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Wavves

Wavves - Self-Titled (Woodsist) CD $11.25
Listen:
California Goth Wavves
Primordially lo-fi, So Cal fuzz-pop and acid-punk that is so incredibly wanton and wooly that it becomes otherworldly, or you become weightless, or grow fur and claws, or something! Intoxicating naivety and alarming production values cram this big round peg into a small square hole somewhere between Times New Viking, The Beach Boys, and, fook it, Flying Saucer Attack.
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  Released December 9th:
New This Week

Mark Kozelek – Finally CD $12.00
DM Stith –
Curtain Speech CD5 $3.50
Miss Lana Rebel –
All I Need CD $12.00
Cat Power –
Dark End of the Street 2x10” $14.00
Triffids –
Treeless Plain [expanded re-issue] CD $15.00
Sigur Ros -
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust DLP $20.00
Arrington De Dionyso –
I See Beyond the Black Sun CD $11.50
Pavement - Brighten The Corners... [expanded] DCD $16.50

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Headlights

Headlights - Remixes (Polyvinyl) CD $12.50
Listen:
Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple remix)
Nifty new remix album from local/global indie-pop sensations Headlights, an intriguing reconnaissance of 13 of the band's songs, sweetly and expertly remixed by folks like The Album Leaf, Aloha's TJ Lipple, Spinnerty and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, among others. Limited, hand-numbered to 1000!
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  Released December 2nd:
New This Week

Slipstream – Mantra CD $16.25
Nobunny –
Love Visions CD $11.50
Shindig! – Shingdig! Annual Number One BOOK $18.75
Loop –
Heaven’s End [expanded re-issue] DCD $18.00
Twilight Sad -
Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards… CD5 $9.00
Neil Young -
Sugar Mountain...Canterbury... 1968 CD+DVD $20.50

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FM3

FM3 - Buddha Machine 2 (FM3) CD $23.00
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Listen:
Loop 01: Mao Loop 02: Piano
The plastic box chockfulla meditative drones that fits in your shirt pocket is back, welcome version 2.0 of this cute/cool little Eno-endorsed ambient music generator! Now with nine new drones, improved sound quality, and a hands-on pitch-bend control dial, it lets you noodle around with your choice of expanded ambient pallettes. Comes in three new colors and a sturdier housing.
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  Released November 25th:
New This Week

Stone Breath – Knotwork CD $12.50
Pelle Carlberg –
The Lilac Time CD $17.50
The Black Watch –
After the Gold Room CD5 $2.25
Japanther –
Tut Tut, Now Shake Your Butt CD $11.75
Feist –
The Reminder [expanded re-issue] DCD $19.00
R.E.M. –
Murmur [expanded 2008 re-issue] DCD $28.00
Los Campesinos! –
We’re Beautiful, We’re... CD+DVD $15.25
David Byrne & Brian Eno –
Everything That Happens… CD $15.00

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Swervedriver

Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reserveation [expanded re-issue]
(Sony/Creation)
CD $16.75
Listen:
The Other Jesus Last Day On Earth
The overtly pop, fuzz-rock pinnacle from dread-locked British dervishes who took calm, cool, collected shoegaze to its illogical, visceral, monumental conclusion. Now available in a handsome digi-package, bolstered with bonus tracks, liner notes. This comes in on import, but we’re really looking forward to the Hi-Speed Soul label’s similarly expanded U.S. re-issues of Raise and Mezcal Head in early 2009.
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Jose Gonzalez

José González - Live At Park Ave: 01 March 2008
(Mute)
MCD $11.00 Listen: The Nest
Limited edition, live mini-album (9 tracks, 30 minutes) from our fave Swedish-Argentine troubadour, recorded at Park Avenue CDs last March. José and his trusty guitar and a roomful of enthralled fans. You can hear his foot tapping, keeping time. If you haven't seen him live, a intimate and spellbinding set I can assure you, then this might tide you over.
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  Released November 18th:
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Dim Dim – Whip CD $13.25
Legends –
Seconds Away CD5 $5.25
Of Montreal –
Jimmy 45+DVD $16.25
Deerhunter –
Microcastle LP+CD $11.50
Lorna –
Writing Down Things To Say CD $11.00
Activities of Dust –
New Mind CD+DVD $13.50
Apples In Stereo – Stephen, Stephen 45+DVD $16.25
Belle & Sebastian –
BBC Sessions [deluxe] DCD $15.50
Isobell Campbell+Mark Lanegan –
Sunday at Devil... CD $15.25

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Friska Viljor

Friska Viljor - Tour de Hearts (Crying Bob) CD $15.00
Listen:
Old Man Oh No
Second album from Swedish duo-turned-sextet. Manic, soulful pop that comes across immediately lovable and loveably immediate, with loads of jangling guitars, sweet harmonies and a seriously tricked-out bells-n-brass section. Think Broder Daniel meets Shout Out Louds meets Bergman Rock (bob hund) and/or Beirut, Elephant 6 phenoms, Devotchka, Bright Eyes...
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Mellow

Mellow - Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques) CD $26.00
Listen:
Perfect Colors Fantastic
Not new, but long overdue, an outright neo-psychedelic masterpiece from French electro-pop-alchemists Mellow, released in 2004, only as an import. Fans of fellow Franco-poppers like Air, Daft Punk and even Phoenix will cozy-up, but there’s more to Mellow’s dream-pysch opuses. Like plush, proggy baroque-pop complexities that recall Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, along with the nodding, narcoticized ruminations of the Spacemen 3 extended family.
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  Released November 11th:
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Vetiver - More of the Past EP CD5 $6.25
Guitar
SaltyKisses [re-issue] CD $12.50
Flaming Lips –
Christmas On Mars CD+DVD $24.50
Bubblegum Lemonade
Doubleplusgood CD $12.50
Earth –
Bees Made Honey… [deluxe vinyl] DLP $25.00
New Order
Low Life [expanded re-issue] DCD $23.00
Acid Mothers Temple –
Glorify Astrological... CD $13.25
Pitchfork 500:
Guide to the Greatest Songs… BOOK $13.00
Love Is All –
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night CD $11.50

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Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
CD $11.50
Listen: Dirty Dancing Enemy Within
Latest from our fave Swedish songstress, now in heavy rotation on the Parasol carousel. Silence Is Wild is more like Frida’s symphony-backed Songs for…Pudel than her starker debut Until Death Comes. Blending supremely intimate songwriting, rife with innuendo and insinuation, with a baroque sumptuousness courtesy Bear Quartet guitarist and producer Jari Haapalainen.
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Norma

Norma - Book of Norma (Novoton) CD $13.00
Listen:
Waste You Go, We Follow
Jim's Pick: Parlaying hypnotic, dreamrock majesty Swedish trio Norma are comparable in their epic scope, dynamics, and totally cosmic bombast to fellow Swedes Eskju Divine, Silverbullit (Citizen Bird), Lionheart Brothers, and occasionally Moonbabies. 180-proof shoegaze, invoking klassic krautrock, and classic drone-rock.
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  Released November 4th:
New This Week

Lucksmiths – First Frost CD $12.25
Danielson – Trying Hartz DCD $11.50
Low – Santa's Coming Over 45 $4.25
Wilderness – (k)no(w)here CD $11.50
Grampall Jookabox – Ropechain CD $11.50
Telescopes – Singles 1989-1991 CD $13.25
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Drippers CD $11.25
Wee Hairy Beasties – Holidays Gone Crazy CD $11.50

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Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
DCD $12.25
Listen: Agoraphobia Little Kids
New album from Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox & Co explores other-dimensional drone, but with a thumping pop heart. It's no surprise that baroque, sugar-sweet melodies, like The Beach Boys meets Grizzly Bear, abound in Deerhunter's psych-vibrancies. What is surprising is the full-length bonus album, Weird Era Cont. Win, win!
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Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland)
CD $13.00
Listen: Crystal Stilts Shattered Shine
Debut album of spectral avant-garage primitivism from NYC lofi-goth loft-foggers, the follow-up to their recent singles collection, which was totally boss. Echoing Joy Division and The Velvet Underground with a twist of Pin Group fuzz-fusion; naïve and spooky like Beat Happening meets The Jesus & Mary Chain in The Gun Club’s attic. Pop spasms! Garage odes! Moody dirges! Woozy ballads!
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  Released October 28th:
New This Week

Starflyer 59 – Dial M CD $14.00
The Dead C - Secret Earth CD $9.00
Vivian Girls – Self-Titled LP $10.50
Piano Magic - Dark Horses CD $12.25
M83 – Digital Shades Vol. 1 CD $15.25
Future Clouds & Radar – Peoria CD $15.00
Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns CD $16.25
O Death – Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin CD $13.50

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Park Hotell

Park Hotell - Free for Friends (Ultra Radio) CD $14.00
Listen:
Dead Ringers Bite My Head Off
Jim's Pick: Vivacious debut full-length (after an early single and an awesome double-EP) from Lulea's Park Hotell, truly one of Sweden’s most intriguing bands. Here they're in full-on echoing pop mode, anthemic, uptempo songs illuminated with ringing guitars and brilliant co-ed harmonies. Along the lines of The Smiths, The Weddoes and Close Lobsters (sigh); along with fellow Scandinavians The Bear Quartet, Laakso, Shout Out Louds, and Wannadies. [more detail]


  Released October 21st:
New This Week

The Dears – Missiles CD $15.25
Sea & Cake – Car Alarm CD $14.00
Parts & Labor – Receivers CD $11.50
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals CD $14.25
Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping CD $14.00
Herman Dune – Next Year In Zion CD $15.75
Dreamend – Long Forgotten Friend CD $12.50
Sebastien Grainger - …& The Mountains CD $12.50

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Hauschka

Hauschka - Ferndorf (Fat Cat) CD $11.50
Listen:
Blue Bicycle Freibad
Lush, piano-led instrumental suites balancing between minimalism, classical and orchestral post-rock; a mesmerizing ode to the idyllic mountainous environs of the artist's childhood home in rural Germany. Is this a new ripple in the legacy of esteemed artists like Steve Reich, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt? Or is it the download generation’s version of George Winston’s Autumn? Either way it’s exquisite neo-new-age music for indiedom. [more detail]


  Released October 14th:
New This Week

Alps – III CD $14.25
Plush – Fed [UK re-issue] CD $18.50
Hearts of Palm UK – For Life CD $11.00
Isis – Not In Rivers But In Drops CD5 $6.00
Ane Brun – Changing of the Seasons CD $11.00
Crooked Fingers – Forfeit/Fortune LP+DL $13.50
Windy & Carl – Songs for the Brokenhearted CD $12.25
I'm From Barcelona – Who Killed Harry Houdini CD $15.25

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Crystal Antlers - EP (Touch & Go) CD5 7.00
Listen:
Vexation
Saturday Shift: From self-released to Touch & Go in just a few weeks, this is T&G's version of San Fran freak-prog-garage-rock tribalists' debut EP. Echoing, orgasmic soul-psych epiphanies, a rapturous space-rock bong-dream slathered across six stupendous tracks. Think Stooges, Union Carbide Productions, Les Savy Fav, Comets On Fire, Wooden Shjips and A Place To Bury Strangers. [more detail]


Stephens

Mr. Stephens - With Ms. Harmon's Kindergarten Class
(Choo Choo Train)
CD $10.00
Listen:
It's Almost Time for Halloween
Parasol Label Group Presents: Our new children's music label, Choo Choo Train Records. We lead-off with former Lonely Trailer frontman Tim Stephens, who strums his acoustic guitar and leads Ms. Harmon's kindergarten class through a rollicking set of feelgood sing-a-longs and good-natured kid-centric tomfoolery. Includes guest apperances by former Trailer mate Brian Reedy on drums! [more detail]


  Released October 7th:
New This Week

Women – Self-Titled CD $11.50
El Guincho – Alegranza CD $13.25
Grails – Doomsayers Holiday CD $11.50
Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes CD $12.50
Daniel Martin Moore – Stray Age CD $12.50
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles 08 CD $13.25
Antony & The Johnsons – Another World CD5 $7.50
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life CD $13.25

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