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A
Hidden Agenda Record
She'll break your heart.
He'll never call.
A Hidden Agenda Record is forever.
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Sukilove - S/T (AHA!055)
CD $10.00 
The band's 2002 mini-album, Talking In
The Dark, was just a taste of what's to come, as the Pascal
Deweze
(1/2 of Chitlin Fooks) and Co. deliver a jawdropping
full-length debut. This is a great disc that's fills
the musical void masterfully, equally at home beside
your best Palace and Wilco albums and Promise Ring's "Wood/Water" and
most twilight Tom Waits as well as homespun Swedes
Hederos & Hellberg and Nicolai Dunger, and melody
makers Squeeze with plenty of hooks and heartfelt,
clever lyrics. |
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Vic
Conrad & the First Third - S/T (AHA!054)
CD $10.00
Reissue of stunning full-length debut by Vic Conrad & The
First Third which was originally released in 2000 by Woronzow
Records UK. Vic Conrad & The First Third hail from
Adelaide in South Australia, where they are renowned for
making exciting, melodic and decidedly strange pop music. |
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Bettie
Serveert - Log 22 (AHA!053)
CD $10.00
After a year of relative silence Bettie Serveert re-emerges
triumphantly with their 5th studio album to date,
and what a scorcher it is! Pairing the elegant and accomplished
beauty
of its predecessor Private Suit, with the energy and reckless
abandon of their classic debut Palomine, Log
22 is a veritable
sonic trip and probably their best album yet! |
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Fonda - Catching
Up To the Future (AHA!052)
CD $10.00
Co-ed vocals and a wall of guitars showcase a
shoegazer sheen buoyed by classic pop hooks. It’s
dreampop with heaps of melody like a mix of Lush, Rocketship,
and Heavenly. Alternative Press once described the band’s sound
as “Technicolor California
pop cross-bred with British indie pop, featuring a dash
of psychedelia and dreamy female vocals.” |
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Folksongs
For the Afterlife - Put Danger Back In Your
Life (AHA!051)
CD $10.00
Glorious debut by these New Yorkers! Engaging, ethereal
pop shifting between cinematic and driving with tender lyrics
and female vocals. |
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Chitlin'
Fooks - Did It Again (AHA!050)
CD $10.00
Chitlin' Fooks is Carol Van Dyk from Bettie Serveert, Pascal Deweze from Sukilove,
and friends. Chitlin' Fooks second full-length outing follows their self-titled
debut from 2001 and proves to be everything we hoped for. A tender and alluring
album of sultry Americana sung by Dutch chantuese Carol Van Dyk (Bettie Serveert)
and Belgian singer-songwriter Pascal Deweze (Sukilove). |
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Thirdimension - Protect Us From What We
Want (AHA!049)
CD $10.00
Swedish band Thirdimension creates monolithic rock
anthems and guitar-pop epics. While the band are in
the studio working on a new album, here is a domestic
issue of their incendiary 1998 album originally available
only in Sweden. |
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Ronderlin - Wave
Another Day Goodbye (AHA!048)
CD $10.00
Gentle, heartrending melancholy on the shimmering
debut by this Gothenburg, Sweden band sextet. Delicate, heartfelt
yearning wrapped in soft-focus pop like a merging of Starlet,
The Smiths, Belle And Sebastian, Trembling Blue Stars, Nick
Drake, Al Stewart, and The Lightning Seeds. |
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Scenic - The
Acid Gospel Experience (AHA!047)
CD $10.00
Desert soundscape instrumentalists return with a 73-minute ambient space-rock
epic. Features Bruce Licher and Robert Loveless from SAVAGE REPUBLIC. |
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Bikeride - Morning
Macumba (AHA!046)
CD $10.00
College radio fave BIKERIDE is back with their 4th CD of intricately arranged
indiepop. Partially written on a trip to South America, and recorded at home
in L.A., "Morning Macumba" expands the band's instrumentation and sonic
experimentation. |
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