Dora Flood - Dream Out Your Window (Self-Released)
CD $13.00 Listen: Entangled • Mantra
Beautifully bewildering new album from West Coast shoegazers, blending their mantric pinknoise gush and gravity with luminous pop harmonies and supremely heavy psychedelic phenomena, massive and delicate in turns. DOYW is Dora Flood's 6th album, and we've been following their fiery trajectory since their 1995 debut EP! [more detail]

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc)
CD $15.25 Listen: Senses On Fire
When a band of Mercury Rev’s caliber decides to re-invent themselves with a set of epic electronica and neo-krautrock, who's to argue? A sensual, surreal soundworld that find them motoring back to their artrock exploratory avant-garde roots while rocketing headlong into this cosmic, crystalline reinvention. CD comes with a download card for Strange Attractors, an instrumental companion album, which is also available on the DLP vinyl version. [more detail]

Dungen – 4 CD $12.25
Polysics – We Ate the Machine CD $13.25
Chairlift – Does You Inspire You CD $11.00
USA is a Monster – Space Program CD $12.50
XX Teens – Welcome to Goon Island CD $15.25
Boduf Songs – How Shadows Chase the... CD $12.25
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky [deluxe] CD+DVD $28.50
Jesus & Mary Chain – Power of Negative… 4xCD $61.00

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Peter Bjorn And John - Seaside Rock (Almost Gold)
LP+DL $22.50 Sale: $20.50 Listen: Inland Empire
Limited, vinyl-only (with download ticket, naturally) instrumental travelogue/sojourn from acclaimed Swedish trio, who explore Sweden's seashore via varied musical motif and spoken word (in various Svensk dialects). A "bonus release" falling between Writer's Block and before whatever comes next! [more detail]

Vivian Girls - Self-Titled (In The Red) CD $13.00
Listen: Tell the World • Such a Joke
Believe the hype about this crush-worthy NYC trio. A vivacious mix of classic shoegaze, naïve pop-punk, and '60s girl-group sounds with sensual reverb-drenched vocals. Comparisons to Aislers Set, Shop Assistants, Shangri-Las, Jesus & Mary Chain and Vaselines are fine and dandy, but do not do these gals justice. "Like the Ronnettes produced by Kevin Shields" gets us a little closer. [more detail]

The Del Reys - Savage Instrumental (Ric-Tone) CD $14.00
Listen: House of Sand • Deep Water • The Bells...
Trashy, instrumental-surf-garage-bigbeat-primitivism from Los Angeles trio The Del Reys, featuring Camp Burlesque mastermind Tony Marsico, Velvet Crush/Matthew Sweet drummer Ric Menck and guitarist Peter Phillips from Six Finger Satellite. Think Link Wray, Ventures, Sonics, Dick Dale, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, etc. [more detail]

Blitzen Trapper – Furr CD $13.00
High Places – Self-Titled CD $14.00
Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue CD $14.25
Serena-Maneesh – S-M Backwards DCD $21.75
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling CD+DVD $17.00
David Grubbs – Optimist Notes the Dusk CD $13.25
Brightblack Morning Light – Motion to Rejoin CD $13.25
Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month – Self-Titled CD $11.50
The Replacements – Please to Meet Me [deluxe] CD $17.75

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Unbunny - Sensory Underload: Uncertain Trks 1996-2008
(A Hidden Agenda Record) CD $10.00
Listen: Water and the Spanish Tongue • Ginger Tussle
Parasol Label Group Presents: While Jarid del Deo tours Europe and gets the next Unbunny record imaginated we're thrilled to have this truly cohesive and near-comprehensive new collection of Unbunny EPs, singles, rarities and previously unreleased recordings spanning the last dozen years, including the out-of-print Typist EP. Many tracks here appear on handy compact disc for the very first time.
Visit the Sensory Underload release page for a free mp3.

James – Hey Ma CD $14.25
Noagon – No Sun CD5 $7.00
Conifer – Crown Fire CD $13.00
Raglani – Of Sirens Born CD $12.25
Pivot – O Soundtrack My Heart CD $13.75
Asteroid #4 – These Flowers of Ours CD $14.50
Boston Spaceships – Brown Submarine CD $15.25
Arab On Radar – Sunshine for Shady People DVD $15.75
Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons – Cabin Ghosts CD5 $5.25

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Pop Will Eat Itself - Now for a Feast (Castle) CD $12.25
Listen: The Devil Inside • Monogamy
Saturday Shift: I’m still a sucker for The Poppies' early incarnation as late-80s UK "grebo" vanguard, playing smarmy, fuzzy, supremely melodic guitar-pop. Which they've applied to a slew of originals as well as covering bands as diverse as Shriekback, Hawkwind, Mighty Lemon Drops and Sigue Sigue Sputnik! Fans of J&MC, Wonderstuff and Buzzcocks will be transported; fans of the Vivian Girls will be agog at this precedent. [more detail]

Bongripper - Hate Ashbury (Self-Released) CD $9.50
Listen: Part IV
Over the span of their three available albums Chicago doom/sludge mob Bongripper conjures cosmic, instrumental, proto-stoner manifestos that span riff-laden doom, sub-sub-Sabbath subterranean riffmongering, spacey postrock jams, glassy-eyed creeper-psych, sublime ambient gravitas and outright noise/drone freefall. Heavy like a downpour of cinderblocks; epic like continental drift. [more detail]

Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane (Sub Pop)
CD $13.00 ON SALE: $12.00
Listen: Willow Tree • City of Electric Light
O Canada, you have bequeathed upon us artiste, skateboardiste and bedroom/backyard recording savant Chad VanGaalen and we couldn’t be happier. Dude gets his Neil Young on and we get goosebumps; guy finds a fresh funky beat on his Casio to exploit and we get euphoric; and we’re getting giddier with every pluck of his trusty banjo, with each cosmic synth line he amiably births. So, Neighbor to the North, thanks for Chad. And Neil. Oh, and Rush. [more detail]

18th Dye - Amorine Queen (Crunchy Frog) CD $16.25
Listen: Soft the Hard Way • Chinese Spoon
Import-only resurrection for Danish/German noise-rock trio 18th Dye, who had a couple awesome albums on Matador back in the early 90s. Now older and wiser, they continue to conjure indie-rock passions, lyrical mantras and motorik propulsion, incorporating a bit more electronica while retaining their penchant for layered guitar fuzz and sweet, sweet dissonance. I hear some Raveonettes, but with a much broader palette, a bit more baroque and orchestral. [more detail]

Growing – All the Way CD $11.50
Woven Hand – Ten Stones CD $11.50
Calexico – Carried to Dust CD $14.25
Okkervil River – The Stand Ins CD $11.50
Jesu – Why Are We Not Perfect CD5 $10.00
Portastatic – Some Small History DCD $14.00
Cornelius – Sensurround & B-Sides DVD+CD $24.50
The Clientele – That Night, A Forest Grew CD5 $8.25

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Tractor Kings - Homesick
(Spur Records) CD $10.00
Listen: Drop the Fight • Never Comin' Back
Parasol Label Group Presents: Homesick is the long-awaited third album from local space cowboys Tractor Kings, led by Illinois alt.country icon Jacob Fleischli and his assembled hombres. Echoing folk-rock, rollicking rave-ups and Cosmic Americana ballads, while a harrowing cover of Dylan's "Masters of War" connects all the dots. Eleven songs that inhabit a flickering psychedelic underworld of reverbs, delays, strings and an evangelical pedal steel. We don't call it 'rural cathedral' for nothing. Visit the Homesick release page for a free mp3.

Bird Show – Untitled CD $12.25
Giant Sand – Provisions CD $14.50
Vivian Girls – Tell the World 45 $5.25
Dreadful Yawns – Take Shape CD $10.00
TK Webb & The Visions – Ancestors CD $13.75
Dean & Britta – L’Avventura [re-issue] CD $13.75
Bubblegum Lemonade – Susan’s In the Sky CD5 $6.50

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Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies (Shout Factory)
CD $12.50 ON SALE: $11.50 Listen: Byrdgirl • Let's Love
The brand new album from esteemed popsmith Matthew Sweet is a pretty Parasol affair if you ask us, featuring Ric Menck on drums, Richard Lloyd on guitar and Under The Covers collaborator Susanna Hoffs on guest vocals. Speaking of which, do you own the Pillowcase EP? With Sunshine Lies Matthew offers up a taste of his 90s heyday: gritty garage stylings and dreamy pop orchestrations. [more detail]

The Verve – Forth CD $11.00
Tussle – Cream Cuts CD $14.50
Neu! – Neu! [re-issue] CD $15.00
Merzbow – Dolphin Sonar CD $13.25
Pop Levi – Never Never Love CD $15.25
The Week That Was – Self-Titled CD $15.25
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too CD $14.50
Rocket From the Crypt – All Systems Go 3 CD $14.00

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Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego (Mint) DCD+DVD
$21.00 Listen: Coney Island Cyclone • Car Wash Hair
Those seducers, bonged-out lovers and fine-eager seekers shall rejoice as Mercury Rev’s cosmically epic, psych-fried, 1991 debut (featuring the lysergic lyrical talents of shaggy, moaning man-mountain David Baker) is now available in reassuringly re-expanded re-issue form thanks to a long-awaited rendezvous with the original Lego My Ego bonus disc and a previously unreleased DVD. [more detail]

Neilson Hubbard - I Love Your Muscles
(Media Creature) CD $9.50 Listen: I Love Your Muscles
Finally an official, nationwide release for former Parasol recording artist (and This Living Hand and Strays Don’t Sleep dude) Neilson Hubbard’s latest solo album, the follow-up to Why Men Fail (2000) and Sing Into Me (2003). Aching melancholy pop that is as intimate and heart-rending as anything that precedes them in his canon. [more detail]

Rodriguez – Cold Fact CD $16.00
Ulrich Schnauss - Stars CD5 $6.25
Lykke Li – Youth Novels CD $13.75
31 Knots – Worried Well CD $12.50
Tindersticks - Hungry Saw CD $12.50
Caesars - Strawberry Weed CD $12.50
Stereolab – Chemical Chords CD $13.25
The Fiery Furnaces – Remember DCD $15.00
Jaguar Love – Take Me To The Sea CD $10.00
Death Vessel – Nothing Is Precious Enough CD $12.50
The Music Tapes – Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornados CD $13.25

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Quinn Scharber & The... - Being Nice Won't Save Milwaukee
(The Bus Stop Label) CD $12.00 Listen: Latest Flame
Our pals at The Bus Stop Label are on a roll… Check out their latest release, the debut from Milwaukee garage-pop combo Quinn Scharber & The… Yep, that’s right, not a typo: & The… Makes ya think, don't it? Likened to Big Star, Wilco, Guided By Voice, The Replacements, and Teenage Fanclub; hearts worn proudly on their sleeves. [more detail]

Dianogah – qhnnnl CD $15.00
Minisnap – Bounce Around CD $12.25
Jesu & Battle of Mice – Split CD $15.25
Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged 45 $4.00
Bongripper – Hate Ashbury TAPE $4.50
Zach Hill – Astrological Straits DCD $16.25
Acid Mothers Temple/Cosmic Inferno - Sapporo '08 CD $15.50

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The 1900s - Everybody's Got A Collection (Parasol) 45 $3.50
Listen: Everybody's Got A Collection
Parasol Label Group presents: Chicago psych-pop troupe The 1900s follow-up their Cold & Kind full-length and their debut EP with this brand new 7" vinyl phonograph single, featuring two non-album tracks: a slightly remixed and remastered version of the jaunty "Everybody's Got A Collection", with the dreamy, noir-ish, never-before-heard "Age of Metals" on the flip. White wax in a black jacket.