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This week we’ve got great new releases from Nick Castro, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins, Love Is All, Mastodon, Catfish Haven, and more!!

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New Releases

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Advantage
Elf Titled
PS, US This follow-up to their 2004 self-titled debut is an 8-bit instrumental Nintendo cover record, recorded in big fat analog. The Advantage are serious dudes who rock with good intentions.
5RueChristine
CD
$14.50

Ahleuchatistas
What You Will
PS, US Third album from this amazing avant-technical, post-Beefheart, improv-core, math-metal, art-damage, punk-rock, power trio formed in February, 2003, Ahleuchatistas are a guitar/bass/drums trio from Asheville, NC whose music is a cutting cultural critique and a joyous musical experience. Their sound is as stripped down as it can be - they use no effects whatsoever - and they combine elements of punk rock, post-electronic, progressive rock mathrock, fusion, and minimalism. They have released two acclaimed records, but What You Will is their first release with significant distribution. They have gained a significant reputation very quickly for their powerful and precise live shows. 3 QuickTime movies of the band in concert, playable on your Mac or PC, which captures a taste of their staggering live performances! For fans of: Captain Beefheart, Don Caballero, Fantomas, Hella, Minutemen, Ruins.
Cuneiform-221
CD
$13.75

Akimbo
Forging Steel & Laying Stone
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AlternativeTentacle-344
LP
$10.00

Akimbo
Forging Steel & Laying Stone
PS, US s They have built layers upon layers to their fortress of rock, buttressed by a string of releases, culminating in their 5th album. Former members of TIGHT BROS FROM WAY BACK WHEN & HOMO ERADICUS. It's a 12 song epic that expands the reach of their dominance over Northwest rock/hardcore.
AlternativeTentacle-344
CD
$13.75

Andrew WK
Who Knows
PS, US Enigmatic AWK at the peak of the hedonistic hysteria. Incl. bonus material interviews, tour footage, fan tribute, outtakes, antics.
MVD-4478
DVD
$14.75

Antony And The Johnsons
You Are My Sister
PS, US ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS breakthrough album "I Am A Bird Now" has certainly touched fans and critics alike. His second full-length - released in February - stands as one of the most globally acclaimed albums of 2005. The album's latest single is the anthemic and heart-rending "You Are My Sister", presented as a duet between Antony and BOY GEORGE. Together these two vocalists climb to the highest peak of emotional vulnerability providing for the listener one of the most touching and uncanny duets of the past decade. It's heartbreaking when Antony sings, "You are my sister / we were born / so innocent, so full of need / there were times we were friends / but times I was so cruel / at night I'd asked for to watch me as I sleep". With soaring and world-weary intensity, Boy George utterly commands the refrain: "You are my sister / and I love you / may all of your dreams come true." In "You Are My Sister," the pair sing from the depths of their hearts for the world. This extended single also includes three new, unreleased songs recorded during the "I Am A Bird Now" sessions.
SecretlyCanadian-130
12
$8.25

Apparitions
As This is Futuristic
PS, US Described as "The Pixies on ecstacy" -City Beat Cincinnati, OH & "manic, feverish, and damn near irresistible" -Splendid -Chicago, IL. Two distinct lead vocalists & a three-guitar sonic assault that is dynamic, angular & full of wiry tension. Featured on MTV, charted on CMJ, shared bills w/ notable groups such as The Features, Cat Power, The Standard & Califone. Engaging lyrics & jangle-hooked melodies. Unique brand of golden pop rock, wrapping dystopian riddles,
whimsical stories & spastic social commentary in sugary melodies & swampy harmonic bliss.
Machine-751
CD
$13.75

Ariel Pink
House Arrest
PS, US Hit after hit sorta like if you listened to your friend's boombox mix tape from Top 40 radio from 1985. Appetizer for new album summer '06
PawTracks-008
CD
$16.00

Ariel Pink
House Arrest
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PawTracks-008
LP
$12.00

Artery
Into The Garden: An Artery Collection
PS, UK Artery are one of the great lost bands of the post-punk era. They were widely acknowledged to be Sheffield's answer to Joy Division. Regularly championed by the likes of Jarvis Cocker of Pulp as the steel city's finest export, until now Artery have been denied the career appraisal they so richly deserve. This collection is headed by the much admired, hugely atmospheric 'Into The Garden', voted fourth best record of 1981 by listeners to John Peel's show. It also draws on highlights from their cult 1983 LP One Afternoon In A Hot Air Balloon and the mini-album Oceans. The recordings feature later Mission guitarist Simon Hinkler as well as the unique presence of singer Mark Gouldthorpe, one of the most incisive lyricists and volatile frontmen of the era. The package is completed with exclusive remixes and never before officially released tracks, as well as full sleeve notes and track annotation.
CherryRed-296
CD
$14.75

Ash, Daniel
Come Alive
PS, UK Daniel Ash has one of the most impressive resumes in rock history. With Love And Rockets, he fashioned such alternative staples as "No New Tail to Tell," "Ball of Confusion," and the 1989 Top Five smash "So Alive." "Go," the massive 1984 club hit by his Tones On Tail project, has been featured in such movies as Grosse Pointe Blank, and is continually featured in TV and radio commercials. Moby sampled and used the title for his track GO and Fun Lovin Criminals sampled other Ash material. And let us not forget his role in influential band Bauhaus, and the immortal 1979 single "Bela Legosi's Dead." In 2002 Daniel toured playing tunes from through out his career, many of which he hadn't played live in years. The result of which is 'Come Alive', fifteen live songs that follow Daniel's illustrious career up until now. With the triumphant Bauhaus performance at Coachella 2005 and rumors of additional reunion shows, count on Daniel Ash to keep innovating and delivering music that is far from the main stream.
Psychobaby-12
CD
$17.00

Atomic Rooster
Devil's Answer (6X7")
PS, UK VINYL VERSION!!!
Earmark-41052
45
$41.50

Atomic Rooster
Devil's Answer (6XCD)
PS, UK The first five UK singles by the Roosters (1970-1972) plus a 1973 Crane/Farlowe collaboration.
Earmark-41052
CD
$41.50

Bad Dudes
S/T
PS, US Ex-MIRACLE CHOSUKE (Dim Mak) & ex-FRIENDS IN THE MOUNTAINS. There's still the spastic melodies & the attention to danceable beats & the synthesizers, but they have tweaked these melodies & multiplied them at a frenetic pace to match a beat structure that doesn't so much try to be chaotic, as just slightly beyond the reach of your rational capability. They use their music to rock the sense back into you.
OneCellRecords-006
LP
$11.00

Bananaskin
Countryside Has Opened Our Tired Eyes
PS, JP Bananaskin is a six-piece pop outfit from northern Finland, Oulu. Their journey in the world of the popmusic started in 1998. Their first album "Sometimes The World Is Too Loud" was the first co-operation with the producer Ian Catt from London. He put the band to another level within his magic fingers and good sense of the popmusic. He has been working with the band Saint Etienne ever since they started. Ian Catt produced and recorded Bananaskin's first album and it was out in August 2003. This brand new album Countryside Has Opened My Tired Eyes is also produced by Ian Catt and it includes original Bananaskin music just like before but for the very first time they wanted to do a cover song, which is "Lotta Love" by legendary Neil Young. On a leading role in a band is the singer Mari Rautio. Her personal voice reminds a little bit of the lady singers like Cardigans, Isobel Campbell, Astrud Gilberto and Suzanne Vega. His husband Timo Rautio writes all the songs (words and music). They believe in their original and own songs and style. Countryside Has Opened My Tired Eyes has its own theme and motif, you'll get it after listening the record. We must understand sometimes that slow train will get you there just the same. That's the tip!
Rosemary-005
CD
$14.75

Beatings
Holding On To Hand Grenades
PS, US Intelligent, guitar-driven art-rock, hailing back to the 80's/90's heyday of college music. Neither punk nor alternative. Melancholic lyrics, scream-sung counterpoint harmonies & hair-raising guitar leads front a pummeling, thunderous rhythm section that swings unexpected shifts in tempo & turns songs on a dime. Compared to Hüsker Dü,Mission of Burma and the Pixies for their erratic guitar work & abrasive vocal stylings.
Midriff-007
CD
$12.75

Benny Profane
Trapdoor Swing / Dumb Luck Char
PS, UK 22 tracks. A reissue CD by Benny Profane, the cult Liverpool alt.pop band who released two albums and a slew of singles between 1986 and 1990. Singer/guitarist Dave Jackson and bassist Becky Stringer formed The Room in 1979, perennial John Peel favourites who released three albums. Benny Profane formed from the ashes of The Room in 1985, featuring Jackson and Stringer with guitarist Robin Surtees and drummer/guitarist Joseph McKechnie, ex-The Passage. Benny Profane cut two albums, Trapdoor Swing (1989) and Dumb Luck Charm (1990), both of which attracted much critical acclaim despite arriving in the midst of the baggy 'Madchester' trend of the time. This newly remastered CD features both albums in full, and includes stand out single tracks such as Rob a Bank, Hey Waste of Space and the Ian Broudie- produced Skateboard to Oblivion. The CD closes with two bonus tracks from the first BP demo in 1985, featuring Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen guesting on guitar. Contemporary reviews compared Benny Profane with The Fall, the Bunnymen and the Velvet Underground, and praised: "Benny Profane leave 95% of the competition looking dim and tongue-tied" (Melody Maker); "Another brilliant four-piece from Liverpool on a long, loud, disturbing trip" (NME); "Deftly executed, edgy, Northern guitar pop" (Music Week). Trapdoor Swing / Dumb Luck Charm offers 22 tracks in total, all remastered and with running time of 76 minutes. The booklet includes images and a detailed band history by Dave Jackson. In 1991 the band became Dust, and in 1995 Dead Cowboys, who continue to record today.
LTM/Boutique-6613
CD
$17.00

Black Hollies
Tell Me What You Want
PS, US Debut 45 from new Psych/Blues/Mod project featuring members of RYE COALITION. Only 500 pressed on white vinyl. "The best band currently making the rounds in NYC. "What You Want," (is) the only song in recent memory that wouldn't stick out like a sore, indie-rock thumb on Nuggets."-L Magazine.
Ernest Jenning-020
45
$5.25

Black Widow
Come To The Sabbat (5X7")
PS, US Vinyl version
Earmark-41053
45
$39.50

Black Widow
Come To The Sabbat (5XCD)
PS, US This luxury box set contains the history of the band's singles. Featuring their only three 45s as the much rumored and acclaimed devilish prog hard rock combo, Black Widow, plus the beginning of it all, their only single as Pesky Gee! (the band from whose ashes BW were originated in 1970) and the theatrical Rocky Horror-esque end of the legacy, here represented in the only single by Agony Bag, recorded in 1976 by former BW flutist/saxophonist Clive Jones and drummer Clive Box.
Earmark-41053
CD
$39.50

Blau, Karl
Beneath the Waves
PS, US While KARL BLAU's presence has been heard for years on numerous K RECORDS releases by THE MICROPHONES, LITTLE WINGS, WOLF COLONEL, D+, and on the INVISIBLE SHIELD compilation; "Beneath Waves" is his first full-length solo album for K. The past few years have found Karl recording and touring in Europe and North America with Nonesuch artist LAURA VEIRS, both as a band member and opening act. Meanwhile, Blau has toured solo, started his Kelp Monthly label and organized What the Heck fest in Anacortes, WA. Four years ago Karl Blau's critically acclaimed "Clothes Your I's" (Knw-yr-Own) ranked #2 on RICHIE UNTERBERGER's "Rolling Stone" top ten and received extensive college radio airplay. Now resurfacing as bandleader with "Beneath Waves," Blau's inner artist can no longer remain in the shadows. "Beneath Waves" is his most powerful work to date and he's ready to take the world by storm all on his own; KARL BLAU! Karl Blau is a gifted vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer/visionary who collaborates brilliantly with artists both inside and outside of himself. Constant touring, insanely prolific recording and his monthly outpouring of handmade music in idiosyncratic packages (KELP! Monthly) is evidence of his HUGE work ethic. "Beneath Waves" was recorded at The Department of Safety in Anacortes by DAVE MATTHIES (THE GIFT MACHINE) and produced by Karl Blau himself. Laura Veirs appears on a number of tracks, as does Karl's brother Eddy, Nate Ashley and Dave Matthies.
Krecords-174
CD
$12.75

Blau, Karl
Beneath the Waves
PS, US While KARL BLAU's presence has been heard for years on numerous K RECORDS releases by THE MICROPHONES, LITTLE WINGS, WOLF COLONEL, D+, and on the INVISIBLE SHIELD compilation; "Beneath Waves" is his first full-length solo album for K. The past few years have found Karl recording and touring in Europe and North America with Nonesuch artist LAURA VEIRS, both as a band member and opening act. Meanwhile, Blau has toured solo, started his Kelp Monthly label and organized What the Heck fest in Anacortes, WA. Four years ago Karl Blau's critically acclaimed "Clothes Your I's" (Knw-yr-Own) ranked #2 on RICHIE UNTERBERGER's "Rolling Stone" top ten and received extensive college radio airplay. Now resurfacing as bandleader with "Beneath Waves," Blau's inner artist can no longer remain in the shadows. "Beneath Waves" is his most powerful work to date and he's ready to take the world by storm all on his own; KARL BLAU! Karl Blau is a gifted vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer/visionary who collaborates brilliantly with artists both inside and outside of himself. Constant touring, insanely prolific recording and his monthly outpouring of handmade music in idiosyncratic packages (KELP! Monthly) is evidence of his HUGE work ethic. "Beneath Waves" was recorded at The Department of Safety in Anacortes by DAVE MATTHIES (THE GIFT MACHINE) and produced by Karl Blau himself. Laura Veirs appears on a number of tracks, as does Karl's brother Eddy, Nate Ashley and Dave Matthies.
Krecords-174
LP
$11.25

Bong-Ra
Soldaat Van Oranje
PS, US Soldaat Van Oranje...the Soldier of Orange. BONG-RA The dreaded Dutchman launches his hardest and deadliest sonic ammunition so far... His previous release 'I Am The God Of Hellfire' on Very Friendly records searched the realms of head-nodding downtempo hardcore breakbeat rave...only to see this album blasting shrapnel like a motherfucking sound grenade. Dark and twisted is the theme of this album, a rave gone sour by bad Speed or XTC. The usual trademark Bong-Ra punching through the dancefloor orientated tracks. Soldaat Van Oranje is influenced by past, future and present in The Netherlands, using themes, samples and melodies which are in someway related to BONG-RA's homeland, be it the persecuted satanic 'Goatriders' from the Middle Ages, up and till the recent Islamic fundamentalist attacks. Not forgetting Holland's finest musical creation...Gabber...yes...Gabber!
Sublight-1201
CD
$13.50

Brotherhood Of Electricity
Self-Titled
PS, US The debut 7-inch from this Austin, Texas/Seattle, Washington-based band featuring ALEX CUERVO (BLACKTOP, GOSPEL SWINGERS, NOW TIME DELEGATION). Recorded in 2004 by TIM KERR, who also plays bass on the band's cover of Negative Approach's "Nothing."
SuperSecret-14
45
$5.00

Burst
Origo
PS, US Sweden's brightest metal-core hopefuls plow headlong into eternity with their sophomore effort. With flowing grace force of conviction,the lush layers of sound crush & caress in equal measure. Fragile melodic vocals intertwine w/ explosive screams, & waves of guitar weave songs as expressive elaborate as human emotion itself. These songs exude class & the confidence of a band poised for greatness
Relapse-6657
CD
$14.50

Busch, Birdie
The Ways We Try
PS, US Debut from Philly singer/songwriter "has the warmth, feeling & atmosphere of the best of the classic records in your collection. Was recorded in reverse from most albums here the instruments follow the voice & two guitars lead the rhythm, w/bass & drums chasing off kilter meters, & piano & organ coloring the lyrics & adding width & depth to the melodies.
Bar/None-178
CD
$16.50

Cage, John
Piano Works 7
PS, US Margaret Leng Tan performs "Chess Pieces," "Sonatas & "Interludes for Prepared Piano" & Vittorio Rieti performs "Chess Serenade."
Mode-158
DVD
$26.50

Calling All Monsters
The Traps That Work Best
PS, US Rock and Roll will never be declared a dead artistic expression as long as bands like SF's Calling All Monsters arrive, adept in subverting, contorting, and shaping the mediums' language to a seemingly new, revitalizing call to arms. Calling All Monsters shows a clear love of the loud rock guitar, joining influences such as the pop rhythmic strum of England's The Wedding Present to the Archers of Loaf's lo-fi spiked aggression, all the while maintaining their own sound in an endearing, unpredictable manner. "The Traps That Work Best" is a perfect example of the band's slanted, enchanted guitar pop underscored with a tight rhythmic tension where guitarist/vocalist Matthew Troy's (ex-Track Star) voice can be heard wistful, gainfully competing with clashing instruments led by a melodic rhythm section emphasized by bassist John Nespeco's endlessly alluring choices outside the expected realm of the four string. It is however, guitarist Bill Chartier's intuitive creativity alternating between sparse prickly notes, feedback, and a fierce jagged chording that gives Calling All Monster's its signature as one of the more exciting bands in recent years to emerge from the American Underground. While "The Traps That Work Best" may be the debut album for Calling All Monsters, Matthew Troy, the bands lead singer and songwriter, certainly isn't new to San Francisco's indie music scene. For over 10 years, Matthew co-fronted and wrote songs for the popular indie trio Track Star, whose celebrated releases, "Communication Breaks" (Die Young Stay Pretty/Sub Pop) and "Lion Destroyed The Whole World", (Better Looking) endeared the band to thousands of fans and have made them favorite sons of San Francisco.
Turn-016
CD
$10.75

Can
DVD
PS, US Reissue of 2004 3 disc box loses the bonus CD but keeps the classic documentary, plus Can Free Concert, Eno tribute video, notes, photogallery & 5.1 mixes of Can tracks
Mute-9311
DVD
$22.00

Carbon 14
Issue #27 (+CD)
PS, US Philadelphia's Carbon 14 returns with another issue dedicated to rock, smut, art, and rasslin'. This time in you get features on DAVE BURKE, RUDY RAY MOORE, RENEE BOSLER, THE DAMNED, JUSTICE HOWARD, GLUECIFER, and more. Includes a bonus CD with a spotlight on Arizona rockin' with JEFF DAHL, HELL ON WHEELS, WHISKEY BITCH, and others.
Carbon14-27
ZINE
$6.00

Carrie
Honey Blue Star
PS, US Re-press. This one's been going crazy since featured on the Global Hit segment of The World (NPR) by Marco Werman three weeks ago. Split release from Static Discos (Mexico) and Dearstereofan (Spain) labels. A collection of warm electronic folk songs, full of dreamy tones and true avant tweenes. Carrie's breathy voice takes us close to the worlds of Piana, Stina Nordenstam and Tujiko Noriko, as she strums her guitar alongside a basic print of electronic sounds. Her honey voice floats into an unforgettable pool of soft melodies, cushioned beats and childlike wonder, as Carrie truly displays a unique sensibility that brings us close to a world full of love and humor. Carrie, Laura B. from Guadalajara México, is one of the young leading artists in a new wave of sounds coming from Mexico. Her music has appeared in samplers from electronica indie labels in her country, such as Abolipop and Soundsister, and her demo caught the attention of many journalists and radio stations in Mexico and Spain that immediately praised her simple but sweet electronic songs sung in English. 'Honey Blue Star' is Carrie's debut album, produced with Ruben Tamayo.
StaticDiscos-009
CD
$13.50

Casiotone For The Painfullly Alone
Young Shields
PS, Uk *OWEN ASHWORTH finally jettisons the confines of lo-fi minimalism for an expanded production palette, teaming up with JHEREK BISCHOFF (DEAD SCIENCE, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE) for the ride. "Young Shields" is a driving, menacing anthem with its cold synths, frantic drum machines, and pulsing bass undermined by Ashworth's signature monotone-a brilliantly bitter narrative that stands as the most confident and sinister track in the Casiotone songbook. The single's B-side is an electro reworking of of Prince's "When You Were Mine," which features guest vocals from XIU XIU's CARALEE McELROY, and somehow manages to sound giddy and gloomy at the same time. The CD version includes two beautifully retrofitted CFTPA classics from their sold out Alphabet Series 7-inch-"Roberta C" and "The Subway Home."
Tomlab-064
45
$7.25

Castro, Nick
Further From Grace
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Eclipse-053
LP
$13.75

Cat Power
The Greatest
PS, US This is not a greatest hits album, despite the title. It contains all-original songs written by Chan Marshall (professionally known as Cat Power), and features the great Memphis session musicians Teenie Hodges on guitar, Leroy Hodges on bass (Al Green, Hi Rhythm Section), drummer Steve Potts, and more. The combination of Marshall's superbly evocative and flexible voice plus some of the greatest Southern soul players, has produced a masterpiece. These songs explore themes of Southern loss, longing, and marginality.
Matador
CD
$14.50

Cat Power
The Greatest
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$11.75

Catfish Haven
Please Come Back
PS, US CATFISH HAVEN took its name from the rural trailer park nestled on the southern tip of Missouri where the trio's singer and main songwriter, GEORGE HUNTER, spent his early childhood. His father is a welder and, as with many trades, you must go where the work is. So the family packed up and left Catfish Haven for a Chicago suburb. It was there as a teenager that Hunter met future bandmates MIGUEL CASTILLO and RYAN FARNHAM. Their friendship was born out of a mutual love of skateboarding and music. After a few months and a move into the city, the three-piece stormed Chicago with a self-financed CD, complete with handmade beer box covers, to begin spreading the gospel of "The Haven". Word travels fast in the Windy City's music scene, and soon Catfish Haven had intrigued enough people to be invited to play alongside the likes of MY MORNING JACKET, DANIEL JOHNSTON, KINGS OF LEON and ZWAN, flooring audiences with the raw intensity of their live set. Akin to guitarists/vocalists like BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and JOHN FOGERTY, Hunter, a howling crooner with gravel in his honey-sweetened voice (a la SAM COOKE), is known to strike his acoustic while stomping through each number. Castillo's pounding bass grooves are heightened when joined by Farnham's forceful, yet tasteful, drumming. Consider this: howling + pounding = smooth. An improbable equation that Catfish Haven has managed to make work. So this is it. The guys in Catfish Haven are who they are; there's no room for pretension here. They play their hearts out for anyone who will listen 'cause they've got a love for music that drives them. And every note they play is intended to recapture those magical moments back at Catfish Haven.
SecretlyCanadian-134
CD5
$8.25

Charlottes, The
Liar: Best Of The Charlottes
PS, UK The Charlottes were formed in Huntington in Cambridgeshire in 1988 and were usually tagged alongside the likes of The Primitives and The Darling Buds of the post C86 era, but sonically were more attuned to the fx driven wall of sound pioneered by My Bloody Valentine. Their debut single 'Are you happy now,' received much support from the fanzines of the time [House of Dolls, Pop Eats Anarchy] and was said to be a twee classic by Dave Simpson of Melody Maker. They were signed to Subway Records in February 1989 and this resulted in the mini album 'Love Happy'. Steve Lamacq of the NME gave the album 9 out 10 and declared The Charlottes to be 'altogether more sexy than Kylie'. Just as impressed John Peel interviewed the band for his Cambridgeshire show and they later recorded a 4 track session for him at Radio 1 which was repeated. The band split from Subway and signed a deal with Cherry Red, their first release being the EP 'Liar'. This was promoted by a short tour and the making of a video which received exposure from MTV's more alternative shows. In December 1990 Simon Scott left the Band to join Slowdive who were on the Creation label. Cherry Red then released the existing tracks the band had recorded under the title 'Things come Apart'[1991]. The Charlottes left behind a small but impressive legacy; this release includes all their studio recordings. Tracks: 1/ ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, 2/ COLD, 3/ STUBBORN, 4/ SEE THE DANGER SHINE, 5/ EVERYTHING TO ME, 6/ IN MY HAIR, 7/ LOVE HAPPY, 8/ LOVE IN THE EMPTINESS, 9/ BE MY RELEASE, 10/ COULD THERE EVER BE, 11/ LIAR, 12/ PRAYER SONG, 13/ SEE ME FEEL, 14/ BY MY SIDE, 15/ MAD GIRLS LOVE SONG, 16/ BEAUTIFY, 17/ LOVE IN THE EMPTINESS [ALT VERSION], 18/ WERE GOING WRONG, 19/ BLUE, 20/ VENUS.
CherryRed-295
CD
$14.75

Checkers
Running With Scissors
PS, US The second album from power-pop rockers THE CHECKERS is an ambitious explosion of new sounds and flavors. The album opens with a song called "Invitation" that sounds like something Pink Flag-era Wire might play if Joan Jett decided to front the band, and ends with a song called "Bass Wolf," a dark and delicious tribute to the late bassist of Japan's Guitar Wolf that includes one of the Checker's most impressive riffs. In between, the music flashes by fast and furious in shades of blue and gray, stomping the pop like nobody's business.
Teenacide-009
CD
$11.00

Cherry Point
Night of the Bloody Tapes
PS, US Compiled from three years of cassette releases, Night of the Bloody Tapes provides a shattering drive-in experience of unrelenting horror and harsh noise nightmares. Equally fueled by Fangoria magazine, import laserdiscs, third generation VHS bootlegs, damaged contact mics and DOD death metal distortion, THE CHERRY POINT has set the ultimate bait in the trap of terror. Four tracks, over 40 minutes of static walls, electronic jabs and junk crashes. Contains material originally from the long deleted split tapes with Ahlzagailzehguh, Black Sand Desert, Luasa Raelon, Nkondi, Andy Ortmann, Pedestrian Deposit, The Rita, and more. Mixed & mastered by JOHN WIESE (BASTARD NOISE, SISSY SPACEK, etc.).
Pacrec-
CD
$7.50

Chop Chop
Self-Titled
PS, US Chop Chop is Catherine Cavanaugh with a rotating cast of characters and this records is hella awesome. It's so awesome that we are putting it out, and unlike most of the releases we put out, it's actually someone else's band, and not secretly one of us. Okay, Rick appears on one song, Aubrey mixed it and Seth has been known to pop up at live shows, but Chop Chop is Catherine's gig, and it's an amazing one. A truly unique sound, a unique outlook on songwriting and pop, and a compellingly personal outlook that keeps all of us perpetually obsessed with this record. Christy Cheng, Carla Ceruzzi and Dave Picariello also make appearances on several songs on Keys, Bass and Conga respectively.
Archenemy-029
CD
$6.25

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
CYHSY-001
LP
$13.75

Clearlake
Amber
PS, US 2000's debut, "Lido" sparked a sell-out UK tour and won plaudits from all sorts of stellar peers and heroes. 2003's "Cedars" established them in the US and Canada, along with a two-month visit that included dates with Stereolab and The Decemberists. This is the follow-up. From mesmeric to buzzy Byrdsy rush to Kinksy oomph to countrified lament, it's their wildest, deepest, most surprising album so far. Produced by Clearlake's Jason Pegg with Steve Osborne (U2) and Jim Abbiss (DJ Shadow, Arctic Monkeys).
Domino
CD
$13.75

Cluster
Cluster '71
PS, On the outer edge of German space rock, Cluster '71 stands as a testament to minimalist "cosmische" music. The three untitled tracks composed and performed by MOEBIUS and ROEDELIUS are exploratory, ever-changing pieces with focuses on guitar distortion and synthesizer wails, though each goes far beyond. This album deserves the many accolades it's been given, and holds up as an early landmark in the history of beatless ambience.
Water-160
CD
$15.25

Cluster
Cluster '71
PS, US On the outer edge of German space rock, Cluster '71 stands as a testament to minimalist "cosmische" music. The 3 untitled tracks composed and performed by Moebius and Roedelius are exploratory, ever-changing pieces with focuses on guitar distortion and synthesizer wails, though each goes far beyond. This album deserves the many accolades it's been given, and holds up as an early landmark in the history of beatless ambience.
Water-160
CD
$15.25

Coldcut
Man in a Garage (Picture Disc)
PS, US Ultra limited 7" pic disc. ORDER NOW FOR ANY HOPE OF FILL...
Ninja Tune-7176
45
$8.25

Coldcut
Man in a Garage
PS, US
Ninja Tune-2176
12
$8.25

Connors, Loren
Sails
PS, US To accompany guitarist LOREN CONNORS (nee MAZZACANE) is to discover a strange and forgotten America, then venture irreversibly beyond. Connors is frequently pegged as an avant bluesman, and the blues are never far from the surface of his art -- but what a shimmering surface it is! The brevity and lyricism of his improvisations bear the mark of haiku; the floating, expressionist tones reflect the influence of MARK ROTHKO; and as he conjures keening Celtic wails, Connors offers himself as medium to the ghosts of New York City Past. With "Sails", Connors enters the third decade of such intimate explorations. In the course of these two discs, we pass through saturated phrasings, slowly undulating drones, doldrumic introspection and squalls of white noise. The penultimate highlight is a duet with Connors' aesthetic compadre, the late, great JOHN FAHEY. It's an intuitive and seemingly predestined meeting of two enlightened fellow-travelers: wily Fahey as the Dr. Livingstone of raw Americana to Connors' indefatigable Stanley. For his own part, Connors can evoke more clarity and purity in a short cluster of notes than most of his shred-happy contemporaries can muster in a lifetime -- and with Fahey's passing, he may be justifiably considered this country's greatest living guitarist. Ultimately, Loren Connors path, while not for the timid, is one of unspeakable treasure: a journey to the heart of brightness; a quest to penetrate a Terra Incognita of the soul.
TableoftheElements-089
DCD
$15.50

Conrad, Tony
Fantastic Glissando
PS, US It's 1969, and TONY CONRAD wants to take you Higher. Celebrated for the thrilling roar of his amplified violin, Conrad is a founding father of 'minimalism' and a giant in the American soundscape. Now Conrad's own Audio ArtKive imprint presents the first in a series of releases that reveal the wild breadth of his 40-year career, including field recordings, piano compositions, film soundtracks and more. "Fantastic Glissando" (1969) is a series of (d)evolving electronic compositions created with sine-wave oscillators. The instrumentation is different, but the effect is typical Conrad: soaring, aggressively textured and jet-engine massive. This first-time CD release contains an extra ten-minute bonus track not included on the original LP version.
TableoftheElements-082
CD
$14.25

Curve
Gift
PS, UK 'You get nothing for being ahead of your time but if there's a bright side to all this, it's that the duo's creative hunger has remained intact. Tunes such as the yearning Hung Up and the power-chord-laden Gift stand shoulder to shoulder with their critically acclaimed Doppelganger album, while the more reflective Perish improves upon it.'--Q, 4 out of 5. "Your playing small doesn't serve this world." Nelson Mandela At last the much anticipated studio album from Curve, the respected and groundbreaking British duo of Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia, is here in a pretty little package. Yet as with all things pretty on the outside, you never know what's on the inside. With 'Gift', the group's first official release since 1998's major label debut Come Clean (Universal), you'll hear an aural assault of Toni's confident and gorgeous vocals matched by their own densely perfected production alongside Dean's signature bass playing. Songs range from the soul degrading 'My Tiled White Floor' and electro-rousing 'Gift' to the album's first hard-driving single, 'Hell Above Water';.'My Bloody Valentine's' Kevin Shields plays guitar on two forceful, unforgettable tracks, 'Want More Need Less' and 'Perish', a song Curve says may well be their best ever. Sleazy, electronically savvy, fierce, dreamy and impenetrable describe the musical passages of their most recent work, produced by Toni, Dean and Ben Grosse (Filter, Soak, Book of Love), who also mixed the album.
Artful
CD
$17.00

Daedelus
Axe Murderation Remixes (2 x 12")
PS, US Renowned abstract hip hop and electronica DAEDELUS (Mush, Plug Research, Eastern Developments) returns with a brand new exclusive track-"Axe Murderation"-and a collection of remixes from some of electronic music's best and brightest. The song features a theme with a short recording of a girl rhapsodizing about her grievances and nefarious intentions with reference to dogs, and the remixers-VENETIAN SNARES, EIGHT FROZEN MOLECULES, PHTHALOCYANINE, NAVY WARSHIP, JASON POTRATZ, and GERALD WENZEL-build upon it.
Phthalo-045
12
$17.00

Delta 5
Singles And Sessions - 1979-81
PS, US Part of the Leeds/UK art/music scene in the late '70s that launched The Gang Of Four and The Mekons, Delta 5 was signed to Rough Trade after only a few months in existence, and released their first single, "Mind Your Own Business/Now That You've Gone" in 1979. BBC host and producer John Peel requested the band do a "Sessions" gig for him and they were officially on their way. Relentless touring with The Gang Of Four, Echo And The Bunnymen, B52s, The Specials, The Teardrop Explodes, and U2 put the group on the map. They continued until various members departed in 1981, when they recorded one last single and broke up in 1982. This release contains long unavailable material as well as the never before released Peel Sessions.
KillRockStars
CD
$14.50

Diskaholics Anonymous
Weapons of Ass Destruction
PS, US ...Destruction. Trio consisting of the less than anonymous THURSTON MOORE (gtr) & JIM O'ROURKE (synth) (SONIC YOUTH) & Swedish free jazz legend MATS GUSTAFSSON (sax, electronics). Avant/punk/noise/free jazz. Moore's guitar will make you think of NY in the 80's and Sonic Youth around the time of "Bad Moon Rising." O'Rourke's laptop was last heard on Wilco's monumental "Less Than You Think" on A Ghost Is Born. Mats Gustafsson sounds like Albert Ayler playing punk rock. The result of these three titans clashing together is an intense blow-out. Raw, grandiose & brutally beautiful. Rec. live in Sweden in 2002.
Smalltown Superjazzz-091
CD
$16.00

DJ Quick
Trauma-Regular
PS, US
MadScience-13
LP
$15.25

DJ Quik
Trauma-Instrumental
PS, US Latest from producer of 2Pac, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg feat. B-REAL (CYPRESS HILL), NATE DOGG, THE GAME & AMG, CHINGY, WYCLEF JEAN, LUDACRIS, JODECI, TI.
MadScience-14
CD
$19.00

DJ Quik
Trauma-Instrumental
PS, US
Mad Science-15
LP
$15.25

Downey, Mike
Adventure, Bless, and Don't Be Sorry
PS, US The debut solo album from former WOLFIE, NATIONAL SPLITS, and NEW CONSTITUTION songwriter MIKE DOWNEY. The album features twelve acoustically grounded compositions that dabble in the worlds of cut-and-paste glitch and lone-wolf crooning, but never lose their focus, heartfelt simplicity or crafty lyricism.
Recordhead-085
CD
$13.25

Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time
Keep Going
PS, UK Stephen Duffy's new album Keep Going received the best reviews of his career including: 'The opening track, Home, may well be the most beautiful song written this year. As always the best music is to be found on the margins - please explore.' 5/5 The Times Magazine. 'Really quite moving, as hipster obsolescence always is. As are the semi-acoustic arrangements that frame his lamentations. He hasn't given up yet and nor should you.' 4/5 The Independent On Sunday. 'Stephen, I do believe this is the finest album of yours I've heard yet.' Sunday Telegraph. 'Another lovely folk-rock record from one of music's most underrated misfits.' 4/5 The Times. 'Rare candour, telling details and sparse but exciting arrangements bring out the best in Duffy's wounded but resolute confessionals. Wake up and smell the Lilacs.' 4/5Daily Mirror. 'Duffy is a craftsman who combines easy-going pop tunes with a piercing turn of phrase. This is an album that pop fans will fall in love with.' 4/5The Mail On Sunday. 'I can't imagine you not loving this' Word. 'Thank goodness somebody still releases this stuff.' Time Out. 'This album is wonderful.' The Spectator. 'Keep Going is up there with his best. Another smash from Duffy's should-be-hit factory.' The Sunday Times. 'Songs from Keep Going sit easily amongst his best.' The Guardian.
Psychobaby-001
CD
$17.00

Durrett, Liz
Mezzanine, The
PS, US In contrast to Liz's previous work, her second release is a surprisingly hi-fi affair. Gone are the hissing ghosts and unsure echoes that once haunted and obscured her recordings. Her voice and guitar are the focus here, and she performs with more energy, determination, and flat out rawness than ever before. These eleven songs cover a lot of ground. Produced by Vic Chesnutt and engineered by Andy Baker (Macha, Japancakes, Glands).
Warm
CD
$12.50

Durutti Column
Keep Breathing
PS, UK Written and played almost entirely by Vini Rielly, the album is built out of ideas generated over the last year and was inspired by African hip hop, traditional Jewish music (Kletzer) and 1930's piano music by Art Tatum. The 12 tracks were created over 3 months in a room 'not much bigger than a broom cupboard' using only one microphone and whatever time and equipment Reilly and the album's programmer Ben Roberts had spare. This inventiveness adds to the richness of Reilly's amazing 'honey wrapped in sandpaper' guitar playing. The gorgeous song 'Maggie' samples a school choir he heard on the BBC 14 years ago, while other tracks such as the defiant 7 minute long love song, 'Let Me Tell You Something' are just as powerful and reflective, showing the positive frame of mind Vini was in when making the record. The new album is more polished and less haphazard than his previous efforts and Durutti Column have also committed to touring it extensively in 2006, with a live band consisting of Kier Stewart who has produced The Fall, Badly Drawn Boy and Elbow, the now legendary Bruce Mitchell on drums and John Metcalf on viola. Track listing: Nina, It's Wonderful, Maggie, Helen, Neil, Big Hole, Let me Tell You Something, Lunch, Gun, Tuesday, Agnus Dei, Waiting.
Artful-52
CD
$17.00

Durutti Column
Someone Else's Party
PS, UK Recorded on an 8-track Porta-studio this lovely record coaxes opulent atmospherics out of wierd, homemade sounds. Bass drums made from thumping a book, vocal samples from south America set to Dancehall beats, this inventiveness adds to the richness of Vini Reilly's fantastic guitar sounds & the most personal lyrics of his career. "This is the 1st album that I actually think is worth putting out in the world" -Mr. Vini Reilly
Artful-
CD
$17.00

East River Pipe
What Are You On?
PS, US This sixth release (and first new East River Pipe record since 2003's "Garbageheads On Endless Stun") is another magical, intimate album, one that continues to justify Rolling Stone's claim that F.M. Cornog is "one of our generation's great eccentric songwriters". Fans of SMOG, Mercury Rev, and My Morning Jacket should take notice of Cornog's mastery.
Merge
CD
$14.50

Edward Ka-Spel
A Red Long Ladder To The Moon
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! A magnificent electro-color journey, some of which would not seem out of place in an adventurous club setting, from LEGENDARY PINK DOTS leader EDWARD KA-SPEL. Dark, sweet and cosmic, the album may be a superior choice for what SETI sends out as signals to the universe. Surely orbiting ETs like a good dose of head music now and again. Until the ETs answer, however, we Ts can enjoy a little taste of Ka-Spel's slo-mo trip through the stars. Headphones are go.
MT-090
DLP
$21.75

Elected
Sun, Sun, Sun
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$11.75

Elected
Sun, Sun, Sun
PS, US The rope-strong, luminous follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2004 debut, "Me First". Recorded while singer/songwriter Blake Sennett was on tour with his other band, Rilo Kiley, the album is propelled by the kind of unsettled, exploratory impetus that's only native to the American open road. While portions of the album were recorded in studios, Sennett recorded and produced the majority of his creations in environments he was passing through. The dichotomy between feeling completely at home and at the same time homeless on the road fuels Sennett's biting, reflective lyricism and grand, sweeping compositions.
SubPop
CD
$13.75

Electric President
S/T
PS, US Ten songs that interpret pop as an ocean of impressions & sensations & surf. Stripped, immediate & at the same time interwoven w/ euphonic choirs.
MorrMusic-062
CD
$17.00

Electric President
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-062
LP
$17.00

Elevator Drops, The
Episode One
PS, US The Archenemy Record Company is proud to announce the long-awaited release of Epidose 1, the long lost prequel album by the late, great boston band, The Elevator Drops. During their existence, the Elevator Drops were known as one of Boston's best bands, mixing rock, new wave and experimental in a way that at the time seemed completely unheard of. Think the Faint's Dance Macabre, only five years earlier. Maybe they were too ahead of their time, but they all seem to be getting by in the world, even if their band didn't achieve the rock stardom they so richly deserved. And now, we've finally gotten our grubby hands on the start of it all - the songs that got them signed to a major, and put them on the road for a year of their life.
Archenemy--026
CD
$6.25

Erik Satie
Vexations
PS, UK Written by eccentric French composer Erik Satie in 1893, the extraordinary score for Vexations is just three lines long, yet a complete performance (840 repetitions) may last for anything between 14 and 28 hours. First performed under the supervision of John Cage in 1963, this radical yet enigmatic work is now recognized as a significant milestone in avant-garde music. This meditative 70 minute recording features 40 repetitions of the motif, performed by Alan Marks on piano. The recording was produced by Thomas Wilbrant. Some credit Vexations with occult numerical meaning, others as 'Satie's greatest prank' or a 'poor man's Ring of the Nibelung'. Curiously, despite the almost infinitely repetitive nature of the piece, the central 18 note motif is notoriously hard to remember. Indeed no single pianist has yet been able to negotiate a complete performance of all 840 repetitions. By performing 40 repetitions over 70 minutes, Marks provides a relatively concise introduction. Digitally recorded, the CD also features detailed liner notes by Stephen Whittington.
Salon-2389
CD
$17.00

Ester Drang
Rocinate
PS, US On their third full-length, Ester Drang catapult even further into their patented synth-dripped rhythms, throbbing percussion, rising horns, and post-grazer grandeur, having as much in common with Brian Eno's mournful drone as they do The Notwist's passionate textures. A beautiful ensemble of tracks that prove songs not only have the power to elevate or to infiltrate, but when properly strung together, can be as transcendent as they are moving.
JadeTree
CD
$14.50

Everlovely Lightningheart
Cusp
PS, US This collaborative is an entity capable of producing, perverting, destroying, distributing, stealing, and selling a vast and sprawling array of existing as well as unheard of forms of cultural products and concepts. Their performances range from serene to chaotic. Including anywhere from two to a dozen performers, each is a truly unique experience. They've played shows with Isis, These Arms Are Snakes, Pelican, Bastard Noise, and more. As well as playing the conventional club circuit, they've also been included as part of several museum and art collective events. They document every performance with audio, video, and photography, creating an extensive library of work. "Cusp" is beautiful in its chaos and simplicity. It is a humbling and sad composition, the sort of sadness that tunes the listener into the physical state of humanity.
HydraHead
CD
$13.75

Excepter
Sunbomber
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
5RueChristine
12
$8.75

Excepter
Sunbomber
PS, US This EP serves as a launching pad into the visionary plane of the modern-day barnstormer. Excepter is a synthetic protest band engineered to erase cultural distinctions through polarized confusion. They're damaged where Black Dice are experimental, and primitive and impulsive where Animal Collective are whimsical. This is full-fledged ambient house, maybe calypso but who's counting, unafraid of its reggae roots, too. A band to watch.
5RueChristine
CD5
$8.75

Faunts
High Expectations/Low Results
PS, US Hauntingly beautiful & defiantly hopeful, they create perfect music for the twilight hour between wake & sleep. This album weaves together shimmering walls of pink noise with dreamy, langourous guitar, gently treated vocals & swimmingly beautiful melodies. Think Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Slowdive, etc. & you'll be on the right track.
FriendlyFire-002
CD
$12.75

Film School
S/T
PS, US Film School is a band with impressively eclectic influences (Pink Floyd, The Who, obscure electronica, metal, drone, alternative '80s), a grandiose collective musical history, and a healthy bout of critical acclaim. "Wonderfully off-kilter pop songs" - NME. "As their name implies, Film School creates sounds with a cinematic eye...This four-song EP is a compact 23-minute trip that proves this San Francisco quintet have serious dibs on becoming leaders if Haight-Ashbury is ever to rise again" - CMJ. Rave live reviews in the NME and The Fly followed their UK visit in September 2004, supporting TV On The Radio. The Sunday Times Culture Magazine hailed them as one of the new bands that "should be huge", and Music Week included them in their rundown of the "eleven buzz bands on the brink of greater things."
BeggarsBanquet
CD
$14.50

Four Tet
Everything Ecstatic Parts I & II
PS, US Take the mesmerizing aural experience of Four Tet's acclaimed "Everything Ecstatic" and couple it with ten new film shorts commissioned specifically for the ten musical pieces and you get this synapse-fusing new DVD release. Bonus disc includes 35 minutes of brand new music, and some radical rethinks of material from "Everything Ecstatic", which together represent a current snapshot of Kieran's ever-changing musical thinking.
Domino
DCD
$15.25

Foxx, John
Crash And Burn
PS, UK Line-Up: John Foxx, Louis Gordon. Info: Chorley-born art student Foxx founded Ultravox! in 1975, working with Brian Eno on the band's self-titled debut a few months before the ambienteer joined forces with David Bowie. Ultravox! were Britain's first synthesizer rock band, fusing elements of Krautrockers such as Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk with the English art school heritage of Roxy Music. Foxx left the band in 1979 and a year later released the primitive, stark electro-pop classic, Metamatic, featuring his first solo hit, Underpass. On this album he developed a form of urban, European blues, which would later influence Detroit techno and UK dance acts such as Bomb The Bass's Tim Simenon who collaborated with Foxx on their Nation 12 project at the end of the '80s. More recently Dave Clarke and Adult. have also declared themselves as fans. In the '80s the introspective Englishman designed a personal, romantic style, expressed on albums such as The Garden ('81), The Golden Section ('83) and In Mysterious Ways ('85), but also through painting, graphic design, book jackets and his own, as yet unfinished novel, The Quiet Man. In 1995 he made a characteristically low-key return with a new album, Shifting City, described by Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields as 'one of the best albums of the nineties'. he releases his latest solo album, Crash And Burn, which he recorded with Mancunian electronic genius Louis Gordon. Crash And Burn is an edgier record than Foxx's previous album, 2001's The Pleasures Of Electricity which concentrated on achieving a sense of rare intimacy in the pretty arrangements. This time around Foxx & Gordon have dreamt up fresh twists on Moroder pop, Kraftwerk (the tough-sounding She Robot), electronic-ballads (Smoke and the sleazy croon of Once In A While) and even analogue-fuelled industrial rock (the title-track). The album also opens with one of Foxx's career bests, Drive, a pounding techno-pop track with an oddly emotional lyric, while Sex Video is set to fire-up in electro clubs any day now. Biog: John Foxx was born in Chorley, Lancashire in the north of England. A child intellectual, reading the manifesto's of the Futurists aged 9, a career in the arts beckoned as Foxx enrolled at the Royal College of Art in London before forming the band Ultravox. After 3 albums, including one produced by the now legendary Brian Eno, Foxx left in '79. His first solo disc, Metamatic, was issued in 1980 through his own label metal beat, with Virgin handling distribution. With the exception of some bass, the sound was completely synthetic. It became his biggest selling album, featuring the single "Underpass." A livelier album, The Garden, followed a year later. Named after the studio where it was recorded and which Foxx would frequent for the next few years. The opening "Europe After the Rain" is perhaps his finest moment. The Garden also included a version of the "Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster)" sung in Italian to a disco beat! Initial copies came with a booklet entitled Church, complete with Foxx's photomontage images, poems and lyrics. 1983's The Golden Section was one of the few Foxx releases produced by an outsider, Zeuss B. Held. As with The Garden it peaked slightly lower down at 27. If that was a shame, it was nothing compared to the shock of his fourth and final album for sometime, In Mysterious Ways, charting at number 85 on its release in 1985. Two singles featured, both failed to chart despite the usually stunning Foxx illustrations on the sleeve, especially on "Stars on Fire." After this John Foxx vanished, his name bearing 'whatever happened to..' conversations. On the sleeve notes for 1992's compilation Assembly, Foxx hinted he was totally disinterested in the mid-eighties music scene. He spent his time lecturing (helping shoot the video to techno band LFO's debut namesake single), illustrating book covers and collaborated with Bomb the Bass mainman Tim Simenon on the short lived project Nation 12. In 1997 Foxx re-appeared almost as mysteriously as he had disappeared with two new albums: Cathedral Oceans and Shifting City (with Louis Gordon). The former was primarily ambient in nature and namechecked musician Harold Budd who, during an interview, cited Foxx 'a fantastic artist.
Metamatic-5
CD
$17.00

Frankel
Chatterbox
PS, US The latest from Los Angeles-based lithium pop troubadour FRANKEL. Utilizing piano and acoustic guitar and drawing on influences such as Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, the Beatles, and Syd Barrett, Frankel delivers melancholic tales with dynamic vocals, creative effects, and strong musicianship.
ThreeRing-010
CD
$8.25

Full Moon Partisans
Get It Out
PS, US Drawing on guitarist/singer SERGEY YASHENKO's Soviet roots, the FULL MOON PARTISANS sound like nothing else. It's a complete mystery what the hell they're going for, but somehow Tom Waits, the Mekons, Crime & the City Solution, and the Talking Heads all come to mind. But to truly get anywhere describing the weird hobo/punk/folk sounds on their self-titled debut full-length CD, one would still need to mention the Russian lyrics and the almost Velvets-y pop songs that pop up through the inspired mess spilling out of the twelve tracks. They've been touted recently on Fat Cat Records' website, and their shambling hobo/punk/folk shows have been drawing crowds around San Francisco for a couple years now.
FullMoonPartisans-
CD
$9.25

Future Sound Of London
Amorphous Androgynous: The Otherness
PS, UK File under: Dance. Line-Up: Gary Cobain, Brian Dougan. Info: 'This other worldly masterpiece is so far out you need a telescope to see it.' 8 out of 10 NME. 'An epic that manages to be moving, hilarious and monolithically impressive...the sound is like a beam of white light from heaven.'6 out of 5 (this mark goes all the up to 6...Its one better.) --MUZIK. 'The most prog rock album since Air's Moon Safari' --THE OBSERVER. 'The Otherness is madly wonderful' 4 out of 5 THE GUARDIAN. 'To be heard is to be believed. The aural equivalent of a triple fudge, double-chocolate cake with gold dust icing.' 5 out of 5 SEVEN. 'A modern psychedelic classic' MOJO. 'A mystical cosmic voyage of sonic and cultural experimentation via lush, enveloping atmospheres' --Q. 'With its exotic cosmic oozescapes, the obvious comparisons are The Beatles, 'Space Oddity' era Bowie, The Doors and Beefheart who was the walrus again? --THE INDEPENDENT. Biog: First recognized as the dance duo behind the club hits "Stakker" (as Humanoid) and "Papua New Guinea," Future Sound of London later became one of the most acclaimed and respected international experimental ambient groups, incorporating elements of techno, classical, jazz, hip-hop, electro, industrial, and dub into expansive, sample-heavy tracks, often exquisitely produced and usually without easy precursor. Notoriously enigmatic and often disdainful of the press, the group's Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans worked their future-is-now aesthetic into a variety of different fields, including film and video, 2- and 3-D computer graphics and animation, the Internet, radio broadcast, and, of course, recorded music. Although they usually disdain their earlier work as play-for-pay club fare not representative of their later musical vision, many of the thematic concerns of their earlier 12"s and their first, heavily dance-oriented LP, Accelerator, followed them into their later work. Usually filed under ambient, that work is often much more than that, drawing from the history of experimental electronic music with a relentlessness that has helped to push the calmer elements of that genre's reputation into decidedly more difficult directions. The pair also grew in repute as remixers, obliterating tracks by Curve, Jon Anderson, David Sylvian and Robert Fripp, and Apollo 440, and rebuilding pieces of almost majestic complexity with the remnants. The duo's works of the mid- to late '90s -- Lifeforms, ISDN, and Dead Cities -- were important stopping points on the road of rabid hybridization characteristic of post-rave European experimental electronica (ambient, jungle, trip-hop, ambient dub, etc.), and the pair's somewhat punk rock attitude (despite their success) did much to underscore the scene's underground roots. After a lengthy hiatus marked by rumors of mental illness and a cottage lifestyle, Cobain and Dougans returned in 2002 with The Isness, a record heavily influenced by '60s and '70s psychedelia.
FutureSoundofLondon-106
CD
$17.00

Go-Betweens
That Striped Sunlight Sound (CD + DVD)
PS, US "Twenty-seven years into their career, they remain one of rock's most pleasurable hand-me-down discoveries" -Entertainment Weekly. LiveDVD/CD package loaded with goodies for their fans. DVD includes a 90-minute full-band concert in their hometown of Brisbane, Australia, plus, an hour-long intimate, acoustic performance where Grant McLennan & Robert Forster share songs & stories about writing the music that has made them the quintessential cult band.
YepRoc-2081
DVD
$18.00

Golden Dogs, The
Everything In 3 Parts
PS, US Canada's next big thing play infectious, adrenaline-charged music, energized by their hyperactive leader/songwriter Dave Azzolini. Their compositions are created from a palate dripping with McCartney-isms, odes to XTC and Elvis Costello, plus other cross-decade references too diverse for any retro tag. A pure blast of blissed-out pop/rock with endless infectious harmonies and a ridiculous amount of energy.
Funzalo
CD
$14.50

Gossip
Standing In The Way Of Control
PS, US The first thing that strikes you is the rhythm. The Gossip have been making punks dance since they debuted five years ago, long before dance punk existed. Soulful and jagged, you can hear everything from Dischord to Motown. The vocals resonate with the confidence of the lyrics, asking people to hold on just a little bit longer, reassuring youth that there are others out there, and spitting in the face of all who say otherwise. Their third album was recorded by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi). This is the sound of a band destroying and surpassing all expectations placed on them.
KillRockStars
CD
$15.25

Gourds
Heavy Ornamentals
PS, US The Gourds welcome you back to their porch for another drink from the jug & another helping of critic-confounding musical gumbo. Infectious blend of rock, country, Zydeco, soul, Tex-Mex, folk & blues. Flanked by a full van of guitars, violins, banjos & accordions. "The Gourds are strange even when they're
serious" -Blender.
ElevenThirty-7006
CD
$16.25

Gown
Sacred Mountains
PS, US Gown is from the islands of British Columbia Canada, and spent an entire year living on one such island alone with his dog and 3 or more goats. If rock and its subforms are based on blues forms then Gown is hatched from sea shanties and the sea in general. It swirls and eddies like the sea trapped in a cove before finding it's way to the ocean in the form of massive swells before becoming waves crashing on the rocks. It is a journely and far from perfect, but the misteps sparkle and gleam with all the beauty that surrounds us. This LP was recorded over the course of one month in Florence, Mass after a 2 month tour across the USA, playing in a duo with Christina Carter. Gown and Christina also contributed a side the My Cat Is An Alien split LP/CD series and have a CD coming out on Foxy Digitalis/Digitalis Industires. Gown is also involved in a trio with Thurston Moore and Pete Nolan (MAGIK MARKERS) called BARK HAZE. Limited to 600, w/hand painted original covers.
EcstaticPeace-95
LP
$12.75

Gris Gris
For The Season
PS, US A companion EP to GREG ASHLEY and company's For The Season full length featuring a special acoustic version of the song "Pick Up Your Raygun," along with three exclusive tracks not available elsewhere.
Birdman-085
45
$4.25

Growing
Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
PS, BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! The second full-length album from heavy-duty sound pushers GROWING, the loudest quiet band you'll ever hear. Now recording as a duo, the band takes their expansive instrumental palette and pushes it with feedback, hiss and static manipulation, wringing out waves of delay from their amps while retaining an earthbound mastery of crushing riffage. Mixed by REX RITTER (JESSAMINE, FONATANELLE, SUNN).
Animal Disguis 050
DLP
$24.25

Hellacopters
Rock & Roill Is Dead [domestic]
PS, US Domestic issue for The Hellacopters' latest rock action. Incl. guests from THE HIVES & SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES. Incl. 2 bonus tracks & 2 videos NOT ON IMPORT
Liquor&Poker-015
CD
$15.25

His Name Is Alive
Detrola
PS, US After four years away, WARN DEFEVER's latest album rides the fine line between sweet dreams & nightmarish visions & harkens back to HNIA's most acclaimed early-mid 90's period ("Mouth by Mouth" & "Stars on ESP").
SilverMountain
CD
$14.75

Hollingsworth, Taylor
Tragic City
PS, US "Taylor Hollingsworth and his band are sloppy and wild in the mode of The Stooges or The MC5 (or The Rolling Stones at their worst), which are likely models, yet this band's overall tone often recalls bands such as The Only Ones or The Heartbreakers. If they played fast and hard instead of loose and slinky, they could even be The Saints. A lot of the sloppiness is salvaged, or accented, by white-hot guitar runs that take the sound into Johnny Thunders territory, by way of Billy Gibbons. Vocals, for the most part, remain in the more disturbing/intriguing range of Peter Perret and Nikki Sudden, so you can see why it is difficult to accept this band's approach as just a happy accident" - Black & White.
Brash
CD
$13.75

Hooker, William/Renaldo Lee
The Celestial Answer
PS, US As individual performers, WILLIAM HOOKER and LEE RANALDO are explosive. As collaborators, they are thermonuclear. A kinetic, avant percussionist and poet, Hooker is one of New York's most important band leaders, having fronted groups that included DAVID MURRAY and DAVID S. WARE. Ranaldo leads the improv supergroup TEXT OF LIGHT, whose fluid membership includes Hooker, as well as CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, TIM BARNES and MISSION OF BURMA's ROGER MILLER - and of course, he's a co-founder of the indefatigably experimental SONIC YOUTH. With "The Celestial Answer," Hooker and Ranaldo have created a work of blindingly brilliant, elemental force. Rays of white guitar noise penetrate clouds of analog synth; molten drumming blasts across free-form poetics. The dynamic is beautiful and inspired - a simple cold-fusion of intuitive interaction and boundless sonic freedom. These are thoughtful and emotionally attuned artists. Open your ears and they'll take you on a soaring voyage through an ecstatic firmament, into the howling mouth of infinity.
TableoftheElements-102
CD
$14.25

I.A. Bericochea
Sueno
PS, SPAIN After his hypnotizing releases on M_nus, Richie Hawtin's celebrated minimal and maximal avant dance label, "Sueño" is the second album from Madrid based I.A. Bericochea. "Sueño" is a work of concentrated quality and depth, forty minutes of rare beauty that is seldom heard in an electronic music album; a sophisticated listen that is danceable and full of squandering emotions that bring a sweet shudder to the ear. "Sueño", meaning 'dream' in Spanish, is a perfect audio example of how blood weights more than water. Fans of Murcof, Fax and all things that are beautiful, dark, dreamy and minimal should not miss on this captivating release. Mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole & ~Scape). "I.A. Bericochea's music, a profoundly thinned-out minimal techno that's more absent than present, offers the profoundest kind of intense listening, grounded with bass that reverberates deep in the body and graced with white noise that seems to graze the very surface of the ear drum, like summer grasses brushing against weathered cement" XLR8R. "Bericochea brings just enough emotional edge and sonic vibrancy to his dry minimalist beats and deep quavering bass patterns to give them a stealthy, unsettling life of their own. His compositions seem to come out of nowhere, accumulating an undeniable presence that lingers on long after the final shudder" THE WIRE.
Rojo-001
CD
$13.50

James, Randy
No Tree
PS, US "No Tree, the debut CD from Randy James. This is definately a well written rock record! Very clever lyrics, great hooks & lots of in your face guitars. From heart felt ballads: Two Worlds Collide & Taste of Love (Not a Thirst For Blood), to the well executed raunchy rock like Slither. Classic & classy with some real tasty trash...I love it!" Jennifer Harlow, Q-Entertainment
WaxApple
CD
$12.00

Jel
WMD/All Around
PS, The lead single from the upcoming Soft Money album finds JEL fusing black nationalist rap with indie rock tunefulness. "WMD" features WISE INTELLIGENT's (POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS) vocals and some scratching from JOE QUIXX. "All Around" features STEFFI BOHM from Morr Music's MS. JOHN SODA over Jel's dense, driving beat work.
Anticon-0057
12
$7.25

Johnson, Richard Leo
Legend of VernonMcAlister
PS, US Touted by Playboy as "the most innovative guitarist since Jimi Hendrix," and by 20th Century Guitar as "mind-boggling!", Richard Leo Johnson's style is marked by startling speed, complexity and hauntingly unfamiliar harmonies. After over a decade of being on the road, performing concerts and guitar clinics and work-shops, Richard was discovered by Blue Note, who released albums in 1999 and 2000, gathering extreme critical praise. Here Richard has traded in his double-neck acoustic for a well-worn, 1930s National Duolian steel-bodied guitar. Richard was inspired by this unique instrument and its sounds to try something different from any of his other albums. A CD of deep beauty and innovation, created with just this one old guitar, some simple electronic and tape effects, and Richard's talents. Richard's music is singularly beautiful, but it also is not afraid to have a 'bite' and it will appeal both to the new generation of fans discovering edgier solo acoustic guitar music of people like Derek Bailey, Steffen Basho-Junghans and Jack Rose, as well as to fans of acoustic guitar geniuses such as Robbie Basho, John Fahey, Michael Hedges, John McLaughlin, Steve Tibbetts and Ralph Towner. "The sonic equivalent of exploding stained glass
windows."-San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Cuneiform-222
CD
$13.75

Joyner, Simon
Yesterday Tomorrow & In Between
PS, US
Sing,Eunuchs!-03
DLP
$15.00

Joyner, Simon
Heaven's Gate
PS, US
Sing,Eunuchs!-02
LP
$9.75

Joyner, Simon
Songs For the New Year
PS, US
Sing,Eunuchs!-01
LP
$9.75

Jurado, Damien/Dolorean
" Traded for Fire" b/w "Ghost of David"
PS, US To celebrate their 2005 European Tour and years of mutual admiration, DAMIEN JURADO and DOLOREAN released a split 7-inch that was originally available only at shows overseas. The 'A' side features Damien Jurado's cover of Dolorean's "Traded for Fire". Side 'B' is Dolorean's version of Jurado's classic "Ghost of David" track. It is a LIMITED RELEASE OF JUST 600 COPIES.
SecretlyCanadian-139
45
$4.25

Karacter
Self-Titled
PS, US The Archenemy Record Company is happy to announce the release of Karacter's self-titled debut album. Brought to you by the team behind Freezepop and Lifestyle, Karacter takes the ideas behind their "primary projects" one step further back, by exploring their earliest influences late '70's synthesizer pop. Calling on inspirations like Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, the electronic works of Eno and Bowie, the earliest works of Human League, Depeche Mode, Simple Minds, and OMD, Karacter harkens back to a time when technology had not yet overshadowed musical and lyrical ideas, and when the artistry of those acts was not hemmed in by concerns of commercial viability. Incomparable to today's "new new wave" groups, Karacter has a different outlook. "We went back to our earliest influences, music we had lost track of over time. Music defined by its technological limitations, not created in 128 track modern studios. We embraced tape and hiss, and of course, stayed in touch with early analog synthesizers and rhythm units, which have always been a cornerstone of our work," group frontman Sean Drinkwater offers.
Archenemy-027
CD
$9.00

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Philosophy and Underwear
PS, US The debut release from this new New York City-based band led by none other than KID CONGO POWERS. As the title may lead one to believe, the album is a highbrow, and often humorous, viewpoint of a tough and sleazy low life world Kid's character's inhabit. Herbert Hunke's 1940's Times Square in "Johnny," Shakespeare's Richard III's unrequited loves haunt modern guys in "Richard Three," S&M leather men's inner struggles in "Even Though Your Leather is Cliché," or the post 9/11 breakup of a relationship in "The Weather The War." Although heady, and heavy subjects, the music is a mélange of stomping soul swagger, angular no wave, glam-era Lou Reed celebrations and New York stories. Guitars scream like banshees, drums swing from the rafters, basslines snake charm, and electronics reference more Roxy Music Eno than the over exhausted electroclash. Mixed with Kid's casual laconic and resonant talk/sing style, whether dueling with a LITTLE ANNIE or doing it solo, Kid gives heartfelt performances.
Transsolar-029
LP
$14.75

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds
Philosophy and Underwear
PS, US The debut release from this new New York City-based band led by none other than KID CONGO POWERS. As the title may lead one to believe, the album is a highbrow, and often humorous, viewpoint of a tough and sleazy low life world Kid's character's inhabit. Herbert Hunke's 1940's Times Square in "Johnny," Shakespeare's Richard III's unrequited loves haunt modern guys in "Richard Three," S&M leather men's inner struggles in "Even Though Your Leather is Cliché," or the post 9/11 breakup of a relationship in "The Weather The War." Although heady, and heavy subjects, the music is a mélange of stomping soul swagger, angular no wave, glam-era Lou Reed celebrations and New York stories. Guitars scream like banshees, drums swing from the rafters, basslines snake charm, and electronics reference more Roxy Music Eno than the over exhausted electroclash. Mixed with Kid's casual laconic and resonant talk/sing style, whether dueling with a LITTLE ANNIE or doing it solo, Kid gives heartfelt performances.
Transsolar-029
CD
$14.75

King Tubby
100% of Dub
PS, US A reissue of the classic collection of dub cuts from legendary Jamaican sound engineer and musical aesthete OSBOURNE RUDDOCK (aka KING TUBBY). Twenty groundbreaking tracks of shimmering bass-heavy magic featuring production from FATMAN and BUNNY LEE, and music by SLY DUNBAR, ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE, EARL "CHINNA" SMITH, JACKIE MITTOO, ASTON BARRETT, AUGUSTUS PABLO, and others.
SelectCuts-2005
CD
$11.00

Kuti, Fela
Zombie
PS, US Of all African musicians, Fela Kuti probably needs the least introduction. He passed his half century with over 50 albums to his credit and became the radiant rallying point for African underclass and political prisoners everywhere. Originally released around 1976, it is arguably one of the late Chief Priest's best.
Universal-549383
CD
$15.50

Kuti, Fela
Beasts of No Nation/ODOO
PS, US Fela's return to venomous form the 80's. An exemplary Wally Badarou produced masterpiece. Fela at his most confrontational & politically extreme. Remastered.
Wrasse-052
CD
$17.00

Kuti, Fela
Expensive Shit/He Miss Rd
PS, Inspired by Fela swallowing criminal evidence & the Nigerian cops determination to do their job i finding it at any cost. The classic afrobeat groove.
Wrasse-073
CD
$17.00

Kuti, Fela
Roforofo Fight/Singles
PS, US "Roforofo figth is a political battle in which no participant is unsullied; a mud-slinging contest".
Wrasse-056
CD
$17.00

Kuti, Fela
VIP/Authority Stealing
PS, "VIP" is a live album from the Berlin Jazz Festival & the last recording he made w/AFRICA 70 & TONY ALLEN. "Authority Stealing" is a critical record as historical & cultural comment.
Wrasse-074
CD
$17.00

Les Breastfeeders
Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe
PS, US Montreal 60s mod rock sextet. Fresh upbeat style influenced by sixties French & Quebecois garage sounds. Blend of catchy tunes & rhythms, charismatically enhanced by sexy voices. Won multiple awards in Canada & had success touring the US. "If ever you had a reason to run to Canada & set your U.S. passport on fire, this Montreal band ought to do the trick." -Chicago Reader
BlowtheFuse-005
CD
$12.75

Lewis, Jenny & The Watson Twins
Rabbit Fur Coat
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove-008
LP
$11.00

Lewis, Jenny & The Watson Twins
Rabbit Fur Coat
PS, US Solo debut from RILO KILEY's front woman w/guest appearances by M.WARD, CONNOR OBERST, BEN GIBBARD. Her hauntingly soulful voice, sometimes bursting with buoyant spirit & at other times plaintive & world wearied, deep, sensual & beguiling. Here she brings her love of folk, country & Southern gospel & the result is nothing short of gorgeous. Feat. backing vocals form the gospel singers THE WATSON TWINS.
TeamLove-008
CD
$11.00

Love Is All
9 Times That Same Song
PS, US "They turn lo-fi from ho-mum into a gritty asset, forcing us not to respond to their attempt at imperfection or lack of precision but to their passion. This is the first great band of 2006" -Pitchfork Media. Swedish indie pop group debut. 10 songs of heart & soul punk featuring the classics that brought a John Peel Session, single of the week in the NME, a place between My Bloody Valentine & Josef K on the Rough Trade Shops Indiepop vol 1
WYR-106
CD
$12.00

Mammal
Let Me Die
PS, US A brand new full-length from Detroit brutalizers MAMMAL, and their first proper new release in two years. Easily the band's most powerful offering to date, Let Me Die unleashes a dark electronic fury that will leave ears bloody, broken, and begging for more. Six tracks pressed in an edition of 500 copies.
AnimalDisguise-064
LP
$12.75

Manta Ray
Torres De Electricidad
PS, SPAIN Electric, bare, straightforward, physical or tribal are some of the adjectives that come to mind when listening to the new Manta Ray record, Torres de electricidad [Electricity Pylons], the natural follow-up to their more conceptual previous album, Estratexa (2003). Having toured Russia, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the US - gaining support from the American label FilmGuerrero (of which released the last record with two bonus tracks), this Xixón based quartet offers now a more evolved version of their musical direction. After a career of several years, the band can now take pride in feeling - as the main influence, their own songs, their own history, untainted - an equation of talent and inspiration cleared by their personal and stylistic expressions. Yes, we can speak of the Stooges, Fugazi, or Joy Division and Trans Am, or Don Caballero, Neurosis, or the German school (kraut), Washington DC, post-rock or post-punk, but it's been a long time since Manta Ray just sound like themselves. Or, better said, like the version of themselves they want to show to us every time effort and fervour come together for a new album. It was recorded at Estudios Gárate with their usual producer, Kaki Arkarazo at the board, and has been mastered by Roger Seibel (who has previously worked for people like Calexico, Sun Ra, Come, Yo La Tengo, Pussy Galore or Tortoise). Torres de electricidad is solid, metallic, electrifying. There are more guts and heart to it than head (brain was what Estratexa had, largely) giving for the most part an urgent and agonic air to the songs. With the intention of recreating their live performance they draw more exclusively from guitars, bass, drums, relying to a less extent on samplers and electronic instruments, but more so on refining their arrangements in a live context incorporating string and wind performances on several compositions. "No tropieces", "El despertar", "Todo puede cambiar" or "Mi Dios mentira" are representative of the coarser, rockier and intense side of this new record, while tracks like "Añada para Celia", "Por qué evadirse a otros mundos aun más pequeños" or the album's namesake switch towards a more atmospheric and introspective direction mere examples of the two faces of over 42 minutes of inner and outer exploration by a band that adds one and carries another: it's own pulse, asking the most of one-self once more, Manta Ray finds a road full of discoveries to build a future with, and without destroying the past.
Acuarela -1057
CD
$14.75

Martin, Vince
If The Jasmine Don't Get You The Bay Breeze Will
PS, UK Vince Martin first emerged in the late 1950's as a folk-blues singer around Greenwich Village....of the tendency which kind of avoided the academic approach...A friend of commercial Folk-Pop group The Tarriers, he was the lead singer on their "Cindy Oh, Cindy" 45, a monster hit and one of the first real big successes to emerge from the Folk Boom....Vince lending not only a gritty edge of authenticity, but a note of wistful yearning no amount of study can bring....in the early 1960's Vince gravitated toward the intense club nights presented by Black activist and Broadside editor Len Chandler. Starting a celebrated partnership with fellow maverick Fred Neil which stretched over live appearances which influenced a generation, David Crosby, Mama Cass, Richie Havens, you name them....and cutting an acclaimed and now-classic album for Elektra.....Vince it was who started the to-ing and fro-ing of the Folk scene players between Greenwich Village and Florida's Coconut Grove, a place he discovered by chance in 1961, later immortalised in a song by Fred Neil covered by everyone.....all of this is perfectly captured on Vince Martin's 1969 album, "If the Jasmine Don't Get You ... the Bay Breeze Will", one of that decade's overlooked gems, and a record whose title truly says it all, abd whose time has come.....From the opening cut, "Snow Shadows," the sound is an airy blend of folk spirit and rock dynamics. Softly brushed drums push forward behind propulsive flat-picked twin acoustic guitars; Martin's high tenor sings of romantic loss, quivering over the lines "Stumbling through the snow..../Nothing waitin' for me like I'm leaving behind..../Cities are meant for leaving before I get too black and blue." As the song builds, the drummer dramatically downshifts, cracking his snare with a full stick. Martin's voice in turns seems to lift off with a thrilling effect, soaring, as he croons, "Heading south without you like a wild bird flying blind/Someone should have told me I'd never go home." Produced by infamous A&R man/producer Nickolas Venet at Capitol's studio in Nashville, Tennessee, this record came in the midst of the run of Capitol releases which included Euphoria, Gandalf, and Karen Dalton's self titled album.....strange company indeed..... With a stellar cast of musicians, including Kenneth Buttrey, Fred F. Carter Jr. , Lioyd Green Murrey, M. Harman Jr, Charlie McCoy, Norbert Putnam, Henry P. Strzelecki, and John Buck Wilkin....makers of records from Bob Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde" to Bergen White's "For Women Only". "That record was cut in Nashville," Martin recalls. "The musicians had just finished doing Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline, and they wanted to jam." He pauses, briefly lost in the memory. "They're geniuses. I just sat and played and they came along with me." As for the album's title track, a sprawling thirteen-minute outing complete with jazzy guitar breakdowns, a forceful bass solo, galloping percussion, and Martin's scatting, it was wholly improvised. "They wouldn't quit!" Martin exclaims, describing the studio band. He continues, "I wanted to stop singing, and the f*****s wouldn't quit! So I said, 'Okay, let's go.'"
Rev-Ola-139
CD
$14.75

Maserati/Mercury Program
Confines Of Heat (CD + DVD)
PS, US REISSUED!!! MERCURY PROGRAM was born in 1997 in Gainesville, Florida. Their "collective sound is very much groove-oriented at the bottom, but given to loopy, spinning guitar bits, and Phillip Glassish melodic abstraction on the vibraphone and keyboard" (Pitchfork Media). MASERATI are a band from Athens, Georgia that started in 2000. "Maserati has a huge confident sound full of spacious atmospheric guitar work grounded by a tight rhythm section and prominent, dynamic basslines" (Pitchfork Media).
HelloSir-007
CD + DVD
$14.75

Maserati/Mercury Program
Confines of Heat Split
PS, US REISSUED!!! MERCURY PROGRAM was born in 1997 in Gainesville, Florida. Their "collective sound is very much groove-oriented at the bottom, but given to loopy, spinning guitar bits, and Phillip Glassish melodic abstraction on the vibraphone and keyboard" (Pitchfork Media). MASERATI are a band from Athens, Georgia that started in 2000. "Maserati has a huge confident sound full of spacious atmospheric guitar work grounded by a tight rhythm section and prominent, dynamic basslines" (Pitchfork Media).
HelloSir-007
LP
$14.75

Mastodon
Call Of the Mastodon
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse-6515
LP
$16.25

Mastodon
Call Of the Mastodon
PS, US This is a collection of MASTODON'S first-ever forays into the recording studio, exposing the humble beginnings of hard rock's heaviest hitters. The 9 tracks laid to tape here, the first the fledgling quartet had ever written, document a band finding its' own voice & place in the musical world. Remixed & remastered by original producer Matt Washburn, & repackaged by the band's longtime artist Paul Romano, this is a vital piece of heavy metal history & the crucial starting point in their still burgeoning legacy
Relapse-6515
CD
$14.50

Metal Fingers
Presents...Special Herbs Box Set (3XCD)
PS, US ...3 disc set collects all 10 Special Herbs volumes seamlessly blended together into 2 75 minute mixes & incl. beats from various MF Doom, KMD & King Geedorah projects accompanied by unheard tracks to be used on future albums. Incl. third bonus disc of beats never before heard. LIMITED.
NatureSounds-120
CD
$28.00

Mojo
Classic: Johnny Cash (Vol. 1 Issue #11)
PS, UK
ZINE
$14.75

Morton, Jelly Roll
Introduction To
PS, US 20 track comprehensive collection of his most famous early performances & incredibly rare tracks.
Fuel-302061539-2
CD
$12.00

Mt. Eerie
I Whale
PS, US The first in a series of beautiful LIMITED EDITION ART VINYL from BLUESANCT. The 7" single is LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, on baby blue sea colored vinyl. It will not be repressed and will sell out very quickly. Get it now, or don't. Side A features the exclusive MOUNT EERIE song entitled 'I WHALE'. Side B features a beautiful screenprint of an image drawn by PHIL ELVERUM. The sleeve is a letterpressed text taken from a handwritten layout by Phil in blues and white on sandy colored cardstock. Of the song, Phil says: "It is a sequel to another song of mine called "I am a Pearl Diver" that was on another 7". They are my 2 songs so far in the series on nautical professions."
BlueSanct-079
45
$7.25

Murphy, Peter
Unshattered
PS, Track listing: Idle Flow, Kiss Myself, Piece of You, Face of the Moon, Emergency Unit, Thelma Sings to Little Nell, The Weight of Love, Give What He's Got, Blinded Like Saul, The First Stone, Breaking No One's Heaven. Few have a gift to create music that inspires and enriches our lives; Peter Murphy is an artist known for doing just that. "Unshattered" embodies the musical evolution of one of the most enigmatic and influential artists of our time. No need for over analysis. Peter Murphy has , over his career done what a rare few can do. Which is to make music that defies categorization. He can move from pure avant guard to pure pop and all in between and remain convincing, no! nigh on amazing. Born with a genius that is untrained yet inborn. Seemingly writing music, performing and singing is a state of being, without effort. This man is THE cutting edge. Unshattered just happens to be a brilliant main stream album. --SPIN.
Artful-051
CD
$17.00

Nara Leao
Nara '67
PS, UK A brilliant 23 track compilation of the Brazilian Bossa Nova star Nara Leao The cliche about Nara Leao was that she was "the muse of bossa nova." As a teenager in the late 'Fifties, she opened up her parents house as a salon for the movers and shakers of the early bossa nova scene - Tom Jobim, Joao Gilberto and others to hang out in. In the early sixties, as bossa nova exploded internationally, Nara rose to stardom. Soft and sweet, moody and sensuous, she performed pop and beautiful samba and bossa standards and established her reputation as one of the outstanding talents of her generation. She toured Japan, Brazil and France with Sergio Menzies and returned to record political songs that were critical of Brazil¹s prevailing military junta. Nara's catalogue of recordings are so magical, of such a consistently high standard, they are sacrosanct in Brazil. this compilation concentrates on recordings made in 1967 her absolute best period. Nara Leao has more recently began to cultivate an audience in Japan where like Astrud Gilberto, Elis Regina and Claudine Longet her sweetness strikes a real chord. A biography of Nara Leao as a history of bossa nova has just been published in Brazil. Sergio Cabral, "It's a mystery why she hasn¹t been recognized as one of the most influential characters of our music. We forget people easily. But I believe that, at least unconsciously, the revolution she started was realized by the people who surrounded her."
El-062
CD
$14.75

Nation 12
Electrofear
PS, US Nation 12 is a project that started life as a collaboration between electronic pioneer John Foxx and Bomb The Bass's Tim Simenon back in 1989. at the time the 21-year-old Simenon's hip hop beats and music cut-ups were right at the cutting edge of British music, as he'd not only constructed his own Number 2 single, 'Beat Dis' but in 1988 the dance innovator also co-produced Neneh Cherry's Top 10 hits 'Buffalo Stance' and 'Manchild'. In addition to his love for hip hop, the Brixton born producer was also a fan of electronic music, especially Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget and John Foxx. Although the latter hadn't made a record since 1985's In Mysterious Ways, they met up via mutual acquaintances in 1989 to discuss the idea of a collaboration. After many sessions with Simon Rodgers a record was finally produced. However the release was delayed by the closure of Rhythm King records and the tapes from those recording sessions were also lost. 'I had one or two things on tape somewhere, but essentially I thought it was gone for good,' admits Foxx. Then three years ago, two cassettes appeared which contained most of the material recorded by Nation 12. andthey are the source for almost all of the music on this CD release. Although there's the odd hiss and crackle, both Foxx and Simenon believe it's part of the album's raw charm: 'The music itself is primitive and promising', says Foxx of this snapshot of a work in progress. 'It's like a little map of possible musics. Some of the elements sit together like oil and water, some point to entirely new directions for the period - many of these have since been fruitfully explored by others. If we'd have continued, I'm sure it would have worked.' Thanks to Martin Heath's support, Nation 12's fragments and songs are finally assembled into 77 minutes of music, described by Foxx as a mixture of 'film noir dance routines, electropunk and psychedelic chant songs.'
Artful-8
CD
$17.00

National Trust, The
Kings And Queens
PS, US Their second full-length is a freaky conflation of dance music, like a 31-flavor ice cream social on a hot summer's day where bongos and subs keep time for a gaggle of face-painters, genies, and roller-queens, but it's more about lifestyle than any generic allegiance or retro revivalism. The band calls it "body music". "Kings And Queens" makes nods to disco, house, and pop, as well as what the band members heard around them on the streets, in parks, and in clubs. Equally present are Chicago-style horns, R&B falsetto, Latino percussion, and bass lines with more soul than a gospel choir. Produced by Abel Garabaldi, engineer for R. Kelly, Fat Joe, Ciara, and Britney Spears.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.50

Nein
Wrath of Circuits
PS, US Durham, NC band formed from ashes of WHITE OCTAVE & have recently incorporated Dale Flattum (STEEL POLE BATHTUB, MILK CULT) & his army of samplers & tape decks. Melodies shine through a mass of artful discord, capturing the listener's attention. "Like the Liars (first album) jamming in a haunted house run by Merzbow."-Village Voice
SonicUnyon-104
CD
$13.75

New Radiant Storm King
The Steady Hand
PS, US "...a bright valentine for your ears and the best release of the year so far." --Foxy Digitalis. The first studio record in five years by legendary western Massachusetts indie rockers NEW RADIANT STORM KING. Their new record The Steady Hand features core members Peyton Pinkerton (longtime guitarist for Pernice Brothers, Silver Jews) and Matt Hunter (J Mascis and the Fog, Silver Jews, Wharton Tiers Ensemble) with the addition of Patrick Berkery on drums (Pernice Brothers, The Bigger Lovers) and Caleb Wetmore on bass . The Steady Hand was recorded by engineer/producer Mark Alan Miller at Slaughterhouse Recording Studio in Amherst, MA where most of NRSK's acclaimed records were tracked. Recorded in glistening high fidelity The Steady Hand is without a doubt their finest record to date. On their newest offering New Radiant Storm King's songwriting and musicianship remain true to form yet polished and stronger than ever. Like other great alt-guitar pioneers, NRSK lay virgin gravel road; sometimes hard and angular, sometimes uniquely smooth and pastoral. Peyton and Matt's trademark vocal styles and guitar interplay are now refined to surprising precision and yet maintain the playful exuberance that people have come to expect from them over their sixteen year career. The Steady Hand is a testament to NRSK's ability to constantly push the envelope while maintaining a sound that defies any direct comparison. While their music still retains hints of their undeniable influences (Wire, Mission of Burma, My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver to only name a few) the NRSK soul is as unique as ever.
Darla-167
CD
$13.50

Northern Chorus
Bitter Hands Resign
PS, US NC has turned out the record that Death Cab for Cutie might make after taking an online classical composition course & a near fatal overdose of tranquilizer cocktails."-Pitchfork
SonicUnyon-0095
CD
$13.75

Os Mutantes
Tecnicolor
PS, US One of the all-time great albums finally released in US. Landmark cult album feat. the one of a kind fusion of extreme Brazilian psych pop. A revolutionary recording w/its guitar lines, tape experiments & unique songwriting sense.
Universal-6121-02
CD
$16.50

Pansy Division
The Essential Pansy Division (CD/DVD)
PS, US s This commemorates their 15 years together. They've picked 30 songs, from classics to newer hits, culled from their 6 out of print Lookout! releases as well as their AT release. Includes a bonus DVD with videos, TV appearances & live clips. A tidy summation of their groundbreaking career thus far, perfect for the uninitiated or the consummate fan who wants all the hits on one disc.
AlternativeTentacle-343
CD
$16.75

Paul Motian Band
Garden of Eden
PS, US Continues his storied career w/a new direction, increasing the emphasis on original compositions (but w/ covers of Mingus, Monk & Parker) & the addition of another electric guitar.
ECM-0006065-02
CD
$19.00

Pearls & Brass
The Indian Tower
PS, US They are dedicated to playing it not just as loud rock but as something where melody & rhythm are truly interlocked, shifting & moving always as one unit. They have played together for 13 years & clearly done their homework listening to endless amounts of Randy (both Holden & California).
DragCity-300
CD
$14.50

Pearls & Brass
The Indian Tower
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-300
LP
$14.50

Pepito
The New World
PS, MX The New World, Pepito's third album, takes the electronic music duo of Ana Machado and José Márquez into a candy-colored underworld where pop music legends share Cuban espressos with IDM pioneers and indie rockers offer long, loving back rubs to Hip Hop beatmakers. Written and recorded in just six months, "The New World" is Pepito's most infectious collection of songs to date, with sure-to-please tracks like the anthemic "Get Out," featuring Chris Groves of Citizens Here and Abroad, and the album's namesake, a buoyant cut-up of 80s pop anchored in the none-too-ironic state of the nation. Pepito, who recently moved from San Francisco to Madrid, have dedicated this record to California, calling it "the place where America ends and tomorrow begins." From the epic "Los Angeles," which features guest vocals by David Kesler of the indie rock group Thee More Shallows alongside Wobbly, a seasoned collaborator of such experimental electronic music acts as Matmos and People Like Us, to the Bollywood-by-the-Bay shoulder-shaker "Por Que," which hitches a rocking electropop-funk arrangement to tooth-achingly sweet vocals by Pepito's Ana Machado. In a marked departure from their previous two full-lengths, Pepito's "The New World" features an even split between English and Spanish language vocals, offering many of their U.S. fans a first look at one of the group's rare strengths: intelligent, romantic and unpretentious lyrics. But the record's true revelation is the blossoming pop sensibilities of this boy-girl team -- a flair nonetheless rooted in the present (if not the future) tense. Returning fans will delight at the now laser-sharp genre bending (or breaking) that first put Pepito on the map, highlighted on this album by the track "B.U.S.I.N.E.S.S." which manages to swing from the Cuban Bola de Nieve like piano stylings to Germanic Pole inflected dub in less time than it takes you to say "bolero" in binary code. "The New World" is that rare album which exudes the "you-know-it-when-you-hear-it" power of pop music as well as the "wtf-was-that" directness of the best new music. After garnering surprising critical praise with their 2002 debut "Migrante", it was clear that Pepito's promise was unparalleled in the Spanish-language indie music scene. This November, on the strength of an album filled with funk and fiction, punk and poise, they'll extend their purple reign to the rest of the New World.
StaticDiscos-014
CD
$13.50

Pia Fraus
Chromatic Nights EP
PS, US A side: Pia Fraus - Chromatic Nights (Original 12" Version), Bill Wells - Chromatic Nights Remix, Pia Fraus - You Know There Are People Living In The Country (Original 12" Version). B side: Pastacas Kroom keeled Remix Galaktlan - Chromatic Nights Remix, Mondii In The Forest Mix. Brand new vinyl-only EP from our favorite Estonians, Pia Fraus. This 6-track release consists of the original version of "Chromatic Nights", four remixes, and an extra track "You Know There Are People Living In The Country". On "Chromatic Nights EP", felow-Estonians GALAKTLAN and PASTACAS represent Kohvirecords with their electronic remix versions of the Pia Fraus tracks "Chromatic Nights" and "Kroom-keeled", respectively. Scotsman BILL WELLS (Leaf, Domino / Geographic, Creeping Bent, Pastels producer, etc.) also turns in a great mix of the title track as well. The most-remote guest on the record is MONDII (Hefty, Spekk and Plop) whose remix takes the listener to the soundscape of Japanese forests and insects. As the musical and geographical backround of the remixers is so varied, the result is a dynamic and thrilling release.
Kohvirecords-01212
12
$14.25

Plastic Constellations
Crusades
PS, US 'Quirky, ecstatic tunes that throw indie rock, emo & even some hip-hop together & tell them to make nice. The noisy pop quartet displays the blazing energy of fellow Midwesterners OK Go & some keenly lyrical, Modest Mouse-esque songwriting skills."
FrenchKiss-025
CD
$15.00

Plastic Crimewave Sound
No Wonderland
PS, US Recorded under harsh conditions with a dark-cloud backdrop of freezing tempatures, car wrecks, personal strife, illness & even bullet crossfire, at last this 2LP paranoid song cycle is upon us. A space-punk epic of formation & devastation, ittravels from the devotional light of 'the beginning' to the virus of technology & even darker future urban hells. A limited edition DLP housed in a beautiful, sturdy gatefold sleeve, feat. the last recordings by the line-up with Andrew Ortmann (Panicsville) & Cat Chow, (just wait til you hear the new line-up..). Cameo appearances by Michael Yonkers, Devendra Banhart, Josephine Foster, Fur Saxa, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Chris Connelly, & more.
Eclipse-048
DLP
$22.50

Pollard, Robert
From A Compound Eye
PS, US With 26 songs clocking in at over 70 minutes, this finally makes good his threat to release a double album. The wealth of new material is astounding. Highlights incluse some of the best of the Pollard/GBV canon, as well as other nuggets that find him tweaking his style & experimenting with new sounds.
Merge-272
CD
$12.75

Pollard, Robert
From A Compound Eye
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge-272
DLP
$12.75

Polystar
Finished
PS, US With a shared love of great songwriting and slick production, Polystar members Theodore Fraser, Danny Gold, and Sean Drinkwater (Freezepop, Lifestyle) have been making music with one another since high school. Creating music is an endeavor that they take seriously, yet approach with the passion and pleasure of true music fans. During the early 90's, the members of Polystar studied recording in Boston and played in local bands. In the late 90's, fate found Danny Gold and Theodore Fraser back in their hometown in Maine. With nothing much to do, they picked up acoustic guitars and started writing songs for fun. Sean Drinkwater, still in Boston and becoming a successful producer and performer, was impressed by the material and encouraged Gold and Fraser to make a record. As well as producing the project, Drinkwater helped polish the raw songs into dark pop gems. After a series of obstacles and endless delays, Polystar's Finished is finally released. Polystar is currently working on their next effort, collaborating with Roger O'Donnell (The Cure, Thompson Twins, Psychedelic Furs) and Boz Boorer (Morrissey, Pole Cats, Bozmen).
Archenemy-028
CD
$9.00

Prurient/Wolf Eyes
Warriors Split
PS, US A CD release of the Warriors album split between noisecore heavyweights WOLF EYES and PRURIENT. Wolf Eyes unleash two searing tracks, while Prurient follows with eleven of their own. Already out of print, these will not last long.
HospitalProductions-125
CD
$15.25

Public Image Limited
Public Image / Second Edition
PS, Germany The first two Pulic Image Limited releases together in one 2CD package. Two-fer combines the self-titled 1978 debut album, 'Public Image', with its 1980 follow-up, 'Second Edition'. Standard double jewelcase. Contains the classic "Religion", which is now more timely than ever... And such a low price!
Virgin-Germany
DCD
$14.75

Reeder, Scott
Tunnel Vision Brilliance
PS, US Debut solo album from legendary underground rock figure & member of KYUSS, OBSESSED & GOATSNAKE. Reveals a much more personal & intimate soundscape where Scott played all the instruments & handled all production & engineering. A psychedelic trip through his bizarre subconscious.
Liquor/Poker-6016
CD
$17.00

Reigning Sound
Time Bomb High School
PS, US
InTheRed-84
LP
$8.75

Rocket
Girls With Candy Hearts
PS, US Southern California's reigning princesses of summertime party brattiness return with a brand new EP featuring seven slices of deliciously bright 'n' tight rocking guaranteed to jam your jukebox. You get three original songs, along with hot covers of Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Nick Gilder, and punk screen sirens The Fabulous Stains. The band is a revolutionary concoction of fun, smiles, candy, bubblegum, and beating hearts that mixes '60s girl group innocence with '70s decibel-damaging boulevard beat and '80s glam-wham swagger.
Teenacide-010
CD
$7.50

Rockets Burst From Streetlamps
Departed + Odds & Ends (2XCD)
PS, US Now, the mythical, great 2nd and final album from one of Boston's original spacerock combos is finally out... Takin ya back to before it was cool to rip off the jesus and mary chain and spiritualized. Shoegaze resurgence like it never went out of style. We're now offering the album, and a bonus EP of some of their finer non-album moments.
Archenemy-024
DCD
$7.25

Rollins, Henry
Talk Is Cheap Vol. 2
PS, US Welcome back to the mouth that never shuts. "Talk Is Cheap Vol. 2" contains the second night of Henry's spoken word shows at the Enmore Theater in Australia, recorded live in April 2001. More stories, bile, and ranting diatribes from your favorite graying, limping, philosophic, misanthropic curmudgeon.
2.13.61
DCD
$11.75

Royksopp
What Else Is There?
PS, US Remix single for the most stirring & evocative songs from "The Understanding." Incl. 6 remixes by Thin White Duke, Vitalic, Emperor Machine, Trentemoller, Jacques lu Cont plus radio edit, "Alpha Male" live & enhanced video.
Astralwerks-47546
CD5
$8.25

Royksopp
What Else Is There?
PS, US Double 12" vinyl incl all 6 remixes w/ nice fat grooves!!!
Astralwerks-47546
2X12
$10.50

Saint Etienne
Tales From The Turnpike House
PS,
SavoyJazz-17580.2
CD
$17.25

Saloon
Lo-Fi Sounds Hi-Fi Heart
PS, US Saloon weave delicately beautiful, dreamily melancholic songs w/ a wonderfully lazy grace. Like the soundtrack to a post-rock Super-8 remake of Midnight Cowboy. Complete collection of 7" singles & compilation tracks w/ the added bonus of four previously unreleased tracks. Includes the 2001 John Peel Festive 50 #1, "Girls Are The New Boys".
Darla-171
CD
$14.50

Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Spellbound
PS, US The most outrageous performer at the dawn of rock...coffins, flaming skulls, nose bones, canes & capes. "I Put a Spell on You" indeed.
Fuel
CD
$12.75

Sems
Any Day Ago
PS, US Sophomore album follows their ethereal aesthetics debut w/a driving, sparkling effort that recalls some of the best works from the mid-late 80's, with hints of Jesus & Mary Chain, MBV & Psy Furs echoing.
Recordhead-083
CD
$14.50

She Wants Revenge
Self-Titled
PS, US After only 3 mind-blowing hometown shows, they opened for BLOC PARTY on their North American tour & have since opened for OK Go, Kills & Raveonettes.
Geffen-5587
CD
$10.75

She Wants Revenge
Self-Titled
PS, US Vinyl Version! SPECIAL ORDER ONLY.
Geffen-6148
LP
$15.25

Silverman
Nature of Illusion
PS, US One of the truest indications of a good record is when it sounds like something is starting to go wrong with the car while listening to it. The latest SILVERMAN sounds at turns like the brakes are going, the belts are slipping, the timing needs adjusting, the drive shaft has a shot bearing and the clutch is failing. Nature Is Illusion is a much more amorphous excursion than some of Silverman's previous slow trance explorations, though it does display his trademark fondness for going to very quiet places. Through a polar silence comes a ringing metallic sound that fades off into contrapuntal, subsonic drones. A brief essay of percussives trails back into the liquid void. Features a unique vocal performance by EDWARD KA-SPEL.
Beta-LactamRing-096
CD
$14.75

Silverman
Nature Of Illusion (LP + CD)
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! One of the truest indications of a good record is when it sounds like something is starting to go wrong with the car while listening to it. The latest SILVERMAN sounds at turns like the brakes are going, the belts are slipping, the timing needs adjusting, the drive shaft has a shot bearing and the clutch is failing. Nature Is Illusion is a much more amorphous excursion than some of Silverman's previous slow trance explorations, though it does display his trademark fondness for going to very quiet places. Through a polar silence comes a ringing metallic sound that fades off into contrapuntal, subsonic drones. A brief essay of percussives trails back into the liquid void. Features a unique vocal performance by EDWARD KA-SPEL.
Beta-LactamRing-096
LP
$21.75

Snowdrops
Sleepydust
PS, US 2nd single from mysterious Matinée musicmakers The Snowdrops, an occasional collaboration of indie legends Keith Girdler (Blueboy, Beaumont, Arabesque, Lovejoy), Dick Preece (Lovejoy, Beaumont) & Pam Berry (The Pines, Shapiros, Black Tambourine, Glo Worm). Features 5 tracks including a Pet Shop Boys-inspired title track w/brilliant lead vocals from Keith plus backing from Pam. Other tracks include a beautiful atmospheric number called "Too Cold To Snow", the wonderful "The Boy With The Hummingbird Eyes" featuring Dick on lead vocals & a guest appearance from Keris Howard (Harper Lee, Brighter), a short one called "Teddy Dragons" & a remix of "Sleepydust" w/more Pam & some other nice touches. Limited to 1000 copies in custom minijacket sleeve.
Matinée-053
CD5
$7.00

Some Girls
Heaven's Pregnant Teens
PS, US With parts of THE LOCUST, GIVE UP THE GHOST, PLOT TO BLOW UP THE EIFFEL TOWER & UNBROKEN. Guitars & growled to pulp vocal chords steamrolling into an undead rhino charge of drums & bass. Fast, heavy, menacing & stalking like men of cloth on young children. An oddity on this slab is a 9 min. track feat. GABE SERBIAN (LOCUST)& to top it off is their version of P.I.L's "Religion 11" that will make God wish that humans had never thought of the concept.
ThreeOneG-046
LP
$10.00

Some Girls
Heaven's Pregnant Teens
PS, US Some Girls is a five-person assault out of the sleepy Navy town of San Diego, comprised of the creme de la crass of musicians from that city's famed hardcore/punk underground. Fronted by Give Up The Ghost and American Nightmare's Wes Eisold, the band features a who's who of hardcore players from The Locust, Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Unbroken, Over My Dead Body, Swing Kids, and Crimson Curse. This is their first full-length; an unrelenting musical psychosis, adding new dimensions of brutality to Some Girls' now-trademark thrash attack. Includes a snarling cover of Public Image Ltd.'s post-punk classic, "Religion".
Epitaph
CD
$13.75

Squares
Squares
PS, US THE SQUARES were an Atlanta-based band that existed during the late 1990s and early '00s. This eight-song CD was their magnus opus-a sound that successfully blended the musical ideas of Man Or Astroman? and Slint-and offers a unique glimpse into another one of the South's underrated bands.
Stickfigure-017
CD
$8.75

Stereo Total
Discotheque
PS, US Franco-German duo STEREO TOTAL (FRANCOISE CACTUS and BERZEL GORING) release their seventh album, one that is totally devoted to the discotheque. These tracks won't feel entirely unfamiliar, as this is a super compilation of rare tracks, new songs and remixes from albums past and previous collaborations, all mashed up for your disco pleasure. Includes reworked rave-ups of "Europa Neurotisch" and "Babystrich," rare songs from side-projects and remixes from acquainted bands MOTOR MARK (UK) and JACNO (France), new versions of the inspired re-takes of Nico's "Chelsea Girls" and The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper," and more.
DiskoB-139
CD
$17.00

Stoltz, Kelly
Antique Glow
PS, US A reissue of the Antique Glow album from gifted pop songwriter and San Francisco favorite KELLEY STOLTZ. A whimsical blend of '60s-fueled psych, pop, and folk sounds, with touches of blues and garage for added enjoyment. Fourteen wonderful tracks in all.
JackpineSocialClub-004
CD
$14.50

Stone Roses
Stone Roses
PS, Reissue. Red vinyl. The color vinyl was originally issued in 1989. The Stone Roses eponymously titled debut album is now regarded as the defining release of the late 80's early 90's 'Madchester' music scene. Byrdsian jangly guitar pop songs are injected with the attitude of The Rolling Stones. It includes the singles 'She Bangs The Drums', 'Made Of Stone' and 'I Am The Resurrection'.
Silvertone-800133
LP
$25.75

Sunn0)))
Black One (DELAYED)
PS, US
SouthernLord-050
DLP
$20.00

Super Numeri
Welcome Table
PS, US Double LP LIMITED to 150 copies. Order NOW for any hope of fill...
NinjaTune-97
DLP
$20.25

Super Numeri
Welcome Table
PS, US Second LP for Liverpudlian psych collective offers more "Astral Music" but with a more urgent, driving sound.
NinjaTune-097
CD
$16.00

Tape Op
#51
PS, US Mike Mogis, Hank Shocklee, Nick Mason, Ana Da Silva, Martin Bisi, Lucas Van Der Mee, TapeOpCon2006, gear review, & CD reviews. It's the #1 recording magazine!
ZINE
$4.50

Tarkio
Omnibus
PS, US This was Colin Meloy's college alternative-countryish band, which put out a full-length and an EP before they disbanded and Meloy segued into The Decemberists.
KillRockStars
DCD
$17.00

Test Icicles
For Screening Purposes Only
PS, US Test Icicles sound like everything, all at once. The three band members have divergent backgrounds in hardcore, metal, hardcore metal, and hip-hop. They listen to all kinds of music and when they're done, throw it all in the pot. No compromises, just a swampy mass of influences frothing and bubbling until it sounds nothing like its composite parts. "Part ear-bleed punk-funk, part old skool rap. This emaciated London trio are stark, barking brilliant" - NME. "...brilliant record, putting every conceivable influence through a punk rock blender and making a gloriously messy riot" - The Sun.
Domino
CD
$13.75

Test Icicles
For Screening Purposes Only
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$13.75

Texas Governor, The
The Experiment
PS, US The Archenemy Record Company is proud to announce the long-awaited release of The Experiment, the second album from Dave Goolkasian, aka Tone Source 1, aka The Texas Governor. The Archenemy Record Company has been holding these CDs hostage for more than a year. Why? We're not sure why. Why did we go so long without updating the site? What the hell HAPPENED in 2003 and 2004, anyway? We lost track. But we know 2005 is gonna ROCK and this album is part of the master plan. Soulful, brilliant, strangely optimistic and near perfect alt-country/new-wave/pop, this is the shy yet brash love child of Stephin Merrit and Ryan Adams. Or something like that. Maybe it was the fear of writing release copy that kept this label from doing anything for two years. Maybe the band's Myspace Page says it best, what with their 451 friends and all (and if all 451 of those people bought this album, Mr Governor and I would be very happy): ...we've been known to subconsciously sonically pay tribute to... all night radio, beachwood sparks, beach boys, earlier bowie, built to spill, the clean, broken social scene, the cars, elvis costello, flaming lips, johnny cash, hank williams, modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, olivia tremor control the rentals, magnetic fields, new pornographers, buzzcocks, rilo kiley, the shins, simian, sonic youth, spent, talking heads, ween, wheat, wilco, the who, shit maybe even warren zevon and ironically... this boston band of yesteryear, but not too long ago - The Elevator Drops.... and ??
Archenemy-025
CD
$6.25

Tokyo Sex Destruction
5th Avenue South
PS, US The latest from sex-crazed, 1960s-loving rock'n'roll arsonists TOKYO SEX DESTRUCTION. On their 2004 Black Noise Is The New Sound! album, the band played at reckless tempos, with the guitar and the organ at dueling levels of distortion and volume both vying for supremacy. With 5th Avenue South, they reinvent themselves showing their maturity and diversity. The group has moved beyond their direct MC5/Sonics dichotomy to include some of the other pop elements of the '60s and 70's; especially the psychedelic movement. Besides the driving rhythms and power chords of songs like "One more Sunday" and "Prisoner Of Our Ideas," the band's initial love for soul elements seems to have pulled them towards a sense of Hendrix's more pop moments, and there's an undercurrent of the Animals and the Kinks that gives things a more melodic flavor.
Transsolar-031
CD
$14.75

Tokyo Sex Destruction
5th Avenue South
PS, US The latest from sex-crazed, 1960s-loving rock'n'roll arsonists TOKYO SEX DESTRUCTION. On their 2004 Black Noise Is The New Sound! album, the band played at reckless tempos, with the guitar and the organ at dueling levels of distortion and volume both vying for supremacy. With 5th Avenue South, they reinvent themselves showing their maturity and diversity. The group has moved beyond their direct MC5/Sonics dichotomy to include some of the other pop elements of the '60s and 70's; especially the psychedelic movement. Besides the driving rhythms and power chords of songs like "One more Sunday" and "Prisoner Of Our Ideas," the band's initial love for soul elements seems to have pulled them towards a sense of Hendrix's more pop moments, and there's an undercurrent of the Animals and the Kinks that gives things a more melodic flavor.
Transsolar-031
LP
$14.75

Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Brave And The Bold, The
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Overcoat
LP
$12.50

Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Brave And The Bold, The
PS, US This first time collaboration between Tortoise and Will Oldham features covers of such artists as Bruce Springsteen ("Thunder Road"), The Minutemen ("It's Expected I'm Gone") Elton John and Bernie Taupin ("Daniel"), Lungfish ("Love Is Love"), Richard Thompson ("Cavalry Cross"), and more. The songs are almost unrecognizable to their original versions, yet each was chosen with care and reverence with no sense of irony. The record is undeniably both a Tortoise and a Bonnie "Prince" Billy record, and yet altogether something completely new and exciting.
Overcoat
CD
$13.75

Town And Country
Up Above
PS, US "Up Above" is the result of Town and Country's extensive touring with minimal composition icon Tony Conrad. Using instruments bought on various tours in Japan, the band constructs woozy, meditative drones that incorporate elements of Asian ceremonial music, South American holiday carols, and North
American folk.
ThrillJockey
CD
$14.50

Tribeca
Dragon Down
PS, SWEDEN Sweden's # 1 electronic pop band mix analogue synthesizers, drum machines and guitars so twisted they no longer sound like guitars with the catchiest melodies you'll hear in a long time. For fans of New Order, Postal Service, and Kraftwerk. Tribeca played the Miami pop festival June 4th and will return to the US for a proper tour in September. Late summer 2003: Lasse Lindh entered the studio withproducer Claes Björklund to record a new Lasse Lindh album. The idea was to record most stuff live in the studio and end up an album based on live takes with a rough, guitar based sound. Autumn 2004: Lasse Lindh shows up at the Labrador office with the finished material: An all together electronic pop album by Tribeca. "Solitude" is the first single from the upcoming Tribeca album, "dragon down" due to be released in April. And it's a real hit they are showcasing. It's already been picked up by P3, ZTV, Radio Stockholm and a whole bunch of student stations in Sweden. "Solitude" is taken from the upcoming album "Dragon Down". It's the opposite of organic sounds; analogue synthesizers, drum machines and guitars so twisted they no longer sounds like guitars. And more than ever, highly addictive pop songs! Biography: The last Tribeca album "kate-97" was an unlike blend of old school electronic instruments, guitars and cutting edge production which gave the band a great deal of airplay in not only Sweden, but also in Spain (released on Mushroom Pillow) and Germany. The low budget video for "the sun always shines on TV" also gave the band some airtime on MTV in France and Scandinavia. Now they're back with a yet more electronic sound, an even better album and two wonderful singles backed with great videos. "Dragon Down" contains twelve highly addictive pop songs in crystal clear production with analogue synthezisers, groovy old school beats, and singer Lasse's smooth vocals up in the front. A truly wonderful album indeed.
Labrador
CD
$15.00

Tunng
The Pioneers EP
PS, US Heck! Pioneers its Bloc Party gone foktronic. We include the Tale from Black, as revered as woody's early funny movies. Number 2 in Piccadilly 2005 chart. No 75 in Rough Trade and No 2 in Hoodlam Tribe chart. "Pool Beneath The Pond ", was b side that's only available on e-bay or the differing overseas albums. Chuck in the video showcased at Mirrorball in 2005. Headlined the (folkey dokey stage) at the legendary green man festival in 2005. Other headliners included Bonnie Prince Billy/ Matt Sweeny/ The Earlies/ Incredible String Band / James Yorkston/ Joanne Newsome Tunng most recent BBBC session was broadcast on Radio 1 s The One Music shows accross both Rob Da Bank and Huw Stevens shows. - Full-scale national PR and college radio campaigns will launch in support of U.S. release - "Magpie Bites" single just released in the UK is receiving voluminous critical acclaim - "Mother's Daughter" was a finalist in "Album of the Year," category in Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Music Awards 2005 - UK Reviews ran in Mojo, Q, Uncut, Esquire, Urb, Touch, Update, Diva, Clash, Plan B, IDJ and more -Have toured extensively with bands such as Crooked Fingers, Viva Voce, Nine Black Alps, Minotaur Shock, King Creosote, and Jose Gonzalez. CDS - "The Pioneers", "Tale from Black", "Pool beneath the Pond" + "Fair Doreen Video" / 7" Is one sided, etched and has the one track "The Pioneers" AND is extremely limited.
StaticCaravan-099
CD5
$8.00

Ursula
Autoayuda Emocional
PS, SPAIN Special handmade package, ltd to 1000 copies. This new CD by URSULA on Lejos discos, mixing electronic and organic sounds with their painful lyrics, will convince fans old and new. If you enjoy John Coltrane, Hood, Arab Strap, Migala and Matt Elliot, Ursula is the band for you, and "Autoayuda Emocional" -with an exclusive cardboard packaging for this 1000 copies limited edition release- will be your one of your favourite records. "Autoayuda Emocional" is the perfect evolution of Ursula's sentimental and harsh music, defining in each song the cornerstones of a personal way to see life and music. David Cordero and his band come back full of energy and attitude to defend their best record to date.
LejosDiscos-005
CD
$14.75

Various
Check The Water
PS, US A 10-year celebration of Leaf featuring twenty-nine classic and rare tracks from the label's best artists-SUSUMU YAKOTA, MURCOF, FOUR TET, SUTEKH, EFTERKLANG, COLLEEN, CLUE TO KALO, BOOM BIP & DOSEONE, PSAPP, A HAWK AND A HACKSAW, 310, ROBE ELLIS, LUGER, A SMALL GOOD THING, and more.
Leaf-50
DCD
$8.75

Various
Motown the Early Years
PS, US From the PBS "My Music" special plus 10 original vintage video clips w/newly remixed STEREO audio by TEMPTATIONS, SUPREMES, STEVIE WONDER, MARVIN GAYE, FOUR TOPS, SMOKEY ROBINSON, MARY WELLS.
Shout!-6086
DVD
$22.75

Various
Otis' Opuses
PS, US The newest sampler from Kill Rock Stars features twenty-two tracks by such artists as The Old Haunts, The Decemberists, The Gossip, Wrangler Brutes, The Makers, Harvey Danger, Gravy Train, Deerhoof, Delta 5, Numbers, Comet Gain, and many more. Also includes bonus tracks by Stereo Total and John Wilkes Booze. As always, the songs vary from electro-trash to singer/songwriter to hard hitting guitars to bouncy pop and back again. And then more. All together it's one exciting introduction (or reintroduction) after another.
KillRockStars
CD
$5.50

Various
The Shield Around The K
PS, US Produced and directed by HEATHER ROSE DOMINIC, "The Shield Around the K" documents the first two decades of the inspiring birth and growth of the punk rock DIY record label, K RECORDS, a record label whose lo-fi credibility has never been compromised. Based in Olympia, WA, co-founders CALVIN JOHNSON & CANDICE PEDERSEN are interviewed along with over 20 K artists and peers including MECCA NORMAL, LOIS, ROSE MELBERG, IAN MACKAYE, SLIM MOON, DEAN WAREHAM and more. "The Shield Around the K" also features performances by Calvin Johnson's legendary Beat Happening, as well as rare footage from the INTERNATIONAL POP UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL footage with performances by FUGAZI, BEAT HAPPENING, Mecca Normal and others.
BlankStareFilms-001
DVD
$21.50

Various
Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?
PS, US Guided by fans, musicians, observers and critics from within the Christian music scene as well as the "secular" world, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?" tackles the artistic, religious and cultural implications of the burgeoning independent Christian rock movement. Maintaining an impartial eye, first-time directors VICKIE HUNTER and HEATHER WHINNA have created a "thoughtful picture of a community that's often been cynically mocked in the mainstream media." (Bob Mehr, Chicago Reader)
BlankStareFilms-002
DVD
$21.50

Various
Lavender Jungle
PS, US Thirty-three tracks of ultra-rare, banned-by-the-FBI exotica and exotic rock'n'roll from the vaults of Senor Charro Records of West Hollywood: 1959-1972. You get cuts from RULIE GARCIA, LA LUPE, RHYTHM KINGS, GLENDA & GLEN, INVADERS, DON SARGENT & THE BUDDIES, MONARCHS, and many others. Packaged with luscious, erotic glossies of the muscular beefcake performers and detailed liner notes from the label president.
SenorCharro-12708
CD
$15.50

Various
Best of Studio One
PS, US COXSONE DODD produced reggae classics from Jamaica's legendary foundation label incl. ALTON ELLIS, WAILING SOULS, MICHIGAN & SMILEY, GLADIATORS, HEPTONES, SLIM SMITH plus 6 bonus tracks by JOHN HOLT, LONE RANGER, KEN BOOTHE, ABYSSINIANS.
StudioOne-116617801-2
CD
$19.00

Various
Under 21: Los Angeles! A Compilation Of Rad Youth
PS, US A collection of next-wave tracks from young bands coming out of Los Angeles' The Smell. Includes songs from ABE VIGODA, MEAN REDS, MIKA MIKO (upcoming Kill Rock Stars release), HELLO ASTRONAUT GOODBYE TELEVISION, MY LITTLE RED TOE, RAINBOW BLANKET, and others. Fifteen tracks.
OlFactory-002
CD
$9.50

Various
Full Up-More Hits from Studio One
PS, US COXSONE DODD produced reggae classics from Jamaica's legendary foundation label incl. PARAGONS, WILLIE WILLIAMS, DELROY WILSON & SLIM SMITH, JOHN HOLT, ETHIOPIANS, CULTURE plus 6 bonus tracks by BOB ANDY & MARCIA GRIFFITHS, CABLES, BURNING SPEAR.
StudioOne-116617802-2
CD
$19.00

Various
Downbeat theRuler: Studio Instrumentals
PS, US COXSONE DODD produced reggae classics from Jamaica's legendary foundation label incl. SOUND DIMENSION, TOMMY MCCOOK, JACKIE MITTOO, DUB SPECIALIST plus 8 bonus tracks by SOUL VENDORS, BRENTFORD RD ALL STARS, more.
StudioOne- 116617803-2
CD
$19.00

Various
We Love...Homelands
PS, US First DVD celebrating one of Britain's best love & most diverse festivals incl. performances & interviews by BECK, STREETS, BABYSHAMBLES, BRAVERY, HUMAN LEAGUE, ROOTS MANUVA, GROOVE ARMADA, JOHN DIGWEED.
Overt-2
DVD
$19.25

Veirs, Laura
Year of Meteors
PS, US
Nonesuch
CD
$15.25

Veirs, Laura
Year of Meteors
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
KillRockStars-447
LP
$11.25

Venitian Snares VS. Bong-ra
4 Adaptations of Rossz Csillag Allat Született
PS, US Four tracks from VENETIAN SNARES' Rossz Csillag Allat Született album loving and personally readapted by admirer and fellow electronic practioner BONG-RA.
PlanetMu-111
12
$7.25

VHS or Beta
You Got Me
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks-48067
12
$8.25

VHS or Beta
You Got Me
PS, US Remix single for the catchiest song from "Night on Fire." Incl. 4 remixes & dub versions by JUAN MACLEAN & BABY DADDY plus album version & enhanced video.
Astralwerks-48067
CD5
$8.25

Votolato, Rocky
Makers
PS, US Soundtracked by the songs of Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Rocky had an unconventional upbringing on a horse ranch in Texas before his mother moved the family to Seattle. There he spent his high school years discovering the underground punk/indie scene. Inspired by bands like Fugazi, he and his brother Cody (founding member of hardcore/art combo The Blood Brothers) formed a punk band called Waxwing. Over the course of three increasingly accomplished solo albums, Rocky has matured into a truly phenomenal talent. "Makers" is an amazing album of songs that seem to have been scratched into a boxcar wall by a worn out and lonesome ghost. "Votolato has stones like Bruce Springsteen and hangover wisdom like Paul Westerberg" - Alternative Press.
Barsuk
CD
$13.75

We Are The Fury
Infinite Jest
PS, US If early 70's glam and late 70's post punk had a love child in 2005, We Are The Fury would be it. However, they're not your average lo-fi regurgitation. With influences ranging from Bowie and T-Rex to Talking Heads and Television, We Are The Fury reveal a truly unique sound and style. "We Are The Fury cause an electric rage of keyboard, guitar, drums, and bass that creates an almost manic excitement that is rarely matched by any other band" -Skratch Magazine. For fans of Head Automatica, Hot Hot Heat, Ima Robot, and My Chemical Romance. Produced by Tim Patalan (Lovedrug, Sponge, The Fags).
UnbornMedia
CD
$7.00

Wiese, John
Teenage Hallucination: 1992-1999
PS, US A collection of early tracks recorded by JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, BASTARD NOISE, SUNN O))), etc.) from the time he was a teenager to his seminal early vinyl appearances. From pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts, Wiese steadily developed his highly personal and specific style of extreme music while trying to survive the St. Louis experience. Fifty-two tracks including the best material from his Catwoman 7-inch, his split LP with The Haters, his split 5-inch with Panicsville, collaborative tracks with GX JUPITTER-LARSEN (THE HATERS) and CORYDON RONNAU (SISSY SPACEK), and some unreleased and unheard tracks of isolated Midwest basement obscurity. Packaged with full liner notes by T. MIKAWA (INCAPACITANTS, HIJOKAIDAN) and SEYMOUR GLASS (Bananafish Magazine, GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION). Limited to 1,000 copies.
Pacrec
CD
$7.50

Work Clothes
These Are The Shoes We Wear
PS, US Jenny and Lee Waters, the husband and wife creative core of Carrboro, NC's W. C., spent nearly 3 years writing and recording these 12 beautiful and bittersweet pop songs. They used their own Bless This Mess bedroom studio as well as a couple of other area living rooms for basic recording; and final mixing was done by the warm and thoughtful ears of Brian Paulson(Slint, The Rosebuds). A must for fans of the Elephant 6 Collective, Secret Stars, Galaxie 500 & Ida.
FracturedDiscs-007
CD
$12.50

Wright, Peter
Pariahs Sing Om
PS, US 3CD retrospective collecting 2 complete albums ('Pariahs sing om', 'Catch a spear as it flies'), significant excerpts from 'Duna' & 'A tiny camp in the wilderness' & various unreleased tracks. None of this material has ever been available outside of small cd-r runs. A lush soundscape of barely-there field recordings, subtle shadings of grey rumbles & black ambience, keening chimes smeared into lengthened sonic shadows, shifting overtones & subtle shimmers, all very melancholy & emotional, dreamy & otherworldly.
LastVisibleDog
3XCD
$19.75

Wynn, Steve & the Miracle 3
...Tick...Tick...Tick
PS, US The third release in the "Desert Session" trilogy, folllowing the critically acclaimed Here Come The Miracles and Static Transmission. Expect a great sounding, wild and freaky last installment in the Desert Trology, exposing the Miracle 3 at the top of their game.
DOWT14.2
CD
$15.00

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4 Guitars
Live At Luxx (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK This was a rare quartet of guitars performance that took place August 8 of 2001 in a now defunct club in Brooklyn by Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline and Carlos Giffoni. Its a crystal clear multitrack recording that was later mixed and mastered by producer Wharton Tiers. Infinite possibilities are explored as the signature styles of each of the group members create moments of tension, peace, violence, and run trough every possible range of emotions. psychedelic tunnels of sound echo trough endless guitar lines, minimalism and maximalism both present in one moment, there are no solos and no selfishness, as 4 combine to create an unbelievable 40+ minute piece. A document of pure sonic exploration of a moment in time that will never be repeated by 4 of the most respected experimentalist of our day. - Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth. -Nels Cline (countless solo projects + member of Wilco). - Carlos Giffoni (upcoming composer/improviser from New York). - Rare live once in a lifetime. guitar quartet performance from 4 of the most important/in demand experimental musicians. - Mixed and mastered by producer Wharton Tiers.
Important-080
CD
$13.50

Aceyalone
Magnificent City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US RJD2 produced album is as ambitious as a concept album but without the elitism. A complex record that unwinds a variety of moods from west coast infused funk through to sweeping cinematics.
Decon-034
CD
$17.00

Aceyalone
Magnificent City (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Decon-034
DLP
$17.00

Acid Mothers Temple
Starless & Bible Black Sabbath (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Third Alien Records release with this Japanese psychedelic ensemble. This release sees the band paying homage to Black Sabbath. It isn't straight up Sabbath worship in the sense of covers, but rather the band pays respect to the sound of Sabbath & like minded bands such as Melvins or Zeni Geva.
Alien8-062
CD
$14.50

AM Syndicate
Empire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US AM Syndicate, a troupe of eight from Austin, TX, could perhaps be the band to provide the soundtrack for one of these fanciful performances. Their open song structures create a feeling that evokes the dry, exotic vistas one might find in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel; a land where the wind kicks up violent swirls of dust, a place where bands of ethereal, perhaps dangerous groups of nomads appear as dots on the horizon. Varied influences, tinkling middle-eastern melodies, gypsy-like strings, contemporary rock and electronica, tribal drum beats, and elements inspired by the great American west, all combine to form a sweeping soundscape that is rich and colorful, yet at the same time desolate and intriguing. AM Syndicate includes members of Rhythm of Black Lines, Knife in the Water, the Innocents, the Rise, and the current bassist for And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead.
Sickroom-32
CD
$12.00

Amandine
Leave Out the Sad Parts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 21ST)
PS, US Five track EP featuring two new exclusive heartbreakers. Another collection of lush melodies & sincere songwriting. Influenced & inspired by traditional American Folk music & sometimes w/ an inclination towards Alt Country/Americana. They still consistently retain a keen sense of self, w/ a strong natural writing ability. Their songs reflect a sense of rural space, a reflective ideology, while always played simply from the heart. "Boundless horizons meet the intimate under uneasy harmonies" - Pitchfork
FatCat-052
CD5
$8.00

Anna Oxygen
This Is An Exercise (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US This takes you on a textured electronic adventure through a dancy & sometimes dark landscape of layered synths, video game soundtrack jams & operatic spirit quests. Unlike her first album of pop simplicity, this focuses on layered multi-instrumental compositions & vocals, complete with orchestrated horns & strings batling driving electro bass lines.
KillRockStars-432
CD
$14.50

Antena
Toujours Du Soleil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 10TH)
PS, UK A brand new album from Antena - stylish French electro-bossa pioneers whose debut Camino Del Sol is now an acknowledged genre classic. Antena's groundbreaking mix of Kraftwerk, Suicide and the breezy tropicalia of the Gilberto family (Joao, Astrud and Bebel) sounds as fresh in 2006 as in 1982, when John Foxx produced their debut single, The Boy From Ipanema, and future Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant tagged them 'electro-samba'. The label still applies, and echoes of the Antena sound can be heard in artists as diverse as Stereolab, Electralane and Thievery Corporation indeed the latter duo co-wrote two of the thirteen songs on Toujours du Soleil. The remixed Antena trio for 2006 consists of main songwriter Isabelle Antena together with daughter Penelope Fasy (replacing her father Sylvain) and hip Brussels dj Axailes Solar. Conceived as a sequel to Camino Del Sol, Toujours du Soleil (Always the Sun) was recorded on the French Riviera and produced by Dr Drak, Shape and The Cool Groove Sessions. Featuring a stellar cast of prestigious international guests, the 2006 Antena trip takes you from Paris to Tokyo, Goa to Washington CD. Stand-out tracks include energetic stepper Le Spinner (already familiar from the Samsonite ad campaign), future lounge classic Toujours du Soleil and the electro-groovy Love is to Blame, as well as a magical version of the laid-back America classic Horse With No Name. "Essential 2005's most charming musical surprise" (Mojo, December 2005).
LTM-2456
CD
$14.75

Anti-Clockwire
Artificial Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Latest name for New Zealand multi-instrumentalist Brian Crook's solo project, following his eponymously titled solo debut released in 1998 & a more C& W-influenced album under the moniker BIBLE BLACK in 2002. Brian has a rich & varied history in New Zealand underground music circles, but is probably best known as one half of the songwriting duo (along with his wife Maryrose) in the primordial alt-country band the RENDERERES. He has also left his mark as guitarist, etc. for garage goths the TERMINALS & abstract experimentalists FLIES INSIDE THE SUN. The inspiration for Anti-Clockwise's first proper release came from Brian digging into records by such favorites as early Eno, Pere Ubu, & Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, plus PJ Harvey's "Is This Desire?", & experimenting with a stripped-down home recording setup to create a paranormal sonic underworld where nightmares of drowning & claustrophobia are the norm & aliens routinely stop by for a spot of tea. Haunted keyboard oscillations, overcaffeinated careening drumbox beats, webs of sinewy sinewave menace, undercurrents of strange noises lost down a wormhole, along with Brian's trademark languid alien-blues guitar work & his unmistakenly Antipodean voice make up the veritable portable soundlab. Evocative of everything from an acutely introverted Ron Asheton to the isolationist vibe of Loren Mazzacane Connors to the psych-lasso approach of solo Wayne Rogers to noise pointillists like Wolf Eyes.
3BeadsofSweat-1008
CD
$13.50

Apollo Nove
Res Inexplicata Volans (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US A modern day pop Tropicalista, crooner, songwriter, pianist & collector of over 60 vintage synths, keyboards & effects from the 60s, 70s & 80s. He's the prime contender for most innovative young producer in Brazil. 12 melodious, deep, moody songs that hover somewhere between psychedelic rock, eerie electronica & spacey folk. Mixed br Air engingeer Yann Arnaud & feat. CIBELLE & SEU JORGE.
Crammed-021
CD
$17.00

Arctic Monkeys
When The Sun Goes Down (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Much has been made of what an "internet sensation" the Arctic Monkeys have become, but it's obvious after five weeks in the UK Top 10 with their Domino debut single that it's much more than that. They have the songs and the live shows to back it up. Alex Turner's lyrics paint detailed pictures that take the street documentary eye of a hip-hop emcee and cross it with the distinctly British observational styles of Davies and Weller.
Domino
CD5
$5.50

Asmus Tietchens
Z-Menge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, Limited edition of 500. LINE is proud to present Z-Menge the new installment of the continuing Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. LINE will be releasing the subsequent works in this series. Zeta-Menge means Zeta quantity. "Another approach to ultimate situations, nearly stillness before becoming silent as Samuel Beckett taught us. End Game. Microtones and structures are only the tools. The Night Of Lead revisited..." Asmus Tietchens' first released his unique electronic music in 1980, but created works since the late 1960s. Since then he has produced over 37 full length solo works and more cutting edge recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and conctrete music. Some of his over 20 full length collaboration projects include the ongoing Kontakt der Junglinge with Thomas Koner. Tietchens' focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue his groundbreaking early works on cd in limited edition. His latest critically acclaimed project, a series based strictly on sine tones and white noise is the "Mengen" series released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux (Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Menge).
12k-025
CD
$13.50

AV Club
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Debut release is in words, a true kick in the ass. A collection of immediately accessible, totally raw & highly focused rock & roll. Phony frills & posturing have been left at the door, replaced by raw energy & a glimmer of hope that rock music is still a powerful force. Songs fall under the almost forgotten category of timeless, well-crafted, American rock & roll. They combine all the elements missing from modern music, producing earnest, soulful, & catchy songs.
Insubordination-048
CD
$12.75

Azita
Detail From the Mountain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US A short & sweet release ranging from lilting & melodic to rock hard. A band from the streets of Chicago feat. MATT LUX, JASON AJEMIAN, RIAN MURPHY & EMMET KELLY. Her vocal melodies, piano playing & head arrangements for the band are of high quality. Lyrics written by playwright BIRAN TORREY SCOTT for the play of the same name.
DragCity-306
CD5
$9.50

Backyard Babies
Live Live in Paris (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Live album from band started by founding member of Sweden's saviors of The Rock, THE HELLACOPTERS. A live "Best Of" pulls together the best songs from their albums & serves as a document of their stage power.
Liquor/Poker-6018
CD
$17.25

Bad Wizard
Sky High (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Fourth LP from NYC infamous rockers is produced by JENNIFER HERREMA (ROYAL TRUX) & shows a depth of songwriting & playing at which was only hinted on their previous recordings.
Howler-009
CD
$16.00

Baier, Sibylle
Colour Green (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Recorded in Germany from 70-73 on reel to reel. Her music is simply amazing in its intimacy & closeness. The songs are intimate portraits of life's sad & fragile beauty. A gem of an album that will blow your mind. A star who chose to shine for her friends & family instead of the whole world.
OrangeTwin-022
CD
$14.50

Battiato, Franco
Fetus (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US F. B. moved into the 1970s on the crest of the progressive rock wave. This 1972 impossibly strange record inhabits that nether world of pop music, electronics, politics and experimental rock. Fetus is an album beyond all definition. It's a masterpiece of daring and wild risks that work every single time. Battiato takes us through eight uniquely super-detailed songs that tug at the heart strings as no other experimental record ever could. Liner notes by Jim O'Rourke.
Water-168
CD
$15.50

Battles
Tomorrow's Eager Hands (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, US NOT THE US BATTLES. Canada's Battles got there first w/their 2001 debut "Lycanthropy" on Blue Curtain. 5 years later the Vancouver combo re-enters the sphere w/another album of forward thinking guitar-based pop cut from the same underappreciated cloth as Feelies, Embarrassment, Bryan Ferry & even Mayo Thompson. That's a hell of a poker game they're joining there! Mainman Stephen Wood's time as the ax-wielder in DESTROYER influenced his lyrical approach to songwriting, but unlike other Vancouveranians, he's not afraid to open up & let his love of prog shine! Also shares a member w/BLACK MOUNTAIN. "A Lennon-inspired collection of pop grandeur."
SoftAbuse-13
CD
$13.50

Belle And Sebastian
Life Pursuit, The (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$19.00

Belle And Sebastian
Life Pursuit, The (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US NEW ALBUM!!!
Matador
CD
$15.25

Belle And Sebastian
Life Pursuit, The (3XCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Written almost entirely by frontman Stuart Murdoch, Belle And Sebastian's sixth album is a magnificently assured and diverse pop record. With nods to such influences as Cornelius, Manfred Mann, and David Bowie, "The Life Pursuit" mingles the folky, be-sweatered pathos of the group's earliest work with joyfully satirical late 60's sunshine pop, and the sophisticated 80's-influenced work reminiscent of their prior album, 2003's "Dear Catastrophe Waitress". Limited deluxe CD with six-song live DVD bonus in special hardbound book packaging.
Matador
3XCD
$18.00

Belong
October Language (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Duo from New Orleans following in traditioni of fuzzed out folks like MBV, Flying Saucer Attack & Spaemen 3 but if asked, they'd say they were more influenced by contemporary composer William Basinski or Fennesz. A collection of ambient melody suffused pieces that can either put you at ease or scare the crap out of you.
Carpark-031
CD
$16.00

Bibio
Hand Cranked (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mush-244
LP
$11.50

Bibio
Hand Cranked (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Follow up to 2005 debut is a 14 cut collection of idyllic, found-sound & lazy Sunday musical ramblings, focusing on his passion for saturated guitars, warbling effects & natural beauty though with a slightly more whimsical feel this time.
Mush-244
CD
$16.25

Bird Show
Lightning Ghost (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 14TH)
PS, US This centers around BEN VIDA's (TOWN & COUNTRY, CENTRAL FALLS, EVERYONEd) home-fi experiments. Tracks are carved out of opate'd chanting, disjunctive drums circles, synth meditation & prepared piano trance songs. These sonic explorations are embedded into tighter song structures, with a greater role given to vocals. The ceremonial air has been expanded with a strong percussive presence, mesmerizing musical figures.
Kranky-093
CD
$13.75

Bird, Andrew
Mysterious Production of Eggs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US NOW ON VINYL. w/full color, d-luxe sleeve w/fabulous art by Jay Ryan. Second solo LP since dissolution of Bowl of Fire group is a magnificent, powerhouse of a record dealing w/the mysteries of childhood, creativity & modern science - both epic in scope & minute in detail. A singular talent & a sprite.
Grimsey-032
LP
$14.50

Black To Comm
Rückwärts Backwards (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 13TH)
PS, DE Black To Comm is an alias for Dekorder label owner Marc Richter's audio excursions. "Rückwärts Backwards" is his debut full-length album recorded between 2003 and 2005 in his adopted hometown Hamburg and his childhood home in the Black Forest located in the south of Germany. With a background in many musical styles (from Psychedelia to pure Computer Music) BTC's music is never easy to pin down. This album is essentially created from scratchy shellac and vinyl loops merged with ambience field recordings (with some voice manipulations and kitchen gamelan thrown in for good measure). The warm hiss of analogue recording techniques combined with the apparently antique sounds of vintage organs, acoustic & electric guitars, pianos, glockenspiel and mbira used on these tracks generate a kind of hyperreal, fake nostalgia playing with one's perception of a pseudo-recollection. The layering and hypnotic repetition of short loops extracted from old Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Vaudeville and Traditional records reveal a haunting melodic quality sometimes not distinguishable within the original source material, evoking a hovering feeling of bittersweet melancholy with an omnipresent, slightly disturbing atmosphere hidden beneath the surface. The 8 songs constantly sway back and forth between simple, almost naive arrangements and dense surreal drones with rare, yet intense distorted climaxes making this album one constantly absorbing listening experience.
Dekorder-014
CD
$14.75

Blackshaw, James
O True Believers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US When UK-native James Blackshaw plays his 12-string, something spiritual takes place. This unassuming 23 year-old is transformed into a guitar god whose name belongs alongside the likes of Jack Rose, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and Glenn Jones. Making instrumental, solo, acoustic music that remains consistently interesting and moving is a difficult task. Yet, time after time, Blackshaw hits out of the park, constantly breaking boundaries in what could be conceived as a somewhat limited medium. O True Believers is the latest in a string of impressive releases, all with their own mood and inspiration. An untrained musician living in the isolated suburban environs of Greater London, Blackshaw draws inspiration not only from the early Takoma Records roster, but from sources as varied as the sublime film-work of Werner Herzog, the books of Richard Brautigan and an endless amount of music: free-jazz, 60's psych, drone, ethnic music and modern-day composers, to name a few. He is also an enthusiastic runner, part-time poet and a keen reader of books on Hindu and Sufi religion and mythology. Consisting of mainly solo 12-string acoustic guitar, played in a finger-picked style not too sissimilar to Robbie Basho, perhaps Blackshaw's biggest inspiration, James Blackshaw has devised new tunings and new techniques both of which are in full display on O True Believers. In these part improvised and part written songs, Blackshaw traverses between Eastern and Western scales; simple and incredibly intricate picking patterns; waves of fast, powerful rolls and glass-fragile harmonics. The album is embellished with other instruments such as the Hindustani tamboura and harmonium and a specially tuned psaltery of Eastern-European origin called a Cymbala. Like most of his previous work, O True Believers may be born of a finite moment of hope in a sea of infinite sadness, a fleeting moment of fragile beauty that extends beyond it's physicality. Unlike past albums, the listener's feeling upon conclusion is more ambiguous: there is no happy and immediate resolution, as if ghosts of the past will find themselves resurfacing time and time again in the future, an idea which is reflected in several reoccurring themes within the songs themselves. Colourful ragas sit next to mournful Fahey-esque refrains, triumphant mountaintop marches besides almost neo-classical chord changes, endlessly repeating until there is only transcendence. This is James Blackshaw at his most vunerable and sincere and, with that, there comes rare and wonderful qualities to his music: truth and freedom. James Blackshaw has toured and collaborated with artists such as Josephine Foster, Peter Wright, Taurpis Tula, Ashtray Navigations in the UK and Europe and is due to tour the US in the summer of 2006. James is also confirmed and has contributed tracks to two forthcoming compilations in 2006, which sees him alongside the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Marissa Nadler, Christina Carter, John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang.
Important-084
CD
$13.50

Blake, Ran
All That Is Tied (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US 35th album since his 1965 ESP debut. Collaborator w/Braxton, Jordan, Lacy & others & teacher to John MEDESKI. "So hip it hurts. A pianist who can make you laugh at his wry humor one second & wring a tear the next."-Downbeat.
TompkinsSquare-1965
CD
$15.00

Bloc Party
Helicopter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DimMak-095
12
$5.50

Bloc Party
Helicopter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US This song appears here in it's original form as well as remixed by some of indie rock's hottest names. This is a new series called "CONNECT THE DOTS". Here they bring in PEACHES & DIPLO. And include a remix by WEIRD SCIENCE (STEVE AOKI & BLAKE MILLER). The CD version includes the WHITEY remix from the remix album.
DimMak-095
CD5
$4.75

Blossom Toes
We Are Ever So Clean (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Think back to the 1967 London of Syd Barrett, Twink, Steve Howe, Tomorrow, Sgt. Pepper, Pete Daltrey's Kaleidescope and there you will find the Blossom Toes, a quartet led by guitarist Brian Godding and Jim Cregan and one of the best kept secrets of the '60s British psych scene. Produced by none other than Giorgio Gomelski, the Blossom Toes' debut LP, is one of the most clear and convincing pieces of British psych pop ever written. Given the overall excellence of the work, it is impossible to single out the "best" track but "Look At Me I'm You" and "When The Alarm Clock Rings" are particularly exceptional. Do not miss this classic!
Akarma-344
LP
$22.50

Blow, The
Alphabet Series K (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, DE The Blow, from Portland, is mainly Khaela Maricich who began following a folky lo-fi songwriter tradition. Since meeting up with Jona Becholt (who`s working solo as Y.A.C.H.T and more recently became the drummer for Devendra Banhart`s band) it has morphed into a very slick yet wimpy and charming kind of indie-R`n`B. After several EP`s and albums (incl. last year`s "Poor Aim: Love Songs" that brought the HIT of the year "Hey Boy"), now recording for Calvin Johnson`s K Records. We`re very happy that they had time to record a few EXCLUSIVE songs for the series.
Tomlab-062
45
$7.00

Boogie Down Productions
Best Of The B-Boy Sessions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US They tracked down the original reel to reel master tapes from the B-Boy Sessions circa 1985-87 & some of the tracks were unearthed will melt your mind. Original & alternative versions, megamixes, rare early tracks + much much more. Many of the songs have never been on CD, released, or heard by anyone outside of the B-Boy camp. Packaged in an 8 panel wallet.
Traffic-3306
DCD
$17.00

Boy Omega
Black Tango (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US New album from gush-worthy Swedish singersongwriter Martin Gustafsson. Think Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and The Cure's Robert Smith, Damien Rice and Devendra Banhart, with a ruddy twist of Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame and more than a hint of Bear Quartet frontman Mattias Alkberg's notorious croon... Scandinavian melancholy at it's most heartbreaking and tangible, with a nifty new injection of electronics, striking a nice balance with Martin's heartbreaking acoustic epicery.
SlightRecord
CD
$9.00

Bragg, Billy
The Internationale/Live & Dubious (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Billy's first album containing live material, combined w/ "The Internationale," a 1990 EP of global & historical political anthems & revolutionary ballads. "The Internationale" features everything from a brass band & a Welsh choir on the title track to the Spanish language "Nicaragua, Nicaraguita." The equally fiery "Live & Dubious," originally released in 1988. Six-Panel Mini-Jacket.
YepRoc-2604
CD
$17.75

Bragg, Billy
Life's A Riot W / Spy vs Spy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Re-issue of 1983's mini-LP that first introduced the world to Billy's style. Roughly strummed electric guitar & stark vocals belying a keen sense of melody & committed, deeply humane lyrics on topics ranging from life & love to social upheaval & the plight of the working class. Recorded live to 2-track tape for free over the course of three afternoons in Chappell Music's tiny demo studio in the modest hope of selling the occasional copy at early gigs, "Life's a Riot..." had initial sales topping 50,000 (ultimately over 120,000) w/o the aid of advertising. Six-Panel Mini-Jacket.
YepRoc-2601
CD
$17.75

Bragg, Billy
Volume 1 (9XCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Nine-disc box set includes 2 bonus DVDs w/ previously unavailable live footage. The releases include his debut, along with "Brewing Up With Billy Bragg", "Talking to the Taxman About Poetry" & a disc that combines the "The Internationale" & "Live & Dubious" EPs. Each release will feature the re-mastered original & a second disc of bonus material, much of it previously unavailable & handpicked by Billy & longtime Bragg cohorts Grant Showbiz & Wiggy -- a labor of love indeed. Box Set.
YepRoc-2600
9XCD
$70.50

Bragg, Billy
Brewing Up W/ Billy Bragg (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Billy's 1984 sophomore effort w/ the addition of 1985's "Between the Wars" EP. The album title comes from his brief stint on tank patrol in the British army. The album's grassroots-fueled success made good on an early publicity claim, "Billy Bragg has no band, no 'experimental' haircut, no gimmick & no video. He has a couple of cheap electric guitars, enormous personality, courage, integrity, a repertoire of timeless songs & very shortly, a second gold disc to give to his Mum." Six-Panel Mini-Jacket.
YepRoc-2602
CD
$17.75

Bragg, Billy
Talking W/ The Taxman About Poetry (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Billy's 1985 album, about which Rolling Stone glowed, "On this album, cheerfully subtitled 'The difficult Third Album,' Bragg expands his pared-down sound ever-so-slightly (violin here, piano & tambourine there). While purists might bitch, the result is a winning mesh, as clever as Elvis Costello, as melodic as Ray Davies & as rocking as Chuck Berry." Six-Panel Mini-Jacket.
YepRoc-2603
CD
$17.50

Bragg, Meredith & The Terminals
The Departures EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US "It's pure orchestral indie rock with heart" EntertainmentWeekly.com. The Departures EP is the highly anticipated follow up to this summer's critically acclaimed debut full length, Volume 1, by Meredith Bragg and The Terminals. Bragg continues to wield his astounding songwriting skills and innate grasp of atmospherics on this limited edition EP. The EP was recorded in the spring of 2005 by Chad Clark and T.J. Lipple (Dismemberment Plan, Aloha, Minus Story, Beauty Pill) at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia. Meredith is regularly backed up by his band The Terminals, consisting of Brian Minter on piano/keyboards, Jon Roth on drums, and Elizabeth Olson on cello. The band will be touring up and down the east coast in support.
Kora-003
CD5
$8.25

Brokesch, Susanne
Emerald Stars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Follows 2 previous albums on Disko B and is less ambient, opening up more towards experimentation, classical song interpretation & even pop music. Digipak w/12pp poster booklet.
ChicksonSpeed-026
CD
$18.00

Brothers With Different Mothers, The
Daffodils and Devils (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, JP Imagine a world where The Monkees were played by The Stone Roses. From Manchester, UK, The Brothers With Different Mothers love the vibe of the live stage, at the same time being masters of pulling pop magic out of the studio hat. "Daffodils and Devils" features 12 cuts, five of which appeared briefly on a self-released album which quickly sold out in 2004. Opening track, the brass-driven dancefloor bouncer "Rocktopussy" was released as a single in the UK and gained play on both the BBC and Virgin Radio. It also attracted international attention, gaining radio play as far away as Sweden, and winning fans from around Europe. There are nods to the Stones, Supergrass, CSNY and The Super Furry Animals, but with a sound and attitude that is theirs alone, The Brothers distill their own tasty brew. "Daffodils and Devils" is English pop at its very best, refined yet fresh. You can dance to it, sing along to it, dream to it. Legendary US producer Kim Fowley says "The Brothers With Different Mothers are wonderful...a 21st century variation on Aztec Camera and Simon & Garfunkel...what they promised, TBWDM deliver...". The Poptones website (Alan McGee's post Creation Records label) made TBWDM their 'Download of the Week' recently and said "The Brothers with Different Mothers have taken up the DNA of the psychedelic prime minister of hippie-punk-rock-freakery David Crosby and twisted and turned it into a completely different m*therf*cker that is next to impossible not to love...".
Quince-030
CD
$14.25

Bugaloos
Songs From the Original Television Series (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK Syd & Marty Kroffts enormously successful follow up to Hr Pufnstuf another Wizard of Oz-style children's programme full of psychedelic metaphors and great music (Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel). With a nod toward the contemporary success of Josie and The Pussycats and The Banana Splits (which placed a band at the centre of the story), and with insect wings that allow them to fly, The Bugaloos were a fake pop band of English bugs who live in Tranquility Forest (the last of the British colonies) along with their friend Sparky the firefly.
ACMEM066CD
CD
$14.75

Buttless Chaps, The
Where Night Holds Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, CA The time has come once again to worship at the buttless chapel. Why?! Because, The Buttless Chaps' fifth release - and their second on Mint Records - Where Night Holds Light will be available in early 2006... so put on your cloak, light your candles and prepare to moan and writhe to the nameless backwoods sounds of The Buttless Chaps' newest excursion into the realms of the unknowable. But before we do that, you might need a bit more information. Here are some answers to your questions... The Buttless Chaps formed in Victoria eight years ago, but moved to Vancouver in order to save themselves inordinate expenditures on ferry fares. Until very recently they were; Dave Gowans (vocals, guitar, banjo, air raid siren), Lasse Lutick (guitar, synth), Morgan McDonald (keyboards), and Torben Wilson (drums), but now they have been enhanced by the addition of the lovely Ida Nilsen (vocals, accordion) whom you may be familiar with from her own excellent musical project, Great Aunt Ida. Together they have formed a musical juggernaut the likes of which have not been seen since Hall first met Oates. Where Night Holds Light picks up hot on the heels of The Chaps' most recent Mint release, Love This Time, and takes the obsession with animals, insects, gardening and human suffering to its (musically) logical conclusion. Ida's addition brings the album to an existential wholeness that can only be achieved when both genders work together to describe the hopelessness of the world... and bugs. Additionally, The Chaps have had excellent helping hands from such Canadian music luminaries as Martin Tielli (vocals, guitar) and Tim Vesely (vocals, bass) of the Rheostatics, JP Carter (trumpet) of The Inhabitants, Roger Dean Young (vocals) and Lyndsay Poaps (vocals). Together they have made an album of morose beauty, but with a nudge and a wink and a say-no-more. Imagine if Depeche Mode had recorded the album Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds or maybe if The Handsome Family had done their version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. If you can imagine that, you're in the right ballpark. Where Night Holds Light sounds like nothing you would have come across before, not even if you are already familiar with The Buttless Chaps. It's brooding jangly orchestral folk music, that it will make you come to the realization that life, although pointless, is also wonderful.
Mint-091
CD
$14.25

Byrds
Preflyte (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US In those heady days before they knocked AM radio for a loop w/their 1965 smash "Mr. Tambourine Man" they were busy honing their repertoire, cutting early versions of "You Showed Me," "She Has a Way" & Boston" w/Jim Dickson. A hypnotic backwards glance at the musical baby picture of McGuinn, Crosby, Clark & Co.
Sundazed-6234
CD
$14.75

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Young Shields (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 25TH)
PS, US Owen Ashworth finally jettisons the confines of lo-fi minimalism for an expanded production palette. A bite sized intro to his
new CFTPA made in conjunction w/ Jherek Bischoff (DEAD SCIENCE, DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE. A driving, menacing anthem with its cold synths, frantic drum machines, & pulsing bass undermined by Ashworth's signature monotone, it is a brilliantly bitter narrative that stands as the most confident & sinister track in the Casiotone songbook. The single's b-side is an electro reworking of of Prince's "When You Were Mine," which features guest vocals from XIU XIU's Caralee McElroy, & somehow manages to sound giddy and gloomy at the same time. CD also features 2 beautifully retrofitted CFTPA classics from their sold out Alphabet Series 7": "Roberta C" appears here as a huge, swooning epic with a full string arrangement and a ridiculous, floor-killing beat, and "The Subway Home" has been reworked as a darkly beautiful dirge which pairs Ashworth's raspy baritone with Bischoff's skeletal contrabass arrangement.
Tomlab-064
CD5
$6.25

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Etiquette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Fourth LP expands Ashworth's color palette to include a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flutes, pedal steel guitars, drums, drum machines & synths. His strongest & most cohesive work to date. Incl. guest musical & production help from members of DEAD SCIENCE, DEAR NORA, PAPERCUTS, & DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE.
Tomlab-065
CD
$15.25

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Etiquette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Fourth LP expands Ashworth's color palette to include a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flutes, pedal steel guitars, drums, drum machines & synths. His strongest & most cohesive work to date. Incl. guest musical & production help from members of DEAD SCIENCE, DEAR NORA, PAPERCUTS, & DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE.
Tomlab-065
LP
$13.50

Cats & Jammers
Wholelottagoddamn (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Fourth album from Chicagoans further refines their kinetic power pop combining 60s garage pop w/frenetic 70's punk energy & 80s new wave. Serious issues like mortality & government conspiracy bump up against women's professional tennis & Charlton Heston. "Simple, catchy, hummable, & uplifting."- Babysue
ScotchHell-7772
CD
$12.75

Cavalier King
Sun Revolutions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Epic expressions of chivalry, valor & the search for truth.Tell of an awakening in a fearful & ever-darkening world dominated by wrenching loss & even worse crushing tedium. Hypnotic, poetic & defiant. For Fans of Radiohead, Morrisey & Muse.
Rubric-061
CD
$14.50

Centro-matic
Triggers & Trash Heaps (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US This first single from their forthcoming album "Fort Recovery". The single contains the album version of this song + 3 B-sides not on the album. Including a demo version, "The Little Guitars", & a demo of the album closer "Take a Rake". This is jsut a taste!
Misra-038
CD5
$5.75

Chad & Jeremy
I Don't Want to Lose You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Reissue of their sweeping 1965 second LP weaves timely folk rock by Dylan & Ochs into their Brit Invasion style repertoire.
Sundazed-6226
CD
$14.75

Chad & Jeremy
The Ark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Wide-eyed Columbia finale lets it all fly. A hand-wrought gem studded w/glittering acid-pop originals.
Sundazed-6227
CD
$14.75

Chicago Underground Duo
In Praise Of Shadows (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US This finds ROB MAZUREK & CHAD TAYLOR returning the focus to improvisation. Simmilar in concept to "12 Degrees of Freedom", the record deals with dyad relationships such as tension & release, space & density, sound & slience. It also plays with sonic contrasts, low tone & high tones as well as contrasting approaches juxtaposing free jazz with modern composition. The album is intended to be viewed as one continual experience other than a collection of different tracks.
ThrillJockey-168
CD
$14.50

Chihei Hatakeyama
Minima Moralia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Chihei Hatakeyama concentrated on the textures of sound in creating Minima Moralia, consciously avoiding the use of electronic sounds; instead using sound fragments made by guitars and vibraphone he played himself. The fragments were processed and reprocessed in live performances on laptop. The contention between the analog sound sources, digital processing and the musician's choices are what give Minima Moralia its positive, warm, and physical presence. Minima Moralia presents the listener with tones that are familiar and tones that are foreign. Specific points of sound appear and velvet clouds elevate and disperse over the course of the album. Jumbles of melodies reveal and then resolve themselves. At all points Hatakeyama's directing hand is at work; in the shiver of a guitar string, the bright ring of the vibraphone, and the strategic use of silence. The naturalistic song titles suggest every day moments, sensations and experiences.
Kranky-091
CD
$13.50

Chuck Norris Experiment
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US With a name like this a '70s testosterone swagger is inevitable & indeniably fitting. This Swedish quintet feat. members from RICKSHAW, TIAMAT & TAURUS follow a long line of debauchery loving rock & roll hedonists.
DevilDoll-036
CD
$14.50

Ciccone Youth
Whitey Album (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US SONIC YOUTH doing all Madonna covers on this reissue of the Blast First classic. Features the "Burnin' Up" demo feat. MIKE WATT (MINUTEMEN) & GREGG GINN (BLACK FLAG).
Goofin-09
LP
$13.50

Citay
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK Out of San Francisco, Citay is a new project by Ezra Feinberg, formerly of Piano Magic, in collaboration with Tim Green from The Fucking Champs. Citay, named for the way the word "city" is often sung, is a powerful, elegiac blend of seemingly disparate musical elements. Taking its cue from the dramatic song structures of 1970s AM rock, Citay combines Led Zeppelin acoustic guitars and organs with soaring guitar harmonies and lush, choral voices. The influences of the early records of Mike Oldfield, Roy Harper, John Fahey, and more recently the Japanese band Ghost can be heard as well. Certain moments sound like the long, baroque intros of Metallica songs (before the metal takes over) while other moments unleash themselves in triumphant builds and emotional landings. The sound is rounded out by breezy, distinctly psych-ed vocal harmonies of The Byrds and The Beach Boys, adding a blissed-out flavor to the blend. The result is something entirely new. With smoking Thin Lizzy dual leads and California vocal harmonies, Citay will soon be enchanting the kids from the city to the country and back again. After spending 6 years in the indie rat race of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ezra Feinberg moved to San Francisco to record with Tim Green of The Fucking Champs, a veteran of the SF scene who moved to the Bay Area after time in Washington, D.C. as a member of that city's seminal punk band The Nation Of Ulysseys. Feinberg and Green had been friends for a while and enjoyed a mutual love of old psychedelic and proto-metal records. Tired of asymmetrical haircuts and hipsters talking about Gang Of Four all the time, Feinberg arrived to the West Coast searching for those moments of rock history that had fallen off the radar. Work on Citay began in the fall of 2004. Accoring to Feinberg, "When Citay started I had been thinking of acoustic Led Zep and the first 2 Heart albums (Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen). Also the drama throughout Queen II, and the trippy/spooky Black Sabbath bongo songs where Ozzy's voice has tons of chorus to make it kind of watery and lava-lamp-y. Led Zep, Heart, and Sabbath are not really known for their acoustic moments, and I hadn't heard anyone taking a cue from that stuff and I felt like it was time someone tried to do something new with those ideas... " Citay is produced by Tim Green who has produced albums by Sleater-Kinney, Comets On Fire, The Melvins, The Donnas, Bikini Kill, Trans Am, and many others.
Important-071
CD
$12.50

Clark, Gene
Self -Titled "White Light" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, "Affectionately known s the 'White Light Album', this 1971 eponymous solo effort is quite simply the best solo album ever recorded by the best songwriter THE BYRDS ever had. Digitally remastered w/5 rare & previously unrelesed bonus songs." "One of the best singer/songwriter albums ever made."-AMG
A&M-493209-2
CD
$11.75

Clogs
Lantern (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Clogs fourth album, Lantern is their finest and most varied effort to date. The group augments their unique sonic palette (acoustic guitar, strings, percussion, bassoon) with melodica, ukulele, and mandola -- guitarist Bryce Dessner, goes electric. Further expanding on the work of their first three records (the melodicism of debut Thoms Night Out, the experimental polyphonies of Lullaby For Sue,' and the minimalist explorations of Stick Music), Lantern sees the band incorporating more rock influences, and writing the best melodies of its career. The record also shows the influences of Philip Glass, who Bryce toured with in 2004; Renaissance music (including the appearance of Italian baroque guitarist, Luca Tarantino); and the rhetorical humor of artists like American icon Moondog (listen to Clogs' "Song of the Cricket"). Recommended if you enjoy fellow travelers like Rachel's, The Books, Bell Orchestre, ect.
Brassland-010
CD
$13.00

Cluck, Diane
Black With Green Leaves / Macy's Day Bird (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US This deluxe double cd, priced the same as a single disc, pairs up Diane Cluck's 2nd full length album Macy's Day Bird with the ep titled Black With Green Leaves. Both were originally was released by Diane in an elaborate tiny handmade edtions. These are arguably Diane's most compelling, immediate and striking records and it was these two recordings that originally caught the ear of Important Records in 2001. Macy's Day Bird/Black With Green Leaves is highly recommended to Diane's many new fans who picked up on her after the release of Oh Vanille/Ova Nil in early 2005. The attentive listener will find her hauntingly clear voice weaving melodies of love, pain and city life through sparse arrangements of piano, acoustic guitar and harmonium. This material is newly restored/mastered by James Fei. Oh Vanille/Ova Nil was recently given the status of No. 2 US Underground album of 2005 by the UK's esteemed Mojo Magazine. "i made these albums a few years ago for myself and friends about myself and friends. to me they're total fidelity recordings-- true documents of how i felt / what i experienced in a particular time and place there. have been suggestions that i rerecord to make the songs sound some version of more appealing... but i'd rather keep flowing / playing in the moment things come out right the first time even if they are hard to look at / hear in that form those tend to be the forms which teach me the most about myself / the world...don't apologize for yrself! be a mess...be whatever... these songs were important for me to make & record if they're useful / helpful to other people i'm glad about that !" - Diane Cluck. - This double cd is housed in a deluxe gatefold cardboard sleeve of the highest quality and priced modestly as a single cd. - Diane's previous album on Important was met with much acclaim and Mojo magazine elected it underground album of the month. - Diane Cluck is recognized as a key figure in the downtown NYC folk scene and has been praised in the press by Devendra Banhart and many other popular folksters. - Diane has toured Europe and the United States extensively in the last few years. - She appeared alongside Iron & Wine, Vertiver, Joanna Newsom, Six Organs Of Admittance, White Magic, Matt Valentine, CocoRosie, Vashti Bunyan and many more on the 2004 Golden Apples Of The Sun compilation in Arthur Magazine. This collection was called "Essential" by Mojo Magazine. - Diane has played with Cocorosie, Devendra Banhart, Genesis P-Orridge, Kimya Dawson, Herman-Dune, Barry Bliss, Jeffrey Lewis and many more.
Important-078
DCD
$13.50

Collett, Jason
Idols of Exilie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE guitarist joined by BSS cohorts creates "a gorgeous collection of Dylanesque folk, soulful alt-country, sunny indie-pop & various combinations thereof."-National Post. Incl guests from STARS, METRIC, APOSTLE OF HUSTLE, DO MAKE SAY THINK & FEIST.
Arts&Crafts-010
CD
$16.00

Colossal Yes
Acupulco Roughs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Debut solo work from COMETS ON FIRE drummer Utrillo Kushner & featuring members of DRUNK HORSE & CUTS. Pure & honest piano-based rock in the spirit of, uh, Spirit, Badfinger, Procul Harum & The Band.
BaDaBing!-046
CD
$14.50

Comus
First Utterance (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Comus' first album contains an imaginative if elusive brand of experimental folk-rock, with a tense and sometimes distressed vibe. Although there are elements of traditional British folk music, there's an edginess to the songwriting & arrangements that would be entirely alien in a Fairport Convention or Pentangle disc. At times, this straddles the border between folk-rock and the kind of songs you'd expect to be sung at a witches' brew fest, the haunting supernatural atmosphere enhanced by bursts of what sound like a theramin-like violin, hand drums, flute, oboe, ghostly female backup vocals, and detours into almost tribal rhythms.
Breathless-52002
CD
$17.25

Controller.Controller
X-Amounts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Follows their debut EP with more rhythmic, energetic post punk disco.
PaperBag-015
CD
$15.00

Copy
Mobius Beard (PRE-ORDER: JANUARY 10TH)
PS, US Combining dense harmonies, delivered in an 8- bit baroque electro style somewhere between Yellow Magic Orchestra & Ratatat, w/ snap-tight digital reminiscent of Dabrye. Fuzzy bass synths ride syncopated drum patterns, jump-cutting into ambient spaces & cresting in victorious melodic themes. The result is a crossover work of electronic pop that will appeal to both hardcore sound boys, IDM nerds & the casual listening masses. Get lost in melodic contemplation or bounce, pump a fist, and strain your neck to the beat.
AudioDregs-061
CD
$14.50

Coven
Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US Coven's sound is inspired by the occult, as is immediately evident from their song titles and lyrics that speak of demons, witches and satanic rituals. This album, released in 1970, attracted many fans to the genre, in part because a track entitled "Black Sabbath" and the presence of a bassist named "Oz Osbourne" gave the band an air of mystery. However, this American band is of no relation to their British counterparts. Coven, nonetheless, bring us a high quality album, both from a musical and visual standpoint (thanks to the dramatic cover art).
Akarma-271
CD
$17.25

Cuts
From Here on Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Third LP of "Nuggets"-drenched garage rock glory. Matthew Smith of OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY produced this perfect distillation of garage pop, proto- punk, power pop, 70's glam & West Coast jangle.
Birdman-086
CD
$16.25

Cuts
From Here on Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman-086
LP
$9.75

Danger O's
Little Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Blackout!-084
12
$8.75

Danger O's
Little Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US They created their own blend of eclectic rock, combining jazz rhythms with a Fugazi approach to punk. They mix eerie harmonies with catchy choruses, dissonant guitars with simple melodies with instrumentals that keep you guessing & lyrics that read like abstract poetry.
Blackout!-084
CD5
$8.75

Danielle Dax
Bad Miss M: Danielle Dax Live (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK The first ever DVD to feature Britain's queen of Psychedelia, Danielle Dax. A performer whose enigmatic and experimental work reflected the strong influence of Biblical mysticism and Middle Eastern musical textures, Danielle Dax was born in Southend, England. She made her musical debut in 1979 as the keyboardist in the seven-piece Amy Turtle and the Crossroads; and then went on to front the Lemon Kittens. Upon the Lemon Kittens's 1982 split, Dax mounted a solo career. She debuted a year later with Pop-Eyes, a true solo effort for which she wrote and performed every song alone, even handling mixing and production duties and distributing the record through her own Awesome label. While her heavy makeup and colossal hair aligned her with the thriving "Batcave" Goth scene, she steadfastly avoided easy pigeonholing, even making the leap into film with appearance's in Neil Jordan's adult fable The Company of Wolves. Dax returned to music in 1984 with the Jesus Egg That Wept EP, and went on to recruit a live band, emerging as a significant concert draw; a series of singles including 1985's "Yummer Yummer Man," 1986's "Where the Flies Are," 1988's "Cat-House" and 1989's "White Knuckle Ride" - each slightly more commercial than the last - also established her as a force on the independent charts, and after the success of 1987's "Inky Bloaters" LP, she signed to Sire. "Bad Miss M" captures a full show Danielle played in London at the height of her mid-1980's solo success. Amongst the tracks featured are UK Independent Chart Top Ten hit "Yummer Yummer Man".
CherryRed-111
DVD
$24.25

Dark Skies
Dark Skies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US A brand new album from Portland garage psych hellions DARK SKIES. A super-heavy mix of hydroponic rock, blues, and psychedelia, delivered with soul, stomp, and power. For fans of Groundhogs, MC5, Dead Moon, and The Wipers.
Empty-412
LP
$10.25

Dark Skies
Dark Skies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US A brand new album from Portland garage psych hellions DARK SKIES. A super-heavy mix of hydroponic rock, blues, and psychedelia, delivered with soul, stomp, and power. For fans of Groundhogs, MC5, Dead Moon, and The Wipers.
Empty-412
CD
$13.25

David & The Citizens
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Long-awaited U.S. debut for David Fridlund's band David & The Citizens, one of Sweden's very best pop bands. The 6-song EP will feature some of the best songs from the band's history, including several that are difficult to find even in Sweden. The EP is a warm-up for the domestic release for D&TC's "Until The Sadness Is Gone" full-length. Friendly Fire says it's multilayered, intelligent, dynamic indie-pop, and that if you like Belle & Sebastian, the Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel or Patrick Wolf, you'll like this band. Music For Robots said "Their sound is a sunny, spastic, orchestrated, multi-layered flavor of indie pop music, not too far removed from Neutral Milk Hotel, with a similar hint of darkness and melancholy in amongst the sweet melodies and harmonic vocals... I personally think it's pretty fantastic"
FriendlyFire
CD5
$10.00

Denny, Sandy
Sandy + 5 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Second solo LP for FAIRPORT CONVENTION singer digitally remastered w/ 5 bonus tracks.
Island-9828022
CD
$11.50

Denny, Sandy
North Star Grassman and the Ravens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
Debut solo LP from 1971. 15 seminal, digitally remastered tracks w/4 previously
unreleased bonus tracks. Shares a dense drone-based tonality w/her erstwhile FAIRPORT CONVENTION colleague Richard Thompson's "Henry the Human
Fly."
Island-9828021
CD
$11.75

Department of Eagles
Johnny Glaze Christmas Classical Snatches and Samples a go-go 2003-2005 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US This EP collects assorted Department of Eagles tracks from the past 2 years incl. remixes by Why? (Clouddead), Octavius, and Pedro, 2 previously unreleased DOE originals, and 2 live tracks from a KDVS radio session that remain the only live
performances ever by the band.
Isota-024
CD
$10.25

Department of Eagles
Why? And Pedro Remixes(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
This 12" contains never before heard remixes by Why? and Pedro.
Isota-025
12
$8.50

Destroyer
Destroyer's Rubies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US DAN BEJAR returns with his 6th full-length release. As expected, it is a thoroughly unexpected collection of clever pop music that takes no prisoners & asks no pardons. Weaving a narrative of loves won & lost, missed opportunities & artistic integrity familiar to long time fans. This is a return to the more expansive & sometimes jarring full band arrangements.
Merge-268
CD
$12.75

Dislocation Dance
Music Music Music/Slip That Disc! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK 29 tracks. LTM is pleased to announce extended CD reissues of both original albums by Dislocation Dance, the cult indie-pop pioneers who recorded for the New Hormones and Rough Trade labels. Dislocation Dance formed in Manchester in late 1978, settling on a core line-up of Ian Runacres, Paul Emmerson, Kathryn Way, Dick Harrison and Andy Diagram. After making their live debut at the celebrated Factory Club, the band released a series of inventive and eclectic records on New Hormones (the label founded by the Buzzcocks), including two albums in 1981 alone, Slip That Disc! and Music Music Music. After touring the UK and North America with the likes of Orange Juice and the Pale Fountains, the band relocated to Rough Trade records for their second full album, Midnight Shift, in 1983, which featured the near-hits Show Me and Violette. The original group split in 1984, with Runacres later founding several labels and the band Brightside, and Andy Diagram joining a chart-bound James. Dislocation Dance reformed for a Japanese tour in June 2000, and a new album, Cromer, in 2005. This newly expanded and remastered edition of Music Music Music /Slip That Disc! features 74 minutes of music and no less than 29 tracks, including non album singles and b-sides. The booklet features all-new artwork, as well as a detailed artist biography.
LTM-2461
CD
$17.00

Dislocation Dance
Midnight Shift + Singles (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK 19 tracks. LTM is pleased to announce extended CD reissues of both original albums by Dislocation Dance, the cult indie-pop pioneers who recorded for the New Hormones and Rough Trade labels. Dislocation Dance formed in Manchester in late 1978, settling on a core line-up of Ian Runacres, Paul Emmerson, Kathryn Way, Dick Harrison and Andy Diagram. After making their live debut at the celebrated Factory Club, the band released a series of inventive and eclectic records on New Hormones (the label founded by the Buzzcocks), including two albums in 1981 alone, Slip That Disc! and Music Music Music. After touring the UK and North America with the likes of Orange Juice and the Pale Fountains, the band relocated to Rough Trade records for their second full album, Midnight Shift, in 1983, which featured the near-hits Show Me and Violette. The original group split in 1984, with Runacres later founding several labels and the band Brightside, and Andy Diagram joining a chart-bound James. Dislocation Dance reformed for a Japanese tour in 2000, and a new album, Cromer, in 2005. This newly expanded and remastered edition of Midnight Shift features 74 minutes of music and seven bonus tracks, including non-album singles and b-sides and a Dennis Bovell dub mix of Show Me. The booklet features all-new artwork, as well as a detailed artist biography.
LTM-2463
CD
$17.00

DJ Boba Fettucini
Arcade Breaks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US The bleeps & blips of the 80s are back & everybody knows it! Boba Fettucini is sick of seeing arcades nationwide close down due to little brats staying home with their X-BOX or PS2. He has taken all the sounds he could find from classics like Dig Dug, Space Harrier, Pole Position, Excitebike & more. Enter some of the dopest breaks & never before heard sounds from Atari game systems, Sega game systems, & more. This vinyl slab is chock-full of very useful DJ tools & beats. Get your quarters up & play along!
MonMothma-1978
LP
$12.00

Drop the Lime
Shot Shot Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Grime/dubstep influenced breakcore & punk at its most anthemic. Dangerously energetic, sounding like pop songs after a machete attack.
Tigerbeat6-130
CD
$11.00

Duke Spirit
Cuts Across The Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US 17. It's true. Lead singer/lyricist Liela Moss is an enigmatic Banshee. The band's fuzz-happy, teeth-clenching guitars, powerful drum cascades and brilliant basslines build relentless tracks that are drenched in subtleties. For this band, it's all about more sustain, less staccato. More grit, less sheen. If we're in the midst of a British Invasion, The Duke Spirit could care less. They're a world away from those dudes in designer suitS. Anthem magazine were spurred to claim that "The Duke Spirit bring the soul back to Rock n Roll", V magazine waxed lyrical about their "smart, soulful, bullshit-free rock and roll music" going on to say that front woman and future superstar Liela Moss is "a pixieish blonde with a powerful howl, think a young Patti Smith or a less operatic PJ Harvey."
StarTime-431
CD
$15.00

Electric Six
Senor Smoke (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Detroit's Electric Six quickly made a name for themselves in the UK and US with hit singles "Gay Bar" and "Danger! High Voltage". "Senor Smoke" was released in the UK in early 2005 to much acclaim. Metropolis, interested in broadening the scope of music they released, signed the band and is proud to now bring them back to their native soil. "Senor Smoke" blends a mixture of disco, garage, punk, and indie rock with clever (but sincere) tongue in cheek one liners. Electric Six will change the way you perceive rock in 2006.
Metropolis
CD
$15.25

Eskju Divine
Fears EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, SWEDEN New EP from Swedish bombastronauts Eskju Divine. EP is the follow-up to the bands recent and brilliant full-length album 'Come And Join Close Your Eyes...'. EP features "Fears" and "Hold On To Yourself" from the album, an exclusive b-side, and a special, heavy "Fears II".
Imperial
CD5
$4.75

Eternals
High Anxiety (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US New tweener EP incl remixes by PREFUSE 73, A GRAPE DOPE (John Herndon of TORTOISE), BIRTHMARK, EXERCISE TIGER & The Eternals themselves. Continues to showcase their varied influences & politicized energy.
Aesthetics-042
CD5
$9.25

Eternals
High Anxiety (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Aesthetics-042
12
$9.25

Ex-Boyfriends
Dear John (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Armed w/a boatload of songs about love & love gone wrong, their infectious pop hooks are set to take over. "Pansy Division's more angsty brothers in arms."
AbsolutelyKosher-055
CD
$15.50

Faithfull, Marianne
Come My Way (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US In 1965 Marianne Faithful released 2 debut albums simultaneously, a self-titled pop album and an album called Come My Way comprised somewhat unexpectedly of folk tunes. While the 1st album generally reaffirmed her persona as she-devil and soulless poster child of that hedonistic generation, the latter gave listeners a fleeting glimpse of a hidden darker side, perhaps an unintentional foretelling of those black days that would soon follow. This reissue, available briefly in the UK and Japan, feat. 4 bonus tracks: her classic 1969 single "Sister Morphine," released prior to the Rolling Stones' version, the 1964 B-side "Blowin' in the Wind," "Et Maintenant," from a 1965 EP and the 1966 B-side "That's Right Baby."
Lilith-104
CD
$18.00

Farina
Allotments (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Fariña's second album with Pickled Egg marks the latest stage in a musical journey that has lasted nearly 25 years. Since 1981 Mark Brend and Matt Gale have ploughed a defiantly singular furrow through left-field pop, crafting irregular releases that only sometimes line up with the zeitgeist, and then usually by chance. Here, joined by Cliff Glanfield and Tim Conway relative newcomers with 10 and five years' service respectively they once again match elegant songcraft with subtle experimentation and inventive arrangements. With all four members singing, and between them drawing on an instrumental palette that includes not only guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, but more exotic colours like autoharp and flugelhorn, Allotments is an album of layers and depth.
PickledEgg-058
CD
$17.00

Fat Worm Of Error
Pregnant Babies Pregnant With Pregnant Babies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load-074
LP
$12.00

Fat Worm Of Error
Pregnant Babies Pregnant With Pregnant Babies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US A band full of instrumental diversity featuring horns, synths, bass, guitar & all manner of percussion propelling them into the land of RnR Hall of Famers like Half Japanese, Thinking Fellers, Arab on Radar
Load-074
CD
$16.00

Final
Final 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Most undefinable, experimental interpretation of JUSTIN BRODRICK's more recognized music in JESU, GODFLESH & TECHNO ANIMAL. All new album of scary ambiance.
Neurot-042
DCD
$18.25

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Radiola (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, SWEDEN New album from Gustav Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase will go down as one of the very best albums of 2006. Jim is saving his top spot for it. Borrowing the pop sensibilities of bands like The Byrds, Television Personalities, The Jesus and Mary Chain and artist Gene Pitney with the song writing and autobiographical elements of Merle Haggard, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon and the overall poetics of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel and The Silver Jews.
Adrian-038
CD
$13.50

Five Americans
Western Union (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Followed their thumping garage/frat rock classic "I See the Light" w/their 1967 album fronted by the jangling chart-topper of the same name.
Sundazed-6224
CD
$14.75

Five Americans
Progressions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Third LP from heroic Dallas quintet from 1968 when they squared off on stages across the south w/The Doors & Jefferson Airplane.
Sundazed-6225
CD
$14.75

Flamin' Groovies
Bust Out-Sire Years Box (3 x CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US ll three mind-melting Sire LPs "Shake Some Action," "Now" & "Jumpin' in the Night"
DBKWorks-601
CD
$50.00

Fleischmann, B.
Humbucking Coil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US BF takes his album on a decidedly analog bent this go round, bringing in the warmth of an old valve driven microphone, Vibraphone, piano & guitar, all still in an electronic context, full of melodic melancholy.
MorrMusic-063
CD
$17.25

Fleischmann, B.
Humbucking Coil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-063
LP
$17.25

Fortdax
Divers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US nigh-on three years after 'folly' and at least 18 moons since the john peel session where the ideas were first aired, Darren Durham returns under the FortDax moniker with his somewhat-overdue new album. no, he's not entirely sure where the time went either...what can be said for certain though is that 'divers' is noticeably different in tone & hue to its predecessor and assuredly darker, although its core, as with previous FortDax releases, remains firmly rooted in melody. 'Folly' went on to be regarded as an 'ambient' work in certain quarters, but Darren swears that this was largely due to the low-volume mastering. suffice it to say that 'Divers' contains less of 'those vangelis synthesizers' and a sleeve instruction to 'play much louder'. this time around, there may also be other musicians involved, an amount of real (read 'physical') instrumentation, and at least one field recording from the bronte country valley where he lives & works. as per 'Folly', the album is dedicated to his dog 'Meg', although as with his geographical placement, that's not necessarily significant.
VeryFriendly-014
CD
$17.00

Fretwell, Stephen
Magpie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Debut album from Brit singer songwriter whose 2 EP have turned ears all over England. A stately blend of stripped down acoustica full of swollen emotion for the broken hearted. "He's going to be one of the most important singers this country has produced."-Radio 1 DJ Edith Bowman.
Interscope
CD
$10.25

Gainesbourg, Serge
Initials S.G. (Best Of) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US 23 tracks covering 20 years of his genre jumping career.
Mercury-063230-2
CD
$15.75

Garcia, Nic
Desperate Ones (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, US Third full-length album wraps Garcia's bleak meditative prose in lush keyboard textures, drawing on modern composers like Zorn & Morricone. Songs relay an obscured North Dakotan narrative unfoldng through hints & suggestions. Haunting voice, skeletal guitar work & rich, varied keyboard playing. Contributions by JUNE PANIC.
YerBird-002
CD
$11.00

Gastr Del Sol
Harp Factory on Lake St. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Is 90s nostalgia underway yet? If not, this reissue may be just the thing ot get it tstarted. In 94, Chicago was the fountainhead for a bona-fide Scene. At front & center were GASTR DEL SOL, comprised of DAIVD GRUBBS & JIM O'ROURKE. Avant punk, atonal song styling, musique concrete, delicate piano-guitar interplay, raw electronics & modernist chamber music- all are fair terrain, traversed with subtley & finesse. This is their "big band" record with a 10 piece emsemble including members of TORTOISE, SEA & CAKE, SHELLAC, DAZZLING KILLMEN, BRISE GLACE & THE VANDERMARK 5. They blossomed into a small sized orchestra- full of blissful confoundment.
TableofElements-019
CD
$16.25

Gate
Dew Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Feat. MICHAEL MORLEY, guitarist & vocalist for THE DEAD C. The rare artist that record hounds love to unearth: an isotope in the body Pop, radiating an invisible influence. Recorded in '93 & out of print since, this is the first part of his "rock trilogy" (followed by "Monolake" & " The Wisher's Tale"). Rock it does. No-fi guitar & his locked in the car trunk vocals are prominent, along with a hefty amount of scrapping synthesizer menace & paleozoic riffage
TableofElements-022
CD
$16.25

Ghostigital
In Cod We Trust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Collaboration between Einar Örn (SUGARCUBES, KUKL) & Icelandic multi-instrumentalist CURVER (SIGUR ROS remix). An aural forest of industrial, bel canto, jazz, rap, 80's new wave & electronic music.
Ipecac-070
CD
$18.00

Girls Under Glass
Equilibrium (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 22ND)
PS, US Go back to their gothic & darkwave roots w/their latest. Incl. the bonus Kraftwerk cover "Radioaktivitat."
VanRichter-1022
CD
$15.75

Glaze, Brian
Let's Go to the Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Debut release from longtime member of BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, produced by GRIS GRIS songwriter & guitarist GREG ASHLEY. Uses the same '60's syrup that sweetened the 13th Floor Elevators "Easter Everywhere" w/the added homemade sounds of BROTHER JT. Barrett-esque
Birdman-087
CD
$16.25

Hammock
The Sleep-over Series, Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The Sleepover Story: Marc has been studying both Zen and Christian mysticism for the last two years. There are two books that have had the most impact on him, "The Still Point" by William Johnston and "The Ground We Share" by Robert Aitken and Brother David Steindel-Rast. The Sleepover Series is inspired by both of these traditions of mysticism. The titles of the tracks and the music itself is an attempt at suggesting the ineffable through sound. The highlight of the record is track #5, "The Still Point." This track is the longest piece on the record and is meant to be used as an aid for quieting the mind in preparation for times of silence and sleeping. All of the music on this record was composed after moments of centering prayer and/or sitting zazen. It is Marc's hope that this music will help the listener become more aware of the silent place within. On the Record: The Sleep-over Series Vol. 1 features Marc Byrd's densely layered, electric guitars. The music itself draws from the subtlety of Ambient and the serenity of New Age. In these compositions, you will hear echoes of guitarists Jeff Pearce, Michael Hedges and William Ackerman, the ambient/atmospheric approach of Steve Roach, Brian Eno and Deuter's Nada Himalaya album, and the influence of the sleep music/meditation therapy research of Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Don Campbell and Master Charles' Synchronicity Series.
HammockMusic-003
CD
$12.00

Hatakeyama, Chihei
Minima Moralia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, US Member of the electro-acoustic trio OPITOPE from Tokyo...This is made conciously avoiding the use of electronic sounds; instead using sound fragments made by guitars & vibraphone he played himself. They are then processed & reprocessed on laptop. The conection between the analog sound sources, digital processing & the musician's choices are what give this album its positive, warn & physical presence.
Kranky-091
DCD
$13.75

Head Like A Kite
Random Portraits Of The Home Movie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US Draws from the subtractive musical canvas of trip hop & krautrock to paint a brighter, more organic musical collage using a palette of mellotron, koto, cello, guitar, electronic bleeps & blips & the occasional keyboard wired into an arsenal of old, analog guitar effects. SUSHIROBO's Dave Einmo w/ guest appearances from members of SMOOSH, KINSKI, POSIES, CROOKED FINGERS & more
Pattern25-012
CD
$11.75

Hem
No Word from Tom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Follows their lush second LP w/ an album of covers, live versions & other sundries. Incl. songs by Tony Joe White, REM & Fountains of Wayne. Rounded out w/outtakes, demos & unedited versions of Hem favorites.
Waveland
CD
$16.50

Hidden Cameras
Arms of His "Ill" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US The stripped down counterpart to Rough Trade's "Mississauga Goddam" originally released only on limited 10". A spiritual & inspirational pop thunderstorn, a tidal wave of gay jubilance & misery.
AbsolutelyKosher-037
CD
$10.75

Impractical Cockpit
To Be Treated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load-079
LP
$12.00

Impractical Cockpit
To Be Treated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Umpteenth LP from displaced New Orleans band finds them stretching out & unfurling. You can hear their patented lethargo Flipperisms as if from a tunnel down. Also coming through is some noontime yodeling the Kirkwood's perfected on Meat Puppets II, slowed to a chug. A perfect record for the energy drink generaton to choke on.
Load-079
CD
$16.00

Inch Time
Icicles and Snowflakes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, UK Inch-Time's debut album (Any colour you Like) was released as ltd CD in Europe by Static Caravan to heaps of praise. Placing it amongst the top 15 electronica releases of 2006, The Wire reviewed the album as "a luminous collection of music that deserves a wider hearing. Panczak is blessed with a marvellously unhurried sense of placement and these pieces unfurl with an almost ceremonious poise. "Kyoto" proves the point, counter pointing trembling pizzicatos with a wistfully circular arrangement for string quartet and calmly conjuring a richly melancholy atmosphere without the faintest hint of gimmickry". Their First fully released album is already completed and generating internet buzz. It will be released in June 2006. Inch-Time play shows in London in January before touring in Australia and returning for European festival dates in summer. A strictly limited 7"vinyl record with full colour sleeve in an edition of 500 copies.
StaticCaravan98-7
45
$7.25

Jel
Soft Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Anticon-056
LP
$11.50

Jel
Soft Money (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Highly anticipated solo album from producer behind THEMSELVES, SUBTLE, and 13 & GOD. An ode to his first real love, the SP1200 sampler, composed entirely of hand-picked snippets from over 3 decades of hip hop. Feat. guests Steffi Bohm of MS. JOHN SODA, Wise Intelligent of POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, PEDESTRIAN & ODD NOSDAM.
Anticon-056
CD
$16.25

Jobson, Richard
The Ballad of Etiquette (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, UK 16 tracks. LTM is pleased to announce the very first CD reissue of The Ballad of Etiquette, the debut spoken word album by Scottish singer, writer and director Richard Jobson, originally released in 1981. Originally released in November 1981 on Bill Nelson's Cocteau label, The Ballad of Etiquette combines Richard's poetry with music performed by Virginia Astley, Josephine Wells and the late, great guitarist John McGeoch (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Armoury Show). Parts of the music quote from Satie and Debussy. Stand out tracks include India Song (an homage to Marguerite Duras), Orphee and The Night of Crystal, an imagined conversation between Albert Speer and Josef Goebbels. The six bonus tracks include versions of India Song and Orphee recorded for Les Disques di Crepuscule with Tuxedmoon, and two tracks recorded live at Richard Strange's celebrated Cabaret Futura in 1981. This digitally remastered CD contains 16 tracks and runs for over 70 minutes. The booklet features photos, images and a detailed biographical note. Artist biography: born in 1960 in Dunfermline, between 1978 and 1981 he sang with punk band The Skids, who released four albums and scored several hit singles. A true Renaissance man, Jobson immersed himself in prose, poetry and acting, as well as forming a new band, The Armoury Show. Four albums of poetry and spoken word appeared between 1981 and 1988 on the Cocteau and Crepuscule labels. Jobson then took to broadcasting, and more recently has written and directed three feature films: 16 Years of Alcohol (2003), The Purifiers (2004) and A Woman in Winter (2005).
LTM-2427
CD
$17.00

Johnny Panic & the Bible Of Dreams
Not Bitter... But Bordered: The Roots Of Morrissey (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK Johnny Panic featured Alain Whyte, long time guitarist and collaborator of Morrissey. Many of the songs on this CD were later re-worked with Morrissey and are now Morrissey Classics, such as "Not Bitter, But Bored" ended up as "Irish Blood, English Heart", "Paranoia" ended up as "Don't Make Fun Of Daddies Voice" and "Stay With Me" became "First Of The Gang To Die" Morrissey fans are fanatical and Alain has a huge following in his own right. These tracks have never before been released and Morrissey fans know all about them via various Morrissey websites and fanzines, they have been in demand for years. Alain Whyte has just formed a new band Red Lightning which are currently about to tour. This has meant media attention and renewed media interest in him and his musical career.
Anagram-195
CD
$14.75

Keith Fullerton Whitman
Lisbon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 6TH)
PS, US A message from Mr. Whitman: "In October of 2005 I found myself wandering the streets of Lisbon, entirely deaf in one ear, 75% the other (an artifact of witnessing first-hand the fine air-pressure regulation on four separate Aer Lingus flights), belly full of swordfish, just in awe of the city and its inhabitants. For the first since I could remember everything just clicked. "Those of you who have been lucky enough to get a copy of the recent 22 Minutes for Electric Guitar tour-only mini-cd on Entschuldigen may have an idea of just where my head's been at over the past year or so regarding the evolution of the "Playthroughs" system of live/real-time guitar/computer synthesis; the piece I often play in concert has gradually been getting much darker, more dynamic, and in general; monolithic. I've started to embrace traditional "loud guitar" concepts (via a collection of bizarre, home-made/boutique guitar pedals) along with the sine-tone throb and "slow aerosol dispersion" of the classic Playthroughs material. More recently, I've augmented the pure-guitar sound(s) with a collection of small, battery-powered sound-devices and several tapes of "automatic synthesizer compositions" (recorded this past summer on the same Serge Modular Protoype and Buchla Music Box 100 systems used on Multiples) and field recordings from all over god's green earth. Finally, on top of all that I've re-kindled my love of Alvin Lucier-lineage process music by placing microphones and small speakers / fm receivers / speakers around the space, capturing the sounds as they occur at various points in the room, feeding them back through the central artery that is the max-msp-based playthroughs patch, then out again to any number of locations... "This recording, captured to hard disk on stage at Galeria Zé Dos Bois on October 4th 2005, is in my mind the perfect encapsulation of all of these elements into a single lilting piece of static sine-tone harmonics, squared-off electric guitar haze, clangorous room-tone eruptions, and high-end synth freakouts... "Note: in something of a sea-change to my modus over the last 10-odd years I've decided to relax, not sweat the details, let mistakes be mistakes and just let the music breathe without my normally prescribed 3-year gestation cycle of incessant editing, re-mastering, tinkering, etc... making this the shortest amount of time for any one of my musical ideas to go from conception to execution to release (all things going to plan; just five months from the concert itself to the disc on shelves...). The recordings are released in a cardboard pack adorned with high-contrast photos taken by yours truly during the Lisbon trip, priced as a CD EP..."
Kranky-092
CD
$10.00

Kid Dynamite
Four Years In One Gulp (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US A vibrant 90-min. documentary of their all too brief life & times. Between '97 & 2000, they changed the face of modern hardcore with poignant & passionate sing a long anthems. Highlighted by 19 raging live performances, this DVD reveals guts: the personalities & their stories, the music & motivation, life at home & on the road, & the process of bringing a band together only to watch it prematurely fall apart.
JadeTree-1108
DVD
$17.75

Kidnappers
Neon Signs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The latest from surging German power pop rockers the KIDNAPPERS. A killer collection of super-catchy pop and rock action that surpasses everything the band has done prior. For fans of classic power pop bands like The Plimsouls, The Beat, and The Records.
RipOff-070
LP
$12.00

Kidnappers
Neon Signs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The latest from surging German power pop rockers the KIDNAPPERS. A killer collection of super-catchy pop and rock action that surpasses everything the band has done prior. For fans of classic power pop bands like The Plimsouls, The Beat, and The Records.
RippOff-070
CD
$14.00

Kiefer, Christian & Sharon Kraus
The Black Dove (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Collaboration between like minded artists in Sacramento singer/songwrtier Kiefer & English folksinger Kraus (CAMERA OBSCURA).Songs based upon the idea of loveletters between two people & meant to be experienced as a sonic novel. RECOMMENDED.
TompkinsSquare-1124
CD
$15.00

King, Anna
Back To Soul (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK The James Brown Revue has included numerous 'feature' female singers through the decades, from Tammy Montgomery(Terrell), Sugar Pie DeSanto and Vicki Anderson to Yvonne Fair and Lynn Collins, but while Mr Brown included most of these ladies in 'live' LPs, and others had solo contracts with his label, only Anna King enjoyed the privilege of James Brown producing an album by her. It was 1963, and Brown had just signed with Smash Records to score a big pop hit with 'Out of Sight'. He noted the quality of Anna's voice, had her sign with Smash and produced the "Back To Soul" LP. The album includes Anna's distinctive versions of several soul and blues hits and some Brown originals written under various pseudonyms, plus a storming duet with Bobby Byrd, 'Baby Baby Baby', which took her into the R&B top 50 early in 1964 and 'bubbling under' the Billboard Hot 100. Thus with Anna's stirring, soulful vocals, a range of familiar songs, the support of the James Brown Band and the production skills of Mr Brown himself, "Back To Soul" was a notable album release on UK Philips in 1964, though it enjoyed but modest sales to the avid soul fans of the day. Consequently it has long been a rare collectors' item, a situation which will be remedied by its long-awaited re-issue on Shout!. Member of the James Brown Revue. Album produced by James Brown. Includes Songs written by James Brown. Includes duet with Bobby Byrd. Collectable album, never reissued or on CD before.
Shout!-24
CD
$14.75

Knickerbockers
Rockin' With... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US When they assaulted the US charts in 1965 w/their hit "Lies," they were rumored to be The Beatles recording under another name, as much a compliment to The Fabs as the rightful performers. Every smoking, upbeat classic is here.
Sundazed-621
CD
$14.75

La Peste
Better Off (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US One of the first, more abrasive & most musically advanced of Boston's original '70s punk bands. This contains tons of never before released tracks. They were masters of the subtle, repeating riff & the open string drone, marking the path followed in different ways, by bands like U2, the Smiths & Husker Du.
BacchusArchives-1104
CD
$14.50

Ladies
They Mean Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US ROB CROW (PINBACK, GOBLIN COCK, THINGY, HEAVY VEGETABLE) & ZACH HILL (HELLA, TEAM SLEEP, GOON MOON, NERVOUS COP) have joined forces to unite the disparate worlds of noise & pop on this stunningly addictive & efficient album. A focused mass of soaring vocals, melodic hooks & skittering polyrhythms. The best case scenario when dreaming of these 2 playing together
TemporaryResidence-095
CD
$14.50

Ladies
They Mean Us (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidence-095
LP
$12.75

Langford, Jon
Gold Brick (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Truly a cause for celebration, a new solo cd by the one and only MR. JON LANGFORD(MEKONS, PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS, WACO BROS.) Devilishly crafted & scarily melodic, GOLD BRICK is LanGford's 3rd solo album. It finds him back with ROIR, the label that released The Mekons' classic 'New York' album in the late 80's. This cd is a lush & expansive project boasting a wide range of sounds & influences-everything from tinkling saloon piano atmospherics to roots reggae rhythms.
ROIR-8296
CD
$15.25

Le Volume Courbe
I Killed My Best Friend (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Debut album from "The Volume Curve," a trio of London based musicians inspired by the do your own thing ethos of Nico, Patti Smith & Yoko Ono. Incl. contributions from HOPE SANDOVAL (MAZZY STAR), DAVE ROBACK (MERCURY REV), KEVIN SHIELDS & COLM O'CIOSOIG (MY BLOODY VALENTINE). "A delightfully inventive debut full of impish humour, whispers & screams...intoxicating lo-fi soundscapes. ****."-UNCUT
HonestJon's-30873
CD
$18.00

Leathercoated Minds
Trip Down Sunset Strip (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US In the annals of 60's West Coast exploitation album-making, this is in a class by itself. Serving up radically rearranged, cool covers of the era, red hot guitar instros (courtesy of producer JJ CALE) & authentic sound effects from the Strip. From pristine Viva Recs mono masters.
Sundazed-6231
CD
$14.75

Legendary Shack Shakers
Pandelerium (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US
YepRoc-2110
LP
$12.50

Legendary Shack Shakers
Pandelerium (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Continue their relentless tough-love affair w/ America's musical demons. Enlisting the services of Jello Biafra & Reverend Horton Heat. Implementing field hollers, funeral marches & murder ballads along w/ spaghetti western, polkas & punk. They rebuild these rudiments into their own monstrous, agri-dustrial abomination. Simply put, this is the sound of the New American Gothic. Steely eyes, white knuckles, pitchforks & all.
YepRoc-2110
CD
$12.50

Les Georges
Leningrad Series L (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Latest release in Tomlab's series of ULTRA limited singles (500 for the world). Loved for their unique style of stage performance, LGL are releasing two brand new tunes this winter. Months after their enchanting yet earbreaking disaster "Sur Les Traces Des Black Eskimo", they asked us to record a version of our least favorite (but favorite!) and gay (but not gay) pop classics from the early 90's. Most likely, it`s THE hit single by these two bold-headed brothers (who had a guitarist that didn`t resemble them). They were what ZZ TOP was in the 70's and what the BROS were in the 80's). Since it's extremely unconfirmed that the release is going to be THAT song, we're not giving anything away. VERY LIMITED.
Tomlab-063
45
$7.00

Lesbians On Ecstasy
Giggles In The Dark (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, CANADA The album opens with a slamming reworking of "Revolt" by tour mates Le Tigre that features crunchy guitar samples and big bad breakbeats. Olympia-based rap duo Scream Club reinvent "Tell Me Does She Love the Bass," while Montreal DJ and producer extraordinaire, Sean Kosa, brings a dark and heavy techno vibe to the same track with his "Jealous Mix." The electro superstar trio of Cola, Nikki and Tracy, better known as Tracy and the Plastics, unite to re-rub "Summer Luv" with some tripped out dancehall percussion. In a postmodern coup, Jody Bleyle, member of Team Dresch and composer of the original track behind "Summer Luv", remixes the remix, inspiring chants of "pomo homo!" all across the land. Rounding out the line-up are Toronto's big gay hustlers Kids On TV, France's insane DJ Aï, San Francisco- based heart-throb and hip hop sensation Katastrophe and Montreal's 1-Speed Bike with his brand of sonic mayhem.
Alien8-056
CD
$13.00

Liles, Andrew
In My Father's House Are Many Mansions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 21ST)
PS, US POLISH IMPORT! Prolific Brighton based soundsculptor has, during recent years, gained a considerable amount of attention not only for his increasingly finely-honed craft but also due to his (in some cases, still pending) collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Darren Tate, Karl Blake, Current 93's David Late Tibet, Danielle Dax & others. As such, the logic behind this release seems to progress naturally from a clear willingness to explore or exchange ideas with other artists equally inclined to cut their own paths through music's more interesting corners. If worlds can sometimes collide where art attempts to assume new sonic shapes, then those featured here are amongst the few who inhabit them
4thDimension-068
CD
$17.25

Lilys
Everything Wrong Is Imaginary (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US First album in 3 years from the mercurial vanguard of melodic Brit pop indie stylings. Amazon said Kurt Heasley's last album on Manifesto was full of "varied textures, shades & nuance."
Manifesto-42602
CD
$14.50

Longet, Claudine
Colours (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY 27TH)
PS, US Although probably best known for her implication in the 1976 murder of boyfriend and Olympic skier Spider Sabich, this sexy chanteuse /overall swingin' chick released a string of sophisticated pop albums in the late 60's while married to long forgotten Vegas crooner / TV star Andy Williams. Claudine's albums have long been cult favorites among fans of the genre and Colours, Longet's 4th album, originally released in 1969 by A&M, is probably also her best. Feat. silver- tongued versions of songs by Donovan, The Everly Brothers, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot and Randy Newman.
Lilith-105
CD
$18.00

Love Letter Band, The
Fear Not My Brothers, Fear Not My Sisters, For I Have Seen the (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US The Love Letter Band (AKA Bad Weather California) "Fear not my brothers, fear not my sisters, for I have seen the future..." To compartmentalize: This record will play well on a radio show with The Danielson Family, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Leonard Cohen, Akron Family, Will Oldham, Neutral Milk Hotel, The microphones, Little Wings, Feathers etc. If you're going to file it file it there. But compartmentalizing is hard to do. That's why one sheets are hard to write! If you haven't heard of The Love Letter Band you should know this: They are anything but a band in the traditional sense. The word collective is thrown around quite liberally these days since the success that the word had with a certain Elephant 6 in the 90's. But TLLB is just that: A collective of artists and music players rotating around the loose nucleus that is songwriter Chris Adolf. The Love Letter Band has been around: as in around the country countless times touring the United States, Canada and Mexico calling broken tour vans and random living room sofas home. These weary eyed travelers have worked hard and have made themselves known the old fashioned way. Since their first tour with Leeds UK's Boyracer to the epic voyages with K records' Wolf Colonel, Adolf and his rotating cast of thrift store instrument players have shared bills with Doug Marsh (Built to Spill), The Microphones, Mirah, Calvin Johnson, David Dondero, CEX, The Blow... You get the picture. With "Fear Not My Brothers..." we are astonished with Adolf's growth as a songwriter and recording artist. From their 2002 full length ("even the pretty girls take medicine" (555 records of Leeds UK)) to this latest anticipated opus "Fear Not My Brothers..." Adolf has grown from bedroom pop wizard to polished studio craftsman. Not that this album isn't lacking the rawness that is TLLB. It is Adolf's honest lyricism that has established TLLB as a loved member of the indie folk/pop scene.
HappyHappyBirthdaytoMe-065
CD
$10.75

Low Skies
All The Love I Could Find (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US
Flameshovel-33
CD
$12.00

Lowlife
Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 85-95 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, UK LTM are pleased to announce the first release in their CD reissue programme by cult Scottish dream-pop band Lowlife, who released a string of acclaimed albums between 1985 and 1995. Lowlife were formed in Grangemouth 1985 when original Cocteau Twins bassist Will Heggie joined former Dead Neighbours members Craig Lorentsen, Grant McDowell and Stuart Everest. Their atmospheric, moody soundscapes were often compared to Joy Division, New Order, Comsat Angels and yes The Cocteau Twins, yet the band received widespread acclaim over the course of six albums released through indie label Nightshift: Rain (1985), Permanent Sleep (1986), Diminuendo (1987), Godhead (1989), The Black Sessions (1988), San Antorium (1991) and Gush (1995). Contemporary reviews praised "a new form of beauty" (Melody Maker), "immaculate angst" (Music Week) and "music that readily sets the nerve ends on edge" (Q). Eternity Road compiles stand-out tracks from all the albums (selected by the band), as well as non-album singles including Hollow Gut and Eternity Road. Several tracks are exclusive to this compilation, including a rare covermount version of Ramafied. Eternity Road has been digitally re-mastered from the original master tapes, and features 20 tracks (74 minutes of music). The booklet features liner notes by journalist and former manager Brian Guthrie, as well as photos and ephemera.
LTM-2394
CD
$17.00

Lying In States
Wildfire On The Lake" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US
Dig-28
CD
$12.00

Machine Go Boom
Thank You Captain Obvious (PRE-ORDER: JANUARY 20TH)
PS, US Escalators A popular live act in Cleveland, this band's distorted pop inventions are a frighteningly good mix of acoustic folk ballads & synth fed new wave. It has been called the most original, well crafted & flat out rockin' record of the local music scene. Winner of the Best Indie/Rock award at the 2005 Scene Music Awards. Definitely worth it!
Collectible-008
CD
$10.25

Magnet
Tourniquet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, Second US album for Norwegian who leaves the melancholy of his debut to record this album reborn in optimism. "A warm & inspirational journey into music, just like The Beach Boys & The Beatles."
Filter-006
CD
$15.75

Make Up
Untouchable Sound (Live) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBUARY 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SeaNote-013
LP
$14.50

Make Up
Untouchable Sound (Live) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBUARY 21ST)
PS, US Five years since they called it a day, their legend had remained oddly un-reexamined. This does just that, by adding a new chapter. The time: their final days. The place: DC. With newly added 5th member ALEX MINOFF in tow, the band ran down a number of their recent classics, dressed up fresh psychedelic soul trappings. As live as it gets, this might be the un-lost classic recording they have never made.
SeaNote-013
CD
$14.50

Man Man
Six Demon Bag (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Second LP from NYC who knit together Screaming Jay Hawkins, Etta James, 80's pop, Iggy Pop, Mexican funeral marches & klezmer carnie love songs. For fans of Beefheart, Zappa, Deerhoof, Residents
AceFu-039
CD
$17.00

Manual
Bajamar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MAY 16TH)
PS, US Danish artist Jonas Munk Jensen's second purely ambient record for Darla follows footprints in the warm, wet sand made by his 2003 CD The North Shore, which was acclaimed by critics and fans. Like no other, Jonas manifests his vision of idyllic, tropical paradise as the perfect soundtrack to the dream. Bajamar is similar in sound to The North Shore yet it's a more cohesive and more solid album. Jonas' good friend Ulrich Schnauss says it's his favorite of Jonas' ambient works. If The North Shore were aural Valium, Bajamar is pure Opium. The record produces the very same ethereal buzz a lazy, endless summer afternoon at the beach with a minus tide does.
Darla-172
CD
$13.50

Martyn, John
Inside Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US First US release for Martyn's most experimental effort. Features STEVIE WINWOOD & CHRIS WOOD (TRAFFIC) & DANNY THOMPSON (PENTANGLE). Digitally remastered w/4 previously unreleased bonus tracks.
Island-9830734
CD
$11.75

Martyn, John
Sunday's Child (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Follow up to 1973's "Inside Out" is a much more song-oriented effort, focuses primarily on the happiness of family life. Perfectly displays his vast array of guitar skills, from his more aggressive electric guitar to his soft & gentle acoustic playing. Digitally remastered w/6 bonus tracks.
Island-9830735
CD
$11.75

Matchbook Romance
Voices (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Holds close to their emotional post-hardcore roots while delivering massive singalong choruses.
Epitaph-86774
CD
$16.25

Matson Jones
Albatross Mates For Life...(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The anticipated new EP from up-and-coming Denver chamber pop quartet MATSON JONES. Striking gold again, the group brings MATT REGAN's basslines to the forefront, taking the songs in different directions while still providing a solid ground for their wily cellos. Drummer ROSS HARADA continues his lickety-split beats, but is not afraid to slow down and really lay into those pots and pans, especially on the song "Sabotage." MARTINA GRBAC and ANNA MASCORELLA continue to spill their guts about birds, legs, hearts and heads, and rip into their cellos, experimenting with different harmonies and moods.
SFTRI-769
CD
$6.25

Maximo Park
Missing Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Incl. live favorites & never before heard demo versions of their smash singles "Apply Some Pressure" & "Graffii" plus stand out LP fave "Once, A Glimpse"
Warp-142
CD5
$10.50

McBain, John
In-Flight Feature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Duna-010
LP
$14.25

McBain, John
In-Flight Feature (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Debut solo album by the former guitarist for MONSTER MAGNET & WELLWATER CONSPIRACY. Joined by JON KLEIMAN on drums on 3 tracks & TIM CRONIN on guitar, John creates an ambitious, driving, sometimes ambient instrumental album.
Duna-010
CD
$16.25

Meteors, The
Stampede (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US A special edition release for this classic 1984 Meteors album which was a Top 10 independent chart album. The album will be presented in a limited edition digipack with four rare bonus tracks. The Meteors are the undisputed kings of psychobilly and this classic album is in demand due to it being unavailable for a number of years. The Meteors still tour around the world playing to an ever growing fanbase. The album will be serviced to all psychobilly websites and fanzines.
Anagram-043
CD
$14.75

Midstates
Boxing Twilight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US South Side Chicago troubadours (formerly NOVASONIC DOWN HYPERSPACE) are once again tweaking their fenders, stomping their dod delays & clanging wind chimes in another beautifully mellow, space rock effort. Featuring vintage guitars, Wurlitzer organ, Juno synths & violent live percussion. "Its falling asleep at the wheel & waking up right where you want to be. Let the band drive for a while"- Big Takeover
MentalMonkey
CD
$14.75

Miller, Rhett
The Believer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US New album from hunky OLD 97's singer. Addictively tuneful & ardent vocals. (Not Argent).
VerveForecast
CD
$16.75

Minus 5
Self Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Seventh full-length album. The Minus 5 (aka The Gun Album) features the McCaughey/Buck/Ramberg/Rieflin line-up, as well as two tracks recorded in Chicago w/ Wilco & guest appearances by John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan, Morgan Fisher (Mott), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger/Long Winters), & Colin Meloy and John Moen (Decemberists).
YepRoc-2065
CD
$12.50

Molly Hatchet
Live At The Agora Ballroom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US Finally a live album that captures the incredible power behind these kings of southern rock, recorded in Atlanta's Agora ballroom in 1979 and feat. 12 unforgettable moments in the life of Danny Joe Brown's sextet. Just like musical heroes Lynyrd Skynyrd, MH uses three steady guitars to create a pulsatingly virile sound.
Akarma-347
CD
$17.25

Moondog
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US NY's most famous street musician gets a career retrospective after being championed by everybody from Dylan & Joplin to Stravinsky. 36 tracks
Astralwerks-30653
CD
$19.00

Moore, Thurston
Psychic Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Deluxe DLP reissue of SY guitarist's 1995 solo album incl. complete side of bonus material not on original. Feat. TIM FOLJAHN (TWO DOLLAR GUITAR) & STEVE SHELLEY (SONIC YOUTH).
Goofin10
DLP
$17.25

Mouthus
The Long Salt (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28THCD)
PS, This album is a return to more abrasive and heavy Mouthus territory after forays into acoustic instrumentation and, yes, a Fleetwood Mac cover on their recent Troubleman full-length. Free/tribal percussion spatter 'n clatter duels with endlessly mutating three chord sludge-riffage beneath thick, poison clouds of delayed-out vocal groan. Truly CHOCK full of manic bad-mood energy but maybe psych-droney and resin-soaked enough for the new crop of crunchier noise-heads to nod to as well. Electric guitars strung with duct tape and drums equipped with hundred-year old heads are jettisoned into deep space and dynamited, combusting so vividly that the afterimages soak our retinas with mandalas of interwoven earthworms and beer funnels for hours afterwards. We pass the savings on to YOU! The Long Salt also features Samara Lubelski. "It's messy, beautiful and recalls all the effects and variables of a psychedelic painting or a hyper-real physical experience"- Brainwashed. "A bottomless well of crashing jolts, roaring accelerations and rumbling cacophany. Mouthus have enough wordless verbiage to fill all the empty heads that could use it" The Wire.
Important-082
CD
$13.50

Nebula
Apollo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Fourth LP & first from ex-FU MANCHU mainstays featuring their new bass player. Produced by Daniel Rey (RAMONES, MISFITS, L7) & featuring a cover of Lennon's "Cold Turkey"
Liquor/Poker-6017
CD
$17.25

Nine Black Alps
Everything Is (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Follows their suprise hit EP w/a lethal dose of rock n roll wizardry, eschewing the dancefloor & the post punk revivalism coming from the UK recently. A blustering cacophany of melody, guitar squalor, dramatic flair, propuslive drums & shades of death & love . Produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck).
Interscope
CD
$10.75

Occasion
Cannery Hours (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Gatefold sleeve! Latest captures the band in full stride, channeling the disparate elements of "Meddle" era Floyd & the swaggering harmonies of CSN&Y, they've managed a beautiful record melding classic psychedelia & distinctly American music. CD on Say Hey Records via Caroline.
ErnestJenning-021
LP
$14.50

Oceansize
Everyone Into Position (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Their second album sees the band at new heights of grandiose, ethereal, and utterly captivating music. Brooding, dark, spacey, empowering, sprawling, and at times angelic, "Everyone Into Position" takes you on a voyage of mind, body, and soul. Taking its title from the group's observations of how apathetic the world has become, and the pseudo-caring mentality that's sweeping the nation right now, this is an album that explores every emotion, sweeping the listener up in its beauty, its wholeness, and its musical greatness.
BeggarsBanquet
CD
$14.50

Old Man Gloom
Seminar III: Zozobra (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The long-awaited North American LP version of their classic one-track CD originally released in 2000. Feat. an elaborate full color gatefold sleeve (complete with metallic foil stamping), the epic & crushing beauty of "Zozobra" has finally been properly documented in all its massive glory. Feat. members of ISIS, CONVERGE, CAVE IN , FORENSICS, DOOMRIDERS, etc., you know these guys.
MagicBullet-041
LP
$16.75

Patto
Ducks In Flight (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 2ND)
PS, US "The Lost Jazz Album 1970/1971 (unreleased)". Patto's albums are all considered to be among the cream of British jazz rock, and this is no exception. Containing both previously unreleased tracks as well as previously unreleased versions, they further prove the talent of these four maestros in musical improvisation. Ollie Halsall also really gives Leonard Cohen's "Teacher" the royal six-string treatment!
Akarma-346
LP
$22.50

Pedro
S/T + Fear & Resilience (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Reissue of Melodic Records release of genre broadening instrumental hip hop LP that received near universal praise. Tasteful references to modern orchestral composition, pastoral folk & experimental rock. Beautiful psychedelic layering of free folk-hop & processed acoustic melody. Danger Mouse, Four Tet & Prefuse all dig it. You should too. CD includes the Fear & Resilience remixes EP.
Mush-240
DCD
$14.50

Perry, Lee "Scratch"
From Secret Labratory (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Second collaboration w/ renowned producer ADRIAN SHERWOOD (First was the terrific "Time Boom". Seek it.), this 1990 LP is a treat. Musical backing by ROOTS RADICS & DUB SYNDICATE. Perry's vision is focused & Sherwood's mix is its usual psychedelic
best. Incl. rants on his hatred of capitalism, Inspector Gadget & a smokin' cover of Heptones' "Party Time." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
IslandUK-842706-2
CD
$11.75

Pop, Iggy
Lust For Live 1977 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, UK A 17 track live release from 1977 mostly from the classic Manchester shows featuring David Bowie playing keyboards. Tracks featured include Lust for life, The Passenger, Gloria, Modern guy, Ive got a right, Fall in love with me, Neighbourhood threat, TV eye, Raw power and Nightclubbing. Live tracks are interspersed with classic interviews with Iggy also from 1977. Sleeve notes by Mick Middles.
Ozit-090
CD
$15.00

Porest
Tourrorists! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US A diabolical folk power-stew told through swirling Mid-Eastern psych-rockers, contraband cut-ups, illegal pop epics, instrumental songs of political sabotage & clever tales about travel, terror & more. This album is a lit-fuse, bound to be banned! Discover the awful truth about becoming a U.S. citizen. Bear witness to the tragic disco anthem of a Guantanamo escapee. Discover the inner secrets of an emerging global cannibalism trade & get powerful information on some of the most exciting terror cells operating both in & outside of the United States today.
Abduction-034
CD
$16.25

Pousseur, Henri
Musique Mixte (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US This series covers all his electronic music & his most radical works between 1953 & 1988 -- 35 years of research & experiments. The 2 pieces featured here (voice, pianos, various electroacoustic devices) are magnum opuses in his body of work, though they are seldom heard -- "Jeu de Miroirs de Votre Faust" has been unavailable for a long time, while "Crosses of Crossed Colors" is released here for the first time ever.
SubRosa-231
CD
$15.50

Prefuse 73
Security Screenings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Just as the ringing in your ears from the dense, concussive cocktail that was 2005's "Surrounded by Silence" has softened, Prefuse follows that up w/a masterclass of sliced up breakdance noise rock. Whether chopping samples, destroying synthesizer, trading beats w/FOUR TET or backing vocalist Tunde of Brooklyn space rockers TV ON THE RADIO, this is definitely another sure shot.
Warp-140
CD
$14.50

Prefuse 73
Security Screenings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Warp-140
LP
$14.50

Pufnstuf
Original Soundtrack Album (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK The soundtrack to the film version of Sid & Marty Kroffts gigantic children's TV hit HR Pufnstuf-the programme that introduced psychedelia into the diet of English and American children in the late sixties/ early seventies. Pufnstuf is full of great, clever, funny songs sung by Jack Wild, Cass Elliot, Witchiepoo and the cast.
Acme-065
CD
$14.75

Randomnumber
Golden Acre Sleeps (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK RandomNumber, aka Matt Robson, creates what has been described as "Northern Wrongbeat", a mesh of emotive, brooding harmonies drawn and quartered by complex, beat-heavy rhythms. It's digital music with a human heart at its centre. More bands live in Leeds LS6 than probably any other single postcode in the UK, and in the centre of that you'll find RandomNumber the beating electronic exception to the hardcore, guitar-fuelled rule. Robson's hyperactive beat mechanics and alchemical sound manipulations are bound together with a keen sense of melody shaped by his many years of playing in the Leeds alternative music scene, most notably as drummer for Hood (which culminated with their release 'Home Is Where It Hurts'). With this background of the band dynamic, Robson has rallied hard against stereotypical laptop clichés, and imbues his own shows with a keen sense of energy and punk attitude, using two unsynchronized laptops and a tabletop of controllers and effects. Previous RandomNumber releases have turned up on a plethora of respected indie and electronic labels, such as Mogwai's Rock Action imprint (an EP which NME named dance single of the week, back when they did that kind of thing), Rocket Racer, Fencing Flatworm, and Catmobile Records. You may also have seen his work on numerous compilations from the likes of Tigerbeat6, Darla, and 555 Recordings. He has toured the UK and USA extensively, playing shows with 65daysofstatic, Kid606, DJ Rupture, Cex and Dntel amongst others.Early reviews are saying things like "there's a lot more ambience in there and it's still crunchy in that Funkstorung way" and "traces of early Autechre with a large doses of all things shoegazetronic".
HighpointLowlife-015
CD
$17.00

Red Carpet
The Noise Of Red Carpet (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, JP Second album by the unsung heroes of Finnish indie pop, now available in the US! Sharing two members with jangle and shuffle meisters Ultrasport, Red Carpet's new album is further testimony to the vitality of the (criminally overlooked) pop scene currently bubbling under in Finland. These 12 gorgeous, colorful songs are the perfect new discovery for fans of everything from Nada Surf to Buffalo Springfield! "What do you get when you cross the songwriting of Simon & Garfunkel with the Red House Painters and have Teenage Fanclub play the results? Red Carpet!" -recordoffice.net. "Finland's #1 harmony pop group" -Rumba Music Magazine (Finland).
QuinceRecords-031
CD
$14.25

Reilly, Megan
Let Your Ghost Go (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 21ST)
PS, US Second album from NY via Memphis singer/songwriter maintains the sense of understated elegance that was apparent on her debut "Arc of Tessa" but leaps light years ahead in melody, musicianship & craftsmanship, outstripping normal expectations for sophomore albums. Her band of aces, TONY MAIMONE (PERE UBU), STEVE GOULDING (MEKONS, GRAHAM PARKER, LAURA CANTRELL), TIM FOLJAHN (TWO DOLLAR GUITAR, CAT POWER) & ERIC MORRISON (HOME) are augmented by amazing guest performances by Ted Reichman (MARC RIBOT, EMIGRE, TZADIK) on accordion, James Mastro (Ian Hunter, Health & Happiness Show) on guitar, & Jean Cook (Ida, Assif Tsahar) on violin & the perfectly chosen SUE GARNER & JOHN MCENTIRE behind the boards. Megan struggles with ghosts, both personal & distant, over 10 country tinged tracks. The album is sprinkled with two ideal covers, including Dylan's "The Wedding Song" that she was born to sing. "Jaw-dropping."-Maxim
CarrotTop-038
CD
$12.75

Ricochets, The
The Ghost of Our Love / Slo-Mo Suicide [DCD] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, GERMANY Norwegian bohemian garage-rock throwbacks The Ricochets get the hips shakin', and their big guitars and a bigger voice get compared to The Doors and The Animals alot. Glitterhouse released their 2003 album 'The Ghost of Our Love' with a bonus CD: their 2001 debut entitled 'Slo-Mo Suicide'. 2 CDs for the price of 1. You check out the other Glitterhouse gear we're bring in and Jim will try and get ahold of the new album from The Ricochets released in 2005.
Glitterhouse
DCD
$13.50

Ride
Tarantula (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK remastered reissue of the British indie act's final album (1996) includes three bonus tracks, 'Nothing Lasts Forever', 'Slave' & 'A Trip Down Ronnie Lane' in addition to the classics, 'Black Nite Crash', 'Castle On The Hill' & 'Starlight Motel'.
Ignition(UK)-798802
CD
$21.75

Ride
OX4 The Best Of Ride (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK The definitive collection of the finest moments from the darlings of early 90's UK alternative guitar rock. Compiled with the active participation of all four members, '0X4' brings together 15 tracks culled from their studio albums between 1990 & 1996 including 'Chelsea Girl' & 'Drive Blind'.
Ignition-798682
CD
$21.75

Ride
Nowhere + 4 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, UK digitally remastered reissue of the British indie act's debut album (1990) with four bonus tracks added:'Unfamiliar', 'Sennen', 'Beneath' & 'Today' in addition to the classics, 'Taste', 'Dreams Burn Down' & 'Vapour Trail'. The four bonus tracks are the four cuts from Ride's deleted 1990 EP 'Today Forever', making this even more essential to fans and latecomers.
Ignition-
CD
$21.75

Ride
Going Blank Again (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, UK Digitally remastered U.K. reissue of the British indie rock group's second album from 1992 with four bonus tracks added: 'Going Blank Again', 'Howard Hughes', 'Stampede' & the incredible 11 minute long instrumental 'Grasshopper'. The bonus tracks all stem from the two singles released from the album at the time, 'Leave Them All Behind' & 'Twisterella'.
Ignition-798662
CD
$21.75

Ride
Carnival (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK digitally remastered reissue of the British indie act's third album (1994) includes three bonus tracks, 'Don't Let It Die', 'Let's Get Lost' & 'At The End Of The Universe' in addition to the classics, 'Birdman', 'How Does It Feel To Feel?' & 'I Don't Know Where It Comes From'. Produced by John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead). 2006.
Ignition-798652
CD
$21.75

Ride
Smile (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK digitally remastered reissue of the British indie act's 1992 compilation that includes their early 'Ride' & 'Play' EPs. 8 tracks. Tracks: 1. Chelsea Girl, 2. Drive Blind, 3. All I Can See, 4. Close My Eyes, 5. Like A Daydream, 6. Silver,
7. Furthest Sense, 8. Perfect Time.
Ignition(UK)-798702
CD
$21.75

Ride
The Box Set (3XCD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK 3CD set. Finally back in print! The ultimate turn on for the serious Ride collector. The Ride box-set comprises the '0X4 Best Of' plus 'Firing Blanks' & 'Ride Live'. 'Firing Blanks Unreleased recordings 1988-95' includes 15 previously unheard tracks from the band's Oxford archives. 'Ride Live - Reading Festival 1992' captures the band at the height of their incendiary powers with an unforgettable live show, originally recorded for Japanese TV. 2006. Tracks: 1. Chelsea Girl, 2. Drive Blind, 3. Like A Daydream, 4. Taste, 5. Dreams Burn Down, 6. Vapour Trail, 7. Unfamiliar, 8. Leave Them All Behind, 9. Twisterella, 10. OX4, 11. Birdman, 12. From Time To Time, 13. How Does It Feel To Feel, 14. I Don't Know Where It Comes From, 15. Black Night Crash, 16. Somethings Burning, 17. Chelsea Girl (4 Track Demo), 18. Blue, 19. Drems Burn Down Dub, 20. She's So Fine, 21. New Age, 22. Tongue Tied, 23. Everybody Knows, 24. I'm Fine Thanks, 25. Xmas Song, 26. King Bullshit, 27. Smile (4 Track Demo), 28. Welcome To Paradise, 29. In A Diffeent Palce (Differently), 30. Barneys, 31. Leave Them All Behind, 32. Taste, 33. Not Fazed, 34. Sennen, 35. Like A Daydream, 36. Twisterella, 37. Time Of Her Time, 38. Nowhere, 39. Vapour Trail, 40. Seagull, 41. Close My Eyes, 42. Mouse Trap.
Ignition(UK)-798812
CD
$50.25

Ride
Waves (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, UK Seventeen Original BBC Recordings from the Peel, Goodier, & Radcliffe Sessions - 1990-1994. 2003 compilation from the legendary Oxford indie act.
Ignition(UK)-269004
CD
$21.75

Robocop Kraus
They Think They Are... (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Already being touted alongside Franz Ferdinand & Hot Hot Heat as part of the scene that takes its cues as much from Devo & XTC as from punk.
Epitaph-i86778
CD
$16.25

Rudolf Rocker
Rabbiting With Richard Dido (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK Deadpan vocals, bossanova beats, big, distorted guitars vs. insane keyboards, live drums layered on a detuned drummachine... and whistling! Yes, welcome to the second album from RUDOLF ROCKER. Their keyboard player happens to be a member of BBC TV's cult comedy The League of Gentlemen but this music speaks for itself-in its own bizarre language. The late John Peel naturally championed their previous album and singles which gave rise to reviews like: "An extraordinary band...sound like Noel Coward sniffing glue" -Melody Maker. "Situationist easy listening noise...a fine selection of cheese cuts" NME. "Magazine playing the James Last Orchestra" Event. Their songs examine war, dead philosophers, items of percussion, big-chinned celebrities and much much more. They're named after a Germanic icon too which is why we say that Rudolf Rocker truly are the old Franz Ferdinand!
Mook-17
CD
$14.25

Rush, Merrilee (And The Turn Abouts)
Angel Of The Morning: The Complete Bell Recordings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK Activist in Seattle Women in Rhythm & Blues....a member of the Northwest Hall Of Fame (which puts her on a par with the mighty Kingsmen and Sonics!)....maker of one of THE classic hit singles....a radio staple ever since...and a front runner in the Memphis pop explosion which led to famous Soul factory American Studios producing The Box Tops, a whole slew of singles for Eternity's Children, 'Dusty In Memphis" and this classic collection of popsoulfolkrock recordings on Bell Records...containing songs by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, John Phillips, Chip Taylor and Al Gorgoni, Bacharach and David....and a whole raft of other master songwriters.... A legend and huge live draw in their native Northwest, Merrilee and her band The Turnabouts were on tour in 1967 with their local superstar friends Paul Revere and The Raiders...who like ELVIS and DUSTY SPRINGFIELD had been intrigued by the Soul and Pop masterpieces emanating from American Studios...and decided to make an album there with the crack team of wrters/producers/musicians....they recommended Merrilee to the legendary studio boss, Chips Moman....who asked her to record a version of "Angel Of The Morning", the Chip Taylor future classic which Evie Sands had been robbed of a hit with by the collapse of Cameo-Parkway records....released as a single, it became a monster hit....and there followed a whol load of great material on BELL records, with that classic American Studios sound to the fore...And Merrilee's voice, owing as much to Evie Sands and Jackie De Shannon as it did to her own unique take on the songs...was the icing on the cake....as Folkrock met Soulpop....here are the complete BELL recordings...including the rare Quincy Jones produced take on "What the World Needs Now" from the controversial back in the day movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice....and Merrilee's amazing trippy version of Motown classic "Reach Out...I'll Be There" apparently inspired by hearing Vanilla Fudge's overhaul of "You Keep Me Hanging On." on the car radio one rainy night on tour....an amazing slice of American Studios Memphis pop Soul...with a twist!
Rev-Ola-143
CD
$14.75

Russell, Ray
Goodbye Svengali (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US "Fame means nothing. Real musicians know the only true accolade is the admiration of one's peers. Ray Russell is a star in the eyes of musicians across the world. Over four decades, Gil Evans, John Barry, Heaven 17, Julio Inglesias, Van Morrison, Dionne Warwick, Nucleus, Tina Turner, James Galway, Phil Spector, Jack Bruce, Michael Gibbs and Bryan Ferry are but a few of the artists and producers who have known that Ray would add something special to their work. A consummate professional as a guitarist, composer and producer, Ray has an extraordinary capacity for both virtuosity and versatility. Ray has been a collaborator, front man, band member, arranger, composer and musical friend to many of the world's most influential musicians, bridging the chasms between different musical genres with ease. Happy with the respect of other musicians, Ray is content that the world outside music knows his work, without necessarily knowing him."- Neville Farmer. Goodbye Svengali is influenced by and dedicated to visionary jazz arranger Gil Evans and includes one of Gil's final recordings. It is an album that mixes dark fusion, lyrical guitar pieces and icy soundscapes. "Russell makes it sound as if the guitar is not enough, as if he's reaching for something wilder, something that can't be contained within the 6-string cage."-Jim O'Rourke.
Cuneiform-223
CD
$13.75

Saturday Looks Good To Me
Sound On Sound (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Combines modern lo-fi indie rock w/ a broad acceptance of pop music history grounded in a traditional Motown aesthetic. Collection of 30 songs, all limited & sold-out, recorded from the band's inception in 2000 through its most recent sessions. "They've modernized the concept of retrospective pop with creativity, intelligence and the sweetness & heartbreak of a summer fling." - IndieWorkshop.com
RCS-010
CD
$15.25

Scarboro Aquarium Club
Black Swan Days (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK Black Swan Days is the follow-up to Scarboro Aquarium Club's acclaimed debut Poisoned. Like its predecessor, this new album is mainly the work of Corey W Schmidt with help from a few collaborators. Corey's passion for pop music is again present in 12 songs that draw equally from the folk songwriting of the 60s and 80s tecno-pop, with references to such different artists as Scott Walker ('Blind Like The Sun'), Roxy Music ('All Her Careful Plans'), Saint Etienne ('Before The Morning Light') and the exotic legacy of El Records ('The Queen Of The Beach'). But more than anything, "Black Swan Days" is a contemporary record which follows a tradition of devoted music artisans that goes from Brian Wilson through Todd Rundgren to Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields, artists who understand the pop craft as predominantly an individual process with the aim to become universal.
BecalmedUK-102
CD
$16.00

Sebastian Roux
Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Songs is the much-anticipated follow-up to Parisian sound designer and musician Sébastien Roux's beautiful cd Pillow (Apestaartje, 2004). The simple title of Songs hides a deep work that Roux states is based in mathematics, symmetry (and asymetry) and organized randomness. Songs is a skillfully and beautifully rendered album of gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle acoustic instruments and melodic granular clouds. Each song is titled simply by the instruments that make it, thus stressing the process involved in their production. From the ubiquitous guitars, piano, and drums to the more exotic metallophone, harp and contrabass, Roux combines these acoustic instruments with digital sounds and makes a point to keep the focus on the instruments themselves, allowing for their subtleties and idiosyncrasies to come to the forefront. Roux's music is personal and multi-faceted; From warm and drowsy ambient tones to digital fests of errors and erratic rhythms to a more song-structured approach hinting at a distant relative of submereged pop music. His influences include musique concrete, folk songs, and electronic music and his work at IRCAM in Paris wraps his ecclectic tastes into an expertly produced work of digital sound that does not rely on one particular sound or motif but rather highlights a breadth of processes and unique sonic juxtapositions.
12K-1036
CD
$13.50

Secret Shine
Elemental EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 14TH)
PS, NORWAY After an absence of almost 10 years, Secret Shine release a brand new 3-song ep called 'Elemental'. The band reformed in 2005 in the most tragic of circumstances after drummer Tim Morris was killed in an accident. The band played a tribute gig for Tim in May and wrote the hypnotic 'You are Inside' in his memory. The gig gave the band fresh impetus and desire to continue writing music together. Along with 'You are Inside' the ep also includes the soaring, signature Secret-Shine song 'Evermore' and the sweet, melodic 'Adored'.Secret Shine originally formed in 1991 and released a number of records on the infamous Sarah Records label reaching a high point with 1993's Loveblind which made the UK indie charts. The band continued to release material until 1995 and carried on playing until 1996 eventually going their separate ways in '97 when Dean, Tim and Scott formed the band Junkie.
RacingJunior-001
CD5
$7.25

Servants, The
Reserved (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK The Servants were formed in London in 1985 and were based around the carefully crafted guitar work of David Westlake, Phil King who went onto play with Felt and Biff Bang Pow, was also in the band. Their first two singles, 'She's Always Hiding' and 'The Sun, A Small Star,' both on The Head label, attracted good press interest and both made the independent singles chart. Westlake then went on to a solo deal with Creation Records while The Servants reformed around future Auteurs and Black Box Recorder man, Luke Haines. Also involved in the new line up was Hugh Whitaker who had previously been with the Housemartins. Luke Haines wrote the sleeve notes for this release.
CherryRed-297
CD
$14.75

Show Me The Pink
Velocipedomania (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US First Chainsaw release in 4 years features this Portland discopunk, multigendered troupe of bike activists. Twin keyboard assisted, bass & drum powered, trumpet driven dance party topped w/multilayered vocals.
Chainsaw-028
CD
$13.50

Sing-Sing
Sing-Sing and I (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Following their Manifesto debut, Emma Anderson (LUSH) & friends return w/an album full of pop gems certain to excite the fanatical Lush fanbase. "Delightful, swoony Go-Go's style pure pop w/kittenish vocals."
Reincarnate
CD
$14.75

Slackers
Peculiar (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US
Hellcat-8047
LP
$11.75

Slowride
C/S (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US The latest from emocore/rock faves SLOWRIDE. The band's music has appeared on CSI Miami, Viva La Bam, Homewrecker, and Made and this new release is produced by STUART SIKES (White Stripes, Jets To Brazil, Walkman, Promise Ring). For fans of Foo Fighters, QOTSA, and Jawbreaker.
DeepElm-448
CD
$14.00

Society Of Rockets, The
Where The Grass Grows Black (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US The Society Of Rockets' debut album, Sunset Homes, sounded more like a eulogy to the band members' past work in the much-lauded San Francisco-based band Shimmer Kids Underpop Association. But where the debut was hushed, its follow-up, Where the Grass Grows Black, is surprisingly spine-rattling - minimalist elegies have been replaced with maximalist bursts of sun-dazed boogie music, and the gentle sweep of acoustic guitars has been superseded by the fuzz and kick of greasy '70s rock guitars and stomping drums. If the shift in sound is unexpected, its only because the Rockets have been underestimated; the band has proven that they are not prone to sitting in one place and watching the stars roll by. Bandleader, Joshua Babcock says, "I've always felt the most interesting music came from people with no fixed orbit, that let themselves pass through everything, like radiation. We aren't interested in compartmentalization, specialization, isolation, automation - our music is intended to be wild, vibrational, organic, biological. It goes wherever there is room to grow." The sprawling, classic psych-rock expansiveness of the album reflects this ethos well, fusing Neil Young riffs and Stax-Volt-style horns on "Out in the Evening" one moment and threading a path through the Spacemen 3/Cramps territory of "DrX" the next. The stop-start Royal Trux-ish clatter of "End of the Line" stumbles into the free-floating Ennio Moriconne-style trumpets of the intro to "Old Glory". Throughout the album the songs maintain a weedy, blurry-eyed vision of a country littered with squandered glories, rusted cars, and bitter recriminations - a negative image of the usual pastoral psych picture. "I wanted to make an album that was both angry and psychedelic - something that would dilate some pupils but also maybe break some windows," says Babcock.
Underpop-06
CD
$11.25

Som Imaginario
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK Som Imaginario!.....In the ferment of Brasilian music which was taking place in the post Bossa Nova period...when the most unlikely musical figures had suddenly been thrust onto a world stage....many quite amazing musical explosions came to the surface....as Tropicalia took hold, and the unlikely sounds of funk, prog, psychedelic rock and lord knows what else were filtered through the unique sensibility of Brasil.....Som Imaginario! Musical prodigy Wagner Tiso and the Wanderley brothers played in many combos with their neighbour Milton Nacimento ....when the latter had his major label international breakthrough, he employed his old friends to back him on his debut, dubbing them SOM IMAGINARIO after a phrase in a review of a triumphant concert they did together....Luiz Alves and Robertinho Silva, Tavito, Ze Rodrix, Laudir de Oliveira and Frederico were all members of SON IMAGINARIO, along with Milton Nascimento and other star guests on uncredited vocals.....on one of the most amazing albums ever to come out of Brasil.....Bossa, Tropicalia and Samba meet Italian prog and Brit psych....western pop meets eastern soundtracks with DJ friendly beats breaking through all over the shop.... an album that was acclaimed on it's release by a gobsmacked Herbie Hancock, and has to be heard to be believed!! Amazing album from the height of Brasil's musical renaissance! Featuring many of the major players of the Tropicalia and Bossa Nova movements! Featuring superstar singer/songwriterr/arranger Milton Nascimento!
Rev-Ola-144
CD
$14.75

Sonic Youth
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7th)
PS, US Legendary debut LP now reissued in lavish, double LP vinyl edition. Remastered album tracks, previously unreleased studio outtakes & live material from one of their earliest performances.
Goofin08
DLP
$17.25

Souls She Said
As Templar Nites (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US The first full length from ICARUS LINE frontman JOE CARDAMONE & guitarist DON DEVORE. Feat. 9 tracks recorded over one year on 2 continents. It serves as a more beat driven, dark indie rock cousin to Icaraus Line's beautifully gory lo-fi sound. Guest on these recordings include members of NEED NEW BODY & EUPHONE.
DimMak-096
CD
$14.50

Sounds Like Fall
Wolf Is At The Door (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, US Former MOONSHINE RADIO frontman's majestic & intimate solo debut. Joe Young's modern approach to traditional songwriting is deeply rooted in rural folk songs & early country music. Distinctly honest distillation of both the desolation of rural Midwest & the ever-encroaching world surrounding it. Opens w/ an apocalyptic lullaby then weaves deftly from the grit of a rural-America Hayden to the off-kitler country of M. Ward via Townes Van Zandt, occasionally drifting into the darker territory of Magnolia Electric Co
YerBird-001
CD
$11.00

Sparks
Hello Young Lovers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
InTheRed-131
LP
$9.75

Sparks
Hello Young Lovers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US 20th album from pop chameleons shuns current music as drastically as possible. Cinematic, bold, & lyrically liberal, w/moments of sheer beauty, dissonance & harmony.
InTheRed-131
CD
$14.50

Springfield, Dusty
Sings Classic Soul (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Incl. covers of Ashford & Simpson, Velvelettes, Marvin Gaye, Holland Dozier Holland.
UMeImports-544979-2
CD
$11.75

Stoltz, Kelly
Below The Branches (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SubPop
LP
$11.75

Stoltz, Kelly
Below The Branches (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US San Francisco home-recording multi-instrumentalist Stoltz promoted and distributed his last album, ("2001's "Antique Glow") himself. It garnered considerable attention and praise, such as being ranked #24 in MOJO's "40 Best Albums Of 2004", which was described as "a time capsule only recently discovered...a jamboree grab-bag of delights filled with everything from psychedelic folk and cosmic troubadour pop to garage rock and lysergic R&B...one of the year's major finds." "Below The Branches" picks up where the last album left off, combining psych rock, folk, blues, and pop in its thirteen tracks, and exploring new, piano-driven directions as well. Improvisational pop, alchemically blending influences with results that are both old and new.
SubPop
CD
$13.75

Sun City Girls
Static From the Outside Set (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Created for the "On The Wire" Radio Lancashire show, aired only once & never archived, this is a delirious roller-coaster ride through the prism of their audio archaeology. Hosted by the corpse of Mexican film legend Cantinflas, this 60-minute radio show is packed with unreleased SCG nuggets from studio tracks of classic cover tunes to absurdist radio narratives. Not since the halcyon days of Ken Nordine's word jazz programs have radio shows been prepared to fuck your mind with a blunt dagger, yet SCG are much more diabolical & have spiked the punch with plenty of morphine drip & a Demerol lollipop or two thrown in to ease the unease. This is a limited one-time pressing of 1000 copies. Volume 14 of SCG's Carnival Folklore Resurrection series.
Abduction-035
CD
$16.25

Sword
Age of Winters (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Colossal, high energy powerhouse from Austin, TX utilizing a potent combo of intense songwriting chemistry, eye-popping creativity & unique vision. sounds like If Black Sabbath and Sleep were collaborating to do the score to "Conan the Barbarian," this would be the outcome. Doom crossed with the riffs that realmetal forgot. Spin described them a "sort of like Black Sabbath Vol. 4, early Prong, Iron Maiden...a bunch of bison being pushed over a cliff."
Kemado-027
CD
$13.50

Telescopes, The
Auditory Illusions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US After a decade's journey across the universe, legendary Creation Records astronauts, The Telescopes, triumphantly splashed down on Earth in 2002 as an 11-piece with a new album of alien compositions, "Third Wave". John Peel broadcast his favorites announcing, "The Telescopes have resurfaced, and I am amazed and glad that they are still practicing their mysterious art." Stephen Lawrie and his group of sonic architects have since toured the UK and Italy as a 4-piece improvising free-drone noise, supported by Sonic Boom's EAR, Füxa, Vibracathedral Orchestra, and more. The all-new "Auditory Illusions" is a mesmerizing 25-minute live session recorded for Double Agent using an assortment of improvised acoustic and battery operated instrumentation to create new and exclusive versions of material past and present. Includes a free-drone re-working of their biggest single, "Flying," with a hypnotic new video.
DoubleAgent-021)
CD5
$9.00

Terrestrial Tones
Dead Drunk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Third album from roommate duo of Eric Copeland (BLACK DICE) & Dave Portner (ANIMAL COLLECTIVE). Sounds like they spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea market last summer. African food stands, forgotten Euro pop records, discarded American analog pedals & junk, old Soviet electronics all come together in a highly disconcerting, curious pleasure.
PawTracks-009
CD
$16.00

Terrestrial Tones
Dead Drunk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PawTracks-009
LP
$13.50

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Boo Hoo Hoo Boo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US An 8-piece from Vancouver. They have a distinctive noisy oompa sound thanks to a horn section & have been campared to the likes of The Danielson Family, Captain Beefheart & Thinking Fellers Local 242. Lyrical themes of desperation, betrayal & hardship are brought to interesting light in this overly joyful jittery music.
KillRockStars-462
CD
$14.50

Tic Code
FBCCADE (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US
SIK-33
CD
$12.00

Toy
Self-Titled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US "Like Ryksopp's 'Poor Leno'-- cold, lonely pop, bedroom danceparty shit"-PITCHFORK. Debut album from electronic duo formed by UK composer Alisdair Stirling and producer Jorgen Traeen from Bergen, Norway. Toy's playful tunes mixes Radiophonic Workshop, Residents (around Diskomo), Silver Apples, Frank Zappa and Japanese style electronica (from YMO to Zongamin and Cornelius) with their own Scandinavian electro weirdness roots. Combining the analogue synth sounds of the 70s with kids TV, leftfield dance music and electro, Toy creates wonderful and infectious pop. "Prozac- flavoured glory."-BBC Radio 3. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
SmalltownSupersound-110
CD
$16.00

Trembling Blue Stars
Lips That Taste of Tears + 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 14TH)
15 tracks. This newly expanded and remastered edition of Lips That Taste of Tears features 74 minutes of music and one bonus track. Stand-out songs include single The Rainbow, Letter Never Sent and Never Loved You More. The booklet features revised artwork, together with a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.
LTM-2462
CD
$17.00

Trembling Blue Stars
Her Handwriting + 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 14TH)
PS, UK 17 tracks. LTM is proud to announce extended CD reissues of the first two albums by Trembling Blue Stars, the cult indie-pop band featuring Bobby Wratten, formerly of The Field Mice and Northern Picture Library. Trembling Blue Stars were formed in 1995, initially as a solo vehicle for singer and songwriter Bobby Wratten, assisted by long-term studio collaborator Ian Catt (St Etienne). After three albums Her Handwriting (1996), Lips That Taste of Tears (1998) and Broken By Whispers (2000, the first of two albums released in North America on Sub Pop), Bobby was joined by co-vocalist and keyboard player Beth Arzy, who is also a member of LA-based Aberdeen. Since then TBS have released two further albums, Alive to Every Smile (2001) and The Seven Autumn Flowers (2004), and completed several North American tours. TBS songs have also appeared in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Tree Hill and Ghost Whisperer. This newly expanded and remastered edition of Her Handwriting features 74 minutes of music and three bonus tracks. Her Handwriting made Melody Maker's Top 25 albums of 1996, while lead single Abba on the Jukebox was voted 19 on the John Peel Festive 50 that same year. The booklet features all-new artwork, as well as a detailed artist biography by American journalist Michael Hill.
LTM-2460
CD
$17.00

Tresspassers William
Having (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, US Latest album produced by Dave Fridmann (FLAMING LIPS, MERCURY REV, MOGWAI) shows further maturation of their sound by pushing each song towards more complex textures & into deeper extremes, while still hinting at strains of ambient, folk & shoegaze.
Nettwerk
CD
$16.50

Tusk
Get Ready (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Avant, progged out, psych', helicopter grind -- Tusk's aural barrage has been categorized with some random appellations. Truth of the matter is, the more out-there the genre description, the more obvious this fact: It's fucking out there. Amidst surgically precise blasts, frenzied vocals and fret board savagery to make devout fans of all matters of harshness raise a horned-hand salute, you'll find a willingness to experiment: sitar, slide guitar, mandolin, swirling keyboard passages. 3/4 of Tusk also play in Pelican.
HEWHOCORRUPTS,INC-012
CD
$12.00

Two Times The Trauma
I Fell In Love With An Ocean (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, SWEDEN Melancholy-to-the-max debut full-length album from Two Times The Trauma, which is Mattias Olsson (AK-Momo, Nanook of The North mastermind/multi-instrumentalist/studio wizard) and Mattias Eriksson (Celestine vocalist).
ExergyMusic
CD
$13.50

Uncle Jim
Superstars of Greenwich (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US A CD reissue of the previously vinyl-only, limited edition 500 copy release. It's the premire LP from Uncle Jim (aka ALAN BISHOP). Rawer than Rudy Ray Moore & shrewder than Lenny Bruce, this is his own personal anthology of black humor, filled to the brim with cranky diatribes, backed up by bad ass musicians (including all of the SUN CITY GIRLS). Feat. CHARLES GOCHER, RICHARD BISHOP, ALVARIUS B, LIZ ALLBESS, ANDREW MCGINNIS, SPECS ONE & POREST.
Abduction-036
CD
$16.25

Univers Zero
Live (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Founding member of the original "Rock In Opposition" [R.I.O.] movement, and considered to be one of the greatest avant-garde rock bands of the 70's & 80's, the Belgian band Univers Zero were originally founded in 1974. During their first lifetime, they released 1313 (1977), Heresie (1979), Ceux Du Dehors (1981), Crawling Wind, (1983), UZED(1984) and Heatwave (1986) until their breakup in 1987. After 2 solo albums, leader Daniel Denis reformed the band in 1997 & released 3 albums between 1998-2004. They are rightly famous for their perfect balance between classical and rock influences. UZ's 10th release and their first-ever live album! The recorded sound is magnificent and the new arrangements bring a large number of fresh views to the familiar favorites here.
Cuneiform-220
CD
$13.75

Universe, The
The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US 'The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor,' is the brainchild of brothers Lachlan and Gus Franklin (Architecture in Helsinki) who, along with musical think-alike Ben Browning and other assorted friends and collaborators form a group called; theUniverse. Having spent many a childhood year together in the family car, writing spasmodic ditties to add to their very own fictional top40 'Chart', the brothers - whilst driving down to family Christmas one year - had a revelatory moment about their place within the universe. Out of this moment - beyond the feeling of total insignificance - came an idea about a project. the idea was to write, arrange and record a collection of songs with the common theme of 'Space.' The project (affectionately referred to as 'the space album,') was to be an album that would somehow give a similar feeling that the brothers had felt in the car that day. The results of two years sporadic work, (in between other musical projects such as the Smallgoods, Architecture in Helsinki and The Ca$inos), culminates with 12 songs which vary in style, substance, singer, songwriter and production, to complete a working whole. A whole where pop is the format, but space is the catalyst, expanding and contracting trace elements of the last fifty years of harmony driven pop music. Sing-along melodies, down-home acoustic guitars and dinky drums meet large, overblown production, in a Prog-Pop extravaganza, with a tied-in narrative that can be taken or left in favour of the songs' face value catchiness. The narrative tells the fantastical story of an average man, who is chosen to pilot a supercraft to the far reaches of deep space, to establish whether there is an end to the universe...and if so, what lies beyond? The songs chart the course of the main characters' psychological state, his dealings with the onboard computer, and his feelings of uncertainty, excitement, paranoia, madness and solitude as he drifts beyond the realms of knowledge and into an unfathomable galactic void. With a nostalgic nod to ELO's 'Time,' Bowie's conceptual ghost and the ambience of Brian Eno...Along with moments reminiscent of AIR's scientific playfulness, intimate sections that echo many nights spent listening to the Microphones, and the sci-fi sentiments of GRANDADDY and the FLAMING LIPS; this is an album of unhindered joy and enthusiasm by the Universe, for the Universe...and everything within it.
Microindie-006
CD
$9.00

Various
Mews Too: Asthmatic Kitty Compilation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US This new compilation from ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS acts as a social mix-tape tracing the particular relationships that make up the extended Asthmatic Kitty family and friends. The compilation gathers musicians, friends, colleagues, and collaborators from the label's seven-year history, presenting an odd, exciting, and idiosyncratic family tree in which kinship and musicianship are thankfully confused. Joining the choir are mainstays of the Asthmatic Kitty roster, as well as old band-mates and friends, and a few artists who've made their mark outside of this label.
AsthmaticKitty-015
CD
$12.75

Various
And To The Disciples That Remain (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 13TH)
PS, US Celebration of eleven years of Amish Records. Deluxe 6-panel foldout packaging. Features tracks from PG Six, Black Taj, Bird Show, Oranges Band, Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown, Mike Wexler, Theo Angell, Chuck Johnson, Dan Matz & the Birdwatcher.
Amish-023
CD
$14.50

Various
Rollergirls(Soundtrack)(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Original Soundtrack from the A&E hit series Rollergirls. Rollergirls is a reality show based on the lives of the women of Austin , TX rollerderby!!! Track list 1. The Donnas- Play My Game 2. Vaughan Penn- Ready To Rise 3. Dale Watson- Way Down Texas Way 4. Angie Heaton- Rollerskate 5. Kacy Crowley-Badass 6. Red Meat- The Girl With The Biggest Hair 7. The Addictions- Rollergirl 8. Jaime Paxton-Five Years 9. The Sweethearts- Never Give Up 10. Jean Shy- Rollerderby World 11. Bob Log III- Log Bomb 12. Ani DiFranco- Amazing Grace
Koch-4104.2
CD
$15.25

Various
Deathrow: the Chronicles of Psychobilly PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, UK A superb 25 track psychobilly compilation which features the leading names from the scene. Artists include such legendary psychobilly acts as the meteors,guana batz, long tall texans, the sharks, the gazmen, hyperjax, restless and the caravans. The cd is an accompaniment to "deathrow...the chronicles of psychobilly" book, "deathrow" was the worlds only long running psychobilly fanzine and this book is a collection of all the original issues, which are now very collectable and in demand. The whole psychobilly scene is growing in popularity around the world and this unique collection will be very well received. Track Listing: 1/ The Sharks "Deathrow", 2/ Frenzy "Till The Following Night", 3/ The Meteors "Go Buddy Go", 4/ The Frantic Flintstones "Your Time Is Up", 5/ The Caravans "Dirty Little Town", 6/ Dawg House "Final Justice", 7/ Guana Batz "I'm On Fire", 8/ The Gazmen "Rigormortise Rock", 9/ Elektraws "Lost In A Time Vortex", 10/ Legendary Raw Deal "Jackson", 11/ Long Tall Texans "Notice Me", 12/ P.Paul Fenech "Daddy's Hammer", 13/ Phantom Cowboys "Voodoo Bunnies", 14/ Popeye's Dik "Searchin' For The King", 15/ Restless "They Don't Understand Me Anymore", 16/ The Sharks "Screw", 17/ Gazmen "The Kid From Mars", 18/ The Frantic Flintstones "Shake A Bone Capone", 19/ Hyperjax "Happy Pillz", 20/ The Guana Batz "Rockin In The Graveyard" ,21/ The Meteors "Please Don't Touch", 22/ Shakeout "Breakin' Loose", 23/ Long Tall Texans "Border Radio", 24/ The Frantic Flintstones, 25/ The Sharks "Hanger 84".
Anagram-042
CD
$14.75

Various
Idol Tryouts II (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Double disc overview of Ghostly International label full of mostly BRAND NEW TRACKS & none previously available on CD. Deluxe digipak w/ full color art, discography, photos & bios. SOLVENT, MATTHEW DEAR, KILL MEMORY CRASH, DABRYE, LOSCIL, KILN, GREG DAVIS, LUSINE, TIM HECKER, RICHARD DEVINE, tons more.
Ghostly-051
DCD
$19.00

Various
Never the Same: British Folk Revival 70-77 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Documents the unheralded Brit Folk revival of the early-mid '70s that was shepherded by the Leader label when everyone else, incl. even Fairport, sold out to rock & fusion. A trove of treasures never on CD by Tony Rose, Lal Waterson, Dick Gaughan, Dave Burland, Nic Jones, Aly Bain, more. "Beautiful, deeply affecting, traditional music away from the spotlight. ****."-Guardian (UK)
HonestJon's-40831
CD
$18.00

Various
Gommagang 3 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Third compilation of Germany's Gomma label incl. club hits & remixes from vinyl only releases & unreleased stuff from the last 2 years. Incl. cuts & remixes by HEADMAN, MUNK, RAPTURE, FRANCISCO, JAMES MURPHY (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM), MIDNIGHT MIKE & DJ CHLOE.
Gomma-070
CD
$12.00

Various
To:Elliot From:Portland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Tribute to the late Elliott Smith featuring indie-rock notables including The Decemberists, Helio Sequence, The Thermals, Swords, Dolorean, & Sean Croghan. Ten percent of the net proceeds will be donated to the Elliott Smith Foundation's charity, "Free Arts for Abused Children". The album features liner notes from those who knew & loved Smith. Mastered by Tony Lash, Elliott's former Heatmiser bandmate.
Expunge-002
CD
$14.75

Various
Sleepless in Seattle -Birth of Grunge (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, US Comps 20 original recordings from the scene that gave us Nirvana. Cuts by BLACKOUTS, UMEN, TREEPEOPLE, TAD, COFFIN BREAK, SKIN YARD, LOVE BATTERY, SEAWEED, 7 YEAR BITCH, MELVINS, SCREAMING TREES, GREEN RIVER, MUDHONEY, BABES IN TOYLAND, SEAWEED, tons more.
Livewire-1012
CD
$15.00

Various
Pink Floyd's The Wall -- Revisited (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 28TH)
PS, US A magnificent tribute! A stellar cast reintroduces us to this unforgettable classic with all the enthusiasm, reverence and atmosphere worthy of the original masterpiece. The mastermind behind the production is the talented multi instrumentalist and producer Billy Sherwood (Yes, Conspiracy, World Trade). For his ambitious project Sherwood brings together only musicians of the highest caliber! Here we find the likes of Ian Anderson, Tony Levin, Steve Howe, Tommy Shaw, Ronnie Montrose, Adrian Belew, Rick Wakeman, Malcolm McDowell, and members of bands like ELP, Asia, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Toto, Montrose, Yes, and Talking Heads to name a few! So many musicians all sharing a common love for this seminal work. Such lofty ideas often lead to musical disaster, but instead these guys really pull it off! A fantastic tribute that deserves its own place in history.
Akarma-345
CD
$17.25

Various
Starter Set (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JANUARY
PS, US Not a collection of music videos, but a samppling of new dance & music created for the camera. Curated by Katie Eastburn, this feat. new dance by members of Leg & Pants Dans Theatre, Hysterica Dance So, 4 Hard Gulps Theater Co. & new music from members of YOUNG PEOPLE, VAZ, LIARS, NEW COLLAPSE & EMILY MANZO.
KillRockStars-427
DVD
$12.50

Various
Nothin' But Trash (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 28TH)
PS, UK Believe it or not the swingin' sixties didn't just spawn mega-pop groups like the Beatles, Stones and Monkees. The decade of love also gave birth to something far darker and dirtier, and arguably much more fun. Yes, the sixties were also responsible for producing the seeds of what would eventually become Punk Rock. The legacy of such icons as The Sonics, The 13th Floor Elevators and The Monks lives on today, and over the past two decades has produced cult sensations such as Thee Milkshakes, The Prisoners and Kaisers. A filthy hybrid of Bad Taste, Rhythm n Blues, rockabilly, surf sounds and all that is unholy, Trash Punk is one of the most enduring forces in the rock n roll underground. This DVD compilation covers nearly twenty years of Garage Punk and Sixties Style rock, AKA Trash and showcases some of the legendary characters that have emerged on the scene. Never anything less than inventive, "Nothin But Trash" shows exactly why this debauched tradition survives to this very day - It's bloody good fun. From cult heroes The Gun Club and Link Wray to more recent contenders to the throne Saturn V and Empress of Fur, its no frills and big thrills all they way as we visit the seediest venues in the UK and spend time at 2003's Wild Weekend in Benidorm, Spain. A mixture of live and promo footage showcases one of most thriving genres of underground music history and present.
CherryRed-115
DVD
$24.25

Vialka
Curiosities Of Popular Customs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 6TH)
PS, US Veritable nomads who travel the globe, astounding audiences in squats, punk clubs & bars. The music is derived from the underground- experimental-punk scene, but ostensibly mixed-in is a healthy dose of the French school of Avant Rock: Tres Fou (quite insane), mostly fast, hard-hitting & w/ its own intense trademarks: baritone guitar, bass, drums & vocals, all between 2 people. This is wild, vivacious & crazy stuff, idiosyncratic to the core & quite energetic.
ReR-002
CD
$18.00

Victory At Sea
All Your Things Are Gone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
GernBlandsten-075
LP
$10.00

Victory At Sea
All Your Things Are Gone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 20TH)
PS, US Sixth soul-searing album from Boston's dark, female-fronted emotional rock band. Mona Elliot's deep, bluesy rasp strains to its breaking point while the band sculpts songs from the raw viscera of heartbreak, despair & even rage. "Full of crashing guitars that grab hold of your heart & never let go... (Elliot) commands your attention from the minute she opens her mouth." -Venus
GernBlandsten-075
CD
$13.00

Washington
A New Order Rising (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7TH)
PS, GERMANY Tromso, Norway trio Washington blend elements of Radiohead and Neil Young, Will Oldham and Palace, Tim & Jeff Buckley and Mercury Rev... Epic, romantic, melancholy widescreen pop, largely acoustic, verging on a surreal Norwegian country and western. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED on the back of the two tracks he's heard so far, Jim can't wait to hear the full album. Glitterhouse's version includes two bonus tracks. Check out other Glitterhouse gear we're making available. LOGO MAGAZINE REVIEW: "Norway's Washington have it in them to drag that spotlight back though; not so much because what they're creating is particularly new or different, more because what they're creating is ineffably beautiful. Much like the work of their fellow countryman Thomas Hansen, aka St. Thomas, this is Norwegian Appalachia, the sound of snow falling on forests, the sound of hearts breaking in morning mist. Imagine if Neil Young had been born a baritone; imagine no longer."
Glitterhouse-637
CD
$13.50

Weepies
Say I Am You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US Pop duo's debut album has the taste of a classic pop album w/ sunny hook-laden tuens, lush meditations & dark charmers. A breath of fresh air for fans of melodic songwriting.
Nettwerk
CD
$16.50

Werren, Phillip
Electronic Music 1968-1971 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US Brand new reissue of an impossible to find early Canadian electronic 4 Lp box. Only 100 copies where ever pressed of his early electronic work. Created for the most part at the height of the late 60's at Simon Fraser University. This album is a nugget of Canadian Psychedelic Avant-Garde history, up there with the early works of Bill Bissett, The Nihilist Spasm Band, & Intersystems. Also in line with early America works by Robert Ashley, Tod Dockstader,& Gordon Mumma. More currently, this would site nicely with a oddball release by Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards or Excepter.
CastExoticArchives-003
DCD
$19.00

White Birch
Come Up For Air (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 7THY)
PS, GERMANY
Glitterhouse
CD
$13.50

Whitman, Keith Fullerton
Lisbon (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 14TH)
PS, US This new EP ia a document of his live shows are an extensive performance schedule in 2005. As he explains," This recording, captures to hard disk on stage at Galeria Ze Dos Bois on Oct. 4th, is... a single lilting piece of static sine-tone harmonics, squared off electric guitar haze, clangorous room-tone eruptions, & high end synth freakouts..."
Kranky-092
CD5
$10.00

Whysall Lane
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 14TH)
PS, US Debut release from new band featuring Richard Baluyut of VERSUS & Adam Pfahler of JAWBREAKER. Indie rock for people who hate indie rock, now in full band setting.
Blackball-006
CD
$14.50

Witch
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeePee-065
LP
$15.50

Witch
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 7TH)
PS, US J Mascis, DINOSAUR JR, & members of avant-folk outfit FEATHERS. Mighty sonic tumult that harkens back to classic heavy metal sound of early 70s outfits while still sounding modern in it's assault w/o falling into the ubiquitous Stoner Rocker pigeonhole.
TeePee-065
CD
$15.50

Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice
Voice- Gipsy Freedom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US This is the sound of them combining their sound more fluently than ever before. Compensating for the relative dearth of wooden instruments this time around is guest star DANIEL CARTER. This is both their most confounding & rewarding release. You may hear faint echos of Albert Ayler on one track, Iommi-derived riffage on the next, torch songs that sound torn straight from a Gershwin songbook on the next & Can style epic grooves on the next. The sound of a band breaking out of the box & using the discarded shapes to construct strange new universes.
5RueChristine-53
CD
$14.50

Wooden Wand & Vanishing Voice
Voice- Gipsy Freedom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
5RueChristine-53
DLP
$14.50

Young And Sexy
Panic When You Find It (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 21ST)
PS, CA On February 14, 2006, where will you be? Or rather, who will you be with? If the answer is "`as always, I will be alone in my own remorse", perk up, sweet pea. You finally have a date. This Valentine's Day, Mint Records releases the perfect pop companion piece for the darkest, loneliest days of winter: the new album from Vancouver's Young and Sexy. The third full length from Young and Sexy is the latest chronicle of the relationship between lead singers Paul "Make Out King" Pittman, one of Canada's best young songwriters, and Lucy Brain, a blonde vision with a lovely British lilt. The effortless harmonies, duets and musical foreplay the two exchange throughout Young and Sexy's recorded work could only come from former lovers. That they continue to expand on their elegant melancholia on Panic When You Find It ears after the embers of their romance turned to ash, is a testament to their honed talent. Produced by the indie-rock star-making team at JC/DC Studios (New Pornographers, Destroyer, Tegan and Sara), Young and Sexy have handcrafted ten clear and vibrant love songs showing a band at ease; comfortable in their own skin, their lot in life. And so lonely office worker, this one is for you. It's time to punch out and make your way home through the grey city. Unlock the door and pour yourself a glass of red wine. Spin "The Curious Organ" (track 2), "Your Enemy's Asleep" (track 1), "Conventional Lullabies" (track 7). Have sex with something Young and Sexy, and Panic When You Find It. Happy Valentine's Day from Mint Records. Watch for Young and Sexy performing this March at SxSW and across Canada in April. RIYL: Belle& Sebastian, Big Star, Nick Lowe, New Pornographers.
Mint-090
CD
$14.25

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Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

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Adams, Ryan ‘29’ CD $14.75
Alejandra & Aeron ‘Porto: Folklore Vol. II’ CD $16.00
American Analog Set ‘Late One Sunday & The Following Morning’ CD5 $8.50
Amplifier ‘#51’ ZINE $4.00
Banhart, Devendra ‘Heard Somebody Say’ CD5 $4.00
Banhart, Devendra ‘Heard Somebody Say’ 45 $4.00
Bell Orchestre ‘Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light’ CD $15.00
Ben Folds ‘Ben Folds and Waso Live in Perth’ DVD $14.50
Big Huge ‘Woven Page Of Silver Light’ CD $14.50
Black, The ‘Tanglewood’ CD $10.25
Bonnie "Prince" Billy ‘Summer in the Southeast’ DLP $15.25
Bound Stems ‘The Logic of Building’ CD $8.25
Calla ‘It Dawned On Me’ CD5 $4.00
Calla ‘It Dawned On Me’ 45 $4.00
Campbell, Isobell/Mark Lanegan ‘Ramblin' Man’ CD5 $6.00
Celebration ‘Diamonds’ 45 $4.00
Charley Horse ‘Unholy Roller’ CD $14.00
Cobra Killer & Kapajkos ‘Das Mandolinenorchester’ LP $16.00
Cobra Killer & Kapajkos ‘Das Mandolinenorchester’ CD $16.00
Conrad, Tony w/ Faust ‘Outside the Dream Syndicate ALIVE’ CD $14.25
Cosmic Voodoo ‘Vertigo’ CD $14.00
Creosote ‘Blacksmoke’ CD $13.75
Dalachinsky, Steve & Matthew Shipp ‘Phenomena of Interference’ CD $14.50
Darkness, The ‘One Way Ticket to Hell And Back’ CD $17.25
Davenport ‘Free Country’ CD $12.75
Directing Hand ‘Bells For Augustin Lesage’ CD $14.50
Do ‘Tokian Tokiko’ CD $16.00
Dolls ‘S/T’ CD $16.00
Dungen ‘Panda’ CD5 $7.00
Eagle/Seagull ‘S/T’ CD $11.00
Earthride ‘Vampire Circus’ CD $15.25
Electrelane ‘Rock It To The Moon’ CD $10.00
Elliott, Matt ‘Drinking Songs’ CD $17.75
Ex Models ‘Chrome Panthers’ CD $12.75
Flaming Lips ‘Oh My Gawd!!!’ LP $13.50
Franz Ferdinand ‘Live (CD/DVD)’ CD $18.25
Frost, Edith ‘It's A Game’ LP $13.75
Frost, Edith ‘It's A Game’ CD $13.75
Fursaxa ‘Amulet’ CD $12.75
George, Inara ‘All Rise’ CD $15.25
GoGoGo Airheart ‘Rats! Sing! Sing!’ CD $13.75
Gonzalez, Jose ‘Stay In The Shade EP [domestic version]’ CD5 $5.50
Grimm, Larkin ‘Harpoon’ CD $14.50
Guided By Voices ‘Electrifying Conclusion’ DVD $22.75
Guided By Voices ‘Propeller’ LP $15.50
Guitar Wolf ‘Golden Black’ CD $12.75
Harlan T. Bobo ‘Too Much Love’ CD $12.00
Harley, Bill ‘Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters and Pirates’ CD $12.75
Hicks, Bill ‘Oxford 11/11/92’ CD $18.00
Howling Hex ‘You Can't Beat Tomorrow (CD/DVD)’ CD $13.75
Interpol ‘Interpol Remix’ CD5 $5.00
Invisible Eyes ‘L