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1900s The 1900s - Cold & Kind
(PARCD106)
CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy

First full-length album from sultry psych-pop from Chicago seven-member sensations The 1900s, the follow-up to their 6-song debut Plume Delivery EP. Cold & Kind keeps one foot in the past, one in the future and another foot in your heart. If you dig: Tommy James, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Cat Power, Supremes, Roy Harper, Arcade Fire, Dr. Dog, Midlake, Leon Redbone, Bill Clinton on sax...
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Ryan Groff - People In the Midwest
(PAR-CD-105) CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
Debut solo album from local music scene hero Ryan Groff, vocalist and guitarist for Americana-Folk-Rock act Elsinore. Joyful, transcendent songstories with a spiritual vibe, some sporting a sweet '70s soft-rock feelin', others exploring ’00s experimental pop idealism...

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Doleful Lions - Song Cyclops Volume 2
(PAR-CD-104) CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
New collection of lo-fi bliss, winsome melodies, and paranormal subject matter from Doleful Lions' Jonathan Scott. 22 songs include handful of covers versions, songs by The Beach Boys, The Crystals, The Misfits, The Descendents, while Jim cannot believe that he's finally heard a Close Lobsters cover! Truly a window into Jonathan's trebly musical soul. PITCHFORK: “Doleful Lions aim to purr and meow their way onto your lap in the damned most adorable way possible.” UNCUT MAGAZINE: “Neo-psychedelic orch-pop, with chiming guitars and close vocal harmonies. The sound of dreams."

Mas Rapido!

Mas Rapido! - Pity Party
(PAR-CD-103) CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
Second album from the artists formerly known as Toothpaste 2000, veteran guitar pop trio from Seattle, and part of the Parasol family since the days when Frank and Donna were known as Cowboy & Spingirl. The sound of Mas Rapido! manifests itself like a handful of lost '60s and '70s radio-pop classics, driven by the pervasive power of rock-n-roll.

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Steve Almaas & Ali Smith - You Showed Me
(PAR-CD-102) CD Regular Price: 10.00 buy
Second album from Steve Almaas (Suicide Commandos, Beat Rodeo, solo artist) and his significant other Ali Smith (Speedball Baby). Ali Smith's musical background is steeped in punk, rockabilly and most notably, the blues stomp of Speedball Baby. Steve Almaas was in on the ground floor of punk rock in the late-70s, as a founding member of Minneapolis’ Suicide Commandos, as well as a precursor to alt-country with his band Beat Rodeo during the 80s. As with their self-titled debut (PARCD084) their shared love of American song manifests itself yet again on their second album, ‘You Showed Me’.

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Elanors - Movements
(PAR-CD-101) CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
‘‘Movements’ is the new album from Chicago’s Elanors, vocalists Noah (piano) and Adriel Harris (guitar) backed by the rhythm section of Daniel Johnson and Rodrigo Palma (both members of Judah Johnson). This, their second album, is a collection of piano-driven orchestral-pop and disarming folkrock invention. All Music Guide: "The eight electronic nocturnes here are soothing, soaring, and ultimately unsettling; mood music for the paranoid and disaffected."

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The 1900s - Plume Delivery EP
(PAR-CD-100) CD Regular Price: $7.50 buy
As old friends, lovers and ex-lovers, The 1900s harness the resulting fury to build psychedelic pop music, most notably inspired by The Zombies, Fleetwood Mac, Belle & Sebastian, Donovan, Tommy James, and Velvet Underground.

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Doleful Lions - Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum
(PAR-CD-098)
CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
The sound of dreams, and of course, nightmares, continues on Doleful Lions’ fifth album, ‘Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum’. Now paired down to a doleful duo, Chicago denizen Jonathan Scott (songs, singing) and North Carolinian Dave Jackson (antique gadgets, studio wizarding) have turned out yet another lo-fi masterpiece: beautiful, ornate songs paired with unsettling subject matter.
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Mas Rapido! - Self-Titled
(PAR-CD-097)
CD Regular Price: $10.00 buy
Debut release of jaunty jangle and implicit licks from the artists formerly known as Toothpaste 2000 (Donna Esposito, Frank Bednash, and Kirk Jamieson), beloved Seattle trio finding shelter under the Parasol umbrella since Frank & Donna's Cowboy & Spingirl days!
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Kevin Tihista - Home Demons Volume 1
(PAR-CD-096)
CD $10.00 buy
Fourteen-song collection of unreleased songs from heralded Chicago songwriter/recluse Kevin Tihista, sans his Red Terror. Features plenty of Tihista’s trademark studio-savvy orchestral-pop genius alongside intimate bedroom demos recordings. Includes a nifty cover of Dave Mason’s 1977 hit "We Just Disagree" and the best bits from the download-only Dracula collection.
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The Orange Peels - Circling The Sun
(PAR-CD-095)
CD $10.00 buy
Holed up in a Sunnyvale tract home, The Orange Peels have written the next chapter in The California Sound. If the band's first two albums, Square (Minty Fresh) and So Far (SpinArt), were the groundwork for their newest effort, the foundations were well laid. But nobody could have predicted the soaring heights and sweeping soundscapes of Circling the Sun...
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Angie Heaton - Let It Ride
(PAR-CD-094)
CD $10.00 buy
Let It Ride is the third album from Illinois singer-songwriter Angie Heaton, a former member of Corndolly, Liquorette and Tractor Kings. Angie's music is a kaleidoscope of influences, her albums lovingly assembled scrapbooks filled with torn pages from yearbooks and journals, concert tickets worn down from the washing machine, dog-eared photos of backyard parties and summer vacations. Every song Angie writes is a love letter that never got mailed, a list of hopeful New Year's resolutions, diary-personal, fragile, beautiful, and real.
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The Like Young - So Serious
(PAR-CD-093)
CD $10.00 buy
Cut to 2004. One year after the release of debut album “Art Contest,” several national tours (including an opening stint for Mates Of State), and two day jobs later, The Like Young have unleashed "So Serious." Building on the base of their debut and kicking it up ten notches, the Ziembas rip through 12 songs in 24 minutes, producing their most focused and confident group of songs yet. With Barry Phipps (Cocktails) back at the boards and some lyrical brimstone on the mic, The Like Young loses the suits and lets it all hang out. 50s-80s-00s pop-rock-punk. "The Like Young write and play the best straightforward rock `n' roll songs you've ever heard." - New City Chicago
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Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Wake Up Captain
(PAR-CD-092)
CD $10.00 buy
Stupendous third album by Chicagoan Kevin Tihista. On Wake Up Captain Kevin once again reunites with producer Ellis Clark and delivers his most stirring album to date. Balancing clever insights, extreme wit, and tender frailty into a cinematic - nearly visual - song cycle that mines themes of the paralyzing insecurity and the boundless safety found in love and life, the duality of strength and weakness, sentimentality and sarcasm are presented with honest, intimate realism, a sense of humor, and gorgeous vocals echoing myriad influences.
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Timewellspent - Timewellspent
(PAR-CD-091)
CD $10.00 buy
The debut release of timewellspent is an ambient, beautiful, shoegazey cross between the orchestral sides of The Beatles, Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach, The Zombies and Pink Floyd. Highlighted by intricate arrangements, lush strings and melody, this recording will please fans of melancholy, multi-layered chamber pop. Mixed by Thom Monahan of Pernice Brothers.
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Doug Powell - Day For Night (PAR-CD-090)
CD $10.00 buy
Ex-Swag member Doug Powell is the exiled alchemist, the Great And Powerful Oz wailing away behind his curtain on a solo workstation. Think Todd Rundgren. Think Andy Partridge.
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Toothpaste 2000 - Catch-22 (PAR-CD-089)
CD $10.00 buy
"They don't hide the fact that their main influence is classic British pop, but they've also been doing this long enough to have made it just one part of their arsenal, which runs to power pop and punk....for a three piece they make very big noise."--AllMusic Guide
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George Usher Group - Fire Garden (PAR-CD-088)
CD $10.00 buy
Third Parasol release from New York-based, guitar driven pop artist.
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The Like Young - Art Contest (PAR-CD-087)
CD $10.00buy
Debut album by duo formed by Joe and Amanda Ziemba (both formerly of WOLFIE and BUSYTOBY). Driving, pbeat, catchy pop with monstrous hooks and top-flight songcraft akin to Weezer/The Rentals, Sloan, and the poppiest Nirvana. This married duo let loose a selection of full-on retro-fitted guitar rockers: Joe slings the six-string and bass, Amanda pounds the drums, and both contribute vocals to songs which maintain an ebullient, melody-rich vibe.
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Neilson Hubbard - Sing Into Me (PAR-CD-086)
CD $10.00buy
Ahhh, beauty and atmosphere to spare from beneath the big night sky...
Neilson Hubbard examines the power of love and devotion on his third album highlighted by his pure, inimitable vocals that are as expressive and individual as any you'll ever come across. A more intimate, reflective outing for Neilson this time out, including a cover of "Jesus" by The Velvet Underground.
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Måns Wieslander - Yet (PAR-CD-085)
CD $10.00 buy
The third album and Stateside debut for Swedish songwriter Måns Wieslander, a collection of quietly intense and heartbreakingly profound popsongs draped in lush, gilded sonic tapestries. At times intimate and hushed with strummed guitars, at others cathartic with bombastic guitar heroics.
Steve Almaas & Ali Smith - S/T (PAR-CD-084)
CD $10.00 buy
Tuneful, rootsy duets from NYC sweethearts includes cover versions of dBs and Jack Logan titles. Almaas is a former member of The Suicide Commandos and Beat Rodeo. Smith is a former member of garage-rock-lounge combo Speedball Baby and is an esteemed published photographer of rock stars and prominent women ("Laws Of the Bandit Queens").
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John Cunningham - Happy-Go-Unlucky (PAR-CD-083)
CD $10.00 buy
Overcast, bittersweet, spectacularly English pastoral pop from Joe Pernice endorsed UK artist. MOJO said about Cunninghma's previous album HOMELESS HOUSE: "..sweetly melancholy collection...pitched somewhere between Robert Wyatt at his most accessibly fragile and The Beatles at their most quietly winsome."
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Doleful Lions - Out Like A Lamb (PAR-CD-082)
CD $10.00 buy
Fourth album from literate pop band about which UNCUT once enthused: "Sixties revisited by modern-day spacers. This is what The Beach Boys' 20/20 might have sounded like if you heard it under sedation..."
The Possibilities - Way Out (PAR-CD-081)
CD $10.00 buy
Occasional backing band for Jack Logan, and songwriters for the Minus 5 single "You Don't Mean It," The Possibilities create songs that move like welcome summer afternoon storms across your consciousness
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Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Judo (PAR-CD-080)
CD $10.00 buy
Back in late 2000 Parasol planned to release a double debut CD by this prolific soft pop wonder. Division One/Atlantic beat us to it and released the single album Don’t Breathe a Word which Uncut magazine voted the #19 album of 2001. When Division One closed three months later Parasol reissued Don’t Breathe a Word in the U.S. concurrent with the 12-song album, titled Judo. It’s as if we got to release that debut double CD!
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Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word (PAR-CD-079)
CD $10.00 buy
Back in late 2000 Parasol planned to release a double debut CD by this prolific soft pop wonder. Division One/Atlantic beat us to it and released the single album Don’t Breathe a Word which Uncut magazine voted the #19 album of 2001. When Division One closed three months later Parasol reissued Don’t Breathe a Word in the U.S. concurrent with the 12-song album, titled Judo. It’s as if we got to release that debut double CD!
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Doug Powell - The Lost Chord (PAR-CD-078)
CD $10.00 buy
Ex-Swag member and noted Rundgren pal, Powell follows up previous solo releases for Mercury and Not Lame with his Parasol debut, The Lost Chord.
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Toothpaste 2000 - Instant Action (PAR-CD-077)
CD $10.00 buy
Fifth (!) album from Seattle pop band, the first produced by veteran pop whiz Adam Schmitt.
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Jack & the Beanstalk - Vodka Line EP (PAR-CD-076)
CDEP $7.50 buy
Extended play release from Australia's new Swedish son, Joe Algeri.
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