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Released
March 25th:
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Bear Suit - OH:IO
CD $11.50
Excepter -
Debt Dept CD $14.25
Elf Power - In
A Cave CD $15.00
Under Byen - Siamesisk
CD $9.50
The Julie Mittens - Self-Titled
CD $14.25
13 Ghosts - Strangest
Colored Lights CD $15.00
Voyager One - Afterhours
In the Afterlife CD $11.50
Thee Silver Mt Zion Orch - 13
Blues For 13 Moons CD $15.25
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DeVotchKa
- A Mad &
Faithful Telling
(Anti)
CD $14.75
Listen:
Along the Way •
Transliterator
Denver act DeVotchKa’s
latest masterpiece is full of worldly and otherworldly
folk-rock majesties, cinematic serenades informed
by gypsy campfires, somber mariachi and high-lonesome
spaghetti westerns. Think Calexico meets Nicolai
Dunger meets Antony & The Johnsons meets
Gogol Bordello. [more
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Paper
- An Object
(Novoton)
CD $13.00
Listen:
Out Of It, Into It •
To
Her
Jim's Pick:
New, debut album from Swedish motorik-punk troika
featuring members of Bear Quartet, Paddington
DC and Audionom. Think early Wire meets Neu!
meets Joy Division: dark, skeletal, propulsive.
Fans of The BQ’s recent electronic efforts,
Audionom’s hypnotic avant-punk, and PDC’s
zoom-pop will be spellbound. [more
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Released
March 18th:
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She & Him – Volume
One CD $13.25
Juniper Tar – To
the Trees CD $10.00
F::ck Buttons – Street
Horrrsing CD $14.25
Destroyer – Trouble
In Dreams CD $13.25
Retribution Gospel Choir - Self-Titled
CD $11.50
Big Dipper – Supercluster:
Anthology 3CD $15.00
Mission of Burma – Signals,
Calls &... [re-issue] DCD $15.50
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Stephen
Duffy & The Lilac Time
- Runout
Groove
(Bogus Frontage)
CD $16.25
Listen:
Driving Somewhere
Highly recommended
new import-only album from esteemed UK songsmith
Stephen Duffy and his Lilac Time, featuring
brother Nic, pedal steel genius Melvin Duffy,
British folk legend Danny Thompson and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist
Claire Worrall. Fans of John Cunningham and
The Beatles’ solo albums will be chuffed.
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Black
Cab
- Surrender
EP (Interstate 40) CD5 $7.50
Listen:
Surrender 2007
New 7-track remix/live EP from Aussie electro-psych-rock
duo, featuring 2 songs from Jesus East
in manifold remix variations, along with epic
live versions of "Surrender" and "Hearts
On Fire". Black
Cab's CDs, Altamont
Diary and Jesus
East are available at a great
price.
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Madrugada
- Self-Titled
(Malabar/EMI Norway)
CD $30.00
On
Sale: $25.00
Listen:
Look Away Lucifer
Madrugada’s
impassioned blues-rock is even more charged
and heartbreaking than ever after the untimely
death of Madrugada
guitarist (and My
Midnight Creeps frontman) Robert Burås
last year. Taking the songs that Robert had
completed, and recruiting guitarists like Kid
Congo Powers (Bad Seeds, Gun Club) and Emil
Nicolaisen (Serena Maneesh) to flesh things
out, Madrugada offer this album as testament
to their lost brother. [more
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Released
March 11th:
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Why? – Alopecia
CD $15.25
Panther –
14 kt God CD $13.00
Evangelista – Hello,
Voyager CD $14.25
The LK – The
LK vs. The Snow CD $11.00
Auburn Lull – Begin
Civil Twilight CD $12.25
Howlin’ Rain – Magnificent
Friend CD $12.25
Matthew Dear – Asa
Breed: Black Edition CD $10.25
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Brent
Cash
- How
Will I Know If I'm Awake (Marina)
CD $16.25
Listen:
Digging the Fault Line
Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from
the 60s the sweeping, the multi-dimensional
orch-pop-exotica that inhabits Athens, Georgia
songsmith Brent Cash’s debut album immediately
brings to mind a few familiar names…like
June & The Exit Wounds, Kevin Tihista’s
Red Terror, and Allen Clapp’s Orange Peels.
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Fleet
Foxes
- Sun
Giant EP (Sub Pop)
CD $5.00
Listen:
Drops In the River
Chorale-baroque-pop with loads of cathedral
harmony and folksy strumming, gets a little
retro-shaggy when they start rockin’ out
but mostly a serene gorgeousness reigns supreme.
Think CSN&Y rehearsing in an missle silo;
from the Band of Horses/My Morning Jacket school
of uncommonly good reverb hymnals. [more
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Released
March 4th:
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Ladyhawk – Shots
CD $11.50
Valet – Naked
Acid CD $11.25
Bauhaus –
Go Away White CD $15.00
Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
CD $12.50
Earth – Bees
Made Honey In the Lion’s Skull
CD $14.00
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks –
Real
Emotional Trash CD $13.50
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Tuesday.
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Common
Loon
- Dinosaur
vs. Early Man (Ideal Utopia)
45 $4.50
Listen:
Dinosaur vs. Early Man
Local heroes: Blending classic
West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined
guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness,
local dream-rock duo Common Loon explodes pink-noise-pop
for Sebadoh, Space Needle, Spiritualized, and
Spacemen 3 fans. Comes
with a digital download ticket, so you can have
it both ways.
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The
Raveonettes
- Lust
Lust Lust (Vice)
CD $14.00
Listen:
Hallucinations
Harkening back to the sensually Spectorian,
Psychocandy-esque glam-garage-sleaziness
of their first two albums, Copenhagen’s
finest have resurrected "that
great love sound", and delivered what
is easily the best front-to-back album (and
best album cover) of their career; as AMG said:
"nastier, prettier and better than
ever".
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Released
February 26th:
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Beach House – Devotion
CD $14.25
Orwell –
Le Génie Humain CD $14.00
Goldfrappe – Seventh
Tree CD $16.00
The Bridal Shop – From
Seas CD $11.00
American Music Club – The
Golden Age CD $14.00
Apples In Stereo – Fun
Trick Noisemaker [re-issue] CD $14.25
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Headlights
- Some
Racing, Some Stopping (Polyvinyl)
CD $12.00
Listen:
Cherry Tulips
Local heroes: Headlights' second
album will appear on a lot of Best Of lists
this year, promise! Based around acoustic and
electric guitars, keyboards, drums, and other
instrumentation, this record combines the pop
sensibilities of previous efforts with a more
restrained approach to songcraft that results
in a clearer, concise musical vision. [more
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Released
February 19th:
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Growing– Lateral
CD5 $7.50
Mountain Goats– Heretic
Pride CD $13.25
Bob Mould- District
Line CD $15.50
Bon Iver– For
Emma, Forever Ago CD $11.50
Raveonettes– Lust
Lust Lust CD $14.00
Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams
CD $11.50
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Big
Fresh
- BFF:
Big Fresh Forever (Garden Gate)
CD $12.00
Listen:
WLUV •
Losing
Friends to War
Championed by Elephant 6 founder and Apples
In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider (who also
mastered the album) veteran Lexington KY avant-pop
combo Big Fresh are preternaturally fun! Features
members of The Apples, Ulysses, Joybombs and
Deek Hoi. Cheer-inducing indie-guitar odes,
dancefloor-friendly pop ditties and effervescing
ambient interludes; an orch-pop marvel 7 years
in the making!
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Released
February 12th:
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Carrots – Anthology
CD $13.50
Antietam – Opus
Mixtum DCD $12.00
Metric - Live
at Metropolis DVD $14.50
Robert Pollard – Superman
Was a Rocker CD $10.00
British Sea Power – Do
You Like Rock Music? CD $15.25
Wild Swans - Bringing
Home the Ashes [re-issue] CD $16.75
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Dead
Meadow
- Old
Growth (Matador)
CD $13.25
Listen:
I'm Gone •
What
Needs Must Be
From sleestak-stoner rock to Lovecraft-ian space-folk
Dead Meadow’s latest eschews the knob-that-goes-to-11
gigantism of their earlier output in favor of
meandering, melodic but still intrisincally
heavy songs. Tripsy, worldly psych-rock and
frondy folkloric pop. [more
detail]
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Bonnie
Prince Billy
- Wilding
in the West (P-Vine/Spunk)
CD $16.25
New live album from Thee Bonnie Prince, recorded
in Cali in 2007 and featuring Billy's band,
his bro Paul and Dawn McCarthy. The album was
recorded by Paul and features three new
songs co-written with Neil Michael Hagerty.
Please note: We will be interchanging the Australian
and Japanese versions of this release to fill
your orders. [more
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Released
February 5th:
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Nada Surf – Lucky
CD $13.00
Bob Mould – District
Line CD $15.50
Hot Chip – Made
in the Dark CD $15.25
Sons & Daughters – This
Gift CD $13.00
Kelly Stoltz – Circular
Sounds CD $13.00
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Jesse
James
OST CD $15.25
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Xiu
Xiu
- Women
As Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
CD $13.00
Listen:
I
Do What I Want, When I Want
The
latest encapsulation of Xiu Xiu’s prescription-only
art-pop alternately strains, soothes and stimulates
vulnerable nerve clusters (ear, throat, heart,
groin, etc). Women As Lovers is to
be taken aurally. Depending on your dosage this
therapy may evoke euphoria, arousal, and heartache.
Serious side-effects can include fugue, consternation,
and rending of clothing. Your results may vary.
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Helio
Sequence
- Keep
Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
CD $12.00
Listen:
Keep Your Eyes Ahead •
Lately
Sweet, supple, otherworldly pop from Portland
duo Brandon and Benjamin. This time out it’s
a bit more folksy, but not straying to far from
their trademark gushing guitar geysers and saturated
synths, martial rhythms and alternately looming
and zooming grooves. Beyond earnest vocals really
set the tone. [more
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Released
January 29th:
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Ida – Lover’s
Prayers CD $11.50
The Bell – Make
Some Quiet CD $13.75
Radar Brothers – Auditorium
CD $13.00
Vampire Weekend – Self-Titled
CD $12.50
Dengue Fever – Venus
On Earth CD $16.25
Chris Walla – Field
Manual [deluxe] CD $13.50
Stone Breath – A
Silver Thread to Weave… DCD $15.25
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Tuesday.
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Biirdie
- Catherine
Avenue
(Love Minus Zero) CD $11.00
Listen:
L.A.
Is Mars
• Him
•
Estelle
Lovable
Los Angelino trio do right by their climate,
playing to their strengths of "sunny"
and "warm" and "blue skies"
like nobody's business. Well, except for the
Elephant 6 Collective, who Biirdie gets compared
to alot. There's also a loamy, leafy 1970s Laurel
Canyon reverberation, when their indie-pop-metro
goes all cosmic-country-retro; a melancholy
trip. [more
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Cameron
McGill & What Army
- Hold
On Beauty
(Post-Important)
CD $10.00
Listen:
She's
A Killer •
Stranger's
Art
Local
hero and current Chicagoan Cameron McGill’s
third album finds his trademark folksy songcraft
gone all orchestral and impressionistic, soulful
guitar-pop and rock songs fleshed out with a
full band and laced with paisley psychedelia.
Comparisons include Bowie and two generations
of Buckleys, Wilco and Ed Harcourt. His band
What Army features Noah Harris of Elanors and
a former member of The 1900s, among others.
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detail]
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