEON DEMO). CherryRed-356 CD $15.50 Cud Elvis Belt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Formed in Leeds in 1986, CUD went on to forge one of the more interesting and indefinable sounds of the late 80s / early 90s indie scene. Fusing a catchy pop sensibility with danceable grooves and intelligent and often humorous lyrics, they soon became firm independent favorites and began releasing records on Leeds based Reception Records in 1987, very quickly catching the ear of John Peel and becoming a regular fixture of his broadcasts. Three quality singles into their career, the band secured a deal with Imaginary Records, where they continued a fine run of singles and eventually released their debut album. Capitalizing on the band's underground success, in June 1990 Imaginary followed this with this fantastic compilation of their early releases, topping several independent charts in the process and further establishing an already strong reputation. Some eighteen years later, Elvis Belt is updated and reissued here by Cherry Red, together with a wealth of rarities and unreleased tracks from those formative years and beyond. This release features the original album in its entirety, carefully remastered and now sitting comfortably alongside Elvis Handbag, an additional disc conceived by the band as a sister album to the original release and containing a number of further B-Sides, Peel Session recordings and cover versions (including the band's legendary take on Bohemian Rhapsody, previously only available on the ultra-rare Alvin Lives in Leeds compilation). This release (along with two more Cherry Red CUD Reissues) comes hot on the tails of 2006's Rich and Strange The Anthology compilation and 2007s well received re-issues of two more of the band's albums, all of which reminded the world just how great this band were and generated a well deserved resurgence in interest. A UK tour is scheduled for March to promote this and its accompanying releases. TRACKS: ELVIS BELT 1. SLACK TIME 2. MAKE NO BONES 3. TREAT ME BAD 4. PUNISHMENT REWARD 5. RELATIONSHIPS 6. UNDER MY HAT 7. LOLA 8. URBAN SPACEMAN 9. ART 10. YOU'RE THE BOSS 11. ONLY (A PRAWN IN WHITBY) 12. HEY! WIRE 13. I'VE HAD IT WITH BLONDES ELVIS HANDBAG 14. MIND THE GAP (PEEL SESSION) 15. EVERYBODY WORKS SO HARD (PEEL SESSION) 16. BB COULDN T C (PEEL SESSION) 17. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 18. MANCHESTER 19. PURPLE LOVE BALLOON (ORIGINAL VERSION) 20. POSSESSION (ORIGINAL VERSION) 21. REMEMBER WHAT IT IS THAT YOU LOVE 22. MARJORIE 23. DOWN DOWN 24. MAGIC (1994 UNRELEASED SINGLE VERSION) 25. SLIPAWAY (UNRELEASED SINGLE MIX) 26. BEFORE TOMORROW 27. JUDAS KISS. CherryRed-355 DCD $15.50 Dear, Matthew Asa Breed Black Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US It's not often an album containing bluesy guitar & brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts. Now, w/ this release, critics & audiences will be able to re-discover one of 2007's most unique releases re-packaged to incl. remixes & re-envisionings from FOUR TET, M.A.N.D.Y., DJ KOZE & HOT SHIP! Also incl. "Don & Sherri" video! GhostlyInternational CD $10.25 DeVotchKa Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The times have finally caught up with acclaimed Denver quartet DeVotchKa. Not long ago when the band unloaded their instruments - a violin, a tuba and an accordion, among others - into a rock club, they were told they must be in the wrong place. They created music that was Grammy nominated (DeVotchKa created the soundtrack for the indie smash Oscar winning film Little Miss Sunshine) without the benefit of a huge promotion team or runaway budget, instead relying only on their own efforts by self-releasing their records. And they crafted gems of songs by mixing a beautiful blend of Eastern European bohemia, American prairie rock and distinctive indie and called it pop, rather than world, music. Now, the band is au courant, poised to shine on with their Anti- Records debut A Mad and Faithful Telling. From the cinematic richness of "Transliterator" to the modern pop experiment of "The Clockwise Witness," to the soaring and wrenching "Undone," DeVotchKa have produced a career-defining record and the world is listening. THE ONION: "DeVotchkA gets pegged with all kinds of farfetched descriptions - but despite all their trappings, which include admittedly exotic elements, Nick Urata and company concoct impeccable pop songs, the kind that fuse memory and memorability with swaying darkness and glittering soul." Anti CD $14.75 Diebold Listen To My Heartbeast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Duo featuring Ian Ilvansky from A SILVER MT. ZION and Sofia Trudeau from GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR. Bangor CD $14.25 DiskJokke Staying In (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, NORWAY Staying In, DiskJokke's debut release, is a tripped out mastodon of an album. This is the sound of Norwegian disco taken to its farthest, futuristic limits. It's epic, groovy, cinematic, poppy & most of all melodic. But at the same time, it is melancholic, and as the title suggests, staying inside the dark winter & autumn nights to make music certainly reflects the mood of the album. For years DiskJokke has been closely connected to Norway's premiere club night, Sunkissed, where he is resident DJ with G-HA, Olanskii & VinnyVillbass. "Bright, playful, spacey, and colorful, music for the nighttime that retains the warmth of an afternoon on the beach" -Pitchfork SmalltownSupersound-145 CD $15.25 Dixon, Andy Mice of Mt. Career (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This billows w/ a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, & multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing, & songwriting burst w/ a fresh, vibrant energy. Andy Dixon is in SECRET MOMMY. Ache-036 CD $12.00 Dodos, The Visiter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long played folky guitar w/ a combination of loops & ambient keyboards. Now, along w/ Logan Kroeber & a name change, the band has toured w/ Akron Family, Wovenhand, & Les Savy Fav in support of their first full length for French Kiss. FrenchKiss CD $13.25 Doleful Lions 7 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, US After clearing the vaults with their previous album, Song Cyclops Volume Two, Doleful Lions return with a new lineup, direction, and wisdom. 7 represents the next step in the evolution of Doleful Lions, marrying their keen pop sensibilities with a new adventurous sound... The usual folk guitar strummings of their previous releases have been replaced with an eclectic mix of electronically-informed, epic song structures and a focused lyrical intensity. They have used 7 to explore other sonic horizons. 7 is a truly adventurous album in all regards; an album that has ventured further beyond any music created by the Doleful Lions in the past. Parasol-CD-108 CD $9.00 Earth Bee Made Honey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 26TH) PS, US This finds Dylan Carlson & the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel & impovisitory direction framed by truly psychedelic production & blazing guitar sounds. They show their affinity w/ a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's & 70's, & the more spiritually aware & exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired & original metamorphosis. Feat. BILL FRISELL doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years! SouthernLord CD $14.00 Earth, Roots & Water Innocent Youths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Originally released in 1977. First reissue of this now-extinct material featuring contributions from reggae greats Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Adrian "Homer" Miller & Bunny Brown from The Chosen Few. Heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar, percussion & Brown's wild style behind the controls. LightInTheAttic CD $12.50 Earth, Roots & Water Innocent Youths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LightInTheAttic LP $14.25 Eleh & Sun Circle S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Essential limited edition 180-gram vinyl release pressed in an edition of 500 copies. Eleh's pure analog drones are a perfect complement to Sun Circle's ecstatic high-volume compositions. Eleh's track is a slight departure from the sub-sonic bass-heavy drones of their first two records. This time around there is more emphasis on a glistening shimmer. Sun Circle's Important debut is psychoacoustic minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism: ecstatic high-volume drones, long-form trance musics & peace noise performed with bowed strings, voices, organs, percussion & world instruments. Important LP $15.00 Envy A Dead Sinking Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131 CD $9.00 Envy A Dead Sinking Story (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131 DLP $14.25 Eprhyme Punklezmerap (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Enter EPRHYME: a rapper with more on his mind than his money; a Jew with issues other than his mother. A cultural nomad with roots in seemingly contradictory cultural contexts, Eprhyme approaches both Judaism and Hip Hop with a profound respect for tradition, balanced by creative freedom and poetic license. Not afraid to experiment or cross boundaries of content and style, Eprhyme blends and juxtaposes seemingly divergent sounds and ideas into a swirling and seamless whole. Krecords-114 45 $3.75 Erik M Steme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concrete composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD that was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad8system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. ERIKM has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turn tabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better-equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music ; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience. Room40-426 CD $15.00 Evangelista Hello, Voyager (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US New band featuring CARLA BOZLICH. Raw, beautifully ravaged, semi-improvised soundscapes featuring Carla's incantatroy sung and spoken lyrics on the opening & closing tracks, with the rest of the record more overtly composed. Constellation-050 CD $14.25 Evangelista Hello, Voyager (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Constellation-050 LP $16.25 Experimental Aircraft Third Transmission (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US This Austin band has been described as lush, ethereal, soothing and beautiful, thanks to front woman/guitarist Rachel Staggs' gorgeous, breathy-yetapocalyptic vocals and heavily distorted instruments. Graveface-023 CD $11.50 Fahey, John Mill Pond (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Originally released on vinyl only. Limited edition CD reissue includes the first-ever collection of Fahey's paintings in the accompanying booklet. His music has been called folk, blues, bluegrass, noise, and even (gasp!) new age. On this EP, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric slide & feedback to create an eerie mood. The Mill Pond is all over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. It further proves that there is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius. Important-183 CD $12.50 Fanu + Bill Laswell Lodge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Artists: FANU is Finland's and perhaps the world's finest breakbeat splicer and re-imaging doctor. His programming, layering, and arrangements of classic breakbeats are truly some of the most innovative and by far the most realistic sounding - akin to a jazz drummer with no boundaries and seventeen available drum kits at once. BILL LASWELL is the Grammy award-winning producer of Herbie Hancock, bassist and arranger extraordinaire. Fresh off the amazing Method of Defiance record "Inamorata", he's completed this follow up recording, which also features Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer prominently. Album: If you took the electric period of Miles Davis, with less repetition, more funk, and mad scientist drummer, you might end up halfway to LODGE. Half time vamps swing with steady funk bass from Laswell and one of Bernie Worrell's most inspired keyboard performances since PFunk, LODGE turns it out with much more emphasis on the groove. Bits of drum n bass and floating trumpet maneuver over the core modular pieces; a much less harsh sound than the Method of Defiance project, more demonstrative of the soul of Laswell's funktronics. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell and his project Method of Defiance, to End.user and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer. OhmResistance-8 CD $12.25 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! ATP DLP $17.75 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The group was initially born as an outlet for their nihilistic-noise tendencies but quickly, they realized they could harness the use of noise as a tool to immerse & evoke. Tribal beats & subtle, beautiful melodies weave amongst contorting Technicolor drone-scapes while preaching distorted vocals scream for dear hope. This grand noise will fondle you into a state of totally immersed euphoria. ATP CD $15.50 Gazelle Sunblown (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US Debut album from local scene super-duo parlaying overcast electro-rock dreamscapes. Features Jeff Dimpsey (Hum, National Skyline, Honcho Overload, Poster Children, etc) and Adam Fein (Absinthe Blind). Features a guest appearance from Adam's sister Erin, vocalist for Headlights.Check out the release page for more info and sound samples. AHiddenAgendaRecord-090 CD $9.00 Glorytellers S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US First release for this new project featuring Geoff Farina, frontman for KARATE & SECRET STARS. Abstract harmonies, urgent vocal style, pristine pre -WWII guitar & drum sounds, bass lines thumb-picked on an acoustic guitar , and 50 year old cymbals make this one hell of an interesting American songbook. Southern CD $13.50 Glorytellers S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Southern LP $13.50 Godfathers, The Hit By Hit + Extras (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Newly compiled double CD album containing all of The Godfathers' original Corporate Image early singles: Lonely Man, This Damn Nation, I Want Everything, Love Is Dead as well as B-sides and extra tracks including instrumentals John Barry and Gone To Texas plus their ultimate cover of John Lennon's Cold Turkey and an inspired rendition of Rolf Harris' Sun Arise. All tracks on Disc one produced by the legendary Vic Maile (Motorhead, Hawkwind, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Guns n' Roses, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Inmates, Tom Robinson Band, Vibrators, Girlschool, etc.). Disc one is paired with a full CD of previously unreleased extra tracks from The Godfathers' seminal BBC Radio One Sessions recorded for Janice Long and Andy Kershaw and live recordings around the world. Along with an exclusive live rendition of Cold Turkey you can expect ultra rare material including cover versions of The Sid Presley Experience's Public Enemy Number One, The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop and The Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK as they were performed in front of wild and enthusiastic crowds. The package boasts previously unseen pictures and liner notes by frontman Peter Coyne and ex-Ramones manager Danny Fields, the man who discovered The MC5 and Iggy & The Stooges. TRACK LIST: Disc One: 1. I Want Everything 2. This Damn Nation 3. I Want You 4. Can't Leave Her Alone 5. Sun Arise 6. Cold Turkey 7. John Barry 8. Sticks & Stones 9. I'm Unsatisfied 10. Lonely Man 11. Angela 12. Gone To Texas 13. Love Is Dead - All tracks produced by Vic Maile. Disc Two: Extras 1. This Damn Nation - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 2. John Barry - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 3. Lonely Man - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 4. Sun Arise - Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One Session 31/10/85 5. If I Only Had Time - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 6. I Want Everything - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 7. I Want You - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 8. I'm Unsatisfied - Janice Long BBC Radio One Session 04/05/86 9. I Want Everything - live 10. Love Is Dead - live 11. Can't Leave Her Alone - live 12. Cold Turkey - live 13. Blitzkrieg Bop - live 14. Lonely Man - live 15. Public Enemy Number One - live 16. Anarchy In The UK - live. CorporateImage-030 DCD $22.50 Grand Volume Send Me Your Champion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Grand Volume are a unique proposition in the current musical climate, capable of knocking out two minute punk rock gems with consummate ease but equally comfortable venturing into more sophisticated prog-inspired territory. Of their peers only the Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age can match them for combining such musical dexterity with fiercely passionate intensity. Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Vocals, Guitar), Dan Larke (Guitar, Vocals, Tech) and Jon Green (Drums, Vocals, Bass, Tech) have made a ferocious statement of intent with their debut album for Fat Northerner Records, the provocatively titled 'Send Me Your Champion'. Opening track 'Summon' throws down the gauntlet in typically thunderous fashion, transporting the listener to the dirty side of early 90's Seattle before it's apocalyptic wall of noise eventually subsides and the clear, unashamedly English vocals of frontman Tom Sheals-Barrett reveal that this is a band as in thrall to Radiohead as they are to Soundgarden. Recent single 'History' follows and highlights again what a versatile outfit Grand Volume are; as tenacious, disciplined and economical as Fugazi or Minor Threat, yet as musically adventurous and intelligent as Devo or Television. 'Fire Come Soon' is another fine distillation of Grand Volume's prog meets punk philosophy - it's bombastic fire and brimstone lyrics are consumed in a maelstrom of sub-pop inspired thrash, which occasionally gives way to a gentler, fx-laden, bassdriven groove that wouldn't sound out of place on 'OK Computer'. The album closes with the beautiful 'Departure Lounge', a deeply introspective track that wouldn't sound out of place on any of the 4AD label's austere 80's gothic releases. The whole mood of the song emphasizes again that Grand Volume are a band well-versed in the whole canon of alternative rock, stretching their sound far further than the majority of their contemporaries. "An awesome racket. The missing link between classic stadium bombast and post-hardcore death noise" Dan Martin, NME. Championed by Bruce Dickinson (BBC 6) Music and Huw Stephens (Radio 1). FatNortherner-002 CD $16.25 Head of Femur Great Plains (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Head of Femur releases its third full-length, stripping down to a more accessible five-piece. However, the group still manages to stay true to its ambitious trademark sound, lacing together art-rock sensibilities reflective of the Talking Heads. Greyday CD $11.50 Hello Lovers Gone With The Wind (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Hello Lovers has been producing a unique sound described as "southern gothic" baroque pop in a chamber group incarnation. The group itself has been referenced as a "String Chamber Group With Vocals". Lead by John King who writes & directs most of the arrangements & sings, the group features Masha Poloskova (Conservatory of Moscow) on violin, Molly Fischer (Conservatory of Kansas) on cello & Andy Hadaway (Spank Dance Co) on piano. Guest performers include members of ...Trail of Dead, Windsor for the Derby, Polyphonic Spree & others. Sixgunlover-015 CD $12.25 Hideki Spaghetti S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, SPAIN Is this the soundtrack of the first Japanese spaghetti-western? Is Hideki Kaji -the official emperor of Shibuya-ku pop- now in full cowboy gear or is he now a charming and romantic character alla italiana? Has Jez Butler sculpted another highly stylized retro futuristic fantasy? Will this Italian trip from the neo-aco heroe please the many legions of his fans? Did he use a time machine to travel to the good old days of lost pop? Well, Hideki Spaghetti is an italian adventure created by Hideki Kaji and Jez Butler. And all the responses can be found in this fantastic record. Siesta-216 CD $17.75 Hingley, Tom And The Lovers Highlights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Tom Hingley is also lead singer in The Inspiral Carpets. March 2008 sees Tom Hingley and the Lovers release their second album 'Highlights'. 3 years in the making it is a work of art. Poetic, melodic and well worth the wait. Highlights is the first release from the band since their critically acclaimed 2004 debut 'Abba Are the Enemy'. Where 'Abba' was a brash 200 mph Punk/Garage dash through topical subjects such as reality television, the Pop parade and War Mongering, 'Highlights' sees the band developing along a much more melodic soulful train of thought. Songs touch on such universal themes as love (Highlights), Religion ('All My Time'), Lions ('Venomous) Credit Crunch ('Kick out The Clocks') and the pretentious Manchester district of Chorlton Cum Hardy, which Tom can't afford to buy a house in and is not all at all bitter about ('EverGreen') NewMemorabilia-10 CD $16.25 Howlin' Rain Magnificent Fiend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Feat. members of THE CUTS, DRUNK HORSE & COMETS ON FIRE. By turns pummeling & pastoral, this oscillates between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks & delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized, often dissonant guitar lines. Toss in counter-melodic bass, sometimes quirky breaks, & extended instrumental sequences that ascend to the heavens or cascade softly, softly from the skies in sparkling showers of gunpowder & smoke. Birdman LP $16.00 Judys, The Washarama [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US The original 'Washarama' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! With six bonus tracks from "The Wonderful World of Applainces" EP. The Judy's first full-length and most popular recording, Washarama was a watershed event in the Texas new wave scene and solidified the band's status as the state's most original and daring musical provocateurs. The album perfectly captures the band's quirky sensibility and their signature minimalist sound. The twelve-song, 35-minute album includes some of The Judy's most popular songs including "Her Wave", "Man on a Window Ledge", and the legendary "Guyana Punch". This was the first time that the band had spent an extensive (for them) amount of time on a recording project including a total remix of the album after its initial completion. The album was officially released in 1981 at a record release party at Houston's Agora Ballroom and literally became a top seller overnight. Sales were later bolstered by Wasted Talent securing distribution from a major regional distributor. Despite it's age, Washarama still holds its own as the classic Texas new wave album. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Julie Mittens S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US A Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording & the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do w/ Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, they consistently wreak havoc w/ lavish, textural, peakerblowing meltdown jams. HolyMountain CD $14.25 July July (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Having started out as a skiffle act from Ealing and called The Playboys they then became an R&B combo, The Tomcats. John (Speedy) Keen, (Thunderclap Newman) was in them for a while and then In 1966, The Tomcats went to Spain with a new line-up (one which become the future July one). As Los Tomcats, they got in the charts with four EPs, one of which was all in Spanish! They then returned to the UK in 1968, still basing themselves in Ealing and changed their name to July. As July, they recorded what later became one of the most sought-after British psychedelic sixties albums of all time. One that was originally released in the UK on Major Minor (MMLP/SMLP 29) in 1968 and also issued in USA/Canada on Epic (BN- 26416) and even released in Brazil (Musidisc Hi Fi 2.177). The album s main appeal is its haunting brand of psychedelia and Rev-Ola are delighted to announce that this special CD issue has four bonus tracks. The gorgeous package is also enhanced by a quantity of previously unpublished photographs and some highly-informative CD booklet notes by 60s pop-sike expert David Wells. Tony Duhig (guitarist) and John Field (keyboards, flute) went on to be in Jade Warrior and Tom Newman later released solo albums on Virgin and Decca. He also set up Branson's Manor Studios and engineered 'Tubular Bells' I and II! TRACKS: 1. MY CLOWN 2. DANDELION SEEDS 3. JOLLY MARY 4. HALLO TO ME 5. YOU MISSED IT ALL 6. THE WAY 7. TO BE FREE 8. MOVE ON SWEET FLOWER 9. CRYING IS FOR WRITERS 10. I SEE 11. A FRIENDLY MAN 12. A BIRD LIVED BONUS TRACKS 13. MY CLOWN (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM580 1968) 14. DANDELION SEEDS 15. HELLO WHO S THERE (MAJOR MINOR 45: MM568 1968) 16. THE WAY Rev-Ola-243 CD $15.50 Kid Dakota A Winners Shadow (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US Layer on layer of guitar and percussion driven melodies. For fans of Okervil River, Rio Kiley, Spoon, Nada Surf. Graveface CD $10.25 Kid Kishore The Social Club Nº 9 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Copenhagen native of Indian descent KID KISHORE strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. Self-described as anything from "Danish ghetto-tech" to "golden age Bollywood," his beat-heavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape. TheSocialRegistry-057 45 $5.50 Koenjihyakkei Hundred Sights of Koenji (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Legendary debut album, the original Japanese issue went largely unheard, Hundred Sights of Koenji returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Originally released in 1994, it includes the full RUINS line-up of Yoshida Tatsuya, Masuda Ryuichi, Kubota Aki & Kuwahara Shigekazu for a futuristic journey to those hallowed fields of yore. SkinGraft-090 CD $14.25 Kraus, Sharron Fox's Wedding (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness & joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark & stormy night. This stunning new album offers 11 original songs & a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion. DurtroJnana CD $16.00 Ladyhawk Shots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Jagjaguwar-117 LP $11.50 Ladyhawk Shots (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time. Jagjaguwar-117 CD $11.50 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin Missa Luba (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as Absolutely, one of the great films, Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmosphere of the sixties; and four decades on has lost none of it's power to astonish and provoke. Malcolm McDowell (of whom IF... made a star), suggested the bewitching, other-worldly music of Sanctus from the Missa Luba, a version of the Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs, which establishes the film s very particular atmosphere. IF... captured the public's imagination beyond anyone's expectation and the memorable Sanctus subsequently became a chart hit (I couldn¹t believe it recalled McDowell). Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, a choir with percussion section consisting of about 45 boys from 9 to 14 years old, and 15 teachers were formed by Father Haazen. The Missa Luba is pure Congolese. It is completely void of any modern, western musical influences. None of it is written. Certain rhythms, harmonies and embellishments are spontaneous improvisations. This edition, comprising the mass and native songs of the Congo, is the first complete restoration of the original album first released in 1963. El-136 CD $15.50 Lucy Bland Down To Sea Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US A little bit familiar and a lot unexpected, Lucy Bland's Down to Sea Level fuses the dynamic range of indie rock, the experimentation of electronica, and the story telling of folk into this genre-defining work. Expanding on the dreamy lushness of their "... really really really cool debut EP" (John Richards, KEXP), Down to Sea Level is the lo-fi indie anthem of your everyday. Introspective tracks like "Crashing Waves" are dominated by intricate arrangements, blip hop adventurousness, and bold instrumentation. The vocal-driven style is complimented by drops of melodic cello, delicate electronic ornamentation, and understated guitar chords, lending the song an aquatic, nostalgic air. Along with the imagery of open seas, Venetian streets, and collecting driftwood, Lucy Bland proves their adaptability with the sixth track of the album. Echoing the sound of Mirah and Blonde Redhead, "Valor" combines open, naked vocals and funky, disco bass beats into a quintessentially dark and moving opus. The song is epic without overstepping dramatic boundaries. Drawing from influences as varied as Cat Power and Hot Chip, Down to Sea Level is a versatile record that lacks only a distribution company. One listen and it won't be your last. Your eardrums will thank you. REVIEWS OF LUCY BLAND'S FIRST RECITAL: "It was so good I almost feel like speaking would be a disgrace." - Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), KEXP Radio "... Music is rarely this pleasurable, meaningful, and soothing on tracks like 'Centuries' and the Suzanne Vega-ish 'Streaker'. A very charming debut EP." - www.threeimaginarygirls.com "Down tempo and moving, Lucy Bland is anything but bland. With the vocals of lead singer Cat Biell surrounded by some cello, guitar, and keyboard, the music just seems to flow so easily. It is perfect for that quiet evening or lazy afternoon." -South of Mainstream LucyBland-2 CD $12.50 Lullatone The Bedtime Beat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece, Lullatone presents the bedtime beat This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious "bathtime beat", which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let's March to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat! SomeoneGood-003 CD5 $13.50 Maclean, Juan Happy House (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US This single is a dance tourist's window into the state of downtown clubbing in what has always historically been the worldwide capital for boogie. It is no longer as paranoid, as cold, as robotic. W/ remixes by PRINCE LANGUAGE & LEE DOUGLAS. DFA 12 $8.00 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US His first record in three years. Malkmus' genius is that he knows exactly when to fetter. These songs may sprawl like the Central Valley (told you), they may spread out like a jet's flame, but when they reach that last tract house they gracefully spread their wings and head for the unclaimed land beyond. Indeed, although Malkmus makes the Pacific Northwest his home, this feels like a "California" album. Check out how "Real Emotional Trash" begins as a modern-day "Tonight's the Night," before evolving into a road trip from the Mexican border to Marin, in the tradition of Pavement's "Unfair." And dig those Allman Bros. leads (really!). Matador CD $13.50 Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $13.50 Miimo Live at Super Deluxe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type), clamshell case. Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). "Live at Super Deluxe" was recorded at the most advanced club in Tokyo "Super Deluxe" in July, 2007. Their live performance is vivid and emotional. Steel Pan is featured on drum & electric double bass with electronic percussions. Each members control dubbed samplers/computers, playing their own instruments. Hybrid performance. Chill-out dubbed sounds and beat-driven groove(tr1), jazzy and tender arrangement(tr2), heavy bass onedrop(tr3), hypnotic beat with Melodica and Steel Pan(tr4). Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) as well as debut album. Amorfon-2 CD $15.00 Miimo S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type) in clamshell case. Cool melody & beat from Tokyo! Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Miimo's tracks have been already used for documentary movie and commercial spot as soundtracks in Japan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). Exotic electronic pop album "miimo" is their debut album including tunes like; impressive Pablo-like melody by Melodica (tr2), nice combination with jazzy sax and electric beat(tr3), mystic polyphonic song feat. J-pop female singer (tr4), chilled Steelpan 'dub' melody (tr6), feat. cut-up poetry reading in Spanish (tr8), etc. Describing romantic and chilled atmosphere in Tokyo with the sound. Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) in clamshell case. Like Morr, ~Scape and C.C.O., electronic and acoustic are crossovered nicely. Amorfon-1 CD $15.00 Millimetrik Northwest Passage's New Era (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Pascal Asselin is a founder member of French Canadian dreampop outfit Below the Sea and half of Anglo-Canadian duo Glider. Pascal began recording under the name Millimetrik in 2003, uniting his love of atmospheric ambient (Biosphere, Murcof) with hip-hop rhythms and breaks. With his background as a drummer, Millimetrik's earlier albums "Variety is the Spice of Life" and "Deeper Transmissions" and "The Last Polar Bear on Earth" (all Statik Rek) featured intricately programmed beats with the music creating an otherworldly and often unsettling and chilly backdrop. Over the course of recent releases, such as "Cities EP" and "I Am You Are Me; Remixes and Unreleased" (both Make Mine Music), the atmospheres have slowly thawed and melody has come increasingly to the fore. On the new album "Northwest Passage's New Era", Pascal has ventured even further down this path and the music has a sense of emerging from darkness into the light. The intricately programmed beats are still present, but the emphasis is firmly on melody and structure, and the sound is rooted in hip-hop rather than ambient music. Featuring guest appearances by Ulrich Schnauss and Port-Royal amongst others, the album also sees the first vocals on a Millimetrik release courtesy of Sean Heenan of Auburn Lull and Marie Jorge, whose beautiful vocals grace the album's final track. With this new album, Millimetrik has exceeded the already very high standards of previous releases. "Northwest Passage's New Era" is a consistently enjoyable, engaging and varied listen that Make Mine Music is proud to release. MakeMineMusic-039 CD $17.75 Monochrome Set The Independent Singles Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, UK Suave; debonair; sophisticated. Haughty, perhaps, for those who favor the pejorative. Aristocratic in more than one sense, classy in at least as many. The Monochrome Set were effortlessly inventive, literate, poised and immaculate of tuneage, possessed of an internal dialogue as a band that allowed them to surf their own narrative. They were just unlike anything else, in layman s terms. Instead, their sound harked back to a golden era of British pop songwriters. But there was nothing retrogressive about their endeavors. Instead they wrote songs that recreated the drama and promise of a Pearl & Dean interval theme, veering from lullaby to mambo to harmonic pop, accompanied by lush melodies and irresistibly playful lyrics that embraced morbidity at one extreme, and pitch-perfect satire at another. Because they could. Brand new release of Monochrome Set's complete independent singles collection including b-sides and rare tracks Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim, a long-term fan of the band, has recorded a cover of He's Frank with guest vocals by Iggy Pop and indeed this version has already been broadcast in Heroes. And the word is that this track may even be his next single. TRACKS: 1. HE S FRANK 2. ALPHAVILLE 3. EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS 4. LESTER LEAPS IN 5. THE MONOCHROME SET 6. MR BIZZARO 7. HE S FRANK (SLIGHT RETURN) 8. SILICON CARNE 9. FALLOUT 10. THE MATING GAME 11. J.D.H.A.N.E.Y. 12. CAST A LONG SHADOW 13. THE BRIDGE 14. JET SET JUNTA 15. LOVE GOES DOWN THE DRAIN 16. KILLING DAVE 17. HOUSE OF GOD (LIVE) 18. SWEET DEATH 19. FOREVER YOUNG 20. HURTING YOU 21. LITTLE NOISES 22. I LOVE LAMBETH 23. KISSY KISSY 24. ALL OVER 25. CLOSING TIME CherryRed-350 CD $15.50 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Motorpsycho Little Lucid Moments (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, NORWAY NEW 2008 ALBUM! PRICE TO BE CONFIRMED. Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog juggernaut Motorpsycho is back, with new drummer Kenneth Kapstad, and we couldn't be happier. The follow-up to last year's double-album guitar-rock epic Black Hole/Blank Canvas, this new album is reported to be comprised of "long and delightful songs", exploring the outer reaches of each song's planetary system we reckon...and we couldn't be happier. Plus it will be readily available at what we like to call a very decent price...and we couldn't be happier! RuneGrammofon CD $15.00 Murder By Death Red of Tooth and Claw (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Fourth and most accomplished release recorded by Grammy-winning producer Trina Shoemaker (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, IGGY POP) Vagrant CD $13.75 Numbers Tomlab Alphabet Series: W (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US NUMBERS emerges from the dusk of last year's full-length, "Now You Are This", with a pair of rollicking jams that refuse to let the summer set from our hearts and minds. "Is That Really True?" takes on the heavy question of real knowledge with a fuzz bass and drone organ before turning to an irresistible hum-along chorus. And prevailing question remains: "What can we know?" On the þip, the TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS classic "Crimson and Clover" experiences a fuzz rock reawakening shot through by pointedly triumphant guitars and dirty synth. All builds to an end with a brilliant reenactment of the tremolo chant "Crimson and Clover - over and over..." Summer may go, but it won't be gone forever. "Now Now You Are This' fuzzy guitar riffs and distorted synth melodies aren't just burning and propulsive, they're also strangely emotive. We like strangely emotive." - XLR8R Tomlab-106-W 45 $5.50 OffOnOff Clash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, NORWAY One half of Original Silence, Offonoff is comprised of Terrie Ex (THE EX), Massimo Pupillo (ZU) & PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE. Similar to the sounds of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth, and The Ex. Noisy, intense, hard with rapid shifts & contrasts, heavy grooves. All free improvised! SmalltownSupersound-147 CD $15.25 Panther 14 Kt. God (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Vinyl version of cd recently released by KILL ROCK STARS. 180 gram Marriage LP $14.25 Paper An Object (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN Debut album from Swedish kraut-punk trio featuring Calle Olsson from The Bear Quartet and Paddington DC along with members of Audionom. The sound is based around the frustration of punk, the delicacy of pop melody and the hypnotic power of repetition. Think early Wire meets early Wire, simple, powerful. Novoton-015 CD $14.00 Parade, The Sunshine Girl: The Complete Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK The Parade were Murray MacLeod (also a member of The Roger Nichols Trio/Small Circle of Friends), Jerry Riopelle (Phil Spector protégé and former Philles staff producer), and Smokey Roberds (songwriter and actor). Originally signed to A&M Records, The Parade not only created a definitively West Coast pop sound but also unknowingly helped establish the sunshine pop genre via their 1967 Billboard Top 20 hit, Sunshine Girl. This first-ever complete collection of the trio s recorded output features the talents of no less than a pre-Loggins Jimmy Messina, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, David Gates, and other L.A./Wrecking Crew luminaries. The gorgeous 16 page full-colour booklet also includes rare, previously unpublished photos and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of all original band members. Now Sounds, the brand-new imprint from Cherry Red has been established by STEVE STANLEY - producer of over 50 Rev-Ola titles. Recordings produced by Jerry Riopelle. TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE GIRL 2. SHE SLEEPS ALONE 3. THE RADIO SONG 4. LOVERS 5. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU 6. FROG PRINCE 7. WELCOME, YOU RE IN LOVE 8. HALLELUJAH ROCKET 9. SHE S GOT THE MAGIC 10. A.C./D.C. 11. LULLABY 12. THIS OLD MELODY 13. LAUGHIN LADY 14. I CAN SEE LOVE BONUS TRACKS 15. MONTAGE MIRROR (ROGER NICHOLS TRIO) 16. HOW CAN I THANK YOU (DEMO) 17. LOVE IS THERE (DEMO) 18. LOVE IS THE PEOPLE S CHOICE (SMOKEY ROBERDS) 19. FROG PRINCE (ALTERNATE MIX) 20. SHE SLEEPS ALONE (DEMO) 21. KINDA WASTED WITHOUT YOU (MONO) 22. SUNSHINE GIRL (MONO 45) 23. ONE MORE TIME (CONNIE AUSTIN). NowSounds-1 CD $15.50 Port Royal Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE March 4TH) PS, US The much-delayed remix project finally surfaces, with a stellar line-up of remixers taking apart tracks from 'Flares', the much loved debut album from the Italian post-space-rock quartet. 'Flared Up' follows last year's sophomore long player 'Afraid To Dance' and was put together between June 2005 and December 2006, with finishing touches and fine-tuning preparing it for a Spring 2008 release. The album will be released in a limited edition one-off pressing of 1000 copies for the world. TRACKLISTING: 1. Mohn f/r port-royal (F.S. Blumm remix) (previously unreleased track) 2. Jeka (Fizzarum remix) 3. Spetsnaz (destroyed by Stafraenn Hakon) 4. Karola Bloch (Manual remix) 5. Jeka (Judith Juillerat remix) 6. Flares pt. 2 (d_rradio remix) 7. Flares pt.3 (Televise remix) 8. Karola Bloch (Dialect remix) 9. Spetsnaz (Skyphone remix) 10. Flares On The Water (Minamo remix) 11. Karola Bloch (OPN remix) 12. Stimmung (Ulrich Schnauss remix). Resonant-027 CD $15.00 Powell, Baden & Vinicius De Moraes Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, UK Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova, (Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sambas is his response to the commercialization of the movement by the mid-sixties. Co-written with the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell and eventually released in 1966, these eight songs combine Powell's melodic gifts with Bahian folk traditions and Gregorian chant. With the joyous vocalizations of Quarteto Em Cy, the atmosphere is at once haunting and spontaneous. The music hasn't even begun to date. Recorded at a time when musicians around the world were looking to break down barriers - between classical and pop, East and West - but the Afro-sambas appear to recognize no such barriers in the first place. Os Afro-Sambas is an absolute stunner. One of the most exquisite pieces of Brazilian music ever recorded, it is combined on this edition with the intimate, irresistible, A Vontade, Baden's most successful solo LP of the period and one of his finest achievements. El-137 CD $15.50 Power Pill Fist Kongmanivong (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US The bassist from BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW's solo album, all of the music was produced on a circuit bent Atari 2600. Dark and intense. For fans of Melt Banana, Autechre, Pan Sonic. Graveface-021 CD $11.50 Pwrfl Power S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US In spite of its populist facade, popular music still largely manages to maintain a number of strangely puritanical conventions. One exceptionally glaring case in point is the assumed mutual exclusivity of humor and "serious" music--the assumption that all "important" music is solemn, earnest, and marked with abject sincerity. Particularly in the realm of the singer/songwriter, sap and heart-sleeved sincerity are tantamount to authenticity, and humor is viewed at best as a suspicious novelty. Which is just one reason why PWRFL Power's Kazutaka Nomura doesn't especially care for pop conventions. Born to an architect and a calligrapher in Hokkaido, Japan in 1984, Kaz began studying Classical and Jazz guitar at the age of 13--moving to Seattle at 18 to study musical composition. Shortly after his arrival, the diminutive and charismatic Nomura co-founded (along with two other like-minded Japanese emigres) the city-conquering, genre-defying free-improv trio Na--who, before their residency-related demise in 2006, self-released over 40 recordings, and garnered ink in Wire, Spin, and The Stranger. Following the dissolution of his band, Nomura--now armed with a fancy music degree--decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power: an unconventional marriage of melodically rich, Fahey-styled acoustic virtuosity and conversational, knowingly naive lyrical abandon. With the most basic of building blocks, Nomura forges a uniquely avant-informed brand of outsider folk music--one that relies as much on impish mischief as it does on considered craft and technique. In the year or so since his live debut, PWRFL Power has collected considerable local and national acclaim for his magnetically charming live performances--with high-profile appearances at Wham City's Whartscape festival, and a mainstage slot at Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party (an appearance which resulted in Kaz being cast as himself in one of those weird, animated Esurance television commercialsÉ no, seriously--look for it in early 2008). With his self-titled full-length debut, PWRFL Power covers considerable aesthetic strides--from contemplative sparsity to bluesy dexterity to pure pop, and on through to a number scarcely definable alleyways in between--whilst spinning loving yarns about self-acceptance, internet dating,chopstick etiquette, loathsome cats, cocaine, obsessive-compulsive text messaging, and tomato throwing. And what's most awe-inspiring is that, in spite of this innate humor, PWRFL Power manages to transcend the potentially cloying confines of its subject matter--seemingly by sheer will-with thoughtfully constructed, elegantly played, and catchy as fuck compositions. So yes, the songs are meant to be funny. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't take them seriously. PWRFL Power has performed with Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, No-Neck Blues Band, Spoon, Beach House, Sir Richard Bishop, No Age, Wooden Wand, Sage Francis, Marnie Stern, Barr, Aa, White Magic, Jana Hunter, Gang Wizard, and countless others. SlenderMeansSociety-009 CD $10.25 Rameses III Basilica (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US `Basilica´ is Rameses III's eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed releases 'Honey Rose' (Important), 'Matanuska' (Music Fellowship) and 'Night Of The Ankou' (Type). 'Basilica' is a double album of live recordings of new Rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries Robert Horton, Keith Berry, Gregg Kowalsky and Astral Social Club. Each artist approached to contribute to the 'Basilica' disc was given free range to experiment with the live files, to re-invent and re-interpret the recordings as they saw fit. Minimalist sound-sculptor Keith Berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of 'Basilica' and gave the album an early focus and provided inspiration for the glacial artwork. Gregg Kowalsky played the 'Rose Blood' remix as part of his own performance at the OVERLAP 02 event in San Francisco using its tuned sinewave oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to induce, to quote the man himself, "a psychoacoustic listening experience". Important-178 DCD $13.00 Rusalnaia (ft. SHARRON KRAUS) S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, AUSTRALIA Recorded in two sessions through 2007 when SHARRON KRAUS & GILLIAN CHADWICK (Ex-Reverie) teamed up with engineer Greg Weeks, who helped capture the duo's organic & sometimes unusual instrumentation, from dulcimer & guitar to pennywhistles & goat's nail shaker, and contributed his own accents to a few tracks: acid Les Paul leads & vintage 70's synths. Eight tracks of haunting, ritualistic, magical pagan-folk were the result, varying from the darkly processional tale of dispossession, though the Comus-like ceremonies of the title track, to the extended forest folk trance on the concluding "Wild Summer" CameraObscura-082 CD $14.25 Skyphone Avellaneda (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, NORWAY This is the second full-length release by Danish trio Skyphone for the Rune Grammofon label. Having played in various rock outfits during most of the '90s, childhood friends Keld Dam Schmidt, Thomas Holst and Mads Bødker slowly moved towards the electronica scene and the German dub scene before starting Skyphone in 1999. Since then, they have steadily developed their own style, combining traditional rock instruments with electronics; scratching and carefully damaging the surface of the digital sounds, creating melodic pop songs without singing, leaving it to the listener to infer what the songs actually could have been and what is lurking virtually beneath the constrained, deliberately ambiguous surface of the song. With Avellaneda, they have further developed these ideas into a seamless blend of acoustic and electronic elements, rich in detail and sonic refinement, with the occasional touch of Scandinavian folk music providing a strong melodic base. RuneGrammofon CD $16.25 Solo Andata/Seaworthy/Taylor Deupree Live In Melbourne (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US One night in April, 2007, the beautiful city of Melbourne, Australia was host to a small gathering of sound-lovers and curious passers-by descending on the venerable Northcote Social Club for a night of subtle soundscaping by Oz-natives Solo Andata and Seaworthy and New Yorker Taylor Deupree, who was in Australia for a tour. After a great meal and despite the ghosts of the BBC hijacking the audio system, the three artists set out to capture the focused listeners with beds of abandoned melodies and warm acoustic tangles. In hopes to capture the memories of the night, and a snapshot of live audio and all of its imperfections, Deupree recorded the evening with the intent of producing this CD. Live in Melbourne pairs labelmates Seaworthy and Deupree with Solo Andata, a newcomer to 12k, who all share in a similar sonic aesthetic. Solo Andata performed with laptop and a host of small instruments and electronics creating dense and careful beds of disjointed, yet beautiful music. Seaworthy transformed the stunning, sparse drones of his Map in Hand album into a live, improvised experience that captured all of the emotion that's created by a single musician and his guitar. Deupree rounded off the night with his characteristically sparse bed of tones and digital detritus. Live in Melbourne is strictly limited to 500 copies. 12k-2008 CD $12.25 Soundpool Dichotomies + Dreamland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US Forming in 2005 Soundpool is a NYC-based 5-piece shoegaze, space rock, audio/visual act with sweet girlie vocals, saturated guitar sounds, lush synth arrangements and a danceable driving rhythm section. Soundpool's first album, On High, reached the top spot on the Tonevendor charts for well over a month in late 2006 - Soundpool has since quietly placed themselves in the center of the new shoegaze/dream pop movement of music, sharing the stage with great acts: Robin Guthrie, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Mahogany, Asobi Seksu, Spectrum, Star, Kyte, Auburn Lull and Butterfly Explosion to name a few. Soundpool's second full-length album Dichotomies & Dreamland is in many ways the classic psychedelic album in a post electronica age. Conceptually, the album can be broken into two parts... the conscious and the subconscious. Stylistically, the album follows a thread that perhaps starts in the mid-sixties when pop artists of the day started taking hallucinogens and making records that were a bit more eclectic, cerebral and daring... pushing the boundaries of what a rock & roll record could be. Dichotomies & Dreamland was made in the spirit of that sort of artistic attitude but it's not deliberately of even necessarily retro per se... in fact it is quite modern in an indie sort of way. Elements of Shoegaze, Dreampop, Space Rock, Psychedelic and Electronic are all present. Over a year and a half in the making... we hope you enjoy our latest bodywork! "Soundpool's drone and roll has had my ears for some time. Shoegaze is a genre always in need of new blood, and few new artists match Soundpool's vocal delivery and sonic awareness. While their drone teeters on the tip toes of instability, it's Kim Fields vocals that seamlessly hold the chaos together." -Musicisnotdead. "This sounds great! Of all the newer stuff I was able to come across, I especially like what you guys are doing." -John Cofer, Music Director WTBU. "I walked off Orchard St. on the Lower East side into Pianos, waded my way through the sea of heads and walked right into the "Exploding Plastic Inevtitable"... the multimedia sensory blast definitely conjured up the Velvet underground imagery but Soundpool's sound was closer to early 90's Stereolab. The crowd was diggin' the impressive performance... this was one of the best sets I've seen in a while by a band that could be labeled "shoegaze"". -Fiddle While You Burn "When Lush wrote Sweetness and Light at the height of shoegazing, I wonder if they had anticipated Soundpool, the latest act to breath life into a fondly missed genre? Cosmic, phased guitars combine with breathy, angelic vocals and sequenced programming. Yet beneath the swirl of effects beats a heart of pure pop." -Brett Spaceman, EVILSPONGE. Aloft-02 CD $12.25 Stargazer Assistant The Otherside of the Island (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US The soundtrack to David J Smith's (GUAPO) sculptural works collected under the same name. A strange work comprising of layered vocals, percussion, electronics & prepared strings. AuroraBorealis-018 CD $14.25 Sun Kil Moon April (Digipack Packaging) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 1ST) PS, US CaldoVerde CD $15.50 Tammar S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Working out the kernels of their corn-fried haze, TAMMAR is an exercise in balancing minimalist riffs with maximalist peaks & valleys. While the usual rise-fall theory of rock is tired, with Tammar there's a focus on the jam rather then cold hard numbers. On stage they are always a bit different - moments are stretched and condensed at will, and on record its no different. Minimal keyboards and drums bring to mind early Suicide while tripping guitars and theatrical accented vocals bring to mind the more paisley moments of Felt and U2, respectively. This four-piece from just north of Louisville, KY recorded these songs primarily live off the cement floor of the basement of Grotto Home Studios by the deft hands of Daniel Burton. Bending the materials of the world until the band itself is a conduit for feelings hot and wet and primal as sex. But that's not all. Tammar tastes the psychedelic aether, visiting the realms above as well as below, transmitting those good vibrations. Turn down the lights, turn up your stereo and rock these five hits of ecstasy. St.Ives-31 LP $11.50 Teamforest Leave (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, FRANCE More than anything else, "Leave" tells us Philipp Bückle's story. His beginnings at Morr Music's, his love of folk music (Alasdair Roberts, Empress...) This debut album is (charming) like his author: a dream coming true through the trembling voice of an open-handed man; a little more than a half hour for ten songs filled with humanity. Like all great departures, it contains its fair share of loss and expectation: here and there, touching musical memories (Hood, Crabstick, and Famous Boyfriend) and funny stories, redesigned with the help of a laptop, an acoustic guitar or a melodica. Generous and inspired, this record will definitely Leave its trace in the hearts of listeners. Eglantine-015 CD $13.50 Thing With Ken Vandermark Immediate Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, NORWAY The Thing team up with their longtime friend Ken Vandermark to create some of their finest work. Recorded live at Chicago's Hide Out in April 2007, this album leans more towards the classical free jazz sound of the 60s - more American than European. With Vandermark on sax, The Thing gets more mellow, melodic & funky. SmalltownSuperjazz-105 CD $15.25 Tides/Giant Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Tides write gorgeously lush soundtracks to movies not yet made, filled w/ emotive guitar work, dynamic drumming, & huge production. Giant's sole track on this record weaves its way through both the heaviest of distortions & hauntingly euphoric passages. RIYL: Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Rosetta. LevelPlane CD $9.00 Toy Half Baked Alaska (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, NORWAY Sir Dupermann (Jorgen Traeen) & Alisdair Stirling follow up their self-titled debut, with this mini-album. Toy showcases the new track: "Welcome to Cedars Lodge" as well as a wonderful remix of the same track by Sean O'Hagen (HIGH LLAMAS). The album also contains four live tracks performed in Norway in 2006 using 11 different organs with guests BJORN TORSKE & John Hegre (JAZKAMER). "Like Royksopp's 'Poor Leno'- cold, lonely pop, bedroom dance party shit" -Pitchfork SmalltownSupersound-102 CD5 $12.25 Valet Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION of CD on KRANKY. 180gram Marriage LP $14.25 Valet Naked Acid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US 2nd solo release from Portland artist Valet, aka HONEY OWENS. She states: "These songs were Inspired by the Pacific Northwest landscape, semi-conscious dream states & the idea of one's dna code being accessed as eternal memory. I started off w/ the idea to make a 'songs' record but it really didn't turn out that way. Instead the record became it's own story. Track one is a static beach journey duet w/ ADRIAN ORANGE & tracks 3, 4 & 5 are collaborations w/ MARK EVAN BURDEN (Silentist) on drums." Kranky-116 CD $12.25 Various The Rubble Collection #2 Volumes 11-20 [10CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2008) PS, UK Numbered, limited repressing of the legendary Rubble Collection Volumes 11-20 10xCD boxed set. Amongst the first and best psych compilations ever put together, each and every volume is a mind-blowing treasure trove of acid rock and pop from the late 1960s, and comes housed inside a slipcase card replica of the original LP artwork. Featuring famous names alongside a myriad of lesser-known acts and compiled and sequenced by leading collectors, the series has long been a byword for the best in psychedelia. It's presented here complete with a fully-revised and overhauled color booklet featuring updated band histories, rare photographs and full discographies (incorporating a mass of information not included in previous editions), making this the most comprehensive and authoritative psych boxed set ever assembled. Please note that only 1000 numbered copies are being pressed. Fallout CD-BOX $88.00 Various Second Marriage (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 11TH) PS, US 2 cds documenting the label. Disc one represents the more psychedelic elements(WHITE RAINBOW, ADRIAN ORANGE, PRIVACY). Disc two represents the open philosophy of the label: lounge-punks WATERY GRAVES, ROB WALMART'S hip hop jams and more. Die cut and handmade packaging. Marriage CD $14.25 Various Encyclopedia Asthmatica Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Nearly all of the ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS' roster, and many of their friends, make an appearance somewhere on this DVD: from the playful choreography of the Think Dance Collective frolicking in shoes made of bread to the music of HALF-HANDED CLOUD, to the lovely abstraction of SUFJAN STEVENS' projectionist, DEBORAH JOHNSON; from the haunting and raw post-apocalypse video fuzz of live CASTANETS, to the crisp color footage of MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND at Northsix, there are visual pieces that hopscotch the chasm between the professionalism of a music-visual DVD to the rabid eccentricity of a five-copy, underground video-zine. AsthmaticKitty-40 DVD $12.25 Various Phantom Guitars: A Cool Collection of Twangin' Guitar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, UK Instrumentals from the UK 1961-1964. For a short period in the UK, guitar-led instrumental groups took control. In the three year span between rock & roll and the full flush of beat, there was no bigger band than The Shadows. Their magical brand of twanging melody incorporated elements of Duane Eddy and The Ventures, but was something entirely British. And, as always, when someone comes up with a winning formula, everybody else suddenly leaps on board. So, in contrast to the clean-cut crooners, coffee bars, dancehalls and fairgrounds reverberated to the sound of Binson echo units and primitive Bigsby-esque tremelo arms. This CD ventures back in time a little further than previous Psychic Circle releases to round up a string-bending selection of some the finest examples of this genre. PsychicCircle CD $16.25 Various A Mind Expansion Compilation 2 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25th) PS, UK Second compilation from Mind Expansion, compiled by FUXA frontman Randall Nieman. Features songs from some of the most ground breaking & influential groups over the past 20+ years on 2 CDs: SPECTRUM, FUXA with DEAN WAREHAM, MERCURY REV, FAUST, JESSAMINE, RICK WHITE ALBUM, IMAJINARY FRIENDS, LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD, POPULOUS, MUS, SUKI EWERS, ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON, MARTIN REV, RICHARD FORMBY, SONIC BOOM & DELIA DERBYSHIRE, MARKUS, VENTURE LIFT, ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA, PAINT AND COPTER, SPRING REVERBS, ECTOGRAM, SPARE SNARE, SHIVA AFFECT, BARDO POND, THE TELESCOPES, ECHOES OF THE WHALES, THE PROJECTS (Broadcast remix), SPOONFED HYBRID (IAN MASTERS), LOOPDROP, TELSTAR, ASTEROID #4, MARKUS & UNKNOWN CELEBRITIES. MindExpansion-2015/2016 DCD $16.25 Vincent, Gene A Million Shades Of Blue (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2ND) PS, UK Yes indeed! It's Sweet Gene Vincent! Do we need say more? What else do you need to know? Oh, OK then! Back in the dear dead days when singers of 30-ish weren't just about to form their first indie band, GENE, the man who had wowed America, challenged Elvis, launched Rock n Roll in Britain and France and inspired a generation, was seen in his native land as a bit of a has-been...his audience was the French arty intelligentsia and UK Teds...but there were still those who believed in Gene...one was Kama Sutra, the New York label who brought us The Lovin' Spoonful and Gene fanatics The Flamin' Groovies (and obliquely The Shangri-Las too, but that's another story...) In 1969 and 1970 they put Gene in their newly acquired LA studio with the cream of young session men to produce an album. Taking a cue from The Band, Bob Dylan, The Sir Douglas Quintet, and possibly fellow not as old as you might think rocker Dale Hawkins (who had just had an amazing album out himself!) Gene rose to the occasion bigtime! Possibly one of the most unexpected and astonishing albums of roots rock and Americana is what we have here...with Gene as on good form as ever! Another rediscovered forgotten classic from RevOla! Beautifully remastered By the lovely Nick Robbins...in true RevOla style! Ditto goes for artwork by Pepperbox! A must for anyone who ever had a heart...Gene Vincent! Does it get any better?? TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE 2. I NEED WOMAN'S LOVE 3. SLOW TIMES COMIN' 4. DANSE COLINDA 5. GEESE 6. 500 MILES 7. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC 8. IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE ME TODAY 9. A MILLION SHADES OF BLUE 10. TUSH HOG 11. HOW I LOVE THEM OLD SONGS 12. HIGH ON LIFE 13. NORTH CAROLINA LINE 14. YOU CAN MAKE IT IF YOU TRY 15. OUR SOULS 16. THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND 17. THE DAY THE WORLD TURNED BLUE 18. BOPPIN' THE BLUES 19. LOOKING BACK 20. OH LONESOME ME 21. THE WOMAN IN BLACK Rev-Ola-242 CD $15.50 Visage The Anvil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 18TH) PS, US The long overdue reissue of this classic 1982 album 'The Anvil', by the pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Visage. The album reached No.6 in the UK album charts. The album produced two hit singles for the band, 'The Damned Don't Cry' (No.11) and 'Night Train' (No.12). Visage were a supergroup of their day, formed by Steve Strange and ex-Rich Kid Rusty Egan, they recruited Billy Currie and Midge Ure from Ultravox, Dave Formula and Barry Adamson from Magazine and John McGeogh from Siouxsie & The Banshees. Together they produced 2 innovative and commercially successful albums with the resulting 5 hit singles. This CD reissue features 6 bonus tracks not included on the original 9 track release. These include dance mixes of the hit singles 'Mind Of A Toy' and 'The Damned Don't Cry' and the rare b-sides 'Motivation' and 'I'm Still Searching'. The CD booklet features sleeve notes, discography and all the single sleeves taken from the original album. As the leading lights of the New Romantic movement, Visage's legacy is lasting. The band's reputation for producing quality electronic pop lives on. TRACKS: 1. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY 2. ANVIL (NIGHT CLUB SCHOOL) 3. MOVE UP 4. NIGHT TRAIN 5. THE HORSEMAN 6. LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE 7. AGAIN WE LOVE 8. WILD LIFE 9. WHISPERS BONUS TRACKS 10. WE MOVE (DANCE MIX) 11. FREQUENCY 7 (DANCE MIX) 12. THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (DANCE MIX) 13. MOTIVATION 14. I'M STILL SEARCHING 15. THE MIND OF A TOY (DANCE MIX) CherryPop-006 CD $15.50 Voyager One Afterhours in the Afterlife (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 25TH) PS, US This Seattle band has been creating sonic groove-oriented psychedelia for over eight years. Over this time, the band has released several albums, with each chargting on KEXP's Northwest top ten list. Loveless-027 CD $11.50 Whiskeytown Strangers Almanac: Deluxe Edition (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Expanded 2-disc re-issue of this 1997 album featuring a pre-Ryan Adams Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary (Tres Chicas) and Phil Wandscher (Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter). PITCHFORK: "The first disc features the original album bolstered by five previously unreleased radio performances. The second disc is a veritable treasure trove: all but two of its 21 tracks are previously unreleased recordings from early sessions for the LP, known by bootleggin' fans as the "Barn's on Fire Sessions". "Kiss & Make-Up", "Indian Gown", "Barn's on Fire", "Streets of Sirens", "Breathe", "Nurse With the Pills", and "10 Seconds" all appear for the first time on any official Whiskeytown release. Acoustic demos of album tracks "16 Days", "Avenues", and "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart", covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams", Gram Parsons' "Luxury Liner", Johnny Cash's "I Still Miss Someone", and the True Believers' "The Rain Won't Help You When It's Over" round out the set." Mood Food/Outpost/Geffen/Ume DCD $28.50 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 White Hinterland Phylactery Factory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only. DeadOceans-009 CD $11.50 White Hinterland Phylactery Factory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 4TH) PS, US Whereas 2006's Wind-Up Canary was short stories, little Salinger vignettes, "Phylactery Factory" is filled with dreams, memories, warnings. Dienel's voice is more hidden, crouching amid swish, drone and the wildflower jazz of her friends - and this second LP is released under a new moniker. It's an album full of reminders. Reminders of the likes of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, John Cage, Alice Coltrane, M. Ward. Reminders of winter. But mostly reminders to oneself. This is what a phylactery is: the tefillin worn by devout Jews upon head and arm; a prayer in a box and then knotted into place; the reminder of a one and only. DeadOceans-009 LP $11.50 Wraiths Oriflamme (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Remastered vinyl edition, previously available as a limited cdr. Recorded live under ritual conditions. Blackened death-ambient drone meets howling, metallic noise. AuroraBorealis LP $17.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders** Alcest “Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde” CD $14.25 All Golden In The Afternoon “S-T” CD $8.25 Bell, The “Make Some Quiet” CD $13.75 Biirdie “Catherine Avenue” CD $11.00 Black Hollies “Casting Shadows” CD $11.50 Black Lips/Subsonics “Split” 45 $5.25 Blood On The Wall “Liferz” CD $11.50 Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Wilding in the West” CD $16.25 Box “Studio 1” LP $19.50 Box “Studio 1” CD $18.00 Carroll, Barton “Lost One” CD $15.00 Castanets “Strong Animal” 45 $3.75 Chessie “Manifest” CD $11.50 Collections Of Colonies Of Bees “Birds” CD $13.00 Conjerti, Morreale & Dibley “Earth Free” LP $14.00 Costa, Matt “Unfamiliar Faces [re-issue]” CD $15.00 Dead Meadow “Old Growth” DLP $19.00 Dead Western “S-T” 45 $5.25 Dengue Fever “Venus On Earth” CD $16.25 Destroy All Monsters “Live In Tokyo” CD $14.50 Drag the River “You Can't Live This Way” CD $11.00 Envy “All The Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting” CD $9.00 Envy “Abyssal” CD $9.00 Evangelicals “The Evening Descends” CD $11.50 Evangelicals “The Evening Descends” LP $11.50 Finn, Liam “I'll Be Lightning” CD $15.00 Finn, Liam “I'll Be Lightning” LP $18.25 Fleshtones, The “Take A Good Look” CD $14.50 Flower Travellin' Band “Satori” LP $20.00 Flying Lotus “1983” LP $10.00 Folk Spectre, The “The Blackest Medicine” LP $14.00 Food “Molecular Gastronomy” CD $17.00 Formby, Richard “Volume 1” CD $11.50 Handsome Ned “Name Is Ned” DCD $15.00 Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” LP $13.00 Helio Sequence “Keep Your Eyes Ahead” CD $12.00 Hexlove “Knew Abloom (Life's Hood)” CD $13.25 Holland, Michael “Simple Truths and Pleasures” CD $15.00 Human Bell “S-T” CD $14.00 Ida “Lovers Prayers” DLP $14.00 Ida “Lovers Prayers” CD $11.50 Instruments Of Science And Technology “Music From The Films Of R. Swift” CD $11.50 Japancakes “If I Could See Dallas” CD $12.25 Japancakes “The Sleepy Strange” CD $12.25 Japancakes “Down The Elements” CD $9.00 Kessler, Matt “The National Science Fair Of Amazing New Discoveries” BOOK $7.00 Lightspeed Champion “Falling Off The Lavender Bridge” CD $13.00 Little Wings “Magic Wand” CD $16.00 Lungfish “Rainbows from Atoms” CD $10.25 Mahjongg “Kontpab” CD $11.50 Mahjongg “Kontpab” LP $10.25 Mangion, Suzy “The Other Side of the Mountain” CD $17.75 Matthews, Ian “Tigers Will Survive” CD $14.00 Matthews, Ian “If You Saw Through My Eyes” CD $14.00 McCombs, Cass “Dropping The Writ” LP $13.25 Metabolismus “The Social Club Nº 7” 45 $5.50 Mono “The Sky Remains The Same As Ever” DVD $14.25 Mueller, Jon “Metals” CD $13.00 Munch Munch “Wedding” 45 $5.50 Nurse With Wound “Gyllenskold, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg's [remastered]” CD $15.00 Owens, Buck “Live in Scandinavia” CD $18.75 Pascal (SWE) “Galgberget” CD $14.00 Picabia, Francis “La Nourrice Américaine (The American Nurse)” CD $17.00 Pollard, Robert “Superman Was a Rocker” CD $10.00 Radar Brothers “Auditorium” CD $13.00 Rafter “Sex Death Cassette” CD $11.50 Ringenberg, Jason “Best Tracks & Side Tracks 1979-2007” DCD $17.00 Road “Can't Talk” CD $17.75 Sambassadeur “Final Say [single]” CD5 $5.00 Single “Pianístico” CD5 $6.75 Sinier, Raoul (aka Ra) “Huge Samurai Radish” CD $15.25 Sneaky Pete Kleinow “Anthology” CD $18.75 Sons and Daughters “This Gift” CD $13.00 Speare, Jed “Sound Works 1982-1987” DCD $14.25 Stereo Total “Plastico EP” 45 $7.50 Taunus “Harriet” CD $16.00 Team Robespierre “Everything's Perfect” CD $10.00 Television Personalities “The Good Anarchist” 45 $7.50 Tempo No Tempo “Repetition” CD $6.00 Three Hour Tour “B Side Oblivion (ON SALE)” CD $14.00 Thuja “S-T” LP $14.75 Van Zandt, Townes “Rear View Mirror” CD $15.50 Various “I'm Not There [Dylan Biopic OST]” DLP $20.50 Various “Achtung! German Grooves: 20 Instrumental Dancefloor Killers from the 60s and 70s” CD $16.25 Various “Happy New Year 2008” 45 $7.50 Various “Soiree Du Coeur A Barbe: Festival Paris Dada” CD $16.00 Various “Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity” CD $13.75 Various “Black Mirror: Reflections In Global Music” CD $15.50 Various “Happy New Year 2008” CD5 $6.75 Warlocks “Heavy Deavy Skull Lover” LP $15.00 Weisman, Kurt “Spiritual Sci-Fi” CD $12.25 White Town “Don't Mention The War” CD $14.00 Whitest Boy Alive “Dreams” LP $22.00 Wire Magazine “#287” ZINE $10.50 Yellow Swans “At All Ends” DLP $18.25 Yellow Swans & Burning Star Core “S-T” LP $17.00