New
Releases
Alaska In Winter
Dance Party in the Balkans
PS, US Art student Brandon Bethancourt takes much of his influence
from all his early years of growing up in the (American) South West,
immersed in the musical low-rider culture of Sante Fe, New Mexico,
as well as a slight Arabian influence on the part of his parents &
their Byzantine church music. He has recently toured the US &
Canada w/ Beirut.
MilanRecords
CD
$14.50
Ambarchi, Oren
In the Pendulum's Embrace
PS, US NOW ON VINYL!!! He continues his otherworldly investigations
w/ a kind of dark twin to his landmark "Grapes From The Estate".
Despite the use of glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, percussion
& guitars, it's startling that the world created is still unmistakably
his own & that there is such a cohesion of vision throughout the
3 lengthy pieces.
SouthernLord
LP
$16.75
Am-Boy
Clayton's Hideout
PS, US Last copies. Forrest Wolf returns with his sophomore effort,
a 10 track nugget of kaleidoscopic melodies. Perpetuating his trademark
"Walt Disney World on acid" brand of nostalgic electronics,
this particular journey is a limited vinyl-only affair. The synths
have sheen, the reverb is whale-like at times, and the rhythms are
programmed simply and effortlessly to lock down the pace. Am-Boy maps
out a gauzy route through his own daydream nation, inviting you to
get lost for 35 minutes and ease away from reality. Very spliff friendly.
Not a departure, but an upgrade from his debut, Floridian, this Long
Player proves the songs to be better and frankly, more psychedelic.
The moods vacillate between the up tempo chime of opener "Clayton's
Hideout" to the slack-keyed wooziness of "I am boy."
"Ready to Go Home" and "Glass Wails" represent
two of the best tracks Am-boy has given us with their clipclop rhythms,
warm bass lines and hallucinatory toppings. The 3 tracks closing out
side two are an ambient postcard from the depths of wonderment, awaiting
the perfect science fiction images to accompany the walk home. Warm,
rich and a bit twisted, Clayton's Hideout is a charming addition to
the growing Wobblyhead catalog.
WobblyHead-014
LP
$9.75
Apollo Sunshine
S/T (Re-Issue/Bonus Tracks)
PS, US A tightly controlled chaos of pedal steel, guitar, bass, double
necked guitar/bass combo, 2 hand-taped-together keyboards/samplers,
percussion, drums & whatever happens to be lying around. They
leave audiences smiling, screaming, breathlesss & unable to hold
still. Kinks meet Rockabilly guitar sounds, they are true musicians
& an American rock n roll band.
OneLittleIndian
CD
$14.75
Apples In Stereo
Electronic Projects for Musicians (ON SALE)
PS, US Fresh off the release of the critically acclaimed New Magnetic
Wonder and one of the most productive years of their career (including
recording a remix for Yoko Ono and tours of Europe and Taiwan), The
Apples in stereo are releasing the long-awaited compilation Electronic
Projects for Musicians through Simian Records/Yep Roc Records/ Elephant
6. Named after an electronics how-to manual, the album can be seen
as the band s follow-up to their 1996 compilation Science Faire. The
collection spans 10+ years and includes music from b-sides and rarities
recorded between 1995 and 2007. It also features three previously
unreleased tracks: "Stephen Stephen", written for and originally
performed on Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report; ''The Apples in
stereo Theme Song',' recorded for the band's website; and the highly
anticipated ''Dreams',' a previously unfinished track from 1997's
Tone Soul Evolution.
YepRoc
CD
$13.75
Apples In Stereo
Electronic Projects for Musicians (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
YepRoc
LP
$14.50
B-52s
Funplex [limited LP+CD]
PS, US VINYL VERSION comes with a CD too. Very limited.
Astralwerks
LP/CD
$20.50
B-52s
Funplex
PS, US New album, appropriately titled. Longtime B-52s fan Angie has
wagered that someone will buy a copy of this from us...will it be
you?
Astralwerks
CD
$18.75
Baby Shakes
Tell Me Now b/w Come On Babe, Baby It's You
PS, US
Rob'sHouse
10
$12.00
Bearsuit
OH:IO
PS, US Fresh out of hiding, six piece Bearsuit have a whole heap of
brand-spanking-new shonky pop songs replete with glitter, knives,smiles,
shouts and catchy choruses to make you feel happy sad and slightly
scared at the same time. Subjects include terrible bloodthirsty gangs
of tiny children, getting jiggy with dinosaurs, fist-fighting your
younger self, signing up for intergalactic warfare, finding love,
the colonization of the solar system, the search for tangible proof
of a 'soul', and a dirty old crow: you know: the usual shit. Already
championed by the likes of Steve Lamacq, Huw Stevens, Phill Jupitus,
XFM, the NME, Artrocker and Plan B. With a live show including flute,
guitars, keyboards, samples, cornet, singing, bells, accordion, theremin,
drums, oh and a keytar plus a variety of outlandish stage gear - blood
soaked prom dresses,marching bands, 'nurses of death' outfits, spacemen
and silver bear-botwear to name but a few - Bearsuit are certainly
a band to catch live! here's some nice review quotes what people have
said. '...fun, fresh and exciting listen...shout their wonder from
the rooftops' --NME.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-098
CD
$11.50
Beatundercontrol
Cosmic Repackage
PS, UK Since bursting into the world in the late 70s as a punk-driven
bass evangelist, Sweden's Ulf "Rockis" Ivarrson has since
been on a relentless voyage of musical discovery while paying his
dues to pay the rent. Through early 80s bands like The Quiet, playing
the blues with the Eivon Boogie Band, backing up Swedish guitar hero
Clas Yngstrom in his group Sky High or a host of sessions, Ulf nurtured
a growing desire to uncork an inner vision which sounded nothing like
any of these lucratively-popular positions. After a stint with world
music-techno marauders Hedningama, where he pioneered a new instrument
called the bass mandora, Ulf took the plunge in the late '90s and
started Beatundercontrol. Conventional song structures went out the
window as he explored his fixations with the mighty dub, noise and
experimental music that knew no boundaries, emerging with widely acclaimed
first album The Introduction in 2003. 'Instead of writing banal three-minute
songs with mindless expressions and meaning, I rather try to challenge
myself through textures, noises and basslines,' he explains. This
philosophy is explored with often stunning results on Ulf's second
Beatundercontrol album, Cosmic Repackage, a colossal aural menagerie
of space-jazz brass themes and solo flights, subterranean pulses and
darkhued banks of strings which dart between European avant textures
to late 60s hypno-drone alchemists the Third Ear Band. It's a heady
brew, ranging from the nocturnal back alley jazz of "Neighbourterror
Blues" to the intense freeform scattershots and coruscating atmospherics
of "Departure". If dub's shadow looms over the album, notably
on tracks like the bottomless fizz-bombs of Interruption, it steps
out and flashes its glorious sonic stiffie on the alien skank of "Subversion
Dub", albeit lashed with dissonance and howling winds.From punk
rock to the outer limits, Ulf Ivarrson has cause to celebrate quite
a remarkable musical journey and does so with one of the year's most
intoxicatingly uncompromising aural statements.
MaliciousDamage-632
CD
$17.75
Beck
Stereopathic Soulmanure
PS, US REPRESS!
Flipside
DLP
$15.00
Black Fortress of Opium
S-T
PS, US Inspired by the lore surrounding a little town in Turkey ,
Afyonkarahisar, which translates into "Black Fortress of Opium."
Their self-titled debut album was recorded in Brooklyn, NY by Martin
Bisi (IGGY POP, SONIC YOUTH, DRESDEN DOLLS) over the course of seven
months in 2007. The 10 original tracks are often reminiscent of Middle
or Near Eastern sounds channeled through American folk instrumentation
(mandolin, banjo) as well as e-bowed electric guitars, with female
vocals that alternate between powerful and soulful to soft and mournful.
Afyonkarahisar
CD
$10.00
Black Keys, The
Attack & Release
PS, US New album! ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Evidently, their 2004 mini-masterpiece
Rubber Factory represented the crest of their brutal blues wave, as
ever since singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney
have receded from the gnarled precision of their writing and the big,
brutal blues thump, they started to float into the atmosphere with
their 2006 EP-length tribute to Junior Kimbrough, Chulahoma. Ever
since then, the Black Keys have emphasized waves of sound over either
ballast or song, something that should be evident from the choice
of Danger Mouse as the producer of Attack & Release, a seemingly
unlikely pair that found common ground in the form of Ike Turner.
Danger Mouse worked with the rock & roll renegade when he produced
the Gorillaz's Demon Days and the plan was to have the Black Keys
cut an album with Ike but Turner's death turned the project into a
full-fledged Keys album. That's the official story, anyway..."
Nonesuch
CD
$15.25
Black Keys, The
Attack & Release
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Nonesuch
DLP
$19.75
Black Twig Pickers
Hobo Handshake
PS, US This finds a slightly reshuffled lineup & a renewed emphasis
on kicking out raw, percussive takes on both traditional Appalachian
& original material. The Twigs work the fine line between the
Friday night oldtime dance party & the wellspring of grim &
evocative tragedy that runs through the tradition, delivering these
laments, travelogues, & wild whoops w/ sawing, rocking joy.
VHF
CD
$14.25
Blackshaw, James
Lost Prayers
PS, US After the success of his 2007 album "The Cloud of Unknowing,"
comes reissues of previous titles previously available only as tiny
CDR pressings. NEW YORK TIMES: "Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string
acoustic guitar, picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios:
stately, tolling ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging
on tremolo, up above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of
notes is not bustle but tranquillity."
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75
Blackshaw, James
Celeste/Sunshrine
PS, US After the success of his 2007 album "The Cloud of Unknowing,"
comes reissues of previous titles previously available only as tiny
CDR pressings. "Mr. Blackshaw plays 12-string acoustic guitar,
picking endlessly circling, intertwining arpeggios: stately, tolling
ones on the lower strings and faster ones, verging on tremolo, up
above. Yet what usually emerges from the welter of notes is not bustle
but tranquillity." -The New York Times
TompkinsSquare
CD
$14.75
Borko
Celebrating Life
PS, GERMANY VINYL VERSION!!!
Morr-080
LP
$15.00
Borko
Celebrating Life
PS, GERMANY Celebrating Life is the first full-length release from
Icelandic artist Björn Kristiansson and reflects a life in music
full of experiences. The oldest of these eight tracks are up to six
years old, and Morr label-head Thomas Morr has been their eager and
attentive listener. How does a punch in the belly sound? Kristiansson
has written a song about it called "Spoonstabber," where
you'll hear an elegiac Tetris, encapsulated by delaying beats, tumbling
samples, guitars, trumpets and a melody that goes on for an eternity.
Borko - who also works as a musician for film and theater as well
as a music teacher at a primary school in Reykjavik - expresses melancholy
and nostalgia through rhythm-machines. His songs can reach dramatic
heights with climbing melodies, as well as play up the stoicism of
repetition and modulation. His work at the laptop and mixing desk
live on stage have helped fuel his inspiration as well as childhood
prog rock LPs, Jim O'Rourke's ear and electronica's warmth.
Morr-080
CD
$15.00
Braxton, Anthony
Quartet (GTM) 2006
PS, US Four-disc box set contains four Ghost Trance compositions recorded
with Braxton playing reeds, Carl Testa on bass, Aaron Siegal on percussion
& Max Heath on piano. The box also contains a definitive essay
by Braxton on his Ghost Trance compositions.
Important-184
CD-BOX
$26.50
Bread, Love & Dreams
The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha [re-issue]
PS, UK Recorded simultaneously with their classic Amaryllis album
and released in 1970 on the Decca label, this psychedelic folk landmark
showcases the talents of Edinburgh's David McNiven and Angie Rew,
with one spellbinding track from former bandmate Carolyn Davis. Sympathetically
produced by Ray Horricks (Davy Graham, Human Beast), it's a superb
collection that ranges from the hard-rocking "Masquerade"
to the gorgeous "Butterfly Land," beautiful "Purple
Hazy Melancholy" and epic title track. Featuring support from
Danny Thompson and Terry Cox of Pentangle, it's simply essential for
all fans of British acid folk.
Sunbeam-5047
CD
$16.25
Bryars, Gavin
Hommages
PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques
du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981
and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The
album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers,
which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav
Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger
(Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah,
Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson,
as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album
is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars'
early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well
as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new
63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks
composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise,
and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features
extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all
six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc
Borgers.
LTM-2503
CD
$17.00
Camphor
Drawn to Dust
PS, US A delicately crafted & gracefully orchestrated chamber
pop opus highlighted by frontman (& notable film score composer)
Max Avery Lichtenstein's captivating voice & evocative lyrics.
It offers up a dark but catchy listening experience reminiscent in
flashes of artists like Beck, Nick Cave, Sufjan Stevens, Sparklehorse,
Brian Wilson, Calexico, Wilco & late-era Talk Talk.
FriendlyFireRecordings
CD
$12.50
Caned & Able
Smoke
PS, UK Since impressing far and wide with their Beats for Bars project
Patrick Bird and Martyn Savigar have now expanded their range of collaborators
to weird, wonderful and sometimes audacious effect. In the immediate
vicinity, there's former Specimen and Siouxsie & the Banshees
guitarist Jon Klein, drummer Chris Bell [also Specimen but a bevy
of 80s giants too] and, showing up in the course of this hallucino-genic
journey, Billie Holliday, Catatonia, Marc Bolan and even the young
John Peel, whose unmistakable and always welcome tones talk about
woodland creatures on 'Deaf Aid' amidst another calming space-shuffle
before singer Anna Jacyszyn wafts in. The concept is mash-up taken
to diverse extremes creating slow motion symphonies which plant some
familiar voices in fields of dreams where the mood is deep, dubbed
and drenched in ghosts as Billie Holliday looms in "Trav'lin'
Light" to spine-melting effect, "Soul Clapp" creates
a new hiphop hybrid, "White Space" is an orchestral treatment
of goth-glamsters Specimen and there are tracks like "Deuteronomy"
where the players stretch out after the guests have left. This is
an opiated aural delight from start to finish, by which time you might
be stroking the ceiling like a long-lost friend, satisfied that now
the world's a better place and wondering why they don't make them
like this any more.
MaliciousDamage-631
CD
$17.75
Chevron
Tuff Shite
PS, GERMANY Chevron's intricate beats and party anthems get down and
dirty with "Tuff Shite". Partly inspired by Chevron's hometown,
and partly the result of his extensive live experience all throughout
Europe, the six complex, crisp and tongue-in-cheek tracks presented
here are also a lot more than just "tuff". Upbeat and clear,
the A side displays (again, as if necessary) Chevron's talent for
complex rhythms and catchy melodies. Flip the record, and the B side
delivers the dancefloor-packing tracks, where jungle, hardcore and
breakcore collide in a tasty and incisive way. Welcome to Blackpool,
don't let the comets hit you on the way to the club.
AdNoiseam-93
12
$10.00
Citified
Meeting After
PS, US The Meeting After the Meeting is the sophomore release from
Greensboro, North Carolina-based quartet Citified. Channeling the
urgency of 80s Brit/shoegaze but with an updated sense of production
values and texture, touching on influences such as Red House Painters,
R.E.M., Echo and the Bunnymen and The Cure. Fans of the National's
"Boxer" will appreciate the extreme warmth and textures
the album exudes, engineered by Jerry Kee (SUPERCHUNK, KINGSBURY MANX)
EskimoKiss
CD
$7.75
Crow Tongue
Ghost Eye Seeker
PS, US Crow Tongue's first full length finds them summoning distant
howls from the fog of night. Fingerpicked strings & Eastern instruments
recall CT's musical heritage (the acid-folk of Stone Breath), but
here they are layered with primitive homemade instruments, circuit-bent
electronics & mantric drones. "Ghost Eye Gaze" opens
the album with a 5-part drone-raga, improvised to back a shamanic
chant, pushing from free-folk to free-noise & back again. "Seeker"
follows in 2 parts with bass dulcimer & tablas leading into an
electric swarmandal excursion. The album closes with "Candle,
Corpse, and Bell" where Crow Tongue shows their dub influence
with guimbri & tabla-machine slowly spinning through the echochamber.
Hand/Eye-034
CD
$11.75
Demon's Claws
Fucked on K b/w Always Be My Friend
PS, US One of the most dynamic combos to take the filthy route directly
to your brain, & each live perRfoermcoarndcse solidifies their
earnest ambition to stomp their furious rock'n roll death trip into
submission. Their stumbling, rambling ways have lead folks down the
darker side of americana-tinged blues-punk on more than one occasion
& this one just might be the best. 1000 pressed, black vinyl.
RobsHouse
45
$5.25
Earle, Justin Townes
Good Life
PS, US As the son of legendary singer/songwriter Steve Earle, high
expectations are the name of the game. He's shown that he's is up
to the task on The Good Life, blending elements of blues, classic
country and rock n' roll seemlessly in warm musical settings that
could easily be mistaken for classics.
Bloodshot
CD
$13.50
Electric Pop Group
Sunrise EP
PS, US Brilliant Matinée debut from popular Swedish band The
Electric Pop Group. The quartet astonished everyone late in 2006 with
a self-released debut album that came out of nowhere to make numerous
year-end lists and earn countless favorable reviews including comparisons
to legendary bands on Creation Records (Razorcuts, Primal Scream,
The Pastels, Jesus and Mary Chain) and Sarah Records (The Sea Urchins,
Another Sunny Day, Brighter, and The Field Mice). As one of many indie
record labels that took notice, Matinée made contact with them
just as they started work on new recordings last summer and this EP
is the first fruit of those sessions. Especially notable given the
band's name, this EP also marks the addition of acoustic guitars to
their repertoire. The EP kicks off with 'I Could See The Lights',
an incredible tune and one of the first new songs the band recorded
following the success of its debut album. Guitars jangle, drums pound,
keyboards chime...the song simply shimmers and will serve as a perfect
summertime anthem even in the face of less agreeable weather. It demanded
to be released as a single so here it is! In addition to the lead
track, the EP features three glorious additional songs: 'This Is The
Town' is another chiming A-side, an infectious song that features
prominent keyboards as the perfect counterpoint to three glistening
guitar parts. 'Summer's Day' is a showcase for the newly added acoustic
guitar, a fragile song that is similar to and every bit as poignant
as the classic track 'For Always' by Razorcuts. Finally, 'Come And
See Me' employs keyboards to great effect, creating a mesmerizing
and soaring hit that is an especially lovely way to end the EP for
sure. On this release, the band takes its sound-described by one esteemed
music writer as "both studiously retrospective and thoroughly
contemporary"-and expands it with added instrumentation and superb
songwriting. The result is a modern indiepop classic and another sparkling
addition to the Matinée discography.
Matinee-067
CD5
$6.50
Eleh & Sun Circle
S-T
PS, US Essential limited edition 180-gram vinyl release pressed in
an edition of 500 copies. Eleh's pure analog drones are a perfect
complement to Sun Circle's ecstatic high-volume compositions. Eleh's
track is a slight departure from the sub-sonic bass-heavy drones of
their first two records. This time around there is more emphasis on
a glistening shimmer. Sun Circle's Important debut is psychoacoustic
minimalism meets psychedelic maximalism: ecstatic high-volume drones,
long-form trance musics & peace noise performed with bowed strings,
voices, organs, percussion & world instruments.
Important
LP
$15.00
Elf Power
In A Cave (ON SALE)
PS, US New album! Elf Power's ninth album, In A Cave, blasts them
past familiar territories and lands them on exciting new terrain.
One of their most psychedelic records, it offers thirteen otherworldly
tracks of chugging Krautrock rhythms, sing-song pop, and harmonically
dense balladry. With In A Cave these seasoned indie rockers find the
perfect synthesis of their organic live performances, instinctual
ensemble playing and open-hearted experimentation.
Ryko
CD
$15.00
Elf Power
In A Cave (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Ryko
LP
$16.25
Fahey, John
Mill Pond
PS, US Originally released on vinyl only. Limited edition CD reissue
includes the first-ever collection of Fahey's paintings in the accompanying
booklet. His music has been called folk, blues, bluegrass, noise,
and even (gasp!) new age. On this EP, Fahey uses heavy reverb, electric
slide & feedback to create an eerie mood. The Mill Pond is all
over the place stylistically, so it should confuse those who try to
pigeonhole Fahey into any one category. It further proves that there
is only one category into which he fits: truly innovative guitar genius.
Important-183
CD
$12.50
Fleischmann & Tarwater
Morr Music Japan Tour EP [2005]
PS, GERMANY 2005 tour-only release, distributed in the U.S. for the
first time, with Fleischmann providing two alternative versions of
tracks and Tarwater providing three exclusive tracks. Anyone who has
heard Fleischmann's The Humbucking Coil will already know "From
To" and "Broken Monitors," but hearing them in these
new-and-improved versions is a pleasure and a privilege -- the tracks
are fleshed out with effects and distortion which makes them feel
more fun and freer than their predecessors. Tarwater also don't disappoint,
with their first offering "Cassedy" sounding like a 1950s
slow dance as realized by the BBC Radiophonic workshop -- the EP's
highlight and an incredible view of exactly what Morr Music is all
about -- alternative and unusual pop music, pure and simple.
MorrMusicTour-004
CD5
$10.75
Flower Travelin' Band
Satori [re-issue]
PS, UK The Flower Travellin' Band's first musical outing, Challenge,
was released in 1970 and was essentially a series of covers of Cream,
Hendrix, Big Brother and Jefferson Airplane material. However, Satori
appeared a year later and forever changed the way the group would
be perceived, both in Japan and in the musical world at large. Possessing
the vision to select Akira "Joe" Yamanaka as their vocalist,
the Flower Travellin' boys elevated themselves above other Japanese
bands of the time, whose efforts were largely confined to imitating
British and American bands of the era. Satori, which was released
in 1971, is a conceptual hard rock/psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's
furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart
beat of the drums and bass and Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style
which was turning him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Robert Plant
while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin.
Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged
North African six-string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band
flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this
is a real rock classic of the type they simply don't make any more.
Phoenix
CD
$15.00
Gerrard, Denny
Sinister Morning
PS, UK Denver Gerrard had his brief moment in the spotlight of stardom
in British rock as one half of the Warm Sounds, the duo that he formed
with Barry Husband in 1967. They hit number 27 on the U.K. charts
with "Birds and Bees," a trippy psychedelic pop number released
by Decca Records' Deram Records imprint... On his classic solo album
from 1970 the four members of the cult underground rock band High
Tide back him. A welcome reissue for a classic album that contains
some of the most innovative music of the era!
EsotericRecordings-2045
CD
$20.25
Giles, Giles & Fripp
The Cheerful Insanity Of...
PS, UK This great album is where it all began for the King Crimson
stalwarts. An excellent late 60's album which touches on psychedelic
pop, (often compared to early Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd) with jazz
influences and a whimsical brand of surreal humour. Fripps's guitar
is on top form on Suite No. 1 and shows the shape of things to come
when in 1969 when he and Mike Giles teamed up with Greg Lake and Ian
McDonald to form King Crimson. This remastered reissue comes with
bonus tracks and enhanced artwork and should appeal to all lovers
of eccentric late 60 s Psychedelia and fans of King Crimson.
EsotericRecordings-2049
CD
$20.25
Head of Femur
Great Plains
PS, US Head of Femur releases its third full-length, stripping down
to a more accessible five-piece. However, the group still manages
to stay true to its ambitious trademark sound, lacing together art-rock
sensibilities reflective of the Talking Heads.
Greyday
CD
$11.50
Herman Dune
I Wish That I Could See You Soon EP
PS, US Herman Dune returns w/ a brand-new percussion lineup, the vintage
sound of an actual Bourbon 'horns & brass' section, & the
vocal support of girl-group the Woo-Woos. Dark'n'droll, regret'n'whisky
sodden pop that sounds like Jonathan Richman backed by the Crystals.
RIYL Sufjan Stevens, Will Oldham, Belle & Sebastian.
Everloving
CD5
$6.25
Hipshakes
Live at Rob's House
PS, US "Summertime Wonderland b/w Sympathize With Me, Don't Leave
Me Now" First the Black Lips, then CarbonaRs eacnodr Bdseat Beat
Beat....now, The Hipshakes live at Rob's House. 500 pressed, black
vinyl.
RobsHouse
45
$5.25
Hitchcock, Robyn
Shadow Cat
PS, UK Robyn Hitchcock has taken time out from working with The Venus
3 (which features various members of REM) and John Paul Jones (who
has been busy with his former band Led Zeppelin lately...) to compile
an exclusive album, Shadow Cat, for London's premier oddball label
Sartorial Records. This collection of previously unreleased material
from the Hitchcock vaults dates from 1993-99, providing the missing
link between The Egyptians on A&M and the Warner Bros years. Shadow
Cat itself features Moris Tepper, mainstay of Captain Beefheart's
Magic Band, on lead acoustic guitar, and all tracks are Hitchcock
originals, but for the Hendrix cover "The Wind Cries Mary"
(on which Sartorial boss Terry Edwards plays Hammond organ). Aside
from Edwards making a further appearance on "Never Have To See
You Again", Robyn performs all instruments & vocals. From
the concise opening cut, For Debbie Reynolds, to the concluding title
track, the quality of the songwriting & performance shines through
- "out-take" albums are all too often cobbled together from
unreleased (unrealizable!) material. Not so here. These 14 tracks
were whittled down from around 30 contenders, carefully edited &
remastered to create a cohesive album - even to the point of sequencing
the songs as two sides, despite it not being manufactured on vinyl.
Essential for those who have followed Robyn from his early days in
The Soft Boys (with Kimberley Rew, Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe)
to his work with film director Jonathan Demme and beyond, this release
also serves as a fine introduction to the work of one of Englands
most treasured songwriters. Enjoy! Track listing SIDE 1: 1 For Debbie
Reynolds, 2 Never Have To See You Again, 3 Love Affair, 4 The Wind
Cries Mary, 5 High On Yourself, 6 Because You're Over, 7 The Cat Walks
Her Kind Of Line. SIDE 2: 8 Statue With A Walkman, 9 The Green Boy,
10 Real Dot, 11 Nothing But Time, 12 Beautiful Shock, 13 Baby-Doll,
14 Shadow Cat.
Satorial-030
CD
$17.75
Indian
Slights and Abuse/The Sycophant
PS, US 2nd full length from the group recently hailed as "a five-alarm
hellstorm...deeply, irresistibly evil"-Chicago Reader. This
compiles two brand new limited edition vinyl LPs on one CD. Imagine
His Hero Is Gone's epic crust, Shellac's obsessive-compulsive rhythmic
battery, & Sunn O)))'s glacial drone, all delivered w/ arabid
punk rock approach. Victorious highs & bottomless lows--from anthemic,
white-knuckle call-to-arms to ampworshipping pits of icy doom.
SeventhRule
CD
$15.50
Indricothere
S-T (LP/CD)
PS, US This animal was the World's largest pre-historic herbivorous
mammal. This man is Colin Marston, the World's foremost purveyor of
gargantuan shredding. As he surpasses his previous works in BEHOLD
THE ARCTOPUS & DYSRHYTHMIA w/ an instrumental tech-death metal
creation that quakes the very ground it treads upon. Incl. CD!
GileadMedia
LP
$15.75
Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Honey's Dead [re-issue, remaster]
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Automatic [re-issue, remaster]
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Darklands [re-issue, remaster]
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Psychocandy [re-issue, remaster]
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Jesus And Mary Chain, The
Stoned & Dethroned [re-issue, remaster]
PS, US
Rhino
CD
$12.25
Keef Hartley Band
Overdog
PS, UK This reissue of Overdog features the bonus single edits of
Roundabout, one of their best loved and most powerful works. Along
with a reissue of The Time is Near, this release sees the beginning
of a reissue campaign by Esoteric Recordings of the classic Keef Hartley
Band albums.
EsotericRecordings-2048
CD
$20.25
Keef Hartley Band
The Time Is Near...
PS, UK Considered by many to be one of the finest exponents of powerful
Jazz Rock, Keef's earliest engagement was as replacement for Ringo
Starr in Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He was also Mick Fleetwood
s replacement in John Mayalls Blues-Breakers and featured on many
recordings by the band. In 1968 he formed his own group recruiting
the highly regarded Miller Anderson on guitar and vocals. Although
they performed at Woodstock the band was not filmed. Latterly Hartley
became involved with group Vinegar Joe and with singer / songwriter
Michael Chapman.
EsotericRecordings-2047
CD
$20.25
Khan
Space Shanty
PS, UK Best known as the album that first brought the guitar playing
talents of guitarist Steve Hillage to public prominence, Khans sole
album is a splendid example of a fusion of Canterbury flavoured rock
combined with jazz and space-rock influences. Originally released
in 1972 by Deram records, it can now clearly be seen as the blue print
for Hillage s later solo success. Hillage has acknowledged that Space
Shanty was the dry run for his classic Fish Rising album.
EsotericRecordings-2046
CD
$20.25
Kid Dakota
A Winners Shadow
PS, US Layer on layer of guitar and percussion driven melodies. For
fans of Okervil River, Rio Kiley, Spoon, Nada Surf.
Graveface
CD
$10.25
Lemonheads
It's a Shame About Ray [Collector's Edition]
PS, US Expansive re-issue.
Rhino/WEA
CD/DVD
$25.00
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin
Missa Luba
PS, UK Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as Absolutely, one of the great films,
Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational
film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmosphere of the sixties;
and four decades on has lost none of it's power to astonish and provoke.
Malcolm McDowell (of whom IF... made a star), suggested the bewitching,
other-worldly music of Sanctus from the Missa Luba, a version of the
Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs, which establishes
the film s very particular atmosphere. IF... captured the public's
imagination beyond anyone's expectation and the memorable Sanctus
subsequently became a chart hit (I couldn¹t believe it recalled
McDowell). Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, a choir with percussion
section consisting of about 45 boys from 9 to 14 years old, and 15
teachers were formed by Father Haazen. The Missa Luba is pure Congolese.
It is completely void of any modern, western musical influences. None
of it is written. Certain rhythms, harmonies and embellishments are
spontaneous improvisations. This edition, comprising the mass and
native songs of the Congo, is the first complete restoration of the
original album first released in 1963.
El-136
CD
$15.50
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin
Missa Luba
PS, UK Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as Absolutely, one of the great films,
Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational
film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmosphere of the sixties;
and four decades on has lost none of it's power to astonish and provoke.
Malcolm McDowell (of whom IF... made a star), suggested the bewitching,
other-worldly music of Sanctus from the Missa Luba, a version of the
Latin Mass based on traditional Congolese songs, which establishes
the film s very particular atmosphere. IF... captured the public's
imagination beyond anyone's expectation and the memorable Sanctus
subsequently became a chart hit (I couldn¹t believe it recalled
McDowell). Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin, a choir, with percussion
section, consisting of about 45 boys from 9 to 14 years old, and 15
teachers were formed by Father Haazen. The Missa Luba is pure Congolese.
It is completely void of any modern, western musical influences. None
of it is written. Certain rhythms, harmonies and embellishments are
spontaneous improvisations. This edition, comprising the mass and
native songs of the Congo, is the first complete restoration of the
original album first released in 1963.
El-136
CD
$15.50
Lionheart Brothers, The
Dizzy Kiss
PS, SWEDEN New album from Norwegian dream rockers, finally at a decent
price. More later...
NONS
CD
$15.00
Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster
PS, CANADA Cardiff-based 7-piece. Recorded in Canada & produced
by David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) the album is a frenetic mix
of Indie Pop inspired by the likes of Architecture In Helsinki, Pavement
& Bis. It's been a hugely eventful year for the band: a right-of-passage,
roller coaster, massively exciting kind of year, that's seen them
make an impressive dent globally, experience an avalanche of 'firsts',
& subsequently proved their mettle as a Pop collective of huge
potential. PITCHFORK rating 8.4!
Arts&Crafts
CD
$15.25
Los Campesinos!
Hold On Now, Youngster
PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION! LP & 10".
Arts&Crafts
DLP
$21.75
Mae Shi
HLLLYH
PS, US Really crazy prog rock from the LA band that doesn't stop touring.
Graveface
CD
$12.50
Maquiladora
St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited
PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen,
Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black
Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music
from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and
oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant.
Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works
on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited.
A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002,
including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful
invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING
CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day
// 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy
Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11.
Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live
at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF
HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet
Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream
Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful
To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So
Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F.
Acuarela-1083
DCD
$16.00
Mellow Candle
Swaddling Songs
PS, UK Featuring girl singers Clodagh Simonds and Alison Williams,
Mellow Candle never achieved commercial success they deserved spawning
a legendary psychedelic folk-rock album akin to Fairport Convention
or Fotheringay. Touring to support Thin Lizzy (Simonds played on Lizzy
s album Shades of a Blue Orphanage ) and Horslips, the band had a
short lived existence. Clodagh Simonds later went on to play again
with Mike Oldfield and Jade Warrior and this release serves as evidence
of the talents of both Simonds and the band who deserved far more
commercial success than they attained. Now rightly regarded as a classic
of the genre, Esoteric Recordings are proud to add Swaddling Songs
to their catalogue. Featuring girl singers Clodagh Simonds and Alison
Williams, Mellow Candle never achieved commercial success they deserved
spawning a legendary psychedelic folk-rock album akin to Fairport
Convention or Fotheringay. Touring to support Thin Lizzy (Simonds
played on Lizzy s album Shades of a Blue Orphanage) and Horslips,
the band had a short-lived existence. Now rightly regarded as a classic
of the genre, Esoteric Recordings are proud to add Swaddling Songs
to their catalogue.
EsotericRecordings-2044
CD
$20.25
Meloy, Colin
Sings Live! (DELAYED)
PS, US Double LP in a gatefold sleeve!Features a bonus track that's
not on the CD. Release documents The Decemberists leader's 2006 solo
trek across the US.
JealousButcher
DLP
$21.00
Moby
Last Night
PS, US The album was recorded in his home studio in Manhattan, NY
& feat. a number of guest vocalists, incl. MC Grandmaster Caz,
one of the writers of "Rapper's Delight," Sylvia from the
band Kudu, British MC Aynzli & the Nigerian 419 Squad. Moby says:
"It's a lot more dance-oriented & electronic than my last
few albums, probably as a result of all of the DJ'ing I've been doing
lately."
Mute
CD
$15.25
Mojo
#174 (May 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK FREE CD! THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA. Mining the roots of The
Specials oeuvre with 15 punk & ska gems. Cuts from Bob Marley
& The Wailers, The Ruts, Toots and The Maytals and Desmond Dekker
are all included!
THE
SPECIALS: The original gangsters delve back into their turbulent past
and recall how seven lads from Coventry managed to seize the moment
and change the musical map of Britain forever.
STEVE
EARLE: He was given his first shot of heroin at 13 and witnessed Jimi
Hendrix in full flight. In this month's MOJO Interview we join the
Texan rebel rouser on a journey to the brink and back.
THE
BLACK KEYS: As the planet's most formidable blues duo gear up to release
their fifth album, we head back to the snowny streets of Akron, Ohio
to find out how Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney went about making
their most experimental record to date.
BOB
DYLAN UNSEEN: Celebrated rock photographer Barry Feinstein spent 1966
on the road with the world's most troubled superstar. In an exclusive
feature, MOJO enters the archives and discovers some of the most intimate
images of Dylan in the eye of the hurricane.
PORTISHEAD:
On the eve of the release of their new album, Third, the Bristolian
three-piece break their silence and reveal exactly what they've been
up to for the last decade.
JETHRO
TULL: They're kooky, they're spooky, they're altogether ooky. The
venerable Ian Anderson takes us back into the wonderful world of the
psychedelic agrarian progsters!
NEIL
YOUNG: MOJO's Martyn Palmer meets the politically-charged legend in
Berlin to discuss the anti-Bush polemic behind his new Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young movie.
REVIEWED!
Alex Turner's new side-project unveiled / The La's go deluxe / Portishead
are back / Johnny Dowd's masterpiece / Free's Fire & Water reissued
/ Chuck Berry / David Axelrod / Montreux Jazz / The Gun Club / Neil
Young startles and much, much more.
PLUS!
Dennis Wilson's lost opus uncovered / The Hold Steady hit the MOJO
stage at The Great Escape / The Ruby Suns and Lizz Wright rise / My
Morning Jacket in the studio / Music From Mathematics explained /
Billy Bragg's Self Portrait / Patti Smith reveals all / On the road
with Black Mountain.
AND
FINALLY! The MOJO Honours List 2008 looms!
ZINE
$10.00
Montys Loco
Farewell Mr. Happy
PS, SWEDEN With their last album, Man Overboard, still in regular
rotation we welcome with open arms these Swedish electro-pop mavens'
new recordings. Farewell Mr. Happy is yet another beautiful and bizarre
collection of uncompromising looped and sampled dark-dreamery, comparable
to The Knife and Bjork, with a sinister Phil Spector vibe. Their sonic
habitat remains a sleepy, hyper-sensual sonic otherworld, but the
edges here aren't softened at all, in fact the opposite is true. The
new songs are dangerously serrated and sprinkled with oldchool industrial
flourishes, but of course it's Anja Bigrell and Marie Eklund's woozy
and winsome vocal aerobatics that stir the spirits and tug purposefully
at the heartstrings. Highly recommended.
NONS
CD
$15.00
Moore, Thurston
Sensitive/Lethal
PS, US
NoFun
CD
$15.25
Morrison, Van
Keep It Simple
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "This is lived-in, soulful music, the
kind that can only be made after years of playing the classics, and
if that doesn't quite make for a compelling album, it does make for
a comforting one. It's as easy to slip into this album as it is a
warm bath, as Van's cantankerous rumblings only surface (quite slyly)
on the closing "Behind the Ritual," where he scats "blah
blah blah" on the corner, suggesting that whatever he's singing
doesn't really matter -- and, in a way, he may be right, as the lyrics,
the songs even, don't matter as much as the overall sound on Keep
It Simple, which is as pure a groove album as he's ever made. There
are no surprises, but when you do something this well, there doesn't
need to be."
LostHighway
CD
$15.00
Morrissey
Greatest Hits
PS, US A best of based on the UK charts, plus 2 new songs.
Decca
CD
$16.25
Murder By Death
Red of Tooth and Claw
PS, US Also on blue vinyl gatefold!!!
MurderByDeath
LP
$20.25
Nadja
Skin Turns To Glass
PS, US Dirge-like metal riffs & heavy, minimal percussion w/ ethereal
melodicism & something of a shoegazer asthetic, creating a swirling
amorphous wall of sound that strives to be both obliterating &
uplifting. 3 tracks w/ a running time of 80 minutes.
TheEnd
CD
$14.50
Nadja
Long Dark Twenties
PS, US An unusual turn for Nadja, which culminated via a chance meeting
of Aidan Baker and Jon AD of Anthem in NYC, This recording (on a single
sided 7") demonstrates Nadja's ability to fuse their sound to
the construct of the Pop cover, with the cover in question being "Long
Dark Twenties", which was written by Paul Bellini of The Kids
In The Hall, and was first widely heard in their film Brain Candy!
In doing so, Nadja displays traits rarely exhibited in their music,
like full vocals, drumming, even the good old classic pop chorus,
all in such a remarkable way this it shows all that the possibilities
for reinvention with this group are far from exhausted. "Long
Dark Twenties" is presented as a one sided 7" with hand
letter pressed covers (both inside and out) and will be available
in a multitude of vinyl colors.
Anthem
45
$5.50
Nalle
Sirens Wave
PS, US Centered around Hanna Tuulikki's rich & expansive vocals,
w/ a heady, kaleidoscopic mix of vintage whirling oscillators, Moog
synth & buzzing harmonium, alongside the intrepid string explorations
of Chris Hladowski & Aby Vulliamy. These 6 pieces form a dense,
cohesive suite that meshes everything from Japanese Gagaku, European
plainsong, & Near Eastern modal drones
Locust
CD
$13.00
Nalle
Sirens Wave
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Locust
LP
$18.25
Nelson, Willie
One Hell of a Ride [retrospective boxset]
PS, US Four CDs spanning the gent's entire career, so far, from the
mid-1950s to 2007. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "this is the first box to
ever attempt a thorough overview of his career, beginning with his
earliest singles for Sarg and D, running through the countrypolitan
Nashville productions of his Liberty Records and his wonderfully rambling
RCA recordings of the '60s, then settling into the star-making sides
for Columbia in the '70s and '80s, yet the set doesn't end there,
as it runs through his albums for Island and Mercury in the '90s and
2000s. For sheer scope, this beats all, but what makes One Hell of
a Ride so useful is that it covers all the ground accurately, picking
a blend of hits, concert staples, and relative obscurities to present
a career overview that may be illuminating even for serious fans,
as this tells a full, complete story with its 100 tracks."
SonyLegacy
CD-BOX
$51.50
Northern Portrait
The Fallen Aristocracy EP
PS, US Magnificent debut release from new Danish trio Northern Portrait
who are ready to take the world by storm with one of the strongest
singles released by Matinée to date! The release has all the
makings of a modern pop classic and, according to somebody in the
know, will "shake the indiepop world to its very foundations."
The band lists indie legends The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, and
The Housemartins among its influences and they certainly should appeal
to fans of these and other classic pop groups plus contemporary favorites
like Math and Physics Club too. Lead track 'Crazy' is the one that
got the band noticed when it appeared on a newly christened Myspace
page late last summer. Written and recorded in a four-hour time frame
that marked the beginning of Northern Portrait, the song was completed
intuitively with absolutely nothing prepared until guitars plugged
in. A mix of acoustic and electric Rickenbackers, the guitars jangle
in all the right places recalling Smiths classics like 'This Charming
Man', and the vocals fit the music perfectly. It's a hit! 'A Quiet
Night In Copenhagen' is the first of three additional tracks on the
EP and sets the bar pretty high with more jangling guitars, nice tempo
changes and other instrumentation. Short and to the point, the song
is a fairly universal tale of a kind of voluntary outsiderism. 'Waiting
For A Chance' is a bit slower and recalls the brightness of The Trash
Can Sinatras or The Sundays if they had a male singer. The song features
more of the characteristic Northern Portrait guitar sounds plus some
nice keyboards. Final track 'The Fallen Aristocracy' is an ode to
all romantics-bittersweet, but definitely more sweet than bitter.
Using glockenspiel in addition to guitars, the song bounces along
nicely and just might make the case of saving the strongest track
for last. This debut demonstrates amazing promise for a new band and
leads one to wonder if the b-sides are this good just what does Northern
Portrait have in store for its debut album?
Matinee-048
CD5
$6.50
Parade, The
Sunshine Girl: The Complete Recordings
PS, UK The Parade were Murray MacLeod (also a member of The Roger
Nichols Trio/Small Circle of Friends), Jerry Riopelle (Phil Spector
protégé and former Philles staff producer), and Smokey
Roberds (songwriter and actor). Originally signed to A&M Records,
The Parade not only created a definitively West Coast pop sound but
also unknowingly helped establish the sunshine pop genre via their
1967 Billboard Top 20 hit, Sunshine Girl. This first-ever complete
collection of the trio s recorded output features the talents of no
less than a pre-Loggins Jimmy Messina, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, David
Gates, and other L.A./Wrecking Crew luminaries. The gorgeous 16 page
full-colour booklet also includes rare, previously unpublished photos
and comprehensive liner notes that feature the participation of all
original band members. Now Sounds, the brand-new imprint from Cherry
Red has been established by STEVE STANLEY - producer of over 50 Rev-Ola
titles. Recordings produced by Jerry Riopelle. TRACKS: 1. SUNSHINE
GIRL 2. SHE SLEEPS ALONE 3. THE RADIO SONG 4. LOVERS 5. KINDA WASTED
WITHOUT YOU 6. FROG PRINCE 7. WELCOME, YOU RE IN LOVE 8. HALLELUJAH
ROCKET 9. SHE S GOT THE MAGIC 10. A.C./D.C. 11. LULLABY 12. THIS OLD
MELODY 13. LAUGHIN LADY 14. I CAN SEE LOVE BONUS TRACKS 15. MONTAGE
MIRROR (ROGER NICHOLS TRIO) 16. HOW CAN I THANK YOU (DEMO) 17. LOVE
IS THERE (DEMO) 18. LOVE IS THE PEOPLE S CHOICE (SMOKEY ROBERDS) 19.
FROG PRINCE (ALTERNATE MIX) 20. SHE SLEEPS ALONE (DEMO) 21. KINDA
WASTED WITHOUT YOU (MONO) 22. SUNSHINE GIRL (MONO 45) 23. ONE MORE
TIME (CONNIE AUSTIN).
NowSounds-1
CD
$15.50
Plants & Animals
Parc Avenue
PS, US A sprawling opus that owes as much to the spirit of Nina Simone
& Ali Farka Toure as it does to the Arcade Fire. Recorded entirely
to analogue tape, from classic 70s guitar tones to folky ballads &
sea shanties-turned-post-rock, this is a monumental release in the
sense of rock & roll roots re-invented.
SecretCityRecords
CD
$14.50
Powell, Baden & Vinicius De Moraes
Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade
PS, UK Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova,
(Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the
famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sambas
is his response to the commercialization of the movement by the mid-sixties.
Co-written with the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell and
eventually released in 1966, these eight songs combine Powell's melodic
gifts with Bahian folk traditions and Gregorian chant. With the joyous
vocalizations of Quarteto Em Cy, the atmosphere is at once haunting
and spontaneous. The music hasn't even begun to date. Recorded at
a time when musicians around the world were looking to break down
barriers - between classical and pop, East and West - but the Afro-sambas
appear to recognize no such barriers in the first place. Os Afro-Sambas
is an absolute stunner. One of the most exquisite pieces of Brazilian
music ever recorded, it is combined on this edition with the intimate,
irresistible, A Vontade, Baden's most successful solo LP of the period
and one of his finest achievements.
El-137
CD
$15.50
Powell, Baden & vinicius De Moraes
Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade
PS, UK Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova,
(Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the
famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sambas
is his response to the commercialization of the movement by the mid-sixties.
Co-written with the brilliant Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell and
eventually released in 1966, these eight songs combine Powell's melodic
gifts with Bahian folk traditions and Gregorian chant. With the joyous
vocalizations of Quarteto Em Cy, the atmosphere is at once haunting
and spontaneous. The music hasn't even begun to date. Recorded at
a time when musicians around the world were looking to break down
barriers - between classical and pop, East and West - but the Afro-sambas
appear to recognize no such barriers in the first place. Os Afro-Sambas
is an absolute stunner. One of the most exquisite pieces of Brazilian
music ever recorded, it is combined on this edition with the intimate,
irresistible, A Vontade, Baden's most successful solo LP of the period
and one of his finest achievements.
El-137
CD
$15.50
Quarter After, The
Changes Near
PS, US New album from psych-pop kingpins. Lead by the two Campanella
siblings- songwriter/singer Dominic & guitarist/producer Robert.
Dom's prominent twelve-string Rickenbacker & rich melodies set
the tone for songs that range from dense guitar-driven psychedelic
attacks to further explorations into down home country in the grand
tradition of West Coast rock. They are joined by a collection of LA
musicians including friend & mentor Ric Menck (Velvet Crush, the
Tyde), Matthew Sweet, Miranda Lee Richards, Mara Keagle, Eric Heywood
(Son Volt), Christoff W. Certik (Winter Flowers), Kirk Hellie (Meow
Meow), Probyn Gregory (Wondermints, Brian Wilson Band), & Matthew
Sigley (Lovetones, Daytime Frequency). POPMATTERS: "It is a fine
line between derivation and influence. The work of Quarter After exhibited
on this perfectly transcendent piece of retro pop easily places them
closer to the latter. As his swollen list of credits attests, Rob's
skills as a producer are unsurpassed. The bright, harmonized, richly
dynamic sheen on this record is not a parody of groundbreaking '60s
sound, but a shining example of it still vibrating in the 21st century."
CommitteeToKeepMusicEvil
CD
$12.00
Ringfinger
Decimal
PS, US Tracy Wilson (ex-DAHLIA SEED)'s laborious project is a tricked
out masterpiece feat. collaborations with members of CAVE IN, ISIS,
SUNN O)))/JESSAMINE/FONTANELLE, FILM SCHOOL/DENALI, ENGINE DOWN/DALEK
& more!! The end result is a soul-churning, post-industrial, dark-indie-pop
along the lines of Bjork, a female-fronted Postal Service, or an electrocuted-Discount.
Feat. production work by the legendary J Robbins & Oktopus of
Dalek, a Sunn O))) song you can actually sing along to, & "Viking
Funeral," a Norse tribute for the modern woman.
MagicBullet
LP
$15.75
Room
Pre-Flight
PS, UK Recorded at the Decca studios in the summer of 1970, Room's
Pre Flight was an ambitious blend of rock, blues, jazz and classical
influences. The album was critically well received but unfortunately
like many strong releases of this genre at the time on the classic
Deram label, did not achieve the hoped for breakthrough to greater
commercial success. Room's only recorded work, the album has been
re-mastered from the original analogue tapes and is now presented
in this definitive edition from Esoteric Recordings.
EsotericRecordings-2043
CD
$20.25
Scary, Bryan
Flight of the Knife
PS, US A conceptual work centered around the sky & outer space,
the album marks the first appearance of Scary's touring band on a
record. Featuring a harder rocking sound & heavy emphasis on ensemble
dynamics, the album captures the band's acclaimed live sound while
expanding upon the studio wizardry & lush eccentricities of Scary's
self-recorded debut, "The Shredding Tears"
Black&Greene
CD
$11.00
Second Band, The
The Definite Form (ON SALE)
PS, US Incredible new album. With a sound that has matured from adorable
to drop-dead gorgeous in the space of time between releases The Second
Band's new album, The Definite Form, is more epic, more anthemic and
more assured than ever, an orchestral-pop gem that will be in my Top
10 for 2008. The Orebo, Sweden combo's soulful brass-driven euphoria
is still evident, but this time out, older and wiser, it's tempered
with a feeling of heartbreak and melancholy that is sweetly Swedish.
Fans of The Beautiful South (arrangements), Headlights (sweetness),
Bright Eyes (earnestness), Okkervil River (rustic charm) and Shout
Out Louds (a manic melancholia) will find plenty to swoon to here.
OrangeGrammofon-005
CD
$13.00
Silver Mt Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Thee
13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
PS, CANADA VINYL VERSION.
Constellation-051
LP
$21.00
Silver Mt Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Thee
13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
PS, CANADA The band's first release in 3 years finds them louder and
looser with crackling guitar crescendos, dive-bombing swirls of strings,
rasps wails and group vocal passages that are posititively spine-tingling.
On 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons, riffs are the backbone more than ever.
Anchored by new drummer Eric Craven (ex-Hangedup), the band works
its slow build and burn with newfound patience, sinuousness and ferocity.
Whether methodically framing walls of sound over the four-on-the floor
punk dirge of '1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound' or exploding in
sheets of free noise and melody on 'Black Waters Blowed,' the band
has never rocked harder and has never sounded more determined, desperate
and driven.
Constellation-051
CD
$15.25
Singer
Unhistories
PS, US A rock band peopled by ROBERT A. A. LOWE, TODD RITTMANN, ADAM
VIDA & BEN VIDA. Their music has 2 guitars, bass & some drums
+ 4 lovesome voices that may or may not have given the band their
name. The sound is psychedelic, but not in the paisley way. More mind
expanding/modern...get it straight, it isn't referencing any past
trend in music. Their original idea involves their (very) original
compositions tangling w/ voices stumbling, clucking, heaving, whipping,
shrieking & sighing in a graceful jumble. This is a crux.
DragCity
CD
$13.00
Singer
Unhistories
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$15.50
Slab City
Friday Nite Boy b/w Caguama Rama
PS, US These guys are the Screamers meets the Spits in a crappy Mexicali
titty bar. Trashed oRuetc &o rlodusd & the keys stay right
where they should. Follow up to their Slovenly debut 7". 500
pressed, white vinyl.
RobsHouse
45
$5.25
Soltero
You're No Dream
PS, US Tim Howard's vision, for fans of Devandra Banheart, Nick Drake,
the Left Bank, Fred Neil.
LaSocieteExpedionnaire
CD
$11.25
Spires That In The Sunset Rise
Curse The Traced Bird
PS, US "Imagine if the Sun City Girls were played by real girls."
- Jack Rose. 4th full-length of bewitching juju from the preeminent
ladies of psychedelic mysticism. Recorded in Philadelphia w/ members
of ESPERS. Hand-silk-screened by Neil Burke (Vermiform, Mens Recovery
Project)... SUPER LIMITED & hand-numbered. Fuck freak folk - this
is true primordial power
SecretEye
CD
$13.50
Spring Hill Jack
Songs & Themes
PS, US The groups 8th & possibly most accessible album for Thirsty
Ear, this is jazz-ambient music of the highest level. The musicianship
is stunning & crosses many boundaries, from future music, to electronic,
to jazz, to chamber music, all the while presenting beauty & sensitivity
in a manner that has rarely been explored.
ThirstyEar
CD
$10.75
Stars In Coma
You're Still Frozen in Time
PS, SWEDEN André Brorsson is Stars In Coma, hailing from Skåne
in South West Sweden, he's been putting out albums and EP's on small
labels for the last few years. The new CD album "You're Still
Frozen in Time" was recorded during the rainy summer of 2007
and it's a compilation of songs, some old, some new, that represents
the perfect introduction to the man and his pop music. Stars In Coma
sounds a bit like the sonic swirl of Felt, the off-kilter melody of
The Pastels, the pure pop of fellow Swedes Celestial and also like...
well, nothing else really. A one off! There are so many fine bands
emerging from Sweden at the moment, but Stars In Coma are out there,
occupying their own musical niche, creating their own sound. The first
thing that hits you are the melodies, there's fragility and beauty
to these songs. Stars In Coma present a C86 aspect to the finely crafted
pop tunes, but that's not the limit of their musical style. Check
the near glam rock swagger of "Radio", complete with the
echo of hand claps, and the synth driven rhythms of "Transformation"
as evidence of the musical versatility on show. Lyrically, there's
a lot to be engage your ears too. From the pent up pop-rant at the
apathetic masses on "People Put Up With a Lot Of Shit" to
a lament on his own tortured indiepop genius on "Radio",
André's words compliment the music perfectly. Listen too, to
the explosively catchy melody of "Invisibility Trick" and
the lovelorn melancholy of "I Wish Someone Would Dance With Me",
and wipe away a tear or two. The story so far then, but more importantly,
a sign of things to come! Fall in love with these pop gems before
everyone else does. Gigs in England, Denmark and Italy as well as
his homeland are signs of people catching on and of a brilliant future
for Stars In Coma." --David Kendrick, Popklubb Fanzine.
MusicIsMyGirlfriend-008
CD
$13.50
Stevens, Meic
Gwymon [re-issue]
PS, UK When his classic Outlander LP failed to break through in 1970,
Welsh singer-songwriter Meic Stevens' major label days were over.
Gwymon ("Seaweed"), his legendary second LP, was recorded
on his own terms in London in the summer of 1972, and highlights his
pop sensibilities, with folk and blues influences also to the fore.
It was only released in Wales in a tiny pressing, and has barely been
heard since. Shortly after its recording, Meic moved to France, where
he spent much of the rest of the decade in exile. The album makes
its long-awaited CD debut here, complete with two bonus tracks, a
detailed booklet featuring rare photos and an introduction from the
man himself, making it an essential purchase for all fans of psychedelic
singer-songwriting.
Sunbeam-5046
CD
$16.25
Sugimoto, Taku
Mienai Tenshi
PS, US Limited to 500 copies. His first solo release originally released
in 1988 in a small edition of 100 copies. Its a far cry from his current
style. Back then he was very much influenced by MC5 & the Velvet
Underground. This is a firey live in-the-red solo electric guitar
improv blowout! Fans of Masayuki Takayanagi & High Rise take heed.
WeirdForest
LP
$18.25
Sun Kil Moon
April
PS, US 11 songs at almost 74 minutes. In the spirit of "Ghosts"
& "Tiny Cities", Mark was joined by the same players
as before, including drummer Anthony Koutsos (Red House Painters),
bassist Geoff Stanfield (Black Lab), violist Michi Aceret, & percussionist
David Revelli. This also finds Mark in the company of guest vocalists
Bonnie Prince Billy, Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), & Eric
Pollard (Retribution Gospel Choir). 7x7 SAN FRANCISCO: "From
the sweet finger plucking of "Harper Road," a song that
pays homage to his girlfriend's mom's battle with cancer, to "Tonight
in Bilbao," a mesmerizing mediation on homesickness that cradles
you with lulling drums, April is overflowing with acoustic introspection.
"I had to get some perspective on some heavy things," Kozelek
says. That perspective finds expression in ballads recalling Gordon
Lightfoot and melodic jams reminiscent of Jeff Buckley."
CaldoVerde
CD
$14.50
Sunset
Bright Blue Dream
PS, US "Bright Blue Dream" is the first widely available
LP from Bill Baird's new project, {{{Sunset}}}, following the break
up of Sound Team. The record is a follow-up to his previous CDR and
cassette albums, "{{{Sunset}}}," "Silence!," and
"Pink Clouds", which were released independently through
2006 and 2007. All of the distinctive song styles from {{{Sunset}}}'s
previous releases are represented here, yet are more finely tuned
and expansive, brought together by a vividly colorful and meditative
feel. Bill's craftsmanship and darkly humorous songwriting take an
impressive leap forward with "Bright Blue Dream."
Autobus-007
CD
$9.75
Sword, The
Gods of the Earth
PS, US New album! The highly anticipated sophomore album has arrived!
More ambitious, more accomplished, & simply bigger w/huge, mountain-top
friendly hooks, thunderous drumming & oceanic bass lines that
cut through the air like a scythe, while the ominous vocals weave
fantastical tales rife w/ myth & mythology.
Kemado
CD
$13.75
Sword, The
Gods of the Earth
PS, US VINYL VERSION!
Kemado
LP
$16.00
Tape Op
#64
PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! This Issue features
legendary producer/engineer BONES HOWE, Damian Wagner(engineer, producer,
sound designer), proffesional tips, gear/ music reviews, & much
more. Gearheads unite.
ZINE
$4.00
This Is Ivy League
This Is Ivy League
PS, US Formerly IVY LEAGUE, now This Is Ivy League. The debut full-length
for New York pop duo finds themselves recording one of the best "wall
of sound" pop records within their Brooklyn apartments. With
influences ranging from Simon & Garfunkel to The Beach Boys, this
is one of the most promising pop records of 2008.
27Records-0007
CD
$10.25
Triclops!
Out of Africa
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
AlternativeTentacles
LP
$16.00
Triclops!
Out of Africa
PS, US Reminiscent of the golden hits from the 1990s Touch and Go
or Amphetamine Reptile catalogs, tweaked out on the exhilarating paranoia
typical of America in the early aughts. Distorted vocals, oscillating
bass lines, & jittery guitars form a nervous, seasick swath over
the plodding drums. Meandering yet tension-filled psychedelic epics.
AlternativeTentacles
CD
$16.00
Uncut
#132 (May 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK Editor's Letter: What I most wanted to talk to Robert Plant
about when I met him last August was Raising Sand, the album of what
he called "dark, sexy Americana" he'd recorded in Nashville
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss and producer T Bone Burnett. That
album was unlike anything Plant had done previously and seemed to
me the best thing he'd put his name to in the long years since the
demise of Led Zeppelin.
Of
course, by the time we meet again in Birmingham five days later to
talk in more detail about the album, there's something else looming.
Plant, not wanting to be misleading or evasive, eventually confirms
in confidence that, yes, Led Zeppelin would be reforming, for one
show, at London's O2 Arena.
The
eventual official announcement provokes an incredible reaction, an
absolute frenzy for tickets. The gig itself - delayed once, by an
injury to Jimmy Page - turns out to be by general consent a triumph.
Surely, it was argued, the taste they'd had of being Zeppelin again
would prove irresistible to everyone involved, including Plant, whatever
his commitments to a tour with Krauss and T Bone.
Ever
since, the speculation about what they might do next has continued,
as they say, unabated. Will they tour? Make a new album? What had
it been like for them, back together at the O2, and what would it
take for them to do it again? In this month's exclusive Uncut cover
story, you can find out what Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones
have to say about the reunion, each other, what it was like to be
Led Zeppelin again and where they go from here. It starts on page
36.
ZINE
$10.00
Under Byen
Siamesisk EP
PS, US Live recordings, a collaboration between Danish art-rockers
Under Byen and the renowned chamber orchestra Danish Radio Sinfonietta
(a 42-piece classical orchestra). It swells with an icy sensuality,
evoking the majestic Nordic glacial terrain and the gothic tales of
Hans Christian Andersen. A carefully crafted audio expansion of Under
Byen's distinctive theatricality. Pretty as a music box and grandiose
as a full-scale symphony, Siamesisk successfully and intriguingly
echoes the ancient ebb and flow of the sea against the Danish coast.
The art-rock band Under Byen (Danish for 'under the city') broke the
music world open with 2006's North American release of its album Samme
Stof Som Stof. 5 tracks.
PaperBag
CD
$9.50
Under the Radar
#21
PS, US Flight of the Conchords on cover, "Laughs Will Keep Them
Together". Goldfrapp, Duke Spirit, Neon Neon, Sons and Daughters,
Death Cab for Cutie, Ladytron
and more!
ZINE
$3.75
Unwed Sailor
Little Wars
PS, US New album!
BurntToast
CD
$15.25
Up-Tight
Live at the Lucrezia
PS, US Black-clad & w/ an ominous aura created by their distorted
guitar epics, burnt-out ballads & raucous mantric jam, they are
seriously not to be messed with. Heading up the 2nd generation of
Japanese psychedelic rock acts (following on from Fushitusha, Kosokuya
& Shizuka) they're one of the best live groups in Japan. A spontaneously
loose, acid-fried & drugged garage jam of hypnotic guitar squall,
& impassioned & fathomless vocals that are capable of kicking
you right in the gut.
LastVisibleDog
DVD
$15.00
Various
A Mind Expansion Compilation 2
PS, UK Second compilation from Mind Expansion, compiled by FUXA frontman
Randall Nieman. Features songs from some of the most ground breaking
& influential groups over the past 20+ years on 2 CDs: SPECTRUM,
FUXA with DEAN WAREHAM, MERCURY REV, FAUST, JESSAMINE, RICK WHITE
ALBUM, IMAJINARY FRIENDS, LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD, POPULOUS, MUS,
SUKI EWERS, ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON, MARTIN REV, RICHARD FORMBY,
SONIC BOOM & DELIA DERBYSHIRE, MARKUS, VENTURE LIFT, ECSTASY OF
ST. THERESA, PAINT AND COPTER, SPRING REVERBS, ECTOGRAM, SPARE SNARE,
SHIVA AFFECT, BARDO POND, THE TELESCOPES, ECHOES OF THE WHALES, THE
PROJECTS (Broadcast remix), SPOONFED HYBRID (IAN MASTERS), LOOPDROP,
TELSTAR, ASTEROID #4, MARKUS & UNKNOWN CELEBRITIES.
MindExpansion-2015/2016
DCD
$16.25
Various
The Room of Loud Sound: Heavy Psych from the USA 1968-72
PS UK Subtitled: White Lace & Strange Vol. 2. The Psychic Circle
label presents a follow-up to the White Lace & Strange: Heavy
Psych and Power Fuzz from the U.S.A. 68-72 compilation, further delving
into the less-frequented areas of late '60s and early '70s heavy psych
rock from the USA, where we find a mean bunch of longhairs getting
down to some heavy riffing. Post-Hendrix, sub-Cream, quasi-Zeppelin,
some of it primitive, some of it sophisticated, all of it rockin'
with amps turned up to eleven plus. Enter The Room Of Loud Sound and
live to tell the tale. Twenty never-before comped burners specially
compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head,
Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Hot Soup, Bump, Fuse
(pre-Cheap Trick), Carlo, Five By Five, Plant & See, Morning Sun,
Today's Special, Fantasy, Mister Beeler, Peace & Quiet, Six Pak,
Salem Witchcraft, The Vagrants, Hammer, Blowtorch, Locomotive, Eagle,
The Mystic Number National Bank and Silk.
PsychicCircle-7020
CD
$16.25
Various
Garage Beat '66, Vol. 5: Readin' Your Will!
PS, US
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Various
Garage Beat '66, Vol. 4: I'm In Need!
PS, US
Sundazed
CD
$14.25
Voice of the Seven Woods
S-T [expanded]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Following a lengthy string of 7"
singles and EPs that have been finding an ever-increasing audience
as the psychedelic folk revival gains steam, Voice of the Seven Woods
finally made their full-length debut with this self-titled album,
which singer, guitarist, and sole permanent member Ricky Tomlinson
claims is the culmination of the project. It's a true shame if this
album is indeed the last Voice of the Seven Woods release, because
this is among the finest releases so far in the whole style. Far too
many of Tomlinson's compatriots think it's enough to cop some ideas
from an old Incredible String Band album and leave it at that, but
the list of influences here cannot be so easily summarized. Like Davy
Graham or Pentangle, Tomlinson is well-versed in jazz, blues, country,
and certain world music styles; for example, one of the album's many
high points, the ripping "Second Transition," features a
wild and woolly solo on the electric saz, a modern updating of a traditional
Middle Eastern instrument that was last used this effectively on a
rock record on the Cedars' 1967 freakbeat classic "For Your Information."
Most crucially, Voice of the Seven Woods simply rocks much harder
than, say, Devendra Banhart, with a heavy psych-pop vibe in the manner
of the Bevis Frond: the genuinely trippy "Underwater Journey"
could be placed intact on a Rubble-like compilation of unknown psychedelic-era
jams with no one the wiser, and the epic "Return from Byzantium"
has the hypnotic pulse of vintage Can. At just over six-and-a-half
minutes, that last song is twice the length of all but two others
(the opening solo acoustic reverie "Sand and Flames" and
the Nick Drake-style ballad "Silver Morning Branches"),
and that sense of concision is vitally important to this album's effect
as well. Psychedelic doesn't have to mean endless, after all."
Bmusic
CD
$15.25
Voyager One
Afterhours in the Afterlife
PS, US This Seattle band has been creating sonic groove-oriented psychedelia
for over eight years. Over this time, the band has released several
albums, with each chargting on KEXP's Northwest top ten list. The
band's fourth album, Afterhours in the Afterlife, includes two tracks
co-written by the German experimental electro-pop artist 'Guitar.'
Afterhours brings a stylistic shift for Voyager One, with lush electronic
melodies and fuzz-driven guitars colliding to create a bigger sound
than ever before.
Loveless-027
CD
$11.50
Weakends
Death Ride b/w Small Towns
PS, US Debut release from Bordeaux & gauranteed to please. Too
many lo-fi fuzzed out influenceRs etoc onradmse but these guys live
it & this is just their first step on the way to claiming the
title of france's best garage band. Recorded by french weird punks
Cheveu. 500 pressed, black viny.
RobsHouse
45
$5.25
Wild Swans, The
Space Flower [re-issue]
PS, US The Wild Swans' follows XTC (masquerading as the Dukes of Stratosphear)
and the Damned into the more pop-oriented side of the '60s: the sort
of area that could produce a three-minute single and a ten-minute
hallucinogenic mind-blower. Pink Floyd got to be quite masterful at
this aspect of things with Syd Barrett; the Moody Blues, too, used
to be able to do this to a degree. Typically, the Wild Swans, with
a somewhat softer sound than they've had previously, have followed
in this rather English area, twenty-some years down the line. What
you get for your money is a rather catchy collection of hook-driven
numbers...not to mention the royally absorbing "Sea of Tranquility,"
a track that ticks along on a rolling bassline, dispenses with vocals
along the way, and proceeds to play sonic games that suck you in and
make you wish it could have gone on lots longer than ten minutes.
One of the factors in the Swans' favor is certainly an endearing simplicity.
Where their songs have often been complex sonic tapestries, Space
Flower shucks off the complexities in favor of a very '60s production...
It's great fun, very catchy, and probably great for parties."
WoundedBird
CD
$16.75
Year Of No Light
Nord
PS, US Feat. in Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2007. Have shared the stage/toured
w/ Unsane, Isis, Red Sparowes, Jesu. Brand new artwork excl. to this
release only. They started after too many Belgian beers under the
sun in the late summer of 2001. This massive recording is now available
as a 2xLP.
CavityRecords
DLP
$17.50
Yellow Swans & Mouthus
Conan Island
PS, US An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out
in the primordial mulch & all the gods are cowering in their presence.
The dual intertwining guitarattack impacts & fragments into the
dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing
caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic
& heavy proportions.
WeirdForest
LP
$16.75
Forthcoming
Releases
22 Pistepirkko
(Well You Know) Stuff Is Like We Yeah! [limited DCD w/book] (ON SALE
/ PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, FINLAND Limited edition DCD version of their new 2008 full-length
packaged in a book-style digipak. Bonus CDEP features "Suburban
Ladyland", "Close" (exclusive), the yummy Macchiato
Bubble Mix of "Coffee Girl" and, most compellingly, the
English-language version of a 390 page book about 22P in PDF form!
BareBonesBusinessOy!
DCD
$18.00
22 Pistepirkko
(Well You Know) Stuff Is Like We Yeah! [regular version] (ON SALE
/ PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 22ND)
PS, FINLAND New 2008 album from Finnish psych-pop phenoms! The fab
three, back with guitar-based spaced-out bohemian blues-rock and proto-garage-psychedelia,
produced by Kramer (Galaxie 500, Daniel Johnston, Ween, Bongwater).
Recorded in just 10 days at the band's own Altai studios 22-Pistepirkko
step forward with their idea of impressive simplicity, lively trio-playing
and good melodies. After periods of heavy experiments in electronic
production work, their current concept of keeping things simple was
already their approach for the Drops+Kicks (2005) album sessions.
Now, with the new album one can hear it in full bloom. P-K Keränen's
vocals and guitar playing have gathered depth that one doesn't hear
too often. Additionally, drummer Espe Haverinen simplified his playing
to a great effect and sings more touching songs then on any other
album. Asko Keränen's sonic bass, weird organs and effects add
a room with a view, so specific 22pp and just right for producer Kramer
to play with those bits and pieces in a most gentle and subtle way.
Chris Bailey of The Saints heard it and wrote: "From the first
bars of the opening track you know you are in for a treat, this record
is MAGIC. Each song has its own personality and reference point which
should defy inclusion on the same album yet all combine to create
an astonishing journey through all that is glorious about pop music.
...a stupendous piece of work!"
BareBonesBusinessOy!
CD
$15.00
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Recurring Dream & Apocalypse Of Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
APRIL 15TH)
PS, US Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is the by far the
heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata
Makoto jokingly said "the album is really heavy, maybe a bit
like Sunn o))). hahahaha". The limited edition double LP version
of Recurring Dream is packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on heavy-duty
jacket and it contains two bonus tracks rounding out the double LP
set. Both the CD & LP feature remarkable artwork by Seldon Hunt.
LP is limited to 1000.
Important-188
CD
$12.25
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
Recurring Dream & Apocalypse Of Darkness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
APRIL 15TH)
PS, US Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness is the by far the
heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata
Makoto jokingly said "the album is really heavy, maybe a bit
like Sunn o))). hahahaha". The limited edition double LP version
of Recurring Dream is packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on heavy-duty
jacket and it contains two bonus tracks rounding out the double LP
set. Both the CD & LP feature remarkable artwork by Seldon Hunt.
LP is limited to 1000.
Important-188
DLP
$23.00
American Princes
Other People (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 15TH)
PS, US The group, now a five piece w/the addition of keyboardist/guitarist
Will Boyd, recorded at New York City studio The Fireplace w/ Chuck
Brody, who's worked on records by the Wu-Tang Clan & Peter Bjorn
& John. "A few friends have said it's our '80s record, but
it's probably more Tears for Fears or Tom Petty than New Order - we
wanted to include a bunch of weird, post-modern hooks, which made
working w/a predominately hip-hop producer all the more enticing"
YepRoc
CD
$11.75
