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New Releases

Ambarchi, Oren
A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks
PS, US There is a vivid breadth to the guitar deconstructions of Australian OREN AMBARCHI. Sometimes his work takes a delicate lilt; it can also dive into dark and deep pools of sound when he joins cowl-core ensembles Sunn O))) (with Stephen O'Malley) and Burial Chamber Trio (with Greg Anderson). Whether with those bands, solo, or in collaboration with luminaries ranging from Mike Patton and John Zorn to Christian Fennesz, he consistently reroutes his instrument into zones of arch, alien abstraction. "A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks" offers a dizzying gaze straight into a chasm of extreme frequencies - paint-peelingly high and bowel-churningly low - all set atop a sub-strata of menace, angst, and contemplative beauty.
TableOfTheElements-95
LP
$14.25

Ant Trip Ceremony, The
24 Hours [re-issue]
PS, US In 1968, a group of talented college students at Oberlin College formed a band and recorded their only album, 24 Hours. Pressed in scant quantity, this album would become a collector's item, selling for hundreds of dollars. Cicadelic Records is excited to release the complete album on CD with detailed liner notes and photos on the history of the band. The psychedelic sounds that emanate from this album will have listeners 'turn on, tune in, and drop out.' Originally Issued In 1968. 40th year anniversary release!
Cicadelic
CD
$11.25

Arbouretum/Pontiak
Split
PS, US A special LP-only split release by Arbouretum & their Baltimore friends Pontiak, Thrill Jockey's new signees making their label debut. Feat. new songs from each band as well as a handful of John Cale covers, w/ Arbouretum offering their rendition of "Buffalo Ballet," & Pontiak delivering a potent "The Endless Plain of Fortune" & a great new interpretation of "Mr. Wilson". The album was recorded at Pontiak's home studio in Warrenton, VA.
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Armour, Douglas
The Light Of The Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night
PS, US And now for something different... Fulfilling the promise of his impeccable entry in our 7-inch series, THE SOCIAL CLUB, THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is proud to announce "The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night" -- the debut LP from Los Angeles located DOUGLAS ARMOUR. This album finds the artist expertly blending tons of our favorite poptones from days past to create a hyper-literate pastiche that's equal parts nostalgia and forward thinking. Echoing its title, the LP has a structure that plays off binary oppositions to create one of the most varied pop albums we've heard in a long time.
TheSocialRegistry-051
LP
$10.25

Arms
Kids Aflame (CD/DVD)
PS, US Inspired by a love of "sad/weird/insular genius types" like Neil Young, Stephin Merritt, & David Byrne, the music cloaks catchy tunes in fuzzy, echo-laden production & TODD GOLDSTEIN's melodramatic, crooned vocals. A true one-man band, he recorded this over a period of 3 years, playing all the instruments himself. A hazy, late-night mood runs deep in the record's 13 tracks w/ a surprise around every corner.
Melodic
CD/DVD
$16.25

Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa
Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple
PS, US Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. Astro, of course, is the analog/space project of Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary Japanese group C.C.C.C. This limited vinyl only release was created using ring modulator and vocals which are rare these days in Astro recordings. Cover art designed by Important. ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project. He is a founding member of the Japanese noise group C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he made the group C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai. Hasegawa began his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 and continued playing in C.C.C.C. Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations drifting between dreamy spaced out bliss and full on waterfalls of beautiful noise.
Important-198
LP
$17.75

Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa
The Echo From The Purple Dawn
PS, US The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning. As Astro Hasegawa is able to combine some of the harsher influence of C.C.C.C. into the world of analog space music to create the signature sounds of Astro. Included is a live track recorded at a festival at the Tokyo Keizai niversity organized by Tetsuo Kogawa. Cover art designed by Important. ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project. He is a founding member of the Japanese noise group C.C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he made the group C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai. Hasegawa began his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 and continued playing in C.C.C.C. Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations drifting between dreamy spaced out bliss and full on waterfalls of beautiful noise.
Important-197
CD
$12.25

Atlas Sound
Let the Blind Lead Those
PS, US VINYL VERSION. To make the 4 sides of the album complete, there are 6 NEW SONGS added!! 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.
Kranky-114
DLP
$14.75

Band Of Annuals
Repondez
PS, US First CD by SLC's premier alt country/pop band. Pop-tinged alt-folk with boy-girl harmonies topped off with pedal steel guitars, harmonicas and mandolins. Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Red House Painters, Ryan Adams.
KilbyRecords-005
CD
$13.75

Band Of Annuals
Let Me Live
PS, US An amazing combo of devastating heartbreaking alt-country earnestness and perfect pop-hook craftsmanship. This 6-piece Salt Lake City band will remind you of the likes of Ryan Adams, Magnolia Electric Co., Neko Case, Damian Jurado and many others. A+
KilbyRecords-007
CD
$13.75

Bass Communion
Molotov & Haze
PS, US Molotov And Haze is packaged in a deluxe tip-on style heavy-duty gatefold jacket with the cd slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design by Carl Glover. Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson's recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and field recordings. The atmosphere of the music has tended towards the dark and melancholic, but expressed with an almost Zen like beauty. More recently Wilson has also started working with a guitar and laptop configuration - the first material in this style is contained on this album.
Important-193
CD
$12.25

Bass Communion & Pig
Live In Mexico City
PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop, andres solis - turntables, rogelio sosa - voice, daniel goldaracena - devices. Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously.
Important-194
LP
$22.75

Beck
Modern Guilt
PS, US At first glance, it seems like the teaming of Beck and Danger Mouse is a perfect pairing of postmodern pranksters, as neither musician has shaken the first impression he's made: for most, Beck is still seen as that ironic Loser, trawling through pop culture's junk heap, while Danger Mouse is the maverick of The Grey Album, the mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z that reads like a joke but doesn't play like one. Close listening to either man's body of work easily dispels these notions, as Beck has spent as much time mining the murky melancholia of Mutations as he has crafting neon freakouts like Midnite Vultures. He's made a career bouncing from one extreme to the other, occasionally revisiting the cut 'n' paste collage that would have seemed like a natural fit for the sample-centric Danger Mouse, but when he partnered with Danger Mouse in 2008, Beck's pendulum was swinging away from the Odelay aesthetic, as he spent two records on the lighter side, thereby dictating a turn toward the dark. As it happens, this is Danger Mouse's true forte, as his productions have almost uniformly been dark, impressionistic pop-noir, whether he's working with Damon Albarn on the Gorillaz or the Good, the Bad & the Queen, or collaborating with Cee-Lo as Gnarls Barkley (whose fluke hit "Crazy" had nasty rumbling undercurrents) or even blues-rockers the Black Keys. So, he turns out to be a perfect fit for Beck, just perhaps not in the way that many might expect, although the title of their album Modern Guilt should be a big tip-off that these ten tracks are hardly all sunshine and roses. Compared to the waves of grief on Sea Change, Modern Guilt trips easily, as this is a deft tapestry of drum loops, tape splices, and chugging guitars pitched halfway between new wave and Sonic Youth. This may not brood but it's impossible to deny its heaviness, either in its tone or its lyrics. Beck peppers Modern Guilt with allusions to jets, warheads, suicide, all manners of modern maladies, and if the words don't form coherent pictures, the lines that catch the ear create a vivid portrait of unease, a vibe that Danger Mouse mirrors with his densely wound yet spare production. As on his work with Albarn and the Black Keys, Danger Mouse doesn't impose his own aesthetic as much as he finds a way to make it fit with Beck's, so everything here feels familiar, whether it's the swinging '60s spy riff on "Gamma Ray," the rangy blues on "Soul of Man," the stiff shuffle of the title track, or the thick and gauzy "Chemtrails," which harks back to the sluggish, narcotic psychedelia of Mutations. Danger Mouse assists not only with execution but with focus, pulling in Modern Guilt at just over half an hour, which is frankly a relief after the unending sprawl of The Information and Guero. Its leanness is one of the greatest attributes of Modern Guilt, as every song stays as long as it needs to, then lingers behind in memory, leaving behind a collection of echoes and impressions. If anything, Modern Guilt may be just a little bit too transient, as it doesn't dig quite as deep as its subjects might suggest, but that's also par for the course for both Beck and Danger Mouse: they tend to prefer feel to form. Here, they deliver enough substance and style to make Modern Guilt an effective dosage of 21st century paranoia. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
DGC
LP
$13.99

Big China & Little Trouble
Black Blood
PS, US Intended to get all material back in print & away from collector prices, this compiles these original recordings w/ last
year's "Fur & Teeth" sessions, which were issued as a limited 3" CD in a jewel case that contained ancient shark teeth & bear fur. All selections have been remixed & mastered for maximum effect.
MagicBullet
CD5
$10.25

Big China & Little Trouble
Black Blood
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MagicBullet
LP
$15.75

Black Kids
Partie Traumatic
PS, US Debut album produced by Bernard Butler (Suede. PITCHFORK: "Black Kids make catchy, tightly executed songs that put a memorable stamp on pop's classic themes."
AlmostGold
CD
$13.25

Black To Comm
Fractal Hair Geometry
PS, GERMANY Black To Comm is the solo venture of Dekorder label boss Marc Richter. With two and a half albums released on his own label he has established himself as one of the most prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the American Digitalis label, a collaborative CD with Datashock on Ikuisuus, a 7" on the Irish Trensmat label and a collaboration with Xela in the works "Fractal Hair Geometry" is Richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental Double-LP left off. Like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. While "Wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Casio SK-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. The results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. Additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). Decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a Black To Comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album. There's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late Leigh Bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's UK club scene (and singer of Minty). Guests include Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu) on piano, Guido Möbius on trumpet and current Black To Comm (live) band members Renate Nikolaus on violin and Ulf Schütte (of Datashock, Aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds. Along the lines of the music, seminal German artist Oliver Ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork that is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock.
Dekorder-027
CD
$17.75

Blectum, Blevin
Gular Flutter
PS, US Breaking a 4 year silence w/ her strongest album yet, Blectum confirms her gift for making electronic music that is allergic to cliche. Threading field recordings & conversation across a lattice of tightly edited rhythm, this tricksy, elastic assemblage demonstrates just how personal, brave, & autonomous electronic music can still be. Some things are worth waiting for.
Aagoo
CD
$8.75

Bodies Of Water
A Certain Feeling
PS, US One year after the self-release of the acclaimed "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink," BODIES OF WATER have created another full-length offering. "A Certain Feeling," their first record for SECRETLY CANADIAN, was written, arranged and recorded in David & Meredith Metcalf's house in the Northeast L.A. neighborhood of Highland Park. The strains that one can hear running through all of Bodies of Water's music are fully exhibited here; instantly familiar melodies, rich harmonic color, expansively deft arrangements, and compositions that ebb, flow, and double back on themselves in cathartic synchronicity. Though no two songs sound entirely similar, it's a cohesive that comes out feeling like the anthemic prog/gospel/psychedelic/kraut-tribal movie score that Ennio Morricone and Phil Spector never got around to collaborating on. The choral hugeness that typified "Ears Will Pop" still rears its emphatic head, only here it is more often held in reserve while we marinate in each movement before being pulled along into the next passage of the narrative. "A Certain Feeling" is the sound of a group carving out an ever-evolving, but distinct aesthetic niche for themselves The singing, playing, compositions, lyrical themes (obsessive meta-physicality/spiritual surrender/human frailty) are unmistakably theirs. "A Certain Feeling" is a step forward, but assuredly filled with the same beautiful urgency that we have come to expect from them.
SecretlyCanadian-177
LP
$11.50

Boris
Smile
PS, US NOW ON DOUBLE VINYL! LIMITED!!! One of the most representative themes of this album hails from a distortion-drenched, psychedelic rhythmic barnburner. A distinctly characteristic transformation noted w/ this is the vocal styling, which is more melodic & captivating than ever before. His seamless delivery, knack for harmonies & consonance drive it into innovative horizons w/in the already-extensive Boris catalog.
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.75

Bragg, Billy
Mr. Love & Justice
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$15.50

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Just Like Kicking Jesus
PS, US New mini album that showcases 5 songs (4 never released before). The first track of this release, "Amazing Electric Cave (Learn To Speak Icelandic You Smug Shit Version)" features the vocals of Icelandic artist & film maker UNNUR ANDREA EINARSDOTTIR.
ARecords/12Tonar
CD5
$9.25

Broken Social Scene/Brendan Canning
Presents: Something For All Of Us
PS, US This is a truly genre-ambitious, progressive work. Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning finds himself free to experiment w/ a variety of sounds from hushed lo-fi acoustics, to blazing rock n roll, to psychedelic groove. Features his BSS band mates as well as Kevin Hearn, Liz Powell and Liam O'Neil. PITCHFORK: "Chock full of woozy sing-alongs and pulsing ballads, Brendan Canning's debut solo album suggests he's just as responsible for Broken Social Scene's life-affirming guitar pop as Kevin Drew."
Arts&Crafts
CD
$16.00

Broken Social Scene/Brendan Canning
Presents: Something For All Of Us
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Arts&Crafts
LP
$17.00

Broken Strings
S-T
PS, US One man and a cassette 4-track records an incredible collection of burnt-out power pop. Like Daniel Johnston fronting Times New Viking w/Greg Sage on guitar. Only 300 copies made in silver foil stamped jackets about to disappear back into the ether!
TruePantherSounds
LP
$14.25

Bud Shank Quartet
The Pacific Jazz Years
PS, UK The Original Bud Shank Quartet : The Pacific Jazz Years Alto sax star Bud Shank is one of the few surviving modern jazz musicians who truly justifies legendary status. One of the pioneers of 50s West Coast Jazz, California based Shanks career trajectory had him initially winning his spurs within the ranks of the big bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kentons historic Innovations Orchestra. With his buzz cut coiffeur, Hawaiian shirts, chinos and open top sports car, the ubiquitous Bud Shank epitomized West Coast cool. Aware of Charlie Parker, it was Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, and to a lesser extent Benny Carter who caught Buds ear, and his tenure as lead alto sax in Stan Kenton s Orchestra, with Art Pepper on his left, kept Shanks permanently sharp.
GiantStepsRecordings-028
CD
$15.50

Buffalo Killers
Let It Ride
PS, US Drawing comparisons in sound to Blue Cheer, Cream, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Mountain & the Allman Brothers Band, the trio released their self-titled debut in 2007 to critical raves. "Let it Ride" is an album deeply rooted in their signature 60s psychedelic & 70s blues rock inspired sound.
Alive
CD
$13.50

Bug
London Zoo
PS, US In Gibson's Neuromancer, when Case & Molly meet the 2 surviving founders of Zion, there is talk of hearing a "mighty dub" in the Babel of tongues signaling the "final days." If indeed we're living in these "end times," as many predict, then there can be no more of an appropriate soundtrack for the coming apocalypse than this. Best start building the Marcus Garvey tug now.
NinjaTune
CD
$16.00

Burke, Dan/Thomas Dimuzio
Upcoming Events
PS, US Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful.
NoFunProductions-32
CD
$12.25

Business Lady
Torture Footage
PS, US Wound up & looped guitar, bass, drums actionz from these Southern California warriors of silliness. Definitely melodic with a dark anthemic quality not seen since Mid- West pioneers MX-80 SOUND or somesuch. This is a limited release for Load Records but exists to erect a fitting Easter Island-stlyed " head" on your island. Definitly sharing certain kinship with the Silver Daggers blast of junk punk, but existing more as an island in the room temperature weirdness that is San Diego. Tune in to this fascinating document of a band with zonked songs & fabulous costumes. Or sleep through it & miss the 21st century. LIMITED TO 500
Load
CD
$12.50

Byrds
Sanctuary III
PS, US Laden with outtakes, alternate versions and rarites from the Ballad of Easy Rider and Untitled sessions, the third volume of our Sanctuary series spotlights Clarence White's fretboard genius. Vinyl debut for all tracks; annotation by Roger McGuinn and John York!
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Byrds
Sanctuary II
PS, US A new vinyl collection of rare Byrds recordings! With an emphasis on the group's instrumental prowess and exclusive interviews with Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and John York Sanctuary II collects outtakes and unissued material from the legendary Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Bros. and Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sessions. A High-Definition Vinyl pressing of forgotten gems!
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Byrds
Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
PS, US A key transitional touchstone in The Byrds' fabled canon, 1969's Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde was the next stop in the band's pioneering country-rock trajectory and the first album by the post-Gram Parsons lineup. With leader Roger McGuinn at the helm of a stellar new edition of the band featuring guitar god Clarence White, drummer Gene Parsons, and bassist John York, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sees The Byrds bridging the gap between the psychedelic flights of the group's mid-'60s albums and the down-home, country-based style developed only months earlier with Sweetheart of the Rodeo. In addition to containing strong McGuinn originals ("King Apathy III," "Old Blue"), more of the band's beloved interpretations of Bob Dylan classics ("This Wheel's on Fire" and a medley blending The Bard's "My Back Pages" with Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"), and even a Gram Parsons collaboration (the bemusing "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man," which cleverly celebrates The Byrds' love of country music while simultaneously taking a dig at small-minded rednecks), Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde also boasts two tracks composed by McGuinn for the obscure, racy '60s cult movie Candy. Mastered from the original Columbia Records analog master reels, Sundazed's exact reproduction of the original LP will have Byrdmaniacs everywhere soaring to high heaven!
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Byrds
Sanctuary IV
PS, US The Sanctuary spotlight shifts with volume IV to the Nashville sessions for the Byrds' landmark 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Spurred on by new member Gram Parsons, formerly of the International Submarine Band, the Byrds traveled to Nashville to fashion the innovative country/rock blend that's been part of American culture ever since. Sanctuary IV collects all of Parsons' vocal takes for the first time, as well as other outtakes and rehearsals which document the creation of an album unlike any other. First time on vinyl for all tracks; annotation by Byrds' Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and Kevin Kelley!!
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Byrds
Sanctuary
PS, US The ringing sound of the Byrds - a band that created at least three rock 'n' roll genres (folk-rock, raga-rock and country-rock) would make any red-blooded music fan reach for the nearest tambourine to beat the jingle-jangle daylights out of it. Sanctuary collects all of the best rarities, alternate takes and 45-only sides into one goose pimple-inducing package, guaranteed to make anyone with a pulse "Feel A Whole Lot Better." Most tracks have never before appeared on vinyl!
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

California Oranges
Imperial Hearts
PS, US Our Sacramento, CA indie-pop all stars return with a gem of a pop/rock album full of hooky choruses, call and response guitars and a super tight power-pop rhythm section. A pow-pow-powerful good good feeling! Just as you'd expect from this seasoned music family. Bask in the summer sun with the fourth album from the golden state's California Oranges and a healthy dose of the sunshine power pop they're known for. Underlying the power is a healthy dose of pop: Delicately concocted, contemplative songs exploring life's ups and downs. The quintet has hit their stride on Imperial Hearts. The record features the same line up as their 2005 release Souvenirs: John Conley (Holiday Flyer), Verna Brock (Rocketship, Beanpole, Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), Ross Levine (Sinking Ships), Katie Haley (Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), and Matt Levine (Sinking Ships). The album was jointly produced by the California Oranges and Dana Gumbiner (Night Night, Deathray). Imperial Hearts was mixed by long time friend of the band, producer/engineer, Eric Stenman (Saves the Day, The Comas, The Cab). The California Oranges construct songs filled with, "soaring boy/girl harmonies, rapid-fire licks of squeaky clean and buzz saw dirty guitar work, consistently up-tempo beats, and melodies that would make tone deaf kitten haters want to sing along" --Popmatters. "Power pop has rarely sounded as sweet." --Treblezine. TRACK LIST: 1. Brand New Spine, 2. We've Got Time, 3. Travel Writer, 4. Anywhere USA, 5. I Still Hold On, 6. Silver Shoes, 7. Feel Better, 8. Waiting Is Slow, 9. I Told Grace, 10. Matter Of Consequence, 11. I Won't Let You Back In, 12. When I Sleep.
Darla-193
CD
$12.25

Canadians
A Sky With No Stars
PS, US Canadians' debut album A Sky With No Stars showcases this band's great ability to play catchy indie-pop anthems that are unforgettable & timeless.
Ghost
CD
$16.00

Capstan Shafts, The
Fixation Protocols
PS, US One-man-band masterminded by Dean Wells. An album that has grown from its lo-fi roots to a more maturely-crafted sound. His inclination towards brevity persists, w/nearly all the 22 lo-fi songs getting to the point in less than 2 minutes. The appealing homemade indie fuzz-rock is still replete w/ catchy melodies, perfect playful pop hooks, & classic rock guitar riffs. This album conjures early R.E.M. through a lysergic prism, Guided By Voices & Wire.
RainbowQuartz
CD
$13.50

Clear Light
S-T
PS, US Their psychedelia run amuck with twin drummers, creamy fuzz guitar and carnival-clatter keyboards, LA's Clear Light were a fixture on underground radio - most memorably with their heavy-on-the-paranoia "Mr. Blue." Our reissue of their rare self-titled 1967 Elektra debut, produced by Paul Rothchild, features a non-LP bonus track ("She's Ready To Be Free") and liner notes that tell Clear Light's story in full, vivid detail.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Cluster
Cluster '71
PS, US REPRESS! NOW ON LP!
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Cluster
Sowiesoso
PS, US Moebius & Roedelius, released this, their fourth album in '76. Electronic rhythms combine w/ bubbling synths, piano & guitar to create sonic landscapes of pure bliss. Some of the greatest ambient electronic music ever, they were on the cutting edge of German space-rock, & pioneers whose influence can
still be felt today.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Cluster & Eno
S-T
PS, US REPRESS! NOW ON LP!
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Cock Esp/Suffering Bastard
Split
PS, US Brutal grind featuring a dual-bass assault of the highest gain & lowest frequency, complete w/ brain-rattling vocal violence & remorseless drum kit abuse vs. an ugly & unlistenable shrieking noise overload inspired by 1980's top 40 hits & the pure unadulterated hatred of mankind.
ApopRecords
10
$10.25

Coldplay
Viva La Vida
PS, US When Coldplay sampled Kraftwerk on their third album, X&Y, it was a signifier for the British band, telegraphing their classicist good taste while signaling how they prefer the eternally hip to the truly adventurous; it was stylish window dressing for soft arena rock. Hiring Brian Eno to produce the bulk of their fourth album, Viva la Vida, is another matter entirely. Eno pushes them, not necessarily to experiment but rather to focus and refine, to not leave their comfort zone but to find some tremulous discomfort within it. In his hands, this most staid of bands looks to shake things up, albeit politely, but such good manners are so inherent to Coldplay's DNA that they remain courteous even when they experiment. With his big-budget production, Eno has a knack for amplifying an artist's personality, as he allows bands to be just as risky as they want to be -- which is quite a lot in the case of U2 and James and even Paul Simon, but not quite so much with Coldplay. And yet this gentle encouragement -- he's almost a kindly uncle giving his nephews permission to rummage through his study -- pays great dividends for Coldplay, as it winds up changing the specifics without altering the core. They wind up with the same self-styled grandiosity; they've just found a more interesting way to get to the same point. Gone are Chris Martin's piano recitals and gone are the washes of meticulously majestic guitar, replaced by orchestrations of sound, sometimes literally consisting of strings but usually a tapestry of synthesizers, percussion, organs, electronics, and guitars that avoid playing riffs. Gone too are simpering schoolboy ballads like "Fix You," and along with them the soaring melodies designed to fill arenas. In fact, there are no insistent hooks to be found anywhere on Viva la Vida, and there are no clear singles in this collection of insinuatingly ingratiating songs. This reliance on elliptical melodies isn't off-putting -- alienation is alien to Coldplay -- and this is where Eno's guidance pays off, as he helps sculpt Viva la Vida to work as a musical whole, where there are long stretches of instrumentals and where only "Strawberry Swing," with its light, gently infectious melody and insistent rhythmic pulse, breaks from the album's appealingly meditative murk. Whatever iciness there is to the sound of Viva la Vida is warmed by Martin's voice, but the music is by design an heir to the earnest British art rock of '80s Peter Gabriel and U2 -- arty enough to convey sober intelligence without seeming snobby, the kind of album that deserves to take its title from Frida Kahlo and album art from Eugene Delacroix. That Delacroix painting depicts the French Revolution, so it does fit that Martin tones down his relentless self-obsession -- the songs aren't heavy on lyrics and some are shockingly written in character -- which is a development as welcome as the expanded sonic palette. Martin's refined writing topics may be outpaced by the band's guided adventure, but they're both indicative that Coldplay are desperate to not just strive for the title of great band -- a title they seem to believe that they're to the manor born -- but to actually burrow into the explorative work of creating music. And so the greatest thing Coldplay may have learned from Eno is his work ethic, as they demonstrate a focused concentration throughout this tight album -- it's only 47 minutes yet covers more ground than X&Y and arguably A Rush of Blood to the Head -- that turns Viva la Vida into something quietly satisfying. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Capitol-16965
LP
$22.94

Cryptacize/Why?
Unusual Animals Vol. 4
PS, US This is the fourth in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled UNUSUAL ANIMALS, pairs ASTHMATIC KITTY roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks.
AsthmaticKitty-406
45
$3.75

CSS
Donkey
PS, US Brazil's CSS release their follow-up to 2006's "Cansei de Ser Sexy" ("I got tired of being sexy"). They've toured worldwide a number of times with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Ladytron, Klaxons, and Diplo, and played festivals from Coachella, Pitchfork, and Virgin to Reading, Benicassim, Roskilde, and beyond. "Donkey" is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

CSS
Donkey
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Curless, Dick
Tombstone Every Mile
PS, US Maine native Dick Curless had long recorded for regional labels when songwriter Dan Fulkerson approached him with "A Tombstone Every Mile," the tale of a reallife stretch of Maine highway often lethal to truckers. Released nationally in 1965, the song became a #5 single for Curless and this, his first album for Tower Records, soon reached the Top Twenty on Billboard's country album charts.
Sundazed
CD
$12.25

Dalton, Karen
Green Rocky Road: The Loop Tapes, Pine Street Recordings (ON SALE)
PS, US Never-released 1963 home recordings packaged in a CD gatefold Japanese mini-LP jacket. Discovered on the same reel-to-reel tapes that housed the Cotton Eyed Joe release. Remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew. With 8-page booklet with beautiful, newly-unearthed photos of Karen Dalton from 1962-1963. Liner notes by Dick Weissman. The release of Green Rocky Road fills in the lacunae in the rightly romanticized mythos of the late folk music legend Karen Dalton and goes a long way in clarifying her crucial role in the evolution of modern acoustic music from 'folk' source materials. Includes a lengthy interview with Joe Loop who was Karen's friend and patron in the early 60's when he'd often book her into the coffee house he ran in Boulder CO. The new album features private recordings she made at his home while visiting (last year saw the release of live recordings from said coffee house). The only formal studio recordings made during Karen's lifetime -- released in 1969 and 1971 respectively -- were thoroughly dissected upon their recent re-release. As wonderful as these albums were, they captured Karen in relatively awkward circumstances. Green Rocky Road, along with last year's Cotton Eyed Joe, provide a rare glimpse of Karen Dalton circa 1962 and 1963 at her most pure, most powerful, and at ease. These recordings, released by Delmore Recordings (in association with the Megaphone label), document her unique artistry at the time she was profoundly influencing the likes of Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and Bob Dylan. PITCHFORK: "Green Rocky Road is a much different listening experience than Cotton Eyed Joe, which she performed specifically for the small crowd around her, who listen raptly and applaud heartily. If that release is public, then Green Rocky Road is pointedly private. Here Dalton entertains no one but herself. In addition to singing traditional ballads like "Nottingham Town" and "Skillet Good and Greasy", she runs through pensive versions of "Ribbon Bow" and "Katie Cruel", which would appear later on her first and second albums respectively. They have all the informality of someone thinking aloud, which suits her signature vocals perfectly. "Ribbon Bow" sounds careful and simmering, with Dalton reaching down into her lower register to sound uncharacteristically foreboding-- an approach that adds a bit of malice to the lyrics."
Delmore
CD
$16.25

Dark Meat/Diplo
Split
PS, US LIMITED TO 500!! On one side, Dark Meat cover Iggy Pop's classic jam "Success" & on the other side Diplo deconstructs it on a track entitled "Unsuccessful Space Jam."
Whirlychunk
45
$6.00

Dawn Chorus
Florida St. Serenade
PS, US 10 songs that crackle & sparkle with elements of indie pop, southern jangle pop, rock, & subtle hints of shoegaze. Recorded by Brian Paulson (Beck, Wilco, Superchunk)
FracturedDiscs
CD
$10.50

Dead Can Dance
The Serpent s Egg (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US Their fourth album, originally released in 1988. At the time of its release, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were in Spain writing and recording music for "El Nino De La Luna", a film in which Lisa also made her acting debut.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US Their third album, originally released in 1987. With record sales worldwide increasing, the band was reaching a wider audience than ever before.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Garden Of The Arcane Delights (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US This four-track EP is packaged separately in a replica of its original sleeve with the SACD edition.
4AD
CD
$14.75

Dead Can Dance
Spleen And Ideal (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US The primarily experimental structure of their second album, released in 1986, dispelled any notion that the band deserved the post-Gothic label slapped on them by the music press. "Spleen And Ideal" defined a new richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Aion (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US This 1990 release contains twelve songs recorded in Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's own studio in southern Ireland.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Into The Labyrinth (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US This 1993 release saw Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard embark on individual paths. While this record of all new material was considered a commercial breakthrough (it was 4AD's best-seller at a million copies worldwide and counting), it was also their most divided. They both wrote songs independent of one another, on separate continents.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Spiritchaser (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US Their seventh studio album was released in 1996, and focused on the more percussive, tribal side of the group's music. It was their first studio album since 1993's "Into The Labyrinth".
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
Toward The Within (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US Originally released in 1994, this record was an audio document of the band's 1993 sell-out world tour. Recorded at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica, CA, in front of an invited audience at the conclusion of the tour, the shows were also filmed with the intent of releasing a long form concert film. Includes twelve previously unrecorded Dead Can Dance tracks as well as material from their six previous studio albums.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Can Dance
S-T (Remastered | Super Audio CD)
PS, US On their eponymous debut, released in 1982, they successfully harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion. Their range is staggering, as is their disciplined economy, with no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony.
4AD
CD
$17.50

Dead Dog
S-T
PS, US Dead Dog are young, punk and on Mauled By Tigers( they are the folks who put out the Vivian Girls full length that everyone wants.)
MauledByTigers
LP
$11.50

Difford, Chris
Last Temptation of Chris
PS, US Squeeze dude's latest solo outing.
Airline
CD
$15.75

Diplomats of Solid Sound
S-T
PS, US Featuring The Diplomettes! You can hear the band growing stronger in sophistication & depth as they further ingest the sounds of 60s soul, R&B & deep funk. In 2006 they asked 3 gifted soul sirens (SARAH CRAM, KATHERINE RUESTOW & ABIGAIL SAWYER) to join the group & the rest as they say is 'soul' history. This album is chocked full of irresistible funk & soul bombs ready to melt your heart or make you shake it on the dance-floor.
Pravda
CD
$12.75

DJ Donna Summer
Panther Tracks vol. 2
PS, UK About this release: 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-16
12
$14.50

Doiron, Julie
Loneliest In The Morning
PS, US Originally released in 1997 by SUB POP, "Loneliest In The Morning" was Doiron's second solo release and her first release as JULIE DOIRON (having dropped the moniker Broken Girl). This re-issue comes complete with three bonus tracks: "Second Time" from split 7" with Snailhouse and the tracks "Who Will Be The One" and "Too Much" from the 7" release Doiron recorded with the Wooden Stars. "Loneliest In The Morning" - an album Pitchfork described as "catchy enough to knock Liz Phair upside the head" - is a critical piece to the Doiron catalog and given the wonderful relationship Doiron and JAGJAGUWAR have forged over the last decade, this re-issue is particularly significant.
Jagjaguwar-061
CD
$11.50

Doormouse
Stanley Yerkowski presents: Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator
PS, UK So way, way, way back in 1994 Dan Doormouse first starting making hardcore techno in Milwaukee Wisconsin, then one day he stumbled upon a Sun Ra record and thus, "Breakcore" in the United States of America was born. He began the legendary Addict and Distort record labels soon after, and began releasing the most fucked up high intensity music the world has ever seen. The nephew of Lemme from motorhead (really, no shit!), Dan soon started performing solo and with his band Meat around Milwaukee in the Midwest of the US, gaining a massive following of renegades, speed freaks and social workers. Somehow, Mike Paradinas (Mu-ziq) took notice, and "Broken" was Dan's first major CD release in 2002 on the Planet Mu record label. But it comes as no surprise that the sorted and complex realities of Breakcore stardom (in this case of bottle of Jack Daniels, and some misplaced punches) made it difficult to continue with Planet Mu . Naturally, Dan finds a home here at Cock Rock Disco with "Stanley Yershonowski presents Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator."
CockRockDisco-003
CD
$11.75

Dr. Dog
Easy Beat
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ParkTheVan
LP
$12.50

Dr. Dog
Fate
PS, US Fate" sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity - all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook. Dr. Dog have toured with Wilco, Strokes, Raconteurs, Black Keys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Magic Numbers, Cold War Kids, and more.
ParkTheVan
CD
$14.00

Dr. Dog
Fate
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ParkTheVan
LP
$15.50

Drakkar Sauna
Wars and Tornadoes
PS, US A disc of Louvin Brothers covers. Gleefully dark with olden-time harmonies & musical arrangements.
Marriage
CD
$15.25

Dredd Foole
Kissing the Contemporary Bliss
PS, US For over 30 years troubadour wailer Dan Ireton, aka DREDD FOOLE, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Whether solo or leading mass, Foole hints at the classic forms of Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks", Buckley's "Starsailor" and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt "MV" Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), "Kissing The Contemporary Bliss" spans 50 miles of elbow room (it's a double CD) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to Gus Cannon's "Walk Right In" and Robert Johnson's "Stones In My Passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book with full color photos of The Foole in action.
FamilyVineyard-56
DCD
$14.25

Drive-By Truckers
Brighter Than Creation's Dark
PS, US Drive-By Truckers leader Patterson Hood wrote in a post on the band's website that 2007 "was supposed to be our year of taking it easy," but it doesn't seem to have worked out that way, and that's a good thing for everyone concerned. The songwriting bug seems to have bit the Drive-By Truckers sometime after the release of 2006's A Blessing and a Curse, and while that album was a bit short on top-shelf material (at least compared to the band's work since Southern Rock Opera), Brighter Than Creation's Dark is a dazzling return to form, delivering some of their finest, most eclectic, and most mature music to date. The album's strength is a pleasant surprise given the departure of guitarist and tunesmith Jason Isbell, who had become one of the group's most interesting writers, but founding members Hood and Mike Cooley have risen to the occasion with some excellent new songs, and bassist Shonna Tucker (who's also Isbell's ex-wife) steps forward as a composer and lead vocalist on this set with three great songs about broken hearts and the stuff that follows in their wake. Opening with "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife," a song by Hood sung from the perspective of a man who has just died and wonders what will become of his family, Brighter Than Creation's Dark presents 19 portraits of folks struggling to make sense of an increasingly chaotic world, ranging from an alcoholic father ("Daddy Needs a Drink") and a family man struggling to hold onto a little piece of the American dream ("The Righteous Path") to a middle-aged guy whose gotten a little too used to being lonely ("Bob") and an illegal gun dealer running short on options ("Checkout Time in Vegas"). While the Truckers are still a great full-tilt hard rock band, Brighter Than Creation's Dark finds them slowing down and turning down a bit more than usual, and in this case it works well for them -- the homey twang of "Lisa's Birthday" and "I'm Sorry Huston" gives new guitarist and pedal steel player John Neff a chance to shine, and the light acoustic arrangement of "Perfect Timing" fits the lyrical portrait of a cheerfully flawed man just fine. And "That Man I Shot" is a blazing, troubling masterpiece in which a soldier home from Iraq can't tear away the memory of a man he killed in combat ("That man I shot, I didn't know him/I was just doing my job, maybe so was he"). It's a tale of the most human consequences of war that's built from equal portions of anger, confusion, and compassion, and it's hard to imagine any other band pulling off its fusion of Southern-fried street smarts and guitar-fueled thunder. It's one of several brilliant moments on Brighter Than Creation's Dark, and less than three weeks into 2008 it's hard not to escape the feeling that with this disc we may already have the best album of the year. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
New West
DLP
$27.05

Duchesses
Estupet
PS, US This precocious all-girl quartet with an average age of 19 create a Medusa's head of sound; their influences range from Death In June to Kate Bush. The musical result is a motley collision of razorchainsaw guitars, sinister high school marching band drums, seasick rolling basslines, all heading into battle lead by a screaming banshee-girl-thing spitting acid & venomous bile. Don't be deceived by their youth & knee-highs.
ApopRecords
CD
$13.50

El Vez
Gospel Show In Madrid
PS, US El Vez isn't a conventional Elvis impersonator at all. He takes 50 years of popular music and knits it together to arrive at a revue style of ginormous proportions. T. Rex, The Jam, Iggy, U2 & Aerosmith all go under the thunder & into the blender. This DVD captures the magic and entertainment of Elvez live show, this time his "Gospel" show in Madrid in 2007.
Munster
DVD
$25.00

Electro Group
Historical Contest
PS, US Rewind to the early 90s - the heyday of the shoegaze scene. A little-known band from Sacramento called Graham Cracker Cyclone was all the hometown rage -- they were opening up for bands like Chapterhouse and Blur at the legendary Cattle Club. GCC featured Verna Brock (of California Oranges and Holiday Flyer Fame) along with Tim Jacobson and Ian Hernandez who went on to form Electro Group with Matt Hull. (Incidentally, Tim and Verna also played stints in Rocketship as well). Sometime toward the end of Graham Cracker Cyclone's days (1992-94), Electro Group was formed and the six songs featured here were written during that beautiful period. Four of these songs were released on hyper-limited demo cassettes from that period. The other two have never been released. After GCC split, they tried to find a new sound away from their Cure-influenced pop to a more distorted and dreamy sound. As with all Claire's Echo releases, this release is LIMITED to just 300 copies worldwide -- 200 copies on 180-gram black vinyl.
Claire'sEcho-004
12
$12.25

Eleh
Homage to the Square Wave
PS, US
Taiga-4
LP
$16.25

Elias and the Wizzkids
A Little Mess
PS, SWEDEN "A Little Mess is a jangly, bouncy celebration of the auditorily absurd. Harmonica, flute, howled lyrics and harmonized choruses crowd the album, which bears more in common with the lovelorn 1950s boy-girl group movement than their less accessible, cool as ice Svenska indie pop counterparts1. Indirectly addressing this disparity, their myspace banner announces, "We're though being cool." Lyrically, Elias and his beloved Wizzkids skew darker. When you're not on stage hosting a geek-filled love fest...well, sometimes life kinda sucks. The album tracks the slow, determined progression into adulthood and everything that makes you lose sleep along the way. You turn 24, and wonder where your job, house, wife and kids are. Naturally, steps are taken to rectify the situation. "The job" finds Elias forced to answer the eternal burning question: What the hell are you supposed to say/when they ask you to describe yourself in just three words? In "The Mermaid," Elias works on the lack of wife problem. However, things don't go as swimmingly as he'd hoped2. Despite being told there are many other fish in the sea, Elias moans, You were never a fish/no, you were a mermaid to me. Yeah, can't help you there dude, I'm still wearing waterwings. The album ends, if not with the answers on how to avoid this inevitable angst-filled rite of passage (although "The Dance" does make a good case for frolicking away the blues), then at least a temporary respite from that whole growing up thing. Elias tucks himself in at night, Wizzkids accompaniment slowly fading into the distance, and sighs, When you're lying in bed and not sleeping yet
and you can still feel the fresh taste of toothpaste, isn't it nice to turn out the lights and say goodnight? Yes. Yes it is. Just don't grow up too much before your next album, okay?" - Would-be-hipsters.com
Hybris-056
CD
$17.75

Elias and the Wizzkids
The Dance
PS, SWEDEN The Dance EP includes the single "The dance" and three exclusive tracks. "Elias & the Wizzkids' single "The Dance" starts out with Elias Åkesson singing about how much coffee and tea he's had to drink, which is pretty obvious from the song's jittery tempo, rushing strums, and caffeine-high piano. Only Maria Formgren's flute sounds like it's calm and collected, as if trying to keep this rowdy lot in line. "The Dance" might be called twee if it slowed down long enough; even the song's Decemberistic video features a footrace... that breaks into a soccer tournament... that breaks into a midfield dance party. Elias sings about trying to outrun some unnamed restlessness: he goes to a coffeehouse, he goes to a movie, he wanders around, he finally goes home and starts dancing his heart out. Even his neighbor's threats to call the police can't bring him down. Here's hoping he doesn't switch to decaf anytime soon." - Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork. "The best music for me supersedes genre and classification: anything that'll evoke good memories and hope and truth in me is worth my time, no matter what the setting or backdrop. Elias & the Wizzkids (MySpace) is one such band. I don't even want to describe these Swedish chaps with constraining words like swing and folk and soul (all of which would be accurate though, I guess). They're just special and precious, and that should be enough. Hold on to Elias & the Wizzkids. The four-piece sings charming songs about charming things with charming similes and metaphors with charming harmonies and harmonicas and driving bass lines to accompany the whole production. An utterly charming and endearing band, to say the least. This stuff sounds like it's decades old, maybe a lost artifact from the singin' folksy 60s or something. The cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is spectacular. It's a refreshing update -- in a very old way -- of the rather bland song (sorry Gallagher fans). I can't get enough of "The Dance," and "Autumn Leaves" is just so, so sweet ... I just want to lay on my bed and curl up, listening to it for the whole day. Coming from me, such complimentary words are rare: I'm not one to be taken in by something as soft and pretty as Elias & the Wizzkids' music, but I've become a sucker for these guys." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com
Hybris-052
CD5
$8.25

Enduser
Bollywood Breaks
PS, GERMANY Repress Packaging: color 12" sleeve. Three tracks by Enduser, and remixes by LARVAE, MAD EP and LINE47. Originally released in October 2004, this 12" sold out very quickly. It was then re-released on CD, which also sold out. Here comes the long awaited repress of the 12", guaranteed to go very fast as well.
AdNoiseam-41
12
$11.50

Engine Down
From Beginning to End
PS, US After nearly a decade of making music, the group chose to play 1 final tour in the US, which is chronicled on this DVD. Contains over 3 hours of content, including a documentary, their entire last show, rare & unreleased tracks, music videos & photo galleries.
Lovitt
DVD
$15.75

Es
Sateenkaarisuudelma
PS, FINLAND Originally released as a 2LP by the (K-RAA-K)³ label in 2005, Sateenkaarisuudelma is Fonal label-head Sami Sänpäkkilä's fourth solo album under the name Es. The 2CD release is a trilogy containing three independent parts: "Sateenkaarisuudelma," "Maailmankaari" and "Pianokaari." Sateenkaarisuudelma was conceived from live songs performed on tour with Black Forest/Black Sea's Miriam Goldberg on cello, Jeffrey Alexander on guitar and effects, and Fursaxa's Tara Burke on vocals and keyboard. "Maailmankaari" I and II were recorded at Boston's WMBR radio station. Featuring rushing piano cadences and stabs, the sounds of burbling streams and static, softly chanting vocals, spectral, psychedelic ambience, dark koan/drones and endlessly looped guitar and electronics, this double album is a contemplative journey into a sound quite beyond freak-folk or Finnish quaintness. Other musicians include members of Kemialliset Ystävät, Kiila and Lau Nau.
Fonal-052
DCD
$20.50

Escovedo, Alejandro
Real Animal
PS, US It may be simplistic to describe Alejandro Escovedo's 2006 album The Boxing Mirror as a record inspired by the artist's brush with death, but given the record's back story -- it was recorded as Escovedo was recovering from a near-fatal bout with Hepatitis C -- it's hard not to imagine its brave and often dazzling creative ambition was fueled by Escovedo's knowledge that these could be his last words as a musician. Two years later, a healthier and stronger Escovedo returned to the studio to record his ninth studio album, Real Animal, and by comparison this is a leaner, more tightly focused session; in fact, this is the strongest rock album Escovedo has made since his 1997 album with Buick MacKane, The Pawn Shop Years. It's easy to tag Real Animal as a less ambitious and artful collection than The Boxing Mirror, but viewed on its own merits this ranks with the best and most powerful music of Escovedo's career. Like The Boxing Mirror, which was produced by John Cale, Real Animal was recorded with a producer who worked with some of Escovedo's primal influences, Tony Visconti, and his recordings with David Bowie and T. Rex doubtless helped him connect with Escovedo the smart but swaggering rocker in a way Cale did not; this set of songs is every bit as intelligent and emotionally resonant as Escovedo's best work, but it moves with a taut energy and insistent force that informs even the quieter, acoustic oriented numbers, such as the bluesy "People (We're Only Gonna Live So Long)," and the plaintive "Hollywood Hills." While Escovedo wrote the tunes on Real Animal with Chuck Prophet, the songs bear his stylistic hallmarks and melodic sensibilities throughout, and these stories are dotted with places and events from Escovedo's past -- discovering music as a kid ("Golden Bear"), his days as a San Francisco punk rocker ("Nun's Song"), flirting with the New York bohemian scene ("Chelsea Hotel '78"), and barnstorming with a rock & roll band ("Chip 'N' Tony"). Even when the cues to Escovedo's past aren't obvious, there's too much heart, soul, and blood in this music to not to have come directly from his heart, and he's seemingly incapable of singing from any other place, giving this music an emotional power that reaches down to the soul. If The Boxing Mirror was a work influenced by the shadow of mortality, Real Animal is an album about life -- both as survival and as the faces and moments that fill our days on this Earth. How many artists could make two masterpieces in a row that are so different? And how much do you want to bet that Escovedo still has one or two more records this good in him? ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Blue Note
DLP
$18.40

Espvall, Helena & Masaki Batoh
S-T
PS, US They are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations w/ artists like Ghost, Espers, Damon & Naomi, Fursaxa, Bert Jansch among others. This recording session was held in Tokyo in Dec. 2007. For instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. So many strings were used. 6 Swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed along w/ a classic Son House song.
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Espvall, Helena & Masaki Batoh
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Fairport Convention
Liege & Lief
PS, US Originally released in '70, this is considered by many to be the paramount of British folk-rock. They roll through no less than 4 traditional British folk songs incl. an incredible reading of "Tam Lin" along w/ quality originals that pay tribute to & expand on their rich tradition.
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75

Familjen
Huvudet I Sanden
PS, SWEDEN Filled with playfulness, without rose-eyed 80s nostalgia, Familjen feels very modern. He blends naive 80's melodies, 90's beats and 00's glitches into a cohesive whole. That combined with his squealing 303's and subtle guitars makes it all sound like it was recorded tomorrow. "Huvudet I Sanden" is a remix album with remixes of various Familjen songs by 11 different dance floor geniuses including: 1. Familjen - Huvudet i sanden, 2. Kasper Bjørke - The danish super star!, 3. Krazy Fiesta - Party crew responsible for the amazing "Lip Gloss" remix, 4. Adam Tensta - The savior for Swedish Hip Hop!, 5. Mike Downey - This American prodigy living in Stockholm puts a German beat to it. So international., 6. Perfume Uniform - Acoustic guitars in electronic music? But of course! Excellent dreamy version., 7. The Field - Best selling debut album on Kompakt says it all. 2007 was The Fields year all over., 8. Pluxus - Familjen says this sounds like if you have smoked too much weed and just lie there vomiting your guts out. Nice one!, 9. Boeoes Kaelstigen - Already a legendary remix on the dance floors. Straight from STHLM subway. More than one have pointed out these guys as the future of techno., 10. Tomi Kiiosk - Hässleholm - Finland. Well yeah? Why not!, 11. DJ Wool - One half of NYC party machine The Glass. Glen Brady - king of the skate board, booze and hustle., 12. Kid in the Air - Admit you love euro dance.
Hybris-061
CD
$17.75

Faraquet
Anthology 1997-1998
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Includes MP3's.
Dischord
LP
$11.00

Faraquet
Anthology 1997-1998
PS, US Began as a side project featuring SMART WENT CRAZY members DEVIN OCAMPO & JEFF BOSWELL. This is the re-issue of songs they had recorded for various singles & split releases. All songs have been re-mixed by DEVIN OCAMPO & re-mastered by CHAD CLARK.
Dischord
CD
$10.75

Faun Fables
Table Forgotten
PS, US This is the first taste in an ongoing series of projects by Dawn McCarthy on a theme that's been largely unexplored in recent times: the ageold practices of tending a home & its immediate impact upon our day to day lives. It is an invitation to return to our kitchens & homes w/ reverence, to enjoy a largely overlooked sanctuary in the modern age.
DragCity
CD
$11.00

Felix
La Vida Secreta
PS, CHILE Author pop, with simple and refined musical arrangements; convert this debut from the Argentinian songwriter Felix, "La Vida Secreta", in an absolute discovery. Felix recovers the capacity to compose intimates lyrics that are perfect partners for affable melodies that convert this debut in an essential work. His lyrics seems chronicles about a generation personal worries, and locate this songwriter in the first line of highlights musicians from his country like Coiffeur or Diosque, that update the face of the indie song in that latitudes.
Quemasucabeza-018
CD
$13.50

Flynn, Johnny
A Larum
PS, US A British lo-fi rock troubadour." What else about him? That's all we got. Debut album on Lost Highway.
LostHighway
CD
$10.00

Flynn, Johnny
A Larum
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LostHighway
DLP
$14.00

Forward, Russia!
Life Processes
PS, US A weighty prog-rock album this certainly is not, though; this is tumultuous modern rock, infused w/ the sort of spirit that some made At The Drive-In such a must-see live attraction, & likewise Les Savy Fav today.
Mute
CD
$15.25

Foster, Josephine
This Coming Gladness
PS, UK This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson.
BoWeavil
CD
$16.25

Fucked Up
Year Of The Pig
PS, US Last year's limited edition 12-inch "Year Of The Pig", released on the Brooklyn label What's Your Rupture? is now available through Matador in three formats: 12-inch EP with download coupon and the two original tracks ("Year Of The Pig" and "Black Hats"); 7-inch single with "Year Of The Pig" edit and "Mustaa Lunta" with a special sleeve; CD EP with eight tracks - all the above songs plus two edits and B-sides of UK and Japanese 7-inches. This is not comforting music, but it's utterly engrossing and honest. Fucked Up have broken out of the hardcore ghetto and have rewritten the rules of the game.
Matador
CD
$7.00

Fucked Up
Year Of The Pig
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$8.75

Garnett, Gale and the Gentle Reign
S/T
PS, UK Like a lot of folk-pop performers who began their careers in the early- to-mid-'60s, by the end of the decade Gale Garnett seemed to have drifted into the rock and psychedelic scene, hooking up with the band The Gentle Reign to cut these two bizarre albums for CBS. Singer, journalist, actress (from cult 60s movie Mad Monster Party to My Big Fat Greek Wedding), star of Scopitones (check Youtube for some delights!), Gale Zoe Garnett is a marvel and a one-off. Listening to this album one has to wonder who is she taking on here? Bobby Gentry with her smoky voice and good looks, Grace Slick with her swooping rock stylings, or even Frank Zappa with the satirical tone and radio acting? Gale Garnett is a law unto herself. Rev-Ola is proud to bring you her two ndeservedly obscure late 60s albums with The Gentle Reign, a mere smidgen of the woman s immense and unique talent. ** Re-mastered in top Rev-Ola style by Norman Studio 3 Blake and with beautiful repackaging for a beautiful lady! ** Includes both amazing albums in their entirety! ** A must for all fans of out-there psych, sexy femme pop, avant-garde stylings and cult 60s artefacts!
Rev-Ola-257
CD
$15.50

Girls
Lust For Life b/w Morninglight
PS, US Ex-member of Holy Shit (the Ariel Pink one) goes out on his own and records a couple of mini masterpieces. The first single is two sides, two insanely compelling, righteously and messed up pop songs. Sounds range from Vaselines/Jesus and Mary Chain wall of noise to Elvis Costello-voiced revelations.
TruePantherSounds
45
$4.75

Great Northwest
Widespread Reign of...
PS, US The 13 track album brims over with lush soundscapes; ambient modulations, pop melodies & slowcore pacing coalesce
seamlessly throughout the record. Lavish & haunting vocals woven with Brian's savvy wordplay complete the sonically induced mind altering experience. After the mixing session, Coates said warmly, "there's guitar, there's bass, there's drums, there's trombone, there's Leslie speakers, practice amps, Jew's Harps, drum loops, tambourines, ebows, harmonicas, pie tins, there's thought, there's love"
Kora
CD
$11.25

Guggenheim Grotto, The
...Waltzing Alone
PS, US The curiously named Guggenheim Grotto are a folk-pop trio from Dublin, Ireland, consisting of Kevin May (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Mick Lynch (vocals, guitar, bass, viola), and Shane Power (drums, keyboard). In 2003 May and Lynch began playing together in Dublin and soon recruited Power after he had done production work on their first EP, A Lifetime in Heat. The group's first full-length album, ...Waltzing Alone, followed and was self-released only in Ireland in September 2005. It was released in North America a year later through UFO Music. ~ Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide *Deluxe hard bound book style packaging!
SHLC003
CD
$14.29

Hair Police
The Certainty of Swarms
PS, US First Full length release from hair police since 2005, and their most masterful yet, combining signature piercing vocals with walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft.
NoFunProductions-39
CD
$12.25

Halstead, Neil
Oh! Mighty Engine
PS,US VINYL VERSION.
Brushfire
LP
$13.75

Halstead, Neil
Oh! Mighty Engine (ON SALE)
PS, US New solo album from Slowdive/Mojave 3 mainman... In the late '90s Neil fronted a band called Slowdive, and after a couple of really good records they split. From there Neil formed his current band Mojave 3, who have released 4 records to date with a few more to come, we hope. Hard to find 2 bands with more critical accolades, and at the core of those bands was Neil and his songwriting. Oh! Mighty Engine is the name of Neil's newest solo record. It is a record that can handle excessive listens and seems to absorb every mood. It is really hard to find a record that can make you happy, sad, and can make you laugh all at once. He writes songs that are very personal to him, and then allows space for everyone to take their own meaning away from his lyrics ("Go skies and thrones and wings. And poetry and things" from the song "Elevenses"). Neil is an old soul and his newest solo record is exactly who he is. Welcoming, warm, clever and kind.
Brushfire
CD
$13.50

Hammer No More The Fingers
S-T
PS, US "Their sound is just straight up indie rock that's laced w/ energy and dipped in a vat of pure catchiness. Better yet, the trio also do enough to not actually sound like it's just three dudes pounding away on their instruments; there's a real sense of flexibility and confidence" -Side One/Track One. Stereogum's Band To Watch
PowerTeam
CD5
$7.00

Handsome Family
Songbook
PS, US Musical notation including chords, tabs, melody & lyrics for 21 HF songs! Compiled by Brett & Rennie for your delight. Songs include: Arlene, Drunk by Noon, Down in the Ground, Weightless Again, The Sad Milkman, I Know You Are There, No One Fell Asleep Alone, 24 Hour Store, The Bottomless Hole, After We Shot the Grizzly, All the Time in Airports, Tesla's Hotel Room & more!!
HandsomeFamily
BOOK
$11.00

Harvey, PJ
Rid of Me
PS, US 1993's Rid Of Me, is an art-punk classic that pushes the genre, & w/ it the listener, to extremes. Alternating between searing noise/feedback & sparse open spaces, this is truly an emotional experience. As usual, legendary producer Steve Albini maximizes every sound & space, working w/ that exacting, mechanical precision that he has come to be known for, the perfect complement to her harsh, stark, disturbed songwriting.
Plain
LP
$16.75

Hatewave
Free Ringetones
PS, US Disgusting 4 track no-grind from poor white guys on meth and hoarse.
ApopRecords
CD
$13.50

Havana 3 A.M.
Havana 3 a.m.
PS, UK Reissue. A first time CD release for Havana 3a.m.'s self-titled 1991 album. The band formed by ex Clash bass player Paul Simonon, described as 'the coolest man ever to strap on a bass guitar ' conjures up a blend of Latino flavoring built on the solid base of Rockabilly. Their sound evokes images of Spaghetti Westerns, 1950's America and the heyday of Cuba's capital Havana all with a contemporary twist. The CD features the 12 original tracks from the album including the single "Reach The Rock" and other band favorites "Joyride", "Hey Amigo", "The Hardest Game" and "Blue Gene Vincent".
CherryRed-201
CD
$15.50

Hewhocorrupts
Microeconomics
PS, US Chicago's CEOs of corporate grind have returned w/ a high-yielding 7" that will knock your receptionists socks off. Released in 2007 as the infamous credit card shaped CD packaged in a wallet! On colored vinyl, full color folding jacket, w/ all of your credits & debits clearly detailed... pay your fucking bills!
GileadMedia
45
$6.50

Hiawata!
Blacks On Blondes EP
PS, NORWAY Norwegian act Hiawata! is often compared to bands like Lemonheads, Belle & Sebastian, Television Personalities and other such greats. Blacks on Blondes is a fivetrack EP produced by Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax). Kenneth has brought the band closer to their heroes in Dinosaur Jr. and the Lemonheads, but not without letting go of their fetish for the Smiths and other UK acts. 75 OR LESS: "I welcome the '90s revival Hiawata! and a few other bands (Times New Viking, Wet Paint) are ushering in with their imperfect musicianship, bent vocals and inexhaustible energy. The five little songs on Blacks on Blondes remind me of the years before the internet made finding good music so easy, when the only real option was scouring mailorder catalogs and taking inexpensive risks. Their melody-rich guitar-heavy music would have fit nicely between Sebadoh and Built to Spill on mixtapes."
SellOut!Music
CD5
$7.50

High Places
03/07-09/07
PS, US This began as an experiment in collaboration: 2 people w/ diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, & music-making approaches. The songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells & bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar & glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's inventive & infectious beats. This is a collection of tracks previously only available on 7'' vinyl & compilations. This is the first time these songs are all available on CD.
ThrillJockey
CD
$11.50

Hotpants Romance
It's a Heatwave
PS, US Three girls! Three years! Three chords! Hotpants Romance debut album 'It's a Heatwave' is shouty, shambolic, garage pop that wears its heart on its sleeve. On the 14th February 2005 Hotpants Romance formed two hours before their first gig, with a vow to play once a year on Valentines Day, after a storming two and a half song set the audience wanted more. The original plan was dropped in favour of playing anywhere and everywhere that Anyone would have them. The rest of 2005 had their first tape 'The Greatest Hits' was released on Manchester DIY label Soft Presents and the 50 copies quickly sold out. Gigs were played all around the UK with many amazing bands, winning over audiences with energetic and shambolic live shows. 2006 had Hotpants Romance playing more shows and releasing their demo EP titled "Lucky 6". In 2007 things started to really come together when the girls were able to tour with their post punk heroes the Nightingales, only to be followed by a support slot for the Ting Tings UK tour. In 2008 after a win on a horse called Purple Moon, Nightingale Robert Lloyd is able to release the first Hotpants Romance album on his Big Print label. 'It's a Heatwave' crashed into the world, catching the attention of music press and radio stations to great critical acclaim. The girls booked a short US East Coast tour with Christie and Emily. They are currently working on songs for a 7" on Cherryade Records in the UK, and getting ready for a performance at this years' Athens PopFest in Athens, Georgia, having their "It's a Heatwave" released on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records in the states, and a 2 week South East US tour with new label-mates Cars Can Be Blue.
HHBTM-103
CD
$12.25

Jack of Heart
San Francisco
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Departing completely from the static-soaked, overdriven throb prerogative ofR theecior rpdrsevious bands, this is a new conglomeration of Piero from the FATALS & DEMON'S CLAWS, & Benji from the CRETEENS. Their sound takes off down the tender side of the switchblade, & erupts w/ such an unassuming immediacy that it's tough to pinpoint the first time it slithers through your head
Rob'sHouse
45
$5.25

Jason Crest
Collected Works of Jason Crest
PS, UK Now available again after being deleted since 2002, Collected Works Of Jason Crest collects the A and B sides of all five late 1960s singles by British psychedelic pop cults Jason Crest and adds six extraordinary demos that failed to see the light of day at the time. With a lavish 16-page booklet and tracks of the caliber of 'Turquoise Tandem Cycle' and the legendary 'Black Mass,' Collected Works Of Jason Crest is the definitive anthology of one of the most highly regarded British psych-pop bands of the era.
WoodenHill-006
CD
$20.50

Juvelen
1
PS, SWEDEN Pitchfork 10/10. "More than a year after issuing his debut EP, the mighty (and yes he's mighty already) Jonas Pettersson has finally released his debut full-length under the Juvelen moniker. Entitled "1", it is so, as his debut album, and also, one of the best flat-out pop albums I have heard in years. The strange thing about this album though, is that each of it's ten songs could be a hit single, yet it retains a cohesive feel that a singles collection does not. Every track is a stand-out, however, for the skeptic I'd recommend "Money don't talk", "Don't mess" and "Everytime" to win you over. His seductive, synthesizer heavy pop/r&b hybrid could-and should-elevate Juvelen to being a global household name. It's pure pop perfection will make you smile, and dance, and smile and dance." - Matt Giordano, It's a trap.com. "Sweden is starting to frighten me. It wasn't enough for the Scandinavian nation to catch the garage-rock wave or usurp Glasgow's rightful place as a wellspring for wimpy indie-pop. No, the Swedes also had to show off their prowess at electro-pop, dreamy epic disco, and, with lesser success (so far), hip-hop. Stockholm's Juvelen plants the blue and yellow flag firmly in the terrain of funky, r&b-informed synth-pop. (His name is Swedish for "jewel," so just be thankful he didn't choose to annex 1990s folk-pop.) "Hanna", from Juvelen's recently released debut album, 1, is a good preview of Juvelen's Prince-ly falsetto and twitchy dancefloor hooks. Produced by Patrik Berger, who worked on Robyn's self-titled album, "Hanna" sounds a note of regret to one of Juvelen's own Billie Jeans, with an arrangement of taut guitars, smooth synths, and propulsive bass that keeps the track always moving-- just like the insatiable Swedish pop scene." - Marc Hogan, Pitchfork.
Hybris-066
CD
$17.75

Keith
The Adventures Of Keith
PS, UK Keith scored a massive worldwide hit in 1967 with the record 98.6, which featured on our release Keith Ain't Gonna Lie (RPM 273), and is the subject of an entire column in this months Mojo Magazine. We are pleased to present Keith s 1969 self penned LP, The Adventures of Keith, which is reissued for the first time, and is also on CD for the first time. A striking set which tells the story of a boy, Charley Cinders, who is born [Waiting to Be]; he's blind [Alone On The Shore]; the trials and tribulations he has to deal with [Marstrand, China Clipper, The Problem, Elea-Elea, Trixon's Election] and ultimately his own demise [Charley Cinders]. In production the music speaks loudly of Keith's British pop influences and the arrangements twist and turn in such a way that they could only be from a songwriter enthralled with Sgt Pepper. All of which explains why The Adventures Of Keith fell through the cracks in mainstream 1969 America, only to become a highly sought-after soft rock collectable in recent years. Full story inside from a new interview with Keith (aka Barry Keefer).
RPM-833
CD
$16.75

Kelley, Greg
Religious Electronics
PS, US Face melting electronics from Greg Kelley. This is not a Jazz record. Limited to 350 copies.
NoFunProductions-33
LP
$17.75

Kid, The
Transient Blood
PS, SWEDEN "The Kid aren't concerned with petty meanings, they want the consequences, the mixed emotions and the ultra-highs. They pin down that word by its strictest definition and force it to perform, reward and pay out. They make it dance until it smiles, spin until it laughs and I find myself selfishly joining in; foot-tapping, hands beating and body twitching all over. They make me crave multi-coloured lights, speakers as large as houses, and a chance to hold hands with that girl from a John Hughes movie. No problems, no worries; everything is magically washed away, except that moment between you and her and an empty dance floor." - Souls on tape.net "The Kid's sophomore album, Transient Blood. This is BBBD's first time listening to the Gothenburg quartet, but boy are they good. Imagine Sambassadeur merged with New Order circa 1987. The Swedes have a penchant for churning out tracks with heavy, super-catchy bass lines, playful synth riffs, and rhythm guitar parts that sound so in motion, so fresh and not boring like rhythm guitar tends to be. And the Kid does it best. The first single off the record, "Transient Dance," is a stunning jam that's reminiscent of cutesy European exports like Bonnie & Clyde and more recent New Order cuts like "Krafty." It's charming beyond belief, and the rest of the release holds muster well. Transient Blood is out now,, and you must purchase it if you hope to have an enjoyable summer ... or if you're looking for that perfect soundtrack for a house party, BBQ, whatever. It'll work." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com
Hybris-067
CD
$17.75

Krallice
S-T
PS, US hymns, it's a vitriolic & hypnotizing assault on the senses that brings to mind early Burzum, Nattens Madrigal-era Ulver, Gorgoroth & US legends Weakling. This is their unique vision- singular in the realm of US black metal today.
ProfoundLore
CD
$14.25

Lackthereof
Your Anchor
PS, US Lackthereof is the bedroom side-project of Danny Seim, best known as the incredibly talented and very tall drummer for the acclaimed band MENOMENA. This is the 9th record Seim's put out in the last 10 years & easily his most cohesive to date.
Barsuk
CD
$10.00

Landed
How Little Will It Take
PS, US Double disc compilation featuring a blown out bonus 3 inch bonus disc. On this release you get some compilation tracks, some new chapters in the band's history (the band has mutated into a breakcore booty crew with a mush mouthed grape ape singing!), a rerelease of the recently released "Time I Despise" 12", a 7 inch track & some sundry live material. Altogether a recommended affair for those looking at doing a little post graduate work on late 20th/early 21st century free range roving garbage rock of the highest order. Yes, they were contemporaries of many bands in Providence like Lighting Bolt, Arab on Radar & Six Finger Satellite. LIMITED TO 750
Load
DCD
$12.50

Late, The
Songs From The Family Tree
PS, UK Although harmony-based British soft rock act Unicorn didn't release their superb debut album, Uphill All The Way, until mid-1971, the core of the band had been playing together, principally as The Late, for several years. Taken from previously unreleased acetates and studio tapes, Songs From The Family Tree charts the group's hitherto undocumented progress from 1967 to 1969 as they slowly evolved from their original, Hollies-inspired psychedelic pop direction to create a more individual identity. With comprehensive liner notes, quotes and numerous photographs, Songs From The Family Tree is an essential item for Unicorn fans and admirers of late '60ss British pop alike." Includes a previously unreleased alternative mix.
WoodenHill-021
CD
$20.50

Lauten, Elodie
The Death of Don Juan
PS, US CD debut of this 1985 post-minimal landmark by Elodie Lauten. Lauten has been active in the downtown New York classical and punk scenes since moving from France in the 1970s. The Death of Don Juan is a breakthrough for its lyrical minimalism in combination with drama that actively engages a contemporary emotional experience. Originally self-produced and released as a small LP edition on her own label, it has been touted ever since by Kyle Gann, who adds notes to this edition, and was recently included on one of Alan Licht's Minimal Top Ten lists. Features performances by Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo.
UnseenWorlds-04
CD
$13.00

Leinonen, Ville
Suudelmitar
PS, FINLAND Originally released on CD by Poko Records in 2004, this is the debut full-length release by Ville Leinonen. This is a musical journey to the shores of imagined inner lands and to the Scandinavian forests of hopes and dreams. These songs are moments of beauty from nature, cities and villages. It's autumn in Finland. Freezing wind blows from Itämeri -- the sea. Rain washes the streets of Helsinki. Suudelmitar expresses knowing and understanding foreign cultures as they appear in common everyday life and music. Sweet and nostalgic flamenco-styled guitar and strident, trilling flute evoke a troubadour, street musician vibe. Bossa nova grooves are carefully orchestrated with horns and male and female jazz duets, and there's even a surprising sitar jam. Laid-back indie lounge for world travellers riding on a joyful breeze.
Fonal-053
CD
$16.25

Lollipop Shoppe, The
Just Colour
PS, UK One of the MUST HAVE Garage Rock classics! Originally known as The Weeds and featuring Fred "Deep Soul" Cole, The Lollipop Shoppe sound amazingly modern! After The Weeds signed to UNI Records, their new manager, the infamous "Lord" Tim Hudson, insisted they change their name to The Lollipop Shoppe to fit in with the current trend of bizarrely named bubblegum groups. The band's actual recordings are hardly bubblegum, but instead a mix of crunching garage rock and wild psychedelia. The album and its single, You Must Be a Witch, are period classics and still prized by collectors, though neither made the charts. The band opened for stars such as Janis Joplin and The Doors, and appeared in the biker movie Angels from Hell. They were to regroup as The Weeds once out of "Lord" Tim's clutches, and Fred Cole was to lead cult band Dead Moon. But it is for this, the classic Just Colour, that The Lollipop Shoppe are justly acclaimed.
Rev-Ola-256
CD
$15.50

Los Peyotes
Introducing Los Peyotes
PS, US Equal parts of Garage Punk, Tex-Mex and Surf, "Introducing Los Peyotes" is their UK album release and stands up to anything released by Los Saicos, Los Shakers or any other of the legendary sixties South American Garage Punks that inspired them. Surf-guitar, Tex-Mex, psychedelic garage-punk and rhythm'n'blues, that seems to have crossed time and space from the Buenos Aires of 1965. Track listing: El Corredor Quemado, Action, El Humo te Hace Mal, Vampiro, Scream, La Malvada Creacion del Dr Illusion, El Entierro de los Gatos, Psicosis, Back Come to Me, I Don't Mind, Serial Killer, Connection, No Puedo Hacerte Mia.
DirtyWater-1021
LP
$17.75

Loved, The
Everything, Anything, Nothing
PS, US Formed in 1996 and disbanded less than two years later, THE LOVED were an accidentally mysterious pop trio from the unlikely locale of Louisville, KY. In truth, they were just three ordinary guys making Beatles-inspired pop with a few nods to some 70s and 80s guitar gods. Their shows became notorious in Louisville; loud, sweaty affairs where the crowd knew all the words to songs that weren't yet recorded, much less released (a remarkable feat in the age before downloading or record leaks). Available here for the first time, "Everything, Anything, Nothing" collects the entire recorded history of The Loved, culled from the only two recording sessions during their brief existence. Recorded on 8-track analog tape by Kevin Coultas (Rodan), and remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Yes, Sufjan Stevens), this is the way The Loved were always meant to be heard, and truly the way they should be remembered: three ordinary guys that just happened to make ten great songs.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-141
CD
$9.00

Lovely Little Girls
Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags
PS, US An epic six song journey of grotesque proportions. The CD also contains a ten minute video of an opulent live show featuring a gaggle of girls gagging on spagetti. Crotch sandwich cover painting by Gregory Jacobsen
ApopRecords
CD
$13.50

Lover!
Man in the Woods b/w Foxtail Madness
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Rich Crook has already blazed a frightfully righteous pop pathway, sRhoewcocardssing the hidden songwriting talents he kept to himself w/ such notable bands as the Reatards, Lost Sounds, & Viva L'American Death Ray. Once his songs reached the surface in The Knaughty Knights, it was apparent that Crook needed his own vehicle to spread his pop sense to the outer limits of the rock'n roll underworld.
Rob'sHouse
45
$5.25

Lovin' Spoonful, The
Do You Believe In Magic
PS, US Magic was in the air in 1965 when the Lovin' Spoonful recorded their debut album, a delightful grab-bag of styles that lets you taste all of the ingredients of their patented "good time music" even as that timeless elixir was being brewed. Featuring the enduring hits "Do You Believe In Magic" and "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind," Do You Believe In Magic makes its long-awaited reappearance on LP, bolstered by four previously unissued bonus tracks.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Lucky Dragons
Dream Island Laughing Language
PS, US 18th release by this LA based band details the continuning pursuit of humble, ecstatic, drippy, explosive, smoldering & upsetting music . For fans of Bonnie Prince Billy, Six Organs of Admittance, Dirty Projectors.
Marriage
CD
$14.25

Lustmord
Other
PS, US Lustmord has been creeping out the music world since 1980, prior to joining industrial forefathers SPK. By the time he started scoring films like 1994's "The Crow", he'd already worked with English experimental luminaries Nurse With Wound, Current 93, and members of Coil. His latest collection of night terrors and Lynch-ian atmospherics features guest shots from Adam Jones (Tool), Aaron Turner (Isis), and Buzz Osborne (Melvins). "...heavily treated, producing thick drone textures that alternate between beautiful and scary" - All Music Guide.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Machine Girl (a.k.a. Enduser and Line 47)
S/T
PS, GERMANY Re-mastered, re-cut and given a whole record on their own, the four tracks written by Enduser and Line 47 back in 2007 get a second life on Ad Noiseam. Ranging from the most aggressive and noisy breakcore to melodic, syncopated material, the material on this record shows both producers at the top of their form and still is, 5 years after their original release on Sonicterror, a pearl of the breakcore scene.
Adnoiseam-097
12
$11.50

Machinefabriek
Dauw
PS, GERMANY Machinefabriek is the alias for Rutger Zuydervelt currently residing in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2004 Zuydervelt has unleashed an uncountable number of self-released 3"CD's (his format of choice) in lovingly designed sleeves (all made by himself). In the past years some of these releases have been compiled into amazing albums such as "Slaapzucht" on the Root Strata label, "Weleer" on Lampse, the "Cello Recycling" 10"/CD on Type Records and "Bijeen" on Kning Disk. Recent collaborations with Stephen Vietiello (on the 12K label), Freiband, Steinbrüchel and other likeminded artists have expanded the horizon veritably. Machinefabriek's music has been remixed by the likes of Xela, Lesser, Svarte Greiner, Alva Noto, Pita, Kim Cascone, Ben Frost, Black To Comm and others. Only few Machinefabriek material has been recorded specifically for an album release but these have always been stand-outs in the vast catalogue. Both "Marijn" on Lampse and "Ranonkel" on Burning World Records were classic recordings, squeezing a large amount of what people love about Zuydervelt's music into one album, at the same time giving him the space to expand on new ideas. Likewise "Dauw" is one of Zuydervelt's most subtle & quiet yet refined works. Mainly built around small but gorgeous melodies of piano and guitar playing and the crackling sound of dusty vinyl samples, these songs slowly build into intensive hymn-like angel choirs of sheer heavenly beauty. Zuydervelt's output often has drawn comparisons to the likes of Fennesz, Godspeed, Arvo Pärt, Basinski, Tim Hecker, Phillip Jeck, Mogwai and Earth, which is certainly not all wrong and some of these have been influences in the early stages of his career but he has since developed a strong and individual language all of his own. Mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi with elegant artwork by Zuydervelt himself; metallic print on grey cardboard stock.
Dekorder-029
CD
$16.25

Mansfields
Cramp Your Style
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Gearhead
LP
$8.75

Mansfields
Cramp Your Style
PS, US Equal parts Cramps, New York Dolls & 50's Sun-era Rockabilly.
Gearhead
CD
$12.00

Mate
Ventajas De Ser Optimista
PS, SPAIN 'Ventajas de ser optimista' (Advantages of being an optimist), is a collection of singable stories crafted by Alberto Matesanz (aka Mate) singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who has created a lot of excitement in the indie pop community. Personal and unpretentious, Mate generate luminous pop songs with a deep sense of longing and nostalgia. This is a mature, intelligent pop record that proofs that there's life in the pop underground yet, a cause for serious celebration. Recorded mostly at Calle Mayor studio, Alberto has received the remarkable support of Ramón Leal in the recording of percussions and drums. Again Mr Mate has traveled to the Alex the Great Studio in Nashville, Tennessee (USA) to gather the magic touch of Brad Jones who has added subtleties to the songs creating absolute pop splendor. The final touch has the mastering signature of another renowned prodigy Mr. Jim DeMain's who resides in his spaceship (YesMaster studio/Nashville). The purity of the harmonies, the very preciousness and melancholy of Matesanz's songwriting will attract fans of French sounds (Delerm, Biolay, Marchet, Dominique A, Daho...), Sarah records, Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience...
Siesta-238
CD
$19.50

McFarland, Gary & Gabor Szabo
Sketch For Summer
PS, UK Though they came from radically different cultures and found their way into jazz via widely divergent routes, Gabor Szabo and Gary McFarland formed an all-too brief working relationship that produced a spectacular range of solo and collaborative works spanning jazz, bossa nova, psychedelia, Indian raga, Hungarian folk, orchestral and film music. Focusing on the mid-sixties years with Prestige, Verve and Impulse, this edition comprises highlights from Gypsy 66, Spellbinder, Jazz Raga, The Sorcerer, Simpatico, The In Sound, Scorpio and Other Signs and McFarland's score for Eye of the Devil and includes such impossible rarities as Gary's characteristically serene performances of Margo Guryan's Rivergirl and The Dreamer by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
El-148
CD
$15.50

Menstration Sisters
MA
PS, US Reissue of first LP (previously limited to 100 copies and released only in Australia) from this influential Australian rock/noise/insane/weirdness band. Like listening to Harry Pussy on some really bad acid. Limited to 500 copies.
NoFunProductions-29
LP
$17.75

Merzbow
Eucalypse
PS, US An ancient & intricate web of life has been disrupted, & native plants, insects & animals are being driven to extinction. Humans, who have long been a part of the local ecosystem, are adaptable & will survive, but the biodiversity of an entire region is under threat from a single exotic species. It is truly a eucalyptus apocalypse. Presented in a hand-crafted round wooden box w/ screenprinted swiveling lid. The box contains one CD & 4 round, full-color cards. Only 1000 copies of this handsome CD have been made.
Soleilmoon
CD
$27.00

Meters
Kickback
PS, US No city marches to a funkier beat than New Orleans, and no Crescent City band ever upheld the joyous second-line tradition with prouder panache than the Meters. Their eight classic 1969-1977 albums for Josie, Reprise, and Warner Bros.--all of them available on Sundazed--signaled a new and exciting era of Big Easy funk. Now it's time to dig a little deeper: Kickback--in essence, the Meters album that never was--gathers precious rarities from the Meters' mid-'70s Fire On The Bayou/Trick Bag period, including previously unissued gems, newly unearthed alternate versions, and a treasure trove of blistering funk sure to delight fans of the legendary group.
Sundazed
LP
$17.00

Michael Night
I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This
PS, UK "I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This" is the debut UK release for Dublin/Berlin beat combo Michael Knight and represents the logical progression in their ongoing musical argument that influences as diverse Beethoven, Bach and Bacharach can make compelling bedfellows. The result is 11 slices of the most irresistibly sophisticated pop music and, as further evidence of their genius, the album has been released with instrumental and vocal versions of each song. Imagine Modesst Mussorgsky backing Jens Lekman and you're halfway there. The presence of Brian O'Shaughnessy (The Clientele, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine) on mixing duties should give an indication of the sonic palette on offer: sweeping strings, haunting harmonies and dramatic mood swings. The Cd comes in a double Cd gatefold digipak, complete with liner notes & lyrics. REVIEWS: "Why Michael Knight aren't already huge is both baffling and beguiling; but sooner or later these songs will be discovered. I may as well say it in advance, then; I told you so". SoundsXP. "Supremely beautiful songs, which have a heart, a soul, a wry sense of humor and none of that upsetting necessity to make every lyrical couplet rhyme" In Dublin.
Yesboyicecream-11
CD
$17.75

Mirah
Old Days Feeling
PS, US This collection comes from a variety of sources, home recordings, hard to find foreign comps, out-of-print releases, & previously unreleased tracks. Features guests PHIL ELVERUM (MICROPHONES/MT. EERIE), KARL BLAU, & CALVIN JOHNSON. With her unmistakable voice, these lo-fi, experimental recordings are indicative of what has become her distinct sound. "Features all the objective elements of a useful rarities disc, but it's doubly valuable for reminding us of a Mirah that might've grown up too fast" - Pitchfork (7.5)
ModernRadio
CD
$10.50

Motorpsycho
Haircuts: Motorpsycho On Film [PAL format, 2 x DVD set] (ON SALE)
PS, GERMANY Long-awaited two DVD set includes 21 music videos spanning the acclaimed Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog band's wildly careening 20 year career, plus documentaries, live footage, and various other surprises, 5 hours and 45 minutes in total! Plus handsome packaging and a full-color 18-page booklet, in English.

VIDEOS: Grinder, Have Fun, Sheer Profundity, Another Ugly Tune, Nothing To Say, Wearing Yr Smell, Feel, Now It's Time To Skate, Watersound, Mad Sun, The Nerve Tattoo, Manmower, Sinful Wind-Borne, Starmelt/ Lovelight, Hey Jane, The Other Fool, Walkin' With J., High Time, The Slow Phaseout, Go To California, and Serpentine. DOCUMENTARIES: This Is Motorpsycho (1995), Noorse Helden (2000), and Another Ugly Tour (1994, alternate cut). LIVE: Roadwork III: The Four Norsemen Of The Apocalypse - Live at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 23rd, 2002. BONUS: Mad Sun (1996, acoustic), S.T.G. (2000, live at Samfundet, Trondheim), and Plan #1 (2000, live at Samfundet, Trondheim).

Please note: This DVD set is in European PAL format, but will play on a huge majority of home computers (it played on our Dell PC I'm sitting at) and laptop DVD drives and most DVD players produced in the last 5 years can be gently "hacked" with your remote control. We promise it will be worth the minor hassle. Contact us if you have questions about hacking your home DVD player.
Stickman
DVD/DVD
$34.00

Mouse Rocket
Pretty Loud (LP/CD)
PS, US Mouserocket is back with their sophomore album after two years in the making and four years apart from their 2004 debut on Empty. Worth the wait? YES! This LP has been as carefully injected with deliciously sweet rock n roll razorblades as a half-opened Halloween treat. The no nonsense, semi-sweet / creeped-out pop of Mouserocket is back! Back with a southern-tinged delivery that conjures the charm of Roky Erickson and the clean tastes and mighty grandeur of Television.
TicTacTotally
LP
$12.00

Mouth of the Architect
Quietly
PS, US The group's new opus sees a true return to form & a conscious reconfiguring of modern experimental music as a whole. ALEX VERNON returns on guitars & vocals. Vocal guest appearance from JULIE CHRISTMAS (MADE OUT OF BABIES).
TranslationLoss
CD
$14.50

Mouth Of The Architect
Quietly
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TranslationLoss
DLP
$20.25

NRBQ
Interstellar Kustom Shop
PS, US Kustom Shop, it's a mindblowing ten-inch 33 1/3 RPM slab of wax by NRBQ that finds the revered fivesome latching onto the out-there New Thing jazz pioneered by intergalactic heroes Sun Ra & His Arkestra-and riding the music to universes beyond the beyond. Cut live in 1970 at Cincinnati's Ludlow Garage and Clinton Hollow in upstate New York, these revolutionary sounds, says NRBQ mainman Terry Adams "opened up new possibilities in rock 'n' roll. We had a thousand teenagers chanting along with us to 'Rocket #9." That stunning Sun Ra classic and his equally wonderful "Next Stop Mars"-extended experimental workouts that incorporate Adams' stellar originals "Venusian Sunset" and "Approach The Planet"-are guaranteed to send you clear out of this world!
Sundazed
10
$13.50

One Day As A Lion
S-T EP
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Here it is...finally. One Day as a Lion are Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist for Rage Against the Machine, and Jon Theodore, former drummer with the Mars Volta. De la Rocha and Theodore have been reportedly working on this project since 2006. The end result is a volatile mix of rhythm, noise, and radical poetry."
Anti
CD5
$8.50

P.W. Long
God Bless The Drunkard's Dog
PS, US With this CD you get a handful of great stories, some secrets, a little insight & some damn fine guitar playing from former WIG frontman and Quarterstick Records recording artist P.W. Long.
Southern
CD
$15.25

Paavoharju
Laulu Laakson Kukista
PS, FINLAND This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests. THE ONION: "Paavoharju is part of an intriguing scene that subsists in Finland but seems to hail from a spirit world where the natural and the ethereal blur. The latest of several notable offerings from the Finnish label Fonal, Laulu Laakson Kukista finds the group studiously adrift, with impressionistic glimmers of sound (bird chirps, static, warbly chimes) situated within delicate songs that draw on everything from acoustic folk to the kind of smeary polyglot pop favored by Animal Collective and especially Gang Gang Dance. The group functions as a collective led by two born-again Christians, but the sounds they make suggest Christians of an extraordinarily mystical sort."
Fonal-055
CD
$16.25

Paavoharju
Laulu Laakson Kukista
PS, FINLAND VINYL VERSION. PITCHFORK: "Fursaxa/Cocteau Twins, B-movie soundtrack, Sigur Rós locked in an underground cavern with Slowdive, or perhaps Syd Barrett jamming with Incredible String Band beneath a waterfall."
Fonal-055
LP
$16.25

Pacchu, Fricara
Stories of the Old
PS, FINLAND Includes a 7" vinyl and a 40-page full-color book. Fricara Pacchu started out as a rapper in The Backdoor Funkers, as a member of Slow Convulsion, Rorererot, Avarus, etc., but not until techno-rock-trio Maniacs Dream was Pacchu able to find his shattered inner plectrum. Hence, the music on this 7" is the consequence of using a plectrum. On his earlier cassette releases: "Where do you go after you've single-handedly destroyed the entire canon of recorded psychedelic musics? Into techno, apparently.
Fonal-051
45/BOOK
$16.25

Padden, Daniel
Pause for the Jet
PS, GERMANY Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year".
Dekorder-026
CD
$16.25

Pantaleimon
Heart Of The Sun
PS, US "The whole thing started when Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex) asked if she could remix "Under The Water." Of course, I said yes. When she came back w/ such remarkable music & casually mentioned, 'Oh, why don't you ask a couple of other pals to do remixes?', it gave me the idea for this album." Feat. remixes by ANDREW W.K., STEPHEN O'MALLEY, LILIUM & more. Incl. previously unreleased tracks.
DurtroJnana
CD
$16.00

Parsons, Gram
GP
PS, US
Rhino/Scorpio
LP
$13.00

Pas/Cal
I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura
PS, UK Seven years in the making, and just as many members in the band. Le Grand Magistery is proud to present Pas/Cal's debut album, "I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura." Twelve songs so intricate, so catchy, so filled with bubblegum, glitter, and wit that you'll spend the next seven years singing along. If you like music like this, you'll love this music! So sit down, get down, and boogie down. Prepare to laugh ("Oh Honey We're Ridiculous", "Little Red Radio"), cry ("You Were Too Old For Me", "Glorious Ballad of The Ignored"), get seasonal ("Summer Is Almost Here", "Little Red Radio"), quizzical ("The Truth Behind All The Vogues She Sold"), reflective ("Dearest Bernard Living"), playful (We Made Out Way, We Amtrakked"), and enjoy the soothing sounds of the Suite Cherry suite of cherry-themed numbers ("Cherry Needs A Name", "Cherry Tree", "O My Cherry"). Oh yes, you're not going to want to miss this one folks. It's a doozy!
LeGrandMagistery-043
CD
$12.25

Pia Fraus
Ten Remixes Of Yenissey
PS, ESTONIA TRACKLISTING: 01.FUTURE PILOT AKA - Yenissey vs Future Pilot AKA! 02.GALAKTLAN - Galayeni 03.INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - One Transition: Tundra Into Taiga 04.MIRABILIA - Yllar Lyndi Uued Püksikud 05.SEELAND - Yennesay/Seeland Reemix 06.PIA FRAUS - Niva Meets Yenissey 07.TEENAGE FANCLUB - Yenissey 08.3PEAD - Las Voolab 09.BILL WELLS - Yenissey 10.HIS NAME IS ALIVE - Forever 93. Pia Fraus had many international projects going on while releasing "After Summer", their last album which is produced by Glaswegian Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub). Now they are ready with remix compilation Ten Remixes of Yenissey, released by Seksound. Yenissey was first result from cooperation between Pia Fraus and Norman Blake. The band is very proud of this remix album, with remixes of all their favorites from all around the world.
Seksound-018
CD
$13.50

Pia Fraus/Ulrich Schnauss
Mute The Birds / Ships Will Sail SPLIT 7"
PS, ESTONIA LTD to 500 COPIES ONLY! 7" black vinyl. After well-received new album Pia Fraus comes with some new releases from indie label Seksound. They are happy of new split-single on 7" vinyl record by Pia Fraus and Ulrich Schnauss. After longtime friendship they have come to this split single, on one side is track by Pia Fraus which is produced by Ulrich Schnauss and other side has track by Ulrich Schnauss produced by Pia Fraus. Single is mastered at legendary Abbey Road Studio in London by Steve Rook (who's portfolio is full of our favorite indie albums).
Seksound-017
45
$11.00

Polvo
Shapes
PS, US This was their final album, released in 1997. It continues in the vein of "Exploded Drawing", weaving plaintive vibes, eastern passages, and rip roarin' freakouts in a pastiche eluding basic classification.
Touch&Go
LP
$12.00

Polvo
Exploded Drawing
PS, US Originally released in April 1996, this was generally received as Polvo's "White Album", the moment when the band finally kicked off its shoes, cracked the studio windows, and unleashed a long suite of songs showcasing their true range. This double LP gives it all up: paranoid blues rants, Delhi-via-the Ozarks hoedowns, spaghetti western lopers, carnivalesque boogie, a blazing, frustrated finale, and as always, that guitar sound.
Touch&Go
DLP
$15.00

Primal Scream
Beautiful Future
PS, UK New 2008 import-only album from The Primals! PITCHFORK: "Beautiful Future is an especially rich title coming from a band with such a sloppy past, but its concise, laser-focussed 10-song tracklist-- bearing the pop-golden touch of producers Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, the Rapture) and Bjorn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li)-- suggests Primal Scream's latest high is sobriety. The opening title track features the most joyous, clear-headed melody they've sung since Screamadelica's "Movin' on Up", but in a much different dressing. Here, their Exile-era Stones influence yields to the cheeky glam of Sparks, from the jaunty piano riff, hand claps and ascending chorus, to Bobby Gillespie's wry commentary on middle-class privilege: "Congratulations/ You're living the dream/ In the dead heart of the control machine."
Warners
CD
$20.50

Prurient
Arrowhead
PS, US Brooklyn noise herald & Hospital Productions label-head, DOMINICK FERNOW, an active instigator in the power electronics & noise genre for over a decade, w/ 100+ releases issued so far, usually LTD. & covering various formats. Known for his harrowing live performances where he uses his voice, amps, microphones, coins, tools, suitcases etc., to create a brain-bashing journey through mangled, negative sound.
EditionsMego
CD
$18.00

Pygmy Lush
Mount Hope
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Lovitt
LP
$15.00

Pygmy Lush
Mount Hope
PS, US 2nd full-length from group featuring members from PG.99, MAJORITY RULE, MALADY, CITY OF CATERPILLAR. Though the group started out by carrying on much of the same ferocity of their previous endeavors, this is a quieter album w/acoustic guitars & minimal pecussion. The songs feel haunted. Filled to the brim w/a sense of abandon, only here they have put down their angst for intropsection, trading their aggression for a slow grit.
Lovitt
CD
$15.00

Q65
Nothing But Trouble: The Best Of...
PS, UK From Den Haag (The Hague) in Holland, Q65 were among the country's wildest beat groups of the 1960s. Their firebrand approach to the beat and rhythm n blues boom was the opposite of what most of the country's successful pop group fraternity were putting over at the time; best represented with the unpolished, raw intensity of "You're The Victor", their 1966 debut for Decca which shook up the charts and caused shockwaves throughout the nation's living rooms. They continued to crack the top end of the Dutch pop charts with killer singles such as "The Life I Live", and "I Despise You"; took part in a crazy record company promotional stunt crossing the sea from England in a rubber dinghy, and in Revolution, created one of the best debut LPs of the era. The group split up early and although they would make several comebacks as Q65, and also as Circus, and continue to make several records well into the 1970s, the initial magic had gone. To this day the power and impenetrable charm of the original Q65 remains unsurpassed. ** Visually re-mastered in the usual huge Rev-Ola style! ** Beautifully packaged with oodles of rare photos and memorabilia! ** In-depth liner notes by Sir Lenny Helsing with input from the band themselves! ** An absolute 100% necessity for all fans of 60s garage, R & B, beat, psych.
Rev-Ola-258
CD
$15.50

Ranaldo, Lee
Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms
PS, US SONIC YOUTH'S LEE RANALDO was part of the original TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS "Guitar Series" in 1993; now he returns with "Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms". It's an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some dazzling shronk, reminiscent of early SY, the soaring drone of John Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte Young. So duck and cover, as Lee fires an impeccably aimed fusillade across the screaming fields of sonic love.
Tableoftheelements-97
LP
$14.25

Red Krayola
Fingerpointing
PS, US Free form freak out is dead! Long live free form freak out! This follows their ur-formula, designed to immerse & entertain the listener & confound the FM DJ's & anyone else's quest for the perfect seque in a narrative of counter-cultural meaningfulness. Feat. DAVID GRUBBS, GEORGE HURLEY, STEPHEN PRINA, MAYO THOMPSON, TOM WATSON, SANDY YANG, ALBERT OEHLEN & ELISA RANDAZZO. Mixed by JIM O'ROURKE
DragCity
CD
$13.25

Reiner, Kai
Kai Reiner
PS, GERMANY If you like Big Star, If you like Teenage Fanclub, if you like anything with heart and great melody, this album is for you. Kai is a great songwriter and proves it on this release. The hooks and heart are here.
Lakeview-002
CD
$10.00

Roden, Steve
Airforms
PS, US Limited to 600. Sold out quickly in 2005. Line just found 100 in storage. Airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [ Scottsdale, Arizona ] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940's using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff's ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden's own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this cd has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff's architectural interests in the airform projects. Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound installation.
Line-022
CD
$12.25

Rosenholm, Eleanoora
Vainajan Muotokuva
PS, FINLAND This is the debut full-length by Eleanoora Rosenholm. Eleanoora Rosenholm comes from Pori, Finland and is a project began by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö. They crafted a genius pop album with murderous lyrics inside the dark stone walls that surround SS-Palace studio. The time came to take the show on the road and the band evolved into a full 8-piece. Weird, almost avant synth-pop harmonies with creepily-sweet Finnish vocals, sometimes vocoded. Combining the best of karaoke-backed dance tracks with propulsive '80s sheen and tastes of Bow Wow Wow/Lizzy Mercier Descloux-esque tribe-pop irreverence. Totally addictive and hook-ridden, like you can't stop eating candy -- this is weird-disco any housewife serial killer would be proud to dance to. PITCHFORK: "Think you might've had Fonal's M.O. figured by now, didja? Eleanoora Rosenholm shatters all of those preconceptions as a trio of veterans and a handful of friends convene to craft an art-disco rollercoaster that defies much of the rest of the label's catalog."
Fonal-054
CD
$16.25

Rosenholm, Eleanoora
Vainajan Muotokuva
PS, FINLAND VINYL VERSION.
Fonal-054
LP
$20.50

Rumble Strips
Girls and Weather
PS, US W/ their somewhat eccentric origins in Devon, the 4 men from Tavistock have fashioned a set of songs steeped w/ huge, life-affirming choruses all awash w/ the optimism of youth.
GiganticMusic
CD
$12.75

Sabicas
Flamencan Guitar Solos
PS, UK Virtuoso guitarist Sabicas exported flamenco in its most thrilling and uncompromising form. What the public heard and responded to was his astonishing artistry - the rhythmic drive, the dizzying speed of his runs, the sheer ferocity of his attack coupled with the sensitivity and poise of his touch. Sabicas's dedication and perfectionism established the yardstick against which both his contemporaries and the next generation of guitarists were obliged to measure themselves. He almost single - handedly established the right of flamenco to stand among the world's greatest musical traditions. Made four Albums for Elektra and rock collaboration with Joe Beck.
El-149
CD
$15.50

Schirach, Otto Von
Oozing Bass Spasms
PS, UK New full length album by Otto Von Schirach: "Oozing Bass Spasms". With enough porn and horror samples to satiate the most demented programmer, and enough juicy bass to placate the most voracious bass-head, Oozing Bass Spasms is a masterwork by one of the world's most original artists. By far his most approachable and even refined album, it's still pretty crazy in a way that only Otto von Schirach can provide. This time the overall feeling of the album is more dance sounding; elements of Booty, Electro, Breakcore, and Rave music all find a place in his bizarre universe.
CockRockDisco-019
CD
$17.75

Schmidt, Irwin & Kumo
Axolotl Eyes
PS, US Irwin Schmidt (CAN) & the Professor Of Popular Music (Kumo) release this for your listening enjoyment. Feat. shimmering grooves, subterranean bass, theremin & violin providing the perfect foil for Schmidt's peerless & enduringly adventurous playing.
Mute
DCD
$18.25

Shining Path
Chocolate Gasoline
PS, US While their eponymous album exists in the world of post-SST black-clad psychedelia & noise, the group decided that they had gone far enough in said direction & realigned themselves. Influences ranging from hard dub, early PiL, no wave, block-banging hip hop, & kraut-dance/industrial, if one could imagine a version of Viva more about bikinis than white overalls.
HolyMountain
12
$14.25

Sinthetix
Gateway
PS, US SINTHETIX launched the American invasion of drum n bass and reinvented the neurofunk sound - becoming the first to cross the Atlantic in the primarily UK dominated Drum N Bass world. Impulse, Rob F, and MC Mecha collide with stalwart artists Black Sun Empire, UFO!, and others in this compilation of their biggest singles, including 7 unreleased tunes not available elsewhere! The resurgence of step beats and modern club neurofunk started here, and it's development thoroughly chronicled on this double CD set.
OhmResistance-2M
DCD
$13.25

Skyscraper
#28
PS, US Features on Total Abuse, Night Wounds, Au, Bowerbirds, Genghis Tron, Crystal Castles, Man Man, King Khan, Jay Reatard, Mick Barr, Russian Circles, Modey Lemon, The Black Angels, Wolf Parade, Islands, Melvins, & Six Finger Satellite plus the usual plethora of articles, & reviews.
ZINE
$5.50

Slepcy
We Are The Newest Battle Models
PS, UK Slepcy are Piotr Kurek and Marcin Stefanski from Poland. They started making music with just a Casio Rapman and a Gemini mixer with 30 sec sample memory. Their music blends opera with breakcore, synth-pop, jazz, hardcore-noise and who knows what. They did some brilliant records for Koop.POP, Ambush Records and Suburban Trash Industries which you should spend your last days trying to find. We guarantee you that their debut CRD release, "We are the newest battle models" will leave you all speechless. It's a truly unique record that matches brutality with melodies that stick in your head, but in a really cool way.
CockRockDisco-010
CD
$11.75

Smile Down Upon Us
Smile Down Upon Us
PS, UK Smile Down Upon Us is a very modern kind of band. Comprising Phelan Sheppard, the duo behind celebrated album Harps Old Master, and Japanese artist moomLooo, it's a project that crosses cultural and musical boundaries. And, for the duration of recording their self-titled debut album, it existed solely on the Internet, as the three have never met. The band came about when Keiron Phelan, a prodigious MySpace trawler, came across moomLooo's page and her enchanting recordings for Japan's Clay label. He sent a message introducing himself, and she responded saying she admired his work too. "None of us had any reservations about working together from the word go," says Phelan. "It just seemed natural - a touch of kismet." Soon, they began sending ideas back and forth on the Internet, sound files whizzing between Tokyo and London. Though initially a project to occupy Phelan whilst David Sheppard was writing his much-anticipated Brian Eno biography, On Some Faraway Beach, Phelan's long-time fellow group member soon came into the fold. The pair set up in East London's Soup Studio, in the basement of ukulele shop Duke Of Uke. There, they purloined parlour guitars, banjos and ukes from the shop and recorded them into ProTools, blending old and new, as well as east and west. Over in Japan, at home and at Tokyo's Naturebliss studio, moomLooo recorded her largely electronic parts and field recordings, adding delicately captivating vocals and spoken word, half in English, half in Japanese. Soon, they were writing parts for each other, playing to each other's strengths. "I don't speak any Japanese and moom's English is so-so," says Phelan. "In order to understand each other, we had to use simple language, and our emails began to look like a dialogue between two hyper-enthusiastic nine year-olds. We could only discuss things in a very 'primary colour' way and the music seemed to become extremely vivid too. Dave and I had the idea that this was sounding like a Chagall painting looks. That seemed a really strong and suitable feeling for the band, so we pushed it along that road." Between the language barriers, time differences and hours downloading files, the process of creating the album took almost 14 months. When moomLooo emailed the last part over, it came with a recorded message introducing herself to the pair. "It's been a very mysterious process," says Phelan. "I email moom all the time, but I know very little about her. I've never met her, never spoken to her. I don't know how old she is or what she does for a living. None of the usual things. And I think we all found this an intriguing situation." The resulting album has a strange kind of magic, an essence running through it. Blending warm wooden instruments with moomLooo's icy vocal, it sounds modern at the same time as aged, distinctly Japanese but rooted in the conventions of modern, electronic folk music. More structured than Phelan Sheppard's usually instrumental music, it reveals a new, accessible side to their work, one that's sure to appeal to fans of Bjork, Deerhoof and lovers of beautiful, beguiling music everywhere. The next step in the evolution of Smile Down Upon Us is to turn it into a functioning live band. In Japan, moomLooo has assembled a couple of musicians to recreate the songs until she finally meets with Phelan and Sheppard this summer, when they intend to stage what's bound to be some very special live shows indeed. "It would be quite something to have a Smile Down Upon Us (East) and a Smile Down Upon Us (West)," says Phelan. "Dave and I have never met or spoken to these musicians, don't even know their names. But soon we'll be able to look on YouTube and see them playing our songs! It's a weird but pleasant feeling."
StaticCaravan-161
CD
$17.75

Soda Fountain Rag
It's Rag Time!
PS, UK Soda Fountain Rag is the musical universe of Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl, a one-woman indiepop phenomenon from Bergen, Norway. Having released a number of sold-out limited edition cdr EPs for DIY labels such as Cloudberry and Anorak in 2007, "It's Rag Time!" is her debut CD release, containing 14 more subversive pop classics about bitterness (Go!), reorientation (I was Reborn) and the importance of not killing clowns (Don't Kill The Clowns), all delivered with unfathomable sincerity. Imagine, if you can, an anti-folk Nico playing all the instruments in a Nintendo pop garage band. The Cd comes in an attractive high-gloss cardboard gatefold wallet, with lyrics booklet and beautiful illustrations by Peter Danielsson.
Yesboyicecream-09
CD
$15.50

Son Ambulance
Someone Else's Deja Vu
PS, US They emerge from hibernation deep in a realm of exotic 60s & 70s LPs for their 3rd full-length- a bold leap back into the music world & their most challenging work yet. Tracks make use of rich analog synths, double bass, saxophone & vibraphone, played by various Omaha musicians incl. members of TILLY & THE WALL & THE FAINT.
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.50

Son Ambulance
Someone Else's Deja Vu
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek
DLP
$16.50

Sonic Youth/Mats Gustafsson/Merzbow
Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
PS, US CD-only edition. Improvised live performance from the 2005 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, feat. Sonic Youth (w/ Jim O'Rourke) & guests Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson & Japanese sound artist Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzbow). The single piece performed was a structured improvisation which for 60 mins added & subtracted musicians one by one until only Akita was left onstage. Black Sabbath followed.
SYR
CD
$10.00

Speck Mountain
Summer Above
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BurntBrown
LP
$17.00

Stone Harbour
Emerges
PS, US A trip into the true dark heart of psychedelia. Songs fade in & out; finger-picking blurs into screaming squelching synths; guitars melt in the mid-summer heat. Shimmers like stars in the 2 am fog & haze, & bleeds lost & lonely & bruised into the heat-warped dawn. Includes a handful of previously unreleased tracks from 1975.
LionProductions
CD
$15.00

Strange Boys
Woe Is You And Me
PS, US Fronted by brothers Ryan and Philip Sambol, the Strange Boys are a quartet who brilliantly plow through 60's garage riffs overlayed with Ryan's lazily whined vocals. Not since the Black Lips has a band come down the pike who have managed to take basic garage-beat-rock n' roll and twist it in such a unique way that they come off totally fresh young and original. And, with band members barely in their 20's, The Strange Boys are one of the few bands around who make the Black Lips look old.
InTheRed
45
$4.25

Sundazed
Sundazed Vacuum Tube T-Shirt (Large)
PS, US Black Vacuum Tube T-Shirt
TS
$15.00

Sunforest
The Sound of Sunforest [re-issue]
PS, UK Steeped in medieval and Renaissance sounds as well as pop, this U.S. female trio epitomized their generation's gleeful experimentalism. Recorded in London's Olympic studios in two weeks in the autumn of 1969, their wonderful album encompasses acid-tinged folk, riotous country, faux 1930s balladry and psychedelic pop with strong melodies, striking vocal harmonies, and immaculate arrangements. One fan was film director Stanley Kubrick -- he included "I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper" and "Overture To The Sun" on his famous Clockwork Orange soundtrack. The album has gone on to become one of the most sought-after releases of its time, and is presented here in a numbered, strictly-limited card-wallet format.
Phoenix
CD
$16.25

Taiga Remains
Crushed Radiant Deities
PS, US Luminescent, wrecked shards of overtone drones merged w/zoned & disembodied choral whispers & ribbons of pure white electricity. Bundles remastered versions of the 2 tracks from the long out-of-print "Paper Lanterns" EP w/ 2 new longform works to form a dense, polyphonic fugue of dynamic collisions & endless collapses. LIMITED to 500
StudentsofDecay
CD
$10.50

Takka Takka
Migration
PS, US Sophomore release was lovingly produced by Sean Greenhalgh (CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH) & features performances by Bryan Devendorf (THE NATIONAL), Lee Sargent (CYHSY), Olga Bell (BELL) & Charles Burst. "Sometimes this record is about existing in a place you don't belong. Conversely, it is about where you came from & how you got there... Sometimes this record is about a band experimenting with sound & form, trying to honestly say things in song it has never said before. Sometimes this record is about not going back & staying in the place you don't belong." -Gabe Levine (Takka Takka).
ErnestJenning
CD
$11.75

Tan Or Boil
Seamstress in a Suitcase
PS, US A pun from those 1970s Bad News Bears films, TOB is the alias of Pittsburgh-born JASON BACASA. A CD-R of songs handed out to around 60 lucky souls witnessing his support slot for Joanna Newsom (he has also played with Cat Power & Devendra Banhart) led to this fully realized record. His songs hold onto a fragmented, on the fly style with a surreal fervour often running through his lyrics & the hushed intimacy that inevitably comes from late-night recording in apartment buildings. Raw and strange beauty exists at the core, though its imaginative, gentle kaleidoscopic spin enhances that feeling & takes it somewhere else
entirely
Preservation
CD
$15.50

Tape Op
#66
PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! This Issue features Adam Fuest, Steve Rosenthal, SLOAN + Nick Detoro, Adam Franklin (SWERVEDRIVER), & all the gearhead goodness you can handle.
ZINE
$4.00

Teenage Film Stars
Star
PS, UK Musical alchemist - where other people struggle Ed Ball plays what we re thinking. --KEVIN SHIELDS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. November 1991. Creation Records release Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Three months later Creation Records release Star by Teenage Filmstars. Rumored to have been recorded by an aggregation of various Teenage Fanclubbers and Bloody Valentiners, this mysterious album had journalists and pop stars from Britain and America fascinated by its sound. Wherever My Bloody Valentine have roared throughout the universe the Teenage Filmstars echo has followed, but not blindly. Where the MBV sound is the well-controlled experiment from the lab, the Teenage Filmstars set their rocket to unknown planets - what is Star? An alchemist s philosophy stone thrown surreptitiously into space? It was in fact, the work of one Edward Ball, in between label duties for Creation Records and recording for the label. The Master Of Brinkmanship, as one taste maker of the time described him. This reissue features four previously unreleased extra tracks, including an early version of Edward Ball's hit single "Love Is Blue"(!). The 16-page booklet contains a dissertation of Creation period Edward Ball '88 to '91 by Edward Ball 2008, with full production notes and anecdotes about the label. Lavishly illustrated throughout.
Artpop!-13
CD
$15.50

Teenage Filmstars
Star
PS, UK "...Musical alchemist - where other people struggle Ed Ball plays what we're thinking." --KEVIN SHIELDS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. November 1991. Creation Records release Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Three months later Creation Records release Star by Teenage Filmstars. Rumoured to have been recorded by an aggregation of various Teenage Fan-clubbers and Bloody Valentiners, this mysterious album had journalists and pop stars from Britain and America fascinated by its sound. Wherever My Bloody Valentine have roared throughout the universe the Teenage Filmstars echo has followed, but not blindly. Where the MBV sound is the well-controlled experiment from the lab, the Teenage Filmstars set their rocket to unknown planets - what is Star? An alchemist's philosophy stone thrown surreptitiously into space? It was in fact, the work of one Edward Ball, in between label duties for Creation Records and recording for the label. The Master Of Brinkmanship, as one tastemaker of the time described him. This reissue features four previously unreleased extra tracks, including an early version of Edward Ball's hit single "Love Is Blue"(!). The 16-page booklet contains a dissertation of Creation period Edward Ball '88 to '91 by Edward Ball 2008, with full production notes and anecdotes about the label. Lavishly illustrated throughout.
Artpop!-13
CD
$15.50

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Shut Up And Bleed
PS, UK The seminal No - Wave band Teenage Jesus and The Jerks were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch, an individual who has fought her artistic way through the decades, always true to her own vision and always brutally honest. In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artist's Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some never previously released live material.
CherryRed-367
CD
$15.50

Tenniscoats & Secai
Tenniscoats & Secai
PS, JAPAN Almost 6 years since the mini-album The Ending Theme, Tenniscoats are introducing their work once again through noble label. Tenniscoats is the Tokyo duo of Saya and Ueno Takashi and friends. The open stance of this duo as seen through their emajikick label and their rainbow of collaborations with artists has won the hearts of passionate fans the worldwide. Last year saw sequential release of Tenniscoats music, Totemo Aimasho from Australia's Room40 and Tan-Tan Therapy from Sweden's Hapna. Now, they have welcomed Secai, a duo formed by friends of majikick, Daisuke Namiki a.k.a. NSD and Takeshi Hiruma a.k.a. DASMAN. Together with their partners of creation, the artists have completed Tenniscoats & Secai a collaboration album finished after nearly 2 years of patient brewing. Most of the pieces for this album were created through sessions with the recording, composition, and songwriting added along the way. In addition to the abstract track making which is a signature of Secai work, NSD works together with Saya to create almost half of the lyrics, and DASMAN sings in the chorus and plays bass for an album that unleashes the creative energy of both artists. Combined with Saya's mixing and song writing and Ueno Takashi's poetic playing and inspirations, this album is an original piece of work that highlights the talents of each artist in an organic mixture of sound. Though covered with a fluffy and obscure sound image, the album gives an impression of a crystal world with unlimited clarity. This world is filled with Saya_fs innocent voice, magical melody, and deep lyrics. The visionary music which portrays the fine line between dream and reality will lure listeners into another world. Here, you will find music of freedom and beauty that is sure to bring tears to your eyes.
Noble-1232
CD
$17.00

Terminal 11
Illegal Nervous Habits
PS, UK Remember when IDM music was interesting? Yes, it's been a long time, and computers have "given us" many cheap, lifeless albums since then. But wait! Here's Mike Castaneda, AKA Terminal 11, fresh from Phoenix Arizona, to prove to the world that it is possible to tame your computer and force it to work for the powers of goodness. Illegal Nervous Habits is easily the greatest album ever made! It's an emotional rollercoaster of a record, with thrills and chills, heartbreaking sacrifice and enough guts and grit to make even your grandmother pay attention. But what does it sound like? Well Johnny, imagine a million bits of information flying through the air, and watch these bits weave and dive like a ballet on PCP. Then, as you're just getting bored, these bits make pictures of your friends laughing and having the best fun they ever had. Yeah, that's trippy isn't it? Well this album is just like that, and MORE.
CockRockDisco-002
CD
$11.75

Terrill, John
Frowny Frown
PS, US Between 1988 and 1998, JOHN TERRILL (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave DANCING CIGARETTES) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era, it could have stood next to Scott Walker or Michael Hurley's early albums or even Randy Burns' LPs on ESP Disk. It's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984. "I feel this album is a little gem. Lyrically-a man up against it ("Frowny Frown") as opposed to (Smiley Smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. A very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. The kind of direction Brian Wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention." - Bill Fay.
FamilyVineyard-60
CD
$11.50

Thee Oh Sees
Sucks Blood
PS, US Prior to entering The Master's Bedroom earlier this year, San Francisco's THEE OH SEES originally self-released the more subdued "Sucks Blood" in early 2007 to fund the latter's recording. Steeped in the natural hues of analog and reverb, "Sucks Blood" is a subtle gem of irresistible pop and basement psychedelia. Immediate classics include the ghostly saw-tinged title track and the charming lumber of the harmonious "Ship". "Sucks Blood" is quite simply yet another testament to the total genius of JOHN DWYER for those who have yet to heed.
Tomlab-118
CD
$12.25

TIAC
Overstaying The Welcome
PS, SWEDEN Overstaying the welcome is TIACs sophomore album. "TIAC sounds sort of like old Magnetic Fields on a very happy day with an extra big dose of guitar pop, synth love, and more forward vocals. So maybe it's not all that Magnetic Fields-ish. There's a little bit of the Cure in there, but there's too much gloss and shine and production to justify a true comparison to the original mopers. How about this one: Orange Juice plus the Cure plus Altered Images. Yeah, maybe that's a good way to put it. Light on the Orange Juice, heavy on the Altered Images. Regardless, the band's a tremendous amount of fun. An endearing sound that's filled with sexy hooks, excited bass riffs, and a bombastic wall of sound that washes over you like a pleasant summer breeze." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com
Hybris-062
CD
$17.75

Tilly and The Wall
o
PS, US VINYL VERSION. 180g vinyl w/digital download card.
TeamLove
LP
$14.25

Times, The
Enjoy / Up Against It
PS, UK This reissue compiles the complete 1986 Times albums Enjoy and Up Against It for the first time on CD, featuring Times T.V, Britannia Sleeps Tonight and of course Up Against It. Written in reaction to the U.S. Paisley Underground wave of bands then currently feted - Dream On Red, Green Syndicate, Drain Parade and REM Speedwagon, Enjoy connects Edward Ball and his Times to Ray Davies and The Kinks as natural storytellers of everyday British life - but with the added twist of an English nightmare in America.
Artpop!-1516
CD
$15.50

Times, The
Pop Goes Art
PS, UK Perhaps the singularly most important album of that fledgling, garage, power - pop - punk independent scene of 1982. Featuring Edward Ball and Daniel Treacy, and issued on their own Whaam! Records, Pop goes Art! is a landmark release - one of the vital seeds of the whole Creation, Whaam!
Artpop!-20
CD
$15.50

Total Bummer
S-T
PS, US She has been a member of Victoria bands God Shaped Vacuum- whose other members incl. Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade /Handsome Furs, as well as Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes/ Swan Lake & Atlas Strategic- again w/ Boeckner- who released two album. This is representative of the coalesced experiences of it's only member & invokes the silence of a Montreal winter: powerful, deafening in it's execution, & seemingly on the verge of collapse from the weight of modernity
GlobalSymphonic
CD5
$10.25

Toth, James Jackson
Waiting In Vain
PS, US Wooden Wand dude's solo sojourn! Layered, almost-dreamlike harmonies, touches of blues, country & soul & the occasional flash of punk swagger. Special guests include John Dieterich (DEERHOOF), Nels Cline (WILCO), Andy Cabic (VEVITER), CARLA BOZULICH & Otto Hauser (VEVITER). For several years Toth experimented w/a folk-psychedelic rock hybrid, putting out numerous discs under variations of the name WOODEN WAND.
Ryko
CD
$14.50

Toth, James Jackson
Waiting In Vain
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Ryko
DLP
$17.50

U2
October [re-issue]
PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1981 album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Neil McCormick.
Island
CD
$12.25

U2
Boy [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. I Will Follow (Previously Unreleased Mix) / 2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / 3. Touch / 4. Speed of Life (Previously Unreleased Track) / 5. Saturday Night (Previously Unreleased Track) / 6. Things To Make and Do / 7. Out of Control / 8. Boy-Girl / 9. Stories For Boys / 10. Another Day / 11. Twilight / 12. Boy-Girl (Live at the Marquee, London) / 13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live at the Marquee, London - Previously Unreleased Version) / 14. Cartoon World (Live at the National Stadium, Dublin - Previously Unreleased Track)
Island
DCD
$28.50

U2
October [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. "Gloria" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 2. "I Fall Down" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 3. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 4. "Fire" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 5. "October" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 6. "With a Shout" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 7. "Scarlet" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 8. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 9. "A Celebration" / 10. "J. Swallo" / 11. "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl" / 12. "I Will Follow" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 13. "The Ocean" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 14. "The Cry/Electric Co." (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 15. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 16. "I Will Follow" (Live From Hattem, Netherlands) / 17. "Tomorrow" (Bono & Adam Clayton, Common Ground Remix)
Island
DCD
$28.50

U2
War [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. "Endless Deep" / 2. "Angels Too Tied to the Ground" (Previously Unreleased Track) / 3. "New Year's Day" (7? single edit) / 4. "New Year's Day" (USA Remix) / 5. "New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Extended Vocal Mix) / 6. "New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Vocal Radio Mix) / 7. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (Long Mix) / 8. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (USA Remix) / 9. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (Club Version) / 10. "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)"
Island
DCD
$28.50

U2
War [re-issue]
PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1983 album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Niall Stokes.
Island
CD
$12.25

U2
War [re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1983 album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging.
Island
LP
$18.00

U2
October [re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1981 album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging.
Island
LP
$18.00

U2
Boy [re-issue]
PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1980 debut album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Paul Morely.
Island
CD
$12.25

U2
Boy [re-issue]
PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1980 debut album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging. LIMITED!
Island
LP
$18.00

Ugly Things
#26
PS, US KICK OUT THE JAMS with our big MC5 cover story, featuring a lengthy, previously unpublished interview with Rob Tyner and some incredible rare photos. Our other features include the story of '66 Sunset Strip rockers THE SONS OF ADAM, English folk-rock outfit TREES, the NORWEGIAN BEAT SCENE in the ?60s (featuring 1 2 6 and scenemaker Thor G. Noras), and British punk rock & rollers THE POP RIVETS (Billy Childish's first band, 1977-79). There's also an extensive Pre-Punk feature by Johan Kugelberg, with a foreword by Jon Savage. We also have articles on California garage band THE FLOGGS (who featured a pre-Kaleidoscope Chris Darrow), legendary Ohio psychsters THE TIFFANY SHADE, and the amazing tale of THE CEDARS from Lebanon. There?s also exclusive interviews with THE PRETTY THINGS, Arthur Brown, the Malchicks, Dave Lambert (of UK freakbeat icons FIRE: "Father's Name Was Dad"), Art Wood, Zappa associate Jeff Simmons, and much more, including of course our massive review section covering all the latest reissues and music-related books and DVDs.
ZINE
$10.00

Vapnet
Döda Fallet
PS, SWEDEN Pitchfork 8.2/10. "According to songwriter and guitarist Martin Abrahamsson, Döda Fallet is Vapnet's first traditional popskiva-- its first true pop album. He created the bulk of the band's excellent full-length debut, Jag Vet Hur Man Väntar, and the follow-up, Något Dåligt Nytt Har Hänt, on his home computer, but with the addition of the band's first full-time drummer, Vapnet decided to record its third album in a proper studio, hiring Mattias Glavå to produce. However, Döda Fallet (which translates to "the dead fall") represents no dramatic musical sidestep. Instead, it continues in roughly the same headphones-pop vein as their previous efforts: The band still draws from the formalism of Swedish pop and the florid movement of Swedish dance to locate all sorts of musical possibilities in its intricate arrangements. Glavå, who worked on recent albums by Sambassadeur and Jens Lekman, adds just a touch of reverb to the instruments, giving the songs an added depth of sound that reinforces both their exuberance and their melancholy...In the past Abrahamsson has either set Vapnet's songs to programmed beats or shared percussion duty with singer Martin Hanberg, so the presence of a live drummer makes a big difference on Döda Fallet, investing "Nyår" and closer "Det Rör Inter Hjärtat" with a sense of danceable motion. That sense of pop purity is essential to the band's appeal, at least to non-Swedish-speakers. At its best, Döda Fallet sounds like pop in its ideal form." - Stephen M. Deusner, July 8, 2008, Pitchfork
Hybris-064
CD
$17.75

Various
Forwards In Backwards Time
PS, US The Ohm Resistance singles and EPs 1-9 with bonuses, marking the beginning of our musical output - hard drum n bass from Mick Harris (as Quoit), Submerged, Temulent, and other irresponsible partiers. The origins of the label when it was one of the few US outposts for drum n bass music - always challenging the limitations of the musical format. The early vinyls took what was to be considered "dance" music and turned it out, giving it a rawer, punker, grittier feel. CD1 1. Temulent - Drugged [Remix] 2. Quoit Vs. Submerged - Everything You Do Is Wrong 3. Knuckledown - Gangbang 4. Knuckledown - Mephisto 5. Submerged - 110 6. Temulent - Monoplegia 7. Quoit - Clasp 8. Quoit - Clasp [Version] 9. Knuckledown - Watersnake 10. Scorn - Out Of [Submerged Remix] 11. Quoit Vs. Submerged - Page Fault CD2 1. Temulent - Alchaloid 2. Temulent - Kill For Me 3. Temulent - Cease + Desist 4. Temulent - Dopesick 5. Temulent - Distant Suns 6. Submerged - Alchaloid Reshape 7. Temulent - Pins + Needles 8. Temulent - Dimwit 9. Temulent - Sarcoma 10. Submerged - For The
Ohm-1
DCD
$13.25

Various
Country Music For Keith Girdler
PS, SPAIN "Country Music. Songs for Keith Girdler" is a polished compilation that was put together by Keith's close friend, Richard Preece (Lovejoy) to raise money for the Martletts Hospice in Hove, the institution that looked after Keith so generously and devotedly. All proceeds from the sale of this cd will go directly to helping raise funds for the Martlet's Hospice Hove (East Sussex) (www.themartlets.org.uk). The contributing artists have all donated their talents for the merited cause. The record is not a mere document or chronicle, all songs are original in every sense, exclusive or unreleased and recorded or provided specifically for this project. A beloved and revered member of the indie pop community as the vocalist of Blueboy, Arabesque and Beaumont, Keith passed away on May 15, 2007 after a long battle with cancer. In addition to playing music, Keith also served as a social worker and as the Volunteer Services Manager at the Age Concern care facility in Eastbourne, England. Tracklist: 1. ST CHRISTOPHER - 'Can't Forget You' (exclusive new song) 2. THE WAKE - 'Crush The Flowers' (exclusive 8 track demo) 3. PETE FIJALKOWSKI - 'Downsizing' (exclusive new song) 4. LOVEJOY - 'Melancholia' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 5. HAL- 'Down'(exclusive new song) 6. TREMBLING BLUE STARS - 'Soft Evening, Brilliant Morning' (exclusive new song) 7. LOUIS PHILLIPE - 'Lazy Thunderstorms' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 8. CLUB 8 - 'What I'm Dreaming Of...' (Japan only song from new album) 9. THE CLIENTELE - 'Breathe In Now' (exclusive new song) 10. THE TIMES - Sold (exclusive mix of song from 'E is for Edward' 11. THE WOULD BE GOODS - 'I Believe You Cassandra' (exclusive new song) 12. ABERDEEN - ' Baby I Don't Care' (exclusive new song) 13. LOVE DANCE - 'His London' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 14. THE ORCHIDS - 'The Lost Star' (exclusive new song) 15. BIFF BANG POW! - 'Back To The Start' (currently unavailable elsewhere on CD) 16. (secret track) BLUEBOY - '80's Diaries'.
Siesta-234
CD
$19.00

Various
After Dark
PS, US Feat. all unreleased songs by GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, FARRAH, PROFESSOR GENIUS & MIRAGE. The future of dance music is here. Over 70 minutes of music.
ItaliansDoItBetter
3XLP
$24.00

Various
Breaking Point: 20 Hard-Edged Beat Diamonds
PS, UK This is the Psychic Circle label's second volume of prime beat mostly from the '60s UK, with a couple of excursions into Europe. So here we all are once again, gathered around the notional Dansette. A tottering stack of vinyl awaits our investigation. Is it gear or is it grotty? Fear not, for we do not have the burden of uncertain critique thrust upon us. All the sounds presented within have passed aural muster, and are straining to enthrall the listener. Unearthed, dusted down, and shoved frugging into the spotlight, we have a top Liverpool band recording under a pseudonym, a British soap star, a Dutch outfit who briefly featured a future UK prog-rock superstar, and a band of hard-rockin' sailors, plus a whole lot more. Specially compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Liverpool Five, Shorty & Them, James Tamlin, The Muldoons, The MI5, The Dennisons, Lee Grant & The Capitols, Hamilton King, Tages, The Dee Tees, The Circles, The Shakers, The Mike Cotton Sound, Lee Curtis & The All Stars, Chris Kerry, Tiffany & The Thoughts, The Moonlighters, George Bean, Kenny & The Wranglers, and Les Cruches.
PsychicCircle-7023
CD
$16.25

Various
Molten Strings, Train Wrecks & Birdsong
PS, US From the scathing, feedback blasts yielded by FRED LONBERG-HOLM's cello & mini-amplifiers, to the dexterous blur of C. SPENCER YEH's violin fretwork, from the pastoral vistas of PETER WRIGHT's Danelectro 12 string, to the billowy dirges of BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, ZAIMPH, FAMILY UNDERGROUND, & TAIGA REMAINS. Lending the record even further diversity are joyous bouzouki renderings from THE NORTH SEA, & damaged, eerie & beautiful contributions from ROBERT HORTON & BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD. LIMITED to 1000
StudentsofDecay
CD
$10.50

Weller, Paul
22 Dreams
PS, US Surprises have always been part of the artistic vernacular for the man who changed rock forever w/THE JAM, explored eclectic influences w/THE STYLE COUNCIL & cemented his position as the patriarch of Brit pop w/his legendary solo work. In addition to a cast of Weller's frequent collaborators including STEVE CRADOCK & producer SIMON DINE, 22 Dreams also features some of the largest beneficiaries of Weller's incalculable musical influence. NOEL GALLAGHER & GEM from OASIS lend their talents to 'Echoes Around the Sun.' Ex-BLUR guitarist GRAHAM COXON appears on 'Black River'.
YepRoc
CD
$14.25

Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US Not a triple-LP but double-LP that comes with the CD of the album as well as download codes. Still exciting, yes?
Nonesuch
3LP
$25.75

Williams, Andre
Can You Deal With It?
PS, US Bona fide R&B legend (penned "Shake a Tail Feather") wants us all to know that he can still get around and get down w/ the hellhound sound. This is some heavy punk-soul along with the Hellhounds w/ their fat horns & Crecent City oddball genius QUINTRON on organ.
Bloodshot
CD
$11.75

Wilson, Dennis
Pacific Ocean Blue
PS, US Pure genius.
Sundazed
3XLP
$35.00 (Well worth it)

Wilson, J. Frank & The Cavaliers
Last Kiss [retrospective]
PS, US In 1999, Pearl Jam scored a #1 hit with 'Last Kiss.' The original version was recorded in Texas by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers and hit #1 in November of 1964. Hear all the recordings from J.Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers, including two different versions of 'Last Kiss.' A 25 track collection of previously-unreleased recordings and stunning sound from the original master tapes make this a must-have for fans of the '60s! A richly designed CD booklet details the complete rise and fall of the group and the effect stardom had on their decline.
Cicadelic
CD
$13.00

Windmill
Puddle City Racing Light
PS, US MATTHEW THOMAS DILLON is emerging as one of the UK's best singer-songwriters, his music a heady distillation of US indie, early '70s melancholia & twisted folk-pop. Possessed of a distinctive voice that sounds like Neil Young on a helium comedown, he produces songs that swell w/ bruised emotions, fragile melodies & bombastic orchestration
FriendlyFire
CD
$12.75

Wolves In The Throne Room
Two Hunters
PS, US NOW ON VINYL!! LIMITED!! This is the sound of paradox, ambiguity & confusion, Catharsis is the objective, not a lilly-white & guilt free existence, death & rebirth, transformation & enlightenment. Jessica Kinney provides beautifully dark vocals. The groups willingness to experiment w/ unconventional methods of recording & collaborate w/ avant-garde musicians sets them apart from the mundane normalcy that plagues many Black Metal bands albums as of late.
SouthernLord
DLP
$20.75

Wright, Peter
At Last a New Dawn
PS, US All of the familiar & wonderous WRIGHT touchstones are present here in pristine form: a wealth of gorgeous, ghostly guitar drones & swells, & impeccably employed field recordings from manifold fascinating sources. Also worth noting is the emergence of some slightly harsher sounds found here, a divergence from the traditionally pastoral nature of much of WRIGHT's catalog. This is the sound of misery and death, & ultimately, of hope & redemption. LIMITED to 500
StudentsofDecay
DCD
$20.50

Forthcoming Releases

31Knots
Worried Well (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.50

31Knots
Worried Well (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Plainly stated, 31Knots hasn't moved in a new direction so much as they've ripened tofull maturity, evolved into the creature they're meant to be. Previous efforts are just as tightly wrapped, just as fierce and incendiary. But something is different. Something here is new. It deserves to be called out as thought provoking and well written music in a time when substance is quickly giving way to music of commerce and palatability. There is no band like 31Knots and Worried Well finds them at the full height of their
powers.
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.50

Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno
Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, POLAND Recorded live at Counter Action, Sapporo, Japan, 29 June 2008 2 tracks: 1. Master Of The Cosmic Inferno ~ Heart Of Earth 2. Pink Lady Lemonade ~including Doobie Wonder Land. Time 72:26 AMT are: Tabata Mitsuru (bass, voice, malatab), Higashi Hiroshi ( synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king), Shimura Koji (drums, latino cool), Pikachu (drums, voice, cosmic shaman), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru).
Vivo-038
CD
$15.50

Action Biker
Hesperian Puisto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, SWEDEN It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet.
FriendlyNoise-69
CD
$13.50

Airborne Toxic Event
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US These fixtures of the Silver Lake music scene, garnering comparisons to everyone from Modest Mouse & The Arcade Fire to the Clash & U2. The group's debut album was co-produced by Pete Min (Longwave, Ivy).
ShoutFactory
CD
$12.75

Apollo Sunshine
Shall Noise Upon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Double vinyl version! A celebration of darkness & light, love & death, friends & lovers. Feat. members of Drug Rug, Tulsa, Viva Viva.
HeadlessHeroes
DLP
$20.75

Asva
What You Don't Know Is Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$17.00

Asva
What You Don't Know Is Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Created by Stuart Dahlquist, formerly of BURNING WITCH, SUNN0))), & GOATSNAKE, this is a lyricless album of epic doom metal. Beautiful artwork and packaging.
Southern
CD
$14.25

Atlas Sound
Atlas Shrugged (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US In March 2008, while ATLAS SOUND toured the U.S.A., chief Atlas Provocateur BRADFORD COX stopped off in Olympia, Wash. to lay down some tracks at the Dub Narcotic studio for this stellar Disco Plate release. Entirely off the cuff, Bradford made up the song on the spot, played all the instruments and improvised vocals. The session was engineered by CALVIN JOHNSON, who in his guise as Selector Dub Narcotic added his own flourishes, vocal and melodica, mixed the arresting B side "version". Another instant classic in our Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series of 7" 45 RPM records.
Krecords-113
45
$3.75

Aughra
Proof of Dark Matter | Light the Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MagicBullet
LP
$14.50

Aughra
Proof of Dark Matter | Light the Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Instrumental in nature, the album succinctly captures the duality Eyestone's solo work has steadily become known for:
equal parts of both eerie, creeping horror-movie-inspired isolationist chillers & soaring, feel-good, dynamic melody. The end result is an engrossing foray into a world of instant nostalgia, haunting introspection, & intangible inspiration from shadowy sources.
MagicBullet
CD
$11.75

Barzelay, Eef
Lose Big (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US New solo album from founder and creative force of the much-loved alt-country combo Clem Snide and noted film score composer.
429Records
CD
$14.25

Bauhaus
Sky's Gone Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US 3rd full length, originally released is 1982, & their 1st for A&M in States (in the UK it was released on Beggars Banquet). Opening w/ a shredding run through the Brian Eno track "Third Uncle", feat. some of Daniel Ash's most thrilling guitar work & Peter Murphy's strongest lyrical content yet.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Bauhaus
Burning From The Inside (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US 4th release, originally released in 1983, this managed to succeed despite massive setbacks & feat. some of the strongest performances of the band's career, w/ inspired work from Murphy when he was able to return to recording, & the 1st lead vocal performances from bandmates Daniel Ash & David J.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Belle And Sebastian
Dear Catastrophe Waitress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Repress! Double-LP in gatefold sleeve.
RoughTrade
DLP
$26.00

Belong
Same Places (Slow Version) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US With "Same Places (Slow Version)," BELONG evinces a slow-motion transformation - plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined.
TableOfTheElements-96
LP
$14.25

Brain Police
Electric Fungus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US First time available outside of Iceland. Driven by magnificent force & great personal charisma. Some seriously heavy tunes.
SmallStone
CD
$13.25

Brain Police
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Icelandic citizens w/the souls of American rock gods. Fueled by a desire to play dirty, kick-ass rock 'n' roll, they rose like a comet from relative obscurity to become one of Iceland's biggest rock acts. Hailed by fellow Icelandic musician Jnnsi Birgisson (Sigur Rns) as "one of Iceland's greatest bandsone
of my favorites"
SmallStone
CD
$13.25

Briggs, Anne
Time Has Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Briggs, Anne
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75

Briggs, Anne
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Thankfully this, her first & strongest record, reissued for the first time w/ the original cover. On CD
Water
CD
$14.25

Brothers & Sisters
Fortunately (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US MOJO MAGAZINE: "Austin-based 8-piece who sound like Big Star jamming w/Neil Young (New Life) & The Jayhawks (Without You), The Mamas & the Papas, Byrds, even Ray Davies in a swamp. Country rock ballads & pop perfection, w/imperfections in the home-made, one take sound to make it all the more engaging"
CallaLilyCompany
CD
$12.00

Bruni, Carla
Comme Si de Rien N'Etait (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US
Downtown
CD
$18.25

Caesars
Strawberry Weed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US New album from Swedish Garage-Pop Kingpins.
Astralwerks
CD
$12.50

Carr, Derek
The Digital Space Race (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record.
Psychonavigation-025
CD
$15.50

Chrome
Chrome Box [deluxe 3CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US
Cleopatra
CD-BOX
$22.50

Clientele, The
That Night, A Forest Grew (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 9th)
PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque.
Acuarela-067
CD5
$8.25

Clinic
Funf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$14.00

Clinic
Funf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Ten years of Clinic flipsides are joyously addled but have consistently given a reason to listen beyond the A-sides, covering acid punk to damaged hoedowns and any stops in between.
Domino
CD
$12.00

Correcto
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$14.00

Correcto
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Correcto is a Glaswegian super art-group collaboration that includes a member of Franz Ferdinand. They pen bittersweet songs about chocolate and girls that's equal parts Vaselines, The Kinks, and Pete Shelley after Howard Devoto split town. Inspired by the mundane, the fantastical, mawkish behavior, and hangovers, the result is an exemplary album of direct and unhampered songs.
Domino
CD
$13.00

Crystal Antlers
S-T EP (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: DUE AUGUST 2008)
PS, US Ballsout psych-rock-garage-soul from Long Beach long-hairs: rips, shreds, thrashes... Fans of Wooden Shjips' mind-numbingness and A Place To Bury Strangers' visceral intensity will find this majorly mandatory. PITCHFORK: "Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, the group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend... It's tempting to be patient and call this disc a stopgap on the way to a triumphant debut full-length. But EP is plenty substantial as is; at 25 minutes, it's only a few shy of Nouns or, more to the point, any number of psych-rock classics from decades past."
Self-Released
CD5
$5.25

Dandy Warhols
Earth to the Dandy Warhols (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US New album!
Beat/EMD
CD
$15.25

Davila 666
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US Over the past 2 yrs, they have amassed a large local following & their shows have a reputation as must-see spectaculars. A set functions almost like a theatrical event, as the band presents a thematic environment in which viewers are called to interact w/ props & exotic dancers. Their sound is the combination of obvious rock 'n' roll classics like the Stones, Stooges, Velvets, & Dolls, along w/ less likely influences such as Mazzy Star, Li'l Wayne, & Plan B.
IntheRed
CD
$14.25

Davila 666
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
IntheRed
LP
$10.50

Death Vessel
Nothing is Precious Enough (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Death Vessel
Nothing is Precious Enough (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Death Vessel has toured with Iron And Wine, Low, Jose Gonzalez, and The Books, among others. Recorded with longtime producer/collaborator Pete Donnelly (The Figgs), this is Death Vessel's (Joel Thibodeau's) Sub Pop debut. The music is haunting and spiritual, mysterious and kind, ageless and contemporary, soulful and psychedelic. In short, it's where the requiem meets the rock 'n' roll.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

DeVotchKa
A Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anti
LP
$15.50

Dianogah
QHNNNL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US New album from CHGO trio, features guest appearance from pal Andrew Bird. Jason, Kip & Jay have played together since January of 1995. Their core instrumentation is a trio of two bass guitars and one drummer. ANDREW BIRD plays violin on several songs, Jay steps up to the mic, and Stephanie Morris (SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR) also sings. A Midwestern musical goldmine.
Southern
CD
$15.00

Dianogah
QHNNNL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Southern
LP
$15.00

Disciplines, The
Smoking Kills (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, NORWAY PRE-ORDER @ $15.00, regular price $17.00. New band featuring KEN STRINGFELLOW. The Disciplines--a razor sharp, fuel efficient jet machine blending a full-on, rock blast worthy of AC/DC with anthemic melodies as sweet and singable as ABBA; a place where indie-level humility and charm meets a stadium-sized musical reach. Formed by American indie icon Ken Stringfellow (the Posies, R.E.M., Big Star, Lagwagon etc.) and the three instrument-wielding members of Norwegian chart successes Briskeby, the Disciplines have just released their first album, SMOKiNG KiLLS (Voices Music & Ent., Norway/Denmark). The album has already drawn rave reviews in the Norwegian national media; the singles "Best Mistake" and "Oslo" are bona fide chart hits; the band has been the subject of its own TV special and is on most of the major festivals in Norway this summer. The band was asked by Snow Patrol to support their London show last year; R.E.M. included the track "Yours for the Taking" on their Q magazine mix CD and has tagged the band to support their Scandinavian stadium shows in September. Coming up: a feature on Ken in Elle Scandinavia; festival and club dates in Netherlands, Spain and France; and a partnership with Chess Mobile that will put the band on screens large and small this summer (Chess will release a limited edition Disciplines phone that will come pre-loaded with the album and other features specific to the band). The band has played in Helsinki & Berlin and is looking at hitting both North and South America in the next year.
VME
CD
$15.00

Don Cabellero
Punkgasm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Relapse
DLP
$23.00

Don Cabellero
Punkgasm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Explodes w/all of the bands legendary trademarks: wildly inventive poly-rhythms; layers of looping guitar acrobatics; rich melodies & textures; & expansive compositions that evolve & unfold from start to finish. The albums more relaxed feel sees the band pushing their sound in a host of surprising new directions.
Relapse
CD
$15.00

Eden Express
Que Amors Que (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US ON VINYL! Feat. CLOUDLAND CANYON DUDE. The witchy beauty recalls Pan y Regalis, Charlie & Esdor, & early tropicalia albums. Pour yourself & a friend some cocktails, sit by the pool, & try to become lucid as your bare, tanned forearms grow beyond 17 ft long.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Faint, The
Fasciinatiion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Blank.wav
DLP
$21.75

Faint, The
Fasciinatiion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Their 1st album in 4 years through their own, newly-formed label. In certain ways, the album is the most mechanical & precise of the band's work: the vocals sound less human than ever before; the bass lines are more mangled, keyboards spiral & squeal out of control; electronic pings & stabs invade the melodies; the lyrical anxiety & disdain of previous albums pervades almost every song.
Blank.wav
CD
$15.00

Fiery Furnaces
Remember (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Vinyl is housed in a custom-made old style tip-on gatefold jacket with a pasted-in flap that holds the third LP. Also includes download coupon.
ThrillJockey
3XLP
$21.75

Fiery Furnaces
Remember (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US This double CD live album features 51 tracks spanning the band's entire catalog and was recorded over the past three years of constant touring. CD comes in a deluxe 6-panel digipack with coupon to download an exclusive bonus track.
ThrillJockey
CD
$15.00

Giant Sand
Provisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND)
PS, US The musical family tree of the group is long & illustrious, spawning bands like Calexico & The Friends of Dean Martinez. Howe Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots & lo-fi. This is cinematic Americana at its most aching, an album of tremolo soaked guitars, moody piano & secrets whispered over desert winds. Features talented friends/collaborators such as Neko Case, M. Ward & Isobell
Campbell.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50

Giant Sand
Provisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
DLP
$18.25

Hanson, Jeff
Madam Owl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US This album does not mark a radical departure from his previous two records, as the essential elements are still here. The bare acoustic prettiness of his debut "Son" and the handcrafted pop cleverness of "Jeff Hanson" have been developed further. And, like its predecessors, this release contains a set of pop-music symphonies, each one of which feels like it could be the record's single.
KillRockStars
CD
$13.25

Heaviness
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US This Swedish band's own brand of mayhem pop has been very well received in the neo-shoegaze camp. Electric violin, driving drums, flowing guitar, & bittersweet vocals forge a path through a forest of anxiety, longing & oppression. The songs strike you down w/their brute force only to lift you up w/the beauty of their melodies. Special Japanese issue featuring a bonus track/new artwork.
Quince
CD
$13.75

Human Highway
Moody Motorcycle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$14.00

Human Highway
Moody Motorcycle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US This duo presents a sound reminiscent of 50s/60s soul and doo-wop (i.e., The Everly Brothers). Human Highway came about while Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn (Islands, ex-Unicorns) were on tour with Islands. Vinyl comes with a coupon for a free digital download.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$12.50

Ida
My Fair, My Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US The 12" includes a bonus track, is on 180 gram vinyl, and includes a free digital download
card.
Polyvinyl
12
$9.75

Ida
My Fair, My Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US This seven song, 30 minute mini-album was recorded in a barn in Woodstock, while Ida was making their latest album, Lovers Prayers. The My Fair, My Dark EP features guest appearances by Levon Helm, Michael Hurley and Tara Jane ONeil. Includes covers of songs by John Martyn, Dolly Parton and Annie Briggs.
Polyvinyl
CD5
$8.75

Jaguar Love
Take Me To The Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Formed from members of the Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, Portland, OR's Jaguar Love add heavy-duty glam moves and crunchy, addictive hooks to the mix on this debut. "The beauty of Jaguar Love is how they manage to compose songs so intentionally vicious, strange, and manic, and yet totally hook-driven" - Seattle Times.
Matador
CD
$10.00

Jaguar Love
Take Me To The Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00

Jem
Down to Earth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND)
PS, US The album reflects the singer/songwriters far-ranging influences including Brazilian percussion on the title track, a hip shacking track complete w/funky banjos on "Crazy", the tempestuous Latin-flavored track "I Want You To...", a dance-pop tune "Aciid!" in which she sings in Japanese, & a moving collaboration w/South African singer-songwriter & poet-activist VUSI MAHLASELA on the track "You Will Make it"
ATO
CD
$12.50

Jesu
Why Are We Not Perfect? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US On this five track EP, Justin Broadrick has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past recordings and brought to the fore elements of texture and melody. "...Broadrick has layered so many blurps, wooshes, and digital gnarls throughout each song, they take on a life of their own" - Decibel. "Dripping heavy, cascading walls of sound" - Spin.
HydraHead
CD
$10.00

Jesu/Battle of Mice
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited vinyl LP version available in 4 different colors, 500 each, in deluxe packaging w/ metallic silver ink & spot matte finish..
RoboticEmpire
LP
$19.00

Jesu/Battle of Mice
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Several years in the making, each band offers 2 exclusive, lengthy tracks on this limited-edition release. JESU, comprised of the cult-followed JUSTIN K. BROADRICK (Godflesh, Napalm Death, Techno Animal), showcases heavy music on the darker end of the spectrum. BATTLE OF MICE (members of Red Sparrowes, Storm of Light) contribute the most sinister songs they've ever recorded. Heavier than their debut album, yet more dynamic overall, & possibly their last recordings ever. Both formats come in deluxe packaging w/ metallic silver ink & spot matte finish. Limited one-time pressings of 2000 copies each format.
RoboticEmpire
CD
$15.25

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

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

Lindstrom
Where You Go I Go Too (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks,
with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic. Lindstrom says, "I realized that working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me to think very differently to what I was used to... when working on longer tracks, there's so much more time to develop different themes & to let them evolve"
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Lord Dog Bird, The
The Lord Dog Bird (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US THE LORD DOG BIRD is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for JAGJAGUWAR artists, WILDERNESS. While the band was on extended hiatus, McCann kept at it, documenting his feelings about life and music at home on his four track. The result is a gritty, tactile document of a time spent in self-exploration and flux.
Jagjaguwar-118
CD
$11.50

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

Maquiladora
St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 9th)
PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F.
Acuarela-1083
DCD
$16.00

Mars Black
Stay Black (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Brooklyn's Mars releases his follow-up to 2005's "Folks Music". "The album is what it says - it's black stayin' black, from start to finish. Fifteen tracks, no skits, just me talkin' about how s**t is and how I wish s**t was. I laugh, I cry, I struggle, and I overcome. Friends, family, business, love, and life. What more is there?"
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Mercury Rev
Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, UK We can't be the only Rev-heads who need a fresh copy of this stunning early 90s masterpiece, can we? 2007 Special Edition three disc (two CDs and a NTSC/Region 0 DVD) pressing of the classic 1991 debut album from the Alternative weirdoes. The second CD, Lego My Ego (a much sought-after collection of rarities and radio sessions), has been unavailable for 12 years while the DVD, which features rare video clips, has never been released before! Bonus disc, Lego My Ego, tracklist: 1. If You Want Me to Stay / 2. Shh/Peaceful/Very Sleepy Rivers / 3. Frittering / 4. Coney Island Cyclone / 5. Car Wash Hair / 6. Syringe Mouth / 7. Blood on the Moon / 8. Chasing a Bee (Inside a Car)
Mint
DCD/DVD
$21.00

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

Moondoggies
Don t Be A Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Seattle's Moondoggies play timeless American music. Warm three-part harmonies, gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country. Whipsmart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. Shades of gospel, blues, rock, and country commingle, and wall-of-sound harmonies radiate joy and passion. The influences of The Band, The Byrds, and especially early Grateful Dead are evident, though The Moondoggies' lyrical economy and compositional sensibility render these tracks fresh and unique.
HardlyArt
CD
$10.75

Music Go Music
Reach Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Like a bolt from Zeus, MUSIC GO MUSIC have struck again with their new 12" single, 'Reach Out.' This outing finds them exploring a darker side of pop music; the place where Deep Purple's brute force meets the Carpenter's tragic wistfulness, where Blondie's power-hooks cross melodic swords with Meat Loaf's drama-rock theatrics. They've expanded their palette considerably, yet the sound is unmistakably theirs, and the magic of it points the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. 'Reach Out' is the monologue of a would-be savior, offering to lift us from the pit of despair. It treks from Logan's Run ambience to proto-metal riffing to disco-gallop to TV detective funk and back again.
SecretlyCanadian-172
12
$9.00

Music Tapes
Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US This album spotlights Julian Koster's songcraft and distinctive vocals, his almost religious devotion to the singing saw, and numerous contributions from other musicians in the Elephant 6 orbit. As on previous efforts, recording was done using an array of antique hardware, giving the record a timeless, texturally rich sonic palette.
Merge
CD
$13.25

Music Tapes
Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Normanoak
Estra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US NORMANOAK has another piece of vinyl to share with the world, a true follow up to last year's "A Double Gift of Tongues". This new album is called "Estra", named after a powerful horned goddess whom Normanoak has been busy invoking recently in small performance spaces around the country. Everything was recorded in his bedroom in Bloomington, Indiana, on three different tape machines. The music on "Estra" shows more variety than any of his previous efforts. Chugging rock songs burn up into soft, dark dirges that feature a uniquely made-up language code. Screaming minute-long hardcore songs fade into freaky, fucked instrumentals. There is even a song which curses the current state government, and their excessive logging of Normanoak's home forests of Southern Indiana. Throughout these 14 pieces, Normanoak takes on many personalities, such as his alter-ego Poisonoak. Over time the listener can begin to notice the shifts in perspective that the singer makes. Normanoak is more than just another musician. His work is pure sorcery at its most successful.
St.Ives-026
LP
$11.50

Oberst, Conor
Conor Oberst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US themselves and to friends as The Mystic Valley Band. Members include Nate Walcott, Jason Boesel, Macey Taylor, Nik Freitas, and Taylor Hollingsworth. The result is his first solo album in thirteen years, following "Water" (1993), "Here's To Special Treatment" (1994), and "Soundtrack To My Movie" (1995). In that time, he's recorded and performed in Commander Venus, Park Ave., Desaparecidos, and most notably Bright Eyes, his main musical vehicle for the past decade.
Merge
CD
$14.00

Oberst, Conor
Conor Oberst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50

O'Connor, Jennifer
Here With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Recorded with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth), "Here With Me" is a breezier, more upbeat work than 2006's "Over The Mountain", but is packed with no less of an emotional wallop. Jennifer's songs have never before sounded this crafted or hit the listener with such immediacy. LP contains MP3 coupon. Look for tour dates supporting Wilco, Jamie Lidell, and Son, Ambulance. Headlining tour in the fall. "A rush of everything you ever liked about indie songwriters: substantial songwriting, crystalline vocals, sumptuously simple pop...you have to love an artist who reminds you of everyone but defies comparison" - Time Out NY.
Matador
CD
$10.00

O'Connor, Jennifer
Here With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.00

Oneida
Preteen Weaponry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US "Preteen Weaponry" is part one of the "Thank Your Parents" triptych of ONEIDA releases. Oneida members past, present and future all contributed to this project. It reminds Oneida of what a live performance might sound like. It contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. You can consider it an introduction to their forthcoming triple album "Rated O", which is part two of the fore-mentioned triptych (to be released by Jagjaguwar in early 2009).
Jagjaguwar-125
LP
$14.25

Original Silence
Second Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SmalltownSuperjazz
LP
$18.00

Original Silence
Second Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US The return of THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE, MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded at a September 28, 2006 performance at Rome, Italy's Brancaleone. Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy
SmalltownSuperjazz
CD
$14.50

Oxford Collapse
Bits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US They have a charming lack of guile, combined with a focus on the better of the 80s college rock cognoscenti and Trouser Press favorites. This record is the sound of fun turning into purpose, of a great band writing and playing their best songs, and knowing how great that feels. It's all heart and ingenuity, the joyous racket that connects C86 pop to the present.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

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

Pram
The Moving Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo
LP
$14.00

Pram
The Moving Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Pram are a quintet from Birmingham's Moseley district and have been subverting what we know as pop music for thirteen years, always managing to stay fresh and ahead of their contemporaries. On this record, they've created a mysterious and wonderful landscape that's sky-wide open. These songs not only soundtrack, but gently prompt and orchestrate a reflective daydream moment.
DominoRecordingCo
CD
$13.00

Prints
Just Thoughts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Quickly following their debut full-length, PRINTS return to stir the pot with a little more pop, their usual dose of psychedlia and an intoxicating amount of dance. Once again produced at home by multi-instrumentalists Zac Nelson and KENSETH THIBIDEAU, the songs here were originally conceived as b-sides for a proposed single for "Too Much Water" from the group's eponymous debut. By the time three new songs were completed, they stood too strong on their own to be pushed out as b-sides, so the decision was made to forfeit the single and instead offer the songs as a stand-alone EP. Meanwhile, DFA cofounder and Hercules and Love Affair producer Tim Goldsworthy fired up his new alter-ego Thee Loving Hand for an epic super-funk remix of a pair of Prints tracks, "Pretty Tick" and "Meditation" (featuring, among other things, the funk bass skills of !!!'s Tyler Pope). To top it off, acclaimed visual artist Toben Seymour directed an eye-popping video for "Too Much Water," which is included here on the Enhanced CD portion of the disc.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-137
CD
$9.00

Prisonshake
Dirty Moons (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Scat
DLP
$19.25

Prisonshake
Dirty Moons (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US These recordings, all but one done entirely in the analog domain between 1995 to 2007, encompass both realism & psychedelia, sometimes via tape manipulation & found sound. Performances range from the completely live (even vocals) to near Bob Ezrin-levels of production, but all have an everybodyin-the-room recording at their core.
Scat
DCD
$14.25

Ra Ra Riot
Rhumb Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Their self-titled EP (sold mostly at venues) & the dark-edged joyfulness of their live shows (which feature a kickass co-ed bass-guitardrums-vocal-cello-violin lineup) has garnered acclaim from high-profile media. This is their full-length debut, which features 9 originals & the best Kate Bush cover you've ever heard ("Suspended in Gaffa")
Barsuk
CD
$11.00

Rosebud
Discoballs: A Disco Tribute To Pink Floyd [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Back in 1979, way before the flood of tribute albums swamped your local record store's bins, this curiosity featuring disco versions of Pink Floyd songs came out on Warner Bros. Now, usually when you put the words 'disco' and 'tribute' together in the same phrase, the result is not going to be pretty. What does, however, make this album reissue-worthy is that two of the folks behind this, Claude Engel and Jannick Top, were members of the legendary French prog group Magma, and they were no doubt instrumental in the adventurous choice of tunes on this record. Sure, 'Money' and 'Have a Cigar', which was a minor hit, are not such a stretch, but disco versions of 'Interstellar Overdrive', 'Arnold Layne' and 'One of These Days'?! Not even Syd Barrett in his wildest dreams could have imagined such a thing! It's easily the most danceable Pink Floyd album ever!
Collector'sChoice
CD
$13.75

Royal We, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US The Royal We were a Scottish/American fever dream who broke up before this record was released. A mini-LP of eight near perfect imperfections that hit all those great obscurest touchstones in the tweest of pop music...Orange Juice, The Raincoats, The Pastels, Field Mice.
DominoRecordingCo
CD
$11.00

Royal We, The
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DominoRecordingCo
LP
$14.00

sBACH
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US sBACH is Spencer Seim, (Hella, The Advantage). This record is a frenetic mélange akin to the sights, sounds, and sugar rushes of an entire elementary school locked in a Chuck E. Cheese and having to subside on an all-you-can-eat buffet of Fun Dip and Pixie Stix. The animatronic, caffeinated band dishes out phosphorescent doom riffs while running amok with blips and bleeps. Kitschy, stoner rock with jazz rhythms and chicken scratch electronica.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$12.00

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

Schnauss, Ulrich
Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Schnauss returns after last year's acclaimed third album, "Goodbye", with this "Stars" EP, highlighting the standout track with a new edit, remixes, and a new version of "Look At The Sky". The MAPS remix takes "Stars" to a new level of hyperactive electronic dream pop, while the Mahogany remix is a dense and spacey turn on the track with layers of added textures.
DominoRecordingCo
CD5
$6.25

Stereolab
Chemical Chords (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
4AD
LP
$19.25

Stereolab
Chemical Chords (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Their eleventh album is a collection of purposefully short, dense, fast pop songs brimming with Motown-like drums, baroque-pop brass and string arrangements, and mellifluous vocal performances. It is, nonetheless, classic Stereolab; like all their best work, a perfect equipoise between an implausibly cool past and a shamelessly exotic future. "England's lounge-pop heroes" - Blender. "Stereolab's unmistakable cosmonaut pop...a trademarked stamp of the 90s. No one else managed to duplicate their retro-futurist harmony" - Fader.
4AD
CD
$13.25

Sweet, Matthew
Sweet Sunshine Lies (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE! New album from Matthew Sweet joined by Susanna Hoffs, Ric Menck and Richard Lloyd. Pretty Parasolly, dontcha think? Without warning, this consummate artist just may have made the album of his life, not by consciously trying to recapture the brilliance of his three milestones, Girlfriend, Altered Beast and 100% Fun, but simply by following his big heart, while hot-wiring the process between inspiration and execution so that there's no longer any distance between them. With tongue only partly in cheek, Matthew describes the new record's sound as "power-pop-folk-rock-psychedelic-melodic-singer-songwriter-type stuff." That turns out to be an accurate general description, but the real intrigue is in the details. By turns achingly melodic and drivingly visceral, Sunshine Lies swirls with relatable emotion and bad-ass attitude, seamlessly incorporating the artist's expansive aesthetic from one end (poetry) to the other (noise). On Sunshine Lies, Sweet intermixes his distinctive brand of shimmering folk rock ("Byrdgirl," "Daisychain," "Around You Now") and signature goosebump ballads ("Feel Fear," "Pleasure Is Mine," "Back of My Mind"), with the album's primary impulse, what he refers to as "the crazy songs." These are heady, arrangement-based pieces where anything goes in terms of tone, texture and performance-the mindblowing "Time Machine," the balls-to-the-wall "Room to Rock," the brawny "Flying" and the Who-like "Let's Love."
ShoutFactory
CD
$11.50

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE JULY 2008)
PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

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

Thee Oh Sees
Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US "Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion" is a brilliant live performance collaboration between THEE OH SEES and video director Brian Lee Hughes. The project resulted in a double-disc DVD/CD set featuring live performances filmed and recorded, not on stages, but at a variety of hauntingly scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The film is also studded with dozens of stories, jokes and whatnots filmed during their four-day filming adventure. The resulting recordings are included on the audio CD. The results are a rare and necessary masterpiece. Step into the lush dark charm of Thee Oh Sees.
Tomlab-119
DVD + CD
$15.75

Tractor Kings
Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY?)
PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders.
Spur-CD-006
CD
$9.00

U.S. Girls
Introducing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US If the alluring moniker used by Megan Uremovich conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there's any doubt that Uremovich couldn't rise & conquer either challenge.RIYL Sally Strobelight, Inca Ore, Diamanda Galas. Hand-screened cover, one time edition of 500
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Uglysuit
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Quarterstick
LP
$14.00

Uglysuit
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH)
PS, US Oklahoma City's Uglysuit is remarkably fresh-faced and honest; they believe in letting loose, fostering a heartfelt atmosphere of hope and love. Their music is an extended love song to the notion that everything is possible, yet nothing is guaranteed. Look for them on tour supporting Iron And Wine this summer, and on a full US tour upon release.
Quarterstick
CD
$13.00

Vandervelde, David
Waiting For The Sunrise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH)
PS, US Just as there are albums that artists were born to make, there are albums that labels were born to release. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is one of those albums for both DAVID VANDERVELDE and SECRETLY CANADIAN. Upon first laying the needle down, the listener is greeted by a warm wash of sounds that seems to breeze in from decades back. Vandervelde's singular voice emerges from the drums and keys with "When the morning comes, I will be fine, I will be fine, I will be fine" and you're pretty damn sure he will be. The tones may be familiar, but his voice as an artist is his own, new and wholly contemporary, and you feel lucky to be here to watch the emergence. Critics marveled at Vandervelde's songwriting on his debut "Moonstation House Band", the mini-album which had the aesthetic wherewithal to hold its own side-for-side with the classics as a late night jam record. Spin magazine remarked that "at a pipsqueakish 22 years old, David Vandervelde is already generating the kind of indie-net whispering that musicians twice his age pine for." And on songs such as "California Breezes", "Someone Like You" and "Lyin' In Bed", it's clear that the material on this first long-player from Vandervelde is of a higher order - lyrically more personal and stripped down. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is the beautiful result of having extended himself both musically and emotionally.
SecretlyCanadian-170
CD
$11.50

Various
Half Dreaming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Shoegaze transcends its British influences & resurfaces in Asia w/this compilation, featuring 16 bands & 16 new, unreleased, or re-recorded tracks. Some of these artists are well known in the Asian scene & others about to debut.
Quince-62
CD
$13.75

Verse En Coma
Rialto (10"/CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH)
PS, US Five dynamic tracks that collided w/ both artistic & industry red tape comprise this incredible debut. These delays hinder absolutely nothing though, as the power & sheer intensity behind these songs is borderline overwhelming. Unique, passionate, & soaring vocals compliment the screaming, effectsladen guitarwork & air-tight rhythm section. Feat. members of PG 99, MALADY, DARKEST HOUR, HARAM & more.
RoboticEmpire
10
$17.75

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

Wooden Shjips
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$14.00

Zomes
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US Debut solo from former LUNGFISH/ PUPILS guitarist. This album is full of beautiful Seesselbergsized chunks of loop-like melodies that effervesce while Osborne brings them to life. There is a cinematic quality to the material here that recalls "library music," East German Indianerfilmen soundtracks, & even Blues Control at their most humid.
HolyMountain
CD
$15.00

Zomes
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$15.00

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

Alaska In Winter “Dance Party in the Balkans” CD $14.50
Am-Boy “Clayton’s Hideout” LP $9.75
Anderson, Jason “The Hopeful and the Unafraid” LP $11.50
Autumns, The “Fake Noise from a Box of Toys” CD $12.25
Beatundercontrol “Cosmic Repackage” CD $17.75
Belhom, Thomas “No Border” CD $16.00
Black Twig Pickers “Hobo Handshake” CD $14.25
Bread, Love & Dreams “The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha [re-issue]” CD $16.25
Brian Jonestown Massacre “My Bloody Underground” CD $14.00
Bronze “Calypso Shakedown” CD $12.25
Caned & Able “Smoke” CD $17.75
Canned Heat “Canned Heat Live: Woodstock 10th Anniversary” CD $12.25
Charalambides “Rose/Thorn” LP $18.75
Chen, Shinki “S-T” CD $16.25
Chin Chin “S-T” CD $13.00
Citified “Meeting After” CD $7.75
Cloud Cult “Feel Good Ghosts: Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes” CD $15.00
Constantines “Kensington Heights” LP $16.00
Constantines “Kensington Heights” CD $15.00
Constantines + Feist “Islands in the Stream” 45 $6.50
Dizzee Rascal “Maths + English” CD $15.00
Drift, The “Memory Drawings” DLP $14.25
Drift, The “Memory Drawings” CD $11.50
Electric Pop Group “Sunrise EP” CD5 $6.50
Elliott, Matt “Failing songs” CD $16.25
Envy “Transfovista” DVD $14.25
Explorers Club, The “Do You Love Me? / Carry Me” 45 $4.75
Fairport Convention “S-T” LP $23.00
Fleischmann & Tarwater “Morr Music Japan Tour EP [2005]” CD5 $10.75
Flower Travelin' Band “Satori [re-issue]” CD $15.00
Foals “Antidotes” LP $12.50
Foals “Antidotes” CD $12.50
Frank Black “Sv N F Ng Rs” CD $10.50
Fred “Live at the Bitter End” CD $18.25
Frightened Rabbit “Midnight Organ Fight” CD $13.25
Gel-Sol “IZ” CD $15.50
Gerrard, Denny “Sinister Morning” CD $20.25
Godspeed You Black Emperor! “F#A#” LP $14.25
Gossip, The “Live in Liverpool” CD/DVD $13.25
Hood, Robert “39” CD $17.00
Hornet Leg “Blood Trilogy” 45 $3.75
Incredible Vickers Brothers, The “Gallimaufry” CD $11.00
Indricothere “S-T (LP/CD)” LP $15.75
Karmic Society “Journey” CD $18.25
Keef Hartley Band “Overdog” CD $20.25
Khan “Space Shanty” CD $20.25
Kooks,The “Konk” CD $12.50
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin “Missa Luba” CD $15.50
Lights “S-T” CD $13.25
Lipp, Eliot “The Outside” CD $9.00
M83 “Saturdays=Youth (ON SALE)” CD $14.00
Married Monk, The “Elephant People” CD $20.25
Mellow Candle “Swaddling Songs” CD $20.25
Meloy, Colin “Sings Live!” DLP $21.00
Microphones “Glow Pt. 2 [reissue]” DCD $12.50
Microphones “Glow Pt. 2 [reissue]” 3XLP $21.00
Mills, Chris “Living in the Aftermath” CD $11.00
Monotonix “Body Language” CD5 $11.00
Monotonix “Body Language” 12 $11.00
Moore, Thurston “Sensitive/Lethal” CD $15.25
Motorpsycho “Trust Us (1998)” DCD $19.00
Mt. Wilson Repeater “S-T” CD $12.25
Narcophony “Play the Residents” CD $17.00
No Kids “Come Into My House” LP $12.25
Northern Portrait “The Fallen Aristocracy EP” CD5 $6.50
Os Mutantes “A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado” LP $25.00
Quarter After, The “Too Much to Think About” 45 $6.50
Retribution Gospel Choir “S-T” LP $17.00
Ringfinger “Decimal” LP $15.75
Room “Pre-Flight” CD $20.25
Sonic Youth “J'Accuse Ted Hughes” 12 $9.50
Swift, Richard “Richard Swift as Onasis” LP $11.50
Swift, Richard “Richard Swift as Onasis” DCD $11.50
Thee Oh Sees “The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In” CD $12.25
Three Legged Race “Living Order/Mourning Order” LP $17.00
Triclops! “Out of Africa” LP $16.00
Triclops! “Out of Africa” CD $16.00
Various “The Room of Loud Sound: Heavy Psych from the USA 1968-72” CD $16.25
Various “Garage Beat '66, Vol. 4: I'm In Need!” CD $14.25
Various “Garage Beat '66, Vol. 5: Readin' Your Will!” CD $14.25
Venna “S-T” CD5 $6.75
Wilders, The “Someone's Got to Pay” CD $16.00
Year Of No Light “Nord” DLP $17.50
Yellow Swans & Mouthus “Conan Island” LP $16.75
Yoro Sidibe “S-T” CD $13.25
Zero “Joke Box” CD $17.00

Parasol New Arrivals • July 29, 2008
Good afternoon, We hope that Tuesday has been treating you well so far. We, here in east central Illinois, have been enjoying a glorious heat wave but I think that we can all agree that it beats the hell out the frigidness that will be rearing its ugly head sooner than later. You are probably thinking to yourselves, “Don’t you dudes work in a record store/mail order? I’m sure you would make great meteorologists but how about the forecast regarding the hot new cuts?” Well, we have been known to listen to the Weather Prophets on occasion. So yeah, we can steer you in the right direction. No forecast necessary. Here are some of the “hot cuts” you speak of because you know your wish is our command. You can’t go wrong with the likes of Motorpsycho's "Haircuts: Motorpsycho On Film" DVD, Sunset, P.W. Long, all of the newly listed Byrds LPs that are gracing the update today, Primal Scream, Josephine Foster, Hair Police and there’s no way we could forget the 3XLP from the late, great Dennis Wilson. Sorry friends. We didn’t mean to go on a weather tangent but while we are at it, make sure the cooler is stocked, the hammock’s strung and be sure to let the mailman know to leave your parcel on the cooler side of the porch. Long winded, Roy & Prince Paul P.S. Attention South-Easterners: Be sure to catch Mr. Richard Lloyd as he braves the inflated gas prices to bring the jams "live" style to you and yours.
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	Motorpsycho "Haircuts: Motorpsycho On Film" DVD $34.00 (Stickman) Watch: Haircuts Trailer Hot on the heels of their mind-expanding Little Lucid Moments, this long-awaited two DVD set starts with 21 music videos spanning the acclaimed Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog band's wildly careening 20-year career; plus documentaries, live footage, and various other surprises, 5 hours and 45 minutes in total! Please note: This DVD set is European PAL format, but will play on a majority of home computer (it's playing on my Dell as I type this, and it's awesome) and laptop DVD drives, along with home DVD players produced in the last 5 years.
	Sunset "The Glowing City" CD $9.75 (Auto Bus) New sojourn from Austin's ex-Sound Team hymnalist Bill Baird, and he really gets his Eno on. More fully (sur)realized than the dreamy, sub-tropical Bright Blue Dream from earlier this year...prolific much? Totally cosmic orch-pop impressionism that brings balance to the force, harmony to the spheres, and Christmas in July. Will {{{{Sunset}}} have two albums in my top ten for 2008? Probably. Will they keep the brackets in their name? Hopefully.
Thrillsville: Parasol staff's weekly picks
Jim picks: {{{Sunset}}} - The Glowing City CD (again) Dude really, really gets his Eno on. Roy picks: Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees CD Cosmic Californians channeling the ghosts of Gene Clark, Flying Burrito Bros, and Hearts and Flowers. Paul picks: Guy Clark - Old No. 1 CD Re-issue of fantastic '75 debut by Texas troubadour and master song builder Guy Clark. A-list helpers include Ms. Emmylou, Rodney Crowell and a wee Steve Earle. Angie picks: Band Of Annuals - Let Me Live CD My friend Mike told me to listen to these guys, and gal, and I haven't been able to listen to anything else since! LISTEN UP!
New Releases Ambarchi, Oren A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks PS, US There is a vivid breadth to the guitar deconstructions of Australian OREN AMBARCHI. Sometimes his work takes a delicate lilt; it can also dive into dark and deep pools of sound when he joins cowl-core ensembles Sunn O))) (with Stephen O'Malley) and Burial Chamber Trio (with Greg Anderson). Whether with those bands, solo, or in collaboration with luminaries ranging from Mike Patton and John Zorn to Christian Fennesz, he consistently reroutes his instrument into zones of arch, alien abstraction. "A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks" offers a dizzying gaze straight into a chasm of extreme frequencies - paint-peelingly high and bowel-churningly low - all set atop a sub-strata of menace, angst, and contemplative beauty. TableOfTheElements-95 LP $14.25 Ant Trip Ceremony, The 24 Hours [re-issue] PS, US In 1968, a group of talented college students at Oberlin College formed a band and recorded their only album, 24 Hours. Pressed in scant quantity, this album would become a collector's item, selling for hundreds of dollars. Cicadelic Records is excited to release the complete album on CD with detailed liner notes and photos on the history of the band. The psychedelic sounds that emanate from this album will have listeners 'turn on, tune in, and drop out.' Originally Issued In 1968. 40th year anniversary release! Cicadelic CD $11.25 Arbouretum/Pontiak Split PS, US A special LP-only split release by Arbouretum & their Baltimore friends Pontiak, Thrill Jockey's new signees making their label debut. Feat. new songs from each band as well as a handful of John Cale covers, w/ Arbouretum offering their rendition of "Buffalo Ballet," & Pontiak delivering a potent "The Endless Plain of Fortune" & a great new interpretation of "Mr. Wilson". The album was recorded at Pontiak's home studio in Warrenton, VA. ThrillJockey LP $11.50 Armour, Douglas The Light Of The Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night PS, US And now for something different... Fulfilling the promise of his impeccable entry in our 7-inch series, THE SOCIAL CLUB, THE SOCIAL REGISTRY is proud to announce "The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night" -- the debut LP from Los Angeles located DOUGLAS ARMOUR. This album finds the artist expertly blending tons of our favorite poptones from days past to create a hyper-literate pastiche that's equal parts nostalgia and forward thinking. Echoing its title, the LP has a structure that plays off binary oppositions to create one of the most varied pop albums we've heard in a long time. TheSocialRegistry-051 LP $10.25 Arms Kids Aflame (CD/DVD) PS, US Inspired by a love of "sad/weird/insular genius types" like Neil Young, Stephin Merritt, & David Byrne, the music cloaks catchy tunes in fuzzy, echo-laden production & TODD GOLDSTEIN's melodramatic, crooned vocals. A true one-man band, he recorded this over a period of 3 years, playing all the instruments himself. A hazy, late-night mood runs deep in the record's 13 tracks w/ a surprise around every corner. Melodic CD/DVD $16.25 Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple PS, US Live At Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies with the first 100 on color vinyl. This is the companion release to the Astro CD titled The Echo At The Purple Dawn being released at the same time on Important Records. Astro, of course, is the analog/space project of Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary Japanese group C.C.C.C. This limited vinyl only release was created using ring modulator and vocals which are rare these days in Astro recordings. Cover art designed by Important. ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project. He is a founding member of the Japanese noise group C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he made the group C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai. Hasegawa began his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 and continued playing in C.C.C.C. Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations drifting between dreamy spaced out bliss and full on waterfalls of beautiful noise. Important-198 LP $17.75 Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa The Echo From The Purple Dawn PS, US The Echo From The Purple Dawn is a brand new full length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators and field recordings Hasegawa has created an engaging and versitile album that masterfully drifts between spaced out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning. As Astro Hasegawa is able to combine some of the harsher influence of C.C.C.C. into the world of analog space music to create the signature sounds of Astro. Included is a live track recorded at a festival at the Tokyo Keizai niversity organized by Tetsuo Kogawa. Cover art designed by Important. ASTRO is Hiroshi Hasegawa's solo project. He is a founding member of the Japanese noise group C.C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he made the group C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, Fumio Kosakai. Hasegawa began his solo unit ASTRO with analog synthesizers in 1993 and continued playing in C.C.C.C. Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations drifting between dreamy spaced out bliss and full on waterfalls of beautiful noise. Important-197 CD $12.25 Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those PS, US VINYL VERSION. To make the 4 sides of the album complete, there are 6 NEW SONGS added!! 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. Kranky-114 DLP $14.75 Band Of Annuals Repondez PS, US First CD by SLC's premier alt country/pop band. Pop-tinged alt-folk with boy-girl harmonies topped off with pedal steel guitars, harmonicas and mandolins. Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Red House Painters, Ryan Adams. KilbyRecords-005 CD $13.75 Band Of Annuals Let Me Live PS, US An amazing combo of devastating heartbreaking alt-country earnestness and perfect pop-hook craftsmanship. This 6-piece Salt Lake City band will remind you of the likes of Ryan Adams, Magnolia Electric Co., Neko Case, Damian Jurado and many others. A+ KilbyRecords-007 CD $13.75 Bass Communion Molotov & Haze PS, US Molotov And Haze is packaged in a deluxe tip-on style heavy-duty gatefold jacket with the cd slipped into a Japanese inner bag. Design by Carl Glover. Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson's recordings in an ambient, drone, and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and field recordings. The atmosphere of the music has tended towards the dark and melancholic, but expressed with an almost Zen like beauty. More recently Wilson has also started working with a guitar and laptop configuration - the first material in this style is contained on this album. Important-193 CD $12.25 Bass Communion & Pig Live In Mexico City PS, US Limited edition of 500 copies and packaged in a deluxe screen printed jacket with a clear spot gloss print. There are 5 different cover color variations each limited to 100 copies and containing a different color of vinyl. Packaged, like all Important releases, in a handy resealable Japanese poly-bag. Printed by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Steven Wilson - guitar / laptop, andres solis - turntables, rogelio sosa - voice, daniel goldaracena - devices. Recorded live at laboratorio de arte alameda in mexico city on 27th feb 2008. Collaboration with the live action / improv group from Mexico City PIG. This will only be available on vinyl and is the companion release to the Bass Communion record Moltov And Haze being issued on Important Records simultaneously. Important-194 LP $22.75 Beck Modern Guilt PS, US At first glance, it seems like the teaming of Beck and Danger Mouse is a perfect pairing of postmodern pranksters, as neither musician has shaken the first impression he's made: for most, Beck is still seen as that ironic Loser, trawling through pop culture's junk heap, while Danger Mouse is the maverick of The Grey Album, the mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z that reads like a joke but doesn't play like one. Close listening to either man's body of work easily dispels these notions, as Beck has spent as much time mining the murky melancholia of Mutations as he has crafting neon freakouts like Midnite Vultures. He's made a career bouncing from one extreme to the other, occasionally revisiting the cut 'n' paste collage that would have seemed like a natural fit for the sample-centric Danger Mouse, but when he partnered with Danger Mouse in 2008, Beck's pendulum was swinging away from the Odelay aesthetic, as he spent two records on the lighter side, thereby dictating a turn toward the dark. As it happens, this is Danger Mouse's true forte, as his productions have almost uniformly been dark, impressionistic pop-noir, whether he's working with Damon Albarn on the Gorillaz or the Good, the Bad & the Queen, or collaborating with Cee-Lo as Gnarls Barkley (whose fluke hit "Crazy" had nasty rumbling undercurrents) or even blues-rockers the Black Keys. So, he turns out to be a perfect fit for Beck, just perhaps not in the way that many might expect, although the title of their album Modern Guilt should be a big tip-off that these ten tracks are hardly all sunshine and roses. Compared to the waves of grief on Sea Change, Modern Guilt trips easily, as this is a deft tapestry of drum loops, tape splices, and chugging guitars pitched halfway between new wave and Sonic Youth. This may not brood but it's impossible to deny its heaviness, either in its tone or its lyrics. Beck peppers Modern Guilt with allusions to jets, warheads, suicide, all manners of modern maladies, and if the words don't form coherent pictures, the lines that catch the ear create a vivid portrait of unease, a vibe that Danger Mouse mirrors with his densely wound yet spare production. As on his work with Albarn and the Black Keys, Danger Mouse doesn't impose his own aesthetic as much as he finds a way to make it fit with Beck's, so everything here feels familiar, whether it's the swinging '60s spy riff on "Gamma Ray," the rangy blues on "Soul of Man," the stiff shuffle of the title track, or the thick and gauzy "Chemtrails," which harks back to the sluggish, narcotic psychedelia of Mutations. Danger Mouse assists not only with execution but with focus, pulling in Modern Guilt at just over half an hour, which is frankly a relief after the unending sprawl of The Information and Guero. Its leanness is one of the greatest attributes of Modern Guilt, as every song stays as long as it needs to, then lingers behind in memory, leaving behind a collection of echoes and impressions. If anything, Modern Guilt may be just a little bit too transient, as it doesn't dig quite as deep as its subjects might suggest, but that's also par for the course for both Beck and Danger Mouse: they tend to prefer feel to form. Here, they deliver enough substance and style to make Modern Guilt an effective dosage of 21st century paranoia. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide DGC LP $13.99 Big China & Little Trouble Black Blood PS, US Intended to get all material back in print & away from collector prices, this compiles these original recordings w/ last year's "Fur & Teeth" sessions, which were issued as a limited 3" CD in a jewel case that contained ancient shark teeth & bear fur. All selections have been remixed & mastered for maximum effect. MagicBullet CD5 $10.25 Big China & Little Trouble Black Blood PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! MagicBullet LP $15.75 Black Kids Partie Traumatic PS, US Debut album produced by Bernard Butler (Suede. PITCHFORK: "Black Kids make catchy, tightly executed songs that put a memorable stamp on pop's classic themes." AlmostGold CD $13.25 Black To Comm Fractal Hair Geometry PS, GERMANY Black To Comm is the solo venture of Dekorder label boss Marc Richter. With two and a half albums released on his own label he has established himself as one of the most prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the American Digitalis label, a collaborative CD with Datashock on Ikuisuus, a 7" on the Irish Trensmat label and a collaboration with Xela in the works "Fractal Hair Geometry" is Richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental Double-LP left off. Like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. While "Wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Casio SK-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. The results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. Additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). Decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a Black To Comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album. There's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late Leigh Bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's UK club scene (and singer of Minty). Guests include Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu) on piano, Guido Möbius on trumpet and current Black To Comm (live) band members Renate Nikolaus on violin and Ulf Schütte (of Datashock, Aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds. Along the lines of the music, seminal German artist Oliver Ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork that is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock. Dekorder-027 CD $17.75 Black To Comm Fractal Hair Geometry PS, GERMANY Black To Comm is the solo venture of Dekorder label boss Marc Richter. With two and a half albums released on his own label he has established himself as one of the most prolific drone artists out there with a forthcoming album on the American Digitalis label, a collaborative CD with Datashock on Ikuisuus, a 7" on the Irish Trensmat label and a collaboration with Xela in the works "Fractal Hair Geometry" is Richter's most refined and original work to date, picking up where the electrifying drone works of his monumental Double-LP left off. Like the last records this album is centered around recordings of a variety of vintage organs. While "Wir können leider..." often featured pure harmonium sounds and spacious recordings of chuch organ and mellotron, the new album opts for a more electronic, effects-laden sound, sending an old Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Casio SK-5 through an armada of analogue & digital effects pedals. The results are massive one-chord drones layered into dense & ecstatic, flickering & pulsating clusters of psychedelic electronic sound. Additional wordless vocal effects, hyperventilating & sizzling drum machines and hypnotic violin and guitar noises make for a hyperactive sound that never stands still even though most of the music is pure drones (sometimes consisting of more than 50 recording layers). Decidedly simple but gorgeous melodies shine through the mist from time to time, making a Black To Comm record always much more accessible than your average drone album. There's even a heavy 4/4 bass drum smuggled into a track dedicated to the late Leigh Bowery, one of the most enigmatic creative figures of the mid-80's UK club scene (and singer of Minty). Guests include Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu) on piano, Guido Möbius on trumpet and current Black To Comm (live) band members Renate Nikolaus on violin and Ulf Schütte (of Datashock, Aosuke, etc.) adding electronic sounds. Along the lines of the music, seminal German artist Oliver Ross has created a massive multi-layered neon-coloured collage artwork that is printed on special ultra-heavy cardboard stock. Dekorder-027 LP $16.25 Blectum, Blevin Gular Flutter PS, US Breaking a 4 year silence w/ her strongest album yet, Blectum confirms her gift for making electronic music that is allergic to cliche. Threading field recordings & conversation across a lattice of tightly edited rhythm, this tricksy, elastic assemblage demonstrates just how personal, brave, & autonomous electronic music can still be. Some things are worth waiting for. Aagoo CD $8.75 Bodies Of Water A Certain Feeling PS, US One year after the self-release of the acclaimed "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink," BODIES OF WATER have created another full-length offering. "A Certain Feeling," their first record for SECRETLY CANADIAN, was written, arranged and recorded in David & Meredith Metcalf's house in the Northeast L.A. neighborhood of Highland Park. The strains that one can hear running through all of Bodies of Water's music are fully exhibited here; instantly familiar melodies, rich harmonic color, expansively deft arrangements, and compositions that ebb, flow, and double back on themselves in cathartic synchronicity. Though no two songs sound entirely similar, it's a cohesive that comes out feeling like the anthemic prog/gospel/psychedelic/kraut-tribal movie score that Ennio Morricone and Phil Spector never got around to collaborating on. The choral hugeness that typified "Ears Will Pop" still rears its emphatic head, only here it is more often held in reserve while we marinate in each movement before being pulled along into the next passage of the narrative. "A Certain Feeling" is the sound of a group carving out an ever-evolving, but distinct aesthetic niche for themselves The singing, playing, compositions, lyrical themes (obsessive meta-physicality/spiritual surrender/human frailty) are unmistakably theirs. "A Certain Feeling" is a step forward, but assuredly filled with the same beautiful urgency that we have come to expect from them. SecretlyCanadian-177 LP $11.50 Bodies Of Water A Certain Feeling PS, US One year after the self-release of the acclaimed "Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink," BODIES OF WATER have created another full-length offering. "A Certain Feeling," their first record for SECRETLY CANADIAN, was written, arranged and recorded in David & Meredith Metcalf's house in the Northeast L.A. neighborhood of Highland Park. The strains that one can hear running through all of Bodies of Water's music are fully exhibited here; instantly familiar melodies, rich harmonic color, expansively deft arrangements, and compositions that ebb, flow, and double back on themselves in cathartic synchronicity. Though no two songs sound entirely similar, it's a cohesive that comes out feeling like the anthemic prog/gospel/psychedelic/kraut-tribal movie score that Ennio Morricone and Phil Spector never got around to collaborating on. The choral hugeness that typified "Ears Will Pop" still rears its emphatic head, only here it is more often held in reserve while we marinate in each movement before being pulled along into the next passage of the narrative. "A Certain Feeling" is the sound of a group carving out an ever-evolving, but distinct aesthetic niche for themselves The singing, playing, compositions, lyrical themes (obsessive meta-physicality/spiritual surrender/human frailty) are unmistakably theirs. "A Certain Feeling" is a step forward, but assuredly filled with the same beautiful urgency that we have come to expect from them. SecretlyCanadian-177 CD $11.50 Boris Smile PS, US NOW ON DOUBLE VINYL! LIMITED!!! One of the most representative themes of this album hails from a distortion-drenched, psychedelic rhythmic barnburner. A distinctly characteristic transformation noted w/ this is the vocal styling, which is more melodic & captivating than ever before. His seamless delivery, knack for harmonies & consonance drive it into innovative horizons w/in the already-extensive Boris catalog. SouthernLord DLP $20.75 Bragg, Billy Mr. Love & Justice PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anti LP $15.50 Brian Jonestown Massacre Just Like Kicking Jesus PS, US New mini album that showcases 5 songs (4 never released before). The first track of this release, "Amazing Electric Cave (Learn To Speak Icelandic You Smug Shit Version)" features the vocals of Icelandic artist & film maker UNNUR ANDREA EINARSDOTTIR. ARecords/12Tonar CD5 $9.25 Broken Social Scene/Brendan Canning Presents: Something For All Of Us PS, US This is a truly genre-ambitious, progressive work. Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning finds himself free to experiment w/ a variety of sounds from hushed lo-fi acoustics, to blazing rock n roll, to psychedelic groove. Features his BSS band mates as well as Kevin Hearn, Liz Powell and Liam O'Neil. PITCHFORK: "Chock full of woozy sing-alongs and pulsing ballads, Brendan Canning's debut solo album suggests he's just as responsible for Broken Social Scene's life-affirming guitar pop as Kevin Drew." Arts&Crafts CD $16.00 Broken Social Scene/Brendan Canning Presents: Something For All Of Us PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Arts&Crafts LP $17.00 Broken Strings S-T PS, US One man and a cassette 4-track records an incredible collection of burnt-out power pop. Like Daniel Johnston fronting Times New Viking w/Greg Sage on guitar. Only 300 copies made in silver foil stamped jackets about to disappear back into the ether! TruePantherSounds LP $14.25 Bud Shank Quartet The Pacific Jazz Years PS, UK The Original Bud Shank Quartet : The Pacific Jazz Years Alto sax star Bud Shank is one of the few surviving modern jazz musicians who truly justifies legendary status. One of the pioneers of 50s West Coast Jazz, California based Shanks career trajectory had him initially winning his spurs within the ranks of the big bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kentons historic Innovations Orchestra. With his buzz cut coiffeur, Hawaiian shirts, chinos and open top sports car, the ubiquitous Bud Shank epitomized West Coast cool. Aware of Charlie Parker, it was Lee Konitz, Paul Desmond, and to a lesser extent Benny Carter who caught Buds ear, and his tenure as lead alto sax in Stan Kenton s Orchestra, with Art Pepper on his left, kept Shanks permanently sharp. GiantStepsRecordings-028 CD $15.50 Buffalo Killers Let It Ride PS, US Drawing comparisons in sound to Blue Cheer, Cream, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Mountain & the Allman Brothers Band, the trio released their self-titled debut in 2007 to critical raves. "Let it Ride" is an album deeply rooted in their signature 60s psychedelic & 70s blues rock inspired sound. Alive CD $13.50 Bug London Zoo PS, US In Gibson's Neuromancer, when Case & Molly meet the 2 surviving founders of Zion, there is talk of hearing a "mighty dub" in the Babel of tongues signaling the "final days." If indeed we're living in these "end times," as many predict, then there can be no more of an appropriate soundtrack for the coming apocalypse than this. Best start building the Marcus Garvey tug now. NinjaTune CD $16.00 Burke, Dan/Thomas Dimuzio Upcoming Events PS, US Further exploring the collaborative powers of Illusion Of Safety mastermind Dan Burke and prolific sound crafter Thomas Dimuzio, Upcoming Events is an unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread of 15 tracks. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio's collaboration is a forceful collection of early industrial sound ruination combined with classic Krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream/Cluster ilk reassuringly composed into something wholly modern and powerful. NoFunProductions-32 CD $12.25 Business Lady Torture Footage PS, US Wound up & looped guitar, bass, drums actionz from these Southern California warriors of silliness. Definitely melodic with a dark anthemic quality not seen since Mid- West pioneers MX-80 SOUND or somesuch. This is a limited release for Load Records but exists to erect a fitting Easter Island-stlyed " head" on your island. Definitly sharing certain kinship with the Silver Daggers blast of junk punk, but existing more as an island in the room temperature weirdness that is San Diego. Tune in to this fascinating document of a band with zonked songs & fabulous costumes. Or sleep through it & miss the 21st century. LIMITED TO 500 Load CD $12.50 Byrds Sanctuary III PS, US Laden with outtakes, alternate versions and rarites from the Ballad of Easy Rider and Untitled sessions, the third volume of our Sanctuary series spotlights Clarence White's fretboard genius. Vinyl debut for all tracks; annotation by Roger McGuinn and John York! Sundazed LP $17.00 Byrds Sanctuary II PS, US A new vinyl collection of rare Byrds recordings! With an emphasis on the group's instrumental prowess and exclusive interviews with Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and John York Sanctuary II collects outtakes and unissued material from the legendary Younger Than Yesterday, Notorious Byrd Bros. and Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sessions. A High-Definition Vinyl pressing of forgotten gems! Sundazed LP $17.00 Byrds Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde PS, US A key transitional touchstone in The Byrds' fabled canon, 1969's Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde was the next stop in the band's pioneering country-rock trajectory and the first album by the post-Gram Parsons lineup. With leader Roger McGuinn at the helm of a stellar new edition of the band featuring guitar god Clarence White, drummer Gene Parsons, and bassist John York, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde sees The Byrds bridging the gap between the psychedelic flights of the group's mid-'60s albums and the down-home, country-based style developed only months earlier with Sweetheart of the Rodeo. In addition to containing strong McGuinn originals ("King Apathy III," "Old Blue"), more of the band's beloved interpretations of Bob Dylan classics ("This Wheel's on Fire" and a medley blending The Bard's "My Back Pages" with Jimmy Reed's "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"), and even a Gram Parsons collaboration (the bemusing "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man," which cleverly celebrates The Byrds' love of country music while simultaneously taking a dig at small-minded rednecks), Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde also boasts two tracks composed by McGuinn for the obscure, racy '60s cult movie Candy. Mastered from the original Columbia Records analog master reels, Sundazed's exact reproduction of the original LP will have Byrdmaniacs everywhere soaring to high heaven! Sundazed LP $17.00 Byrds Sanctuary IV PS, US The Sanctuary spotlight shifts with volume IV to the Nashville sessions for the Byrds' landmark 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Spurred on by new member Gram Parsons, formerly of the International Submarine Band, the Byrds traveled to Nashville to fashion the innovative country/rock blend that's been part of American culture ever since. Sanctuary IV collects all of Parsons' vocal takes for the first time, as well as other outtakes and rehearsals which document the creation of an album unlike any other. First time on vinyl for all tracks; annotation by Byrds' Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman and Kevin Kelley!! Sundazed LP $17.00 Byrds Sanctuary PS, US The ringing sound of the Byrds - a band that created at least three rock 'n' roll genres (folk-rock, raga-rock and country-rock) would make any red-blooded music fan reach for the nearest tambourine to beat the jingle-jangle daylights out of it. Sanctuary collects all of the best rarities, alternate takes and 45-only sides into one goose pimple-inducing package, guaranteed to make anyone with a pulse "Feel A Whole Lot Better." Most tracks have never before appeared on vinyl! Sundazed LP $17.00 California Oranges Imperial Hearts PS, US Our Sacramento, CA indie-pop all stars return with a gem of a pop/rock album full of hooky choruses, call and response guitars and a super tight power-pop rhythm section. A pow-pow-powerful good good feeling! Just as you'd expect from this seasoned music family. Bask in the summer sun with the fourth album from the golden state's California Oranges and a healthy dose of the sunshine power pop they're known for. Underlying the power is a healthy dose of pop: Delicately concocted, contemplative songs exploring life's ups and downs. The quintet has hit their stride on Imperial Hearts. The record features the same line up as their 2005 release Souvenirs: John Conley (Holiday Flyer), Verna Brock (Rocketship, Beanpole, Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), Ross Levine (Sinking Ships), Katie Haley (Holiday Flyer, Sinking Ships), and Matt Levine (Sinking Ships). The album was jointly produced by the California Oranges and Dana Gumbiner (Night Night, Deathray). Imperial Hearts was mixed by long time friend of the band, producer/engineer, Eric Stenman (Saves the Day, The Comas, The Cab). The California Oranges construct songs filled with, "soaring boy/girl harmonies, rapid-fire licks of squeaky clean and buzz saw dirty guitar work, consistently up-tempo beats, and melodies that would make tone deaf kitten haters want to sing along" --Popmatters. "Power pop has rarely sounded as sweet." --Treblezine. TRACK LIST: 1. Brand New Spine, 2. We've Got Time, 3. Travel Writer, 4. Anywhere USA, 5. I Still Hold On, 6. Silver Shoes, 7. Feel Better, 8. Waiting Is Slow, 9. I Told Grace, 10. Matter Of Consequence, 11. I Won't Let You Back In, 12. When I Sleep. Darla-193 CD $12.25 Canadians A Sky With No Stars PS, US Canadians' debut album A Sky With No Stars showcases this band's great ability to play catchy indie-pop anthems that are unforgettable & timeless. Ghost CD $16.00 Capstan Shafts, The Fixation Protocols PS, US One-man-band masterminded by Dean Wells. An album that has grown from its lo-fi roots to a more maturely-crafted sound. His inclination towards brevity persists, w/nearly all the 22 lo-fi songs getting to the point in less than 2 minutes. The appealing homemade indie fuzz-rock is still replete w/ catchy melodies, perfect playful pop hooks, & classic rock guitar riffs. This album conjures early R.E.M. through a lysergic prism, Guided By Voices & Wire. RainbowQuartz CD $13.50 Clear Light S-T PS, US Their psychedelia run amuck with twin drummers, creamy fuzz guitar and carnival-clatter keyboards, LA's Clear Light were a fixture on underground radio - most memorably with their heavy-on-the-paranoia "Mr. Blue." Our reissue of their rare self-titled 1967 Elektra debut, produced by Paul Rothchild, features a non-LP bonus track ("She's Ready To Be Free") and liner notes that tell Clear Light's story in full, vivid detail. Sundazed LP $17.00 Cluster Cluster '71 PS, US REPRESS! NOW ON LP! 4MenWithBeards LP $16.75 Cluster Sowiesoso PS, US Moebius & Roedelius, released this, their fourth album in '76. Electronic rhythms combine w/ bubbling synths, piano & guitar to create sonic landscapes of pure bliss. Some of the greatest ambient electronic music ever, they were on the cutting edge of German space-rock, & pioneers whose influence can still be felt today. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Cluster & Eno S-T PS, US REPRESS! NOW ON LP! 4MenWithBeards LP $16.75 Cock Esp/Suffering Bastard Split PS, US Brutal grind featuring a dual-bass assault of the highest gain & lowest frequency, complete w/ brain-rattling vocal violence & remorseless drum kit abuse vs. an ugly & unlistenable shrieking noise overload inspired by 1980's top 40 hits & the pure unadulterated hatred of mankind. ApopRecords 10 $10.25 Coldplay Viva La Vida PS, US When Coldplay sampled Kraftwerk on their third album, X&Y, it was a signifier for the British band, telegraphing their classicist good taste while signaling how they prefer the eternally hip to the truly adventurous; it was stylish window dressing for soft arena rock. Hiring Brian Eno to produce the bulk of their fourth album, Viva la Vida, is another matter entirely. Eno pushes them, not necessarily to experiment but rather to focus and refine, to not leave their comfort zone but to find some tremulous discomfort within it. In his hands, this most staid of bands looks to shake things up, albeit politely, but such good manners are so inherent to Coldplay's DNA that they remain courteous even when they experiment. With his big-budget production, Eno has a knack for amplifying an artist's personality, as he allows bands to be just as risky as they want to be -- which is quite a lot in the case of U2 and James and even Paul Simon, but not quite so much with Coldplay. And yet this gentle encouragement -- he's almost a kindly uncle giving his nephews permission to rummage through his study -- pays great dividends for Coldplay, as it winds up changing the specifics without altering the core. They wind up with the same self-styled grandiosity; they've just found a more interesting way to get to the same point. Gone are Chris Martin's piano recitals and gone are the washes of meticulously majestic guitar, replaced by orchestrations of sound, sometimes literally consisting of strings but usually a tapestry of synthesizers, percussion, organs, electronics, and guitars that avoid playing riffs. Gone too are simpering schoolboy ballads like "Fix You," and along with them the soaring melodies designed to fill arenas. In fact, there are no insistent hooks to be found anywhere on Viva la Vida, and there are no clear singles in this collection of insinuatingly ingratiating songs. This reliance on elliptical melodies isn't off-putting -- alienation is alien to Coldplay -- and this is where Eno's guidance pays off, as he helps sculpt Viva la Vida to work as a musical whole, where there are long stretches of instrumentals and where only "Strawberry Swing," with its light, gently infectious melody and insistent rhythmic pulse, breaks from the album's appealingly meditative murk. Whatever iciness there is to the sound of Viva la Vida is warmed by Martin's voice, but the music is by design an heir to the earnest British art rock of '80s Peter Gabriel and U2 -- arty enough to convey sober intelligence without seeming snobby, the kind of album that deserves to take its title from Frida Kahlo and album art from Eugene Delacroix. That Delacroix painting depicts the French Revolution, so it does fit that Martin tones down his relentless self-obsession -- the songs aren't heavy on lyrics and some are shockingly written in character -- which is a development as welcome as the expanded sonic palette. Martin's refined writing topics may be outpaced by the band's guided adventure, but they're both indicative that Coldplay are desperate to not just strive for the title of great band -- a title they seem to believe that they're to the manor born -- but to actually burrow into the explorative work of creating music. And so the greatest thing Coldplay may have learned from Eno is his work ethic, as they demonstrate a focused concentration throughout this tight album -- it's only 47 minutes yet covers more ground than X&Y and arguably A Rush of Blood to the Head -- that turns Viva la Vida into something quietly satisfying. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Capitol-16965 LP $22.94 Cryptacize/Why? Unusual Animals Vol. 4 PS, US This is the fourth in a series of vinyl-only releases. The series, entitled UNUSUAL ANIMALS, pairs ASTHMATIC KITTY roster artists with friends and sometimes-unlikely bedfellows. Each record includes a beautiful rendering of one of Mother Nature's stranger inhabitants by illustrator Jared Chapman. This limited-edition series expands the Asthmatic Kitty family to include some unexpected folks. AsthmaticKitty-406 45 $3.75 CSS Donkey PS, US Brazil's CSS release their follow-up to 2006's "Cansei de Ser Sexy" ("I got tired of being sexy"). They've toured worldwide a number of times with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Ladytron, Klaxons, and Diplo, and played festivals from Coachella, Pitchfork, and Virgin to Reading, Benicassim, Roskilde, and beyond. "Donkey" is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos. Subpop CD $12.50 CSS Donkey PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Curless, Dick Tombstone Every Mile PS, US Maine native Dick Curless had long recorded for regional labels when songwriter Dan Fulkerson approached him with "A Tombstone Every Mile," the tale of a reallife stretch of Maine highway often lethal to truckers. Released nationally in 1965, the song became a #5 single for Curless and this, his first album for Tower Records, soon reached the Top Twenty on Billboard's country album charts. Sundazed CD $12.25 Dalton, Karen Green Rocky Road: The Loop Tapes, Pine Street Recordings (ON SALE) PS, US Never-released 1963 home recordings packaged in a CD gatefold Japanese mini-LP jacket. Discovered on the same reel-to-reel tapes that housed the Cotton Eyed Joe release. Remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew. With 8-page booklet with beautiful, newly-unearthed photos of Karen Dalton from 1962-1963. Liner notes by Dick Weissman. The release of Green Rocky Road fills in the lacunae in the rightly romanticized mythos of the late folk music legend Karen Dalton and goes a long way in clarifying her crucial role in the evolution of modern acoustic music from 'folk' source materials. Includes a lengthy interview with Joe Loop who was Karen's friend and patron in the early 60's when he'd often book her into the coffee house he ran in Boulder CO. The new album features private recordings she made at his home while visiting (last year saw the release of live recordings from said coffee house). The only formal studio recordings made during Karen's lifetime -- released in 1969 and 1971 respectively -- were thoroughly dissected upon their recent re-release. As wonderful as these albums were, they captured Karen in relatively awkward circumstances. Green Rocky Road, along with last year's Cotton Eyed Joe, provide a rare glimpse of Karen Dalton circa 1962 and 1963 at her most pure, most powerful, and at ease. These recordings, released by Delmore Recordings (in association with the Megaphone label), document her unique artistry at the time she was profoundly influencing the likes of Fred Neil, Tim Hardin and Bob Dylan. PITCHFORK: "Green Rocky Road is a much different listening experience than Cotton Eyed Joe, which she performed specifically for the small crowd around her, who listen raptly and applaud heartily. If that release is public, then Green Rocky Road is pointedly private. Here Dalton entertains no one but herself. In addition to singing traditional ballads like "Nottingham Town" and "Skillet Good and Greasy", she runs through pensive versions of "Ribbon Bow" and "Katie Cruel", which would appear later on her first and second albums respectively. They have all the informality of someone thinking aloud, which suits her signature vocals perfectly. "Ribbon Bow" sounds careful and simmering, with Dalton reaching down into her lower register to sound uncharacteristically foreboding-- an approach that adds a bit of malice to the lyrics." Delmore CD $16.25 Dark Meat/Diplo Split PS, US LIMITED TO 500!! On one side, Dark Meat cover Iggy Pop's classic jam "Success" & on the other side Diplo deconstructs it on a track entitled "Unsuccessful Space Jam." Whirlychunk 45 $6.00 Dawn Chorus Florida St. Serenade PS, US 10 songs that crackle & sparkle with elements of indie pop, southern jangle pop, rock, & subtle hints of shoegaze. Recorded by Brian Paulson (Beck, Wilco, Superchunk) FracturedDiscs CD $10.50 Dead Can Dance The Serpent s Egg (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US Their fourth album, originally released in 1988. At the time of its release, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were in Spain writing and recording music for "El Nino De La Luna", a film in which Lisa also made her acting debut. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US Their third album, originally released in 1987. With record sales worldwide increasing, the band was reaching a wider audience than ever before. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Garden Of The Arcane Delights (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US This four-track EP is packaged separately in a replica of its original sleeve with the SACD edition. 4AD CD $14.75 Dead Can Dance Spleen And Ideal (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US The primarily experimental structure of their second album, released in 1986, dispelled any notion that the band deserved the post-Gothic label slapped on them by the music press. "Spleen And Ideal" defined a new richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Aion (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US This 1990 release contains twelve songs recorded in Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's own studio in southern Ireland. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US This 1993 release saw Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard embark on individual paths. While this record of all new material was considered a commercial breakthrough (it was 4AD's best-seller at a million copies worldwide and counting), it was also their most divided. They both wrote songs independent of one another, on separate continents. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US Their seventh studio album was released in 1996, and focused on the more percussive, tribal side of the group's music. It was their first studio album since 1993's "Into The Labyrinth". 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance Toward The Within (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US Originally released in 1994, this record was an audio document of the band's 1993 sell-out world tour. Recorded at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica, CA, in front of an invited audience at the conclusion of the tour, the shows were also filmed with the intent of releasing a long form concert film. Includes twelve previously unrecorded Dead Can Dance tracks as well as material from their six previous studio albums. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Can Dance S-T (Remastered \| Super Audio CD) PS, US On their eponymous debut, released in 1982, they successfully harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion. Their range is staggering, as is their disciplined economy, with no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony. 4AD CD $17.50 Dead Dog S-T PS, US Dead Dog are young, punk and on Mauled By Tigers( they are the folks who put out the Vivian Girls full length that everyone wants.) MauledByTigers LP $11.50 Difford, Chris Last Temptation of Chris PS, US Squeeze dude's latest solo outing. Airline CD $15.75 Diplomats of Solid Sound S-T PS, US Featuring The Diplomettes! You can hear the band growing stronger in sophistication & depth as they further ingest the sounds of 60s soul, R&B & deep funk. In 2006 they asked 3 gifted soul sirens (SARAH CRAM, KATHERINE RUESTOW & ABIGAIL SAWYER) to join the group & the rest as they say is 'soul' history. This album is chocked full of irresistible funk & soul bombs ready to melt your heart or make you shake it on the dance-floor. Pravda CD $12.75 DJ Donna Summer Panther Tracks vol. 2 PS, UK About this release: 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-16 12 $14.50 Doiron, Julie Loneliest In The Morning PS, US Originally released in 1997 by SUB POP, "Loneliest In The Morning" was Doiron's second solo release and her first release as JULIE DOIRON (having dropped the moniker Broken Girl). This re-issue comes complete with three bonus tracks: "Second Time" from split 7" with Snailhouse and the tracks "Who Will Be The One" and "Too Much" from the 7" release Doiron recorded with the Wooden Stars. "Loneliest In The Morning" - an album Pitchfork described as "catchy enough to knock Liz Phair upside the head" - is a critical piece to the Doiron catalog and given the wonderful relationship Doiron and JAGJAGUWAR have forged over the last decade, this re-issue is particularly significant. Jagjaguwar-061 CD $11.50 Doormouse Stanley Yerkowski presents: Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator PS, UK So way, way, way back in 1994 Dan Doormouse first starting making hardcore techno in Milwaukee Wisconsin, then one day he stumbled upon a Sun Ra record and thus, "Breakcore" in the United States of America was born. He began the legendary Addict and Distort record labels soon after, and began releasing the most fucked up high intensity music the world has ever seen. The nephew of Lemme from motorhead (really, no shit!), Dan soon started performing solo and with his band Meat around Milwaukee in the Midwest of the US, gaining a massive following of renegades, speed freaks and social workers. Somehow, Mike Paradinas (Mu-ziq) took notice, and "Broken" was Dan's first major CD release in 2002 on the Planet Mu record label. But it comes as no surprise that the sorted and complex realities of Breakcore stardom (in this case of bottle of Jack Daniels, and some misplaced punches) made it difficult to continue with Planet Mu . Naturally, Dan finds a home here at Cock Rock Disco with "Stanley Yershonowski presents Xylophone Jism as The Ridiculator." CockRockDisco-003 CD $11.75 Dr. Dog Easy Beat PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ParkTheVan LP $12.50 Dr. Dog Fate PS, US Fate" sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity - all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook. Dr. Dog have toured with Wilco, Strokes, Raconteurs, Black Keys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Magic Numbers, Cold War Kids, and more. ParkTheVan CD $14.00 Dr. Dog Fate PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! ParkTheVan LP $15.50 Drakkar Sauna Wars and Tornadoes PS, US A disc of Louvin Brothers covers. Gleefully dark with olden-time harmonies & musical arrangements. Marriage CD $15.25 Dredd Foole Kissing the Contemporary Bliss PS, US For over 30 years troubadour wailer Dan Ireton, aka DREDD FOOLE, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Whether solo or leading mass, Foole hints at the classic forms of Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks", Buckley's "Starsailor" and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt "MV" Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), "Kissing The Contemporary Bliss" spans 50 miles of elbow room (it's a double CD) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to Gus Cannon's "Walk Right In" and Robert Johnson's "Stones In My Passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book with full color photos of The Foole in action. FamilyVineyard-56 DCD $14.25 Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark PS, US Drive-By Truckers leader Patterson Hood wrote in a post on the band's website that 2007 "was supposed to be our year of taking it easy," but it doesn't seem to have worked out that way, and that's a good thing for everyone concerned. The songwriting bug seems to have bit the Drive-By Truckers sometime after the release of 2006's A Blessing and a Curse, and while that album was a bit short on top-shelf material (at least compared to the band's work since Southern Rock Opera), Brighter Than Creation's Dark is a dazzling return to form, delivering some of their finest, most eclectic, and most mature music to date. The album's strength is a pleasant surprise given the departure of guitarist and tunesmith Jason Isbell, who had become one of the group's most interesting writers, but founding members Hood and Mike Cooley have risen to the occasion with some excellent new songs, and bassist Shonna Tucker (who's also Isbell's ex-wife) steps forward as a composer and lead vocalist on this set with three great songs about broken hearts and the stuff that follows in their wake. Opening with "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife," a song by Hood sung from the perspective of a man who has just died and wonders what will become of his family, Brighter Than Creation's Dark presents 19 portraits of folks struggling to make sense of an increasingly chaotic world, ranging from an alcoholic father ("Daddy Needs a Drink") and a family man struggling to hold onto a little piece of the American dream ("The Righteous Path") to a middle-aged guy whose gotten a little too used to being lonely ("Bob") and an illegal gun dealer running short on options ("Checkout Time in Vegas"). While the Truckers are still a great full-tilt hard rock band, Brighter Than Creation's Dark finds them slowing down and turning down a bit more than usual, and in this case it works well for them -- the homey twang of "Lisa's Birthday" and "I'm Sorry Huston" gives new guitarist and pedal steel player John Neff a chance to shine, and the light acoustic arrangement of "Perfect Timing" fits the lyrical portrait of a cheerfully flawed man just fine. And "That Man I Shot" is a blazing, troubling masterpiece in which a soldier home from Iraq can't tear away the memory of a man he killed in combat ("That man I shot, I didn't know him/I was just doing my job, maybe so was he"). It's a tale of the most human consequences of war that's built from equal portions of anger, confusion, and compassion, and it's hard to imagine any other band pulling off its fusion of Southern-fried street smarts and guitar-fueled thunder. It's one of several brilliant moments on Brighter Than Creation's Dark, and less than three weeks into 2008 it's hard not to escape the feeling that with this disc we may already have the best album of the year. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide New West DLP $27.05 Duchesses Estupet PS, US This precocious all-girl quartet with an average age of 19 create a Medusa's head of sound; their influences range from Death In June to Kate Bush. The musical result is a motley collision of razorchainsaw guitars, sinister high school marching band drums, seasick rolling basslines, all heading into battle lead by a screaming banshee-girl-thing spitting acid & venomous bile. Don't be deceived by their youth & knee-highs. ApopRecords CD $13.50 El Vez Gospel Show In Madrid PS, US El Vez isn't a conventional Elvis impersonator at all. He takes 50 years of popular music and knits it together to arrive at a revue style of ginormous proportions. T. Rex, The Jam, Iggy, U2 & Aerosmith all go under the thunder & into the blender. This DVD captures the magic and entertainment of Elvez live show, this time his "Gospel" show in Madrid in 2007. Munster DVD $25.00 Electro Group Historical Contest PS, US Rewind to the early 90s - the heyday of the shoegaze scene. A little-known band from Sacramento called Graham Cracker Cyclone was all the hometown rage -- they were opening up for bands like Chapterhouse and Blur at the legendary Cattle Club. GCC featured Verna Brock (of California Oranges and Holiday Flyer Fame) along with Tim Jacobson and Ian Hernandez who went on to form Electro Group with Matt Hull. (Incidentally, Tim and Verna also played stints in Rocketship as well). Sometime toward the end of Graham Cracker Cyclone's days (1992-94), Electro Group was formed and the six songs featured here were written during that beautiful period. Four of these songs were released on hyper-limited demo cassettes from that period. The other two have never been released. After GCC split, they tried to find a new sound away from their Cure-influenced pop to a more distorted and dreamy sound. As with all Claire's Echo releases, this release is LIMITED to just 300 copies worldwide -- 200 copies on 180-gram black vinyl. Claire'sEcho-004 12 $12.25 Eleh Homage to the Square Wave PS, US Taiga-4 LP $16.25 Elias and the Wizzkids A Little Mess PS, SWEDEN "A Little Mess is a jangly, bouncy celebration of the auditorily absurd. Harmonica, flute, howled lyrics and harmonized choruses crowd the album, which bears more in common with the lovelorn 1950s boy-girl group movement than their less accessible, cool as ice Svenska indie pop counterparts1. Indirectly addressing this disparity, their myspace banner announces, "We're though being cool." Lyrically, Elias and his beloved Wizzkids skew darker. When you're not on stage hosting a geek-filled love fest...well, sometimes life kinda sucks. The album tracks the slow, determined progression into adulthood and everything that makes you lose sleep along the way. You turn 24, and wonder where your job, house, wife and kids are. Naturally, steps are taken to rectify the situation. "The job" finds Elias forced to answer the eternal burning question: What the hell are you supposed to say/when they ask you to describe yourself in just three words? In "The Mermaid," Elias works on the lack of wife problem. However, things don't go as swimmingly as he'd hoped2. Despite being told there are many other fish in the sea, Elias moans, You were never a fish/no, you were a mermaid to me. Yeah, can't help you there dude, I'm still wearing waterwings. The album ends, if not with the answers on how to avoid this inevitable angst-filled rite of passage (although "The Dance" does make a good case for frolicking away the blues), then at least a temporary respite from that whole growing up thing. Elias tucks himself in at night, Wizzkids accompaniment slowly fading into the distance, and sighs, When you're lying in bed and not sleeping yet and you can still feel the fresh taste of toothpaste, isn't it nice to turn out the lights and say goodnight? Yes. Yes it is. Just don't grow up too much before your next album, okay?" - Would-be-hipsters.com Hybris-056 CD $17.75 Elias and the Wizzkids The Dance PS, SWEDEN The Dance EP includes the single "The dance" and three exclusive tracks. "Elias & the Wizzkids' single "The Dance" starts out with Elias Åkesson singing about how much coffee and tea he's had to drink, which is pretty obvious from the song's jittery tempo, rushing strums, and caffeine-high piano. Only Maria Formgren's flute sounds like it's calm and collected, as if trying to keep this rowdy lot in line. "The Dance" might be called twee if it slowed down long enough; even the song's Decemberistic video features a footrace... that breaks into a soccer tournament... that breaks into a midfield dance party. Elias sings about trying to outrun some unnamed restlessness: he goes to a coffeehouse, he goes to a movie, he wanders around, he finally goes home and starts dancing his heart out. Even his neighbor's threats to call the police can't bring him down. Here's hoping he doesn't switch to decaf anytime soon." - Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork. "The best music for me supersedes genre and classification: anything that'll evoke good memories and hope and truth in me is worth my time, no matter what the setting or backdrop. Elias & the Wizzkids (MySpace) is one such band. I don't even want to describe these Swedish chaps with constraining words like swing and folk and soul (all of which would be accurate though, I guess). They're just special and precious, and that should be enough. Hold on to Elias & the Wizzkids. The four-piece sings charming songs about charming things with charming similes and metaphors with charming harmonies and harmonicas and driving bass lines to accompany the whole production. An utterly charming and endearing band, to say the least. This stuff sounds like it's decades old, maybe a lost artifact from the singin' folksy 60s or something. The cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is spectacular. It's a refreshing update -- in a very old way -- of the rather bland song (sorry Gallagher fans). I can't get enough of "The Dance," and "Autumn Leaves" is just so, so sweet ... I just want to lay on my bed and curl up, listening to it for the whole day. Coming from me, such complimentary words are rare: I'm not one to be taken in by something as soft and pretty as Elias & the Wizzkids' music, but I've become a sucker for these guys." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com Hybris-052 CD5 $8.25 Enduser Bollywood Breaks PS, GERMANY Repress Packaging: color 12" sleeve. Three tracks by Enduser, and remixes by LARVAE, MAD EP and LINE47. Originally released in October 2004, this 12" sold out very quickly. It was then re-released on CD, which also sold out. Here comes the long awaited repress of the 12", guaranteed to go very fast as well. AdNoiseam-41 12 $11.50 Engine Down From Beginning to End PS, US After nearly a decade of making music, the group chose to play 1 final tour in the US, which is chronicled on this DVD. Contains over 3 hours of content, including a documentary, their entire last show, rare & unreleased tracks, music videos & photo galleries. Lovitt DVD $15.75 Es Sateenkaarisuudelma PS, FINLAND Originally released as a 2LP by the (K-RAA-K)³ label in 2005, Sateenkaarisuudelma is Fonal label-head Sami Sänpäkkilä's fourth solo album under the name Es. The 2CD release is a trilogy containing three independent parts: "Sateenkaarisuudelma," "Maailmankaari" and "Pianokaari." Sateenkaarisuudelma was conceived from live songs performed on tour with Black Forest/Black Sea's Miriam Goldberg on cello, Jeffrey Alexander on guitar and effects, and Fursaxa's Tara Burke on vocals and keyboard. "Maailmankaari" I and II were recorded at Boston's WMBR radio station. Featuring rushing piano cadences and stabs, the sounds of burbling streams and static, softly chanting vocals, spectral, psychedelic ambience, dark koan/drones and endlessly looped guitar and electronics, this double album is a contemplative journey into a sound quite beyond freak-folk or Finnish quaintness. Other musicians include members of Kemialliset Ystävät, Kiila and Lau Nau. Fonal-052 DCD $20.50 Escovedo, Alejandro Real Animal PS, US It may be simplistic to describe Alejandro Escovedo's 2006 album The Boxing Mirror as a record inspired by the artist's brush with death, but given the record's back story -- it was recorded as Escovedo was recovering from a near-fatal bout with Hepatitis C -- it's hard not to imagine its brave and often dazzling creative ambition was fueled by Escovedo's knowledge that these could be his last words as a musician. Two years later, a healthier and stronger Escovedo returned to the studio to record his ninth studio album, Real Animal, and by comparison this is a leaner, more tightly focused session; in fact, this is the strongest rock album Escovedo has made since his 1997 album with Buick MacKane, The Pawn Shop Years. It's easy to tag Real Animal as a less ambitious and artful collection than The Boxing Mirror, but viewed on its own merits this ranks with the best and most powerful music of Escovedo's career. Like The Boxing Mirror, which was produced by John Cale, Real Animal was recorded with a producer who worked with some of Escovedo's primal influences, Tony Visconti, and his recordings with David Bowie and T. Rex doubtless helped him connect with Escovedo the smart but swaggering rocker in a way Cale did not; this set of songs is every bit as intelligent and emotionally resonant as Escovedo's best work, but it moves with a taut energy and insistent force that informs even the quieter, acoustic oriented numbers, such as the bluesy "People (We're Only Gonna Live So Long)," and the plaintive "Hollywood Hills." While Escovedo wrote the tunes on Real Animal with Chuck Prophet, the songs bear his stylistic hallmarks and melodic sensibilities throughout, and these stories are dotted with places and events from Escovedo's past -- discovering music as a kid ("Golden Bear"), his days as a San Francisco punk rocker ("Nun's Song"), flirting with the New York bohemian scene ("Chelsea Hotel '78"), and barnstorming with a rock & roll band ("Chip 'N' Tony"). Even when the cues to Escovedo's past aren't obvious, there's too much heart, soul, and blood in this music to not to have come directly from his heart, and he's seemingly incapable of singing from any other place, giving this music an emotional power that reaches down to the soul. If The Boxing Mirror was a work influenced by the shadow of mortality, Real Animal is an album about life -- both as survival and as the faces and moments that fill our days on this Earth. How many artists could make two masterpieces in a row that are so different? And how much do you want to bet that Escovedo still has one or two more records this good in him? ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide Blue Note DLP $18.40 Espvall, Helena & Masaki Batoh S-T PS, US They are known to open-eared music listeners for their collaborations w/ artists like Ghost, Espers, Damon & Naomi, Fursaxa, Bert Jansch among others. This recording session was held in Tokyo in Dec. 2007. For instruments fans, this session might be a treasure. So many strings were used. 6 Swedish traditional tunes were reconstructed along w/ a classic Son House song. DragCity CD $13.25 Espvall, Helena & Masaki Batoh S-T PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DragCity LP $14.75 Fairport Convention Liege & Lief PS, US Originally released in '70, this is considered by many to be the paramount of British folk-rock. They roll through no less than 4 traditional British folk songs incl. an incredible reading of "Tam Lin" along w/ quality originals that pay tribute to & expand on their rich tradition. 4MenWithBeards LP $16.75 Familjen Huvudet I Sanden PS, SWEDEN Filled with playfulness, without rose-eyed 80s nostalgia, Familjen feels very modern. He blends naive 80's melodies, 90's beats and 00's glitches into a cohesive whole. That combined with his squealing 303's and subtle guitars makes it all sound like it was recorded tomorrow. "Huvudet I Sanden" is a remix album with remixes of various Familjen songs by 11 different dance floor geniuses including: 1. Familjen - Huvudet i sanden, 2. Kasper Bjørke - The danish super star!, 3. Krazy Fiesta - Party crew responsible for the amazing "Lip Gloss" remix, 4. Adam Tensta - The savior for Swedish Hip Hop!, 5. Mike Downey - This American prodigy living in Stockholm puts a German beat to it. So international., 6. Perfume Uniform - Acoustic guitars in electronic music? But of course! Excellent dreamy version., 7. The Field - Best selling debut album on Kompakt says it all. 2007 was The Fields year all over., 8. Pluxus - Familjen says this sounds like if you have smoked too much weed and just lie there vomiting your guts out. Nice one!, 9. Boeoes Kaelstigen - Already a legendary remix on the dance floors. Straight from STHLM subway. More than one have pointed out these guys as the future of techno., 10. Tomi Kiiosk - Hässleholm - Finland. Well yeah? Why not!, 11. DJ Wool - One half of NYC party machine The Glass. Glen Brady - king of the skate board, booze and hustle., 12. Kid in the Air - Admit you love euro dance. Hybris-061 CD $17.75 Faraquet Anthology 1997-1998 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Includes MP3's. Dischord LP $11.00 Faraquet Anthology 1997-1998 PS, US Began as a side project featuring SMART WENT CRAZY members DEVIN OCAMPO & JEFF BOSWELL. This is the re-issue of songs they had recorded for various singles & split releases. All songs have been re-mixed by DEVIN OCAMPO & re-mastered by CHAD CLARK. Dischord CD $10.75 Faun Fables Table Forgotten PS, US This is the first taste in an ongoing series of projects by Dawn McCarthy on a theme that's been largely unexplored in recent times: the ageold practices of tending a home & its immediate impact upon our day to day lives. It is an invitation to return to our kitchens & homes w/ reverence, to enjoy a largely overlooked sanctuary in the modern age. DragCity CD $11.00 Felix La Vida Secreta PS, CHILE Author pop, with simple and refined musical arrangements; convert this debut from the Argentinian songwriter Felix, "La Vida Secreta", in an absolute discovery. Felix recovers the capacity to compose intimates lyrics that are perfect partners for affable melodies that convert this debut in an essential work. His lyrics seems chronicles about a generation personal worries, and locate this songwriter in the first line of highlights musicians from his country like Coiffeur or Diosque, that update the face of the indie song in that latitudes. Quemasucabeza-018 CD $13.50 Flynn, Johnny A Larum PS, US A British lo-fi rock troubadour." What else about him? That's all we got. Debut album on Lost Highway. LostHighway CD $10.00 Flynn, Johnny A Larum PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! LostHighway DLP $14.00 Forward, Russia! Life Processes PS, US A weighty prog-rock album this certainly is not, though; this is tumultuous modern rock, infused w/ the sort of spirit that some made At The Drive-In such a must-see live attraction, & likewise Les Savy Fav today. Mute CD $15.25 Foster, Josephine This Coming Gladness PS, UK This is Colorado-based Josephine Foster's (Born Heller, The Supposed) debut release for Bo Weavil Recordings, and her third full-length album. This Coming Gladness is the highly-awaited follow-up to 2006's A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing on Locust. This Coming Gladness is transcendental fin de siècle songs from one of the great unsung voices and songwriters of our modern times. Josephine Foster unites rarely united royal realms: self-penned operatic art songs cast in freely-rendered blues with electric guitars and drums beating the path along with harp and piano flourishes. She has a voice that was trained for opera, but creaks like ancient mountain folk floating out from a dusty Victrola. She surpasses any "weird-folk" labelling through the sheer timelessness of her songcraft -- making baroque balladry sound new yet remembered from some not-too distant shared American past. Joining her on this recording is electric guitarist Victor Herrero and drummer Alex Nielson. BoWeavil CD $16.25 Fucked Up Year Of The Pig PS, US Last year's limited edition 12-inch "Year Of The Pig", released on the Brooklyn label What's Your Rupture? is now available through Matador in three formats: 12-inch EP with download coupon and the two original tracks ("Year Of The Pig" and "Black Hats"); 7-inch single with "Year Of The Pig" edit and "Mustaa Lunta" with a special sleeve; CD EP with eight tracks - all the above songs plus two edits and B-sides of UK and Japanese 7-inches. This is not comforting music, but it's utterly engrossing and honest. Fucked Up have broken out of the hardcore ghetto and have rewritten the rules of the game. Matador CD $7.00 Fucked Up Year Of The Pig PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $8.75 Garnett, Gale and the Gentle Reign S/T PS, UK Like a lot of folk-pop performers who began their careers in the early- to-mid-'60s, by the end of the decade Gale Garnett seemed to have drifted into the rock and psychedelic scene, hooking up with the band The Gentle Reign to cut these two bizarre albums for CBS. Singer, journalist, actress (from cult 60s movie Mad Monster Party to My Big Fat Greek Wedding), star of Scopitones (check Youtube for some delights!), Gale Zoe Garnett is a marvel and a one-off. Listening to this album one has to wonder who is she taking on here? Bobby Gentry with her smoky voice and good looks, Grace Slick with her swooping rock stylings, or even Frank Zappa with the satirical tone and radio acting? Gale Garnett is a law unto herself. Rev-Ola is proud to bring you her two ndeservedly obscure late 60s albums with The Gentle Reign, a mere smidgen of the woman s immense and unique talent. Re-mastered in top Rev-Ola style by Norman Studio 3 Blake and with beautiful repackaging for a beautiful lady! Includes both amazing albums in their entirety! ** A must for all fans of out-there psych, sexy femme pop, avant-garde stylings and cult 60s artefacts! Rev-Ola-257 CD $15.50 Girls Lust For Life b/w Morninglight PS, US Ex-member of Holy Shit (the Ariel Pink one) goes out on his own and records a couple of mini masterpieces. The first single is two sides, two insanely compelling, righteously and messed up pop songs. Sounds range from Vaselines/Jesus and Mary Chain wall of noise to Elvis Costello-voiced revelations. TruePantherSounds 45 $4.75 Great Northwest Widespread Reign of... PS, US The 13 track album brims over with lush soundscapes; ambient modulations, pop melodies & slowcore pacing coalesce seamlessly throughout the record. Lavish & haunting vocals woven with Brian's savvy wordplay complete the sonically induced mind altering experience. After the mixing session, Coates said warmly, "there's guitar, there's bass, there's drums, there's trombone, there's Leslie speakers, practice amps, Jew's Harps, drum loops, tambourines, ebows, harmonicas, pie tins, there's thought, there's love" Kora CD $11.25 Guggenheim Grotto, The ...Waltzing Alone PS, US The curiously named Guggenheim Grotto are a folk-pop trio from Dublin, Ireland, consisting of Kevin May (vocals, guitar, keyboard), Mick Lynch (vocals, guitar, bass, viola), and Shane Power (drums, keyboard). In 2003 May and Lynch began playing together in Dublin and soon recruited Power after he had done production work on their first EP, A Lifetime in Heat. The group's first full-length album, ...Waltzing Alone, followed and was self-released only in Ireland in September 2005. It was released in North America a year later through UFO Music. ~ Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide Deluxe hard bound book style packaging! SHLC003 CD $14.29 Hair Police The Certainty of Swarms PS, US First Full length release from hair police since 2005, and their most masterful yet, combining signature piercing vocals with walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft. NoFunProductions-39 CD $12.25 Halstead, Neil Oh! Mighty Engine PS,US VINYL VERSION. Brushfire LP $13.75 Halstead, Neil Oh! Mighty Engine (ON SALE) PS, US New solo album from Slowdive/Mojave 3 mainman... In the late '90s Neil fronted a band called Slowdive, and after a couple of really good records they split. From there Neil formed his current band Mojave 3, who have released 4 records to date with a few more to come, we hope. Hard to find 2 bands with more critical accolades, and at the core of those bands was Neil and his songwriting. Oh! Mighty Engine is the name of Neil's newest solo record. It is a record that can handle excessive listens and seems to absorb every mood. It is really hard to find a record that can make you happy, sad, and can make you laugh all at once. He writes songs that are very personal to him, and then allows space for everyone to take their own meaning away from his lyrics ("Go skies and thrones and wings. And poetry and things" from the song "Elevenses"). Neil is an old soul and his newest solo record is exactly who he is. Welcoming, warm, clever and kind. Brushfire CD $13.50 Hammer No More The Fingers S-T PS, US "Their sound is just straight up indie rock that's laced w/ energy and dipped in a vat of pure catchiness. Better yet, the trio also do enough to not actually sound like it's just three dudes pounding away on their instruments; there's a real sense of flexibility and confidence" -Side One/Track One. Stereogum's Band To Watch PowerTeam CD5 $7.00 Handsome Family Songbook PS, US Musical notation including chords, tabs, melody & lyrics for 21 HF songs! Compiled by Brett & Rennie for your delight. Songs include: Arlene, Drunk by Noon, Down in the Ground, Weightless Again, The Sad Milkman, I Know You Are There, No One Fell Asleep Alone, 24 Hour Store, The Bottomless Hole, After We Shot the Grizzly, All the Time in Airports, Tesla's Hotel Room & more!! HandsomeFamily BOOK $11.00 Harvey, PJ Rid of Me PS, US 1993's Rid Of Me, is an art-punk classic that pushes the genre, & w/ it the listener, to extremes. Alternating between searing noise/feedback & sparse open spaces, this is truly an emotional experience. As usual, legendary producer Steve Albini maximizes every sound & space, working w/ that exacting, mechanical precision that he has come to be known for, the perfect complement to her harsh, stark, disturbed songwriting. Plain LP $16.75 Hatewave Free Ringetones PS, US Disgusting 4 track no-grind from poor white guys on meth and hoarse. ApopRecords CD $13.50 Havana 3 A.M. Havana 3 a.m. PS, UK Reissue. A first time CD release for Havana 3a.m.'s self-titled 1991 album. The band formed by ex Clash bass player Paul Simonon, described as 'the coolest man ever to strap on a bass guitar ' conjures up a blend of Latino flavoring built on the solid base of Rockabilly. Their sound evokes images of Spaghetti Westerns, 1950's America and the heyday of Cuba's capital Havana all with a contemporary twist. The CD features the 12 original tracks from the album including the single "Reach The Rock" and other band favorites "Joyride", "Hey Amigo", "The Hardest Game" and "Blue Gene Vincent". CherryRed-201 CD $15.50 Hewhocorrupts Microeconomics PS, US Chicago's CEOs of corporate grind have returned w/ a high-yielding 7" that will knock your receptionists socks off. Released in 2007 as the infamous credit card shaped CD packaged in a wallet! On colored vinyl, full color folding jacket, w/ all of your credits & debits clearly detailed... pay your fucking bills! GileadMedia 45 $6.50 Hiawata! Blacks On Blondes EP PS, NORWAY Norwegian act Hiawata! is often compared to bands like Lemonheads, Belle & Sebastian, Television Personalities and other such greats. Blacks on Blondes is a fivetrack EP produced by Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax). Kenneth has brought the band closer to their heroes in Dinosaur Jr. and the Lemonheads, but not without letting go of their fetish for the Smiths and other UK acts. 75 OR LESS: "I welcome the '90s revival Hiawata! and a few other bands (Times New Viking, Wet Paint) are ushering in with their imperfect musicianship, bent vocals and inexhaustible energy. The five little songs on Blacks on Blondes remind me of the years before the internet made finding good music so easy, when the only real option was scouring mailorder catalogs and taking inexpensive risks. Their melody-rich guitar-heavy music would have fit nicely between Sebadoh and Built to Spill on mixtapes." SellOut!Music CD5 $7.50 High Places 03/07-09/07 PS, US This began as an experiment in collaboration: 2 people w/ diverse artistic backgrounds coming together to merge their skills, aesthetic tastes, & music-making approaches. The songs contain a fascinating range of aural layers: bells & bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar & glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's inventive & infectious beats. This is a collection of tracks previously only available on 7'' vinyl & compilations. This is the first time these songs are all available on CD. ThrillJockey CD $11.50 Hotpants Romance It's a Heatwave PS, US Three girls! Three years! Three chords! Hotpants Romance debut album 'It's a Heatwave' is shouty, shambolic, garage pop that wears its heart on its sleeve. On the 14th February 2005 Hotpants Romance formed two hours before their first gig, with a vow to play once a year on Valentines Day, after a storming two and a half song set the audience wanted more. The original plan was dropped in favour of playing anywhere and everywhere that Anyone would have them. The rest of 2005 had their first tape 'The Greatest Hits' was released on Manchester DIY label Soft Presents and the 50 copies quickly sold out. Gigs were played all around the UK with many amazing bands, winning over audiences with energetic and shambolic live shows. 2006 had Hotpants Romance playing more shows and releasing their demo EP titled "Lucky 6". In 2007 things started to really come together when the girls were able to tour with their post punk heroes the Nightingales, only to be followed by a support slot for the Ting Tings UK tour. In 2008 after a win on a horse called Purple Moon, Nightingale Robert Lloyd is able to release the first Hotpants Romance album on his Big Print label. 'It's a Heatwave' crashed into the world, catching the attention of music press and radio stations to great critical acclaim. The girls booked a short US East Coast tour with Christie and Emily. They are currently working on songs for a 7" on Cherryade Records in the UK, and getting ready for a performance at this years' Athens PopFest in Athens, Georgia, having their "It's a Heatwave" released on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records in the states, and a 2 week South East US tour with new label-mates Cars Can Be Blue. HHBTM-103 CD $12.25 Jack of Heart San Francisco PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Departing completely from the static-soaked, overdriven throb prerogative ofR theecior rpdrsevious bands, this is a new conglomeration of Piero from the FATALS & DEMON'S CLAWS, & Benji from the CRETEENS. Their sound takes off down the tender side of the switchblade, & erupts w/ such an unassuming immediacy that it's tough to pinpoint the first time it slithers through your head Rob'sHouse 45 $5.25 Jason Crest Collected Works of Jason Crest PS, UK Now available again after being deleted since 2002, Collected Works Of Jason Crest collects the A and B sides of all five late 1960s singles by British psychedelic pop cults Jason Crest and adds six extraordinary demos that failed to see the light of day at the time. With a lavish 16-page booklet and tracks of the caliber of 'Turquoise Tandem Cycle' and the legendary 'Black Mass,' Collected Works Of Jason Crest is the definitive anthology of one of the most highly regarded British psych-pop bands of the era. WoodenHill-006 CD $20.50 Juvelen 1 PS, SWEDEN Pitchfork 10/10. "More than a year after issuing his debut EP, the mighty (and yes he's mighty already) Jonas Pettersson has finally released his debut full-length under the Juvelen moniker. Entitled "1", it is so, as his debut album, and also, one of the best flat-out pop albums I have heard in years. The strange thing about this album though, is that each of it's ten songs could be a hit single, yet it retains a cohesive feel that a singles collection does not. Every track is a stand-out, however, for the skeptic I'd recommend "Money don't talk", "Don't mess" and "Everytime" to win you over. His seductive, synthesizer heavy pop/r&b hybrid could-and should-elevate Juvelen to being a global household name. It's pure pop perfection will make you smile, and dance, and smile and dance." - Matt Giordano, It's a trap.com. "Sweden is starting to frighten me. It wasn't enough for the Scandinavian nation to catch the garage-rock wave or usurp Glasgow's rightful place as a wellspring for wimpy indie-pop. No, the Swedes also had to show off their prowess at electro-pop, dreamy epic disco, and, with lesser success (so far), hip-hop. Stockholm's Juvelen plants the blue and yellow flag firmly in the terrain of funky, r&b-informed synth-pop. (His name is Swedish for "jewel," so just be thankful he didn't choose to annex 1990s folk-pop.) "Hanna", from Juvelen's recently released debut album, 1, is a good preview of Juvelen's Prince-ly falsetto and twitchy dancefloor hooks. Produced by Patrik Berger, who worked on Robyn's self-titled album, "Hanna" sounds a note of regret to one of Juvelen's own Billie Jeans, with an arrangement of taut guitars, smooth synths, and propulsive bass that keeps the track always moving-- just like the insatiable Swedish pop scene." - Marc Hogan, Pitchfork. Hybris-066 CD $17.75 Keith The Adventures Of Keith PS, UK Keith scored a massive worldwide hit in 1967 with the record 98.6, which featured on our release Keith Ain't Gonna Lie (RPM 273), and is the subject of an entire column in this months Mojo Magazine. We are pleased to present Keith s 1969 self penned LP, The Adventures of Keith, which is reissued for the first time, and is also on CD for the first time. A striking set which tells the story of a boy, Charley Cinders, who is born [Waiting to Be]; he's blind [Alone On The Shore]; the trials and tribulations he has to deal with [Marstrand, China Clipper, The Problem, Elea-Elea, Trixon's Election] and ultimately his own demise [Charley Cinders]. In production the music speaks loudly of Keith's British pop influences and the arrangements twist and turn in such a way that they could only be from a songwriter enthralled with Sgt Pepper. All of which explains why The Adventures Of Keith fell through the cracks in mainstream 1969 America, only to become a highly sought-after soft rock collectable in recent years. Full story inside from a new interview with Keith (aka Barry Keefer). RPM-833 CD $16.75 Kelley, Greg Religious Electronics PS, US Face melting electronics from Greg Kelley. This is not a Jazz record. Limited to 350 copies. NoFunProductions-33 LP $17.75 Kid, The Transient Blood PS, SWEDEN "The Kid aren't concerned with petty meanings, they want the consequences, the mixed emotions and the ultra-highs. They pin down that word by its strictest definition and force it to perform, reward and pay out. They make it dance until it smiles, spin until it laughs and I find myself selfishly joining in; foot-tapping, hands beating and body twitching all over. They make me crave multi-coloured lights, speakers as large as houses, and a chance to hold hands with that girl from a John Hughes movie. No problems, no worries; everything is magically washed away, except that moment between you and her and an empty dance floor." - Souls on tape.net "The Kid's sophomore album, Transient Blood. This is BBBD's first time listening to the Gothenburg quartet, but boy are they good. Imagine Sambassadeur merged with New Order circa 1987. The Swedes have a penchant for churning out tracks with heavy, super-catchy bass lines, playful synth riffs, and rhythm guitar parts that sound so in motion, so fresh and not boring like rhythm guitar tends to be. And the Kid does it best. The first single off the record, "Transient Dance," is a stunning jam that's reminiscent of cutesy European exports like Bonnie & Clyde and more recent New Order cuts like "Krafty." It's charming beyond belief, and the rest of the release holds muster well. Transient Blood is out now,, and you must purchase it if you hope to have an enjoyable summer ... or if you're looking for that perfect soundtrack for a house party, BBQ, whatever. It'll work." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com Hybris-067 CD $17.75 Krallice S-T PS, US hymns, it's a vitriolic & hypnotizing assault on the senses that brings to mind early Burzum, Nattens Madrigal-era Ulver, Gorgoroth & US legends Weakling. This is their unique vision- singular in the realm of US black metal today. ProfoundLore CD $14.25 Lackthereof Your Anchor PS, US Lackthereof is the bedroom side-project of Danny Seim, best known as the incredibly talented and very tall drummer for the acclaimed band MENOMENA. This is the 9th record Seim's put out in the last 10 years & easily his most cohesive to date. Barsuk CD $10.00 Landed How Little Will It Take PS, US Double disc compilation featuring a blown out bonus 3 inch bonus disc. On this release you get some compilation tracks, some new chapters in the band's history (the band has mutated into a breakcore booty crew with a mush mouthed grape ape singing!), a rerelease of the recently released "Time I Despise" 12", a 7 inch track & some sundry live material. Altogether a recommended affair for those looking at doing a little post graduate work on late 20th/early 21st century free range roving garbage rock of the highest order. Yes, they were contemporaries of many bands in Providence like Lighting Bolt, Arab on Radar & Six Finger Satellite. LIMITED TO 750 Load DCD $12.50 Late, The Songs From The Family Tree PS, UK Although harmony-based British soft rock act Unicorn didn't release their superb debut album, Uphill All The Way, until mid-1971, the core of the band had been playing together, principally as The Late, for several years. Taken from previously unreleased acetates and studio tapes, Songs From The Family Tree charts the group's hitherto undocumented progress from 1967 to 1969 as they slowly evolved from their original, Hollies-inspired psychedelic pop direction to create a more individual identity. With comprehensive liner notes, quotes and numerous photographs, Songs From The Family Tree is an essential item for Unicorn fans and admirers of late '60ss British pop alike." Includes a previously unreleased alternative mix. WoodenHill-021 CD $20.50 Lauten, Elodie The Death of Don Juan PS, US CD debut of this 1985 post-minimal landmark by Elodie Lauten. Lauten has been active in the downtown New York classical and punk scenes since moving from France in the 1970s. The Death of Don Juan is a breakthrough for its lyrical minimalism in combination with drama that actively engages a contemporary emotional experience. Originally self-produced and released as a small LP edition on her own label, it has been touted ever since by Kyle Gann, who adds notes to this edition, and was recently included on one of Alan Licht's Minimal Top Ten lists. Features performances by Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo. UnseenWorlds-04 CD $13.00 Leinonen, Ville Suudelmitar PS, FINLAND Originally released on CD by Poko Records in 2004, this is the debut full-length release by Ville Leinonen. This is a musical journey to the shores of imagined inner lands and to the Scandinavian forests of hopes and dreams. These songs are moments of beauty from nature, cities and villages. It's autumn in Finland. Freezing wind blows from Itämeri -- the sea. Rain washes the streets of Helsinki. Suudelmitar expresses knowing and understanding foreign cultures as they appear in common everyday life and music. Sweet and nostalgic flamenco-styled guitar and strident, trilling flute evoke a troubadour, street musician vibe. Bossa nova grooves are carefully orchestrated with horns and male and female jazz duets, and there's even a surprising sitar jam. Laid-back indie lounge for world travellers riding on a joyful breeze. Fonal-053 CD $16.25 Lollipop Shoppe, The Just Colour PS, UK One of the MUST HAVE Garage Rock classics! Originally known as The Weeds and featuring Fred "Deep Soul" Cole, The Lollipop Shoppe sound amazingly modern! After The Weeds signed to UNI Records, their new manager, the infamous "Lord" Tim Hudson, insisted they change their name to The Lollipop Shoppe to fit in with the current trend of bizarrely named bubblegum groups. The band's actual recordings are hardly bubblegum, but instead a mix of crunching garage rock and wild psychedelia. The album and its single, You Must Be a Witch, are period classics and still prized by collectors, though neither made the charts. The band opened for stars such as Janis Joplin and The Doors, and appeared in the biker movie Angels from Hell. They were to regroup as The Weeds once out of "Lord" Tim's clutches, and Fred Cole was to lead cult band Dead Moon. But it is for this, the classic Just Colour, that The Lollipop Shoppe are justly acclaimed. Rev-Ola-256 CD $15.50 Los Peyotes Introducing Los Peyotes PS, US Equal parts of Garage Punk, Tex-Mex and Surf, "Introducing Los Peyotes" is their UK album release and stands up to anything released by Los Saicos, Los Shakers or any other of the legendary sixties South American Garage Punks that inspired them. Surf-guitar, Tex-Mex, psychedelic garage-punk and rhythm'n'blues, that seems to have crossed time and space from the Buenos Aires of 1965. Track listing: El Corredor Quemado, Action, El Humo te Hace Mal, Vampiro, Scream, La Malvada Creacion del Dr Illusion, El Entierro de los Gatos, Psicosis, Back Come to Me, I Don't Mind, Serial Killer, Connection, No Puedo Hacerte Mia. DirtyWater-1021 LP $17.75 Loved, The Everything, Anything, Nothing PS, US Formed in 1996 and disbanded less than two years later, THE LOVED were an accidentally mysterious pop trio from the unlikely locale of Louisville, KY. In truth, they were just three ordinary guys making Beatles-inspired pop with a few nods to some 70s and 80s guitar gods. Their shows became notorious in Louisville; loud, sweaty affairs where the crowd knew all the words to songs that weren't yet recorded, much less released (a remarkable feat in the age before downloading or record leaks). Available here for the first time, "Everything, Anything, Nothing" collects the entire recorded history of The Loved, culled from the only two recording sessions during their brief existence. Recorded on 8-track analog tape by Kevin Coultas (Rodan), and remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Yes, Sufjan Stevens), this is the way The Loved were always meant to be heard, and truly the way they should be remembered: three ordinary guys that just happened to make ten great songs. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-141 CD $9.00 Lovely Little Girls Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags PS, US An epic six song journey of grotesque proportions. The CD also contains a ten minute video of an opulent live show featuring a gaggle of girls gagging on spagetti. Crotch sandwich cover painting by Gregory Jacobsen ApopRecords CD $13.50 Lover! Man in the Woods b/w Foxtail Madness PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Rich Crook has already blazed a frightfully righteous pop pathway, sRhoewcocardssing the hidden songwriting talents he kept to himself w/ such notable bands as the Reatards, Lost Sounds, & Viva L'American Death Ray. Once his songs reached the surface in The Knaughty Knights, it was apparent that Crook needed his own vehicle to spread his pop sense to the outer limits of the rock'n roll underworld. Rob'sHouse 45 $5.25 Lovin' Spoonful, The Do You Believe In Magic PS, US Magic was in the air in 1965 when the Lovin' Spoonful recorded their debut album, a delightful grab-bag of styles that lets you taste all of the ingredients of their patented "good time music" even as that timeless elixir was being brewed. Featuring the enduring hits "Do You Believe In Magic" and "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind," Do You Believe In Magic makes its long-awaited reappearance on LP, bolstered by four previously unissued bonus tracks. Sundazed LP $17.00 Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language PS, US 18th release by this LA based band details the continuning pursuit of humble, ecstatic, drippy, explosive, smoldering & upsetting music . For fans of Bonnie Prince Billy, Six Organs of Admittance, Dirty Projectors. Marriage CD $14.25 Lustmord Other PS, US Lustmord has been creeping out the music world since 1980, prior to joining industrial forefathers SPK. By the time he started scoring films like 1994's "The Crow", he'd already worked with English experimental luminaries Nurse With Wound, Current 93, and members of Coil. His latest collection of night terrors and Lynch-ian atmospherics features guest shots from Adam Jones (Tool), Aaron Turner (Isis), and Buzz Osborne (Melvins). "...heavily treated, producing thick drone textures that alternate between beautiful and scary" - All Music Guide. HydraHead CD $12.50 Machine Girl (a.k.a. Enduser and Line 47) S/T PS, GERMANY Re-mastered, re-cut and given a whole record on their own, the four tracks written by Enduser and Line 47 back in 2007 get a second life on Ad Noiseam. Ranging from the most aggressive and noisy breakcore to melodic, syncopated material, the material on this record shows both producers at the top of their form and still is, 5 years after their original release on Sonicterror, a pearl of the breakcore scene. Adnoiseam-097 12 $11.50 Machinefabriek Dauw PS, GERMANY Machinefabriek is the alias for Rutger Zuydervelt currently residing in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2004 Zuydervelt has unleashed an uncountable number of self-released 3"CD's (his format of choice) in lovingly designed sleeves (all made by himself). In the past years some of these releases have been compiled into amazing albums such as "Slaapzucht" on the Root Strata label, "Weleer" on Lampse, the "Cello Recycling" 10"/CD on Type Records and "Bijeen" on Kning Disk. Recent collaborations with Stephen Vietiello (on the 12K label), Freiband, Steinbrüchel and other likeminded artists have expanded the horizon veritably. Machinefabriek's music has been remixed by the likes of Xela, Lesser, Svarte Greiner, Alva Noto, Pita, Kim Cascone, Ben Frost, Black To Comm and others. Only few Machinefabriek material has been recorded specifically for an album release but these have always been stand-outs in the vast catalogue. Both "Marijn" on Lampse and "Ranonkel" on Burning World Records were classic recordings, squeezing a large amount of what people love about Zuydervelt's music into one album, at the same time giving him the space to expand on new ideas. Likewise "Dauw" is one of Zuydervelt's most subtle & quiet yet refined works. Mainly built around small but gorgeous melodies of piano and guitar playing and the crackling sound of dusty vinyl samples, these songs slowly build into intensive hymn-like angel choirs of sheer heavenly beauty. Zuydervelt's output often has drawn comparisons to the likes of Fennesz, Godspeed, Arvo Pärt, Basinski, Tim Hecker, Phillip Jeck, Mogwai and Earth, which is certainly not all wrong and some of these have been influences in the early stages of his career but he has since developed a strong and individual language all of his own. Mastered by Guiseppe Ielasi with elegant artwork by Zuydervelt himself; metallic print on grey cardboard stock. Dekorder-029 CD $16.25 Mansfields Cramp Your Style PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Gearhead LP $8.75 Mansfields Cramp Your Style PS, US Equal parts Cramps, New York Dolls & 50's Sun-era Rockabilly. Gearhead CD $12.00 Mate Ventajas De Ser Optimista PS, SPAIN 'Ventajas de ser optimista' (Advantages of being an optimist), is a collection of singable stories crafted by Alberto Matesanz (aka Mate) singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who has created a lot of excitement in the indie pop community. Personal and unpretentious, Mate generate luminous pop songs with a deep sense of longing and nostalgia. This is a mature, intelligent pop record that proofs that there's life in the pop underground yet, a cause for serious celebration. Recorded mostly at Calle Mayor studio, Alberto has received the remarkable support of Ramón Leal in the recording of percussions and drums. Again Mr Mate has traveled to the Alex the Great Studio in Nashville, Tennessee (USA) to gather the magic touch of Brad Jones who has added subtleties to the songs creating absolute pop splendor. The final touch has the mastering signature of another renowned prodigy Mr. Jim DeMain's who resides in his spaceship (YesMaster studio/Nashville). The purity of the harmonies, the very preciousness and melancholy of Matesanz's songwriting will attract fans of French sounds (Delerm, Biolay, Marchet, Dominique A, Daho...), Sarah records, Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience... Siesta-238 CD $19.50 McFarland, Gary & Gabor Szabo Sketch For Summer PS, UK Though they came from radically different cultures and found their way into jazz via widely divergent routes, Gabor Szabo and Gary McFarland formed an all-too brief working relationship that produced a spectacular range of solo and collaborative works spanning jazz, bossa nova, psychedelia, Indian raga, Hungarian folk, orchestral and film music. Focusing on the mid-sixties years with Prestige, Verve and Impulse, this edition comprises highlights from Gypsy 66, Spellbinder, Jazz Raga, The Sorcerer, Simpatico, The In Sound, Scorpio and Other Signs and McFarland's score for Eye of the Devil and includes such impossible rarities as Gary's characteristically serene performances of Margo Guryan's Rivergirl and The Dreamer by Antonio Carlos Jobim. El-148 CD $15.50 Menstration Sisters MA PS, US Reissue of first LP (previously limited to 100 copies and released only in Australia) from this influential Australian rock/noise/insane/weirdness band. Like listening to Harry Pussy on some really bad acid. Limited to 500 copies. NoFunProductions-29 LP $17.75 Merzbow Eucalypse PS, US An ancient & intricate web of life has been disrupted, & native plants, insects & animals are being driven to extinction. Humans, who have long been a part of the local ecosystem, are adaptable & will survive, but the biodiversity of an entire region is under threat from a single exotic species. It is truly a eucalyptus apocalypse. Presented in a hand-crafted round wooden box w/ screenprinted swiveling lid. The box contains one CD & 4 round, full-color cards. Only 1000 copies of this handsome CD have been made. Soleilmoon CD $27.00 Meters Kickback PS, US No city marches to a funkier beat than New Orleans, and no Crescent City band ever upheld the joyous second-line tradition with prouder panache than the Meters. Their eight classic 1969-1977 albums for Josie, Reprise, and Warner Bros.--all of them available on Sundazed--signaled a new and exciting era of Big Easy funk. Now it's time to dig a little deeper: Kickback--in essence, the Meters album that never was--gathers precious rarities from the Meters' mid-'70s Fire On The Bayou/Trick Bag period, including previously unissued gems, newly unearthed alternate versions, and a treasure trove of blistering funk sure to delight fans of the legendary group. Sundazed LP $17.00 Michael Night I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This PS, UK "I'm Not Entirely Clear How I Ended Up Like This" is the debut UK release for Dublin/Berlin beat combo Michael Knight and represents the logical progression in their ongoing musical argument that influences as diverse Beethoven, Bach and Bacharach can make compelling bedfellows. The result is 11 slices of the most irresistibly sophisticated pop music and, as further evidence of their genius, the album has been released with instrumental and vocal versions of each song. Imagine Modesst Mussorgsky backing Jens Lekman and you're halfway there. The presence of Brian O'Shaughnessy (The Clientele, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine) on mixing duties should give an indication of the sonic palette on offer: sweeping strings, haunting harmonies and dramatic mood swings. The Cd comes in a double Cd gatefold digipak, complete with liner notes & lyrics. REVIEWS: "Why Michael Knight aren't already huge is both baffling and beguiling; but sooner or later these songs will be discovered. I may as well say it in advance, then; I told you so". SoundsXP. "Supremely beautiful songs, which have a heart, a soul, a wry sense of humor and none of that upsetting necessity to make every lyrical couplet rhyme" In Dublin. Yesboyicecream-11 CD $17.75 Mirah Old Days Feeling PS, US This collection comes from a variety of sources, home recordings, hard to find foreign comps, out-of-print releases, & previously unreleased tracks. Features guests PHIL ELVERUM (MICROPHONES/MT. EERIE), KARL BLAU, & CALVIN JOHNSON. With her unmistakable voice, these lo-fi, experimental recordings are indicative of what has become her distinct sound. "Features all the objective elements of a useful rarities disc, but it's doubly valuable for reminding us of a Mirah that might've grown up too fast" - Pitchfork (7.5) ModernRadio CD $10.50 Motorpsycho Haircuts: Motorpsycho On Film [PAL format, 2 x DVD set] (ON SALE) PS, GERMANY Long-awaited two DVD set includes 21 music videos spanning the acclaimed Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog band's wildly careening 20 year career, plus documentaries, live footage, and various other surprises, 5 hours and 45 minutes in total! Plus handsome packaging and a full-color 18-page booklet, in English. VIDEOS: Grinder, Have Fun, Sheer Profundity, Another Ugly Tune, Nothing To Say, Wearing Yr Smell, Feel, Now It's Time To Skate, Watersound, Mad Sun, The Nerve Tattoo, Manmower, Sinful Wind-Borne, Starmelt/ Lovelight, Hey Jane, The Other Fool, Walkin' With J., High Time, The Slow Phaseout, Go To California, and Serpentine. DOCUMENTARIES: This Is Motorpsycho (1995), Noorse Helden (2000), and Another Ugly Tour (1994, alternate cut). LIVE: Roadwork III: The Four Norsemen Of The Apocalypse - Live at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, November 23rd, 2002. BONUS: Mad Sun (1996, acoustic), S.T.G. (2000, live at Samfundet, Trondheim), and Plan #1 (2000, live at Samfundet, Trondheim). Please note: This DVD set is in European PAL format, but will play on a huge majority of home computers (it played on our Dell PC I'm sitting at) and laptop DVD drives and most DVD players produced in the last 5 years can be gently "hacked" with your remote control. We promise it will be worth the minor hassle. Contact us if you have questions about hacking your home DVD player. Stickman DVD/DVD $34.00 Mouse Rocket Pretty Loud (LP/CD) PS, US Mouserocket is back with their sophomore album after two years in the making and four years apart from their 2004 debut on Empty. Worth the wait? YES! This LP has been as carefully injected with deliciously sweet rock n roll razorblades as a half-opened Halloween treat. The no nonsense, semi-sweet / creeped-out pop of Mouserocket is back! Back with a southern-tinged delivery that conjures the charm of Roky Erickson and the clean tastes and mighty grandeur of Television. TicTacTotally LP $12.00 Mouth of the Architect Quietly PS, US The group's new opus sees a true return to form & a conscious reconfiguring of modern experimental music as a whole. ALEX VERNON returns on guitars & vocals. Vocal guest appearance from JULIE CHRISTMAS (MADE OUT OF BABIES). TranslationLoss CD $14.50 Mouth Of The Architect Quietly PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! TranslationLoss DLP $20.25 NRBQ Interstellar Kustom Shop PS, US Kustom Shop, it's a mindblowing ten-inch 33 1/3 RPM slab of wax by NRBQ that finds the revered fivesome latching onto the out-there New Thing jazz pioneered by intergalactic heroes Sun Ra & His Arkestra-and riding the music to universes beyond the beyond. Cut live in 1970 at Cincinnati's Ludlow Garage and Clinton Hollow in upstate New York, these revolutionary sounds, says NRBQ mainman Terry Adams "opened up new possibilities in rock 'n' roll. We had a thousand teenagers chanting along with us to 'Rocket #9." That stunning Sun Ra classic and his equally wonderful "Next Stop Mars"-extended experimental workouts that incorporate Adams' stellar originals "Venusian Sunset" and "Approach The Planet"-are guaranteed to send you clear out of this world! Sundazed 10 $13.50 One Day As A Lion S-T EP PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Here it is...finally. One Day as a Lion are Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist for Rage Against the Machine, and Jon Theodore, former drummer with the Mars Volta. De la Rocha and Theodore have been reportedly working on this project since 2006. The end result is a volatile mix of rhythm, noise, and radical poetry." Anti CD5 $8.50 P.W. Long God Bless The Drunkard's Dog PS, US With this CD you get a handful of great stories, some secrets, a little insight & some damn fine guitar playing from former WIG frontman and Quarterstick Records recording artist P.W. Long. Southern CD $15.25 Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista PS, FINLAND This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release on Fonal Records from Finland's Paavoharju, a collective formed around two brothers -- Lauri and Olli Ainala and their troupe of associates. The group is a collective project of ascetic born-again Christians. Laulu Laakson Kukista (A Song About Flowers of the Valley) evokes the sounds of raindrops falling on a sheet metal roof melting together with an old television's random dot-pattern noise. Backwards pianos, backwards vocals, tilted organ and baroque beats lean against sweeping operatic soundscapes and gossamer back-porch folk singalongs. Leena Uotila's soft voice echoes in empty, dusty rooms. Cat-owls gather to the skies, apple trees are blooming and waves rock a barrel against the pier. Suddenly all this started to form esoteric mildew to cassette's magnetic tape. Mind-bending devotional rock-opera from the deepest Finnish forests. THE ONION: "Paavoharju is part of an intriguing scene that subsists in Finland but seems to hail from a spirit world where the natural and the ethereal blur. The latest of several notable offerings from the Finnish label Fonal, Laulu Laakson Kukista finds the group studiously adrift, with impressionistic glimmers of sound (bird chirps, static, warbly chimes) situated within delicate songs that draw on everything from acoustic folk to the kind of smeary polyglot pop favored by Animal Collective and especially Gang Gang Dance. The group functions as a collective led by two born-again Christians, but the sounds they make suggest Christians of an extraordinarily mystical sort." Fonal-055 CD $16.25 Paavoharju Laulu Laakson Kukista PS, FINLAND VINYL VERSION. PITCHFORK: "Fursaxa/Cocteau Twins, B-movie soundtrack, Sigur Rós locked in an underground cavern with Slowdive, or perhaps Syd Barrett jamming with Incredible String Band beneath a waterfall." Fonal-055 LP $16.25 Pacchu, Fricara Stories of the Old PS, FINLAND Includes a 7" vinyl and a 40-page full-color book. Fricara Pacchu started out as a rapper in The Backdoor Funkers, as a member of Slow Convulsion, Rorererot, Avarus, etc., but not until techno-rock-trio Maniacs Dream was Pacchu able to find his shattered inner plectrum. Hence, the music on this 7" is the consequence of using a plectrum. On his earlier cassette releases: "Where do you go after you've single-handedly destroyed the entire canon of recorded psychedelic musics? Into techno, apparently. Fonal-051 45/BOOK $16.25 Padden, Daniel Pause for the Jet PS, GERMANY Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year". Dekorder-026 CD $16.25 Padden, Daniel Pause for the Jet PS, GERMANY Since 1995 Daniel Padden has been a member of Volcano The Bear, with several highly regarded album releases on Nurse With Wound's United Diaries label, Textile and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. After his move to Glasgow he started The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden as an outlet for his solo recordings with releases on Catsup Plate, Secret Eye and Textile. When The One Ensemble slowly metamorphosed into a band of its own, Padden started to record his solo output under his birth name, with last year's "The Isaac Storm" on the Ultra Exzema label being the first seminal result. Over the years Padden has developed a strong fascination for obscure musics from all over the world (re his recent "Epiphanies" article for The Wire magazine): mouth organ love-songs from Thailand, The Ramayana Monkey Chant from Bali, Khene pieces from Laos; so-called world music from Burundi to Bulgaria. Combining these interests with his love for British Folk and Art Rock (This Heat, Robert Wyatt), Kraut Rock (Faust), Free Jazz, the surreal collage techniques of Nurse With Wound and the odd humour of The Residents, he has developed a totally unique and highly personal musical vision without ever sounding overambitious or directionless. Gorgeous song-writing is seamlessly transformed into pure fuzz or string drones, suddenly interrupted by some improvised reeds or collapsing percussion, all within the blink of an eye, and never losing its natural flow, "Pause for the Jet" is already an auspicious aspirant for our "Record of the Year". Dekorder-026 LP $13.50 Pantaleimon Heart Of The Sun PS, US "The whole thing started when Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex) asked if she could remix "Under The Water." Of course, I said yes. When she came back w/ such remarkable music & casually mentioned, 'Oh, why don't you ask a couple of other pals to do remixes?', it gave me the idea for this album." Feat. remixes by ANDREW W.K., STEPHEN O'MALLEY, LILIUM & more. Incl. previously unreleased tracks. DurtroJnana CD $16.00 Parsons, Gram GP PS, US Rhino/Scorpio LP $13.00 Pas/Cal I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura PS, UK Seven years in the making, and just as many members in the band. Le Grand Magistery is proud to present Pas/Cal's debut album, "I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura." Twelve songs so intricate, so catchy, so filled with bubblegum, glitter, and wit that you'll spend the next seven years singing along. If you like music like this, you'll love this music! So sit down, get down, and boogie down. Prepare to laugh ("Oh Honey We're Ridiculous", "Little Red Radio"), cry ("You Were Too Old For Me", "Glorious Ballad of The Ignored"), get seasonal ("Summer Is Almost Here", "Little Red Radio"), quizzical ("The Truth Behind All The Vogues She Sold"), reflective ("Dearest Bernard Living"), playful (We Made Out Way, We Amtrakked"), and enjoy the soothing sounds of the Suite Cherry suite of cherry-themed numbers ("Cherry Needs A Name", "Cherry Tree", "O My Cherry"). Oh yes, you're not going to want to miss this one folks. It's a doozy! LeGrandMagistery-043 CD $12.25 Pia Fraus Ten Remixes Of Yenissey PS, ESTONIA TRACKLISTING: 01.FUTURE PILOT AKA - Yenissey vs Future Pilot AKA! 02.GALAKTLAN - Galayeni 03.INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - One Transition: Tundra Into Taiga 04.MIRABILIA - Yllar Lyndi Uued Püksikud 05.SEELAND - Yennesay/Seeland Reemix 06.PIA FRAUS - Niva Meets Yenissey 07.TEENAGE FANCLUB - Yenissey 08.3PEAD - Las Voolab 09.BILL WELLS - Yenissey 10.HIS NAME IS ALIVE - Forever 93. Pia Fraus had many international projects going on while releasing "After Summer", their last album which is produced by Glaswegian Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub). Now they are ready with remix compilation Ten Remixes of Yenissey, released by Seksound. Yenissey was first result from cooperation between Pia Fraus and Norman Blake. The band is very proud of this remix album, with remixes of all their favorites from all around the world. Seksound-018 CD $13.50 Pia Fraus/Ulrich Schnauss Mute The Birds / Ships Will Sail SPLIT 7" PS, ESTONIA LTD to 500 COPIES ONLY! 7" black vinyl. After well-received new album Pia Fraus comes with some new releases from indie label Seksound. They are happy of new split-single on 7" vinyl record by Pia Fraus and Ulrich Schnauss. After longtime friendship they have come to this split single, on one side is track by Pia Fraus which is produced by Ulrich Schnauss and other side has track by Ulrich Schnauss produced by Pia Fraus. Single is mastered at legendary Abbey Road Studio in London by Steve Rook (who's portfolio is full of our favorite indie albums). Seksound-017 45 $11.00 Polvo Shapes PS, US This was their final album, released in 1997. It continues in the vein of "Exploded Drawing", weaving plaintive vibes, eastern passages, and rip roarin' freakouts in a pastiche eluding basic classification. Touch&Go LP $12.00 Polvo Exploded Drawing PS, US Originally released in April 1996, this was generally received as Polvo's "White Album", the moment when the band finally kicked off its shoes, cracked the studio windows, and unleashed a long suite of songs showcasing their true range. This double LP gives it all up: paranoid blues rants, Delhi-via-the Ozarks hoedowns, spaghetti western lopers, carnivalesque boogie, a blazing, frustrated finale, and as always, that guitar sound. Touch&Go DLP $15.00 Primal Scream Beautiful Future PS, UK New 2008 import-only album from The Primals! PITCHFORK: "Beautiful Future is an especially rich title coming from a band with such a sloppy past, but its concise, laser-focussed 10-song tracklist-- bearing the pop-golden touch of producers Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, the Rapture) and Bjorn Yttling (Peter Bjorn and John, Lykke Li)-- suggests Primal Scream's latest high is sobriety. The opening title track features the most joyous, clear-headed melody they've sung since Screamadelica's "Movin' on Up", but in a much different dressing. Here, their Exile-era Stones influence yields to the cheeky glam of Sparks, from the jaunty piano riff, hand claps and ascending chorus, to Bobby Gillespie's wry commentary on middle-class privilege: "Congratulations/ You're living the dream/ In the dead heart of the control machine." Warners CD $20.50 Prurient Arrowhead PS, US Brooklyn noise herald & Hospital Productions label-head, DOMINICK FERNOW, an active instigator in the power electronics & noise genre for over a decade, w/ 100+ releases issued so far, usually LTD. & covering various formats. Known for his harrowing live performances where he uses his voice, amps, microphones, coins, tools, suitcases etc., to create a brain-bashing journey through mangled, negative sound. EditionsMego CD $18.00 Pygmy Lush Mount Hope PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Lovitt LP $15.00 Pygmy Lush Mount Hope PS, US 2nd full-length from group featuring members from PG.99, MAJORITY RULE, MALADY, CITY OF CATERPILLAR. Though the group started out by carrying on much of the same ferocity of their previous endeavors, this is a quieter album w/acoustic guitars & minimal pecussion. The songs feel haunted. Filled to the brim w/a sense of abandon, only here they have put down their angst for intropsection, trading their aggression for a slow grit. Lovitt CD $15.00 Q65 Nothing But Trouble: The Best Of... PS, UK From Den Haag (The Hague) in Holland, Q65 were among the country's wildest beat groups of the 1960s. Their firebrand approach to the beat and rhythm n blues boom was the opposite of what most of the country's successful pop group fraternity were putting over at the time; best represented with the unpolished, raw intensity of "You're The Victor", their 1966 debut for Decca which shook up the charts and caused shockwaves throughout the nation's living rooms. They continued to crack the top end of the Dutch pop charts with killer singles such as "The Life I Live", and "I Despise You"; took part in a crazy record company promotional stunt crossing the sea from England in a rubber dinghy, and in Revolution, created one of the best debut LPs of the era. The group split up early and although they would make several comebacks as Q65, and also as Circus, and continue to make several records well into the 1970s, the initial magic had gone. To this day the power and impenetrable charm of the original Q65 remains unsurpassed. * Visually re-mastered in the usual huge Rev-Ola style! Beautifully packaged with oodles of rare photos and memorabilia! In-depth liner notes by Sir Lenny Helsing with input from the band themselves! An absolute 100% necessity for all fans of 60s garage, R & B, beat, psych. Rev-Ola-258 CD $15.50 Ranaldo, Lee Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms PS, US SONIC YOUTH'S LEE RANALDO was part of the original TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS "Guitar Series" in 1993; now he returns with "Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance Like So Many Storms". It's an epic earful, replete with shimmering textures and an inimitable charging clangor. With ecstatic, rocking squalor, he summons some dazzling shronk, reminiscent of early SY, the soaring drone of John Cale, and even the looping orientalia of Dream Syndicate-era La Monte Young. So duck and cover, as Lee fires an impeccably aimed fusillade across the screaming fields of sonic love. Tableoftheelements-97 LP $14.25 Red Krayola Fingerpointing PS, US Free form freak out is dead! Long live free form freak out! This follows their ur-formula, designed to immerse & entertain the listener & confound the FM DJ's & anyone else's quest for the perfect seque in a narrative of counter-cultural meaningfulness. Feat. DAVID GRUBBS, GEORGE HURLEY, STEPHEN PRINA, MAYO THOMPSON, TOM WATSON, SANDY YANG, ALBERT OEHLEN & ELISA RANDAZZO. Mixed by JIM O'ROURKE DragCity CD $13.25 Reiner, Kai Kai Reiner PS, GERMANY If you like Big Star, If you like Teenage Fanclub, if you like anything with heart and great melody, this album is for you. Kai is a great songwriter and proves it on this release. The hooks and heart are here. Lakeview-002 CD $10.00 Roden, Steve Airforms PS, US Limited to 600. Sold out quickly in 2005. Line just found 100 in storage. Airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [ Scottsdale, Arizona ] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940's using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff's ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden's own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this cd has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff's architectural interests in the airform projects. Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, and sound installation. Line-022 CD $12.25 Rosenholm, Eleanoora Vainajan Muotokuva PS, FINLAND This is the debut full-length by Eleanoora Rosenholm. Eleanoora Rosenholm comes from Pori, Finland and is a project began by Noora Tommila, Pasi Salmi and Mika Rättö. They crafted a genius pop album with murderous lyrics inside the dark stone walls that surround SS-Palace studio. The time came to take the show on the road and the band evolved into a full 8-piece. Weird, almost avant synth-pop harmonies with creepily-sweet Finnish vocals, sometimes vocoded. Combining the best of karaoke-backed dance tracks with propulsive '80s sheen and tastes of Bow Wow Wow/Lizzy Mercier Descloux-esque tribe-pop irreverence. Totally addictive and hook-ridden, like you can't stop eating candy -- this is weird-disco any housewife serial killer would be proud to dance to. PITCHFORK: "Think you might've had Fonal's M.O. figured by now, didja? Eleanoora Rosenholm shatters all of those preconceptions as a trio of veterans and a handful of friends convene to craft an art-disco rollercoaster that defies much of the rest of the label's catalog." Fonal-054 CD $16.25 Rosenholm, Eleanoora Vainajan Muotokuva PS, FINLAND VINYL VERSION. Fonal-054 LP $20.50 Rumble Strips Girls and Weather PS, US W/ their somewhat eccentric origins in Devon, the 4 men from Tavistock have fashioned a set of songs steeped w/ huge, life-affirming choruses all awash w/ the optimism of youth. GiganticMusic CD $12.75 Sabicas Flamencan Guitar Solos PS, UK Virtuoso guitarist Sabicas exported flamenco in its most thrilling and uncompromising form. What the public heard and responded to was his astonishing artistry - the rhythmic drive, the dizzying speed of his runs, the sheer ferocity of his attack coupled with the sensitivity and poise of his touch. Sabicas's dedication and perfectionism established the yardstick against which both his contemporaries and the next generation of guitarists were obliged to measure themselves. He almost single - handedly established the right of flamenco to stand among the world's greatest musical traditions. Made four Albums for Elektra and rock collaboration with Joe Beck. El-149 CD $15.50 Schirach, Otto Von Oozing Bass Spasms PS, UK New full length album by Otto Von Schirach: "Oozing Bass Spasms". With enough porn and horror samples to satiate the most demented programmer, and enough juicy bass to placate the most voracious bass-head, Oozing Bass Spasms is a masterwork by one of the world's most original artists. By far his most approachable and even refined album, it's still pretty crazy in a way that only Otto von Schirach can provide. This time the overall feeling of the album is more dance sounding; elements of Booty, Electro, Breakcore, and Rave music all find a place in his bizarre universe. CockRockDisco-019 CD $17.75 Schmidt, Irwin & Kumo Axolotl Eyes PS, US Irwin Schmidt (CAN) & the Professor Of Popular Music (Kumo) release this for your listening enjoyment. Feat. shimmering grooves, subterranean bass, theremin & violin providing the perfect foil for Schmidt's peerless & enduringly adventurous playing. Mute DCD $18.25 Shining Path Chocolate Gasoline PS, US While their eponymous album exists in the world of post-SST black-clad psychedelia & noise, the group decided that they had gone far enough in said direction & realigned themselves. Influences ranging from hard dub, early PiL, no wave, block-banging hip hop, & kraut-dance/industrial, if one could imagine a version of Viva more about bikinis than white overalls. HolyMountain 12 $14.25 Sinthetix Gateway PS, US SINTHETIX launched the American invasion of drum n bass and reinvented the neurofunk sound - becoming the first to cross the Atlantic in the primarily UK dominated Drum N Bass world. Impulse, Rob F, and MC Mecha collide with stalwart artists Black Sun Empire, UFO!, and others in this compilation of their biggest singles, including 7 unreleased tunes not available elsewhere! The resurgence of step beats and modern club neurofunk started here, and it's development thoroughly chronicled on this double CD set. OhmResistance-2M DCD $13.25 Skyscraper #28 PS, US Features on Total Abuse, Night Wounds, Au, Bowerbirds, Genghis Tron, Crystal Castles, Man Man, King Khan, Jay Reatard, Mick Barr, Russian Circles, Modey Lemon, The Black Angels, Wolf Parade, Islands, Melvins, & Six Finger Satellite plus the usual plethora of articles, & reviews. ZINE $5.50 Slepcy We Are The Newest Battle Models PS, UK Slepcy are Piotr Kurek and Marcin Stefanski from Poland. They started making music with just a Casio Rapman and a Gemini mixer with 30 sec sample memory. Their music blends opera with breakcore, synth-pop, jazz, hardcore-noise and who knows what. They did some brilliant records for Koop.POP, Ambush Records and Suburban Trash Industries which you should spend your last days trying to find. We guarantee you that their debut CRD release, "We are the newest battle models" will leave you all speechless. It's a truly unique record that matches brutality with melodies that stick in your head, but in a really cool way. CockRockDisco-010 CD $11.75 Smile Down Upon Us Smile Down Upon Us PS, UK Smile Down Upon Us is a very modern kind of band. Comprising Phelan Sheppard, the duo behind celebrated album Harps Old Master, and Japanese artist moomLooo, it's a project that crosses cultural and musical boundaries. And, for the duration of recording their self-titled debut album, it existed solely on the Internet, as the three have never met. The band came about when Keiron Phelan, a prodigious MySpace trawler, came across moomLooo's page and her enchanting recordings for Japan's Clay label. He sent a message introducing himself, and she responded saying she admired his work too. "None of us had any reservations about working together from the word go," says Phelan. "It just seemed natural - a touch of kismet." Soon, they began sending ideas back and forth on the Internet, sound files whizzing between Tokyo and London. Though initially a project to occupy Phelan whilst David Sheppard was writing his much-anticipated Brian Eno biography, On Some Faraway Beach, Phelan's long-time fellow group member soon came into the fold. The pair set up in East London's Soup Studio, in the basement of ukulele shop Duke Of Uke. There, they purloined parlour guitars, banjos and ukes from the shop and recorded them into ProTools, blending old and new, as well as east and west. Over in Japan, at home and at Tokyo's Naturebliss studio, moomLooo recorded her largely electronic parts and field recordings, adding delicately captivating vocals and spoken word, half in English, half in Japanese. Soon, they were writing parts for each other, playing to each other's strengths. "I don't speak any Japanese and moom's English is so-so," says Phelan. "In order to understand each other, we had to use simple language, and our emails began to look like a dialogue between two hyper-enthusiastic nine year-olds. We could only discuss things in a very 'primary colour' way and the music seemed to become extremely vivid too. Dave and I had the idea that this was sounding like a Chagall painting looks. That seemed a really strong and suitable feeling for the band, so we pushed it along that road." Between the language barriers, time differences and hours downloading files, the process of creating the album took almost 14 months. When moomLooo emailed the last part over, it came with a recorded message introducing herself to the pair. "It's been a very mysterious process," says Phelan. "I email moom all the time, but I know very little about her. I've never met her, never spoken to her. I don't know how old she is or what she does for a living. None of the usual things. And I think we all found this an intriguing situation." The resulting album has a strange kind of magic, an essence running through it. Blending warm wooden instruments with moomLooo's icy vocal, it sounds modern at the same time as aged, distinctly Japanese but rooted in the conventions of modern, electronic folk music. More structured than Phelan Sheppard's usually instrumental music, it reveals a new, accessible side to their work, one that's sure to appeal to fans of Bjork, Deerhoof and lovers of beautiful, beguiling music everywhere. The next step in the evolution of Smile Down Upon Us is to turn it into a functioning live band. In Japan, moomLooo has assembled a couple of musicians to recreate the songs until she finally meets with Phelan and Sheppard this summer, when they intend to stage what's bound to be some very special live shows indeed. "It would be quite something to have a Smile Down Upon Us (East) and a Smile Down Upon Us (West)," says Phelan. "Dave and I have never met or spoken to these musicians, don't even know their names. But soon we'll be able to look on YouTube and see them playing our songs! It's a weird but pleasant feeling." StaticCaravan-161 CD $17.75 Soda Fountain Rag It's Rag Time! PS, UK Soda Fountain Rag is the musical universe of Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl, a one-woman indiepop phenomenon from Bergen, Norway. Having released a number of sold-out limited edition cdr EPs for DIY labels such as Cloudberry and Anorak in 2007, "It's Rag Time!" is her debut CD release, containing 14 more subversive pop classics about bitterness (Go!), reorientation (I was Reborn) and the importance of not killing clowns (Don't Kill The Clowns), all delivered with unfathomable sincerity. Imagine, if you can, an anti-folk Nico playing all the instruments in a Nintendo pop garage band. The Cd comes in an attractive high-gloss cardboard gatefold wallet, with lyrics booklet and beautiful illustrations by Peter Danielsson. Yesboyicecream-09 CD $15.50 Son Ambulance Someone Else's Deja Vu PS, US They emerge from hibernation deep in a realm of exotic 60s & 70s LPs for their 3rd full-length- a bold leap back into the music world & their most challenging work yet. Tracks make use of rich analog synths, double bass, saxophone & vibraphone, played by various Omaha musicians incl. members of TILLY & THE WALL & THE FAINT. SaddleCreek CD $12.50 Son Ambulance Someone Else's Deja Vu PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SaddleCreek DLP $16.50 Sonic Youth/Mats Gustafsson/Merzbow Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth PS, US CD-only edition. Improvised live performance from the 2005 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, feat. Sonic Youth (w/ Jim O'Rourke) & guests Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson & Japanese sound artist Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzbow). The single piece performed was a structured improvisation which for 60 mins added & subtracted musicians one by one until only Akita was left onstage. Black Sabbath followed. SYR CD $10.00 Speck Mountain Summer Above PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! BurntBrown LP $17.00 Stone Harbour Emerges PS, US A trip into the true dark heart of psychedelia. Songs fade in & out; finger-picking blurs into screaming squelching synths; guitars melt in the mid-summer heat. Shimmers like stars in the 2 am fog & haze, & bleeds lost & lonely & bruised into the heat-warped dawn. Includes a handful of previously unreleased tracks from 1975. LionProductions CD $15.00 Strange Boys Woe Is You And Me PS, US Fronted by brothers Ryan and Philip Sambol, the Strange Boys are a quartet who brilliantly plow through 60's garage riffs overlayed with Ryan's lazily whined vocals. Not since the Black Lips has a band come down the pike who have managed to take basic garage-beat-rock n' roll and twist it in such a unique way that they come off totally fresh young and original. And, with band members barely in their 20's, The Strange Boys are one of the few bands around who make the Black Lips look old. InTheRed 45 $4.25 Sundazed Sundazed Vacuum Tube T-Shirt (Large) PS, US Black Vacuum Tube T-Shirt TS $15.00 Sunforest The Sound of Sunforest [re-issue] PS, UK Steeped in medieval and Renaissance sounds as well as pop, this U.S. female trio epitomized their generation's gleeful experimentalism. Recorded in London's Olympic studios in two weeks in the autumn of 1969, their wonderful album encompasses acid-tinged folk, riotous country, faux 1930s balladry and psychedelic pop with strong melodies, striking vocal harmonies, and immaculate arrangements. One fan was film director Stanley Kubrick -- he included "I Want To Marry A Lighthouse Keeper" and "Overture To The Sun" on his famous Clockwork Orange soundtrack. The album has gone on to become one of the most sought-after releases of its time, and is presented here in a numbered, strictly-limited card-wallet format. Phoenix CD $16.25 Taiga Remains Crushed Radiant Deities PS, US Luminescent, wrecked shards of overtone drones merged w/zoned & disembodied choral whispers & ribbons of pure white electricity. Bundles remastered versions of the 2 tracks from the long out-of-print "Paper Lanterns" EP w/ 2 new longform works to form a dense, polyphonic fugue of dynamic collisions & endless collapses. LIMITED to 500 StudentsofDecay CD $10.50 Takka Takka Migration PS, US Sophomore release was lovingly produced by Sean Greenhalgh (CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH) & features performances by Bryan Devendorf (THE NATIONAL), Lee Sargent (CYHSY), Olga Bell (BELL) & Charles Burst. "Sometimes this record is about existing in a place you don't belong. Conversely, it is about where you came from & how you got there... Sometimes this record is about a band experimenting with sound & form, trying to honestly say things in song it has never said before. Sometimes this record is about not going back & staying in the place you don't belong." -Gabe Levine (Takka Takka). ErnestJenning CD $11.75 Tan Or Boil Seamstress in a Suitcase PS, US A pun from those 1970s Bad News Bears films, TOB is the alias of Pittsburgh-born JASON BACASA. A CD-R of songs handed out to around 60 lucky souls witnessing his support slot for Joanna Newsom (he has also played with Cat Power & Devendra Banhart) led to this fully realized record. His songs hold onto a fragmented, on the fly style with a surreal fervour often running through his lyrics & the hushed intimacy that inevitably comes from late-night recording in apartment buildings. Raw and strange beauty exists at the core, though its imaginative, gentle kaleidoscopic spin enhances that feeling & takes it somewhere else entirely Preservation CD $15.50 Tape Op #66 PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! This Issue features Adam Fuest, Steve Rosenthal, SLOAN + Nick Detoro, Adam Franklin (SWERVEDRIVER), & all the gearhead goodness you can handle. ZINE $4.00 Teenage Film Stars Star PS, UK Musical alchemist - where other people struggle Ed Ball plays what we re thinking. --KEVIN SHIELDS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. November 1991. Creation Records release Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Three months later Creation Records release Star by Teenage Filmstars. Rumored to have been recorded by an aggregation of various Teenage Fanclubbers and Bloody Valentiners, this mysterious album had journalists and pop stars from Britain and America fascinated by its sound. Wherever My Bloody Valentine have roared throughout the universe the Teenage Filmstars echo has followed, but not blindly. Where the MBV sound is the well-controlled experiment from the lab, the Teenage Filmstars set their rocket to unknown planets - what is Star? An alchemist s philosophy stone thrown surreptitiously into space? It was in fact, the work of one Edward Ball, in between label duties for Creation Records and recording for the label. The Master Of Brinkmanship, as one taste maker of the time described him. This reissue features four previously unreleased extra tracks, including an early version of Edward Ball's hit single "Love Is Blue"(!). The 16-page booklet contains a dissertation of Creation period Edward Ball '88 to '91 by Edward Ball 2008, with full production notes and anecdotes about the label. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Artpop!-13 CD $15.50 Teenage Filmstars Star PS, UK "...Musical alchemist - where other people struggle Ed Ball plays what we're thinking." --KEVIN SHIELDS, MY BLOODY VALENTINE. November 1991. Creation Records release Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Three months later Creation Records release Star by Teenage Filmstars. Rumoured to have been recorded by an aggregation of various Teenage Fan-clubbers and Bloody Valentiners, this mysterious album had journalists and pop stars from Britain and America fascinated by its sound. Wherever My Bloody Valentine have roared throughout the universe the Teenage Filmstars echo has followed, but not blindly. Where the MBV sound is the well-controlled experiment from the lab, the Teenage Filmstars set their rocket to unknown planets - what is Star? An alchemist's philosophy stone thrown surreptitiously into space? It was in fact, the work of one Edward Ball, in between label duties for Creation Records and recording for the label. The Master Of Brinkmanship, as one tastemaker of the time described him. This reissue features four previously unreleased extra tracks, including an early version of Edward Ball's hit single "Love Is Blue"(!). The 16-page booklet contains a dissertation of Creation period Edward Ball '88 to '91 by Edward Ball 2008, with full production notes and anecdotes about the label. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Artpop!-13 CD $15.50 Teenage Jesus & The Jerks Shut Up And Bleed PS, UK The seminal No - Wave band Teenage Jesus and The Jerks were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch, an individual who has fought her artistic way through the decades, always true to her own vision and always brutally honest. In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artist's Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some never previously released live material. CherryRed-367 CD $15.50 Tenniscoats & Secai Tenniscoats & Secai PS, JAPAN Almost 6 years since the mini-album The Ending Theme, Tenniscoats are introducing their work once again through noble label. Tenniscoats is the Tokyo duo of Saya and Ueno Takashi and friends. The open stance of this duo as seen through their emajikick label and their rainbow of collaborations with artists has won the hearts of passionate fans the worldwide. Last year saw sequential release of Tenniscoats music, Totemo Aimasho from Australia's Room40 and Tan-Tan Therapy from Sweden's Hapna. Now, they have welcomed Secai, a duo formed by friends of majikick, Daisuke Namiki a.k.a. NSD and Takeshi Hiruma a.k.a. DASMAN. Together with their partners of creation, the artists have completed Tenniscoats & Secai a collaboration album finished after nearly 2 years of patient brewing. Most of the pieces for this album were created through sessions with the recording, composition, and songwriting added along the way. In addition to the abstract track making which is a signature of Secai work, NSD works together with Saya to create almost half of the lyrics, and DASMAN sings in the chorus and plays bass for an album that unleashes the creative energy of both artists. Combined with Saya's mixing and song writing and Ueno Takashi's poetic playing and inspirations, this album is an original piece of work that highlights the talents of each artist in an organic mixture of sound. Though covered with a fluffy and obscure sound image, the album gives an impression of a crystal world with unlimited clarity. This world is filled with Saya_fs innocent voice, magical melody, and deep lyrics. The visionary music which portrays the fine line between dream and reality will lure listeners into another world. Here, you will find music of freedom and beauty that is sure to bring tears to your eyes. Noble-1232 CD $17.00 Terminal 11 Illegal Nervous Habits PS, UK Remember when IDM music was interesting? Yes, it's been a long time, and computers have "given us" many cheap, lifeless albums since then. But wait! Here's Mike Castaneda, AKA Terminal 11, fresh from Phoenix Arizona, to prove to the world that it is possible to tame your computer and force it to work for the powers of goodness. Illegal Nervous Habits is easily the greatest album ever made! It's an emotional rollercoaster of a record, with thrills and chills, heartbreaking sacrifice and enough guts and grit to make even your grandmother pay attention. But what does it sound like? Well Johnny, imagine a million bits of information flying through the air, and watch these bits weave and dive like a ballet on PCP. Then, as you're just getting bored, these bits make pictures of your friends laughing and having the best fun they ever had. Yeah, that's trippy isn't it? Well this album is just like that, and MORE. CockRockDisco-002 CD $11.75 Terrill, John Frowny Frown PS, US Between 1988 and 1998, JOHN TERRILL (co-founder of the late '70s new/no wave DANCING CIGARETTES) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era, it could have stood next to Scott Walker or Michael Hurley's early albums or even Randy Burns' LPs on ESP Disk. It's an out-of-time classic that mixes honey baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop-psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all and remastered with a bonus track from 1984. "I feel this album is a little gem. Lyrically-a man up against it ("Frowny Frown") as opposed to (Smiley Smile), but still leaning towards humor, kindheartedness, and no bitterness within the adversity. A very feeling album and all kinds of sonically interesting things. The kind of direction Brian Wilson might even have taken himself if his own circumstances had been different. Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention." - Bill Fay. FamilyVineyard-60 CD $11.50 Thee Oh Sees Sucks Blood PS, US Prior to entering The Master's Bedroom earlier this year, San Francisco's THEE OH SEES originally self-released the more subdued "Sucks Blood" in early 2007 to fund the latter's recording. Steeped in the natural hues of analog and reverb, "Sucks Blood" is a subtle gem of irresistible pop and basement psychedelia. Immediate classics include the ghostly saw-tinged title track and the charming lumber of the harmonious "Ship". "Sucks Blood" is quite simply yet another testament to the total genius of JOHN DWYER for those who have yet to heed. Tomlab-118 CD $12.25 TIAC Overstaying The Welcome PS, SWEDEN Overstaying the welcome is TIACs sophomore album. "TIAC sounds sort of like old Magnetic Fields on a very happy day with an extra big dose of guitar pop, synth love, and more forward vocals. So maybe it's not all that Magnetic Fields-ish. There's a little bit of the Cure in there, but there's too much gloss and shine and production to justify a true comparison to the original mopers. How about this one: Orange Juice plus the Cure plus Altered Images. Yeah, maybe that's a good way to put it. Light on the Orange Juice, heavy on the Altered Images. Regardless, the band's a tremendous amount of fun. An endearing sound that's filled with sexy hooks, excited bass riffs, and a bombastic wall of sound that washes over you like a pleasant summer breeze." - Nik Mercer, Bibabidi.com Hybris-062 CD $17.75 Tilly and The Wall o PS, US VINYL VERSION. 180g vinyl w/digital download card. TeamLove LP $14.25 Times, The Enjoy / Up Against It PS, UK This reissue compiles the complete 1986 Times albums Enjoy and Up Against It for the first time on CD, featuring Times T.V, Britannia Sleeps Tonight and of course Up Against It. Written in reaction to the U.S. Paisley Underground wave of bands then currently feted - Dream On Red, Green Syndicate, Drain Parade and REM Speedwagon, Enjoy connects Edward Ball and his Times to Ray Davies and The Kinks as natural storytellers of everyday British life - but with the added twist of an English nightmare in America. Artpop!-1516 CD $15.50 Times, The Pop Goes Art PS, UK Perhaps the singularly most important album of that fledgling, garage, power - pop - punk independent scene of 1982. Featuring Edward Ball and Daniel Treacy, and issued on their own Whaam! Records, Pop goes Art! is a landmark release - one of the vital seeds of the whole Creation, Whaam! Artpop!-20 CD $15.50 Total Bummer S-T PS, US She has been a member of Victoria bands God Shaped Vacuum- whose other members incl. Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade /Handsome Furs, as well as Carey Mercer of Frog Eyes/ Swan Lake & Atlas Strategic- again w/ Boeckner- who released two album. This is representative of the coalesced experiences of it's only member & invokes the silence of a Montreal winter: powerful, deafening in it's execution, & seemingly on the verge of collapse from the weight of modernity GlobalSymphonic CD5 $10.25 Toth, James Jackson Waiting In Vain PS, US Wooden Wand dude's solo sojourn! Layered, almost-dreamlike harmonies, touches of blues, country & soul & the occasional flash of punk swagger. Special guests include John Dieterich (DEERHOOF), Nels Cline (WILCO), Andy Cabic (VEVITER), CARLA BOZULICH & Otto Hauser (VEVITER). For several years Toth experimented w/a folk-psychedelic rock hybrid, putting out numerous discs under variations of the name WOODEN WAND. Ryko CD $14.50 Toth, James Jackson Waiting In Vain PS, US VINYL VERSION. Ryko DLP $17.50 U2 October [re-issue] PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1981 album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Neil McCormick. Island CD $12.25 U2 Boy [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. I Will Follow (Previously Unreleased Mix) / 2. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock / 3. Touch / 4. Speed of Life (Previously Unreleased Track) / 5. Saturday Night (Previously Unreleased Track) / 6. Things To Make and Do / 7. Out of Control / 8. Boy-Girl / 9. Stories For Boys / 10. Another Day / 11. Twilight / 12. Boy-Girl (Live at the Marquee, London) / 13. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (Live at the Marquee, London - Previously Unreleased Version) / 14. Cartoon World (Live at the National Stadium, Dublin - Previously Unreleased Track) Island DCD $28.50 U2 October [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. "Gloria" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 2. "I Fall Down" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 3. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 4. "Fire" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 5. "October" (Live at Hammersmith Palais, London) / 6. "With a Shout" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 7. "Scarlet" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 8. "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" (Richard Skinner BBC Session) / 9. "A Celebration" / 10. "J. Swallo" / 11. "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl" / 12. "I Will Follow" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 13. "The Ocean" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 14. "The Cry/Electric Co." (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 15. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston) / 16. "I Will Follow" (Live From Hattem, Netherlands) / 17. "Tomorrow" (Bono & Adam Clayton, Common Ground Remix) Island DCD $28.50 U2 War [expanded deluxe re-issue] (ON SALE) PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree. BONUS DISC TRACKLIST: 1. "Endless Deep" / 2. "Angels Too Tied to the Ground" (Previously Unreleased Track) / 3. "New Year's Day" (7? single edit) / 4. "New Year's Day" (USA Remix) / 5. "New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Extended Vocal Mix) / 6. "New Year's Day" (Ferry Corsten Vocal Radio Mix) / 7. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (Long Mix) / 8. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (USA Remix) / 9. "Two Hearts Beat As One" (Club Version) / 10. "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)" Island DCD $28.50 U2 War [re-issue] PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1983 album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Niall Stokes. Island CD $12.25 U2 War [re-issue] PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1983 album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging. Island LP $18.00 U2 October [re-issue] PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1981 album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging. Island LP $18.00 U2 Boy [re-issue] PS, US Regular single-CD re-issue of 1980 debut album. Remastered audio and restored packaging. Includes a 16-page booklet featuring previously unseen photos, full lyrics and new liner notes by Paul Morely. Island CD $12.25 U2 Boy [re-issue] PS, US VINYL VERSION! Reissued LP version of 1980 debut album. Remastered on 180-gram vinyl w/ restored packaging. LIMITED! Island LP $18.00 Ugly Things #26 PS, US KICK OUT THE JAMS with our big MC5 cover story, featuring a lengthy, previously unpublished interview with Rob Tyner and some incredible rare photos. Our other features include the story of '66 Sunset Strip rockers THE SONS OF ADAM, English folk-rock outfit TREES, the NORWEGIAN BEAT SCENE in the ?60s (featuring 1 2 6 and scenemaker Thor G. Noras), and British punk rock & rollers THE POP RIVETS (Billy Childish's first band, 1977-79). There's also an extensive Pre-Punk feature by Johan Kugelberg, with a foreword by Jon Savage. We also have articles on California garage band THE FLOGGS (who featured a pre-Kaleidoscope Chris Darrow), legendary Ohio psychsters THE TIFFANY SHADE, and the amazing tale of THE CEDARS from Lebanon. There?s also exclusive interviews with THE PRETTY THINGS, Arthur Brown, the Malchicks, Dave Lambert (of UK freakbeat icons FIRE: "Father's Name Was Dad"), Art Wood, Zappa associate Jeff Simmons, and much more, including of course our massive review section covering all the latest reissues and music-related books and DVDs. ZINE $10.00 Vapnet Döda Fallet PS, SWEDEN Pitchfork 8.2/10. "According to songwriter and guitarist Martin Abrahamsson, Döda Fallet is Vapnet's first traditional popskiva-- its first true pop album. He created the bulk of the band's excellent full-length debut, Jag Vet Hur Man Väntar, and the follow-up, Något Dåligt Nytt Har Hänt, on his home computer, but with the addition of the band's first full-time drummer, Vapnet decided to record its third album in a proper studio, hiring Mattias Glavå to produce. However, Döda Fallet (which translates to "the dead fall") represents no dramatic musical sidestep. Instead, it continues in roughly the same headphones-pop vein as their previous efforts: The band still draws from the formalism of Swedish pop and the florid movement of Swedish dance to locate all sorts of musical possibilities in its intricate arrangements. Glavå, who worked on recent albums by Sambassadeur and Jens Lekman, adds just a touch of reverb to the instruments, giving the songs an added depth of sound that reinforces both their exuberance and their melancholy...In the past Abrahamsson has either set Vapnet's songs to programmed beats or shared percussion duty with singer Martin Hanberg, so the presence of a live drummer makes a big difference on Döda Fallet, investing "Nyår" and closer "Det Rör Inter Hjärtat" with a sense of danceable motion. That sense of pop purity is essential to the band's appeal, at least to non-Swedish-speakers. At its best, Döda Fallet sounds like pop in its ideal form." - Stephen M. Deusner, July 8, 2008, Pitchfork Hybris-064 CD $17.75 Various Forwards In Backwards Time PS, US The Ohm Resistance singles and EPs 1-9 with bonuses, marking the beginning of our musical output - hard drum n bass from Mick Harris (as Quoit), Submerged, Temulent, and other irresponsible partiers. The origins of the label when it was one of the few US outposts for drum n bass music - always challenging the limitations of the musical format. The early vinyls took what was to be considered "dance" music and turned it out, giving it a rawer, punker, grittier feel. CD1 1. Temulent - Drugged [Remix] 2. Quoit Vs. Submerged - Everything You Do Is Wrong 3. Knuckledown - Gangbang 4. Knuckledown - Mephisto 5. Submerged - 110 6. Temulent - Monoplegia 7. Quoit - Clasp 8. Quoit - Clasp [Version] 9. Knuckledown - Watersnake 10. Scorn - Out Of [Submerged Remix] 11. Quoit Vs. Submerged - Page Fault CD2 1. Temulent - Alchaloid 2. Temulent - Kill For Me 3. Temulent - Cease + Desist 4. Temulent - Dopesick 5. Temulent - Distant Suns 6. Submerged - Alchaloid Reshape 7. Temulent - Pins + Needles 8. Temulent - Dimwit 9. Temulent - Sarcoma 10. Submerged - For The Ohm-1 DCD $13.25 Various Country Music For Keith Girdler PS, SPAIN "Country Music. Songs for Keith Girdler" is a polished compilation that was put together by Keith's close friend, Richard Preece (Lovejoy) to raise money for the Martletts Hospice in Hove, the institution that looked after Keith so generously and devotedly. All proceeds from the sale of this cd will go directly to helping raise funds for the Martlet's Hospice Hove (East Sussex) (www.themartlets.org.uk). The contributing artists have all donated their talents for the merited cause. The record is not a mere document or chronicle, all songs are original in every sense, exclusive or unreleased and recorded or provided specifically for this project. A beloved and revered member of the indie pop community as the vocalist of Blueboy, Arabesque and Beaumont, Keith passed away on May 15, 2007 after a long battle with cancer. In addition to playing music, Keith also served as a social worker and as the Volunteer Services Manager at the Age Concern care facility in Eastbourne, England. Tracklist: 1. ST CHRISTOPHER - 'Can't Forget You' (exclusive new song) 2. THE WAKE - 'Crush The Flowers' (exclusive 8 track demo) 3. PETE FIJALKOWSKI - 'Downsizing' (exclusive new song) 4. LOVEJOY - 'Melancholia' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 5. HAL- 'Down'(exclusive new song) 6. TREMBLING BLUE STARS - 'Soft Evening, Brilliant Morning' (exclusive new song) 7. LOUIS PHILLIPE - 'Lazy Thunderstorms' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 8. CLUB 8 - 'What I'm Dreaming Of...' (Japan only song from new album) 9. THE CLIENTELE - 'Breathe In Now' (exclusive new song) 10. THE TIMES - Sold (exclusive mix of song from 'E is for Edward' 11. THE WOULD BE GOODS - 'I Believe You Cassandra' (exclusive new song) 12. ABERDEEN - ' Baby I Don't Care' (exclusive new song) 13. LOVE DANCE - 'His London' (exclusive new song, Blueboy cover) 14. THE ORCHIDS - 'The Lost Star' (exclusive new song) 15. BIFF BANG POW! - 'Back To The Start' (currently unavailable elsewhere on CD) 16. (secret track) BLUEBOY - '80's Diaries'. Siesta-234 CD $19.00 Various After Dark PS, US Feat. all unreleased songs by GLASS CANDY, CHROMATICS, FARRAH, PROFESSOR GENIUS & MIRAGE. The future of dance music is here. Over 70 minutes of music. ItaliansDoItBetter 3XLP $24.00 Various Breaking Point: 20 Hard-Edged Beat Diamonds PS, UK This is the Psychic Circle label's second volume of prime beat mostly from the '60s UK, with a couple of excursions into Europe. So here we all are once again, gathered around the notional Dansette. A tottering stack of vinyl awaits our investigation. Is it gear or is it grotty? Fear not, for we do not have the burden of uncertain critique thrust upon us. All the sounds presented within have passed aural muster, and are straining to enthrall the listener. Unearthed, dusted down, and shoved frugging into the spotlight, we have a top Liverpool band recording under a pseudonym, a British soap star, a Dutch outfit who briefly featured a future UK prog-rock superstar, and a band of hard-rockin' sailors, plus a whole lot more. Specially compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Liverpool Five, Shorty & Them, James Tamlin, The Muldoons, The MI5, The Dennisons, Lee Grant & The Capitols, Hamilton King, Tages, The Dee Tees, The Circles, The Shakers, The Mike Cotton Sound, Lee Curtis & The All Stars, Chris Kerry, Tiffany & The Thoughts, The Moonlighters, George Bean, Kenny & The Wranglers, and Les Cruches. PsychicCircle-7023 CD $16.25 Various Molten Strings, Train Wrecks & Birdsong PS, US From the scathing, feedback blasts yielded by FRED LONBERG-HOLM's cello & mini-amplifiers, to the dexterous blur of C. SPENCER YEH's violin fretwork, from the pastoral vistas of PETER WRIGHT's Danelectro 12 string, to the billowy dirges of BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, ZAIMPH, FAMILY UNDERGROUND, & TAIGA REMAINS. Lending the record even further diversity are joyous bouzouki renderings from THE NORTH SEA, & damaged, eerie & beautiful contributions from ROBERT HORTON & BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD. LIMITED to 1000 StudentsofDecay CD $10.50 Weller, Paul 22 Dreams PS, US Surprises have always been part of the artistic vernacular for the man who changed rock forever w/THE JAM, explored eclectic influences w/THE STYLE COUNCIL & cemented his position as the patriarch of Brit pop w/his legendary solo work. In addition to a cast of Weller's frequent collaborators including STEVE CRADOCK & producer SIMON DINE, 22 Dreams also features some of the largest beneficiaries of Weller's incalculable musical influence. NOEL GALLAGHER & GEM from OASIS lend their talents to 'Echoes Around the Sun.' Ex-BLUR guitarist GRAHAM COXON appears on 'Black River'. YepRoc CD $14.25 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [vinyl re-issue] PS, US Not a triple-LP but double-LP that comes with the CD of the album as well as download codes. Still exciting, yes? Nonesuch 3LP $25.75 Williams, Andre Can You Deal With It? PS, US Bona fide R&B legend (penned "Shake a Tail Feather") wants us all to know that he can still get around and get down w/ the hellhound sound. This is some heavy punk-soul along with the Hellhounds w/ their fat horns & Crecent City oddball genius QUINTRON on organ. Bloodshot CD $11.75 Wilson, Dennis Pacific Ocean Blue PS, US Pure genius. Sundazed 3XLP $35.00 (Well worth it) Wilson, J. Frank & The Cavaliers Last Kiss [retrospective] PS, US In 1999, Pearl Jam scored a #1 hit with 'Last Kiss.' The original version was recorded in Texas by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers and hit #1 in November of 1964. Hear all the recordings from J.Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers, including two different versions of 'Last Kiss.' A 25 track collection of previously-unreleased recordings and stunning sound from the original master tapes make this a must-have for fans of the '60s! A richly designed CD booklet details the complete rise and fall of the group and the effect stardom had on their decline. Cicadelic CD $13.00 Windmill Puddle City Racing Light PS, US MATTHEW THOMAS DILLON is emerging as one of the UK's best singer-songwriters, his music a heady distillation of US indie, early '70s melancholia & twisted folk-pop. Possessed of a distinctive voice that sounds like Neil Young on a helium comedown, he produces songs that swell w/ bruised emotions, fragile melodies & bombastic orchestration FriendlyFire CD $12.75 Wolves In The Throne Room Two Hunters PS, US NOW ON VINYL!! LIMITED!! This is the sound of paradox, ambiguity & confusion, Catharsis is the objective, not a lilly-white & guilt free existence, death & rebirth, transformation & enlightenment. Jessica Kinney provides beautifully dark vocals. The groups willingness to experiment w/ unconventional methods of recording & collaborate w/ avant-garde musicians sets them apart from the mundane normalcy that plagues many Black Metal bands albums as of late. SouthernLord DLP $20.75 Wright, Peter At Last a New Dawn PS, US All of the familiar & wonderous WRIGHT touchstones are present here in pristine form: a wealth of gorgeous, ghostly guitar drones & swells, & impeccably employed field recordings from manifold fascinating sources. Also worth noting is the emergence of some slightly harsher sounds found here, a divergence from the traditionally pastoral nature of much of WRIGHT's catalog. This is the sound of misery and death, & ultimately, of hope & redemption. LIMITED to 500 StudentsofDecay DCD $20.50 Forthcoming Releases 31Knots Worried Well (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Polyvinyl LP $12.50 31Knots Worried Well (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Plainly stated, 31Knots hasn't moved in a new direction so much as they've ripened tofull maturity, evolved into the creature they're meant to be. Previous efforts are just as tightly wrapped, just as fierce and incendiary. But something is different. Something here is new. It deserves to be called out as thought provoking and well written music in a time when substance is quickly giving way to music of commerce and palatability. There is no band like 31Knots and Worried Well finds them at the full height of their powers. Polyvinyl CD $12.50 Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno Hotter Than Inferno / Live in Sapporo 2008 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, POLAND Recorded live at Counter Action, Sapporo, Japan, 29 June 2008 2 tracks: 1. Master Of The Cosmic Inferno ~ Heart Of Earth 2. Pink Lady Lemonade ~including Doobie Wonder Land. Time 72:26 AMT are: Tabata Mitsuru (bass, voice, malatab), Higashi Hiroshi ( synthesizer, guitar, dancin'king), Shimura Koji (drums, latino cool), Pikachu (drums, voice, cosmic shaman), Kawabata Makoto (guitar, speed guru). Vivo-038 CD $15.50 Action Biker Hesperian Puisto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, SWEDEN It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet. FriendlyNoise-69 CD $13.50 Airborne Toxic Event S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US These fixtures of the Silver Lake music scene, garnering comparisons to everyone from Modest Mouse & The Arcade Fire to the Clash & U2. The group's debut album was co-produced by Pete Min (Longwave, Ivy). ShoutFactory CD $12.75 Apollo Sunshine Shall Noise Upon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Double vinyl version! A celebration of darkness & light, love & death, friends & lovers. Feat. members of Drug Rug, Tulsa, Viva Viva. HeadlessHeroes DLP $20.75 Asva What You Don't Know Is Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Southern LP $17.00 Asva What You Don't Know Is Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Created by Stuart Dahlquist, formerly of BURNING WITCH, SUNN0))), & GOATSNAKE, this is a lyricless album of epic doom metal. Beautiful artwork and packaging. Southern CD $14.25 Atlas Sound Atlas Shrugged (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US In March 2008, while ATLAS SOUND toured the U.S.A., chief Atlas Provocateur BRADFORD COX stopped off in Olympia, Wash. to lay down some tracks at the Dub Narcotic studio for this stellar Disco Plate release. Entirely off the cuff, Bradford made up the song on the spot, played all the instruments and improvised vocals. The session was engineered by CALVIN JOHNSON, who in his guise as Selector Dub Narcotic added his own flourishes, vocal and melodica, mixed the arresting B side "version". Another instant classic in our Dub Narcotic Disco Plate series of 7" 45 RPM records. Krecords-113 45 $3.75 Aughra Proof of Dark Matter \| Light the Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! MagicBullet LP $14.50 Aughra Proof of Dark Matter \| Light the Lights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Instrumental in nature, the album succinctly captures the duality Eyestone's solo work has steadily become known for: equal parts of both eerie, creeping horror-movie-inspired isolationist chillers & soaring, feel-good, dynamic melody. The end result is an engrossing foray into a world of instant nostalgia, haunting introspection, & intangible inspiration from shadowy sources. MagicBullet CD $11.75 Barzelay, Eef Lose Big (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH) PS, US New solo album from founder and creative force of the much-loved alt-country combo Clem Snide and noted film score composer. 429Records CD $14.25 Bauhaus Sky's Gone Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US 3rd full length, originally released is 1982, & their 1st for A&M in States (in the UK it was released on Beggars Banquet). Opening w/ a shredding run through the Brian Eno track "Third Uncle", feat. some of Daniel Ash's most thrilling guitar work & Peter Murphy's strongest lyrical content yet. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Bauhaus Burning From The Inside (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US 4th release, originally released in 1983, this managed to succeed despite massive setbacks & feat. some of the strongest performances of the band's career, w/ inspired work from Murphy when he was able to return to recording, & the 1st lead vocal performances from bandmates Daniel Ash & David J. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Belle And Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Repress! Double-LP in gatefold sleeve. RoughTrade DLP $26.00 Belong Same Places (Slow Version) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US With "Same Places (Slow Version)," BELONG evinces a slow-motion transformation - plate tectonics, wired for sound. Aural mountains melt into seas; yet icy barrens yield to breathing jungles of detail. The single, sprawling track may evoke decay, dissolution and destruction, but underfoot are tendrils of inexplicable joy. Belong sings a lullaby of obliteration, and the paradox it embodies would make both Kevin Shields and Tony Conrad proud: crushing melancholia and shuddering euphoria, inexorably intertwined. TableOfTheElements-96 LP $14.25 Brain Police Electric Fungus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US First time available outside of Iceland. Driven by magnificent force & great personal charisma. Some seriously heavy tunes. SmallStone CD $13.25 Brain Police S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Icelandic citizens w/the souls of American rock gods. Fueled by a desire to play dirty, kick-ass rock 'n' roll, they rose like a comet from relative obscurity to become one of Iceland's biggest rock acts. Hailed by fellow Icelandic musician Jnnsi Birgisson (Sigur Rns) as "one of Iceland's greatest bandsone of my favorites" SmallStone CD $13.25 Briggs, Anne Time Has Come (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. This album feat. many self-penned numbers as well as a few contemporary covers w/ Briggs playing guitar & bouzouki. Briggs only released two albums & a handful of singles/EPs before retiring from the music business making this reissue an important document of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Briggs, Anne S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Originally released in 1971. She was a huge influence on the entire British folk-rock movement, especially other female singers such as Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, & Maddy Prior. This album is a strong collection of traditional folk songs & original material & one of the most important releases of the British folk revival. 4MenwithBeards LP $16.75 Briggs, Anne S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Thankfully this, her first & strongest record, reissued for the first time w/ the original cover. On CD Water CD $14.25 Brothers & Sisters Fortunately (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US MOJO MAGAZINE: "Austin-based 8-piece who sound like Big Star jamming w/Neil Young (New Life) & The Jayhawks (Without You), The Mamas & the Papas, Byrds, even Ray Davies in a swamp. Country rock ballads & pop perfection, w/imperfections in the home-made, one take sound to make it all the more engaging" CallaLilyCompany CD $12.00 Bruni, Carla Comme Si de Rien N'Etait (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Downtown CD $18.25 Caesars Strawberry Weed (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US New album from Swedish Garage-Pop Kingpins. Astralwerks CD $12.50 Carr, Derek The Digital Space Race (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record. Psychonavigation-025 CD $15.50 Chrome Chrome Box [deluxe 3CD boxset] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Cleopatra CD-BOX $22.50 Clientele, The That Night, A Forest Grew (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 9th) PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque. Acuarela-067 CD5 $8.25 Clinic Funf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $14.00 Clinic Funf (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Ten years of Clinic flipsides are joyously addled but have consistently given a reason to listen beyond the A-sides, covering acid punk to damaged hoedowns and any stops in between. Domino CD $12.00 Correcto S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Domino LP $14.00 Correcto S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Correcto is a Glaswegian super art-group collaboration that includes a member of Franz Ferdinand. They pen bittersweet songs about chocolate and girls that's equal parts Vaselines, The Kinks, and Pete Shelley after Howard Devoto split town. Inspired by the mundane, the fantastical, mawkish behavior, and hangovers, the result is an exemplary album of direct and unhampered songs. Domino CD $13.00 Crystal Antlers S-T EP (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: DUE AUGUST 2008) PS, US Ballsout psych-rock-garage-soul from Long Beach long-hairs: rips, shreds, thrashes... Fans of Wooden Shjips' mind-numbingness and A Place To Bury Strangers' visceral intensity will find this majorly mandatory. PITCHFORK: "Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, the group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend... It's tempting to be patient and call this disc a stopgap on the way to a triumphant debut full-length. But EP is plenty substantial as is; at 25 minutes, it's only a few shy of Nouns or, more to the point, any number of psych-rock classics from decades past." Self-Released CD5 $5.25 Dandy Warhols Earth to the Dandy Warhols (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US New album! Beat/EMD CD $15.25 Davila 666 S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US Over the past 2 yrs, they have amassed a large local following & their shows have a reputation as must-see spectaculars. A set functions almost like a theatrical event, as the band presents a thematic environment in which viewers are called to interact w/ props & exotic dancers. Their sound is the combination of obvious rock 'n' roll classics like the Stones, Stooges, Velvets, & Dolls, along w/ less likely influences such as Mazzy Star, Li'l Wayne, & Plan B. IntheRed CD $14.25 Davila 666 S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! IntheRed LP $10.50 Death Vessel Nothing is Precious Enough (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $12.50 Death Vessel Nothing is Precious Enough (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Death Vessel has toured with Iron And Wine, Low, Jose Gonzalez, and The Books, among others. Recorded with longtime producer/collaborator Pete Donnelly (The Figgs), this is Death Vessel's (Joel Thibodeau's) Sub Pop debut. The music is haunting and spiritual, mysterious and kind, ageless and contemporary, soulful and psychedelic. In short, it's where the requiem meets the rock 'n' roll. Subpop CD $12.50 DeVotchKa A Mad and Faithful Telling (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Anti LP $15.50 Dianogah QHNNNL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US New album from CHGO trio, features guest appearance from pal Andrew Bird. Jason, Kip & Jay have played together since January of 1995. Their core instrumentation is a trio of two bass guitars and one drummer. ANDREW BIRD plays violin on several songs, Jay steps up to the mic, and Stephanie Morris (SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR) also sings. A Midwestern musical goldmine. Southern CD $15.00 Dianogah QHNNNL (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Southern LP $15.00 Disciplines, The Smoking Kills (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, NORWAY PRE-ORDER @ $15.00, regular price $17.00. New band featuring KEN STRINGFELLOW. The Disciplines--a razor sharp, fuel efficient jet machine blending a full-on, rock blast worthy of AC/DC with anthemic melodies as sweet and singable as ABBA; a place where indie-level humility and charm meets a stadium-sized musical reach. Formed by American indie icon Ken Stringfellow (the Posies, R.E.M., Big Star, Lagwagon etc.) and the three instrument-wielding members of Norwegian chart successes Briskeby, the Disciplines have just released their first album, SMOKiNG KiLLS (Voices Music & Ent., Norway/Denmark). The album has already drawn rave reviews in the Norwegian national media; the singles "Best Mistake" and "Oslo" are bona fide chart hits; the band has been the subject of its own TV special and is on most of the major festivals in Norway this summer. The band was asked by Snow Patrol to support their London show last year; R.E.M. included the track "Yours for the Taking" on their Q magazine mix CD and has tagged the band to support their Scandinavian stadium shows in September. Coming up: a feature on Ken in Elle Scandinavia; festival and club dates in Netherlands, Spain and France; and a partnership with Chess Mobile that will put the band on screens large and small this summer (Chess will release a limited edition Disciplines phone that will come pre-loaded with the album and other features specific to the band). The band has played in Helsinki & Berlin and is looking at hitting both North and South America in the next year. VME CD $15.00 Don Cabellero Punkgasm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Relapse DLP $23.00 Don Cabellero Punkgasm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Explodes w/all of the bands legendary trademarks: wildly inventive poly-rhythms; layers of looping guitar acrobatics; rich melodies & textures; & expansive compositions that evolve & unfold from start to finish. The albums more relaxed feel sees the band pushing their sound in a host of surprising new directions. Relapse CD $15.00 Eden Express Que Amors Que (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US ON VINYL! Feat. CLOUDLAND CANYON DUDE. The witchy beauty recalls Pan y Regalis, Charlie & Esdor, & early tropicalia albums. Pour yourself & a friend some cocktails, sit by the pool, & try to become lucid as your bare, tanned forearms grow beyond 17 ft long. HolyMountain LP $16.00 Faint, The Fasciinatiion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Blank.wav DLP $21.75 Faint, The Fasciinatiion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Their 1st album in 4 years through their own, newly-formed label. In certain ways, the album is the most mechanical & precise of the band's work: the vocals sound less human than ever before; the bass lines are more mangled, keyboards spiral & squeal out of control; electronic pings & stabs invade the melodies; the lyrical anxiety & disdain of previous albums pervades almost every song. Blank.wav CD $15.00 Fiery Furnaces Remember (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Vinyl is housed in a custom-made old style tip-on gatefold jacket with a pasted-in flap that holds the third LP. Also includes download coupon. ThrillJockey 3XLP $21.75 Fiery Furnaces Remember (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US This double CD live album features 51 tracks spanning the band's entire catalog and was recorded over the past three years of constant touring. CD comes in a deluxe 6-panel digipack with coupon to download an exclusive bonus track. ThrillJockey CD $15.00 Giant Sand Provisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND) PS, US The musical family tree of the group is long & illustrious, spawning bands like Calexico & The Friends of Dean Martinez. Howe Gelb has steadily amassed a prolific catalog of material that spans the wealth of southwestern roots & lo-fi. This is cinematic Americana at its most aching, an album of tremolo soaked guitars, moody piano & secrets whispered over desert winds. Features talented friends/collaborators such as Neko Case, M. Ward & Isobell Campbell. YepRoc CD $14.50 Giant Sand Provisions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! YepRoc DLP $18.25 Hanson, Jeff Madam Owl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US This album does not mark a radical departure from his previous two records, as the essential elements are still here. The bare acoustic prettiness of his debut "Son" and the handcrafted pop cleverness of "Jeff Hanson" have been developed further. And, like its predecessors, this release contains a set of pop-music symphonies, each one of which feels like it could be the record's single. KillRockStars CD $13.25 Heaviness S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US This Swedish band's own brand of mayhem pop has been very well received in the neo-shoegaze camp. Electric violin, driving drums, flowing guitar, & bittersweet vocals forge a path through a forest of anxiety, longing & oppression. The songs strike you down w/their brute force only to lift you up w/the beauty of their melodies. Special Japanese issue featuring a bonus track/new artwork. Quince CD $13.75 Human Highway Moody Motorcycle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SuicideSqueeze LP $14.00 Human Highway Moody Motorcycle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US This duo presents a sound reminiscent of 50s/60s soul and doo-wop (i.e., The Everly Brothers). Human Highway came about while Jim Guthrie and Nick Thorburn (Islands, ex-Unicorns) were on tour with Islands. Vinyl comes with a coupon for a free digital download. SuicideSqueeze CD $12.50 Ida My Fair, My Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US The 12" includes a bonus track, is on 180 gram vinyl, and includes a free digital download card. Polyvinyl 12 $9.75 Ida My Fair, My Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US This seven song, 30 minute mini-album was recorded in a barn in Woodstock, while Ida was making their latest album, Lovers Prayers. The My Fair, My Dark EP features guest appearances by Levon Helm, Michael Hurley and Tara Jane ONeil. Includes covers of songs by John Martyn, Dolly Parton and Annie Briggs. Polyvinyl CD5 $8.75 Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Formed from members of the Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, Portland, OR's Jaguar Love add heavy-duty glam moves and crunchy, addictive hooks to the mix on this debut. "The beauty of Jaguar Love is how they manage to compose songs so intentionally vicious, strange, and manic, and yet totally hook-driven" - Seattle Times. Matador CD $10.00 Jaguar Love Take Me To The Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Jem Down to Earth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 2ND) PS, US The album reflects the singer/songwriters far-ranging influences including Brazilian percussion on the title track, a hip shacking track complete w/funky banjos on "Crazy", the tempestuous Latin-flavored track "I Want You To...", a dance-pop tune "Aciid!" in which she sings in Japanese, & a moving collaboration w/South African singer-songwriter & poet-activist VUSI MAHLASELA on the track "You Will Make it" ATO CD $12.50 Jesu Why Are We Not Perfect? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US On this five track EP, Justin Broadrick has set aside the heavy foundation of pounding guitars prevalent in past recordings and brought to the fore elements of texture and melody. "...Broadrick has layered so many blurps, wooshes, and digital gnarls throughout each song, they take on a life of their own" - Decibel. "Dripping heavy, cascading walls of sound" - Spin. HydraHead CD $10.00 Jesu/Battle of Mice Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION. Limited vinyl LP version available in 4 different colors, 500 each, in deluxe packaging w/ metallic silver ink & spot matte finish.. RoboticEmpire LP $19.00 Jesu/Battle of Mice Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Several years in the making, each band offers 2 exclusive, lengthy tracks on this limited-edition release. JESU, comprised of the cult-followed JUSTIN K. BROADRICK (Godflesh, Napalm Death, Techno Animal), showcases heavy music on the darker end of the spectrum. BATTLE OF MICE (members of Red Sparrowes, Storm of Light) contribute the most sinister songs they've ever recorded. Heavier than their debut album, yet more dynamic overall, & possibly their last recordings ever. Both formats come in deluxe packaging w/ metallic silver ink & spot matte finish. Limited one-time pressings of 2000 copies each format. RoboticEmpire CD $15.25 Judys, The Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Judys, The Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE 2008) PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music. WastedTalent CD $15.00 Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Well known for his epic & ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost 29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer, more epic & more melodic. Lindstrom says, "I realized that working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me to think very differently to what I was used to... when working on longer tracks, there's so much more time to develop different themes & to let them evolve" SmalltownSupersound CD $14.50 Lord Dog Bird, The The Lord Dog Bird (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US THE LORD DOG BIRD is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for JAGJAGUWAR artists, WILDERNESS. While the band was on extended hiatus, McCann kept at it, documenting his feelings about life and music at home on his four track. The result is a gritty, tactile document of a time spent in self-exploration and flux. Jagjaguwar-118 CD $11.50 Lord Dog Bird, The The Lord Dog Bird (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US THE LORD DOG BIRD is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for JAGJAGUWAR artists, WILDERNESS. While the band was on extended hiatus, McCann kept at it, documenting his feelings about life and music at home on his four track. The result is a gritty, tactile document of a time spent in self-exploration and flux. Jagjaguwar-118 LP $11.50 Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail. A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia. Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical, or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment" to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken 7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches) and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel, Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher (A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations, photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum 52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler. 12K-1048 CD $12.25 Maquiladora St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 9th) PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F. Acuarela-1083 DCD $16.00 Mars Black Stay Black (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Brooklyn's Mars releases his follow-up to 2005's "Folks Music". "The album is what it says - it's black stayin' black, from start to finish. Fifteen tracks, no skits, just me talkin' about how st is and how I wish st was. I laugh, I cry, I struggle, and I overcome. Friends, family, business, love, and life. What more is there?" TeamLove CD $12.50 Mercury Rev Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego [expanded re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, UK We can't be the only Rev-heads who need a fresh copy of this stunning early 90s masterpiece, can we? 2007 Special Edition three disc (two CDs and a NTSC/Region 0 DVD) pressing of the classic 1991 debut album from the Alternative weirdoes. The second CD, Lego My Ego (a much sought-after collection of rarities and radio sessions), has been unavailable for 12 years while the DVD, which features rare video clips, has never been released before! Bonus disc, Lego My Ego, tracklist: 1. If You Want Me to Stay / 2. Shh/Peaceful/Very Sleepy Rivers / 3. Frittering / 4. Coney Island Cyclone / 5. Car Wash Hair / 6. Syringe Mouth / 7. Blood on the Moon / 8. Chasing a Bee (Inside a Car) Mint DCD/DVD $21.00 Moonbabies, The Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008) PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover". Startracks/Hidden Agenda CD5 $2.00 Moondoggies Don t Be A Stranger (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Seattle's Moondoggies play timeless American music. Warm three-part harmonies, gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country. Whipsmart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. Shades of gospel, blues, rock, and country commingle, and wall-of-sound harmonies radiate joy and passion. The influences of The Band, The Byrds, and especially early Grateful Dead are evident, though The Moondoggies' lyrical economy and compositional sensibility render these tracks fresh and unique. HardlyArt CD $10.75 Music Go Music Reach Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Like a bolt from Zeus, MUSIC GO MUSIC have struck again with their new 12" single, 'Reach Out.' This outing finds them exploring a darker side of pop music; the place where Deep Purple's brute force meets the Carpenter's tragic wistfulness, where Blondie's power-hooks cross melodic swords with Meat Loaf's drama-rock theatrics. They've expanded their palette considerably, yet the sound is unmistakably theirs, and the magic of it points the way to the light at the end of the tunnel. 'Reach Out' is the monologue of a would-be savior, offering to lift us from the pit of despair. It treks from Logan's Run ambience to proto-metal riffing to disco-gallop to TV detective funk and back again. SecretlyCanadian-172 12 $9.00 Music Tapes Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US This album spotlights Julian Koster's songcraft and distinctive vocals, his almost religious devotion to the singing saw, and numerous contributions from other musicians in the Elephant 6 orbit. As on previous efforts, recording was done using an array of antique hardware, giving the record a timeless, texturally rich sonic palette. Merge CD $13.25 Music Tapes Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornadoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge LP $15.50 Normanoak Estra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US NORMANOAK has another piece of vinyl to share with the world, a true follow up to last year's "A Double Gift of Tongues". This new album is called "Estra", named after a powerful horned goddess whom Normanoak has been busy invoking recently in small performance spaces around the country. Everything was recorded in his bedroom in Bloomington, Indiana, on three different tape machines. The music on "Estra" shows more variety than any of his previous efforts. Chugging rock songs burn up into soft, dark dirges that feature a uniquely made-up language code. Screaming minute-long hardcore songs fade into freaky, fucked instrumentals. There is even a song which curses the current state government, and their excessive logging of Normanoak's home forests of Southern Indiana. Throughout these 14 pieces, Normanoak takes on many personalities, such as his alter-ego Poisonoak. Over time the listener can begin to notice the shifts in perspective that the singer makes. Normanoak is more than just another musician. His work is pure sorcery at its most successful. St.Ives-026 LP $11.50 Oberst, Conor Conor Oberst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US themselves and to friends as The Mystic Valley Band. Members include Nate Walcott, Jason Boesel, Macey Taylor, Nik Freitas, and Taylor Hollingsworth. The result is his first solo album in thirteen years, following "Water" (1993), "Here's To Special Treatment" (1994), and "Soundtrack To My Movie" (1995). In that time, he's recorded and performed in Commander Venus, Park Ave., Desaparecidos, and most notably Bright Eyes, his main musical vehicle for the past decade. Merge CD $14.00 Oberst, Conor Conor Oberst (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Merge LP $15.50 O'Connor, Jennifer Here With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Recorded with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth), "Here With Me" is a breezier, more upbeat work than 2006's "Over The Mountain", but is packed with no less of an emotional wallop. Jennifer's songs have never before sounded this crafted or hit the listener with such immediacy. LP contains MP3 coupon. Look for tour dates supporting Wilco, Jamie Lidell, and Son, Ambulance. Headlining tour in the fall. "A rush of everything you ever liked about indie songwriters: substantial songwriting, crystalline vocals, sumptuously simple pop...you have to love an artist who reminds you of everyone but defies comparison" - Time Out NY. Matador CD $10.00 O'Connor, Jennifer Here With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Matador LP $14.00 Oneida Preteen Weaponry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US "Preteen Weaponry" is part one of the "Thank Your Parents" triptych of ONEIDA releases. Oneida members past, present and future all contributed to this project. It reminds Oneida of what a live performance might sound like. It contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. You can consider it an introduction to their forthcoming triple album "Rated O", which is part two of the fore-mentioned triptych (to be released by Jagjaguwar in early 2009). Jagjaguwar-125 LP $14.25 Oneida Preteen Weaponry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US "Preteen Weaponry" is part one of the "Thank Your Parents" triptych of ONEIDA releases. Oneida members past, present and future all contributed to this project. It reminds Oneida of what a live performance might sound like. It contains captured improvisational moments married with craft. You can consider it an introduction to their forthcoming triple album "Rated O", which is part two of the fore-mentioned triptych (to be released by Jagjaguwar in early 2009). Jagjaguwar-125 CD $11.50 Original Silence Second Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SmalltownSuperjazz LP $18.00 Original Silence Second Original Silence (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US The return of THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE, MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded at a September 28, 2006 performance at Rome, Italy's Brancaleone. Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy SmalltownSuperjazz CD $14.50 Oxford Collapse Bits (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US They have a charming lack of guile, combined with a focus on the better of the 80s college rock cognoscenti and Trouser Press favorites. This record is the sound of fun turning into purpose, of a great band writing and playing their best songs, and knowing how great that feels. It's all heart and ingenuity, the joyous racket that connects C86 pop to the present. Subpop CD $12.50 Paramount Styles Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls of sound. Konkurrent CD $13.25 Pram The Moving Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DominoRecordingCo LP $14.00 Pram The Moving Frontier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Pram are a quintet from Birmingham's Moseley district and have been subverting what we know as pop music for thirteen years, always managing to stay fresh and ahead of their contemporaries. On this record, they've created a mysterious and wonderful landscape that's sky-wide open. These songs not only soundtrack, but gently prompt and orchestrate a reflective daydream moment. DominoRecordingCo CD $13.00 Prints Just Thoughts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Quickly following their debut full-length, PRINTS return to stir the pot with a little more pop, their usual dose of psychedlia and an intoxicating amount of dance. Once again produced at home by multi-instrumentalists Zac Nelson and KENSETH THIBIDEAU, the songs here were originally conceived as b-sides for a proposed single for "Too Much Water" from the group's eponymous debut. By the time three new songs were completed, they stood too strong on their own to be pushed out as b-sides, so the decision was made to forfeit the single and instead offer the songs as a stand-alone EP. Meanwhile, DFA cofounder and Hercules and Love Affair producer Tim Goldsworthy fired up his new alter-ego Thee Loving Hand for an epic super-funk remix of a pair of Prints tracks, "Pretty Tick" and "Meditation" (featuring, among other things, the funk bass skills of !!!'s Tyler Pope). To top it off, acclaimed visual artist Toben Seymour directed an eye-popping video for "Too Much Water," which is included here on the Enhanced CD portion of the disc. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-137 CD $9.00 Prisonshake Dirty Moons (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Scat DLP $19.25 Prisonshake Dirty Moons (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US These recordings, all but one done entirely in the analog domain between 1995 to 2007, encompass both realism & psychedelia, sometimes via tape manipulation & found sound. Performances range from the completely live (even vocals) to near Bob Ezrin-levels of production, but all have an everybodyin-the-room recording at their core. Scat DCD $14.25 Ra Ra Riot Rhumb Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Their self-titled EP (sold mostly at venues) & the dark-edged joyfulness of their live shows (which feature a kickass co-ed bass-guitardrums-vocal-cello-violin lineup) has garnered acclaim from high-profile media. This is their full-length debut, which features 9 originals & the best Kate Bush cover you've ever heard ("Suspended in Gaffa") Barsuk CD $11.00 Rosebud Discoballs: A Disco Tribute To Pink Floyd [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Back in 1979, way before the flood of tribute albums swamped your local record store's bins, this curiosity featuring disco versions of Pink Floyd songs came out on Warner Bros. Now, usually when you put the words 'disco' and 'tribute' together in the same phrase, the result is not going to be pretty. What does, however, make this album reissue-worthy is that two of the folks behind this, Claude Engel and Jannick Top, were members of the legendary French prog group Magma, and they were no doubt instrumental in the adventurous choice of tunes on this record. Sure, 'Money' and 'Have a Cigar', which was a minor hit, are not such a stretch, but disco versions of 'Interstellar Overdrive', 'Arnold Layne' and 'One of These Days'?! Not even Syd Barrett in his wildest dreams could have imagined such a thing! It's easily the most danceable Pink Floyd album ever! Collector'sChoice CD $13.75 Royal We, The S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US The Royal We were a Scottish/American fever dream who broke up before this record was released. A mini-LP of eight near perfect imperfections that hit all those great obscurest touchstones in the tweest of pop music...Orange Juice, The Raincoats, The Pastels, Field Mice. DominoRecordingCo CD $11.00 Royal We, The S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! DominoRecordingCo LP $14.00 sBACH S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US sBACH is Spencer Seim, (Hella, The Advantage). This record is a frenetic mélange akin to the sights, sounds, and sugar rushes of an entire elementary school locked in a Chuck E. Cheese and having to subside on an all-you-can-eat buffet of Fun Dip and Pixie Stix. The animatronic, caffeinated band dishes out phosphorescent doom riffs while running amok with blips and bleeps. Kitschy, stoner rock with jazz rhythms and chicken scratch electronica. SuicideSqueeze CD $12.00 Schaeffer, Janek Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH) PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews: "a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling" [The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual" [Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett, my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very aware of how lucky we all are. have been constantly comparing this to the fact that my mother was born in Warsaw in 1942 - the epicenter of World War II. How opposite can two beginnings be? This inspired me to produce the Extended Play installation, which continuously and positively celebrates hope and new beginnings, for child survivors in all situations around the world. The original idea for the composition came from learning about the 'Jodoform' system of secret musical messages that were broadcast by the BBC Service, during music they played was given a particular meaning, which was interpreted by Polish Underground. Discovered from the original Jodoform logbook, that the lovely Polish folk song 'Tango Lyczakowskie', was broadcast on the day my mother was born. Song describes how children in 1918, had been forced to take up arms, in defense of their town. From this tune, chose a short rising musical phrase, and with my arranger Michael Jennings, developed a ten-minute score. Each of the three solo parts was then recorded separately, edited, and cut onto vinyl. In the gallery, 3 x Cello EP's, 3 x Piano EP's, and 3 x Violin EP's are played at either 33, 45, or 78rpm using nine retro record players. These play continuously, and each was modified to stop playing briefly in response to the audience moving around the exhibition. This has the effect of changing and extending the composition, so that it is never the same again. Line-036 CD $12.25 Schnauss, Ulrich Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Schnauss returns after last year's acclaimed third album, "Goodbye", with this "Stars" EP, highlighting the standout track with a new edit, remixes, and a new version of "Look At The Sky". The MAPS remix takes "Stars" to a new level of hyperactive electronic dream pop, while the Mahogany remix is a dense and spacey turn on the track with layers of added textures. DominoRecordingCo CD5 $6.25 Stereolab Chemical Chords (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! 4AD LP $19.25 Stereolab Chemical Chords (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Their eleventh album is a collection of purposefully short, dense, fast pop songs brimming with Motown-like drums, baroque-pop brass and string arrangements, and mellifluous vocal performances. It is, nonetheless, classic Stereolab; like all their best work, a perfect equipoise between an implausibly cool past and a shamelessly exotic future. "England's lounge-pop heroes" - Blender. "Stereolab's unmistakable cosmonaut pop...a trademarked stamp of the 90s. No one else managed to duplicate their retro-futurist harmony" - Fader. 4AD CD $13.25 Sweet, Matthew Sweet Sunshine Lies (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE! New album from Matthew Sweet joined by Susanna Hoffs, Ric Menck and Richard Lloyd. Pretty Parasolly, dontcha think? Without warning, this consummate artist just may have made the album of his life, not by consciously trying to recapture the brilliance of his three milestones, Girlfriend, Altered Beast and 100% Fun, but simply by following his big heart, while hot-wiring the process between inspiration and execution so that there's no longer any distance between them. With tongue only partly in cheek, Matthew describes the new record's sound as "power-pop-folk-rock-psychedelic-melodic-singer-songwriter-type stuff." That turns out to be an accurate general description, but the real intrigue is in the details. By turns achingly melodic and drivingly visceral, Sunshine Lies swirls with relatable emotion and bad-ass attitude, seamlessly incorporating the artist's expansive aesthetic from one end (poetry) to the other (noise). On Sunshine Lies, Sweet intermixes his distinctive brand of shimmering folk rock ("Byrdgirl," "Daisychain," "Around You Now") and signature goosebump ballads ("Feel Fear," "Pleasure Is Mine," "Back of My Mind"), with the album's primary impulse, what he refers to as "the crazy songs." These are heady, arrangement-based pieces where anything goes in terms of tone, texture and performance-the mindblowing "Time Machine," the balls-to-the-wall "Room to Rock," the brawny "Flying" and the Who-like "Let's Love." ShoutFactory CD $11.50 Tallest Man On Earth, The Shallow Grave (PRE-ORDER: DELAYED, SALEABLE JULY 2008) PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting." Gravitation CD $13.00 Technical Itch You Need Therapy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPT. 9TH) PS, US Technical Itch is the legendary drum n bass artist behind the worldwide phenomenon "THERAPY SESSIONS" club night. From London to Moscow to Philadelphia to Mexico City, Therapy Sessions is unrivaled for the sounds of the heaviest drum n bass music. Technical Itch is the godfather of the movement, with albums on Moving Shadow, and collaborations with Dieselboy, Dylan, Gein, and more. This mix is a stunning representation of the Technical Itch live set - 28 tracks packed into 80 minutes, masterful set programming with peaks, valleys, and change ups into rock and metal, highlighting the flexibility and integration of drum n bass into the musical landscape. Brutal, passionate, and perfect, this is at the level of the best mix output of Dieselboy. OhmResistance-9M CD $13.00 Thee Oh Sees Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US "Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion" is a brilliant live performance collaboration between THEE OH SEES and video director Brian Lee Hughes. The project resulted in a double-disc DVD/CD set featuring live performances filmed and recorded, not on stages, but at a variety of hauntingly scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The film is also studded with dozens of stories, jokes and whatnots filmed during their four-day filming adventure. The resulting recordings are included on the audio CD. The results are a rare and necessary masterpiece. Step into the lush dark charm of Thee Oh Sees. Tomlab-119 DVD + CD $15.75 Tractor Kings Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY?) PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders. Spur-CD-006 CD $9.00 U.S. Girls Introducing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US If the alluring moniker used by Megan Uremovich conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there's any doubt that Uremovich couldn't rise & conquer either challenge.RIYL Sally Strobelight, Inca Ore, Diamanda Galas. Hand-screened cover, one time edition of 500 Siltbreeze LP $16.00 Uglysuit S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Quarterstick LP $14.00 Uglysuit S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 19TH) PS, US Oklahoma City's Uglysuit is remarkably fresh-faced and honest; they believe in letting loose, fostering a heartfelt atmosphere of hope and love. Their music is an extended love song to the notion that everything is possible, yet nothing is guaranteed. Look for them on tour supporting Iron And Wine this summer, and on a full US tour upon release. Quarterstick CD $13.00 Vandervelde, David Waiting For The Sunrise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Just as there are albums that artists were born to make, there are albums that labels were born to release. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is one of those albums for both DAVID VANDERVELDE and SECRETLY CANADIAN. Upon first laying the needle down, the listener is greeted by a warm wash of sounds that seems to breeze in from decades back. Vandervelde's singular voice emerges from the drums and keys with "When the morning comes, I will be fine, I will be fine, I will be fine" and you're pretty damn sure he will be. The tones may be familiar, but his voice as an artist is his own, new and wholly contemporary, and you feel lucky to be here to watch the emergence. Critics marveled at Vandervelde's songwriting on his debut "Moonstation House Band", the mini-album which had the aesthetic wherewithal to hold its own side-for-side with the classics as a late night jam record. Spin magazine remarked that "at a pipsqueakish 22 years old, David Vandervelde is already generating the kind of indie-net whispering that musicians twice his age pine for." And on songs such as "California Breezes", "Someone Like You" and "Lyin' In Bed", it's clear that the material on this first long-player from Vandervelde is of a higher order - lyrically more personal and stripped down. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is the beautiful result of having extended himself both musically and emotionally. SecretlyCanadian-170 CD $11.50 Vandervelde, David Waiting For The Sunrise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 5TH) PS, US Just as there are albums that artists were born to make, there are albums that labels were born to release. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is one of those albums for both DAVID VANDERVELDE and SECRETLY CANADIAN. Upon first laying the needle down, the listener is greeted by a warm wash of sounds that seems to breeze in from decades back. Vandervelde's singular voice emerges from the drums and keys with "When the morning comes, I will be fine, I will be fine, I will be fine" and you're pretty damn sure he will be. The tones may be familiar, but his voice as an artist is his own, new and wholly contemporary, and you feel lucky to be here to watch the emergence. Critics marveled at Vandervelde's songwriting on his debut "Moonstation House Band", the mini-album which had the aesthetic wherewithal to hold its own side-for-side with the classics as a late night jam record. Spin magazine remarked that "at a pipsqueakish 22 years old, David Vandervelde is already generating the kind of indie-net whispering that musicians twice his age pine for." And on songs such as "California Breezes", "Someone Like You" and "Lyin' In Bed", it's clear that the material on this first long-player from Vandervelde is of a higher order - lyrically more personal and stripped down. "Waiting For The Sunrise" is the beautiful result of having extended himself both musically and emotionally. SecretlyCanadian-170 LP $11.50 Various Half Dreaming (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Shoegaze transcends its British influences & resurfaces in Asia w/this compilation, featuring 16 bands & 16 new, unreleased, or re-recorded tracks. Some of these artists are well known in the Asian scene & others about to debut. Quince-62 CD $13.75 Verse En Coma Rialto (10"/CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 12TH) PS, US Five dynamic tracks that collided w/ both artistic & industry red tape comprise this incredible debut. These delays hinder absolutely nothing though, as the power & sheer intensity behind these songs is borderline overwhelming. Unique, passionate, & soaring vocals compliment the screaming, effectsladen guitarwork & air-tight rhythm section. Feat. members of PG 99, MALADY, DARKEST HOUR, HARAM & more. RoboticEmpire 10 $17.75 Whisper in the Noise Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH) PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices. ExileOnMainstream-030 CD $13.50 Wooden Shjips Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HolyMountain LP $14.00 Zomes S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US Debut solo from former LUNGFISH/ PUPILS guitarist. This album is full of beautiful Seesselbergsized chunks of loop-like melodies that effervesce while Osborne brings them to life. There is a cinematic quality to the material here that recalls "library music," East German Indianerfilmen soundtracks, & even Blues Control at their most humid. HolyMountain CD $15.00 Zomes S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 26TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! HolyMountain LP $15.00 Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders** Alaska In Winter “Dance Party in the Balkans” CD $14.50 Am-Boy “Clayton’s Hideout” LP $9.75 Anderson, Jason “The Hopeful and the Unafraid” LP $11.50 Autumns, The “Fake Noise from a Box of Toys” CD $12.25 Beatundercontrol “Cosmic Repackage” CD $17.75 Belhom, Thomas “No Border” CD $16.00 Black Twig Pickers “Hobo Handshake” CD $14.25 Bread, Love & Dreams “The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha [re-issue]” CD $16.25 Brian Jonestown Massacre “My Bloody Underground” CD $14.00 Bronze “Calypso Shakedown” CD $12.25 Caned & Able “Smoke” CD $17.75 Canned Heat “Canned Heat Live: Woodstock 10th Anniversary” CD $12.25 Charalambides “Rose/Thorn” LP $18.75 Chen, Shinki “S-T” CD $16.25 Chin Chin “S-T” CD $13.00 Citified “Meeting After” CD $7.75 Cloud Cult “Feel Good Ghosts: Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes” CD $15.00 Constantines “Kensington Heights” LP $16.00 Constantines “Kensington Heights” CD $15.00 Constantines + Feist “Islands in the Stream” 45 $6.50 Dizzee Rascal “Maths + English” CD $15.00 Drift, The “Memory Drawings” DLP $14.25 Drift, The “Memory Drawings” CD $11.50 Electric Pop Group “Sunrise EP” CD5 $6.50 Elliott, Matt “Failing songs” CD $16.25 Envy “Transfovista” DVD $14.25 Explorers Club, The “Do You Love Me? / Carry Me” 45 $4.75 Fairport Convention “S-T” LP $23.00 Fleischmann & Tarwater “Morr Music Japan Tour EP [2005]” CD5 $10.75 Flower Travelin' Band “Satori [re-issue]” CD $15.00 Foals “Antidotes” LP $12.50 Foals “Antidotes” CD $12.50 Frank Black “Sv N F Ng Rs” CD $10.50 Fred “Live at the Bitter End” CD $18.25 Frightened Rabbit “Midnight Organ Fight” CD $13.25 Gel-Sol “IZ” CD $15.50 Gerrard, Denny “Sinister Morning” CD $20.25 Godspeed You Black Emperor! “F#A#” LP $14.25 Gossip, The “Live in Liverpool” CD/DVD $13.25 Hood, Robert “39” CD $17.00 Hornet Leg “Blood Trilogy” 45 $3.75 Incredible Vickers Brothers, The “Gallimaufry” CD $11.00 Indricothere “S-T (LP/CD)” LP $15.75 Karmic Society “Journey” CD $18.25 Keef Hartley Band “Overdog” CD $20.25 Khan “Space Shanty” CD $20.25 Kooks,The “Konk” CD $12.50 Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin “Missa Luba” CD $15.50 Lights “S-T” CD $13.25 Lipp, Eliot “The Outside” CD $9.00 M83 “Saturdays=Youth (ON SALE)” CD $14.00 Married Monk, The “Elephant People” CD $20.25 Mellow Candle “Swaddling Songs” CD $20.25 Meloy, Colin “Sings Live!” DLP $21.00 Microphones “Glow Pt. 2 [reissue]” DCD $12.50 Microphones “Glow Pt. 2 [reissue]” 3XLP $21.00 Mills, Chris “Living in the Aftermath” CD $11.00 Monotonix “Body Language” CD5 $11.00 Monotonix “Body Language” 12 $11.00 Moore, Thurston “Sensitive/Lethal” CD $15.25 Motorpsycho “Trust Us (1998)” DCD $19.00 Mt. Wilson Repeater “S-T” CD $12.25 Narcophony “Play the Residents” CD $17.00 No Kids “Come Into My House” LP $12.25 Northern Portrait “The Fallen Aristocracy EP” CD5 $6.50 Os Mutantes “A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado” LP $25.00 Quarter After, The “Too Much to Think About” 45 $6.50 Retribution Gospel Choir “S-T” LP $17.00 Ringfinger “Decimal” LP $15.75 Room “Pre-Flight” CD $20.25 Sonic Youth “J'Accuse Ted Hughes” 12 $9.50 Swift, Richard “Richard Swift as Onasis” LP $11.50 Swift, Richard “Richard Swift as Onasis” DCD $11.50 Thee Oh Sees “The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In” CD $12.25 Three Legged Race “Living Order/Mourning Order” LP $17.00 Triclops! “Out of Africa” LP $16.00 Triclops! “Out of Africa” CD $16.00 Various “The Room of Loud Sound: Heavy Psych from the USA 1968-72” CD $16.25 Various “Garage Beat '66, Vol. 4: I'm In Need!” CD $14.25 Various “Garage Beat '66, Vol. 5: Readin' Your Will!” CD $14.25 Venna “S-T” CD5 $6.75 Wilders, The “Someone's Got to Pay” CD $16.00 Year Of No Light “Nord” DLP $17.50 Yellow Swans & Mouthus “Conan Island” LP $16.75 Yoro Sidibe “S-T” CD $13.25 Zero “Joke Box” CD $17.00