New
Releases
16
Bridges to Burn
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Relapse
LP
$18.00
16
Bridges to Burn
PS, US A dozen new hits of misanthropy & spite from the seminal
sludge-rockers. Features the legendary "Drop Out" line-up.
RIYL: Melvins, Kylesa, Jesus Lizard
Relapse
CD
$14.75
A Passing Fancy
S-T
PS, US Revised & expanded version of the much beloved Canadian
pop-psych album. Tough garage rock ("I'm Losing Tonight"),
beat music influence ("A Passing Fancy," "You're Going
Out Of Your Mind") & a great acid rock meltdown ("Your
Trip").
LionProductions
CD
$15.00
Afterhours
#25 Winter 2009 (2 CD + 1 DVD)
PS, JAPAN Sounds See The Light On A Long, Dull And Dark Night Issue.
Special Feature Adventures in Wonderland Baltimore! HYBRID WAVE OF
MUSIC LAPPING ONTO THE HARBOR TOWN We cover Baltimore. Its music scene
is now much talked about. From A to Z of this anything-goes crazy
town, where the members of Animal Collective were brought up and Matmos
moved to. Special Feature In A Transport of Underground London. A
FLOWER BLOOMING in DESOLETE LONDON, WHERE ALTERNATIVE MUSIC DECLINED.
We have never featured this business town London before, but something
is happening to its alternative music scene. We also introduce its
pubs, cafes, record shops as well as labels and artists!! SPECIAL
PROGRAM: Welcome to My space NON-DOT-COM MySpace, THIS IS MY WORKPLACE.
Beginning from visiting the studios of Mice parade, F.S. Blumm and
ISO68, covering hand-made CDs that Pastaca's working on with lots
of color pages! LET MUSIC AT LARGE, A MUSICAL NOMAD TELLS HIS STORY.
One record shop came into existence in Shimokitazawa. Why did he start
it in this hard times, what did he think, how did he start it? We
cover from its preparation to the very opening. The Take Away Shows.
WE DELIVER YOU FRESH MUSIC. A French movie director starts a strange
project of shooting a live in the filed on a one-camera/one-shot procedure.
VISITING AN HERMIT IN THE FOREST OF RECORDS. A memory of a guy in
search of alternative for 40 years. We visit a music writer, Mr. Shin'ichi
Ishikawa, whose house some say is stuffed with records. He selected
54 must albums with comments to all of them. Rock'n'roll responsibilities.
Members of Kimi records start off on Iceland domestic tour!! We cover
their bus tour, which Mum's Orvar joined as well. They rock with the
matching sportswears in pre-default Iceland! BONUS 2CD + 1DVD: CD1
Adventure In Wonderland, Baltimore! Deluxe omnibus of 16 artists in
Feature 1. CD2 In A Transport Of Underground London and more... London
feature, corresponding to the article [Welcome to My space]. DVD The
Take Away Shows and more... [The Take Away Shows], promos of Baltimorean
artists.
AfterHours-25
ZINE
$21.75
Agincourt
Fly Away
PS, CANADA 1970 UK private pressing mega-rarity -- a top notch psych-folk
classic in Syd Barret solo/Fairfield Parlour direction, but with female
vocals. Originals are £1500 or more -- no chance to get them.
Available for the first time from the original master tapes. Sixteen-page
booklet comes complete with lyrics and band history, and includes
stunning previously unseen photos of the band. The addition of previously
unheard bonus tracks makes this an essential reissue for everyone.
Acme/Lion
CD
$15.25
Agitation Free
Live '74 - At the Cliffs Of River Rhine [re-issue]
PS, US One of the most important bands of the experimental circle
known as the "Berlin School," & a career springboard
for a whole slew of musicians. Improv Krautrock jams!
Revisited
DCD
$17.75
Akiyama/Corcoran/Kiefer
Low Cloud Means Death
PS, US "For years, I've counted Tetuzi Akiyama as one of my absolute
favorite guitarists. He's been cranking out great records for ages,
honing his style and skill in every possible way. Add in Christian
Kiefer, who has also put out a string of magnificent releases, and
a talented drummer/percussionist in Kevin Corcoran (who has appeared
on releases on Weird Forest and played in Antennas Erupt!) and you've
got a recipe for something magical. Low Cloud Means Death is a series
of sea-inspired improvisations that are fighting a continual battle
with the silence between each note. This is sparse music at its finest.
Minimal notes float in the air as Corcoran lays a web of various percussion
beneath the organic layer Akiyama and Kiefer weave. The instrumentation
is varied -- Akiyama sticks to acoustic guitar while Kiefer splits
time on accordion, piano, and other vices. What the trio produces
ends up coming off like an all-improvised Morton Feldman or something
of the like. This is a journey on salt-encrusted waves, traipsing
through empty spaces in search of whatever aural mystery can be found.
It goes something like this: Thump. Quiet again. Twang, thump. Quiet.
Quiet. Still quiet. Distant blap. And let me tell you, it is one fantastic
voyage. Limited to 500 copies. Artwork by Eden Hemming Rose."
Digitalis
CD
$11.25
Ala Muerte
Santa Elena
PS, US Debut full-length from this solo venture of BIANCA BIBILONI,
is a rich, ethereal excursion filled w/beautiful sadness. Conceptually
moving from the apocalyptic to a state of new beginning, this explores
solitude & personal growth through melodic tension & environmental
metaphor. Layers of guitar & vocals swirl beneath softly sung
lyrics. Gentle vocal melodies float atop dissonant sound collages.
Tension ebbs & flows throughout, only to explode w/ an introduction
of a full drum kit on the closing track. All instruments - guitar,
double bass, mixing bowl, alto & soprano recorder, viola, drums,
& 10-string cuatro, a traditional Puerto Rican instrument that
is a relative of the flute - were played by Bianca.
PublicGuilt
CD
$12.25
American Football
American Football EP
PS, US First time on vinyl! In their brief history together, American
Football crafted two releases that left an undeniable mark on independent
music. Despite being released nearly a decade ago both releases are
consistently among Polyvinyl's top selling titles. Fronted by Mike
Kinsella (Owen, Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz), American Football created
the kind of songs that held new discoveries upon each listen. These
three songs along with the nine that appear on the band's full-length
are the only American Football songs ever released. This release features
all new album artwork, is on high quality 180-gram vinyl and includes
a digital download of the entire release.
Polyvinyl-019
12
$8.75
An Albatross
The An Albatross Family Album
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Robo-spazmatazz genre-splicers An Albatross
pack more riffs, time changes, and esoteric rock references in one
song than many bands jam into an entire album. Fitting for a bunch
of dudes whose credo is some sort of mystical mumbo jumbo of cosmic
love, fantasy animals, sci-fi weirdness, and-- as the new album expounds
on-- space pilgrimages in search of world peace and harmony. And yet,
I think they're serious! These love-in rambles only give the ballistic
tunes that much more cheeky appeal. For their third full-length, The
Family Album, AA continue their psychedelic aural terror, but dig
deeper into the annals of kraut and classic rockdom."
Eyeball
CD
$15.00
Anahita
Matricaria
PS, US Tara Burke (FURSAXA) & cellist Helena Espvall (ESPERS).
A beautiful, laboriously created, floating affair of skeletal organ
drones, ceremonial singing, & subtly frantic instrumental accompaniment
that conjures up a natural woodland romp & stomp.
Important
CD
$13.25
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (ON SALE)
PS, US Their ninth full-length. The whoops and hollers that previously
held together the sublime, chaotic urgency of their earlier work now
signal the calm sense of euphoria and wonder that ripples through
this wide eyed record.
Domino
CD
$13.00
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion (DELAYED)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$21.00
Antennas
Feeling Feline Tonight
PS, US New album from Swedish soul-pop instigators.
Novoton
CD
$13.00
Antony & The Johnsons
The Crying Light
PS, US Antony and the Johnson's breakthrough second album "I
Am a Bird Now" won the UK's prestigious Mercury Prize in 2005.
The success that followed introduced many to a pioneering soul singer
unafraid to explore themes that traversed darkness and light, life
and death, male and female. Antony's inimitable voice sparked the
interest of artists ranging from Bjork to Hercules and Love Affair,
resulting in a series of critically acclaimed collaborations. "The
Crying Light" is the highly anticipated full-length follow-up
to "I Am a Bird Now". Here, Antony shifts the thematic focus
and explores his relationship with the natural world. The intimacy
of the Johnsons' sound is enveloped by avant-classical composer Nico
Muhly's symphonic arrangements. The record's centerpiece, "Another
World" traces the singer's dispair in the face of a vanishing
landscape. Antony and the Johnsons' music bridges the gap between
avant-classical music and the blues, and the band's sold out performances
have resulted in standing ovations from Carnegie Hall to the Apollo.
"The Crying Light" is a soul-stirring new work with its
daring compositions and captivating vocal performances. Antony and
the Johnsons have created a subtle and timely work that brings a magical
and yet changing world to the forefront of our consciousness.
SecretlyCanadian-194
CD
$11.50
Astral Social Club
Octuplex
PS, US NEIL CAMPBELL returns w/ an album of squelching, restless ambience.
The CD is split roughly in half between Harmonia/Voigt-style chuggers
& sweeping swirls of instantly recognizable dronage. Includes
contributions from RICHARD YOUNGS, JOHN CLYDE-EVANS & SPIDER STACY
(POGUES).
VHF
CD
$14.25
Baikonour
Your Ear Knows Future
PS, US 2nd album by Brighton's BAIKONOUR, aka Jean-Emmanuel Krieger.
3 yrs on from his acclaimed debut, he has delivered another burst
of smart, proggy poptronica, bursting w/ Gallic charm & myriad,
fully-realized ideas. He plays all the instruments except for drums,
which were played by FUJIYA & MIYAGI's LEE ADAMS. Baikonour makes
confident strides as an artist, turning in a collection of songs that
fuse electronica w/ motorik Krautrock & the dynamics of My Bloody
Valentine & The Cocteau Twins, Amon Duul 2, Popol Vuh, Harold
Budd, Eno, Neu! Vangelis, Magma & 'Melody Nelson'-era Gainsbourg.
Melodic
CD
$16.25
Banhart, Devendra
Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$19.25
Barrett, Laura
Earth Sciences EP
PS, US Debut EP by a member of HIDDEN CAMERAS. Laura Barret's solo
material features her sweet voice as her fingers prod at a kalimba,
her instrument of choice. Her full-length album "Victory Garden"
will be released in February.
PaperBag
CD5
$7.50
Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique: 20th Anniversary Edition
PS, US Special 20th anniversary version of 1989's Paul's Boutique.
The album was run through a 24-bit remastering process and will be
released as an eight-panel digipak. Fans can also download a track-by-track
audio commentary from the Boys, which syncs with the album.
Capitol
CD
$17.75
Beat Boys
S-T
PS, US Along w/ Os Mutantes, the group represented the most radical
element in Brazilian rock: their intense fuzz guitar raves were a
fierce indicator of a rebel spirit. They were at the very epicenter
of the movement of rupture, that bringing together of electricity
& avant-garde erudition that has come to be known as "Tropicalia".
They backed Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil for their defining moments
as artists- both live, & in the studio.
LionProductions
CD
$15.00
BeauSoleil
Alligator Purse
PS, US On "Alligator Purse" the group's fearless captain
Michael Doucet leads the next installment of his musical journey along
the lifeline of Cajun music, this time w/ an all star crew including
NATALIE MERCHANT, GARTH HUDSON, JOHN SEBASTIAN, ROSWELL RUDD, &
BILL KEITH. His notable friends help Doucet bring the rich folk traditions
of south Louisiana into the 21st century through the genius interplay
of a new take on Cajun favorites ("Marie") & the 'Cajunization'
of modern folk classics. A French language reworking of Bob Dylan's
cover of Muddy Waters' classic "Rollin' & Tumblin'"
("Rouler et Tourner") & J.J. Cale's "The Problem"
stand alongside Cajun & Creole history lessons like "Reel
Cajun (451 St. Joseph St.)," "Les Oignons" & "Theogene
Creole", originally sung for John & Alan Lomax's historic
1934 field recordings.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50
Believer
February 2009
SP, US Mock Action in St. Paul, Literature After the Crash, The Best
Kind of Self Conscious Fiction, Old Zeal. Interviews with John Ashberry,
Heather Chaplain, Mary Gaitskill, David Levine.
ZINE
$8.00
Ben, Jorge
Forca Bruta
PS, US REISSUE on 180gm vinyl! Originally released in 1970, this is
an absolute classic from one of Brazil's most consistently great artists.
Despite being embraced by the Tropicalia movement (w/ Caetano Veloso
& Gal Costa both covering his songs) there are no psychedelic
meandering to be found w/in these grooves, this set is pure samba-soul.
BEN is backed here by the innovative Trio Mocotó who never
overplay & allow his soulful vocal delivery & samba guitar
to be the centerpieces. This was recently reissued on CD on the great
Dusty Groove record label & its a pleasant surpise to see it now
available on vinyl again! A musthave. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75
Bergman, Borah Trio
Luminescence
PS, US Takes his lyrical cross hands contrapuntal technique into the
dynamic context of the classic piano trio. Influenced by the exotic
melismas of cantorial singing, the counterpoint of Bach & the
harmonic beauty of Alban Berg & Bill Evans, he forges a new language
of joy & sadness, firmly rooted in the Jewish tradition. JOHN
ZORN appears on one track.
Tzadik
CD
$15.25
Besties, The
Home Free
PS, US Equally at home strumming alongside melodic pop bands and invading
the occasional crusty punk show, The Besties wear their inclusiveness
like a badge of honor. Like Talulah Gosh with an Athens party twang,
The Besties punch out fun, loud songs high on smarts and low on snot.
After touring the US and Europe several times over, the band now prepares
for the release of their sophomore effort, Home Free, on Hugpatch
Records. Home Free is the follow-up to the Besties' well-received
debut album, Singer (Skipping Stones Records) and Rod N Reel 7"
(both of which sold out). Besties Press: "There's a reason why
Amelia Fletcher called her flagship twee-pop band Heavenly: its music
could whisk away the cynical and melt the hardest of hearts. This
Brooklyn trio chews that same pop bubblegum on its debut. Marisa and
Kelly swap sugary vocals like classmates of State, vying for - what
else? - the boy." - Magnet "First Exposure" "Ever
since the Besties' new single dropped back in the spring, we've been
smitten with their ridiculously catchy sound. And while pop-punk doesn't
always shave the best connotations these days, for a group that evokes
the Go-Go's recording for Epitaph, it's rather apt. - Time Out Chicago
"The romance of their brand of music is thankfully outstripped
by some merited musicianship, all the cooing, girly elements sullied
by some real-life issue lyrics and the occasional potty mouth. This
is how these kids work it out - hearts bare and spirits smiling to
keep up the appearance." - Dusted Magazine
Hugpatch-08
CD
$9.00
Beware of Safety
Dogs
PS, US As romantic as it is morose & solemn; as secretive as it
is exposed & vulnerable. This pushes instrumental music into a
psychedelic direction of pure catharsis.
MyleneSheath
CD
$13.50
Beware of Safety
Dogs
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MyleneSheath
DLP
$23.50
Bibio
Vignetting The Compost
PS, US Seamlessly amalgamating nature and electronics, Vignetting
The Compost, the third full-length release from Bibio, channels instruments
and vocals from a bygone era through a futuristic digital portal.
History may credit Edison with the phonograph but, in truth, the first
such device mysteriously washed up on the shores of England in 1876...
playing Bibio. Vignetting The Compost is at once timeless and innovative;
60s-esque folk guitar and mechanic manipulations of sounds whose instruments
of origin are less important than the feelings they evoke, layer upon
each other with ease and intricacy. Just when you expect to hear Nico's
moan escaping your stereo, Bibio himself comes through with a voice
that could have sung next to her on "These Days." Truly,
this is an album for the ages. Producer Stephen Wilkinson is a self-taught
musician from an area in central England often referred to as the
Black Country. His love for sound and noise led him to the University
of London and the study of Sonic Arts where he discovered experimental
electronic acts such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, and most importantly
Boards Of Canada. His own musical identity was christened Bibio, in
honor of a fly his father had insisted on using during the fishing
trips to Wales that were so influential in establishing his love of
the sounds of nature. Focusing on location recording using cassettes,
a half-broken sampler, Dictaphones, and experimental ways of affecting
sounds, Bibio has crafted a unequalled style that is as subtle as
it is powerful.
Mush-263
CD
$9.00
Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast [vinyl version] (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION in gatefold jacket with fold out poster and download
codes. Price corrected.
FatPossum
DLP
$27.25
Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast/Useless Creatures [deluxe edition] (ON SALE)
PS, US Double-CD deluxe version features a bonus CD of instrumentals,
completely different artworek/packaging, fold out poster... 23 tracks
total.
FatPossum
DCD
$27.25
Bird, Andrew
Noble Beast (ON SALE)
PS, US New album of subdued, gentle & dreamily gorgeous folk-pop.
2009 release from the quirky but melodic singer/songwriter. Swiftly
picking up popularity with his fifth album The Mysterious Production
of Eggs, Andrew Bird then signed with Fat Possum Records for his 2007
highly anticipated follow-up record Armchair Apocrypha. Now he stands
poised with this new record, which he spent most of 2008 working on.
14 tracks.
FatPossum
CD
$15.00
Bitter Tears
The Grinning Corpse Who Went To Town
PS, US Songwriters Michael McGinley & Alan Scalpone comb resale
shops for neglected band instruments. They play everywhere from restauraunts,
churches, inside cars & established rock clubs blasting German
Mardi Gras beats w/ wild brass bugling, thunderous contrabass lines,
acoustic guitars & mellophones.
Roydale
CD
$9.25
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Don't You Want to Be In a Cult [picture disc]
PS, US Amazing picture disc awesomeness from Pittsburgh's weirdest.
A rad picture disc, this record marks the first new material following
the band's acclaimed 2007 release Dandelion Gum and the "Zodiac
Girls" 7" on Suicide Squeeze. Features "Don't You Want
to Be in a Cult" b/w "Feel the Drip". Limited to 1000.
Includes a download card, we thinks.
MexicanSummer
12"
$15.00
Blackout Beach
Skin of Evil
PS, US Blackout Beach is the solo nom de guerre of Carey Mercer (FROG
EYES/SWAN LAKE). Skin of Evil is remarkable in the sense that a. it
contains a story, and b. that it sticks to the story; a rare occurrence
in these free times. "Donna" is the subject, and each of
her lovers (past & present) say their peace in song (Donna gets
her song, too). Composed, played & recorded entirely by Mercer
alone, these songs revel in the proto-punk darkness of the heady Cleveland
axis (e.g. Peter Laughner, David Thomas) with a minimal, textural
& almost Suicide-ish sense of pop form & the experimental
nature of contemporary Scott Walker works.
SoftAbuse-31
CD
$11.75
Bleaks
Haste, Error
PS, US Trio of Jeremy Lemos (WHITE/LIGHT & WHITE/LICHENS), Kyle
Bruckmann (EKG, PINK MOUNTAIN, LOZENGE) & Steve Silverstein (CHRISTMAS
DECORATIONS)
Wodger
LP
$19.00
Bluethings, The
Blow Your Mind (1964-1967)
PS, US 2CD set with career-spanning 65 tracks. Previously unreleased
recordings and stunning sound! A 24-page booklet details the complete
career of the band and is rich in photos and recollections."
"I remember going to see The Bluethings several times in the
'60s in McCook, Nebraska and talking with Richard Scott as he sat
on the edge of the stage during breaks. I was only 13 the first time
I saw them and was knocked out by their sound. Scott was always tinkering
with his Fender tube amps and played bass both right and left-handed
during the same song! Mike Chapman had a Dan Electro Longhorn guitar
one time and the first fuzz tone I ever heard. Bobby Day was a great
drummer. Val Stecklein's voice was unforgettable. He played a Guild
Bluesbird guitar and I think was a legend even back then. The Bluethings
were outstanding, head and shoulders above all the other Midwest bands
of that time." --A Bluethings fan.
Cicadelic
DCD
$24.50
BMX Bandits
The BMX love EP
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 600 COPIES. Red vinyl. Elefant are congratulating
ourselves on the release, for the second time, of the exclusive 7"
of one of the most vital and active groups of the Scottish pop scene.
Duglas T. Stewart put together a handful of unreleased songs in this
item that marks the sepia tinted memory of the most elegantly poppy
seventies, led by the piano, evoking the halo of composers like Burt
Bacharach or Henry Mancini and artists like Dusty Springfield or Françoise
Hardy. From the new version of "Our Secret Life" in French,
rebaptized here as "Quand il n'y a plus d'amour" (with the
French adaptation by Nick Garrie) to the closing gem of the EP, a
version of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" that Olivia Newton-John
sang in "Grease", on of our favorite films, which Duglas
deliciously recreates with the collaboration of the Scottish band
THE ATTIC LIGHTS. The single is completed with two very recent recordings,
the unreleased "I Can Wait Forever", intimate folk pop marked
with elegant melodies and vocals, and a version of "You Don't
Want to Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe" by MY LITTLE AIRPORT. When
Duglas received MY LITTLE AIRPORT's album, published by Elefant, he
fell instantly in love with the song. He played it live a few days
later and soon after decided to record it in the studio, the magnificent
result of which is here. A precious collection of songs with the indelible
stamp of one of the most gifted minds in pop of the last 25 years
at the controls. As always, Duglas, it's a pleasure.
Elefant-268
45
$7.75
Bodies Obtained, The
From the Top of My Tree
PS, US The path that leads to The Bodies Obtained is a long one. Conceived
in Detroit, MI, not much is known of the extremely elusive duo (there
isn't even an existing photograph of the artists) other than the fact
that they took their name from the Joy Division song "Day of
the Lords", and whatever other little bits of information they
make available to the public via cryptic press releases sent to the
media from within the band's camp. The Bodies Obtained are of indiscriminate
age, and only now fielding their first album, From The Top Of My Tree
to the greater public. A timeless piece of music, ...My Tree could
have been conceived in 1978, 1988, 1998 or 2008: it's the sonic documentation
of an ongoing project that spans electronica, experimental rock and
synth-pop from a group who have experienced it all. With songs akin
to those of Brian Eno, the Residents and Fad Gadget, TBO use their
anonymity to lead the listener to explore a realm that could be associated
with those bands: an obscure place where nothing is quite what to
expect around the next bend. Discord and discomfort are as important
as reward and satisfaction, and the album is a living, breathing testament
to that rhetoric. The music itself is heavier than most electronic
bands out there, more synths, more echo, more ether, more meaning.
One member of TBO attests: "For us the band's name also ties
into our reason for making music. Due in part, to that perfect act
of nature that put us here, in this body, at this time and place.
Finding music attractive, it has forced us to express our 'art damaged'
selves through it". Song titles like "Let the Worm Seize
the Day" and "The Pig that I Am"; channeling even more
'80s electro gloom, validate the band's statements off the bat.
FindingYouAttractive
CD
$10.00
Bodychoke
Cold River Songs
PS, US Formed by members of SUTCLIFFE JUGEND & WHITEHOUSE, this
was a noisy rock anomaly as powerful & provocative as its name
would suggest. Their material was dark, violent, strangely hypnotic
& defied categorization. This long out-of-print unheralded classic
has been given the deluxe treatment; now remastered to include 3 bonus
tracks. RIYL: Swans, Nick Cave/Birthday Party, Joy Division, Throbbing
Gristle.
Relapse
CD
$14.75
Bon Iver
Blood Bank
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-134
12
$9.00
Bon Iver
Blood Bank
PS, US The four-song Blood Bank collection continues down the path
forged by 2008's critically acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago. While
still tied to the identity of the place where it was born, Bon Iver
is no longer an unplanned entity synonymous with Justin Vernon. It
is an idea, a place and sentiment that has now become as international
as it is timeless. From the title track's remembrance of the winter
warmth we seek, to the summer love tribute of b-side gem"Babys,"
Bon Iver's snow-blanketed harmonies live across the seasons. Still,
there is a reverence for sabbatical, solitude and the winding down
of time. As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection
is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air
move. Like a fire you've been stoking for hours and finally got to
sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is frozen
solid. Bon Iver has grown to include more than what was available
at the much-fabled Wisconsin cabin, such as piano, slide guitar, and
vocoder. As Justin layers on harmonies in the meditative R&B a
capella "The Woods," he declares "I'm building a still
to slow down the time." It is as poetic as it is necessary. Both
expansive and intimate, these four songs explore the darker and lighter
natures of the seasons and what they signify, and offer a dynamic
glimpse into the Natural energy and refined craftsmanship that characterize
Justin Vernon's music.
Jagjaguwar-134
CD5
$7.50
Bones, Mike
Fool For Everyone
PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place
called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new
friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being
in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves
naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her
game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's
Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote
one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other
songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't
on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women
and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of
guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's
too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no
guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when
making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less
so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because
it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I
like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons.
All of the above is factual as far as I can tell. Memory is a tricky
thing, but you know that. We've probably read the same books. Good
night." - Mike Bones "Anthemic doesn't have to mean overblown
you know. Mr. Bones can do it with swooning casualness, sieving the
twee from Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, leaving only heart
and soul." - NME
"Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of every musician you like
in New York. He's the New York music-geek world's secret weapon."
- Vice Magazine "Bones is a guitar hero inside and out, master
apprentice of a steel-eyed, determined blues first informed by punk,
not the sallow, honeyed agony seeping out of our most emotionally
isolated singer-songwriters." - Dusted
TheSocialRegistry-72
LP
$12.25
Bones, Mike
Fool For Everyone
PS, US "A Fool For Everyone was made in April 2008 at a place
called The Seaside Lounge. A few musicians joined me, old and new
friends. Recording took four days. I don't particularly enjoy being
in studios, but this time was easy. Decisions presented themselves
naturally and we got good takes. Everyone was on top of his or her
game. All these songs were written after June 2007, except "Everybody's
Always Coming Down On Me" which is quite an old song. I wrote
one on the beach in Spain, the rest at my desk in New York City. Other
songs were written in that time and in those places. Those aren't
on A Fool For Everyone. Most songs exist because of beautiful women
and existential despair, but that's no surprise. There are a lot of
guitars on A Fool for Everyone, not just mine, but Matt Sweeney's
too. Our moves go well together. My last record purposefully had no
guitar solos, this one purposefully does. Intention is important when
making things, having complete understanding of one's intentions less
so. I heard my father doesn't like the cover of this record because
it's a naked picture of me. It's OK, I sort of knew he wouldn't. I
like the picture and I like the girl who took it. I have my reasons.
All of the above is factual as far as I can tell. Memory is a tricky
thing, but you know that. We've probably read the same books. Good
night." - Mike Bones "Anthemic doesn't have to mean overblown
you know. Mr. Bones can do it with swooning casualness, sieving the
twee from Sufjan Stevens and Belle & Sebastian, leaving only heart
and soul." - NME "Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of
every musician you like in New York. He's the New York music-geek
world's secret weapon." - Vice Magazine "Bones is a guitar
hero inside and out, master apprentice of a steel-eyed, determined
blues first informed by punk, not the sallow, honeyed agony seeping
out of our most emotionally isolated singer-songwriters." - Dusted
TheSocialRegistry-072
CD
$11.50
BPA
I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
PS, US The legendary forgotten sessions of the BRIGHTON PORT AUTHORITY,
recently uncovered! Genre bending music that was ahead of it's time
features collaborations w/ IGGY POP, DAVID BYRNE, JAMIE T & MARTHA
WAINWRIGHT
SouthernFried
CD
$12.00
Brown, Drew
Tiago La is Losing the Plot EP
PS, US Native Texan has been crafting lo-fi pop/folk ditties since
2004. While writing this EP, he wandered by Beck's studio to contribute
on "The Information." Now a resident of LA and Beck's right
hand man, Drew is using this EP as his introduction to the world.
Lex
CD5
$7.00
Burst, Charles
Come Home & Feast
PS, US As a distinguished engineer, he has worked on records by the
New Pornographers, Gang Gang Dance, Takka Takka, Crystal Stilts &
Black Dice. As a performer, he has played in THE OCCASSION. His first
solo album tones down the more psychedelic aspects of his past endeavors,
w/ stripped down instrumental passages & a dark lyrical approach
laced w/ just a hint of humor.
ErnestJenning
CD
$10.00
Bust
#55
PS, US Amber Tamblyn on cover! Cowgirls gone wild, the women of Mad
Men, death becomes her, OMG vampires
ZINE
$4.75
Buzzcocks
Singles Going Steady
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Capitol
LP
$16.00
Calexico
Live From Austin, TX
PS, US They have been called "the voice of the American southwest,"
but the fact of the matter is that musically they are all over the
map (they list as their influences Portuguese fado, 50's jazz, gypsy
music, 60's surf & spaghetti westerns). But when they made their
debut on the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage in September 2006, their latest
record "Garden Ruin" had taken them in new directions that
even they might not have imagined.
NewWest
DVD
$17.75
Chanson Sigeru
#1 Dad
PS, JAPAN "Chanson Sigeru" is the solo project from Tokyo
musician Shingo Shinmachi (member of Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic
Band and drummer for legendary band GELLERS. These band supported
Why?, Animal Collective, No Age Japan tour). He was born in Tokyo,
1980 and formed a band together with classmate when he was a junior
high-school student. Then the band changed a name as GELLERS and released
1st album "GELLERS" from COMPARE NOTES RECORDS in 2007and
they played at Fuji Rock festival same year. Also he has been supporting
GELLERS member 'Tokumaru Shugo's live as a toy percussionist. Now
he's a member of 'Tokumaru Shugo & The Magic Band'. His collage
illustration has widely attracted the attention and has worked for
the artwork of 'Tokumaru Shugo's debut album "EXIT" and
Eastern Youth bassist Ninomiya's side project 'Hyoutan'. Solo project
"Chanson Sigeru" music stretches from free folk, psychedelia,
noise, improv, indie rock to Japanese pop that all the sounds like
own voice besides the all performances by himself such as the drum,
the percussion, guitars, keyboards and the noise recorded with 4-track
MTR. '#1 DAD" consists the works between 2005-2008 and mastered
at Peace Music by Soichiro Nakamura (engineer of Yura Yura Teikoku,
Boris etc.) in September 2008. All artwork has done by Chanson himself.
Will appeal to fans of Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Boredoms, Black
Dice, Liars, Deerhoof. Tokumaru Shugo.
Moamoo-008
CD
$16.25
Cheap Trick
At Budokan
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Sony
LP
$18.00
Cheer Accident
Fear Draws Misfortune
PS, US Sixteenth album for this 18 year old Chicago mainstay who have
never stayed in one place long enough to get a bead on them, but who
have consistently released surprising albums of quality and sometimes
consternation. Their latest takes another turn with the core trio
being joined by 15 auxiliary musicians & singers. A strongly compelling
& high-reaching album using a wide variety of ideas, styles &
studio techniques, resulting in a cohesive & ambitious album of
art-rock. RIYD Art Bears, This Heat & Faust
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25
Chemicals
S-T
PS, US After a long string of houseparty quasi-performances across
the greater Champaign-Urbana area, innumerable changes in membership
and instrument assignments, and a horrible bout of whooping cough,
four members arose from the ashes of their rocky past, fusing into
the band you know (and love) today. August of 2004 was the first live
performance of the Chemicals by official name and lineup. Since then,
the Chemicals have shared the stage wtih acts including Earlimart
, Apollo Sunshine, the M's, Via Satellite, and varoius apperances
with locals Mad Science Fair, the Frame, Headlights, Green Light Go,
Terminus Victor, the Living Blue, and many more.
Chemicals
CD
$5.50
Cindytalk
Silver Shoals of Light
PS, US Limited to 500 one-sided 10" w/screen-printed b-side.
3rd release in Blue Sanct's "Art Singles" series. Drum machine
ticks along w/gorgeous bass that pulses up against Gordon Sharp's
vocals, leading to a climax of bliss & dissonance. Sharp was at
one time perhaps best known for lending his angelic voice to several
tracks on This Mortal Coil's classic masterpiece "It'll End In
Tears." The sound straddles several genres at once - ambient,
abstract, industrial, cinematic, glitch, post-punk. These will not
be around for long, so act quickly!
BlueSanct
10"
$16.00
City Center/Grouper
Split
PS, US LIMITED TO 500! Self-released tour 7"! "Here we have
a small slice of hazy gold from two of the best underground solo artists
currently making the rounds, namely Grouper (Portland's Liz Harris),
and City Center (a/k/a Other Music's own Fred Thomas); they have bestowed
upon us one exclusive track each on clear vinyl, and they're both
stunners... If you connected with the Grouper releases of last year,
or if you're a fan of the school of deep, dark psychedelic solo pop
coming out of the indie world at the moment, you need this. It's also
a nice teaser for the heavy dose of quality that is City Center's
forthcoming debut album, hopefully to be released in the coming months.
This bad boy is limited to 500 copies, so don't sleep!"
Self-Released
45
$5.50
Cleaver/Parker/Taborn
Farmers By Nature
PS, US A fully improvised communion of 3 of America's masters of music.
The manifest intent: sowing seeds of sound & bringing them to
full blossom. Abstract, organic, & fully inviting. Recorded live
at NYC's The Stone in June of 2008, this was the 3rd meeting of drummer
GERALD CLEAVER, bassist WILLIAM PARKER, & pianist CRAIG TABORN.
An immersive experience yielding magic & inducing a calming mystical
ambience. "Improvising in long, fluid ideas, Mr. Taborn's solos
were housewreckers." - NY Times
AUMFidelity
CD
$12.75
Clue To Kalo
Lily Perdida
PS, US Satisfyingly schizophrenic, Clue To Kalo's third full-length
release Lily Perdida is ten voices in one, all of them a different
branch off the same electric folk tree. Amidst jangly guitar, mod
ribbons of flute, and the voices of mastermind Mark Mitchell and duet
partner Ellen Carey, ten musical perspectives on fictional character
Lily Perdida emerge, each song from the point of view of a different
person in her life. A post-modern frolic of keyboards, harpsichords
and laptops, Lily Perdida is a gorgeous and sonically sprawling commentary
on the nature of history and identity. Each succeeding track reinterprets,
misreads or conflicts with the accounts that came before to collectively
create an anti-portrait of the main character. The music ebbs and
flows with the changing characters but never strays from the utterly
satisfying sound we have come to expect from Clue To Kalo. Hailing
from Adelaide, Australia, Clue To Kalo mastermind Mark Mitchell blends
a lo-fi acoustic-folk aesthetic to computer-based production in which
the technology is the means rather than the end. A generous use of
layered melodies, elemental textures, and multi-tracked vocals highlight
a vast range of influences and solidify the fact that Clue To Kalo
is first and foremost a songwriter. In addition to many shows in Australia
and Japan, Clue To Kalo has toured throughout the US and Canada, was
a featured artist at the Mush 2003 CMJ and 2005 SXSW showcases, and
has shared the stage with luminaries like the Greenhornes, Willowz,
Death Cab For Cutie, Caribou, and many more. Inventive without being
inaccessible, Clue To Kalo has established himself as a singular artist
of extraordinary scope and depth.
Mush-262
CD
$9.00
Cluster
Grosses Wasser [re-issue]
PS, US Originally released in 1979, this is CLUSTER's last great album.
Combining the ambient space rock of early albums on some songs w/
a more updated, beat-driven, dare I say space-disco? sound on others,
it at times sounds like the best of both worlds. They were probably
the most influential & ground-breaking group to come out of Germany
in the '70s (no small feat) & every one of their records is pure
trailblazing musical history.
Water
CD
$14.50
Color Cassette
Forever Sparrow
PS, FRANCE Color Cassette was initially the project of a single musician,
Jason Corder (aka OffTheSky): an old guitar and one four track recorder
went head to head in their home studio of Lexington, Kentucky. But
this solitary project quickly evolved into a collaborative one, in
the course of casual meetings that became veritable musical interventions.
In the course of four years, 14 musicians worked at the home studio.
Today, Color Cassette is Jason Corder and Matt Yarington (aka Set
In Sound), with various guests such as Clint Colburn (vocals), Colin
Campbell (drums, vibes), Anna Hess (violin) and Jordan Munson (textures,
field recordings). After Small Town Smoker, the first EP in 2008 ('single
of the week' at Boomkat, reference for online mail orders), Color
Cassette is now releasing their first concept album, Forever Sparrow.
It tells the story of a little boy who gets lost in a magic forest,
and when he is transformed into a sparrow, he chooses to stay in this
extraordinary world forever. This musical journey, which evokes the
themes found in Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland, takes the shape
of an acoustic collection in outlines deformed through an electronic
prism. Sketched during the sunny summer afternoons of 2007, this handful
of ideas metamorphosed into song-format fragments, which put forth
the best part of a sound digression. They form a record that is a
miniature, moving, and sometimes disturbing, odyssey. COLOR CASSETTE:
Jason Corder : vocals, lyrics, vibes, melodica, drums, guitar, bass,
production... Matt Yarington : production, drums, programming. Guests:
Clint Colburn: vocals Colin Campbell: drums, vibes Anna Hess: violin
Jordan Munson: textures, field recordings. DISCOGRAPHIE: (*ADIM =
AUTRES DIRECTIONS IN MUSIC) LP/EP - "Small Town Smoker EP"
(2xCDR, Mobeer (sub-label of Moteer / 2008) - "Forever Sparrow
LP" (ADIM*/2008) Various / remixes - 'Here We Go Again' on "Various
Artists - Assemblage Session 1 (Abandon Building Records/2005)
AutresDirectionsInMusic-020
CD
$16.25
Colossal Yes
Charlemagne's Big Thaw
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BaDaBing!
LP
$14.25
Colossal Yes
Charlemagne's Big Thaw
PS, US Inspired by the Kiwi indie-pop formula of Tall Dwarfs, The
Clean, & The Verlaines. Using piano as the main instrument, this
is a reawakening of the pop aesthetic done Piano Man style. The end
result is unique yet similar to the epic pop bands of the past. This
pays respect to songwriters like Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Bejar of Destroyer
& Alex Chilton while also incorporating the honesty of Graham
Nash's "Songs for Beginners," the romanticism of Nikki Sudden't
"Waiting on Egypt," & the sonic merriment of Thunderclap
Newman's "Hollywood Dream"
BaDaBing!
CD
$14.25
Cooper, Matthew Robert
Miniatures
PS, US Nine short saturnian interludes make up the first proper vinyl
release by the sound artist who has intrigued your collapsed antenna
many times before as Eluvium, Matthew Robert Cooper. Atmospheric chamber
music from the cardboard box vortex. Miniatures moves from swirling
spatial feedback manipulations to stripped down minimal piano pieces
and back while you watch from the curbside the ghostly parade. Limited
to 2,000 copies with the first 1,000 on colored vinyl. PITCHFORK:
"Matthew Robert Cooper maintains the deep-seated ache that characterizes
his music as Eluvium, offering an album of orchestral and electronic
sketches drawn from a yet-to-be-completed symphony."
GaardenRecords-001
LP
$13.75
Costa, Gal
S-T
PS, US REISSUE on 180gm vinyl! Originally released in 1969, COSTA's
2nd album is one of the finest releases to come out of Brazil's Tropicalia
movement. Feat. songwriting & vocal help from 2 of the original
Tropicalismos, CAETANO VELOSO & GILBERTO GIL, she flows effortlessly
between shredding psychedelia & smooth bossa nova. An essential
record for anyone that appreciates the far reaches of Brazilian popular
music. Incl. the classic trks "Baby" * "Não
Identificado." Such a pleasant surpise to see this available
on vinyl again! RECOMMENDED!
4MenWithBeards
LP
$16.75
Cotton Jones
Paranois Cocoon
PS, US This is an album full of quiet, wooden psychedelia that reflects
the duo's casual pursuit of comfort & freedom under the mountains
of Cumberland, Maryland. In "By Morning Light," Nau (PAGE
FRANCE) & McGraw's voices draw each other out of a contemplative
melancholy & into a state of amazed gratification; the music here
shimmers, always - the snare cracks against the tug of the guitar
- reaching the sublime crush of Yo La Tengo's "And Then Nothing
Turned Itself Inside Out." It's simple, understated perfection.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$13.25
Crewe, Sally & The Sudden Moves
Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
PS, US Even before her auspicious 2003 debut full-length, Drive It
Like You Stole It, Yorkshire's Sally Crewe proved herself to be a
songwriting master of economy, combining a classicist's touch of pop
history with a decidedly modern, lean approach to the Next Wave Of
New Wave (after The Last Wave). And while 2005's Shortly After Take-Off
was a slightly more expansive take on things, musically and lyrically,
powerhouse album numero 3, Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You has
proven far superior to both, with Crewe proving she can cram twice
as much information into each composition if merely allowed to stretch
the length from two minutes flat to 2:30. Stylistically, she's bent
but not broken a winning formula, and while Your Nearest Exit... is
the most varied Sudden Moves effort to date, both rhythmically and
lyrically, the bon mots flow very quickly and rarely overstay their
welcome. Unlike, say, Turkey's occupation of Cyprus.
Based in Austin, TX for the past four years,
Sally's prowess onstage and in the studio is due in some portion to
the most empathic and telepathic rhythm section she's recruited to
date: drummer George Duron (Roky Erickson, Dumptruck, Jon Dee Graham)
and bassist Matt Baab (The Distant Seconds). Though with all due respect
to the capitol city's most propulsive rock trio, it's her songs and
voice that set The Sudden Moves apart from the legion of merely competent
hopefuls that litter the nation's indie circuit.
Recorded throughout 2007 in separate sessions
with Spoon's Jim Eno at Public Hi-Fi, (and subsequently with Jim Vollentine
at Mob House), Crewe's latest collection of tunes, while unmistakably
in her patented style, have never been as catchy, complex nor as anthemic.
Nor as well recorded.
Though sporadically touring with friends like
Spoon, Mission of Burma and John Vanderslice, to name a handful, The
Sudden Moves have until this point generated more goodwill than money.
With the band making a hard fought transition into something approaching
a full time-y endeavor, the trio are very poised to flip that equation
around. (Ideally, they'd like to avoid the bad will).
Like many other brilliant bands that are either
5 or 5 million minutes ahead of their time, Sally Crewe & The
Sudden Moves have yet to approach household-word status (save for
their own households). Said situation is likely to be sorted out shortly,
but until then, you have the unique opportunity to tell your friends
how terrific 'Magnet' and 'Sleepyhead' are a good few weeks before
they've either been leaked or blogged-2-death.I don't wanna say such
chances come along once in a lifetime - for all I know, you could
be 300 years old - but songwriters this witty, confident and cool
are awfully rare. - Gerard Cosloy
8TrackMindRecords-001
CD
$10.50
Cut Off Your Hands
You & I
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FrenchKiss
LP
$17.50
Cut Off Your Hands
You & I
PS, US Debut from the self-proclaimed "fight-pop" group.
Features a contribution from ex-SUEDE guitarist BERNARD BUTLER. Previous
tours w/ Crystal Castles, Duke Spirit, Black Kids & We Are Scientists.
FrenchKiss
CD
$13.25
Daily Void
(Surprise Surprise) You've Lost Your Eyes b/w In the Year Zero
PS, US
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Dakota Suite
End of Trying
PS, US This is the first release for Liverpool's Dakota Suite on the
Karaoke Kalk label. Chris Hooson is the main singer/songwriter for
the trio and it is an extremely personal guitar project that deals
with tragedies in Chris' life and the constant ups and downs in the
success of his favorite team, FC Everton. One thing's for certain,
we're not talking about happy music here. The track titles on the
albums Alone With Everybody (1996), The Way I'm Sick (2002) or Waiting
For The Dawn To Crawl Through And Take Away Your Life (2007) on Glitterhouse
Records already point out some of this sensitive man's feelings. Deeply
sad melodies and melancholy pain are also the main emotions on The
End Of Trying, but we're not talking about sadness in the form of
self-pity. Hooson focuses on understated sounds like flowing piano
chords and a flexible cello arrangement, while fellow members David
Buxton and Colin Dunkley take turns on the piano. American cellist
David Darling wonderfully accentuates Hooson's harmonic sadness with
his stylish string instrument. Darling has made soundtracks for Wim
Wenders and also was nominated for a Grammy Award for his album Cello
Blue. Together, Dakota Suite and Darling form a striking ensemble
which by no means only have depressing moments -- their music is very
soothing, too. The recordings were made in various houses in Leeds
and at Darling's home in Goshen, Connecticut. Chris realized a life
long dream recording the album with his all-time favorite cellist.
He doesn't usually find life so great. He only gets the strength to
survive from collaborations like this, a healthy portion of cynicism
which he otherwise channels into his lyrics, and above all, through
his peaceful and sentimental sound experiences.
KaraokeKalk
CD
$15.00
Dalek
Gutter Tactics
PS, US One of the heaviest hip-hop groups ever, & one of the few
to consistently fuse extreme metal textures w/ hip-hop
beats & radical politics. "[This is] more about us continually
doing some early hip-hop shit but w/ the attitude of the Melvins or
Black Sabbath" - MC DALEK
Ipecac
CD
$16.25
Danzca AKA Maxime Dangles & Paul Nazca
Speicher 63
PS, GERMANY Speicher returns to form for 2009. Feeling the urge to
display a sweetened vulgarity for fully-formed techno -- Kompakt's
young starlet Maxime Dangles teams up with Paul Nazca for this monstrous
release. "Dark Neptune" is a bass-squelching power-rocker
-- thoroughly delivering all peaks and no drifts. "Aquarel"
is a more melodic affair, but pulls out all the right punches with
a tangible, house-like quality. Definitely a classic approach that
meets the Speicher seal of approval.
Kompakt
12
$11.50
Death
For The Whole World To See
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity/Twos&Fews
LP
$14.75
Death
For The Whole World To See
PS, US Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit. Raw with little polish,
the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio
of brothers. The Hackneys were first influenced by soul & funk
music but it all changed when they saw Iggy and the Stooges. Inspired
by The Who, Alice Cooper & Led Zeppelin; the brothers finally
see their first full length release, remastered & ready for the
world to hear.
DragCity/Twos&Fews
CD
$13.25
Death In June
All Pigs Must Die
PS, US Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy Discs
series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged ritual.
While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic Death
In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with the
addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial elements
also permeate half the album. Out of print for several years, the
reissued CD comes in a foil-blocked soft-pak.
Soleilmoon
CD
$16.00
Death In June
All Pigs Must Die
PS, US LP version. Stunningly unsettling picture disc limited to 2000
copies. "Another in the 'Cleanse The Hand That Feeds You' Leprosy
Discs series, this exercise in exorcism is a sonically double-edged
ritual. While the original 2001 release saw the return of the classic
Death In June instrumentation of acoustic guitars and trumpet, with
the addition of accordion by Andreas Ritter (Forseti), industrial
elements also permeate half the album."
Soleilmoon
LP
$20.00
Death In June
Presents Kapo!
PS, US The soundtrack to the funeral of New Europa imprisoned by its
past, an idea originally inspired by Douglas P.'s war-time experiences
in Croatia between 1991-1995. This 1996 collaboration with Richard
Leviathan (Strength Through Joy/Ostara) continues in a similar musical
vein first seen on the Scorpion Wind project released the same year.
This is now reissued in a black foil-blocked soft-pak.
Soleilmoon
CD
$16.00
Decemberists
Tain/5 Songs
PS, US 180 GRAM VINYL!! A combination of new & old, of where The
Decemberists have been & where they're headed. The A-side is made
up of the new, a short form concept, record called "The Tain",
based on what most consider the Illiad of Irish myth. While keeping
the signature Decemberists sound intact, the band gives a significant
nod to such '70s progrogressive rockers as Deep Purple & Iron
Butterfly. "The Tain" was recorded over an intensive 4 day
period during which the band actually slept on the floor of the recording
studio, & captured & brought to light w/the help of Christopher
Walla (Death Cab For Cutie Cutie) at the venerable Hall Of Justice
in Seattle. The B-side is a vinyl release of the band's 1st EP "5
Songs". It is simpler & less adorned, but still a marvelous
collection of characters trapped in song, clawing & cooing their
way out.
JealousButcher
LP
$11.75
Deep Feeling
Pretty Colours
PS, UK This short-lived band wowed London audiences w/ their audacious
brand of exotic proto-psychedelia, even backing Jimi Hendrix at his
first UK gig.
Sunbeam
CD
$18.00
Diplo
Decent Work for Decent Pay Volume 1
PS, US This provides an overview of what he has been up to for the
last four years, starting w/ classic tracks & out-takes from "Florida,"
taking in production work on such huge records as M.I.A.'s "Paper
Planes," Kano's "Reload It," & Bonde Do Role's
album for Domino, plus a host of remixes for the likes of CSS, Spank
Rock, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Black Lips, & Peter Bjorn & John.
BigDada
DCD
$17.25
Diplo
Blow Your Head
PS, US This is the label run by Mr. Popularity...DIPLO! After producing
huge tracks like MIA's "Paper Planes," & remixes for
heavyweights like Coldplay, Radiohead, Feist, Hot Chip & The Black
Lips, as well as releasing mix CDs like 'Santogold in Dub.' "Blow
Your Head" is a remix of DIPLO's own production "Wassup
Wasshup" feat. RYE RYE. This is the 1st vinyl release from Diplo
in 2 years! Feat. remixes from CROOKERS, BART BMORE & DJ SEGA.
Full color picture sleeve & comes w/ free MP3 download coupon
of the entire EP.
MadDecent
12"
$8.50
Druid Perfume
S-T
PS, US Featuring three members of the PIRANHAS-one of Detroit's most
infamous punk bands of the last decade-DRUID PERFUME continue the
"Where the fuck are these guys coming from?" mayhem, elevating
it to the next level of Weird Punk. Tropically hot in its sweaty,
confident swagger their sauntering, jazzy art-skronk collides beautifully
with raw, soupy Detroit punk viciousness. This five-piece eviscerates
that rotting corpse of Detroit punk, dancing, marching around the
body, finger-painting the funhouse walls with the entrails in a truly
manic Lord of the Flies-like hysteria. Piggy never had a chance. This
controlled chaos-Druid Perfume's debut - plays itself out over eight
songs. In and out in a breathless 24 minutes. Vinyl only."-Mark
Murrmann
Pigs
LP
$13.25
Dutchess & The Duke, The
Never Had A Chance b/w Scorpio
PS, US
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Earle, Steve & Del McCoury Band
Mountain
PS, US The acclaimed bluegrass album from 1999, finally reissued after
many years out of print. Features contributions from EMMYLOU HARRIS,
IRIS DEMENT, JERRY DOUGLAS, MARTY STUART, GILLIAN WELCH, GENE WOOTEN
& JOHN HARTFORD.
NewWest
CD
$17.75
Eighteen Wheels Burning
Tweaked Out, Strung Up & Redlined
PS, US Tripped out guitars, a pounding rhythm section, sonic vocals
& featuring ex-members of THE WANT (Southern Lord), this is set
to establish the group as one of the premier bands on the stoner rock
scene.
MeteorCity
CD
$13.75
Elder
S-T [deluxe edition]
PS, US Crushing & destroying everything in its path comes the
newest offering from these psychedelic doomers. A potent concoction
of swirling, groovy, heavy-as-shit riffs, pounding percussion, &
heathen vocal work destined to please the gods of Holy Smoke.
MeteorCity
CD
$15.50
Elegi
Varde
PS, US Norwegian composer TOMMY JANSEN returns w/ the second installment
of a trilogy for Miasmah Recordings. An incredibly accomplished body
of work, its natural progression of movements transporting the listener
through cinematic soundscapes & evocative passages of intense,
doomladen, droning acoustic instruments. The eerie, underlying sounds
taken from seemingly unrecognizable sources, add to the feelings of
unresolved tension, bringing to mind the later works of Scott Walker,
the slow-build of Gorecki's "3rd Symphony" & the murk
of Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking Of The Titanic." He operates
in the area between composed & improvised music, building bridges
between classical music & dark ambient drones & textures.
Miasmah
CD
$15.50
Eluvium
Life Through Bombardment (7XLP) (ON SALE)
PS, US *LIMITED EDITION! Highly anticipated and long-overdue, Life
Through Bombardment collects virtually every Eluvium song ever released
(plus a bunch of rare and unreleased non-album tracks) into one stunning
7xLP set, all on vinyl for the first and only time. Each record is
packaged in its own full-color jacket, featuring exquisite new artwork
from Jeannie Lynn Paske, drawn exclusively for this set. The seven
jackets are then bound into a beautiful dark green hardbound, linen-cover
book, with metallic gold foil stamping and embossed text on the spine,
and a beautiful full-color print embossed into the front cover. The
inside front cover includes a removable old-fashioned library card,
complete with dated, personalized signatures from the artists and
designers involved in the creation of this package. The inside back
cover includes a mind-blowing 12x36" foldout double-sided full-color
poster insert, featuring more artwork from Ms. Paske. Each copy of
this set will include a unique digital code to download high-quality
mp3s of the entire box set collection. This is limited to a one-time
pressing of 1,000 copies, pressed onto 100% virgin black vinyl. "Eluvium
is going down in history as one of the innovators of contemporary
ambience." - Drowned In Sound "The best contemporary ambient
musician." - Pop Matters "Needless to say, Life Through
Bombardment is limited to 1,000 copies and will probably sell out
faster than you can say Merzbox." - Pitchfork
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-119
7XLP
$150.00
Emeralds
What Happened
PS, US Emeralds is at the forefront of a new American movement that
continues the experimentation in analog electronics of the 60's and
70's while ignoring the formulaic and boring turn electronic music
took in the later part of the 20th century. Add a renewed energy gained
from their connections to the noise movement, and you have some of
the most original and true music of the new century. 'What Happened'
continues their exploration in tonal beauty of their recent work that
brought to mind pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Cluster, while presenting
a new approach to structure that brings to mind masters like Luc Ferrari
and opens our ears to a new universe full of astonishing possibilities.
This is the true new American infinite electronic music of our present.
Recorded by Emeralds and mastered by James Plotkin.
NoFunProductions-35
CD
$12.25
Eno, Brian
Ba-Benzélé/Subterraneans
PS, US Slow To Speak is a gray-area vinyl recontextualization label
-- reissuing onto 12" vinyl its favorite tracks -- beyond any
obvious genre or stylistic confines. All releases are compiled by
Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson for Slow to Speak. There are
have been close to 30 releases in the past, from Loggins & Messina
to Haki R. Madhubuti. Packaging is often elegantly screenprinted.
Although some earlier STS releases featured unique "edits",
most are just album tracks pressed to vinyl to give new context and
availability to classic works from the past -- listen now, ask questions
later. This Eno 12" features "Ba-Benzélé"
from Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Music & "Subterraneans"
from the David Bowie's Low album. "Brian Eno is one of the true
pioneers of electronic music; from the very beginning of its inception,
as one of the most in-demand studio producers of his era, he served
as one of its most eager disseminators, accomplishing some of the
first syntheses of rock, experimental and electronic music -- and
delivering it to popular audiences previously unimagined before his
time. In the strangely familiar alien tones & effects of the then
excessively intricate and virtually inaccessible synthesizers of the
early 1970s, Eno perceived in electronic production the key to popular
music's transcendence, its elevation to the level of true intellectual
& artistic expression -- an expanse of seemingly endless potential
that allowed not only the seasoned & qualified composer to express
himself through the new electronic sound, but also provided entrenched
genres the opportunity to discard with their embedded orthodoxies
& breathe a whole new air of life into their creative process
& product. His work with avant-garde trumpet player John Hassell
is a deeply inspiring example of this early pioneering. Hassell was
himself obsessed with atypical scales & unfamiliar instrumentation,
only in his case, he was convinced that in the most remote regions
of Earth's untouched & undeveloped sonic landscape lay the most
potent tools for music's superseding to the domain of sublime experiential
transcendence. With Eno's prowess at the opposite end of the technological
scale, the two produced some of the most wildly divergent co-existences
of sound, mixing the unsettling tones miraculously produced from Hassell's
trumpet -- which were for the most part, inspired by traditional forms
of obscure world music -- with the strange warmth of Eno's comforting
synth chords & melodic disposition to create music that is at
one moment deeply warm, comforting and pleasing to the ears -- only
to morph into something suspiciously unfamiliar, uncharted and singularly
abrasive -- beautiful still, but unsettling nonetheless... the perfect
balance. But it was Eno's work with legendary rock/pop/post-punk superstar
David Bowie that demonstrated the breathtaking potential of Eno's
electronic aesthetic, its integration into the most resistant of musically-opposite
fields, and its true transcendent potential. 'Subterraneans' is the
quintessential tragedy in song, a piece that needs no definite lyrical
tale to relate its truly melancholic expression, its very notes, its
distorted, shivering wails of possibly human melodic groans, its sub-bass
synth pads, the only necessity for full expression: undeniably Eno's
masterwork. It weeps, not through the deceiving over-intellectualization
of poetry, but rather through the pure expression of tonal & melodic
sound. This is the essence of Eno's contribution to modern music.
Compiled by Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson for Slow To Speak."
Silkscreened lettering on jacket with glitter.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00
Eno/Moebius/Roedelius
After The Heat
PS, US Originally released in 1978, Eno's 2nd album collaboration
w/ Moebius & Roedelius of CLUSTER is full of blessed-out instrumentals,
made up of repeated synthesizer patterns & sustained guitar. Reminiscent
of the ambient style from Eno's collaborations w/ Robert Fripp, this
is a classic piece of German kosmische musik.
4MenwithBeards
LP
$16.75
Epic 45
Bracken / Bibio Remixes
PS, UK Tracks : A : 'You Are An Annual' remixed by Bracken B : 'Stars
In Autumn' remixes by Bibio. 2 track 45rpm heavyweight 12" vinyl.
"Epic 45 are those cooler than thou post-post-rock chaps who
wang an album or EP out occasionally to be consumed rabidly by you,
the hungry music vulture. Now they've a limited remix 12" in
a variety of sleeves, one for each season of the year. I remember
when we used to actually have seasons in this country rather than
the schizo mulch of conditions we get these days! Bibio & Hood's
Chris Adams AKA Bracken are the prizefight contenders here, Bibio's
re-jig of 'Stars in Autumn' being an atmospheric brooder reminiscent
of later period Boards of Canada. Building up from fractured astral
wildlife effects into a spaced clanky ambler of a tune, I can also
hear bits of Intricate in there, a reassuringly old skool electronic
vibe, full of drifting twinkles & a shuffling phat beat. Very
cinematic in places, it really sets the mood for a lazy sunny afternoon's
loafing! Bracken re-shapes 'You are an Annual' into a pastoral and
blissed out journey full of hesitant bass thrums, shifting, morphing
effects that slip in and around the serene vocals and some impressive
dubbed-out delay and phasing action! This sounds closer to his later
Hood vision rather than the sonic tinkering and future pop of his
solo Bracken material and should just be the icing on the cake for
fans of both Hood & Epic 45! A real treat this one & we're
proud to be giving it the coveted SOTW" spot!
WaysideandwoodlandRecordings-001
12
$17.50
Fast N Bulbous-Beefheart
Project-Waxed Oop
PS, US "An Impetuous Stream Bubbled Up" IN TUESDAY. Latest
from Capt. Beefheart tribute project, led by two innovators of New
York's avant music scene: GARY LUCAS, who was guitarist for Captain
Beefheart's Magic Band in its latter years and saxist and arranger
PHILLIP JOHNSTON. Incl a bonus track feat. ROBYN HITCHCOCK! Their
mission statement: "The idea is to use the compositions of Don
Van Vliet as a vehicle for improvisation and arranging. Contains a
crew of seasoned improvisers from both the worlds of avant-garde jazz
and rock, who render the music as both a tribute and a creative adventure
in improvising. We use the horn section to take the place of the vocals,
as well as transmute this guitar-based music into ensemble into ensemble
interplay, between horns and guitar and rhythm section." "The
big brass band [Capt. Beefheart] never had."-Rolling Stone
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25
Fauna
Rain
PS, US A Strongly ecocentric two piece band working in the black metal
genre. This cd consists of one epic track lasting over an hour, beginning
with a field recording of rain in a forest, then an acoustic journey
and finally a raw black metal surge of power and pummel.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25
Fire Witch
Japan
PS, US This Melbourne, Australia act plays thundering, spacious metallic
sludge. This is a LTD ED, silk screened 1st run of only 200 copies
on COLOR vinyl. Aquarius Records sez of the band: "Aussie noise
rockers the Grey Daturas had been telling us forever about some killer
band called Fire Witch, who they played w/ all the time. FW are another
band who traffic in the slooooooooow & heavy, but they definitely
give it their own twist. Not sludgy like SUNNO))) or their legions
of followers, & not really noisy like many of their countrymen.
Instead they're some sort of strange downtuned slowcore mathrock.
Massive basses (that's right. no guitars!) churn & throb, the
drums a crushing pound, over the top, drawn out wailing 'leads', all
the makings of a proper rock band, but instead they fuck it all up...
laced w/ all sorts of killer melodies, making it sound like a doomed
version of June Of 44 or Engine Kid"
WantageUSA
10
$10.00
Fitness Forever
Personal Train
PS, SPAIN LP LIMITED EDITION 500 COPIES. White vinyl. FITNESS FOREVER
says that their debut album is a homage to their country, Italy, to
the musical tradition that gave way to marvelous pop artists from
the 60s to the 80s. But the group, led by Carlos Valderrama (VALDERRAMA
5), with this goal in mind, has achieved something much more important:
to make this homage extend to music in general, embracing an infinite
amount of references, styles and sounds, regurgitating them coherently
and with its own personality, without dispersion or eclecticism, showing
pop's common essence, independent of the epoch or the country it comes
from. It just has to have that touch of magic that makes the melodies
work, makes the arrangements surprising, and makes the whole exciting.
And in this first album from the Italian quartet, "Personal Train",
there is much more than this compressed into 30 minutes and just 12
songs. A titanic work that took over a year to record, using a recording
method similar to what composers from the sixties used: hours and
hours in the studio, trying out arrangements, instrumentation and
melodies. In addition to all of this, there is also the humor they
present their project with. They say, on myspace: "The producer,
composer, ex-underwear model, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Carlos
Valderrama (one of the worst dancers and singers in the music industry)
started FITNESS FOREVER in Naples (Italy) shortly after realizing
that love does not last forever. That's why, unfortunately, he couldn't
call the band LOVE FOREVER". Which is where the homage to fitness
begins, which is reflected in the very title of the album, the declarations
in interviews, or on the album cover. In any case, this album is full
of songs to dance to, because in the end, that counts as exercise
too, doesn't it? There are so many bands to reference, so many groups
to evoke, so many styles to pay homage to, that we can't do anything
but propose a little trip, song by song, through the whole album,
because it is by far the best way to get inside all of the different
paths that are opened up by listening to the album, written by Valderrama
(drums, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, glockenspiel,
percussion, lead vocals and chorus), Paster (lead vocals and chorus),
"Big Tony" Fresa (piano, fender rhodes, organ, synthesizer,
voice and clapping) and Scialdone (bass, lead guitar, 12 string guitar
and vocals).
Elefant-1139
LP
$16.25
Fitness Forever
Personal Train
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 500 COPIES. White vinyl. FITNESS FOREVER
says that their debut album is a homage to their country, Italy, to
the musical tradition that gave way to marvelous pop artists from
the 60s to the 80s. But the group, led by Carlos Valderrama (VALDERRAMA
5), with this goal in mind, has achieved something much more important:
to make this homage extend to music in general, embracing an infinite
amount of references, styles and sounds, regurgitating them coherently
and with its own personality, without dispersion or eclecticism, showing
pop's common essence, independent of the epoch or the country it comes
from. It just has to have that touch of magic that makes the melodies
work, makes the arrangements surprising, and makes the whole exciting.
And in this first album from the Italian quartet, "Personal Train",
there is much more than this compressed into 30 minutes and just 12
songs. A titanic work that took over a year to record, using a recording
method similar to what composers from the sixties used: hours and
hours in the studio, trying out arrangements, instrumentation and
melodies. In addition to all of this, there is also the humor they
present their project with. They say, on myspace: "The producer,
composer, ex-underwear model, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Carlos
Valderrama (one of the worst dancers and singers in the music industry)
started FITNESS FOREVER in Naples (Italy) shortly after realizing
that love does not last forever. That's why, unfortunately, he couldn't
call the band LOVE FOREVER". Which is where the homage to fitness
begins, which is reflected in the very title of the album, the declarations
in interviews, or on the album cover. In any case, this album is full
of songs to dance to, because in the end, that counts as exercise
too, doesn't it? There are so many bands to reference, so many groups
to evoke, so many styles to pay homage to, that we can't do anything
but propose a little trip, song by song, through the whole album,
because it is by far the best way to get inside all of the different
paths that are opened up by listening to the album, written by Valderrama
(drums, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, glockenspiel,
percussion, lead vocals and chorus), Paster (lead vocals and chorus),
"Big Tony" Fresa (piano, fender rhodes, organ, synthesizer,
voice and clapping) and Scialdone (bass, lead guitar, 12 string guitar
and vocals).
Elefant-1139
CD
$16.25
Foals
Olympic Airways
PS, US tune that walks the line between dance music & organic
art rock. SUPERMAYER toy w/ the original melodies & chorus, building
it all into an elated crescendo. EWAN PEARSON's mix is a Balearic-y
blissful gem that sets a new standard.
Kompakt
12
$12.50
Forgas Band Phenomena
Axis of Madness
PS, US French prog mainstay Patrick Forgas has been releasing jazz-rock
gems that showcase his compositional and arranging skills for over
30 years. The fourth by his current band combines the most attractive
aspects of jazz and rock composition with inspired solos. For fans
of: Arti e Mestieri, electric Gil Evans, Magic Malik, National Health,
Jean-Luc Ponty, Soft Machine, Frank Zappa. "...orchestral jazz-rock...of
the kind scarcely made anymore; virtuosic ,tasteful, and melodically
pleasing."-Exposé
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25
France Has the Bomb
Invisible Angle b/w GrimTrigger
PS, US 2nd single of prime stuff from these Chicago via Minneapolis
or vice-versa dudes. While the 7" single may not be the best
medium for these guys (you should read that as "bring on the
full length.") that doesn't mean that this thing isn't gonna
pay off in spades down the line (and I'm not talkin' about eBay!!?@#%.)
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Franz Ferdinand
Tonight
PS, US
Epic
CD
$16.00
Freezepop
Form Activity Motion EP
PS, US
Blistering
CD5
$8.25
Frumpy
All Will Be Changed [re-issue]
PS, US No other artist has had as lasting an influence on German rock
music as Inga Rumpf. Her smokey, bluesy voice, influenced by icons
such as Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone, fills fans all over the world
with enthusiasm to this day. Her seemingly limitless stylistic range
has rightfully earned Inga Rumpf a reputation as Germany's no. 1 rock
vocalist. 1970's All Will Be Changed saw the newly formed band gear
their music to established international sounds, but they immediately
found their own style thanks to the ever-present drone of a Hammond
organ and Rumpf's unique voice. They initially worked without a guitarist,
allowing keyboardist Jean-Jacques Kravetz to rotate the powerful Leslie
rotor. The national press initially eyed Frumpy with the typical scepticism
of that time towards anybody who made rock music on German shores.
Unimpressed by such ambiguities, Frumpy continued to work on their
career and influenced countless other bands and vocalists over the
years. Their now legendary debut album is being released completely
remastered in digipak format with exclusive liner notation and rare
photos.
Revisited
CD
$19.00
Frumpy
Frumpy 2 [re-issue]
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Inga Rumpf's Frumpy was among the most
startling bands on the entire German rock scene of the early '70s,
an act so diametrically opposed to the Krautrock boom beloved by critics
elsewhere that first impressions of their music always leave listeners
scratching their heads. If Frumpy has any role models, it is a collision
between Meddle-era Pink Floyd and a less-precocious Uriah Heep. Frumpy
2, unsurprisingly their second album, features just four tracks, but
all are soaring slabs of emotive guitar and keyboards, deeply progressive
of course, but unquestionably pop as well... Rumpf herself, meanwhile,
has a range and depth comparable to Curved Air's Sonja Kristina, with
an emotive strength which seems all the more remarkable when you remember
that English is not her native language... The guitar and keyboard
solos and duels which take place above the tumultuous rhythms are
as spectacular as anything else in the genre. But even while you're
sitting slack-jawed in awe, it is very difficult to play favorites.
Frumpy, like Rumpf's Atlantis after them, has antecedents aplenty,
and their influences peep out behind every corner. But the manner
in which they've been sewn together owes little to any Anglo-American
role models and little to any Krautrock basics, too. Quite simply,
Frumpy 2 is the prog album you'll be returning to long after the others
have all dulled into wallpaper."
Revisited
CD
$19.00
Future Of The Left
Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires
PS, US Super limited stock on the remaining copies of the ultra hot
Future of the Left live album that was previously only sold on the
US dates of the bands tour with Against Me. When they are gone they're
gone.
4AD
CD
$5.00
Gala Drop
S-T
PS, US Synthesizer orchestras, German Kraut & kosmische musik,
the keyboard hell of French unit Heldon, psych/free percussive tribalism,
a deep understanding of decades of dance music, Jamaica's dub processing
techniques, an extraordinary sensibility for sound resources &
additional mixing, & finally, the mastering skills of Rafael Toral.
The metrics of the groove & backbeat in the drum work, & the
ululating understanding of the synthesizer & keyboard phrases
reveal a completely familiar yet alien alternate universe of space-y
sound that is too good to be just druggy. Utterly zoned-out keyboard
& dub astral projection through new jungles of sound.
GalaDrop
CD
$18.00
Garrie, Nick
49 Arlington Gardens
PS, SPAIN Our story begins way back, specifically in 1969, when an
English university student picked up his guitar and began playing
in the south of France, spurred on by his passion for Dylan and for
surrealism. The story ends with this student, our Nick Garrie, recording
an album for the French label DiscAZ (home to Brigitte Bardot and
Michel Polnareff among others) with the producer Eddie Vartan (brother
of Sylvie Vartan and renowned producer of the time). The result, recorded
with a 56-musician orchestra, is "The Nightmare of J.B. Stasnislas,"
a marvelous collection of perfect melodies wrapped in a psychedelic
pop with majestic results. However, in one of those strange twists
that fate so often gives us, the head of the label and the person
in charge of the project, Lucien Morisse, commits suicide just a few
days after the album's release, leaving the project orphaned and with
no promotional plan. The result? "The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas"
becomes cursed, but over time grows into a cult item, with people
paying more than 1,200 euros for each of the limited copies, which
are almost impossible to find. A disc that, of course, Elefant is
re-releasing in 2009 as a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of
its publication. Meanwhile, our musician distances himself, disappointed,
from the music industry and decides to earn a living however he can.
In 1976 he meets the composer Francis Lai (who won an Oscar for "Love
Story" and wrote the scores for, among other movies, "A
Man and A Woman," "Live for Life," "Bilitis,"
"Dark Eyes" and "Emmanuelle"), with whom he will
work on diverse projects over the course of the years. In a rush of
inspiration he goes back to the studio, with part of Cat Stevens'
band, to record "Suitcase Man," this time under the name
Nick Hamilton, an album that will reach number one on Spanish lists
thanks to the single "Back to 1930" and which will allow
him to tour the country with Leonard Cohen, who will declare that
he wished he had written some of Garrie's songs. The impulse isn't
strong enough to keep him permanently in the music world, and despite
a few different attempts in 1994 ("The Playing Fields")
and in 2002 ("Twelve Old Songs"), he still hasn't found
his place. In the meantime, without knowing its creator, "The
Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas" continues nourishing its legend,
giving the definitive push to fame when Phil Smee (photographer and
album cover designer for groups in the 70s like THE YARDBIRDS or Syd
Barret) includes a song from this disc, "Wheel of Fortune,"
on one of his famous compilations, "Circus Days" (a compilation
on which LOS BRINCOS also appear). This is all a surprise for Garrie
when, in 2005, half joking, googles himself and discovers everything
that's happened with "The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas".
This motivates him to start singing again, and he enters a contest
for singer-songwriters, which he wins, and whose prize is a web page
to use for publicity for his music. The music industry is reintroduced
to Nick Garrie, and he is flooded with offers to reissue "The
Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas". Joe Foster, head of the Rev-ola
label and previously of Creation Records (one of the most important
and influential independent labels in the world, that had signed artists
such as PRIMAL SCREAM, FELT, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, OASIS, RIDE,
MY BLOODY VALENTINE, HOUSE OF LOVE, TEENAGE FANCLUB, THE BOO RADLEYS,
ST ETIENNE, THE PASTELS, MOMUS and PACIFIC) takes the bull by the
horns and rereleases the mythic 2005. Nick Garrie goes back on the
road, playing songs from the album as he had always intended them
to be: acoustic. Foster introduces him to the Scottish singer Ally
Kerr who invites him to play in Scotland. That night led to a recording
session, months later, in the Riverside studios in Glasgow, with a
group of musicians from the Scottish scene. Recording the new songs
with Nick Garrie were important artists like Norman Blake (TEENAGE
FANCLUB), Francis McDonald (NICE MAN, TEENAGE FANCLUB, BMX BANDITS),
the very Ally Kerr, Duglas T. Stewart (BMX BANDITS) exquisitely producing
the album, and Duncan Cameron (DELGADOS, TRAVIS, TRASHCAN SINATRAS)
as the sound engineer, along with the still unknown DOGHOUSE ROSES,
Spain's Sandra Belda Martínez (CALIFORNIA SNOW STORY, SUPERÉTÉ),
Rachel Allison, Iona McDonald and many other characters from the Scottish
indie pop scene. Aside from the "Scottish Sessions," the
disc includes the marvelous "Lovers," written with Francis
Lai for the soundtrack to the film "Plastic Tree" and "Stay
Till the Morning Comes," recorded in Villafranca (Portugal) with
the Portuguese producer Quim Correia. It is a delicious disc that
combines precious arrangements with the off-beat and elegant melodies
of Garrie. From the dreamy romanticism of "Lovers" to the
clear Frenchification of "Le pont Mirabeau," the precociousness
of "Twilight," the incredible voice of Rachel Allison in
"When Evening Comes" and the country folk of "On a
Wing and a Prayer". It's one of those discs that sees the light
of day thanks to the support of a new generation of musicians, admirers
of the British singer-songwriter. It's an honest, intimate, elegant,
precocious disc that maintains a marvelous balance between arrangements
and melodies. Just under thirty minutes of dreamy compositions, of
pop and tight folk that deals humbly and candidly with human nature
with the surprising element of juvenile fantasy that is "The
Clockmaker." This will be the album that musical history uses
to pay its dues to Nick Garrie. There are too many reasons for it
to be so - the marvelous harmonies added by the Scottish scene, an
astonishing collection of musical compositions, a deeply romantic
song co-written with a master like Francis Lai, the fact that "The
Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas" is living this small moment of glory
that chance took away from it originally and, above all, a singer-songwriter,
Nick Garrie, with a precious voice full of solemnity and a classic
pop feeling, in the best sense of the word, enjoying a moment of brilliant
inspiration.
Elefant-1140
CD
$16.25
Garrie, Nick
49 Arlington Gardens
PS, SPAIN LP LIMITED EDITION 600 COPIES.
Elefant-1140
LP
$16.25
Genghis Tron
Dead Mountain Mouth
PS, US REPRESS of this 2LP vinyl release in gatefold sleeve - 2 years
of being out of print! A ferocious & unnervingly innovative record
- a relentless cacophony of the huge metal riffs & ambient electronics
that have earned them worldwide acclaim. At the time, this was hailed
as one of the best records of the year by Exclaim!, Decibel &
Rock Sound - as well as strong praise from NY Times, Kerrang, etc.
LovepumpUnited
LP
$14.75
Giants
They, The Undeserving
PS, US Methodical, meticulous, precise. These are epic movements w/
a deliberate delivery, masterfully textured & layered. This band
has created music that travels through life cycles as the songs progress
& ultimately climax in crashing, atmospheric crescendos. Limited
to 500
MyleneSheath
LP
$15.50
Gil, Gilberto
Banda Um
PS, FRANCE Gilberto Gil is a legend of Brazilian music and a cultural
icon in his country. From 2003 to 2008, he has served as his country's
Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva. He started out as a bossa nova musician, eventually
writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and
social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular
Brasileira and Tropicalismo movements of the 1960s, alongside artists
such as long-time collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military
regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat,
and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told
to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to the Brazilian
state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as
working as a politician and environmental advocate. Gil's musical
style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including rock,
Brazilian genres including samba and forró, African music,
and reggae. This Iris 'best-of ' collection includes some of Gil's
most popular songs, most of which were recorded in the '80s.
Iris
CD
$13.25
Glasvegas
Glasvegas [Bonus Tracks] [Explicit Content]
PS, US
Sony
CD
$13.00
Goblin Cock
Come with Me If You Want
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Robcore
LP
$13.25
Goblin Cock
Come with Me If You Want
PS, US "Rumored" to be the brainchild of Rob Crow of indie
wunderkinds PINBACK (Oh, it's him all right). This follow-up to their
mammoth debut "Bagged & Boarded" is yet another brave
step in the re-definition of true metal. Equal parts melodic &
punishing. At times this sounds like Failure reincarnated as a stoner
rock band...one that loves the crushing riffs of Big Business/Karp.
Robcore
CD
$13.25
Golden Boots
The Winter Of Our Discotheque
PS, US This Southwest alt-country band mixes psychedelic rock, folk,
and country which has drawn comparisons to Alex Chilton, The International
Submarine Band, Beck, and The Monkees. A blend of pop-folk with distortion-laden
breaks, fuzz guitar, primitive keyboards, and the unique clarity of
unencumbered experimentation.
ParkTheVan
CD
$13.00
Golden Triangle
S-T
PS, US This amazing band has toured with the likes of The Black Lips,
King Khan, Quintron and Miss Pussycat and play damaged psyched out
garage rock w/ dual female vocals. Contains six new tracks and a Redd
Kross cover! Limited to 500, pressed on gold wax, duh. Includes download
card, we think.
MexicanSummer
LP
$15.00
Gore
Hart Gore/Mean Man's Dream
PS, US An essential reissue of the first two albums from this seminal
instrumental Dutch band. Relentless, heavy pounding instrumental rock,
whose influence on other instrumental outfits like Pelican, Don Caballero,
Russian Circles, etc. is painfully obvious. With their use of repetitive
heavy rolling rhythms & bombastic execution, Gore pioneered a
new style of music for the time. Remastered plus unreleased bonus
material!
SouthernLord
DCD
$17.25
Grave Blankets
Our Love Is Real b/w Trip Wire
PS, US Final (?) release from these mid-west scuzz freaks. If this
is it for them then they are definitely going out on a high note.
We also still have a handful of the Grave Blankets / Touch-Me-Nots
7" that I'd highly recommend.
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Gris Gris
Live at the Creamery
PS, US Final record from the psychedelic quartet, recorded live at
the warehouse where Greg Ashley resides. Here is the final piece to
that hazy, mysterious, yet strangely familiar sound this band created.
With songs from both records played with ferocity & sonic mayhem,
their story is here. Bright. Swirling. Gnarly. Electric.
Birdman
CD
$16.00
Gris Gris
Live at the Creamery
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Birdman
LP
$16.00
Groundhogs
Scratching the Surface
PS, US This raw, rootsy album ranks among the finest albums to emerge
from the British blues-rock boom, Matching TONY MCPHEE's memorable
original tunes w/ a blistering reworking of the Muddy Water's classic
"Still a Fool"
Sundazed
CD
$16.50
Groundhogs
Blues Obituary
PS, US This finds the group beginning to stretch beyond traditional
blues forms, as demonstrated on the seven-minute epic "Light
Was the Day." This marks the group's first effort as a power
trio, the format in which the band would do its most acclaimed &
popular work.
Sundazed
LP
$16.50
Group Bombino
Guitars From Agadez V.2 (Music of Niger) Vol.2
PS, US One-time LTD ED OF 1,500! This is the latest salvo from the
Agadez music scene. Led by the guitar virtuoso OMARA MOCHTAR (Bombino),
the group's debut LP, & vol.2 in the 'Guitars From Agadez' series,
represents the latest chapter in the modern sound of the Tuareg revolution.
As of 2008, the Tuareg rebellion is in full force again, & Bombino
is in exile to parts unknown. Agadez has been cut off from the rest
of the country. The only road that connects this legendary city w/
the rest of the country is littered w/ land mines & the only escorts
are the military. This music & its messages of hope, justice,
& desire for validation of the Kel Tamachek way of life ring louder
than ever. Side 1 feat. the "dry guitar" sound, an unplugged
selection of songs. Side 2 showcases the electric fury of the full
band, a melding of heavy, psychedelic guitar heroics w/ a raw, garage
sound. 180gm vinyl housed in a gatefold full-color jacket stocked
w/ great photos & liner notes by Hisham Mayet.
SublimeFrequencies
LP
$24.50
Guggenheim Grotto
Happy the Man
PS, US Irish folk-rockers' new album.
UnitedOpportunity
CD
$15.00
Gutbucket
A Modest Proposal
PS, US Fourth album in a decade-long career for NYC quartet solidifies
their place at the forefront of a revitalized avant-garde music scene
in NYC. Their music is filled with layers of mature arrangements and
a full-throttle blend of energy, chops, melody, intricacy and noise.
Destroying walls between art-rock, avant-squonk, jazz-core and beyond,
the group attacks their music with the ferocity usually reserved for
punk, and the humorous abstraction of art-rock, despite having earned
their jazz bona fides.
Cuneiform
CD
$14.25
Hawkwind
Spirit of the Age: An Anthology 1976-1984
PS, US Remastered retrospective, 3 CDs.
Atomhenge
CD-BOX
$47.50
Hawkwind
Dream Goes On: From the Black Sword to Distant Horizons [remastered
anthology]
PS, US 2008 digitally remastered 3CD anthology, the second in a series
of compilations from the long-serving British band released by the
label Atomhenge. The Dream Goes On is a fitting tribute to one of
Britain's finest bands. This anthology sees them journey to the end
of the 1980's and into the 90's still retaining their original spirit
whilst eagerly absorbing the ever changing musical landscape around
them. Always ahead of their contemporaries and led by founder Dave
Brock, this second lavish CD set draws on selections from such classic
albums as Chronicle Of The Black Sword, Live Chronicles, Xenon Codex,
Space Bandits, Palace Springs, Electric Teepee, The Business Trip,
Alien 4, Love In Space and Distant Horizon, serving as a reminder
of Hawkwind's enduring appeal.
Atomhenge
CD-BOX
$47.50
Headlights
Keep Your Friends and Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer.
PS, US Strictly limited to only 1000 copies, Keep Your Friends and
Loves Close. Keep the City You Call Home Closer was previously only
available through Headlights and the Polyvinyl website. The 7-song
CDEP features live tracks recorded by the band on various stops throughout
their hectic touring schedule including sessions with WOXY.com, Indie
103.1, and Daytrotter.com. Over half the pressing has been sold by
the band and Polyvinyl. These are the remaining copies available.
Includes rare version of fan favorites "Put Us Back Together
Right" and "Tokyo." Includes never before released
track "This One."
Polyvinyl-133
CD5
$6.25
Heartless Bastards
Mountain
PS, US The album weaves in an adventurous sonic evolution, expanding
their 3 piece rock by adding pedal steel, madnolin, banjo, strings,
& Erika's transcendent voice. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "After cutting
their first two albums as a lean but muscular power trio, the Heartless
Bastards have grown into a somewhat different creature on their third
LP, The Mountain. Vocalist and guitarist Erika Wennerstrom is the
only survivor from the group's original lineup, and after leaving
behind her hometown of Cincinnati, OH for Austin, TX, she's assembled
a new version of the Heartless Bastards. Along with new members Billy
White on bass and Doni Schroader on drums, The Mountain features violins,
pedal steel guitar, mandolin, and banjo as well as a few guest guitarists,
and though this music is still rooted in Wennerstrom's full-bodied
vocals and thick, no-frills guitar work, The Mountain is a more introspective
and rootsy sounding album than this group has released to date. Wennerstrom
has a voice that can shake apart a room when she's of a mind, but
she takes a more subtle approach here, slipping in a few acoustic
tunes that allow her to explore the softer side of her instrument...
The Mountain is a more diverse set than the old Heartless Bastards
gave us, it's still rooted in the same emotionally direct songwriting
and performing that is this band's trademark, and for all that's changed
with the band, Wennerstrom has held on to her core virtues -- this
is fierce, heartfelt rock & roll that tells stories you can believe
in and lets the music sing out with a power that's all the more compelling
for being firmly rooted in the real world."
FatPossum
CD
$15.50
Heeb Magazine
#19
PS, US The Wasted Issue with COURTNEY LOVE on the cover: "I don't
care about the past." Features on Natasha Lyonne's comeback,
Aulcie Perry, winter fashion & all
things Jewish pop-culture MAG.
ZINE
$5.25
Helen Love
Calm Down Dad
PS, SPAIN LIMITED EDITION 1000 COPIES. Orange vinyl. We're in luck
- HELEN LOVE are back! Our favorite Bubblegum-disco-punk group is
better than ever and they have a splendid collection of new songs
that half the planet is going to go crazy over. "Calm Down Dad"
is the first advance single from the flaming new album, "Stick
It", that will soon be released on Elefant Records. While we're
waiting for that moment to arrive, and to ease the long wait, we have
this appetizer with three great songs. "Calm Down Dad" is
pure energy, catchy indie-punk-pop that talks about the differences
between a father and his daughter. She wants to have fun, go out at
night, sleep with a boy, dress up like a vampire without being looked
at strangely at home, travel the world, try new things and even sing
like Kate Nash, but with a more working class accent. Like a mix between
Jilted John and THE WAITRESSES, on this limited edition, orange colored
vinyl single HELEN LOVE jump from punk to pop to indie, with realist,
sarcastic and fun lyrics. The melodies are as sweet as candy, but
an orange flavored candy that's as bittersweet as real life. The single
is finished off with two fast-beat, punk-pop songs. "John Peel
Roadshow" talks about how to work up enough courage to give your
demo to a radio show host. HELEN LOVE, loved and supported throughout
the years by John Peel, recorded a "Peel session" in 1997,
which was, for them, one of the high points of the group's history,
as was the summer afternoon on which John Peel, after playing "Does
Your Heart Go Boom", said with a sardonic laugh, "That's
HELEN LOVE... the sarcastic bastards"'. "Candeelips"
closes the advance single with a sweet story about a boy with the
sweetest and most desired lips in the neighborhood!!!.
Elefant-267
45
$7.75
Hendrix, Jimi & The Experience
Axis: Bold as Love
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
ExperienceHendrix
LP
$25.00
Home Blitz
Weird Wings
PS, US LAST COPIES. This is the sound of a bedroom garage rock band
getting inside a refrigerator carton & being pushed down a steep
hill. This bangs through 5 songs, inc. Slade's ode to civic pride,
"My Town." Internet superstar Sarim on drums. Highly American
music from three guys into good times.
PartsUnknown
LP
$11.25
Honest Engines
Don't Talk Of California
PS, US "Akin to the Flaming Lips, Electric Soft Parade, and Robyn
Hitchcock, one of Chicago's finest indie bands has mastered the art
of modernizing classic pop song-craft with an idiosyncratic panache,
and has also figured out a way make it sound as if this engaging EP
was recorded in a major studio with a noted producer." -Tom Semioli
Amplifier Magazine
HonestEngines-001
CD
$7.00
Honeychurch
Early Times: 2001-2004
PS, US 'Early Times is an anthology of tracks from Honeychurch's critically
acclaimed and criminally unavailable records Calling Me Home (2001)
and Makes Me Feel Better (2004). Twelve remastered songs, plus two
previously unreleased demos - 14 tracks of what Miles of Music called
'rapturous, romantic, blissfully transcendent, sweetly reverent, sun-drenched
pop' "Imagine if The Red House Painter's Mark Kozelek added harmonies
out of Mojave 3 and the Byrds....the singing, strings, and lap steel
are exquisite. Like the Pernice Brothers, you suspect these guys dig
Bread as much as Gram Parsons, hooked on the elegiac sweetness of
old songs." -Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover All-new record will
be out in 2009!'
SirenElectric
CD
$10.25
Hospitals
Hairdryer Peace
PS, US After a nearly Chinese Democracy situation, the new Hospitals
LP "Hairdryer Peace" is finally here. "Hairdryer"
is a ripper/apology for the band's previous two albums. Scott Simmons
had this to say about it: "Doesn't really matter whether you
loved or hated The Hospitals before, cuz this is some year zero shit.
This is the most psychedelic fucking record in a long time and there
are no rainbows - no feather earrings - no beards. Mixed for maximum
hallucinations, it has the stoned riffs of a killer rock record, totally
cracked pop, pure headfuck, but more than anything else just an all
around perfect album. It's Chief Hospital Adam Stonehouse with oringal
Hospital co-founder (and now EAT SKULL member) ROD MEYER, along with
ROB ENBAUM (also Eat Skull) and Chris Gunn from an island off the
coast of the future. Sounds nothing like any bands or anything else..
Seriously, if a better record comes out this year, next year, whenever....
I promise. Don't be an asshole." Vinyl only, homemade covers,
500 copies.
Hospitals
LP
$12.00
Howlies
Trippin' With Howlies
PS, US An unexpected re-interpretation of garage, doo-wop, powerpop
& rock 'n' roll.
OverUnder
CD
$11.00
Hull, Scott
Audiofilm I
PS, US A piece of fearsome dark ambient music that showcases his skill
at blending blackend Lustmordian drift w/ terrifying mixing techniques
that clot the mind's eye w/ unnerving, nightmarish sound events. A
fug of demonic drone that utilizes delirious stereo panning &
slabs of obsidian ambience, & it slowly unfolds over the length
of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black ambience & the
terminally creepy voice of a little girl whispering for help, seemingly
lost between planes of shadow.
CrucialBlast
CD5
$7.75
Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$28.50
Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End
PS, US With this record, the duo continue adventurous explorations
of abstract grooves & atmospheric moods. Stronen's percussion
is textured, precise & surprising, while Storlokken's keyboard
work is diverse & varied, using daubs of sound across a colorful
sonic spectrum. Sometimes frenetic, sometimes meanderingly contemplative.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$18.00
Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End
PS, NORWAY This is the third full-length album from Norway's Humcrush
(Thomas Strønen and Ståle Storløkken). Rest At
Worlds End was recorded live at various European venues, although
the high level of musicianship and focus on detail could easily lead
you to think it would be a meticulously assembled studio recording.
With this record, the duo continue adventurous explorations of abstract
grooves and atmospheric moods. Thomas Strønen has studied music
and composition and is a regular member of several bands, most notably
Food, Maria Kannegaard Trio and Parish, the quartet led by Swedish
ace pianist Bobo Stenson. As is the case for most Norwegian jazz musicians
of his generation, he has played with just about everybody and has
been a frequent performer on the Norwegian and European festival circuit
for several years. Ståle Storløkken is a founding member
of Supersilent, Elephant9, and played on Terje Rypdal records, but
was first noticed with freeform trio Veslefrekk with fellow Supersilent
members Arve Henriksen and Jarle Vespestad. He is probably the most
versatile and adventurous electric keyboard player within the Norwegian
scene at the moment. Rest At Worlds End perfectly showcases each artist's
individual technical virtuosic talent -- Strønen's percussion
is textured, precise and surprising, while Storløkken's keyboard
work is diverse and varied, using daubs of sound across a colorful
sonic spectrum. Sometimes frenetic, sometimes meanderingly contemplative,
Rest At Worlds End stimulates your nerve-endings and fires neurons
you never even knew existed.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$16.25
Humcrush
Rest At Worlds End
PS, NORWAY VINYL VERSION. 500 copies only limited edition 2LP that
is comprised of 7 bonus tracks not on the CD version.
RuneGrammofon
DLP
$25.75
Hunches
Exit Dreams
PS, US Portland's finest purveyors of cacophonous garage, delivering
ragged-edged rock 'n' roll w/ such devastating hidden melody, one
is left wondering how the band crammed such pop into the noise cavalcades.
It's a veritable melee of vicious guitar savagery & lo-fi freak-out
fugginess, the perfect follow-up to "Hobo Sunrise" - a raging
riot of an album that leaves ringing ears, bloody mouths, & shot-to-shit
synapses sizzling w/ amplified excess.
IntheRed
CD
$14.25
Idle Times
Get Your Feet Off The Ground
PS, US Debut release from 27 year old Brian Standeford. After the
quick dissolution of his previous band Tall Birds, Standeford began
recording songs onto cassette in his Seattle home using a Tascam 4-track,
practice amps and a toy drum kit. Loner bedroom psych at its best.
Woodsist
45
$5.25
Ielasi, Giuseppe
Aix
PS, US Aix is the latest work from Italian artist Giuseppe Ielasi
and the follow-up to 2007's August (12k, 12k1044). With Aix we see
Ielasi building his layered, atmospheric music around rhythmic grids.
Most of the time these are quite irregular and the pulses are not
necessarily stable or clear. Where his previous work approached sound
in a linear fashion Aix imposes a strong vertical development with
the aforementioned grid and a production consisting of ons and offs,
employing as much improvisation as Ielasi's previous work, but in
a different way. Despite the self-imposed grid structure, Aix relies
heavily on randomization. Not in the traditional sense of sound placement
but instead of the specialization of sounds, echoes, reverbs and the
stereo image. As a result, Aix has an amazing sense and clarity of
space as the small fragments of sound breathe and find their own place
in the mix, thanks to Ielasi's sublime skills as a mixer and engineer.
Ielasi relied heavily on numerous short samples and combining them
in ways that fell into his groove; some found from others' recordings
and many more recorded during the past year. We hear fragments of
percussive (acoustic) objects, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, and,
of course, synthetic textures. Although there is a distinct rhythmic
pulse to Aix, Ielasi manages to mold it into something wonderfully
languid and warm... and strangely inviting.
12K-1051
CD
$12.25
Iran
Dissolver
PS, US Indie rock buried in fuzz & hiss - the group takes ultra
catchy pop, & drags it through the detritus of lo-fi noise rock,
picking up an ungodly assortment of buzz & blur & scuzz. Imagine
a Pavement record on Stilbreeze. Or old Smog covering Skullflower.
Narnack
CD
$14.50
Irisarri, Rafael Anton
Hopes & Past Desires
PS, US Packaged in full-color heavy stock jacket, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
WORLDWIDE. 2 tracks clocking in at 12 minutes, this is his first new
material since his 2007 debut "Daydreaming." Irisarri's
music is a dual perspective close-up focus on the micro textures of
rustling static-filled sonic surfaces w/ the wide-open distant tree
lined horizons of sunset at dusk. He recently released "Glider"
as SIGHT BELOW on Ghostly International.
Immune
45
$8.00
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Blood of Life
PS, US Contains two completely new versions of JOMF classics, "Hey!
Mr. Sky" & "The Grave" as well as a reworking of
last
year's "Valley of Fire." The record also features a traditional
ballad "The Lost Jimmy Walen" & a brand new track "The
Blood of Life" which is a ground breaking piece of new music
for the band & marks a new direction.
Fire
CD
$14.50
Jaina, Nick
Narrow Way
PS, US A full-band album featuring agressively memorable songs recorded
in a unique way to capitalize on the energy of the live performance
skills of Nick's band. This album was played entirely by ten musicians
in the same room at the same time, all mixed live to 1/4" analog
tape. If one person out of the ten missed a note or played the wrong
part, the whole take had to be done over. This lack of a safety net
gave the recordings a heightened sense of focus & purpose. Every
instrument leaps off the tape with immediacy & humanity. Meanwhile,
the lyrics of the songs deal w/the narrow path that people must take
to do right in the world. There is fear all around; fear of being
different, fear of being the same--& in the middle is the narrow
way, a small path that is hard to stay on, but which leads to very
good things.
JealousButcher
LP
$13.25
Jam, The
All Mod Cons
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
Polydor
LP
$18.00
Jeremy Jay
Love Everlasting
PS, US 4 songs: Love Everlasting · Lite Beam · Jet Stream
· Love Everlasting (Winter Version) It was winter outside and
something was happening in the storybook world of Jeremy Jay's psyche.
While working on his upcoming full-length Slow Dance [KLP197] (to
be released in spring '09), there was an icicle-caked excitement that
resulted in a snow-flurry of extra recordings. The cozy, insulated
vibe of Olympia, Washington and Dub Narcotic Studio took hold and
Jeremy, along with Ilya Malinksy (guitar), Nick Pahl (drums) and Derek
James (bass) crafted "Love Everlasting" [KLP202] a separate
12" single. These extra songs, recorded with a fiery compulsion,
were written in Jeremy's Los Angeles apartment and expanded in studio.
The song "Lite Beam" took shape with a solarized hi-hat
and synth bass - a real disco dance cut; "Jet Stream," has
that special synth bass that propels it to a dance floor climax, and
the single itself, "Love Everlasting," twinkles magnificently
with a sensual glide. Jeremy Jay and his band have toured extensively
across the U.S.A., Europe and Australia in support of his recent album
A Place Where We Could Go [KLP187] and will be reacquainting the U.S.
with their icy soundscapes after the release of this 12" single.
"Part poet, part '50s teen idol and part ghost, Jeremy Jay [takes
listeners to] a place where girls have fairytale looks and candied
apples are served for lunch, where dreams, fantasies and movies collide,
and where Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Morrissey and Alan Vega are loved
equally. It's no surprise that Jay calls his hometown of Los Angeles
'the City of Angels' -- he's a true romantic and sensualist, transforming
his surroundings into a glamorous, magical reality." - All Music
Guide
Krecords-202
12
$5.50
Journey to Ixtlan
S-T
PS, US Cloaked in mystery, this obsure band of psychedelic outlaws'
identities remain occult. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, & utterly
sunkissed this is the sound of New Age Doom & Occult Desert Rock.
Miniature gatefold LP style packaging with suitably Owlseyesque graphics.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25
Kemp, Rose
Unholy Majesty
PS, US ROSE KEMP came to the attention of Aurora Borealis when she
thrust an advance CD in our hands at a Grave Temple show in London
after her telling us how much she loves DEAD RAVEN CHOIR. Upon listening
to the first 60 seconds of the album it became clear that we were
dealing with something quite remarkable and got on the phone. Some
wrangling and legal shennanigans later, the vinyl was confirmed for
an Aurora Borealis release Undoubtedly something of a curve ball for
fans of Rose's work up until now, "Unholy Majesty" represents
a type of coming of age, a bold step out into the landscape of musics
less travelled. From the heavy, prog influenced stomp of "Dirt
Glow" through to the wavering cries of the penultimate track
"Milky White", this is the sound of an artist following
her own ear. Some AB adherents may be aware of Rose from her work
on the second ATAVIST album, so perhaps her wide musical palette is
not such a surprise. That love of sheer heavy power comes through
in "Unholy Majesty" time and time again, and dovetails seamlessly
with the more gentle moments on offer: without darkness, there can
be no light. Part of folk-rock heritage, Rose is the daughter of Maddy
Prior and Rick Kemp from seminal, pioneering British band Steeleye
Span. As a young teenager she sang and toured and occasionally wrote
with her parents various different projects including Steeleye Span
(who still gig today), and her life on the road began when she was
knee-high, accompanying her parents on tour.
AuroraBorealis
LP
$16.00
Kemp, Rose
Unholy Majesty
PS, US Heavy prog influenced music. Rose is the daughter of Maddy
Prior & Rick Kemp from the seminal, pioneering British band Steeleye
Span. As a young teenager she sang and toured with her parents, but
Rose was ready to find her own way and take her rock in the direction
we hear today. She's got the eerie rock transcendence of The Pixies,
the naked beauty of Regina Spektor, the vocal bravado of Amanda of
The Dresden Dolls.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25
Khan of Finland
S-T
PS, GERMANY The I'm Single label releases the eponymous debut CD from
Berlin-based Khan of Finland. Centered around the figure of mega-producer
Can "Khan" Oral (aka Captain Comatose), Khan Of Finland
are a trio in the traditional sense of the word who make a sound that
is anything but. Using just vocals, piano and a human beat-box, they
play all-acoustic electronic blues, but also switch roles and improvise.
The piano becomes a percussive instrument. The beat(box) melodic.
The vocal full-blooded. From the blues to a howl. The sound veering
from metal-heavy riffs to dubbed-out cabaret. These 9 songs were all
recorded live at a defunct gas station in Berlin-Wedding with a few
additional over-dubs recorded at various other spectacular locations
such as St. Clara Church in Berlin-Neukoelln. Weirdly swank, electro-tinged,
and decidedly energetic odes to loving life.
I'mSingle
CD
$15.00
Kick that Habit
Peter Liecht w/ Voice Crack
PS, US This 1989 film collects samples from the land-and-soundscape,
underscoring in the process the oft-ignored industrial underpinning
of our latter-day culture. Voice Crack, the everyday household electronics
duo of Norbert Moslang & Andy Guhl, are part Licechti's vision
with exploration of their musical workings . Whether clicking quietly
& rhythmically or humming & shrieking at ear-splitting volume,
their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide an
appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus
of our culture, the lost & destroyed remains of the last century
of progress. A short, tense film comprised of flashing images: footage
of Voice Crack rehearsals & concerts is juxtaposed with visual
shards of the fall & winter landscape of the area between Alpstein
and the Bodensee. Utilizing color & black-and-white footage as
well as combining the visual & the acoustic in an expression that
subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence
through sound & geography. All Region.
DragCity
DVD
$14.75
Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The
Mutations EP
PS, GERMANY A bridge between their first album on Planet Mu and the
forthcoming second one on Ad Noiseam, the "Mutations EP"
is The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble's coming of age. Profound and
organic but dark and impressive, it is a perfect rendition of the
ensemble's live shows and the proof that there is still something
fresh to be done at the meeting point of post-rock, jazz and drones.
A deeply emotional and original trip.
AdNoiseam-105-2
CD
$13.00
Kinks, The
Picture Book [Box Set] (6 x CD)
PS, UK "The first three CDs, covering the years between 1963
and 1971, are a sheer delight: a master-class in garage rock, social
observation, and how to expand the language of popular music in one
hard-earned lesson."-Mojo
"Arguably more succinctly than any of their 60s hit-making contemporaries,
The Kinks chronicles the times with a succession of stunning vignettes
about everyday life." - Record Collector
SanctuaryUK
CD-BOX
$79.75
KK Null
Oxygen Flash
PS, US K.K. NULL (aka KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan.
The composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA, and electronic
wizard is one of the top names in Japanese noise music and, in a larger
context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since
the early '80s. After playing the guitar as his main instrument for
some twenty years, Null has gradually moved toward a more electronic
approach. In recent years, he has concentrated his efforts on his
solo and collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories
of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic
ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, and droning
isolationist material which one could loosely describe as cosmic noise
maximal/minimalism. The nine-track Oxygen Flash is the most recent
addition to this remarkable catalog.
Neurot
CD
$13.50
Kottke, Leo
6 And 12 String Guitar
PS, US Leo Kottke's debut came about after he sent a cassette to John
Fahey's Takoma label. Not surprisingly, it recalls Fahey's work in
a number of respects: the synthesis of numerous influences from blues,
pop, classical, and folk styles, the weirdly titled instrumentals,
even the tongue-in-cheek liner notes. Kottke's brand of virtuosity,
however, is more soothing and easy on the ear than Fahey's. It's far
from sappy, though, the rich and resonant picking intimating some
underlying restlessness, like peaceful open fields after a storm.
Establishing much of the territory Kottke was to explore throughout
his career, this release was also one of his most popular, eventually
selling over 500,000 copies. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Takoma TKA6503.2
CD
$13.40
KTL
IV
PS, US Whereas previous releases were blurred washes of fog &
noise polished by ambient shine, this is a more direct & demanding
beast, referencing such diverse projects as: volume-era Swans, "Red
Mecca" period Cabaret Voltaire, phase one Wire, Fushitsusha &
This Heat. Includes a guest appearance from BORIS drummer Atsuo &
is produced by JIM O'ROURKE.
EditionsMego
CD
$18.00
Kweller, Ben
Changing Horses
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "After flirting with country music throughout
his solo career, Ben Kweller embraces his Texas roots with Changing
Horses, an earthy record filled with pedal steel guitars and honky
tonk storytelling. Kweller's southern pedigree has always made itself
known -- in the twang of his acoustic guitar, in the lilt of his voice
-- but Changing Horses shines a spotlight on those nuances, replacing
the heartland rock & roll of his past albums with a healthy dose
of Americana. This is saloon-styled songwriting, complete with flashes
of close harmony and images of Greyhound stations, starry skies, and
homebound highways. Kweller sounds confident throughout, playing the
rustic raconteur like a twentysomething Leon Russell, but the album's
secret weapon is newcomer Kitt Kitterman, whose pedal steel riffs
and Dobro arpeggios lend some authenticity to Kweller's southern state
of mind."
ATO
CD
$12.25
Ladyfinger
Dusk
PS, US Nods & winks to the past meet a sound of the not-too-distant
future, w/ one foot in the sounds of early 70's classic rock &
another in the punk & hardcore scenes of the late 80's & early
90's. The dynamics of each song & across the album are more evident,
from the opening 1-2 punch of "Over & Over" & the
bass growl of "ADD," through the sharp riffs & aggressiveness
of "Work Party," the plaintive "Plans," &
into the hit-in-the-making "Let's Get Married"
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.50
Late of the Pier
Fantasy Black Channel
PS, US Following massive UK acclaim and extensive overseas touring
(including a triumphant US debut at CMJ in NYC), Nottingham's Late
Of The Pier are ready to unleash their genre-busting debut album Fantasy
Black Channel on the US. At once darkly chaotic and unabashedly pop,
Late Of The Pier's music is almost impossible to describe, pushing
stylistic boundaries to the edge of no control. Produced by superstar
DJ-producer Erol Alkan, Fantasy Black Channel is huge in both scope
and ambition, an exuberant rush of glam, psychedelia,nu-wave, dancepunk,
metal and madcap sci-fi experimentation. Not every band can throw
shards of Zappa, Queen, Eno-era Roxy Music, Prince, Gary Numan, DFA,
Bloc Party and The Klaxons into a blender and come out with something
as defiantly unique and grandly anthemic. Includes 2 US-only bonus
tracks.
Astralwerks
CD
$15.25
Lemonade
S-T
PS, US The San Francisco group's eclectic offerings are coarse with
psychedelic textures and light on the easy fixes-the percussion crosses
continents, the vocals are tangles of guttural exclamations, and the
melodies spring from all over. The closest connections the tracks
bear to modern music are to artists like Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance,
and Sunburned Hand of the Man-fervent experimentalists deep below
the dance charts. Live, it's an intoxicating bit of voodoo; Pasternak
will later tell me that his favorite description of Lemonade's sound
is 'a techno-Brazilian samba line on mushrooms.'-SF Weekly. Received
a "Recommended" rating by Pitchfork.
TruePanther
CD
$13.25
Leno
Vida e Obra de Johnny McCartney [re-issue]
PS, US The album has a sound that has more to do w/ bands such as
Sly & The Family Stone, the Beatles (post 1967), Cream, &
Steppenwolf, & features contributions from music legends MARCOS
VALLE, RAUL SEIXAS, hard psych rockers A BOLHA, & members of LOS
SHAKERS & RENATO E SEUS BLUE CAPS. One of the most singular records
of the 1970's rock era in Brazil.
LionProductions
CD
$15.00
Liechti, Peter
Kick That Habit
PS, US KICK THAT HABIT is a 1989 film by Peter Liechti, an audio-visual
portrait
of his native country, eastern Switzerland. The film collects samples
from the land-and-soundscape, underscoring in the process the oft-ignored
industrial underpinning of our latter-day culture. Also native to
eastern Switzerland is Voice Crack, the everyday
household electronics duo of Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl, whose
musical workings are explored as part of Liechti's vision. Whether
clicking quietly and rhythmically or humming and shrieking at ear-splitting
volume, their recycled electronics produce innovative sounds and provide
an appropriate accompaniment in this cinematic search for the detritus
of our culture, the lost and destroyed remains of the last century
of progress. KICK THAT HABIT is a short, tense film comprised of flashing
images: footage of Voice Crack rehearsals and concerts is juxtaposed
with visual shards of the fall and winter landscape of the area between
Alpstein and the Bodensee. Utilizing color and black-and-white footage
as well as combining the visual and the acoustic in an expression
that subtly synthesizes the two, Liechti delineates a world of existence
through sound and geography. Like the world the rest of us live in,
it's a world of beauty, quiet tragedy and the endless march forward.
DragCity
DVD
$14.00
Lindstrom
Where You Go I Go Too
PS, US NOW WITH BONUS DISC! Special edition bonus disc includes the
Prins Thomas edits found on the LP version. Well known for his epic
& ultra melodic disco, it might come as a surprise that this album
only contains three long tracks, with the opening track being almost
29 minutes long! But when you listen to this album, you hear that
it is still very much Lindstrom... just more Lindstrom-- bigger, longer,
more epic & more melodic. Lindstrom says, "I realized that
working within 30 minutes instead of five minutes frames forced me
to think very differently to what I was used to... when working on
longer tracks, there's so much more time to develop different themes
& to let them evolve.
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50
Lithops
Ye Viols!
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00
Lithops
Ye Viols!
PS, US LTD ED OF 1000 comes packaged in matchbook flip-top style package
printed on recycled paper w/ fold-out poster! On this release, LITHOPS
(aka JAN ST. WERNER of MOUSE ON MARS, MICROSTORIA, VON SUDENFED) presents
a selection of installation soundtracks assembled from several recent
exhibitions. This can be seen as background noise for a visual utopia:
a recombined industrial iconograhy of spatial adventures, futuristic
collages & phantasmagoric scenes. Full of fun danceable beats
w/ plunderphonic complexity, textural density & layered details.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00
Loney Dear
Dear John
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl-171
LP
$12.50
Loney Dear
Dear John
PS, US Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist
and Swedish home-recording phenom Emil Svanängen. Recorded alone
in Emil's tiny Stockholm studio apartment and in the comfort of his
parents' house in Jönköping, Dear John is an album of contrasts.
It will cozy up next to you through the bleakest of winters and be
your shade in the blistering summer sun. It is an album that has been
on Emil's mind since the inception of Loney Dear. With his first four
albums, Emil has always aspired to perfection; he has always promised
a masterpiece. Dear John is that record. "Despair has never sounded
so sweet." -SPIN "He wraps the ups and downs of a whirlwind
romance into tiny packages. You're left hungry, fully certain that
34 minutes-- let alone five-- will never be enough of this very, very
good thing." --Pitchfork
Polyvinyl-171
CD
$12.50
Lopez, Francisco
Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003
PS, US 20-year collection from the pioneer of absolute concrète
music. Nowhere: Short Pieces 1983 to 2003, is the centerpiece to this
prolific artist's catalog. Housed in a stunning black on black embossed
box. Released as a cooperative operation from Blossoming Noise and
Gender-less Kibbutz.
BlossomingNoise
CD-BOX
$50.00
Los Campesinos!
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
PS, US LTD ED vinyl LP pressing! The youthful septet from Cardiff,
Wales, prove they have no shortage of ingenuity, creativity
& most importantly, energy. Feat. all new material from their
Seattle sessions w/ producer John Goodmanson
Arts&Crafts
LP
$18.00
Lost Sounds
Memphis is Dead
PS, US Big Neck presents the 4th pressing LIMITED reissue of 1000
copies on MIXED COLOR vinyl. This was the very first foray by JAY
REATARD and Alicja Trout (THE FITTS, DESTRUCTION UNIT). Their apocalyptic
nightmare of digital music and garage rock are disturbing w/ their
frothing rage, unrestrained beauty and wild abandonment.
BigNeck
LP
$12.00
Lover!
No More Reasons b/w All Alone
PS, US Limited red vinyl repress. If you're not hip Lover! is Rich
Crook, formerly of the Lost Sounds and he's been making some noise
as Lover! for a couple of years now and has been getting stronger
with each release. Don't wait for the next full length to "catch
you by surprise" as this is here now. USGR alert. (Ugly sleeve,
great record.)
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
LSD March
Under Milk Wood
PS, US With grace (in the rock sense), style, humor, & the perfect
touch of heavy riffage, this tremendously unique recording is a classic
of the new Japanese underground. A fascinating, ghostly rock album
featuring TAKAHASHI IKURO's drumming - it isn't until midway through
the record that the heavy riffage begins, though it is slowly buried
beneath the white blizzard blanket that is the remainder of the album
Important
CD
$13.25
Lymbyc Systym
Carved By Glaciers
PS, US Originally a self-released endeavor, this stunning debut is
now receiving a reissue by Magic Bullet Records. This features remastered
renditions of the original sound recording w/the added bonus of exclusive
remixes from HER SPACE HOLIDAY & AMERICAN ANALOG SET for a total
of 7 brilliant tracks just as relevant now as upon their initial release.
MagicBullet
CD
$12.75
M. Ward
Transfiguration Of Vincent
PS, US Deluxe packaging & 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl. Available
on LP for the first time! Ward's 3rd album that is clearly
progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, feeling dusty
w/ age, & manifesting a genius that is pure & untempered.
His music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere
seeped in the early blues w/ a Neil Young overlay & the feel of
country, blues, pop, & folk.
JealousButcher
LP
$12.50
M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$20.00
M83
Digital Shades, Vol. 1 (2PC)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$16.25
M83
Saturdays=Youth
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75
M83
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mute
DLP
$19.75
Madagascar
Goodbye East, Goodbye West
PS, US 2008 release from weirdo chamber-folk quartet. The sophomore
album by Madagascar, a Baltimore based quartet that softly stamps
out soothing circular melodies on an array of acoustic instruments
that include accordion, saw, xylophone, bells and drums. Like dancing
an oxycodone waltz with your grandmother to a Bell Biv Devoe 45 on
slow speed while cabbage cooks away in the adjoining kitchen. Limited
edition of 500 on turquoise vinyl.
GaardenRecords-002
LP
$13.75
Magnetic Morning
A.M.
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
FriendorFaux
LP
$14.75
Magnetic Morning
A.M.
PS, US Magnetic Morning is the new band featuring Adam Franklin of
Swervedriver and Sam Fogarino of Interpol.
FriendorFaux
CD
$11.00
Makoto, Kawabata
Rainbow Of Love
PS, UK Blackest Rainbow Records is extremely pleased to announce this
one. Brand new solo record from one of the most prolific Japanese
recording artists around right now. Most people will know Kawabata
Makoto as the guitar-wielding shredder from Acid Mothers Temple. This
brand new solo recording is a two piece epic of some of the most beautiful
tones I've heard in a while. Side A's 'You Are From The Rainbow Over
The Sea' is a piece of bowed beauty, taking you to a higher plain
of consciousness. The B-side's 'Waiting For You Till The End Of The
Rainbow' is just as cosmic as its predecessor, with cascading waterfalls
of tones washing over you again and again. Kinda reminds me of some
of the Inui series, which is probably some of my favorite material
from Makoto. Edition of only 300 copies.
BlackestRainbow
LP
$17.00
Maserati/Zombi
Split
PS, US Long in the making, this split LP finally brings together two
similarly influenced and equally provocative groups: Athens, GA's
Maserati - with their eternally driving, Krautrock-infused dance anthems
- shares the record with Pittsburgh's favorite Italo-cinema fetishists,
Zombi. Teaming up once again with longtime producer and friend Andy
Baker (Brian Eno, Harvey Milk), Maserati contributes a pair of two-part
epics that show the band progressing away from the sparkly-clean productions
of their past in favor of a grittier, more experimental sound, occupying
the unlikely space between the dark garage-pop infectiousness of U2's
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" and the analog synth meditations
of Harmonia. The result is Maserati's most unique and inspired material
to date. On the flipside, Zombi offers a single 14-minute track that
slowly and steadily amasses pile of analog synths to build a stage
for an extended drum solo (imagine Goblin covering "Moby Dick"
and you're almost there). With the synths providing the rhythmic foundation,
the drums swirl about in a freeform ascent for over five minutes before
patterns start to creep in, signaling the big payoff is imminent.
Indeed, when the drums finally snap into an airtight locking groove
with the thick bed of synths, the impact is downright euphoric. The
song exits with a slow fade, as if to fittingly ride this high into
oblivion. The marriage of these two bands couldn't be more perfect,
and the inspiration they have brought each other is evident in both
the creative exploration and the supreme quality of the tracks. Rather
that deliver non-album toss-offs, both groups brought top-shelf a-sides,
making this split an essential part of each artist's already rich
catalog.
TemporaryResidence-143
LP
$11.50
Mateo, Eduardo
Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame
PS, CANADA Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame is a record that requires many
superlatives in order to do it justice: from its first moments, the
music is lilting, poetic, intimate, in turns life-affirming and melancholic,
with pulsating percussion backed by unheard-of guitar chords and tunings
(perhaps the reason for the frequent Caetano Veloso and Nick Drake
comparisons); it is an album that sounds, simply put, honest. The
record was released at the end of 1972 in both Argentina and Uruguay,
and was received from that first moment as a classic in those countries,
a position it still occupies today. When El Kinto co-founder and iconoclastic
maniac Eduardo Mateo traveled to Buenos Aires in October of 1971 to
record what came to be Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame, his situation was
unusual. With the explosion of candombe-beat music on the popular
scene, Mateo had become a living legend of Uruguayan music. Yet apart
from the Musicasi 4 1/2 compilation, which had been released in July
of that year, there were no published recordings of Mateo available,
whether as a soloist or with his already dissolved group El Kinto.
By this time, the public had a clear notion of the dreamy character
of Mateo that by the end of his brief life had made him a part-time
panhandler and apparent acid casualty. But they still wanted a record
by him. It was singer Diane Denoir who gave the final push. She was
in Argentina finishing a record for the De la Planta label that included
eight songs written by Mateo. Denoir insisted that Mateo participate
as arranger for three of these grooves. With Mateo in Buenos Aires,
the owners of De la Planta decided to take the necessary steps to
record him. This was not easy, as Mateo tried to erase everything
he recorded as soon as it was put onto tape, and that only on the
rare occasions when he showed up ready to play. In the end, engineers
Carlos Pariz and Eduardo Rozas selected material for the album from
hours of free improvisations, and formed the album as it appears today.
Our first Lion Productions volume of Mateo's solo recordings includes
the entire Mateo Solo Bien Se Lame album, plus a variety of tracks
from Mateo's early solo years. The eight bonus tracks include songs
originally issued in Uruguay on the legendary Musicasi 4 1/2 LP, two
tracks live from a bowling alley (!), as well as four very special
early recordings backing female singers: two sung by the lovely Diane
Denoir, and two by the mysterious Veronica Indart. Special slip-case
edition comes with an oversize 48-page full-blown booklet packed with
photos, text, and lyrics, which tries to unravel some of the myth
surrounding this great surrealist poet and drug casualty, whose decline
and ultimate madness and early death have done nothing to diminish
his stature as one of the greatest artists in South American music.
Lion
CD
$19.00
Math Head
Stab City
PS, GERMANY With "Stab City", Math Head finally presents
on wax a new testimony of his insolent skills at creating ever changing,
massive dubstep. Never loosing the dance floor from its sight, but
including a lot of innovative elements to this genre and not afraid
of mixing the club appeal with wider sensibilities, he comes up here
again with a highly impressive record that does justice to his extensive
talent. Here comes highly efficient, fresh and hard dubstep record
you have been waiting for.
AdNoiseam-98
12
$11.00
Matt & Kim
Grand
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
FaderLabel
LP
$17.50
Matt & Kim
Grand
PS, US Brooklyn-based duo Matt and Kim return with Grand, their second
album and first in over two years. During the period in between records
the duo has toured extensively and developed a loyal and growing fan
base that eagerly awaits the release of Grand. The band spent the
last nine months recording and tweaking Grand in between tour dates.
The result is an album that takes the band's musicianship and songwriting
to the next level and also serves as a glowing representation of how
far Matt and Kim have come since their debut. From the anthemic opener
'Daylight' to the harmony-rich, atmospheric ballad 'Turn This Boat
Around' and demented pop of 'I Wanna,' Grand is quite literally the
sound of Matt and Kim discovering their voice. "All of the songs
on the last album we wrote the first year we learned how to play our
instruments," Matt acknowledged, "but this one is much more
diverse and instead of thinking about the songs we thought of the
album as a whole, too."
FaderLabel
CD
$12.25
Mattson 2
Introducing
PS, US A unique melange of hot jazz, cool jazz, & contemporary
post-rockist tendencies. Features guest appearances by BARBEE on guitar
& JOHN MCENTIRE (TORTOISE/SEA & CAKE). This is at times evocative
of Ennio Morricone, Charles Mingus, & the Chicago Underground
Duo.
Galaxia
CD5
$10.00
Mazes
S-T
PS, US While The 1900s make noises about recording the follow-up to
their full-length 2007 album, Cold & Kind, front man Edward Anderson
has readied a solo album for Parasol Records, under the moniker Mazes.
In cahoots with fellow 1900s vocalist (and Ed's significant other)
Caroline Donovan and their comrade Charles D'Autremont, Mazes is not
so much departure from his hitherto verdant psych-pop meadow as a
vehicle for Edward to explore further musical flora and fauna.
Parasol-CD-112
CD
$9.00
Medication
Don't Die b/w Fog
PS, US One of the best singles of last year, in fact the only reason
it didn't make my year end list was that I didn't actually own a copy
yet. Really, really strong loner fuzz vibes with songs to die for.
One of the best HoZac releases for sure (and that's high praise.)
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Mendoza
Si Me Duermo... Choco (If I Sleep, I Crash)
PS, MEXICO R. Mendoza, one of the members of the Nortec Collective
as Panóptica returns to the postpunk ambient soundscapes that
informed his formative years in music. "Si Me Duermo... choco"
is collection of slowed down techno tracks and ambient pieces that
touch upon the post punk influence of 4AD bands like This Mortal Coil,
Dif Juz and Xmal Deutschland. The album was mastered by Stefan Betke
(Pole) and the artwork by Rubén Tamayo (Fax).
StaticDiscos-029
CD
$12.25
Menton, Todd
Dolmen Field
US , PS In true genre-crossing fashion, Menton (BOILED IN LEAD) crosses
delicate mandolins & whistles w/ snarling electric guitars, all
alongside his powerfully written
& played folk ballads. RIYL: Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom.
NewFolk
CD
$16.25
Merzbow
Hodosan
PS, POLAND The 5th album by noise genius Masami Akita on VIVO RECORDS.
One of the most accessible releases in a huge discography of Merzbow.
Drums, rhythms and noises packed with a pig-ass shining cardboard
sleeve.
Vivo-40
CD
$15.50
Merzbow
13 Japanese Birds Vol. 1
PS, US First volume of a 13-disc series of limited edition albums
(1,000 copies). This 13-month series of releases was inspired by Olivier
Messaien's "Catalogue D'Oiseaux." Author, activist, painter,
& sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental
music for over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz,
early electronic composition, & the physical arts - especially
Kurt Schwitters' "Merzbau" - Akita has created a musical
language all his own.
Important
CD
$13.25
MGR & Destructo Swarmbots
Amigos de la Guitarra
PS, US New collaboration between Mike Mare (DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS) &
Mike Gallagher (MGR/Isis). A single 42-minute song entitled "Amor
en el Aire" recorded at Deadverse Studios w/ Alap Momin, a.k.a.
Oktopus (Dalek)
Neurot
CD
$16.00
Misfits
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Plan9
LP
$15.00
Mojo
#184 (March 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25
Morrison, Van
Astral Weeks
PS, US RESURFACED WAX!!!
WarnerBros
LP
$23.00
Mothlite
The Flax of Reverie
PS, US Debut from the wonderfully cinematic Mothlite. The six pieces
encompass elements as diverse as choral madrigals cascading with strings,
the melody and dissonance of Arvo Part & Moondog and the cinematic,
studio-as-instrument manipulationsof Pink Floyd, Coil, Cocteau Twins
& late period Talk Talk.
Southern
CD
$15.00
Mr. Bungle
Disco Volante [vinyl re-issue]
PS, US One of the most uncompromising & adventurous major label
releases of the '90s featuring vocalist MIKE PATTON (x-FAITH NO MORE).
Their 2nd album, originally released in 1995, is an "alternative"
record only in the vaguest sense of the word. Incorporating death
metal, techno, 50's space age pop & Italian avantgarde. This is
probably the most important & groundbreaking release of Patton's
storied career, & that's saying a lot. Think Faith No More, John
Zorn, Frank Zappa, & Ennio Morricone rolled into one sick stew.
Plain
LP
$16.75
Music Go Music
Warm In The Shadows
PS, US Warm in the Shadows rounds out the trio of three-song 12"
singles that Music Go Music have released over the course of 2008-09.
It's both a fitting end-piece to the trilogy and a remarkable expansion
of the group's sonic and emotional breadth. There is a casual but
undeniable magic to these songs, and it flows around and out of each
note of every melody. Title song "Warm in the Shadows" is
dance music, as envisioned by a group with a greater allegiance to
pop archetypes than to the hymns of the dance-floor. It's a step in
a different direction; an invitation to shake, coupled with a gentle
evocation of the pain of wrecked love ("what kind of heart would
break so easy as my own"). It's a case history and a cure for
both the lovesick and the lovesick-to-be. The B-side offers up stories
of exotic depravity consuming itself in ways both savage and deceptively
elegant. The gypsy rhythms of "Thousand Crazy Nights" undergird
a tale of dog piled revelers instructed to "feel with your face,
let eyes be your hands" whilst "trapped in desire's aggro
dance.""Love,Violent Love" is a psychedelic voyage
through a land of raving mobs who "spiral past control"
once their love is at last requited. This collection of songs is further
proof of the power of the transformative embrace in which Music Go
Music holds what is dear to them, and the singular vision that they
impart to it.
SecretlyCanadian-176
12
$9.00
Music Lovers, The
Masculine Feminine
PS, US 'Masculine Feminine' is the third long-playing record from
acclaimed San Francisco-based pop-sophisticates The Music Lovers and
the pinnacle of their artistic endeavors. The Music Lovers are led
by transplanted Englishman songwriter Matthew Edwards. Edwards refers
to 'Masculine Feminine' as his own personal 'Day of the Locust', a
travelogue through the underbelly of the almost-famous doyens of LA
and San Francisco. Like a toxic Graham Greene on a tear, Edwards speaks
of motels, love-affairs, addictions, vamps and ingénues, pausing
on occasion to look back on a half remembered England and wonder what
went wrong (or right)? These are desperate songs born of need and
frustration, but never dreary, never self-pitying. Rather, they show
a formidable spirit of abandon - an abandon to the pop aesthetic;
saddling the darkest sensibilities and wickedest proclivities to the
sweetest pop-song frame-works. The music? The girl-group sound on
a dreary Tuesday morning in 1976... quietly exultant on a radio in
Birmingham. Serge and Stax and The Go-Betweens and Dusty and Lerner
and Lowe, dammit! If David Goodis had written lyrics for Carole King
they might have sounded a little like this record. Yes, they are all
'love songs' but not only to people, but places, states of mind and
to divine release. 'Masculine Feminine' is battered, inebriate, sensual
and defiantly and unfashionably romantic! Praise for The Music Lovers:
"Gin-spritzed string arrangements and cocktail-bar melancholy,
[that comes] off like a Rat Pack version of Lloyd Cole." - WORD
"Hints of '60s AM-radio fodder regularly poke through the creamy,
dreamy layers of piano, acoustic guitar, concertina, strings and mellotron,
and the results are seductive." - MAGNET "The Music Lovers
sound is lush and voluptuous, making me think of clouds and rain,
strings and guitars, both orchestral and earthy, akin to the sublime
pleasure of holding your head in my lap, oh my beautiful one."
- comedian MARGARET CHO
LeGrandMagistery-046
CD
$12.25
MV & EE with Bummer Road
Drone Trailer
PS, US MV & EE With the Golden Road and their Drone Trailer album.
In fact still orbiting the earth in Vermont is Matt 'MV' Valentine,
once the brawn of the Tower recordings, and Erika 'EE' Elder, the
CEO of Heroine Celestial Agriculture. The MV & EE Medicine Show,
together with their dog Zuma, they run the child of Microtones Terran
library of exploratory music and sing songs with fellow Avatars. 'The
Golden Road' is sometimes their own lunar Blues, sometimes fingerstyle
noise/space, sometimes lonesome frontier volk...always environments.
You will find many are one and they like to jam together within many
guitar dimensions/amp realms... respectfully and yours hanging loose.
DiCristinaStair
CD
$14.25
MV & EE with Bummer Road
Drone Trailer
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DiCristinaStair
LP
$15.25
My Cat Is An Alien
Roberto Opalio / Maurizio Opalio
PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy
duty screen printed jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Each side
features a 20 minute solo track from both brotherly halves of the
acclaimed My Cat Is An Alien. Both brothers were quiet about the inspiration
for their tracks. Dig in and find your own meaning in the comfortable
alien world of the Opalio space brothers.
Important-216
LP
$25.75
My Cat Is an Alien & Mats Gustafsson
Cosmic Debris, Vol. 4
PS, US Experimental powers united!
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.25
My Cat Is An Alien/Praxinoscope
Split (2XLP)
PS, US Limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies packaged in heavy
duty screen-printed metallic ink jackets done by Neil Burke at Monoroid.
My Cat Is An Alien's new surprising master work is a concept-album
split with their side project Praxinoscope. As always, in a world
full of compromises, MCIAA represent fierce independence and complete
freedom. Take Roberto's own words in the liner notes as the best introduction
to this work: "One day we realized it was no more possible to
discern archaic art and post-modern art in our palette; it was clear
that they were both reflected in the same hall of mirrors. In other
words, alien art and archaic art are the same thing. All archaic art
deals with death, sex, transcendence and Eternity. We're all living
days suspended in the Void. The difference is in consciousness: this
is real artists' duty. Beyond and other than this, only oblivion."
Important-217
DLP
$33.75
Naked Raygun
All Rise
PS, US The 1985 Chicago punk classic. NAKED RAYGUN's 2nd album...
RE-MASTERED and sounding better than ever back on wax. Includes bonus
remastered versions of their 1987 smash 7"'Vanilla Blue'. 12x18
2 sided color poster full of unreleased photos, lyrics and more. Another
one of the greatest punk albums of all time here. Essential!!
HauntedTown
LP
$14.50
Nana April Jun
Ontology of Noise
PS, US This debut from CHRISTOFER LAMGREN researches the dark associations
of post-black metal. No traditional instruments are used on the album
& all techniques are digital in their application. This explores
the filmic qualities of noise - the image-creating mechanisms that
arise almost hallucinogenically from subtle variations of frequencies.
Fans of Burzum's "Filosofem" take note.
Touch
CD
$16.25
Nautilus & Ben Nash
Split
PS, UK Nautilus is the solo project of Heidi Diehl of Vanishing Voice/Time
Life, long-time BR transatlantic e-mail buddy who we finally got to
meet just over a year ago on the very brief Vanishing Voice tour.
Since then, she has begun recording solo material under this alias,
and has self-released one CD-R which blew our minds, and likewise
blew local long-time BR friend Ben Nash's cranium apart. The Nautilus
side opens with 'Still Rings,' a far-out trip of weirdo outsider dripping
mind-fuzz, like some kind of spatial insect gathering. 'Tallahasse
Woman' rings more bells with the sound of Vanishing Voice and Heidi's
psychedelic string playing, and subtle vocals buried below it. 'Jeans
Theme' is another sweet track of tranced-out guitar with approaching
percussion and waves of vocal drones. Ben Nash holds his side with
two nearly 8-minute tracks, opener 'Plymouth Bredren Blues' has definitely
got the blues -- as mentioned in the title, there's some serious woe
in the wah right here, and some almost Paris, Texas moments. 'Interloper/Latch'
also starts off pretty bluesy, but halfway through goes to a speaker-shredding
guitar shaker, with some seriously serious riffs, that are almost
breaking up as they begin, and then reverting back to the blues mediation
of the beginning of the track. A great release, in an edition of 300
copies.
BlackestRainbow
LP
$17.00
Neung Phak
S-T
PS, US Not only will listening to this music take your mind off how
you'll manage paying off your debts and surrendering your soul to
the ruling elite, but its almost a soundtrack manifesto justifying
a great "career move" where you can uproot your pathetic
and truly meaningless life in Western society and relocate to the
great inner-peninsula of Southeast Asia. This is what you could be
listening to when you move into that cheap apartment overlooking the
Chao Phraya River: some roots "Molarm beat" from the Lao
countryside, creamy Khmer ballads and Cambodian Rock, with a dash
of Bangkok big city pop. Dig this template of tropical seduction,
from rural to urban, through thick sewage and pristine rice paddies,
side-steppin' the sex tourist industry just enough to make this disc
legal to purchase. On second thought, stay where you are and don't
ruin it for the rest of us whose souls are firmly embedded in the
great tunnels beneath the underground cities of Angkor stretching
their way to the sewers of Soi Cowboy. It's starting to get too crowded
over here! Stay where you are!
MonoPause
CD
$13.50
Newman, A.C.
Get Guilty
PS, US The second solo album from A.C. Newman, leader and songwriter
behind The New Pornographers, finds the pop songsmith in decidedly
more upbeat and guitar heavy form than on the last NP's album. "Get
Guilty" is a set of layered pop songs of great melodic and lyrical
depth. "A.C. Newman deserves every last bit of praise thrown
his way. In a better world, he would be our Elton, our Todd, our McCartney"
- All Music Guide.
Matador
CD
$13.25
Newman, A.C.
Get Guilty
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$14.75
Nice Face
Exterminator b/w F.U.B.A.R. Over You
PS, US In a lot of ways the world can be boiled down into two sorts
of people. Those who are gonna be revolted by the cover of this single
and those who will be like "Oh, cool the new Nice Face single!"
Once you get past the cover the 2nd Nice Face single might be even
better than the first one (on Sacred Bones).
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Nichols, Ben
The Last Pale Light In The West
PS, US The debut mini album by Lucero frontman Ben Nichols was inspired
by Cormac McCarthy's novel, "Blood Meridien". Recorded with
Rick Steff (Cat Power, Lucero) and Todd Beane (Glossary). Features
Nichols' signature gravelly voice accompanied by his acoustic guitar,
complimented by Steff's piano and accordion, and Beane's subtle pedal
steel guitar. RIYL: Tom Waits, "Nebraska"-era Bruce Springsteen.
Rebel
CD
$9.00
Nickel Eye
Time Of The Assassins
PS, US Solo project of STROKES bassist Nikolai Fraiture. Guest appearances
by Nick Zinner (YEAH YEAH YEAHS) & REGINA SPEKTOR. Musically influenced
by artists such as Neil Young, Frank Black, Leonard Cohen & The
Kinks.
Rykodisc
CD
$12.00
Nixe, The
S-T
PS, US Long overdue compilation of pretty much all of the 1980-81
recordings by the first all girl Dutch Punk band. I love records and
I love collecting records, but I don't have the time or money for
all of the records that I want so when someone does a right on comp
like this I get pretty excited. This is a really great treat. Don't
pass it up.
PollyMaggooRecords
LP
$18.00
Nobunny
Give It To Me b/w Motorhead With Me
PS, US Hot on the heels of the re-issue of the essential "Love
Visions" full length comes two more one man wonder punk rock
dream tunes. Equal amounts of fun, dumb and essential.
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Nomad
Cats and Babies
PS, JAPAN Nomad (Cavemen Speak, Gunporn) finally comes back with his
2nd album called "Cats and Babies" . His debut album called
"Lemon Tea" (2006) was critically acclaimed as "bedroom
hip hop folk". He was doing between rapping and singing so he
was described as "rapper songwriter". With this album, he's
become a singer songwriter. He did all by himself in his small bedroom,
like songwriting, recording and playing all the instruments (guitar,
piano, drums, glockenspiel etc. ) as well as the artwork. Beautiful
melodies and fragile fairy voice and witty but intelligent lyrics.
You will never forget his voice when once you listen. His music has
magic.
Hue-1042
CD
$17.00
Nous Non Plus
Menagerie
PS, US The band dabbles in their 60's French pop influences but also
explore a new sonic landscape mixing Moog synthesizers w/ string sections,
horns w/ distorted guitars. Imagine Gainsbourg & Bardot as indie
rockers in 2009
Aeronaut
CD
$13.50
NOVA
NOVA: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
PS, US Follow EELS front man Mark Oliver Everett on his quest to comprehend
the theory of parallel universes while unraveling the remarkable life
story of his iconoclastic father Hugh - creator of the radical quantum
physics theory - in this installment of the popular PBS series, Nova.
Dubbed "one of the most important scientists of the 20th Century"
by Scientific America, Hugh Everett III proposed the controversial
Many Worlds Theory back in 1957. The basis of that theory is the idea
that parallel universes are constantly spinning off from reality as
we know it. Though generally ignored at the time, that theory has
gone on to become not just a popular topic of study among respected
physicists, but the inspiration for such popular films, television
shows, and books as Star Trek and The Golden Compass. As a young boy
growing up, Mark never understood why his father was so distant. It
wasn't that Hugh didn't care about his family, just that his brain
was constantly swirling with ideas and concepts, and that anything
that pulled him out of his own thoughts was considered something of
a distraction. Now the last surviving member of his troubled family,
Mark interviews his father's old college friends, colleagues, and
admirers - including MIT physicist Max Tegmark - in an emotional journey
to not only better understand the man he barely knew in life, but
also gain a greater understanding of the ideas that still inspire
physicists to this very day. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
WGBHBoston
DVD
$42.00
Novi_Sad
Jailbirds
PS, US Limited to 500 copies and housed in our plastic-free gatefold
sleeves with spine. art design by cs08. Novi_sad's work came to our
attention via our good friend Susanna Bolle (Non-Event and Rare Frequency)
in Boston. A superbly keen ear, Bolle felt that his work and our label
should connect. Though Nov-Sad's has only a few years of practice
behind him, the quality and maturity of all of his efforts is striking.
The proposed Jailbirds material for Sedimental was totally complete
and not only of the highest quality but also of a truly unique vision.
What is significant in his work is the multiplicity of its action
on the listener. It is a density of sound, acting in three-dimensions,
not as auditory "sound effect" but as music with depth both
physically and in functionality. Its intensity and purposefulness
based in specific conceptual foundations and enhanced by a mastery
(and transcendence) of technical means collapses amplified environmental
recordings, drone manipulations, structured ambient soundscapes, microtones
and overtones into unified whole. Sedimental is truly excited to be
an early anchor of this young composer and sound artist's serious
oeuvre. Novi_sad (Thanasis Kaproulias, b. 1980) is a graduate student
from the Economic University of Piraues. He lives and works in Athens,
Greece where he began generating sounds in 2005. His debut album Misguided
heart pulses, a hammer, she and the clock received worldwide critical
acclaim. Recently, Novi_sad did a recording session at the prestigious
VPRO studios in Amsterdam, for the Dutch National Radio which will
be released by Staalplaat [NL] in the Mort Aux Vaches series. A recent
piece called Dramazon is available on TouchRadio from the publishing
house Touch [U.K]. He is currently working on a project based on various
methods of audio analysis called Sirens in which he explores the aesthetics
of information on sound by using quantitative data from major stock
market crashes in history.
Sedimental-053
CD
$12.25
Null, KK
Oxygen Flash
PS, US After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty
years, he has gradually moved toward a more electronic
approach. In recent years, he has concentrated on exploring the outer
territories of electronica via intense, clashing waves of noise, structured
electro-acoustic ambience, broken-down rhythmics, scattered pitch
sculptures, & droning isolationist material which one could loosely
describe as cosmic noise maximal/minimalism.
Neurot
CD
$16.00
Odd Nosdam
T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
PS, US Created for the Element Skateboards film "This Is My Element,"
this is the first of its kind: an original, artist-composed score
crafted to the beat of polyurethane pounding pavement. The veteran
producer & beatsmith tailors each song to fit the style &
cadence of the Element rider it accompanies. On its own, quite simply,
this album is a banger.
Anticon
CD
$15.25
Odd Nosdam
T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Anticon
LP
$15.75
Odyssey
Live at Levittown Memorial Auditorium: 1974
PS, CANADA A live recording that was never really meant to be, recorded
by Odyssey's sound engineer on a portable cassette recorder, and recently
unearthed! Live at Levittown is the only document of Odyssey as they
were in their progressive phase, just before Fred Callan and sometime
Odyssey keyboardist Tom Doncourt recorded their legendary album as
Cathedral (Stained Glass Stories). Bonus tracks include three cassette
'basement recordings' from the Setting Forth era -- two untitled originals
that never made the album, plus the band's version of 'Whiter Shade
of Pale'. All tracks have been salvaged as well as possible from the
original sources but keep in mind these are not 'audiophile' quality!
Twelve-page booklet has a continuation of the Odyssey story by band
leader Vinny Kusy, as well as more rare photos from his own archive.
Lion
CD
$15.25
Of
Rocks Will Open
PS, US Loren Chasse is responsible for a whole host of vital albums.
He was a founding member of the Jewelled Antler label and has sparked
so many great moments from the likes of Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Softwar,
and of course his main solo guise, Of. For years, this project has
evolved into something of absolute magical grandeur. Rocks Will Open
is the latest opus in Chasse's catalog. The music on this album is
as organic as it gets. Each tone, each sound feels like it has been
culled directly from the Earth's crust. Gentle drones arc toward the
hazy sunlight, flickering like distant birds sailing out over the
sea. Between the ghostly echoes rises a cacophony of plucked strings
dancing toward oblivion. Loren Chasse's vision is perfectly expressed
on Rocks Will Open. Limited to 500 copies.
Digitalis
CD
$11.25
Of Montreal
Jon Brion Remix EP
PS, US Grammy-nominated producer Jon Brion has worked with Spoon,
Kanye West,
Elliott Smith, and Fiona Apple, as well as scored the films Magnolia,
Synechdoche
NY, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An Elurdian Instance
is Brion's most recent masterpiece and finds him reinterpreting two
cuts from of Montreal's most recent album Skeletal Lamping. These
are by no means remixes, as Brion literally reinterprets the songs
by taking the basic tracks and adding more instrumentation and backing
vocals, including the work of Nickel Creek vocalist and mandolin-player
Chris Thile.
Polyvinyl-172
CD
$6.75
Of Montreal
Jon Brion Remix EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl-172
LP
$10.00
Olson, Mark & Gary Louris
Ready for the Flood
PS, US New collaboration from Jayhawks duo! Although they've toured
together and renewed their friendship, this is the first recording
by Olson and Louris since Olson left the Jayhawks in 1995. What would
become READY FOR THE FLOOD was recorded at Sage & Sound Studios
in Hollywood with friend Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes. Louris
had called in Robinson, who happened to be in town at that point,
for vibe support and he ended up producing the album; he also appears
on the album playing harmonica and contributing backing vocals.
READY FOR THE FLOOD captures the stripped down,
fingerpicked guitar playing and Laurel Canyon sound of an earlier
time, with allusions to English folk Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, John
Renbourne, whom both Mark and Gary had both been getting into independently
and a simpler, live recording technique where capturing the right
vibe was as important as the sound. It s an album that only two career
musicians and friends could make organic, intuitive and loosely confident,
heartfelt and moving, echoing with the combined experience of two
kindred spirits reuniting to do what they do and love best.
NewWest
CD
$17.75
O'Malley, Stephen
Keep an Eye Out!
PS, US Table of the Elements continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary
with the tenth installment in its Guitar Series Vols. 3 & 4. It's
a 12xLP romp of deviant fretnoise by some of experimental music's
most prominent players, including Christian Fennesz, Thurston Moore,
and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley. Sunn O))) founder Stephen O'Malley
summons a mesmerizing drone, absorbing the listener into an aural
tar pit of deep, inexorable oblivion. He wears a cloak of post-metal
allegiances with behemoths like Earth, but beneath that, there is
a vibrant body of work that owes as much to the heady minimalism of
Tony Conrad and Steve Reich. Constantly pushing at the extremes of
volume and duration, O'Malley's sound is a physical phenomenon, infused
with an intimidating power - and possessing, at its core, an oddly
meditative tranquility. "The supremacy of Table of the Elements
for the past decade as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental
strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance.
Most of the Table of the Elements catalogue has no broad commercial
appeal, and many of its projects - scores for films directed by early-60s
Conrad associate Jack Smith or a 3XCD box set by an unknown two-guitars-and-drums
trio from Atlanta - are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental
marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everyone associated
with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important
records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen."
-PITCHFORK
"Table of the Elements [are] fearless purveyors of the wildest
stuff around." -KYLE GANN (NEW YORK TIMES)
TableOfTheElements-101
LP
$14.25
One Up Downstairs, The
The One Up Downstairs
PS, US The One Up Downstairs is members of American Football, Owen,
and Very Secretary. For years The One Up Downstairs was discussed
on message boards and became the frequent recipient of questions sent
to the Polyvinyl info e-mail account: were they actually a band, did
they sound like American Football, did they ever record? The answers
to all of these questions are a resounding "yes." In an
effort to make the songs available to fans Polyvinyl released the
band's only recorded output a few years ago, which led to another
question: would the songs ever see a proper release as a 7"?
Long sought after, these songs are now available as a 7" that
includes a digital download code for the entire release.
Polyvinyl-112
45
$4.00
Ophiucus
S-T
PS, CANADA Ophiucus may be the name of an obscure constellation, but
it's also the name of a French band that recorded an exceptional album
in 1972 for the Barclay label. All the members of the band had already
enjoyed ample success in music before musician/actor Emmanuel Booz
brought them together in 1971: Jean-Pierre Pouret was a well-known
session-man for Sylvie Vartan; brothers Alain and Bernard Labacci
released albums as Tom & Jerry, and supported Jimi Hendrix for
a TV appearance; Michel Bonnecarrere had founded the band Zoo (one
of Andy Votel from the B-Music label's favorites), and was one of
the composers, arrangers and musicians for that group's first two
albums. Apropos of the period, the band members decided to live together
as a small family in Flagy, a small town in France, where they lived
a happy life and wrote the tracks which adorn this reissue. This ambitious
album somehow manages to blend grungy psychedelic rock, acoustic blues
and densely orchestrated French pop/psych (in an Ilous & Decuyper
vein) into an impressive and cohesive whole. Sandy Spencer, cellist
and member of Mormos contributed wonderful playing on 'Ne Cherche
Plus' and 'Inachevée.' This reissue includes the original album
plus eight bonus tracks in English meant to be the basis of an international
album that was never issued. A fulsome 28-page booklet includes band
history and commentaries on the songs written by Ophiucus, photos,
lyrics (French and English), and a contemporary review.
Lion
CD
$15.25
O'Rourke, Jim & Loren Connors
Two Nice Catholic Boys
PS, US These two nice Catholic boys, Loren Connors and Jim O'Rourke,
met at the crossroads each night during a 1997 European tour. By this
time O'Rourke had reissued Connors' seminal heartbreak album In Pittsburgh
on his Dexter's Cigar label and was preparing to produce the guitarist's
big-band mash-up Hoffman Estates with Alan Licht. Together, Connors-O'Rourke
unravel slow motion Venusian style blues across three extended pieces
to thundering, feedback splattered grooves. The spontaneous melodies
shift from devastating, country road intimacy to hypnotic over-amped
rock. It's ferocious, epic, and an utter beauty capable only from
two who know themselves and each other all too well. This live CD
is only the second duo release by these musical partners despite performing
together since the mid-90s. During the past decade, O'Rourke has repeatedly
returned to hours of recordings captured across Europe to select these
47 minutes.
FamilyVineyard-59
CD
$11.50
Owen
(The EP)
PS, US Owen is Mike Kinsella (American Football, Joan of Arc, Cap'n
Jazz). Previously only available as a CDEP and import-only 12",
(the ep) is the usual blend of beautiful acoustic work and wry lyrics
that fans have come to expect from Owen. What separates (the ep) from
previous Owen titles is the subtle yet intricate inclusion of Cale
Parks (Aloha) on drumming and vibraphones along with Jen Tabor on
strings and the pedal steel work of Bob Hoffnar (Nora Jones, Ryan
Adams). (the ep) continues Polyvinyl's efforts to release Owen's back
catalog on high quality 180-gram vinyl. Digital download codes of
(the ep) are included in all vinyl. Includes bonus track.
Polyvinyl-70
12
$10.25
Owl Service
A Garland of Song
PS, US THE OWL SERVICE was formed by STEVEN COLLIN in 2006 as a vehicle
to explore his love of British films and television of the 1960s and
'70s, the great outdoors and the sound of the English folk revival.
A Garland of Song was recorded and mixed almost entirely at home,
with a group of like-minded collaborators, between December 2006 and
June 2007; it fuses traditional British folk ballads with elements
of psychedelic rock, occasionally bordering on a doom-laden garage
sound, and is interspersed with Steven's original instrumental compositions.
It recalls the great acid-folk bands of the late '60s/early '70s but
never once sounds contrived or overtly retro.
Southern
CD
$14.50
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$11.00
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
S-T
PS, US Since forming in early 2007, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
have become one of the most talked-about pop bands in years. Their
distinctive style tidily distills all the great noise-pop precedents-early
My Bloody Valentine, House of Love, Pale Saints, Rocketship-with incredible
exuberance and energy in every song. Following the band's ace Everything
With You single and whirlwind Swedish tour, The Pains of Being Pure
At Heart is an instant classic, packed with brilliantly executed pop
gems that blend the rush of youthful enthusiasm with crafty arrangements,
well-honed tunes and buckets of guitar racket. One instantly identifiable
thing about a Pains record is the essential "rightness"
of their tunes. They have captured the attention of pop fans around
the world and raised anticipation levels for this album to a near-fever
pitch. Touted by Pitchfork as one of the top 5 to watch in 2009.
Slumberland
CD
$12.00
Paisley, Doug
S-T
PS, US An album of folk songs that represent the American malaise.
Sure, PAISLEY is Canadian (Toronto, to be exact) but so was Neil Young
& 4/5 of The Band, & that didn't stop them from tapping into
the collective psyche of the continent. Recalls an era fo songwriting
that was more simple, more honest, more modest. A time before ipods
& myspace, when making a good album was simply enough. Doug has
toured recently w/ Bonnie "Prince" Billy under the pseudo
name Dark Hand & Lamplight, a collaboration between himself &
visual artist Shary Boyle. Shary creates live drawings & animates
pre-drawn images on an overhead projector - all projected on a screen,
on the wall, Doug, & other available surfaces. On NO QUARTER Recs
(home of Endless Boogie, Laddio Bolocko, etc). CD comes in deluxe
old-style tip-on gatefold sleeve.
NoQuarter
CD
$13.00
Palestine, Charlemagne
Sound 1
PS, ITALY As the title well underlines, Sound 1, electronic sonority
is a starting point in Charlemagne Palestine's research for the Golden
Sonority. Previously unpublished, this radical and fundamental work
has now been released on LP record in collaboration with the New Media
Dept. of Centre Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris
for the first 'Oeuvres Sonores' event, December 15th, 2008. Charlemagne
Palestine started to dream of an expressive, continuous, ever-moving,
ever-changing sound-form; an enormous sonorous 3-dimensional sculptural
canvas in mid-air, using electronically-produced sounds. At first,
he began experiments with simple sine tone generators, emitting the
purest sound waves without any overtones. Then, gradually, with access
to Moog and arps, he constructed sounds using the sine/sawtooth/square
wave oscillators in a fluid, ever-changing mix of adding or filtering
overtones and white noise to create sonorities constantly changing
timbres and weight. Palestine experimented in this way from 1964 till
1974 in NYC and then, in California. Finally, he assembled his own
drone machine of 16 ultra stable oscillators designed by Serge Tcherepnin
and 4 band pass filters designed by Donald Buchla. He would build
up a sound, oscillator by oscillator, then add ever-so-slightly to
the oscillator input, tiny increments of white noise that would gradually
make the sounds thicker and thicker, until they were immense, sacred
machines humming like gargantuan Tibetan bees. Charlemagne played
them very, very loud, making all the room and objects in it resonate,
while outside all was quiet and sleeping. He worked like a painter
with a palette and a canvas and he mixed and added and mixed and added
over, entire nights, mixing, adding, and then lying on the mattress
and listening and fine-tuning. Finally, at a certain point, after
several nights, the sonority seemed ready to record. He'd put on the
tape, prepare the tape machine with the proper level as not to overload
it, and record the texture. This 1-sided LP was issued in an edition
limited to 500 copies." Includes a 25-page program booklet, including
an essay by Charlemagne Palestine and artwork by John Giorno.
Marghen
LP
$27.50
Parenthetical Girls
Safe As Houses [re-issue]
PS, US "THERE'S BLOOD BETWEEN MY LEGS, AND IN THE GRASS OUTSIDE
YOUR HOUSE I CAME." With this goose-pimplingly visceral couplet
begins the fragile journey of Safe As Houses, the second album from
experimental Northwestward pop band Parenthetical Girls. Though some
two years past between the initial release of the (((GRRRLS))) LP
(Parenthetical Girls' debut album, recently reissued on Slender Means
Society), Safe As Houses' narrative begins precisely where that album
left off-on the same sweat-and-menstrual-blood-soaked summer lawn
that so tenderly concluded their debut-but this time from a harrowingly
different perspective. "Love Connection, pt. 2" cements
the somber, ostensibly sinister narrative tone that shrouds much of
Safe As Houses, while simultaneously establishing the tremendous sonic
leap the band undertook in their two years of relative quiet. From
there, the record leaps into an altogether different sort of narrative-one
anchored in the surprising confidence of words-singer Zac Pennington's
plainspoken and startlingly corporeal apparitions. Unsettling and
beautiful in equal measure, Pennington's a-linear narrative weaves
the surprisingly evocative mythology that cradles the record's kitchen-sink
experimentation. Recorded with the band's previous three-piece configuration
(an ensemble made up of Pennington and Dead Science members Sam Mickens
and Jherek Bischoff-a regular contributor to Xiu Xiu and Casiotone
For the Painfully Alone, who also served as producer for the record),
Safe As Houses embraces the group's shrewd attention to the awkward
confluence of experimental and pop musics-creating a record that is
at once more difficult and more intrinsically palatable (not to mention
significantly darker) than anything so far bearing the Parenthetical
Girls name. Which is to say, it's much better.
Tomlab-116
CD
$12.25
Parenthetical Girls
(((GRRRLS))) [re-issue]
PS, US The cumbersome history of the (((GRRRLS))) LP begins sometime
in 2002, when two childhood friends began a home recording project
in a failed milltown of Everett, Washington. Compiling an innocent
assortment of equipment (bass synthesizer, ill-tuned guitar, analog
tape delay, and glockenspiel), Pennington and thencollaborator Jeremy
Cooper embarked on a course to emulate the spirit of their mutual
musical interests, which at the time primarily included the likes
of Brian Eno, Pete Kember, Phil Spector, and the early Rough Trade
catalog. Over the following year, the clunky results were compiled
onto a low bias cassette tape (split into a strained eight tracks)
and labeled "Parenthetical Girls". This cassette was mixed
down to a single copy, the original tape promptly lost. A year or
so later--with the help of considerably more capable hands (namely
the Dead Science's Jherek Bischoff and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart- Pennington
set about digitally (and heavily) retrofitting the original recordings
into seven proper compositions. To further complicate matters, Pennington
commissioned Bischoff and Stewart to complete two radically different
sets of mixes for the songs-which have since become respectively known
as the "O" and "X" versions of the record. But
now it's four years on. In that time, Parenthetical Girls have released
two more critically-acclaimed full lengths (2006's Safe As Houses
[Slender Means Society] and this year's Entanglements [Tomlab]), toured
the US and Europe with the likes of Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Los Campesinos!,
Evangelicals, and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone (whose album Etiquette,
incidentally, features a rather lovely cover of (((GRRRLS)))' closing
track "Love Connection"). We are pleased to finally present
(((GRRRLS))) with the wide distribution that it deserves for the first
time. In an attempt to maintain the distinct duality of the LP release,
the CD version of (((GRRRLS))) features both editions of the album-but
in two different, enhanced CD formats: version "O" (as mixed
by Jherek Bischoff) plays on any standard CD player like your average
CD should, while the "X" version (as mixed by Jamie Stewart),
takes advantage of the near ubiquity of the iPod revolution by offering
its tracks as super high quality MP3s, accessible via any computer.
(Confused? Me too. Just put it in your computer-you'll figure it out).
Additionally, the enhanced materials feature "Inspirational Shortpants
(avec paroles)," a track not available on the original vinyl
release.
Tomlab-115
CD
$12.25
Pattern Is Movement
All Together
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Hometapes
LP
$14.00
Payne, Adam
Organ
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$13.50
Payne, Adam
Organ
PS, US Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering
Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than
The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner
before scaling these cliffs because you're more likely to discover
pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern
California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and
peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop
perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. There's a
big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man
band. Suffice it to say that ADAM PAYNE (RESIDUAL ECHOES) is a one-man
band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters.
Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out
better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldn't
punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches
the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlow's Sky Company or the bits
of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne
was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed.
Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated
abandon that only leaves the listener wiser. Includes a free MP3 download.
HolyMountain
CD
$12.00
Pegasuses-XL
Electro Agitators
PS, US Featuring members of DISBAND, WE VERSUS THE SHARK, DARK MEAT,
CINEMECHANICA & BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. This compilation of the
group's first 3 self-released EPs is a synth fueled punk rock experiment
w/ nods to 90's hip hop & Kraftwerk. Since the initial release
of the EPs, the band has toured the US w/ Girl Talk & Pattern
Is Movement.
Ernest Jenning
CD
$10.00
Peyton, Caroline
Mock Up
PS, US Issued in 1972, this 10-song album has been expanded to 14,
including 3 vocal cuts on the SCREAMING GYPSY
BANDITS "In The Eye" LP. Dug up in the process was a live
performance at Hummingbird Cafe in 1972 captured on film, added as
enhanced content on this CD. Liners document the making of "Mock
Up" & the Bloomington, IN scene of the 1970s, and feat. scores
of unpublished photos
Asterisk
CD
$15.75
Peyton, Caroline
Intuition
PS, US Issued in 1977, the 10-song album has been expanded to 17,
including 2 studio outtakes and 5 demos recorded for Arista. Booklet
feat. a dozen candid photos from the period & Edd Hurt's account
of Caroline's final days as an outsider folk goddess. "A middle
road between Buffy Sainte-Marie's electro-augmented "Illuminations"
& Nick Drake's "Pink Moon." - Pitchfork
Asterisk
CD
$15.75
Phantom Band
Checkmate Savage
PS, UK This is where Beefheart meets Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, where
Neu! meets nick Cave. The end result however is truly special, bringing
to mind the beat savvy of The Beta Band, the other-worldliness of
Super Furry Animals & the mood of Hallowed Ground-era Violent
Femmes.
ChemikalUnderground
CD
$14.25
Phosphorescent
To Willie
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DeadOceans-013
LP
$12.25
Phosphorescent
To Willie
PS, US In 1975 Willie Nelson recorded the album To Lefty FromWillie,
10 songs in which Nelson pays homage to Lefty Frizell, reinterpreting
his favorites from the Frizzell catalog and stamping them with his
own unique voice, reshaping them into his own new classics. Now Phosphorescent
has done the same for Willie Nelson by bringing us To Willie. Here,
Matthew Houck has selected 11 of his favorite Willie Nelson songs
and does much more than just simply cover them. He has not selected
the greatest hits, but rather digs deep, offering renditions of hidden
Nelson gems and lost classics. The songs collected here seem cracked
from Phosphorescent's proprietary mold with Matthew Houck's unmistakable
voice leading the way. They feel lived in, they feel weathered and
they feel just like Phosphorescent. Phosphorescent's 2007 breakthrough
album Pride sounded best at the latest of hours-it was narcotic, dreamy
and fraught. Following the release of this insomniac masterpiece,
Houck toured relentlessly with a solid rock band, turning the meditations
of Pride into another beast entirely. Loose and booze-fueled, Phosphorescent
put on electrifying performances night after night in which Houck
stepped out as confident frontman and band leader. Without question,
those hard-living months on the road greatly impacted the To Willie
sessions. Houck's swagger and confidence shines through like never
before-on songs like "Reasons to Quit" and "I Gotta
Get Drunk" Phosphorescent rumbles with a soulful groove that
was a fixture of the live show, but was never touched upon in previous
recordings. Recalling the finest moments of the late-'70s work of
Waylon Jennings and Nelson himself, Phosphorescent has delivered a
glorious hangover of an album. It is so much more than a collection
of Willie Nelson cover songs-it is a full-blown new classic. But this
is not a musical reinvention of the band - Phosphorescent returns
with all acknowledged charms in tow; the gentle duet of "It's
Not Supposed to be ThatWay," the hauntingly beautiful choir of
"Can I Sleep In Your Arms," and the spacious, synth-heavy
"Permanently Lonely" all work to pull this album together
as a cohesive statement. As the liner notes of Nelson's To Lefty FromWillie
simply state: "This album is an unabashed musical love letter.
From one towering talent to another."We couldn't have said it
better ourselves.
DeadOceans-013
CD
$11.50
Photobooth
Da Me Tus Besos b/w You & 3 In the Morning
PS, US New Bay area band w/ members of the FM Knives and Mothball.
3 catchy
songs.
Daggerman
45
$5.50
Pink Reason/Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones
Split
PS, US Another couple of months and it's time for another great Pink
Reason record. This time he goes at it with fellow Wisconsin-ites
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones and they cover each other's songs. Maybe
it's the fact that HBJOs have backed up Mr. Pink Reason on many occasions
or maybe it is the times they shared in a midwest more isolated than
most of us imagine or maybe it is just that both bands are really
great. No matter the reason what you get is a great record.
FloridasDyingRecords
12
$12.00
Polansky. Larry
The Theory Of Impossible Melody
PS, US Performed by Jody Diamond, Chris Mann (voice); Phil Burk and
Larry Polansky (live computers, fretless electric guitars); Robin
Hayward (tubas). "Among the lineages of knowledge that Larry
Polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both
a composer and theorist, have been mathematics, intonation theory,
cybernetics, systems theory, artificial intelligence, musicology (both
Western and non-Western), American Sign Language, and Jewish mysticism.
He has combined these and many other fields of study together into
some of the most important music written by anyone of his generation
while retaining status as the composer who is most worthy of being
called a true theorist. In many ways, his compositions are themselves
injunctive demonstrations of his theoretical insights that stand as
critiques of the theoreticism that is now endemic to the art world.
This intellectual integrity and facility has also been responsible
for one of the most interesting characteristics of Polansky's compositional
output. His music is one of the most successful, and rare, examples
of a confluence between two, generally conflicting, 20th century musical
streams. Like his mentor, James Tenney -- and many other late 20th
century experimental masters who were inspired by the aesthetic innovations
of Cage -- Polansky creates musical expositions of phenomenal reality.
Sometimes these are based in psychoacoustic science, and sometimes
they are grounded in mathematical formalisms. Sometimes they explore
both at once. What he also manages to do -- and this is where he succeeds
at the above-mentioned confluence -- is so often reveal these concepts
within an expressive musical frame that is strongly linked to more
traditional musical values."
NewWorld
CD
$14.75
Pollard, Robert
Crawling Distance
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
GBV
LP
$15.25
Pollard, Robert
Crawling Distance
PS, US From the stately Krautrock chug of the album opener, "Faking
My Harlequin," to the schizo-frenetic closing track, "Too
Much Fun," w/ its structural U-turns piled on top of tempo shifts,
this is unlike any Pollard release yet.
GBV
CD
$15.25
Potop
Channels
PS, US Seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore presented
as the bastard child of Drop Dead and Burning Witch. The CD packaging
is entierely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic
characters.
Graveface
CD
$12.00
Primus
Saling the Seas of Cheese
PS, US 180gm vinyl LP! Another alternative classic originally released
in 1991, available on vinyl for the 1st time since its initial release.
The 3rd album from LES CLAYPOOL & co., & 1st for a major label,
is a twisted mix of prog rock, funk & punk, w/ a taste for Frank
Zappa's humor & Captain Beefheart's guttural growl. One of few
bands to have the bass as the prominent instrument, w/ Claypool alternating
from funky slaps to throbbing power chords to heavy, heavy solos,
the guitar providing almost dissonant texturing beneath the bass'
shredding. Feat. the MTV hit "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver,"
this is an alternative classic that stands up next to the best work
of folks like Jane's Addiction & Nirvana.
Plain
LP
$16.75
Psychic Ills
Mirror Eye
PS, US "Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going
for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really,
evacuating, an unlikely future-primitive grind." - Village Voice
"This NYC quartet set their stall somewhere between oceanic guitar
abstraction and the brittle crunch of psychedelic guitar rock, feeding
their extended chugging jams through a thick fog of fuzz." -
The Wire Mirror Eye, the second full-length album from Psychic Ills,
is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective
reflection. Through the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimy
SeiTang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique
amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various
sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly
- and unlike anything happening right now. Sprawling opener "Mantis"
sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that
give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic
vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly
11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following
that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades
up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener
has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief
reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta,
Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a
contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer
splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes
Closed." I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into
the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning
into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at
its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea" is the most
straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their
previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The
Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning
synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar
riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final
track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining
two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out
field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message,
and perhaps the album's for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative
culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent
combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues
to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. This release will be
followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from
this period.
TheSocialRegistry-066
LP
$12.25
Psychic Ills
Mirror Eye
PS, US "Psychic Ills have that dance band by accident thing going
for them in a big way. Everything about them is bewitching, really,
evacuating, an unlikely future-primitive grind." - Village Voice
"This NYC quartet set their stall somewhere between oceanic guitar
abstraction and the brittle crunch of psychedelic guitar rock, feeding
their extended chugging jams through a thick fog of fuzz." -
The Wire Mirror Eye, the second full-length album from Psychic Ills,
is an altogether heady affair and as its title suggests, a perspective
reflection. Through the course of eight tracks, Elizabeth Hart, Jimy
SeiTang, Brian Tamborello and Tres Warren journey through a unique
amalgamation of electronic explorations, improvised jamming and various
sonic experiments that yield a record at once familiar and otherworldly
- and unlike anything happening right now. Sprawling opener "Mantis"
sets the record's tone with modulating synths and hand drums that
give way to a loose groove, terrestrial guitar patterns and shamanic
vocals. If you are still around when it rolls into its ending nearly
11 minutes later, its safe to say that you're on board. Following
that, the open-ended trance rock of the second track, 'Meta' fades
up as if the band has already been jamming on it long before the listener
has been let in. It departs in a similar fashion, save for a brief
reprise of reversed tape and whatever remnants of the chorus' "Meta,
Meta, Meta" are hanging around in the listener's head like a
contact high. "Sub Synth" is an off-the-cuff synthesizer
splice that descends into the improvised space raga of "Eyes
Closed." I Take You As My Wife Again" continues deeper into
the abstract with metallic synths and improvised electronics transitioning
into organic percussion and whistles before ultimately arriving at
its minimal techno inspired ending. Fingernail Tea" is the most
straight forward song and vaguely harkens back to elements of their
previous full-length, Dins. The hallucinatory next track, "The
Way Of" is the album's last burst of energy, forming out of spinning
synths and clatter, and riding an eastern bass line and watery guitar
riff before unravelling under percussion and goat scream mania. final
track "Go to the radio" is a come down of sorts combining
two main processed loops, an electronic tambura with a circular dubbed-out
field recording of a man's voice repeating the song's name and message,
and perhaps the album's for that matter. Mirror Eye is the imaginative
culmination of a period of exploration for Psychic Ills. A transcendent
combination of musics that symbolizes how far the band has and continues
to evolve beyond genre - and a fun listen too. This release will be
followed by a mini-lp in the winter of other unheard material from
this period.
TheSocialRegistry-066
CD
$11.50
Quatra Tete
Art of the State
PS, US Synapse-melting timing & memory challenging arrangements
that never overwhelm the pure joy of a rock band firing on all cylinders.
Recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, cover artwork
by Jay Ryan.
Sickroom
CD
$13.00
Quatre Tete
Art of the State
PS, US Synapse-melting timing & memory challenging arrangements
that never overwhelm the pure joy of a rock band firing on all cylinders.
Recorded and mixed by Bob Weston at Electrical Audio, cover artwork
by Jay Ryan.
Sickroom
CD
$13.00
Randle, Doug
Songs For The New Industrial State
PS, US A stunning collection of new songs for and about the time we
live in,' billed the text on the backside of composer Doug Randle's
1971 release, Songs For The New Industrial State. In 2009, the same
holds true. Doug was, and still is, a writer, arranger, musician,
and conductor with roots deep in the Canadian jazz scene of the 1950s.
After a lengthy spell working in England during the first half of
the 1960s, he returned to Toronto and took up an in-house position
at the government-sanctioned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC),
where in 1970 he recorded his very own 'What's Going On.' Commercially
released by the short-lived Kanata Records label, Songs was an introspective
look at ever-dominant corporations, the cutthroat advertising world,
our consumer society, decaying environment, and his own personal condition.
The results crossed the epic studio creations of David Axelrod's Capitol
output (or Spanish folk-rock fuelled Pride LP) with Free Design vocal
harmonies from notable vocalists Tommy Ambrose and Laurie Bower (Billy
Van Singers, Mutual Understanding, Laurie Bower Singers). Randle himself
describes his long-forgotten efforts as, 'my bitter and twisted Simon
& Garfunkel songs,' and though the lyrical content is indeed weighty,
Songs' backing tracks successfully merge swinging sunshine pop and
atmospheric orchestrations with a groovy backbeat performed by the
cream of Toronto's heralded studio scene (Moe Koffman, Peter Appleyard,
Rob McConnell, and Guido Basso, to name a few). It's an album like
you've never heard, and one under the radar of even the most dedicated
crate-diggers. Songs For The New Industrial State's much-needed re-release
was spearheaded by Canadian music historian and Jamaica-Toronto series
producer Kevin Howes (aka Sipreano) and comes replete with OG liner
notes from legendary jazz scribe, one-time Downbeat editor, singer,
and songwriter Gene Lees, archival images courtesy of Randle, audio
taken from the original CBC master tapes, complete lyrics, and stellar
art direction courtesy of Vincent Cook (2Step Tokyo, Jamaica-Toronto)
that remains faithful to the period issue. In spite of the reductive
pop sensibilities and fashion-conscious trends that dominate our modern
marketplace, we are ecstatic to reintroduce Songs' insubordinate cry
to a global audience. Let's all ensure Randle's lost letter gets read
nice and loud on this go-'round.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$15.50
Ratatat
Mirando
PS, US Brand new single from last summer's still hot "LP3"
LP/CD that features a Yacht remix as well as a remix by Animal
Collective.
XL
12
$6.25
Ravens Creed
Militia of Blood Sacrifice
PS, US From the unholy hell pits of Nottingham, England, the mighty
RAVENS CREED are unleashed upon the world. With ex members of IRON
MONKEY, CEREBRAL FIX, SKYCLAD and GBH, as well as ORANGE GOBLIN vocalist
BEN WARD at center stage, Ravens Creed are the audio equivalent of
having your face smashed in with a bag of rusty hammers. Total thrash
holocaust with tunes that stick in your head like nails, the fours
tracks are all masterpieces of dirty thrashing metal.
IronPig
CD
$9.00
Record Collector
#359 (February 2009)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25
Refused
The Shape Of Punk To Come
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BurningHeart
LP
$15.00
Revolutionary Ensemble
Beyond The Boundary Of Time
PS, US Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass) and Jerome Cooper (drums,
balaphone, chiramia, Yamaha PSR 1500). "Beyond The Boundary Of
Time documents the last live performance of the legendary Revolutionary
Ensemble before Leroy Jenkins' death in 2007. This recording was made
of a performance on May 25, 2005 in Warsaw, Poland. In the 1970s,
the Revolutionary Ensemble introduced New York to decided musical
advances, many pioneered by Chicago's A.A.C.M. musicians. Ex-Chicagoan
Leroy Jenkins, who played violin, of all unheard-of modern jazz instruments,
had formed his concept from classical, swing, blues, and modern elements
and had been one of the radicals who discovered new concepts of sound,
space, and musical relationships in the late 1960s. Jerome Cooper
had been a somewhat later Chicago explorer, while Sirone's freedom
of motion had grown out of work with the most visionary New Yorkers.
Extensive rehearsal led this cooperative trio to a shared, free sense
of dynamics, momentum, and form, and a wholly unique sound: their
instrumental recombinations yielded a surprising variety of textures
and colors. Most of all, these highly sophisticated personalities
played together to create an ensemble music even larger than the sum
of its parts. After the long overdue reissue in 2004 of their 1975
recording The Psyche on Mutable Music, the Revolutionary Ensemble
-- Leroy Jenkins (violin), Sirone (bass), and Jerome Cooper (drums,
keyboards) -- reunited for both recording and performances. On this
live set, each musician is represented by one of their own compositions
- 'Configuration' by Sirone, 'Usami' by Leroy Jenkins, and 'Le-Si-Jer'
by Jerome Cooper, as well as two group improvisations. All three of
these great musicians are at the top of their form here, and one envies
the Warsaw audience that attended what turns out to have been their
final performance together. Their remarkable realization of the ensemble
ideal was still revelatory and still revolutionary."
Mutablemusic
CD
$12.50
Rodriguez-Lopez, Omar
Old Money
PS, US New album from that Mars Volta guy, who's getting almost Pollard-esque
in his release schedule, pretty prolific!
StonesThrow
CD
$15.25
Rose, Ethan
Oaks
PS, US Drawing from his interests in musique concrete, chance operations,
& American minimalism, he creates shifting sound experiments that
merge the old w/ the new. Much of his recent work has centered on
instruments from eras long past, including music boxes, player pianos,
carillons, & theater organs. However, he is interested in pulling
new sounds & ideas out of these antiquated devices rather than
treating them w/ a sense of preservation.
Holocene
CD
$15.75
Roses Kings Castles
S-T
PS, US Adam Ficek's (BABYSHAMBLES) new album of quixotic, chiming,
& blissfully astute acoustic pop songs. Lost somewhere between
Belle & Sebastian's pastoral warmth & the hallucinatory six-string
invocations of Syd Barrett, a typical track is buoyed by the finest
elements of classic British songwriting - by turns wry, bizarre and
beautiful.
SycamoreClub
CD
$16.25
Royal Trux
Twin Infinitives
PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original LP issue in 1990! When
it was released in late '90, Twin Infinitives raised the bar for avant-garde
pop music. Listening to some today's pop music, the influences seems
undeniable.
DragCity
DLP
$19.25
Royal Trux
S-T
PS, US First VINYL pressing since the original 1988 Royal Records
LP issue. Royal Trux burst from the belly of NYC-cum-DC scum punks
Pussy Galore in 1986 to gather scraps from glam, burial dub, rockabilly
& more to create their version of a rock & roll sound. A cult
quickly sprang up around the band & their sporadic live appearances.
DragCity
LP
$15.75
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Living For Death Destroying The Rest
PS, US After helping pave the way for the old school metal revival,
the group returns w/ a sophomore release that transcends mere nostalgia
as it ushers speed metal, kicking & screaming, into the new millennium
at last.
Relapse
CD
$13.25
Ryan, Collie
Hour Is Now
PS, US COLLIE RYAN privately pressed three albums in the early '70s-Taking
Your Turn Round The Corner of Day, Indian Harvest, and The Giving
Tree. The records were funded in part by Collie's friends at the New
Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California and
her mesmerizing music remained largely a secret until "Cricket,"
one of the tracks from Indian Harvest surfaced on the Numero Group's
stellar compilation Ladies From the Canyon in 2006. Collie's music
is almost solely based around her cosmic and birdlike voice and nylon
guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy
and naturalist living. The Hour Is Now collects tracks from her first
three LPs and is packaged with Collie's own artwork. For fans of Buffy
Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier and Ruthann Friedman.
SebastianSpeaks
LP
$12.00
Rye Wolves
Oceans of Delicate Rain
PS, US Canyons of psyched-out doom and bottom heavy spacerock.
AuroraBorealis
CD
$15.25
Saeta
Else Another Light Might Go Out
PS, US Saeta features Matt Menovcik on vocals, guitar & accordion,
and Lesli Wood on vocals & piano. With Bob Smolenski on cello,
they have created a lush collection of songs, a hypnotic meditation
on paradox & terror steeped in a lovely yet uncanny sense of Other.
This album achingly explores seasoned songwriter Menovcik struggling
with very real demons regarding the painful end of a long-term relationship
& other dark circumstances. To transform this pain, Menovcik grasped
desperately to the aesthetics of hope, love & beauty -- painstakingly
recorded & mixed by longtime collaborator Kramer (Galaxie 500,
Damon & Naomi, Palace Brothers, Low).
Tarnished
CD
$11.00
Serpentina Satelite
Nothing To Say
PS, GERMANY The quartet Serpentina Satelite was formed by the end
of 2003 in Lima, Peru. Their music creates atmospheres and emotions
throughout diverse musical influences; exploring space -- kraut-rock,
avant garde stoner and psychedelia. Nothing To Say is their international
debut with 5 new cuts (49 mins.), a raw, variative heavy spectrum
plus effects and lots of spacefeeling; inspiration taken from the
'70s Hawkwind, Amon Düül 2 and Ash Ra Temple. Another example
of the high-energy Peruvian underground sound!"
WorldInSound/TripInTime
CD
$18.25
Shearer, Rachel
Fakerie
PS, US Fakerie is a digital séance of aural and visual sculptures
by the New Zealand artist Rachel Shearer, formerly known as Lovely
Midget. Filmed in an environment to facilitate focused listening,
Fakerie is as much for the ears as the eyes. Glowing white lights
ebb and expand from darkness in shifting series - like clustered stars
- as penetrating resonances of acoustic and electronic overtones decompose
into the tiniest sand-like components. Traces of Mary Lucier's mid-1970s
burn films and Francois Bayle's musical investigation into the physical
and psychical world is present. The specially programmed Region 0
(free)/NTSC format DVD plays in constant loop. Its 22- minutes can
be expanded into hours allowing the user to immerse themselves in
the work. This DVD is Shearer's first long-form film release. In the
past 20 years, she has released records on some of the global underground's
most significant labels - Siltbreeze, Xpressway, Flying Nun, Corpus
Hermeticum and Ecstatic Peace - as Lovely Midget and with Queen Meanie
Puss and Angelhead. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book, this
set also contains a 20-page booklet investigating the ghosts, distances
and signals of fakerie.
FamilyVineyard-40
DVD
$14.25
Shepherd
Loco Hills
PS, US A lot of beloved-by-us artists and artisans ice-pick out shapely
creations from the marble slab of life on a steady schedule, but even
within this rarefied realm, it's a real cause for jubilee when an
individual/band fucks precedent and totally redefines themselves through
a real masterwork. And, in our book (check it out, it's a good read),
Loco Hills is one such touchstone. Distilling down every fried-fuzz
groove, tape-loop ghost cloud, and mass-mind motorik psychosis, Shepherds
have ever let loose into four perfectly-sculpted jam-journeys, the
language of Loco is a rolling, roiling ride through twisted, wordless
tongues and hieroglyphic electricity, at once more focused and far-out
than anything else in their canon. Mentioning that members moonlight
in projects like Meneguar, Non-Horse, and Vanishing Voice is meaningless,
this is the Rear House posse's shining achievement to date and it
stands alone. Black vinyl LPs in matte jackets with the same 'gnashing
viper' artwork of the Release The Bats CD edition. Edition of 500.
NotNotFun
LP
$13.75
Shindig
Shindig! Vol. 2, Issue 8 Jan-Feb 2009
PS, UK On the cover: The Flamin' Groovies: San Francisco ballrooms...
hard rock... glam...power-pop classics...all in a day's work; The
Zombies: the kings of baroque n' roll; The Scaffold: the scouse avant-garde
pop/comedy/poetry trio reappraised; Apple Publishing: a psychedelic
peak into the artists who made up The Beatles song factory; Fire:
into the treacle toffee world of the Brit mod-psych heroes; Tim Rose:
the dark singer-songwriter who gave us 'Hey Joe' and more; Dope: the
great lost British underground drug movie. Plus a tribute to Yma Sumac,
a piece on Stone Garden, a beginner's guide to psychedelic soul, and
an exclusive extract from the new Sly & The Family Stone biography."
82 pages.
Shindig
ZINE
$8.25
Sickboy
Time To Play vol. 1
PS, GERMANY People asked for it, it was announced, and here it is:
the first of the two vinyl 12" presenting Sickboy's "Time
To Play" album on wax, featuring this musician's most infectious,
catchiest and most efficient material. While the noise might be gone
for good, Sickboy's new clothes are of the colorful party kind. Mixing
old school rave, new school electro, breaks and madness, Sickboy hits
the nail on its head and invites everybody to play, rave and party
non-stop. Refreshing! Featuring big format artwork by Droon and Emily
Hasselhoof.
AdNoiseam-107
12
$11.25
Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
PS, US This album glows with the perfect imperfection of live takes,
the sounds of fingers playing guitar strings, cracked notes, and a
stark, up front presence not found in previous recordings; moving
away from reverb-soaked guitar sounds towards something altogether
more affecting. It also contains some of the most joyous music Sigur
Ros has ever recorded. "Old fashioned psychedelic grandeur...is
revived with otherworldly majesty and inexorable crescendos¿a
typically majestic but uncharacteristically summery album, with jolts
of percussive energy and connotations of sunlight and air" -
NY Times. Double LP on HQ 180 gram vinyl.
XL
DLP
$20.00
Siouxsie & The Banshees
Spellbound
PS, US Pushing on with their continuing series of high-quality classic
reissues, Slow to Speak presents their latest 12" featuring the
exceptional post-punk of one Siouxsie & The Banshees. Clear contemporaries
of fellow reissued monoliths of British rock, The Police & The
Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees, though having formed in 1975 by
core members Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin, the group didn't really
come into their own until the late-1970s crisis of rock music, when
punk's initial fury began to dissipate under the cooling gaze of mainstream
fixation, arguably neutralizing such counter-cultural monoliths as
Iggy Pop & David Bowie. Sioux & Severin, excessively grand
in their aspirations & determined not to succumb to the same fate,
found themselves drawn to the emerging post-punk philosophies of anti-pop
image formulation and projection, combining an essentially anti-celebrity
presentation with starkly realist social commentaries intertwined
confidently into their peculiarly unique and sinisterly haunting dark-rock
aesthetic, one of the major contributors along with The Cure in the
creation of the still-debatable goth-rock genre. Irrelevant of their
cultural allegiances, Siouxsie and the Banshees were able to accomplish
complete artistic autonomy while retaining their patently anti-authoritarian
stance through the medium of their aural poetics, taking up verbal
arms against legacies of British imperialism, medicine & power,
post-industrial technological melancholia & religious-politico-psychosis
of rabid Zionism; all this was performed under the advantageously
offsetting facade of self-imposed outcasting, presenting themselves
in dooming attire & make-up, exactly as they saw their world:
a desolate land drifting towards an existential void of endless consequence,
inhabited increasingly by a zombie-like rabble -- uncertain of what
they live for, and more importantly, what is worth living for.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00
Six Organs of Admittance
RTZ
PS, US The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button
on a Tascam 484 that "returns to zero") fashions several
lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance's early years into
a massive prismatic arc, colossal & organic like some wonder of
the ancient world. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to
locate "Resurrection," half of a Time-Lag split 12"
with Charalambides. "Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told" is
half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra
& Magic Carpithans from 2003. "You Can Always See the Sun,"
was part of Three Lobed Recordings' Purposeful Availments subscription
CD series in 2002. And "Nightly Trembling" was released
way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free!
Combined with a never-before-released extended piece called "Punish
the Chasm with Wings" from pre-millennial days & you've got
yourself a deep, DEEP box set.
DragCity
DCD
$15.50
Six Organs of Admittance
RTZ (3XLP)
PS, US Multi-faceted triple-gatefold LP!!!
DragCity
LP
$20.00
Skull Defekts
Waving
PS, US Limited edition of 300. Screen printed heavy duty jackets.
The Skull Defekts is a band from Sweden in the very North of Europe.
Their intense, monotonous, rhythmic and sexual out rock has since
their start in early 2005 been spreading energies of various kinds
to welcoming audiences and listeners. The DFX have also been exploring
worlds of noise, the drone and psychedelic electronics on waves on
releases for labels like Riot Season, iDEAL, Release The Bats and
Conspiracy Records. Their upcoming album for Important Records - "The
Temple" (February 2009) can be seen as the follow up to last
years "Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing" (Conspiracy/Nail)
but it's deeper, harder, more sex, more occult. A 7" from the
album entitled "Waving" with an exclusive B-side is released
in 300 copies for their October 2008 tour, also on Important. The
tour is their first one in North America but they have played all
over Europe and the Skulls have only hit Chicago before... It's time
for others to get DFXed. DFX is sex, rhythm and the power of sound.
Important-235
45
$11.50
Slim Twig
Vernacular Violence
PS, US A chameleonic artist in the tradition of Bowie or Beck, Slim
is a performer based out of Toronto. Inspired by pillars of music
and film avant garde like Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Godard and Lynch,
Twig's sound has morphed several times from hish early apocalyptic
folk incarnation to a fuller art-pop sound to the grittier self-coined
genre of "concrete rockabilly." Now collected in 2 EPs,
Derelict Dialect and Vernacular Violence.
PaperBag
CD5
$7.50
Slim Twig
Derelict Dialect
PS, US A chameleonic artist in the tradition of Bowie or Beck, Slim
is a performer based out of Toronto. Inspired by pillars of music
and film avant garde like Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Godard and Lynch,
Twig's sound has morphed several times from hish early apocalyptic
folk incarnation to a fuller art-pop sound to the grittier self-coined
genre of "concrete rockabilly." Now collected in 2 EPs,
Derelict Dialect and Vernacular Violence..
PaperBag
CD5
$7.50
Slowblow
S-T [re-issue]
PS, ICELAND 2004 release, repressed. The Icelandic duet, Slowblow
(Orri Jónsson and Dagur Kári Petursson), has been active
for over a decade. They have made their mark on the Icelandic underground
scene with a certain kind of friendly dust-music. They exhibit a uniquely
Icelandic aesthetic of home-made, lo-fi analog tinkerings, which both
musically and lyrically blend together the everyday and the fantastic.
On the album, Slowblow match the gentle hum of ancient amplifiers
and the tinkling hammers of an old upright piano with the soft squeaking
of pump organ pedals or the sound of mechanical sewing machines; for
them these are not unwanted artifacts, but the very essence of their
sound.
Mobile
CD
$15.00
Smith, Patti
Dream of Life
PS, US 11 years in the making, this feature is a unique and intimate
portrait of the renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Photographer-director
STEVEN SEBRING creates a beautiful collage of images, memories and
performances, capturing the essence of this legendary icon. ALL MUSIC
GUIDE: "Filmmaker Steven Sebring directs this documentary about
legendary musician Patti Smith, surveying her life, her career, and
the philosophical and spiritual themes that have remained so potent
in her work. Following her through 11 years of work and touring, the
film explores Smith's artistry in music, painting, and poetry, offering
intimate insight into the musician's often conflicted creative style."
PalmPictures
DVD
$24.50
Sok, G.W. (The Ex)
Into The Gravy
PS, US For this booklet (#45) we reprinted essays by G.W. Sok, a member
and vocalist of the Dutch music group The Ex. This 1989 essay was
originally published in the book "Threat by Example" which
is out of print and will not be reprinted. The essay includes a funny
and caustic take on the corporate music industry as well as wonderful
reflections on The Ex's group practice and their efforts to build
and work in an ethical and independent international network. G.W.
Sok has written a new introduction to the text and designed all new
layout for the booklet. The Ex continue to inspire us all the time
with new and exciting collaborations. A fascinating group that is
not to be missed live and has an endless and rich back catalog of
great recordings. Visit www.theex.nl to learn more and hear some of
their music.
ZINE
$3.00
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin/Puzzle
Split
PS, US Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is a critically acclaimed,
blog-adored band that have shared the stage with Mute Math, of Montreal,
Sound Team, Catfish Haven, Chin Up Chin Up, and more. They've headlined
in Europe and even made their way to their namesake's homeland of
Russia. Spin declared them the band that "could succeed The Shins,"
and enthusiastic press rolled in. After releasing their sophomore
album, Pershing, earlier this year, the band has raised the bar even
higher and gained the attention of many listeners, drawn to their
massive hooks and quirky melodies. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
entered the studio yet again to record these two exclusive 7"
songs, and asked their friends from the band Puzzle to do the same.
Puzzle is a four-piece band from Liverpool, England that ShoutandTwist.com
calls "feel-good indie pop but in a really amazing magical way."
Every 7" includes a free digital download code. Limited to 2000
copies
Polyvinyl-159
45
$4.00
Sound Of Arrows, The
M.A.G.I.C.
PS, SWEDEN The Sound of Arrows has gathered a young chanting school
class, a girl singer from Tokyo and a handful of well-hidden un-cleared
samples, which they've mixed with bouncy analogue synthesizers, soulful
guitars and orchestral instruments over a hundred recording channels.
The result is a marvelous mix of old TV shows for children, old school
hip-hop, new disco and timeless pop hits! The Sound of Arrows debut
EP "Danger!" gave them a minor indie hit on both the domestic
and the international scene. The song was used in one of the world's
most popular TV series, Gossip Girl, reached #1 on the Elbo.ws chart
and got them touring halfway across the world. But ToA is not the
kind who becomes stressed by success. The new single "M.A.G.I.C."
clearly proves they've already improved and developed further since
the debut and that the future definitely belongs to The Sound of Arrows.
The title track comes in five different versions and they throw in
a cozy little track called "Smalltown lullaby" in which
a storyteller is backed up with angelic vocals, falling stars and
jingle bells. The remixes encompasses several decades. They enter
the 70s with the circus sounding version from Ice Cream Shout, the
80s with the up and coming NYC-retro-duo Let's Get Invisible, the
90s is delivered with breakbeats and trip hop sounds of the Uffie
och Pharell-remixer Curtis Vodka. And finally, the 00_s and the future
are presented by the CSS of Spain, Cof Cof. The Sound of Arrows is
right now working on their debut album that will be out in the spring
of 2009.
Labrador-119
CD5
$9.50
Soundscapes
Freestyle Family
PS, US Brazilian duo Rodrigo & Raphael Carvalho move together
in perfect musical harmony, weaving melodic & angular guitars
over hard-hitting drums & hook-laden vocals. Full of youthful
creative energy, & inspired by pioneering bands like Sonic Youth,
Fugazi, The Clash, & My Bloody Valentine, as well as the aesthetics
of the "Madchester" scene, the Carvalho brothers have impressively
boiled down their influences into vibrant engaging music, as displayed
on this debut album.
BNSSessions
CD
$8.75
Spencer, Angelo
Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake
PS, US 2 songs: My Music Is My Sweat b/w Great Salt Lake "My
Music is My Sweat" began with a conversation between Karl Blau
and Angelo Spencer about how music is similar to body odor and, like
everyone's stench, one's music is also unique and identifiable. Angelo's
music is as raw as sweat. Recorded in one day, on one take by Blau,
this 7" is a puddle of twitchy urgency. Generally a one-man band,
this recording is fleshed out with frantic drum fills and fidgety
keys by L'Orchidee d'Hawaii soon after they finished a tour with Spencer.
"My Music is My Sweat" is the sprint and "The Great
Salt Lake" is the cool-down, exasperated pause needed to sprint
and sweat again; embellished with distant whistling - like the playful
intermission of a spaghetti western - and Spencer is the wandering
hero. "Music should always be like that." featuring L'Orchidee
d'Hawaii
Krecords-121
45
$3.75
Spirits of the Dead
S-T [limited deluxe edition]
PS, NORWAY Psychedelic-stoner-folk-rock with one foot in the electric
magic of the seventies and the other in the modern electric rock sound
of 2012 or maybe even 2112, winkwink. Spirits of the Dead consists
of guitarist Ole Øvstedal, former Einherjer vocalist Ragnar
Vikse, drummer Geir Thorstensen and bassist/keyboardist Deadly Nightshade.
The band was formed by Ole and Ragnar early 2007, and later joined
by Geir and Deadly Nightshade. They were raised in the high mountains
and deep fjords of the west-coast of Norway and this wilderness is
alive in their music.
WhiteElephant/VoiceOfWonder
CD
$14.00
Spiritual Singers
Ntsamina
PS, US Teenage Congolese gospel group from the early '80's. Male &
female vocals. From slow dirges to fast African rockers. A truly unique
record. Beautiful tip-on sleeve might be one of Mississippi's finest
yet.
Mississippi
LP
$12.75
Stars Of The Lid
Music for Nitrous Oxide
PS, US Repress/reissue. DEBUT OF THE CLASSIC FROM THE POST-ROCK DRONE
MASTERS. NEW VERSION RE-MASTERED WITH NEW COVER ART. This was sedimental's
first cd release back in 1994. Robert Ovetz (Ultrasound) mentioned
this guy Adam who was doing amazing 4-track stuff at home. I think
the name of the tape he gave me was called "Ombudsman".
The success of this release was a nice surprise and certainly having
Joel at Cargo champion it, who was just getting Kranky going as well,
certainly put us both out there. Ultimately, SOTL ended up at Kranky
and are still making amazing recordings for them. Many say this is
still their favorite Lid release, although I am partial to the "Ballested
Orchestra" too. It certainly remains a powerful touchstone for
and precursor to, the post-whatever independent music scene and still
sounds incredibly solid and undated today. Though Stars founder Adam
Wiltzie has admittedly distanced himself from the release in terms
of artistic terms he felt it was time to re-visit and re-fresh the
work with a new mastering job, as well as having new artwork designed
by longtime visual collaborator Craig McCaffrey. Sedimental has always
kept the document in print in its original form with a remarkably
steady stream of sales, but we welcomed the opportunity to update
the release and make it more widely available to a new generation,
so to speak. Below are excerpts from the original press release which
still seem quite relevant and accurate: Sedimental announces the first
CD from Austin drone stars Stars of the Lid, an amazing 4-track recording
that is created in the spirit of Eno, Main, and Spacemen 3. Produced
without keyboards, this lo-fi ambient journey employs predominately
guitar, avoiding typical rock elements while still possessing the
"home" recorded feel of so much independent music. Being
based in Austin, a town loaded with so many heavy guitar bands, one
wonders how they came to make such hypnotic and engaging sounds. Especially
when Stars mastermind Adam Wiltzie is involved with so many "rock"
bands himself, having recorded Ed Hall's Motherscratcher and its forthcoming
release, the Flaming Lips Peel Sessions, as well as running sound
for Bad Livers, and Doo Rag tours. Citing Cage, Spacemen 3, Robert
from Main and Loop, nitrous oxide, and Bedhead as artistic inspirations,
he also comments the group is a reaction against the "muscle"
rock and C&W that dominates the Austin music scene and a way to
withdraw from it. Despite their current unknown status, we at Sedimental
were so impressed by the music of Stars of the Lid , we felt it worthy
of our first CD release. After giving this a few listens (especially
the brilliant trio of tracks 7,8, and 9), we are sure you will think
they belong on the same plateau as EAR, Labradford, Main, and Organum.
Sedimental-023
CD
$12.25
Strand Of Oaks
Leave Ruin
PS, US Debut full length takes cues from luminaries such as Nebraska
era Bruce Springsteen and a burgeoning Neil Young.
LaSocieteExpedion
CD
$12.00
Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
S/T
PS, US Featuring members of Pan Sonic & Mum! This is collaboration
between Angel (containing members of Mum and Pan Sonic) and Strings
Of Consciousness. This dense and droney construction echoes platinum
reflections with warm fluidity and delicate detail. The more attention
you'll bestow on that record, the more unsuspected new paths you'll
be invited to wander about. This is an intricate and imaginative soundtrack
with several layers of sound, gathering both organic and sonic elements
to assemble a post-industrial sound structure. The latter will give
life to a noisy magma where unexpected clicks stumble over interferences,
where digital accidents happen and where drones, acoustic resonance
fill the space in time. A multitude of digital notes will slowly stretch
to reach a dark-grey chaos, a pure and clean big bang echoing and
calling lost sound memories. ANGEL: Ilpo Väisänen (Finland),
worked with Ultra 3, Sinø and is half of world famous duo Pan
Sonic Dirk Dresselhaus (Germany) releases under the pseudonym SchneiderTM
who are signed to City Slang and Mute America. Hildur Gudnadottir
plays cello for Mum, Johannes Johannsson, Stillupsteypa, BJ Nilsen,
and has a prominent feature on the recent Pan Sonic CD. ... As Angel
they have released albums on BiP_Hop and Oral. And now signed to Mego.
Important-227
CD
$13.00
Subtle Turnhips
F* the People F* the Power, F* the People to the Power b/w Dinner
Time" & "Summer Wine
PS, US
HoZacRecords
45
$5.25
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
#4
PS, SWEDEN Oh, how we've been waiting for this moment! A three years
long hiatus is finally over and Suburban Kids with Biblical Names
return to exceed every expectation. #4 is four-track-smash-hit-EP
that introduces a wide range of new delicate musical flavors. The
Kids mix British soul, tropical rhythms and Turkish disco with a bittersweet
taste of lonely afternoons listening to Swedish radio. Nothing less
than brilliant! Suburban Kids with Biblical Names' debut #3 was released
in 2005 and received amazing reviews in Sweden and was even nominated
for a Swedish Grammy. The album was later released on Minty Fresh
in North America (2006) and Yesboyicream in the UK (2007) that further
spread the word about their playful, catchy and highly unique pop
sound. Listening to the band's new songs three distinct changes in
sound instantly comes to mind; they've multiplied the number of instruments
in their line-up, they've introduced soul and they sing in Swedish
well, (at least on one of their songs!). Suburban Kids with Biblical
Names in 2009 produce their music with chaotic playfulness. The songs
seem to be living a life of their own, going through a large number
of transformations before being finished. One and the same song usually
passes around five different versions (a song might start as a slow
country and western ballad and end up as energetic Afro pop) before
the band is happy and the song is finished. It's definitely not a
time efficient way of working. But, it does seem to make wonders for
the final result.
Labrador-107
CD5
$9.50
Super Vacations
S-T
PS, US Limited to 500, with a somewhat tenuous Wavves connection!
Based out of Norfolk, VA, The Super Vacations provide a great body
high with their circa The Who meets Dick Dale meets pure timeless
pop tunes with a lo-fi recording. Their sound is akin to seminal "nuggets"
less aggro Black Lips, and a whole lot of 13th Floor Elevators. "Everybody
loves vacations. especially super ones. And if everyone loved gritty
lo-fi pop music, that would be cool too." - BmoreMusic Blog
Shadowplay
LP
$11.00
Swervedriver
Mezcal Head [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition
of this 1993 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four
rare bonus tracks ('Never Lose That Feeling', 'Planes Over The Skyline',
'The Hitcher' and 'Paris') and additional liner notes from the band.
16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75
Swervedriver
Raise [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Limited edition digitally remastered and expanded digipak edition
of this 1991 album from the British Shoegazing legends featuring four
rare bonus tracks ('Hands', 'Andaluc¡a', 'Kill The Superheroes'
and 'Over') and additional liner notes from the band. 16 tracks total.
Hi-SpeedSoul
CD
$13.75
Szajner, Bernard
Superficial Music
PS, UK LTM presents the first in a series of expanded CD reissues
by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally
released in late 1981, Superficial Music incorporates elements of
his previous album Visions of Dune played backwards at half speed
and treated digitally, as well as the three-part suite Oswiecim, an
imagining of the Holocaust informed by the experience of his own family.
Sometimes harmonious, sometimes unsettling, Szajner's music is never
less than extraordinary. Reviews rated the album highly: 'Superficial?
No, superlative music! If you care at all for soundscapes that eschew
cheap escapes, this album will do far more than tickle the surface
of you mind' (NME); 'A significant success - a wholly involving and
frequently disturbing blanket of continually contorting synthetic
sound' (Melody Maker). The expanded 65-minute CD features three previously
unreleased bonus tracks, recorded in 1982. Bernard Szajner biography:
Born in Grenoble in 1944, Szajner first made his name as a lighting
designer for Magma, Gong and the Who. Having invented new instruments
such as the laser harp used by Jean-Michel Jarre, Szajner began to
record experimental, conceptual albums of his own, including Visions
of Dune (1979), Some Deaths Take Forever (1980), Superficial Music
(1981) and Brute Reason (1983). He has also recorded as Zed, and was
one half of The (Hypothetical) Prophets. Since the mid 80s, polymath
Szajner has worked as a painter, filmmaker and theatre director.
Boutique-6618
CD
$17.00
Szajner, Bernard
Some Deaths Take Forever
PS, UK LTM presents the second in a series of expanded CD reissues
by visionary French electronic composer Bernard Szajner. Originally
released in late 1980, Some Deaths Take Forever is a deeply emotional,
sometimes disturbing musical account of the feelings of a prisoner
on death row, conceived as the soundtrack to a short film by Amnesty
International. The album mixes dark, angular and unnerving electronic
textures with dynamic rock arrangements, guest musicians including
Bernard Paganotti of Magma. Reviews rated the album highly: 'A modern
electronic masterwork - one of the most exciting and innovative piece
of electronic music to be released this year' (Melody Maker); 'Frantic,
outraged music shames the bulk of oscillator nuts peddling their dodgy
little repetitions around' (Sounds); 'Unquestionably one of the decade's
most accomplished fusions of sophisticated electronics and driving
rock' (NME). The expanded 60 minute CD features three previously unreleased
bonus tracks, recorded in 1982.
Boutique-6620
CD
$17.00
Tarentel
Live Edits: Italy/Switzerland
PS, US Over the course of numerous dates in Italy, the group (a trio
on this tour of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Danny Grody, & Jim Redd)
improvised every set they played w/often stunning results. This is
not your grandfather's Tarentel. This is full of pounding tribal drums
& walls of mixer feedback, floating guitar trips & walls of
noise - a tug-of war between beauty & tension. Limited to 500
copies
Digitalis
CD
$11.00
Telescopes
Untitled 2nd
PS, US Released in the US for the first time, augmented w/ 4 bonus
tracks. The group was among the most innovative & challenging
yet successful artists in Creation Records' "middle period",
a leading part of the wave of sonic experimenters who included Spacemen
3, My Bloody Valentine, Spectrum & Spiritualized. ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
"The songs are built on acoustic guitars, then the tricked-out
electric guitars are laid on top & garnished w/ bongos, organs,
pianos, & all sorts of classic instruments. Stephen Lawrie's vocals
are restrained & semi-emotional & female backing vocals add
a touch of sweetness that might otherwise be missing from the record,
as the overall atmosphere is very moody & introspective"
Bomp!
CD
$13.75
Temporary Conversations
Temporary Conversations: Tim Kerr
PS, US This booklet, #81, is the second in our interview series Temporary
Conversations. Some excerpts from the introduction:
"Tim Kerr is a musician, studio engineer and visual artist based
in Austin, Texas. He played guitar in the Big Boys, an Austin band
that was heavily responsible for putting Texas on the map in the punk
and hardcore underground. The Big Boys lasted from 1979-1984. Kerr
went on to play in numerous other bands, including Poison 13, Bad
Mutha Goose and the Brothers Grimm, MonkeyWrench, Jack O' Fire, Lord
High Fixers, King Sound Quartet, the Now Time Delegation, and most
recently, Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee. He has also recorded
and produced (or, as he modestly says, "... [B]een a guidance
counselor,") for dozens of bands on nearly 150 releases. In addition
to all of that, Kerr has increasingly immersed himself in painting
and drawing. Since 2000, he has widely exhibited his works, which
commonly pay tribute to exactly the kind of musical, social and political
revolutionary ass-kickers that one would expect a trailblazer like
Kerr to be inspired by. If Tim Kerr had only played in any one of
his bands, or recorded a few of the great records he's helped bring
into existence, he would have paid his musical dues and then some.
Thankfully, he remains as creatively hyperactive as ever, while paying
the bills by working for the University of Texas (UT), along with
his wife Beth, where he digitizes audio and video collections for
the archives of their libraries." This is easily one of the most
extensive interviews with Tim Kerr that we have ever seen. He has
an incredibly positive and inspiring approach to life, creativity,
and working with others that we are excited to be able to share. In
addition to the interview, this includes photos by Bill Daniel, Tim's
wife Beth Kerr, and others. It also features multiple illustrations
of Tim's art, as well as punk fliers that he designed in the early
1980s. Now what are you doing to participate?
ZINE
$3.00
Temporary Conversations
Temporary Conversations: The Dicks
PS, US This booklet, #82, is the third in our interview series Temporary
Conversations. Some excerpts from the introduction:
"The Dicks were confrontational right out of the gate. A seminal
band, and not just because singer Gary Floyd sometimes threw condoms
filled with fake cum into the crowd. By all accounts, the Dicks challenged
their audiences and revealed new possibilities. They made their concerts
a hell of an experience and created memorable political music with
a sound that was completely their own. The Dicks formed in Austin
in 1980. They relocated to San Francisco and changed personnel halfway
through the duration of the group, before breaking up in 1986."
... "For this booklet we wanted to include not just members of
the Dicks' Austin line up, but also hear from others who witnessed
their Texas years. Tim Kerr of the Big Boys, a band that shared many
shows and the aforementioned live split LP with the Dicks, offers
a short but sweet recollection. Austin Chronicle writer Margaret Moser
agreed to a full interview where she describes the musical landscape
of Austin leading up the Dicks' formation, as well as the personal
impact their music had for her. Photographer Bill Daniel sent us some
photos from the Dicks' Texas years and Dave Ensminger and Ryan Richardson
scanned examples from their flyer collections. The Dicks' singer Gary
Floyd took some questions via e-mail and Dicks bassist Buxf Parrot
was interviewed on the phone."
ZINE
$3.00
This Will Destroy You/Lymbyc Systym
Field Studies
PS, US TWDY contributed two brand new songs: the bombastic & menacing
"Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine" (clocking in
at 11:09) & the heart-warmingly hypnotic "Freedom Blade."
LYMBYC SYSTYM unveiled three astonishing studies in melody in musicality
("Processed Spirits," "Notations," & "Narita").
In a time of instrumental & post-rock over-saturation & emulation,
TWDY & LYMBYC SYSTYM have further distanced themselves from the
hordes, once again asserting their commitment to pushing the genre
forward.
MagicBullet
CD
$13.75
Tillman, J.
Vacilando Territory Blues
PS, US Since 2004, J. Tillman has quietly been releasing records,
some of limited quantity, some mostly available in Europe, but for
the most part, unheard. The borderline-alienating starkness and well
lived-in narratives of his first two records, I Will Return and Long
May You Run, J. Tillman (released in limited runs of 150) endeared
him to fans of and drew comparisons to the likes of Nick Drake, Will
Oldham, and Jason Molina. In 2006, after three months in Europe touring
on his third and most accessible album, Minor Works, Tillman recorded
his fourth collection of songs at home with his brother and roommate.
Cancer and Delirium struck a perfect balance between the intimacy
of his earlier releases with the nuanced, melodic sense of Minor Works.
Each song imbued with the same strikingly disconsolate singing and
devastatingly poignant prose that Tillman is known for and accented
with some of his most gorgeous, spare arrangements. Vacilando Territory
Blues, Tillman's fifth and first with Western Vinyl, came as the result
of three different recording attempts in 2008, in which entire sessions
were scrapped, and ultimately the majority of the final material would
surface and be recorded days before mastering. The push and pull of
this record veers sharply from the tone of Tillman's previous releases,
which for the most part, adhere to a singular mood and stylistic execution.
The tension dynamically between songs like "Firstborn" and
"New Imperial Grand Blues" is hard to reconcile, but the
way the songs are framed herein belies a cohesion not dissimilar to
classic oddball albums such as After The Goldrush. Sacrifcing a stylized
album, the breadth of Tillman's abilities as a songwriter emerge on
VTB, in an array of musical personalities bound by his lyrical existential
dread and economical arrangements. In 2008, Tillman joined longtime
friends and musical collaborators, Fleet Foxes. Casey Wescott and
Christian Wargo both appear on VTB, along with several regular contributors
who were willing to adapt to several idiosyncratic recording obstructions.
Vacilando Territory Blues is far and away Tillman's most collaborative
effort, and the most striking moments here are those seemingly stumbled
upon, without resorting to second-takes or microphone re-adjustment.
This album casts a strange perspective on what people have come to
expect from Tillman's music, but these songs, though oddly untethered,
reveal the process of someone coming to terms with the prospect of
making music in the void.
WesternVinyl-56
CD
$11.50
Titus Andronicus
The Airing Of Grievances
PS, US Patrick Stickles, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, launches
his insights across a wall of defiant, triumphant rock anthems, which
have earned comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, and The
Replacements. "Patrick Stickles howls with anguish way beyond
his 22 years, often cramming lyrics into tight spaces just to make
sure he gets the last word in. The drama's more Boss than Bright Eyes,
fueled by blue collar frustration and, most notably, beer" -
Pitchfork.
XL
CD
$13.25
Titus Andronicus
The Airing Of Grievances
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$14.00
Tower Recordings
Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Communion
LP
$12.00
Tuff Crew
DJ Too Tuff's Lost Archives
PS, US 17 previously unreleased recordings. Booklet includes vintage
photographs & liner notes from Peanut Butter Wolf.
EasternConference
CD
$15.25
Tuma, Giorgio
My Vocalese Fun Fair
PS, SPAIN Soft pop, California 60s sounds, Brazilian touch... Really
nice.
Elefant-1137
CD
$16.25
Two Tongues
S-T
PS, US New emo/pop/punk effort by members of SAY ANYTHING and SAVES
THE DAY.
Vagrant
CD
$15.00
Uncut
#141 (March 2009) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25
Under the Radar
#25
PS, US Most Anticipating Albums of 2009: starring GRIZZLY BEAR on
cover, Sonic Youth, Bat for Lashes, Depeche Mode, Camera Obscura,
The Decemberists, Silversun Pickups, The Flaming Lips, Dan Deacon,
Dove.
ZINE
$3.75
Underground Failure, The
S-T
PS, SWEDEN Swedish underground counter-culture monster album from
1971, originally released as a private pressing of 150 copies, never
sold at shops at the time. These bunch of freaks were clearly influenced
by Dylan, early Velvet Underground and The Fugs, but they came with
a sound of their own. Stoned/druggy atmosphere alternating from acoustic/acid-folk
tracks to devastating, fuzzed-out ones like 'Green Ocelot,' which
was included at #38 in the recent 'Punk Before Punk' top 50 list in
Ugly Things magazine. Limited to 500 copies, with remastered sound
in nice papersleeve mini-LP replica.
BlackLight
CD
$21.00
Vanisher
Tic-Tac Tactic
PS, US 2004 release in stock for the first time. Sweden's HAKAN LIDBO
takes his devastating Stockholm sound to Spectral Sound under the
guise of THE VANISHER dropping the thickest, deepest acid-funk track
you'll hear this side of an old-school Manchester warehouse party.
OSBORNE's "Simulacrum Mix" rounds out the 12-inch with a
distinctly more upbeat sound, a perfect complement to Lidbo's darker
tones.
SpectralSound
12
$13.00
Various
File Under: Male Vocal The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer
PS, US After enjoying countless compilation albums of psych, beat,
garage, girl groups, instrumentals, soul, exotica etc., the Psychic
Circle label now releases a compilation which concentrates on that
most popular of '60s phenomena, the British male vocalist. These are
great tracks and performances that can't really be considered beat,
soul or psych, but at the same time conjure a similar sort of mental
image. Solid, classy songs performed by great singers which readily
evoke the sense of excitement and freshness prevalent in that decade.
As legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman
(The Bevis Frond) expounds, "What I was trying to assemble for
this album was a selection of quality male vocal, with a kind of pop/beat
feel. The kind of thing you might have heard in any London discotheque
alongside the beat groups, the Stateside soul-sounds, the groovy girls
and burgeoning psych riffs. Nothing too MOR or fey, just cool guys
doing what they did best. I reckon it's a long overdue examination
of a hitherto overlooked genre. It doesn't really need a label, but
if you want to give it one, just file under - male vocal." Artists
include: Mickey Clarke, Jason Cord, Gerry Deville, Dominic Grant,
Nicholas Hammond, Christian Ward, Graham Bell, Jerry Page, Dane Hunter,
Brian Keith, Keith Powell, Don Adams, Neil Landon, Greg Hunter, Dave
Walton, Danny Street, Dorian Gray, Rudi Bennett, Ronnie Jones, and
James Royal.
PsychicCircle
CD
$16.25
Various
Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always
PS, US "Compilation of hard-to-find gospel recorded in the 1960s
& early 1970s. More mediative & well-produced material than
the Life Is A Problem LP. Nice old school tip-on sleeves. Great stuff."
Artists include: Mosby Family Singers, Straight Street Holiness Group,
Laura Rivers, Rev. Lonnie Farris, Radio Four, Joe Townsend, White
Family, Silver Quintette, James Carter & The Mighty Stars, Farris
& Williams, Brother Willie Eason, Traveling Echoes, and Sensational
Happy Travellers.
Mississippi
LP
$13.00
Various
Just Like Heaven: A Tribute to The Cure
PS, US "Just Like Heaven - A Tribute To The Cure" features
16 new cover versions of Cure songs by The Wedding Present, The Brunettes,
Devics, Dean & Britta (Luna), The Submarines, The Rosebuds, Grand
Duchy (Violet Clark & Black Francis), Joy Zipper, Elk City , and
many more. Produced by Joe Spadaro and Gwen Hysler (American Laundromat
Records), mastering by Kim Rosen at Alan Douches' West West Side Music
(Galaxie 500, Ben Folds Five, Luna, The Wrens), and original album
art & design by Rhode Island Illustrator Melinda Rainsberger .
Early press is fantastic for this one. Brought to you by the same
label who produced the critically acclaimed Neil Young benefit CD
"Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity",
and the popular 80's tribute "High School Reunion - a tribute
to those great 80's films!" All Music Guide called it "one
of the finest tribute records ever produced" and went on to say
"let this serve as a blueprint for all future tribute sets".
Highly recommended for Cure fans or any of the bands covering the
Cure on this excellent tribute compilation. Tracklisting: 01. "Just
Like Heaven" performed by JOY ZIPPER 02. "The Lovecats"
performed by TANYA DONELLY & DYLAN IN THE MOVIES 03. "Lovesong"
performed by THE BRUNETTES 04. "In Between Days" performed
by KITTY KARLYLE 05. "Friday I'm In Love" performed by DEAN
& BRITTA 06. "Jumping Someone Else's Train" performed
by LUFF 07. "Boys Don't Cry" performed by THE SUBMARINES
08. "Close To Me" performed by ELK CITY 09. "The Walk"
performed by THE ROSEBUDS 10. "Pictures Of You" performed
by ELIZABETH HARPER & THE MATINEE 11. "Let's Go To Bed"
performed by CASSETTES WON'T LISTEN 12. "Catch" performed
by DEVICS 13. "A Night Like This" performed by JULIE PEEL
14. "10:15 Saturday Night" performed by THE POEMS 15. "A
Strange Day" performed by GRAND DUCHY (Violet Clark & Black
Francis) 16. "High" performed by THE WEDDING PRESENT
AmericanLaundromat-018
CD
$13.00
Various
Trip In Time Vol. 1: Delighted by Psychedelic Rock
PS, US comp of contemporary psych bands (most tracks from 2005/6;
plus a previously released Dragonwyck track from 1968 just to throw
you off!). Features: Siena Root, Vibravoid, Stoned Circus, La Ira
De Dios, Treacle People, Loxley Beade, Fantasyy Factoryy, i-H8 Camera,
Ma-Nia, Karmic Society. 72% previously unreleased. "Music for
the Mind and Body... while music industry continuously looks for 'new'
concepts, trends and music styles to serve the mainstream, Trip in
Time ventures a look to the past. We present the artistic, emotional
and intensive side of music, the concept of progressive psychedelic
rock. It appeared in the public consciousness for the first time in
1966, created by the 13th Floor Elevators. By 1956, the English psychiatrist
Humphrey Osmond had already formulated: 'To fathom hell or soar angelic,
just take a pinch of psychedelic.' Fifty years later, we invite you
to join the bride uncensored spektrum of music with a fine feel for
intensity and a variety of interesting influences.
WorldInSound-2501
CD
$15.75
Various
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples
PS, US Now available in gorgeous DLP vinyl format!
Numero
DLP
$19.00
Various
Desolation House
PS, US This compilation collects 11 exclusive tracks, 1 from each
of the album sessions in Desolation House's catalog, into a masterful
compilation of Musique Concrete spanning the sound spectrum from dark
ambient, to true industrial music in several forms. Tracks from TROUM,
BASTARD NOISE, GRUNTSPLATTER, SUBTERRANEAN SOURCE, WALDCHENGARTEN
& many more memorialize this unique label as the intrepid, uninhibited
vehicle for enlightened sonic expression it was intended to be.
Relapse
CD
$14.75
Various
For Whom The Balls Toll
PS, RUSSIA File under: breakcore, mash-up. First release by the russian
label Rednex Rampage, featuring new and unreleased material by Otto
Von Schirach, Passenger Of Shit, Inshizzo and Marrow Explosion. Comes
in full color sleeve. Tracklisting: A1. Otto Von Schirach - Another
Night Another Rave A2. Inshizzo: Large Hadron Collider B1. Passenger
Of shit: My Cock Wart B2. Severed Penis Orgy B3. Marrow Explosion:
Oparysh
RednexRampageRecords-001
12
$11.50
Various
Money Will Ruin Everything: 2nd Edition (DCD/BOOK)
PS, US Rune Grammofon celebrates 5 more years of releases w/ the 2nd
edition of "Money Will Ruin Everything," an incredible 2CD/book
package, expanded & improved from the last edition into a 152-page
hardcover book, designed by KIM HIORTHOY. Two CDs of new music from
artists such as ULTRALYD, DEATHPROD, FOOD, SUSANNA & THE MAGICAL
ORCHESTRA.
RuneGrammofon
DCD
$60.00
Volcano Suns
Bright Orange Years
PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER
PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1985, this
is VS's debut album & is chock full of so many catchy songs that
it could be any other band's greatest hits album. Merging noise, agression
& tunefulness seamlessly, it is a wonder they were not huge from
the get-go. Remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON, feat. 9 bonus
tracks (many unreleased previously) that adds 7-inch only tracks &
radio sessions.
Merge
CD
$11.50
Volcano Suns
All-Night Lotus Party
PS, US REISSUE. 1st time on CD! This was the band headed by PETER
PRESCOTT (of MISSION OF BURMA). Originally released in 1986, this
is VS's sophomore album & is more rambunctious than their debut.
They meld "hardcore punk & heartland rock" into a heavier,
darker sound w/ more distortion on the guitars & more bass-heavy
production. This is crisply remastered by legendary engineer BOB WESTON,
feat. 11 bonus tracks (many unreleased previously).
Merge
CD
$11.50
Von Bondies
Love Hate and Then There's You
PS, US New album.
ShoutFactory
CD
$15.25
Ware, David S.
Shakti
PS, US First new studio recording in almost 6 yrs, & his 1st with
a new group (feat. JOE MORRIS, WILLIAM PARKER, & WARREN SMITH)
since his highly esteemed Quartet disbanded. Working w/ musicians
(as he ever has) who fully understand the profound ebb & flow
of his music, and who can trace the tendrils thereof as close to infinity
as human fingers allow. "This is jazz that swallows all aesthetic
distinctions." - Village Voice.
AUMFidelity
CD
$12.75
Wax Poetics
#32
PS, US On the cover: Sly Stone, Jimmy Cleff, Jean Grae, Terry Cliff,
so much more.
ZINE
$9.50
Weave!
S-T
PS, US Also on clear vinyl! Bizarre & blistering Afro-pop crossbred
w/ precise & chilly New Wave. This debut breathes new life into
the sound of groups like ESG, The Slits, The Mo-Dettes, Kleenex, The
Raincoats, & Delta 5. The arty grinders have a respectable pedigree;
their founders spent 2007 w/ pickup members including Ariel Pink (Haunted
Graffiti). They ultimately solidified their lineup w/ the addition
of guitar & keyboard, adding a rhythmic presence to the femme-driven
fervency. "A tambourine-ravaging set of Sonic Youth-meets-Talking
Heads tinged sounds. The quartet definitely inject a sense of quirky
fun into their hypnotic, dance-y yet vicious tunes" - LA Weekly
/ "Extremely rhythmic &, at times, deliciously poppy"
- Flavorpill LA
PacificReasons
LP
$11.75
Weird Weeds
Hold Me
PS, US For the past five years THE WEIRD WEEDS have been creating
innovative and unclassifiable rock and folk songs that effortlessly
straddle the line between rock 'n' roll and experimentalism. In that
time the Austin, TX band has toured extensively and released three
albums, the first of which-2004's Hold Me-was only released as a limited
and now unavailable CDR. Lovingly reissued by Zum, Hold Me is now
available in an pressing of 300 on black vinyl, packaged in a screened
chipboard cover with all new artwork by LAUREN PAKRADOONI. Hold Me
is also unique in that it's the only recorded document of The Weird
Weeds' original 4-piece lineup that included KURT NEWMAN on lead guitar.
The album is evidence that very early in their existence The Weird
Weeds had developed a unique approach to songwriting that they've
been honing and refining ever since. The core trio is AARON RUSSELL
(NITRE PIT), SANDY EWEN (collaborator with TOM CARTER in SPIDERWEBS),
and NICK HENNIES (percussionist who has performed with JANDEK and
ARNOLD DREYBLATT).
ZumAudio
LP
$14.75
Welcome Wagon, The
Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
PS, US This debut album by The Welcome Wagon unveils a ramshackle
sing-a-long enterprise of a Presbyterian pastor (the Rev. Vito Aiuto)
and his wife (Monique) wrestling out the influences of folk music,
religion, popular culture, and church tradition in a collection of
songs that is as soulful as it is good-humored. This gorgeous brew
is reflected in the group's repertoire, which unflinchingly consolidates
a vast history of "sacred" song traditions: from old Testament
psalms, to Presbyterian Psalters of the 17th century, to iconoclastic
pop innovators of the 1960s (The Velvet Underground), to charismatic
catholics of the 1970s (Lenny Smith), and even into the melancholy
lovelorn pop of the 1980s (The Smiths). Recorded, produced, and arranged
by Sufjan Stevens. The Welcome Wagon WELCOME TO THE WELCOME WAGON
AsthmaticKitty-45
LP
$11.50
West, Kanye
808S & Heartbreak
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Roc-A-Fella
DLP
$25.00
Wicked Witch
Chaos: 1978-86
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
EmRecords
LP
$23.50
Wicked Witch
Chaos: 1978-86
PS, US 1st time ever reissue of rare evil psycho machine-funk from
'80s Washington, DC, incl. previously-unreleased mixes. Now is not
the time to doubt your senses - the WICKED WITCH does exist. WW combines
elements from alchemical mentors Parliament Funkadelic, Sun Ra, ESG,
Run DMC, James Brown & Jimi Hendrix to cast a crazed spell on
the innocent listener. An evil mass of machine-funk w/ lashings of
rhythm & blues & fusion delivered direct from the heart of
the Witch, a misunderstood psycho-genius weaving his solo web deep
w/in the dark studio walls. Remastered from the original master tapes,
incl. rare
photos
EmRecords
CD
$19.50
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Widescreen)
PS, US With his documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur
Russell, director Matt Wolf etches out a biographical portrait of
avant-garde musician, artist, and disco producer Arthur Russell, who
died of AIDS at age 40 in 1992. Though Russell was a classically trained
composer and cellist with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of indigenous
Indian music, this performer quickly branched off in a more offbeat
and unusual direction. The Oskaloosa, IA, native fixated on such counterculture
icons as John Cage and Timothy Leary at an early age, then ran away
from home during adolescence and joined a Frisco-based Buddhist group.
Russell became acquainted and associated with poet Allen Ginsberg,
then moved to New York City, where (like Cage) he established himself
as a veritable fixture in the underground music scene and worked as
the music director for The Kitchen. By the mid-'70s, Russell began
producing prescient disco records in the pre-Gibb days, under colorful
pseudonyms such as Indian Ocean and Loose Joints. Unfortunately, he
never culled the devoted following that he deserved until about 15
years after his death. Wolf employs a fractured film-essay style throughout
the film, intercutting such materials as archival footage, extracts
of musical compositions by Russell, and revealing interviews with
Russell's family. Thematically, the director uses the tale of Russell's
colorful life as a springboard into investigations of broader subjects
and themes including gay lifestyles in the early AIDS era, the sociocultural
landscape of Manhattan (and the cultural underground) during the 1970s
and '80s, and the importance of staking out new directions in art
and music for an innovative mind such as Russell's. ~ Nathan Southern,
All Movie Guide
Plexifilm
DVD
$23.50
Windy&Carl/Heavy Winged
Monolith:Earth
PS, US The Monolith series combines two like-minded artists on the
same one-sided, reverse-cut LP by hard-panning one recording to the
right & the other recording to the left. By adjusting the panning
controls on his or her turntable, the listener is free to control
the degree to which the two recordings melt into one. Each edition
in the series is limited to a one-time pressing of 500 picture disc
LPs & includes a CD w/stereo mixes. This edition is the oxymoronic
pairing of dreamcore drone legends WINDY & CARL & new school
leaders of free rock HEAVY WINGED. Heavy Winged contribute one of
their darkest, most oppressive tracks yet. The addition of W&C's
purity creates something entirely different. It's no longer the sound
of three bros busting out dark drone metal in some shed in snowy Vermont;
it's now the sound of some communal artists busting out epic krautjams
in the German hinterland. Primitive, vicious early man meets colossal
pristine symbol of higher thought
MusicFellowship
LP/CD
$21.50
Wire Magazine
#300
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25
Wow & Flutter
Golden Touch
PS, US A collection of Phrygian mode jams, drones & ditties. Opening
track "Red Face" is a taut-n-fuzzy rock blast which highlights
the three-piece's loud-fast-simple side. "Car Crash" opts
for a more restrained approach--until all hell breaks loose w/the
de(con)struction of the titular event. "Solar" follows,
w/a simple chord pattern repeating for three minutes under a coat
of beautiful shimmer. "A Little Help" expands the sonic
palette w/banjo & glockenspiel & a mass choir. "Heaven"
opens side B; a Morricone-influenced intro complete w/trumpet &
melodica gives way to a religious screed, which gives way to a drunken
klezmer coda. "Flat White" intertwines sparse riffs over
click-clack percussion along w/Amato's ruminations on betrayal. Synthetic
slow-jam "Sugarbush" seduces w/snake charmer
guitar lines & earworm bass groove.
JealousButcher
LP
$13.25
Yagya
Rigning
PS, NETHERLANDS VINYL VERSION!!!
SendingOrbs-011-1
DLP
$17.75
Yagya
Rigning
PS, NETHERLANDS Yagya has made a new album for us. We can't think
of any other way to start this new, promising year as delightful.
"Rigning" is the Icelandic word for "rain" and
is Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson's third full-length, the previous
one "Will I Dream During The Process?" best-selling on Sending
Orbs, the first one "Rythm of Snow" on legendary out-of-print
status on Force Inc. Yes, we think this album is a new step forward
for Yagya and we think this album has the prettiest and saddest melodies
ever on a dub techno/ambient record, but we most kindly invite you
to be your own judge. And by buying either the CD or 2x12", you
may even stimulate the Icelandic economy along your way. We're just
confident this is going to be your first great purchase in 2009.
SendingOrbs-011-2
CD
$16.25
Yamagata, Rachael
Elephants: Teeth Sinking Into Heart
PS, US
WarnerBros
DLP
$22.75
Yeasayer
All Hour Cymbals
PS, US Dear Friend, and Friend of Friends, It has been a little bit
over a year since I last wrote to you about the debut document created
by YEASAYER called "ALL HOUR CYMBALS." What a year it has
been! Trips around the world. Playing shows in places you only dream
of as a child. Meeting wonderful people from all over, possibly including
you. Thank you. Most people will probably wonder why it took so long
to release "ALL HOUR CYMBALS" in the vinyl format and why
now? Over a year ago we were a mere village, five strong. Laborers
without the finance to yet construct the citadel, we worked hard,
and worked by hand and mouth to spread the word. We made friends who
helped us along the way, who told their friends, who turned and told
friends, family, and possibly enemies. It was this chain of mouth
to mouth and hard work over an expanse of time that led us to this
gift of sound spectacular in 180 GRAM LP format. Though the timing
is not perfect in the sense of traveling and performing with merchandise,
I promise our friends are thirsty for this artifact. In every village
and town people ask for "ALL HOUR CYMBALS" on LP, in fact,
they demand it's existence. I could cut and paste press quotes and
where YEASAYER has been in print, but that is to cheapen the sell.
We know "ALL HOUR CYMBALS" is a magnificent debut and that
if you inhabit a record store you should have this album in stock.
Someone hit snooze on the last go around causing a major piece of
the pie being fed straight to CPUs across the land. Let us come out
strong this time and give the citizens what they demand. The LP also
contains a digital download for those first time buyers, or those
conflicted with sounds past and present. Best. Sir James Winnie
WeAreFree-002
LP
$12.25
Yelle
Ce Jeu EP
PS, US 1st ever commercial 12" single release from France's acclaimed
electro-pop starlet YELLE. 4 trks feat. the original version, along
w/ remixes by TEPR (Yelle's studio collaborator) & 2 more remixes.
Astralwerks
12
$8.50
Yellow Moon Band, The
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
PS, UK The Brother's dropped some mushroom's one afternoon after decided
to experience the love behind the record of the year. Yes they would
plot a histogram using Jaffa-cakes and pink wafers. During a distracted
moment they pondered over the other important events in music. The
Weeley festival 1971 (Juicy Lucy, demon fuzz and Hackensack and all
for just £1-50); dancing in the mud in your underpants at Bickershaw
to the Greatfull Dead; Cheech and Chong and Haydock Brass Band. Or
what about climbing on army tanks to catch Roy Harper at the St. Helens
Show. Great days with the endorphin rush of pure music jammed out
by buzzing musicians. So here we have the debut album by The Yellow
Moon Band. It follows two sold out sevens and some crazy shows at
the Green Man Festival. Eight tracks of Instrumental wonk that's as
darn exciting as discovering that rare side of wax that's sorta' Anatolian
led rare groove in a bare chested wrestle with Be Bop Deluxe's 'Sunburst
Finish' and pressed up on Vertigo. Well it might exist in the car
boot of your dreams. More Hillage than Gong, more Hacket than Genesis,
more Thompson than Fairport and certainly more Velvet Jacket than
Leather jacket. The Freakzone friendly Yellow Moon Band will release
their debut gatefold album on Static Caravan in November. Gatefold
Card CD with artwork by Luke Insect.
StaticCaravan-173
CD
$16.25
Yorke, Thom
The Eraser Rmxs
PS, US This Japanese release collects all the 12-inch remixes originally
found on Yorke's debut solo album "The Eraser". The Radiohead
frontman asked several of his favorite artists and producers to remix
these tracks (Burial, Four Tet, The Field, Cristian Vogel, The Bug,
Modeselektor, Various, Surgeon), and the results are as bold and visionary
as the originals. "...teems with gorgeous melodies...a testament
to the singer's unique vision. 4.5 / 5" - Wired.
XL
CD
$13.25
Young, Neil
Southern Man
PS, US The Feed.back series has never been focused on making the rare
and obscure once again commercially available for record collectors
and DJs to own. As demonstrated by the previous two selections, U2's
Sunday Bloody Sunday and Loggins & Messina's Pathway To Glory,
the Feed.back series is intended to really showcase some of the dopest
as well as most urgently relevant classics of our recent times. More
than just a music showcase, Feed.back highlights records that actually
concern serious conditions of the modern era up to this day, both
spiritual and political/material, records that speak to the everyday
conditions that we live through in our day-to-day existence on this
earth. Music has the potential to become something beyond personal
healer, a social tool both for political organization and propaganda,
but also for the necessary expression of mass frustration and collective
purpose. Feed.back strives for the rejuvenation of this intent in
the creation and playing of music. The 3rd edition of this series,
Neil Young's Southern Man, articulates a marked disgust with the reactionary
and inherently racist tendency of regional nationalism. Everyone is
familiar with the alleged animosity between Young and Alabama's Lynyrd
Skynyrd over the blatantly condemnatory articulation of the South's
almost fascistic obsession with local heritage -- sic. blood &
soil, the completely fallacious belief in a national story, a legacy
of firm local traditionalism that fuels so much of the racism in the
south. Past, present, and future is accounted for, and the legacy
of slavery is carried on through demented 'local pride' that goes
largely unquestioned, disguised as it is. Young put out a song that
sought to openly and aggressively single out the violent legacy of
Southern racism and its influence still operating strong within Southern
social thought, refusing to let it fade away from the popular memory,
just as the most influential and high-ranking of apologists were beginning
to formulate and put into action the notion of equality finally achieved
in the 'new America.
SlowtoSpeak
12
$13.00
Yussuf Jerusalem
A Heart Full Of Sorrow
PS, US Was kind of dreading this one. The name?!!?, Heard it opens
with a Death Metal song (it does) the whole thing just seemed like
a bummer. Well I was wrong. Not even the opening track could ruin
this record
for me. If someone asked me to tell them what kind of music this is
I guess I'd say folk-rock. The biggest (and best) surprise in recent
memory.
FloridasDyingRecords
LP
$11.00
Zero Boys
History Of...
PS, US It came out of nowhere in 1982, this punk rock/hardcore fireball
with the bright yellow sleeve. In one sense, The Zero Boys' Vicious
Circle was yet another example of how U.S. punk seemed to peak coast
to coast that year. But unlike most coastal punk, the Zero Boys were
pointing the way to a scene that could accommodate heaping helpings
of melody, intelligence, and rock 'n' roll sus, not just turbo-charged
ferocity. From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZBs were the
finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states.
Proof is Vicious Circle and the two decades since of copyists, bootleggers,
practitioners and reunion concert pogoers. Though before and after
that LP's 1982 release they recorded the Livin' in the 80's 7",
songs for three comps and released the post-mortem History Of cassette
revealing their transformation into a toured band warming to the metaphysical
and their demise while still waving torches of rock 'n' roll panache.
Now, collected here and remastered from the original tapes is the
proof, if more was needed, that their take of American hardcore wasn't
all white bread numbers. Yeah, they played shows with Minor Threat,
Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, and others but in Terry "Hollywood"Howe's
guitar there was harmonious terror and unstoppable cadence. Terry's
licks and chops - a leap beyond two or three chord punk - offered
a zone and measured count for drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist David
"Tufty" Clough, a rhythm unit in par with the Minutemen
if not The Meters, to run lines like quicksilver. Meanwhile, frontman,
Paul "Z" Mahern provides a constant wash from beginning
to end. When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; Adding a
slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to
come with one of the best early 80's punk records, or one of the best
records ever, period. Between Vicious Circle and History Of, the entire
recorded output of this legendary Midwest punk band's original line
up is, finally, collected. - Culled from liner notes written by Jack
Rabid and EricWeddle.
SecretlyCanadian-189
CD
$11.50
Zero Boys
Vicious Circle
PS, US It came out of nowhere in 1982, this punk rock/hardcore fireball
with the bright yellow sleeve. In one sense, The Zero Boys' Vicious
Circle was yet another example of how U.S. punk seemed to peak coast
to coast that year. But unlike most coastal punk, the Zero Boys were
pointing the way to a scene that could accommodate heaping helpings
of melody, intelligence, and rock 'n' roll sus, not just turbo-charged
ferocity. From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZBs were the
finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states.
Proof is Vicious Circle and the two decades since of copyists, bootleggers,
practitioners and reunion concert pogoers. Though before and after
that LP's 1982 release they recorded the Livin' in the 80's 7",
songs for three comps and released the post-mortem History Of cassette
revealing their transformation into a toured band warming to the metaphysical
and their demise while still waving torches of rock 'n' roll panache.
Now, collected here and remastered from the original tapes is the
proof, if more was needed, that their take of American hardcore wasn't
all white bread numbers. Yeah, they played shows with Minor Threat,
Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, and others but in Terry "Hollywood"Howe's
guitar there was harmonious terror and unstoppable cadence. Terry's
licks and chops - a leap beyond two or three chord punk - offered
a zone and measured count for drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist David
"Tufty" Clough, a rhythm unit in par with the Minutemen
if not The Meters, to run lines like quicksilver. Meanwhile, frontman,
Paul "Z" Mahern provides a constant wash from beginning
to end. When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; Adding a
slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to
come with one of the best early 80's punk records, or one of the best
records ever, period. Between Vicious Circle and History Of, the entire
recorded output of this legendary Midwest punk band's original line
up is, finally, collected. - Culled from liner notes written by Jack
Rabid and EricWeddle
SecretlyCanadian-188
CD
$11.50
Zero Boys
Vicious Circle
PS, US It came out of nowhere in 1982, this punk rock/hardcore fireball
with the bright yellow sleeve. In one sense, The Zero Boys' Vicious
Circle was yet another example of how U.S. punk seemed to peak coast
to coast that year. But unlike most coastal punk, the Zero Boys were
pointing the way to a scene that could accommodate heaping helpings
of melody, intelligence, and rock 'n' roll sus, not just turbo-charged
ferocity. From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZBs were the
finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states.
Proof is Vicious Circle and the two decades since of copyists, bootleggers,
practitioners and reunion concert pogoers. Though before and after
that LP's 1982 release they recorded the Livin' in the 80's 7",
songs for three comps and released the post-mortem History Of cassette
revealing their transformation into a toured band warming to the metaphysical
and their demise while still waving torches of rock 'n' roll panache.
Now, collected here and remastered from the original tapes is the
proof, if more was needed, that their take of American hardcore wasn't
all white bread numbers. Yeah, they played shows with Minor Threat,
Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, and others but in Terry "Hollywood"Howe's
guitar there was harmonious terror and unstoppable cadence. Terry's
licks and chops - a leap beyond two or three chord punk - offered
a zone and measured count for drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist David
"Tufty" Clough, a rhythm unit in par with the Minutemen
if not The Meters, to run lines like quicksilver. Meanwhile, frontman,
Paul "Z" Mahern provides a constant wash from beginning
to end. When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; Adding a
slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to
come with one of the best early 80's punk records, or one of the best
records ever, period. Between Vicious Circle and History Of, the entire
recorded output of this legendary Midwest punk band's original line
up is, finally, collected. - Culled from liner notes written by Jack
Rabid and EricWeddle
SecretlyCanadian-188
LP
$11.50
Zero Boys
History Of...
PS, US It came out of nowhere in 1982, this punk rock/hardcore fireball
with the bright yellow sleeve. In one sense, The Zero Boys' Vicious
Circle was yet another example of how U.S. punk seemed to peak coast
to coast that year. But unlike most coastal punk, the Zero Boys were
pointing the way to a scene that could accommodate heaping helpings
of melody, intelligence, and rock 'n' roll sus, not just turbo-charged
ferocity. From 1979 into '83, the Indianapolis based ZBs were the
finest hardcore blitz in the Midwest if not all the lower 48 states.
Proof is Vicious Circle and the two decades since of copyists, bootleggers,
practitioners and reunion concert pogoers. Though before and after
that LP's 1982 release they recorded the Livin' in the 80's 7",
songs for three comps and released the post-mortem History Of cassette
revealing their transformation into a toured band warming to the metaphysical
and their demise while still waving torches of rock 'n' roll panache.
Now, collected here and remastered from the original tapes is the
proof, if more was needed, that their take of American hardcore wasn't
all white bread numbers. Yeah, they played shows with Minor Threat,
Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, and others but in Terry "Hollywood"Howe's
guitar there was harmonious terror and unstoppable cadence. Terry's
licks and chops - a leap beyond two or three chord punk - offered
a zone and measured count for drummer Mark Cutsinger and bassist David
"Tufty" Clough, a rhythm unit in par with the Minutemen
if not The Meters, to run lines like quicksilver. Meanwhile, frontman,
Paul "Z" Mahern provides a constant wash from beginning
to end. When the Ramones lost it, the Zero Boys found it; Adding a
slam brigade fist to the Blitzkrieg Beat. The Zero Boys managed to
come with one of the best early 80's punk records, or one of the best
records ever, period. Between Vicious Circle and History Of, the entire
recorded output of this legendary Midwest punk band's original line
up is, finally, collected. - Culled from liner notes written by Jack
Rabid and EricWeddle
SecretlyCanadian-189
LP
$11.50
Forthcoming
Releases
Abe Vigoda
Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Cantankerous shoegaze poplosion! Washing & slipping through
certain moments where "Skeleton" only touched on, this 5
song EP slows the mood, & crashes over your senses, getting more
experimental but oddly more catchy. Squirming in a stunning act of
pureness, a calming sound overtakes the senses & they destroy
it all beautifully & bring it back again.
PostPresentMedium
CD5
$9.50
Abe
Vigoda
Reviver (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
PostPresentMedium
LP
$9.75
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
The Century of Self (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US New album from Brooklyn-via-Texas avant-argonauts. 15 years
into their career, Trail of Dead continues to innovate and grow. At
a point where many other bands would be resting on their laurels and
half-heartedly tossing off greatest hits comps, Trail of Dead are
just getting started.
RichterScale/Justice
CD
$15.25
Andalusians
Do The Work (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Song-writing vehicle for Basla Andolsun, who has played in
BEAUTY PILL, DEL CIELO, & currently tours w/ EDIE
SEDGWICK. This 3-song 7 inch comes w/ an MP3 download coupon that
also features 3 extra tracks from the same recording session.
Dischord
45
$4.00
Ant
These Long Dark Country Roads (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24th)
PS, SPAIN Antony Harding was the drummer of Hefner, the British indie
cult band. After releasing a couple of low key singles in 1999, ANT
released a series of mini albums, albums and compilations, plus a
live session with John Peel, before moving to Sweden and retiring
for a while to take care of his family. After a few years of silence,
ANT comes back now with a new 6 song mini album for Acuarela which
features collaborations with former Hefner members Darren Hayman and
Jack Hayter as well as help from members of Cornershop.
Acuarela-066
CD
$8.25
Appleseed Cast
Sagarmantha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US 6th studio album from the Lawrence, Kansas group.
MilitiaGroup
CD
$13.75
Arborea
House of Sticks (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24th)
PS, SPAIN Arborea is Buck Curran and Shanti Curran from Lewiston,
Maine. Buck plays guitars, bowed strings, flutes and some banjo, and
Shanti provides banjo, bowed strings, and percussion, they both sing;
though Shanti sings the majority of the songs. Their songs are low-key
intimate spell casting affairs; the fact that they are a couple might
help to explain the seamless organic blending of their music together.
Conjuring truly transportational magic out of the simplest ingredients,
Arborea songs might be a hundreds of years old, and there's little
here to lock them into any moment other than forever. Alligator sounds
like Fred Neil backing Marissa Nadler. They also bring to mind Josephine
Foster, Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, the folky side of MV & EE,
Timothy Renner's various incarnations, and other similar magician/musicians.
A beautifully recorded acoustic-based gem of an album with no weak
track amidst the ten they grace us with.
BorneRecordings/Acuarela-002
CD
$12.25
Arbouretum
Song Of The Pearl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00
Arbouretum
Song Of The Pearl (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US While 2007's "Rites of Uncovering" seemed to peer
down from a vantage point far above, this reaches out from within
the mire itself. The songs seem to have more immediacy and urgency,
propelled by heavy guitar rythms that roll like waves against a levee
until they finally burst through to unleash a flood of ferocious,
acid-drenched solo passages. 4-panel mini-LP style jacket
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00
Architecture In Helsinki
That Beep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Coming off the heels of commercial success in Australia, Architecture
in Helsinki are set to release a brand new song in the states. The
song is called "That Beep" and it is the most straight forward,
80's inspired pop tune the band has ever created. With a hook so instantly
gratifying, the US is likely to follow Australia's lead in making
AiH a household name. "That Beep" is a teaser single from
the brand new, as-yet-untitled Architecture in Helsinki fulllength
that will land on the shores of America in late summer 2009. "That
Beep" has widely been covered on the web by outlets like Pitchfork,
Gorilla vs. Bear, Fluxblog, You Ain't No Picasso, and Stereogum to
name a few, and the video for "That Beep" premiered on Pitchfork.tv.
Features 3 bonus tracks, including a Radioclit remix.
Polyvinyl-174
CD5
$6.75
Architecture In Helsinki
That Beep (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Coming off the heels of commercial success in Australia, Architecture
in Helsinki are set to release a brand new song in the states. The
song is called "That Beep" and it is the most straight forward,
80's inspired pop tune the band has ever created. With a hook so instantly
gratifying, the US is likely to follow Australia's lead in making
AiH a household name. "That Beep" is a teaser single from
the brand new, as-yet-untitled Architecture in Helsinki fulllength
that will land on the shores of America in late summer 2009. "That
Beep" has widely been covered on the web by outlets like Pitchfork,
Gorilla vs. Bear, Fluxblog, You Ain't No Picasso, and Stereogum to
name a few, and the video for "That Beep" premiered on Pitchfork.tv.
Features 3 bonus tracks, including a Radioclit remix.
Polyvinyl-174
12
$9.00
Asobi Seksu
Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US A critically acclaimed band with glowing press from such outlets
as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB, XLR8R, and many
more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl debut with their
much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their captivating live
shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into something
new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral
staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence and sputtering
drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist Yuki Chikudate.
Polyvinyl-170
CD
$13.25
Asobi Seksu
Hush (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US LP 180 gm vinyl. A critically acclaimed band with glowing press
from such outlets as the New York Times, Nylon, Under the Radar, YRB,
XLR8R, and many more, NYC's Asobi Seksu make their stunning Polyvinyl
debut with their much anticipated third album Hush. Known for their
captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it
into something new - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs
and spiral staircase melodies are blurred by bits of guitar violence
and sputtering drums bolstered by the ethereal vocals of vocalist
Yuki Chikudate.
Polyvinyl-170
LP
$14.75
Auerbach, Dan
Keep It Hid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Nonesuch
LP
$19.75
Auerbach, Dan
Keep It Hid (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Solo album from Black Keys dude.
Nonesuch
CD
$15.25
Azita
How Will You? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US A collection of songs that range from sun-bright & poppy
to deep-focus, torrential. AZITA stuck to straight-ahead voicings
in her chords to bring heaviness to the sound, working with bassist
Matt Lux (Iron & Wine, Plush) and drummer John Herndon (Tortoise)
to arrange her songs with the strength of a rock & roll band throughout
the album. Compelling pop music, approaching in fun, with beats, and
then sinking deep & growing within you. The songs of How Will
You? take a new approach for AZITA, with more space in them, more
room for the melody lines to echo out, haunted & haunting.
DragCity/Twos&Fews
CD
$13.25
Azita
How Will You? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity/Twos&Fews
LP
$15.50
Baja
Aether Obelisk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US The Aether Obelisk is the fourth release in the Baja saga by
composer Daniel Vujanic. It arrives at a broad musical horizon, touching
the borderlines of forms ranging from chamber music and psychedelia,
to pop/jazz-infected electronic music. The Aether Obelisk is unpredictable
as ever, but definitely exploiting more vocal and repetitive elements
than its predecessors. The overall mood is also less melancholic and
nocturnal than previous Baja offerings. Some almost-tender sequences
add more harmonic depth to the fractured signature sound of Vujanic´s
suite-like compositions. It's loaded with acoustic and electric guitar
textures ranging from folk to improv, synths, panoramic electronics,
reverberating piano bits, horn sections, vibes, glockenspiel and multi-layered
percussion - both live and programmed. "If the indie rock just
isn't getting it done for you anymore, Baja's enveloping, intangible
compositions may be just the guide you need to more engaging musical
territory." - Tiny Mix Tapes "Vujanic is making music for
the Shuffle generation, positing endless subdivisions that thus, beautifully,
enable the listener to consider the music in almost anything."
-Cokemachine Glow "Incredible, genre-melting... deconstructs
rock norms." -The Tripwire
OtherElectricities-017
CD
$12.25
Baker, Keef
Pen Fifteen (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, GERMANY Mighty sub-bass drones, driving, energetic beats, wonderful
piano lines, atmospheric keyboards, doomy guitars, occasional vocal
work - Pen Fifteen is another journey into Keef Baker's world, where
unequal musical styles like trip hop, electronica and even metal are
used as base plates and sometimes merge within a single note - just
check out what starts as a distorted guitar and ends as click'n'cut
in 'dead end'. Instead of 'eclecticism' a logical extrapolation of
varied influences is displayed, whether it is post-rock, intelligent
dance music, dub... in the end they become one style that can only
be called Keef Baker. 11 songs of melodic harshness - loud and powerful
even in their quietest moments. Expect your expectations to be confounded!
CD2 'light city' - intended to be listened to without interference
or pauses - a trip into sudorific clublife that keeps you moving for
more than an hour. An astounding mix with well-placed increasing and
decreasing speed, ranging from dubstep to techno to drum and bass
to breakcore and back. This is Keef as he sounds while performing
live - a great addition to a fantastic album.
Hymen-771
DCD
$17.50
Beirut
March of the Zapotec & Realpeople Holland (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Vinyl format.
ObeyYourBrain
2X12
$17.25
Beirut
March of the Zapotec (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US New album.
Pompeii
DCD
$15.00
Belmez
Apariciones (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, SPAIN Jaime and Jose began the Bélmez project back in 2004,
while they were working on their other band 12twelve. Marc, member
of Dolores and Teresa, joined them in 2005 completing the final trio,
brought together by their love of American rooted slowcore. In August
2007 they recorded with Paco Loco on analog tape and 100% live what
is their first album, Apariciones, mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac)
in Chicago, to be released on the Spring of 2009. A combination of
powerful yet minimalistic sound, with no effects, but in which every
note and every bang is fundamental.
Acuarela-1089
CD
$12.25
Beneath Oblivion
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Cincinnati, Ohio's finest in raw doom, sludgy despair &
stripped down futility. Crawling forward, white-knuckled, w/ down-tuned
guitar riffs that leave you unnerved & anxious, bass lines that
thud hard enough to leave you nauseous, & drums that thump one
minute in a tribal, trance-inducing cavalcade & the next come
crashing down w/ the power of a mountain splitting in two. RIYL: Ocean
SunnO))), Buried At Sea. Limited to 500
MyleneSheath
10
$15.50
Bitter Tears
Jam Tarts in the Jake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
CarrotTop
LP
$11.50
Bitter Tears
Jam Tarts in the Jake (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US "Jam Tarts in the Jake House" STREET DATE 3/3. Having
staked their reputation on a sometimes lewd & always entertaining
theatrical live show, The Bitter Tears use their new release to portray
their creative growth as both musicians & storytellers. The album
utilizes smart & direct pop structures to drive the menacing,
old-school country twang of the songs. Known for being over-the-top,
the ironic simplicity employed on tracks like "Slay The Heart
Of The Earth" showcase the band's conviction. Just as in their
live show, no one breaks character. The raw material for the record
was written late at night & early in the morning, with a threepenny
orchestra's worth of instruments to help the process along. The result
sounds antique, without sounding antiquated. The bawdy tales of revenge,
lust & corruption are backed by a dusty array of beat-up instruments:
horns, oboes, violins...each helping to provide the same dramatic
sparks that win people over on-stage. "...thank God for the creative,
uber-feisty cabaret edge on this [Bitter Tears] local band's country-fried
rock 'n' roll"-Chicago Tribune
CarrotTop
CD
$11.50
Bloom, Luka
Eleven Songs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US On his eleventh record, the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter
returns to the raw live sound of his earlier releases, brimming with
inspiring lyrics and sumptuous melodies. Contributors include Dave
Hingerty (ex-Frames), Trevor Hutchinson, Liam O'Maonlai (ex-Hothouse
Flowers), Paul Smith, Cora Venus Lunny, Ken Edge, and the Gardiner
St. Gospel Choir, with backing vocals by Sinead Martin and Robbie
Moore. Luka has toured with The Pogues, The Violent Femmes, Hothouse
Flowers, and The Cowboy Junkies, and in all has enjoyed eighteen years
of successful worldwide tours.
BarNone
CD
$12.50
Bonnie Prince Billy
Beware (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US Though Beware shares spit with its immediate predecessor, Lie
Down in the Light, its reach is longer, its arches more grandiose.
Where fiddle & steel contribute their rustic timbre alongside
guitars & voices, a thickening thud of low tone rolls beneath,
giving the record a bottom that's fun to watch bounce in new clothes.
This indensifies the air & heralds Beware as Bonny's most ambidextrous
record to date. A listen or two through and you too may conclude that
this could also be the great Bonnie 'Prince' Billy contempocountry
record.
DragCity
CD
$13.25
Bonnie Prince Billy
Beware (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75
Boston Spaceships
Planets Are Blasted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
GBVInc
LP
$17.25
Boston Spaceships
Planets Are Blasted (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Chris Slusarenko (GBV) & John Moen (DECEMBERISTS) have
never been so impressive. This nuanced & transcendent rock album
culminates w/ four of ROBERT POLLARD's best songs yet.
GBVInc
CD
$15.25
Broken Spindles
Kiss/Kick (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US This is more No Wave than New Wave - & is JOEL PETERSEN's
strongest work to date. With four Broken Spindles albums & five
FAINT albums under his belt, he has found his voice, & has learned
how to reduce songs to their basic barts w/o losing the power &
excitement of great production.
blank.wav
CD
$12.00
Brotzmann, Peter/Nilssen-Love, Paal
Sweetsweat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, NORWAY Recorded live at Sting Jazzklubb in Norway during the Maijazz
Festival in 2006. The godfather of European free-jazz, Peter Brotzmann,
is joined by respected Scandinavian percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love
to form a musical partnership of rare & beautiful balance.
SmalltownSuperjazz-143
CD
$15.25
Burning Hearts
Aboa Sleeping (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Finland's Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) & Jessika Rapo (Le
Futur Pompiste) as Burning Hearts might be greeted as a marriage of
the best elements of both members' other bands, but this is truly
a matter of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Full
of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of
idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring
as a lover's embrace & a tone of intimacy that could only come
from collaboration that is fully simpatico. Listen to the heart-tugging
chorus of "Iris," the stately lockstep interplay between
vocal & rhythm-track on "A Peasant's Dream," or the
fade-to-black melancholy of the title track, and hear that same indefinable,
inexplicable musical alchemy that is their homeland's claim.
Shelflife
CD
$12.25
Buzz Or Howl + Astro
Western Mystery School (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US This collaboration was born at the UFO Club in Tokyo. Buzz
or Howl (Bruce McKenzie and Eric Nielsen) met Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa)
through mutual friend Junzo Suzuki. after a face-melting set by that
duo and a celebratory, raucous set by Bruce and Eric's other band
Maquiladora (with Phil Beaumont) - during which they were joined by
Saya and Ueno from the Tenniscoats and Koji Shimura from Acid Mothers
Temple and White Heaven - music was exchanged and plans were hatched
to combine forces somehow. The music Astro took home that night was
by Buzz or Howl, a fierce improvisatory psychedelic duo from southern
California, using guitars, violin, synth, and lapsteel to create long
tracks exploring time and tide. And tone. Through continuously evolving,
fugue-like riffage drone and feedback. For the purposes of this collaboration
a new instrumentation was found. After an initial flirtation with
guitars, the Californians decided on a markedly more pastoral direction
and an arabo-andalusian flavor for the music they had been given.
Over two tracks of Astro's synth textures the same instrumentation
- mandolin, strum stick, and voices, - is radically transformed by
electricity. Track one is spare and celestial, a delicate acoustic
track that employs spare free improvisation and a repeating ancient-sounding
chord progression as a basis for both Astro's sonic flights and a
lilting wordless melody. Track two explodes with feedback and a crunching
assault develops from exactly the same elements, electrified. One
would never know that the sonic roar is created by electric mandolin
and modified vocals atop brother Astro's synthesizer. Musical imaginations
have reached across the pacific for this combination of filigree and
mutilation.
LotusHouse-13
CD
$9.75
Case, Neko
Middle Cyclone (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US Neko's many fans hang on her impressionistic lyrics, classic
pop harmonics, and luxurious voice, and her new album revels in all
three. "Middle Cyclone" fuses her longtime themes of nature
versus man into a shining lyrical broadsword. Numerous guests include
M. Ward, Garth Hudson of The Band, Sarah Harmer, and members of The
New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, The Sadies, Visqueen, The
Lilys, and Giant Sand.
Anti
CD
$15.50
Chin Chin
Flashing, The Fancing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US Featuring an impressive roster of side men & soloists,
w/ credits including TV on the Radio, Medeski Martin & Wood, Spoon,
Antibalas, Sinead O'Connor, Blonde Redhead, Cibbo Matto, Temptations,
Delfonics, Glenn Miller Orchestra, & Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings,
this is as sophisticated as it is fun & catchy. Moody, world weary
love songs sit comfortably in between psychedelic synth freak-outs
& dance floor bangers.
DefinitiveJux
CD
$15.00
Circle
Saturnus Reality (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US The Finnegan's Wake of Finnish rock documentaries, & a
fabulous cul-de-sac in stream of consciousness. This is not a concert
film, but rather an intimate documentary which features the occassional
live performance. A self-ironic vicious circle of a film that focuses
on the curious worl of the band & it's musicians.
NoQuarter
DVD
$14.00
Circle
Hollywood (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US Finland's mighty masters of metallic hypno drone rock have
been making some of the most original modern rock music since the
beginning of the 90's. For fans of Krautrock, Acid.
Ektro
CD
$15.00
Cloak/Dagger
Untitled (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Two new songs from Richmond, VA's Cloak/ Dagger. Continuing
in the Swiz and Drive Like Jehu fashion the Daggers deliver a couple
of new driven anthemic tunes. Since forming in 2006, they have toured
a bunch with the likes of Paint it Black, Kill Your Idols and many
other contemporary punk icons. This single comes with an MP3 download
coupon for all you portable punks too.
JadeTree
45
$4.00
Connors, Loren
The Curse of Midnight Mary (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US In 1981 guitarist Loren Connors took his tape recorder to the
graveyard where the legendary Midnight Mary's grave lies in New Haven,
Conn. The curse is: Anyone who gets caught in her graveyard past midnight
will die the next day. But Connors, like a young fool, taped in that
place, making this album that was lost and forgotten until uncovered
in 2008. Recorded between Connors' eight volume Unaccompanied Acoustic
Guitar Improvisations LP series and the folk albums he would make
with Tom Hanford and Kath Bloom, these nine pieces meld those distinct
forms. Connors, singing in a trance like moan, reforms the Mississippi
Delta blues on his acoustic guitar with flashes of melodic hooks and
a percussive guitar style that erupts into boogie-woogie riffs and
other world spirituals. It's an album for fans of Connors' solo avant
work and collaborations with Jim O'Rourke or Jandek; and will enthrall
devotees of early the 20th Century blues of Blind Willie Johnson and
Charlie Patton. A rare and essential peak into the still mysterious
early years of this American guitar master. Recorded March 1981, at
the Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Conneticuit.
FamilyVineyard-64
CD
$11.50
Daisuke, Kashiwa
5 Dec. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, JAPAN "Program Music I", released approximately a year
and a half ago introduced audiences to a musical interpretation of
two Japanese literary classics, "Night on the Milky Way Railroad"
and "Run Melos!" and revealed the rich musical talent of
Kashiwa Daisuke. As we enter the final one digit year of the new millennium,
we are proud to release "5 Dec.", an album that drops hints
of what's to come in the next 10 years. Kashiwa's first album released
from German label, Onpa, in 2006 won rave reviews from many artists
including Ryuichi Sakamoto. In his second album, "Program Music
I" released the following year, Kashiwa Daisuke defined his presence
once again in the world of music. The artist's lyrical melody and
dynamic and inventive musical arrangements have led his work to new
frontiers in TV commercials and fashion shows. Kashiwa casts also
off a powerful presence on the online world through his musical +
visual collaboration with Koji Nishida of RAKU-GAKU, the artist behind
Kashiwa's album jackets. In his third album, "5 Dec.", Kashiwa
Daisuke makes yet another step into a new horizon. In this album,
the artist's signature melody with its flowing, oriental taste hides
behind the shadows to be replaced by tearing voice samples and noisy
and metallic guitar sounds thrashing almost violently on top of colorful
uplifting beats such as break core, down tempo, bleep techno, and
drum n' bass. In contrast to the aggressive sounds of the first half,
the second part of the album starting with the 6th track, "Silver
Moon" guides audiences to a minimal world created through electronic
sounds and the piano. As a whole, the album portrays a brilliant contrast
of sound. The melody of this album does not impose sentimentalism
or nostalgia onto its listeners but rather, it takes them on a journey
into rhythm from beginning to end. Even amidst the violent and excessive
elements, there is always a composed eye seeing into the passion that
lies beneath, there is a self-disciplined, strict interpretation of
the world, a sublime and metallic texture... this is what the artist
Kashiwa Daisuke may be all about. Turn your ears and experience the
fruit of Kashiwa Daisuke's new challenge and step with him into a
whole new level of musical originality.
Noble-1246
CD
$17.00
Deerhunter
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Kranky
DLP
$15.75
Desario
Zero Point Zero (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US Named after Daniel Desario in the cult TV show Freaks &
Geeks, Desario plays dark and sometimes threatening punchy indie-pop
rock like The Smiths with balls or Felt if they were from the west
coast or Modern English stripping down to Wedding Present vulnerability.
Kids R.I.Y.L. Death Cab For Cutie, Built To Spill, The Shins. The
band line up features former Holiday Flyer, California Oranges singer/songwriter
John Conley and former Holiday Flyer, Rocketship members Mike Yoas,
guitars, and Jim Rivas, drums. Mike Carr plays bass. EARLY PRESS:
"I'm quite enamored with a self titled three-song disc by Desario,
and if this is a taste of the forthcoming album the band's still working
on (Zero Point Zero, due in October from once local indie Darla Records),
it's gonna be a real peach. "Cane Cola" is all gleaming
chrome over pastoral sweetness, more melodic and soaring than the
reworked Joy Divisionisms of Interpol, with John Conley's friendly
and inviting voice surfing over his and Michael Yoas' intertwined
clean electric guitars, with bassist Mike Carr underpinning the song
while drummer Jim Rivas splatters around like Moby Grape's Skip Spence
on "Omaha." The second track, "Fine Time," continues
the feel, while "Nautical Ways" has more jangle along with
shouted background vocals. All three are winners; Desario has a sense
of melody and dynamics that is captivating." Jackson Griffith,
Sacramento News and Review
Darla-219
CD
$12.25
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
XL
LP
$14.00
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US The follow-up to the exquisitely melancholic and much hailed
solo debut "Ash Wednesday". On this release, Elvis is joined
by a talented trio of friends, all clearly influenced by a range of
American roots music. At once raucous and profound, this record conjures
both the greatest celebration and the saddest funeral, channeling
an ageless wisdom that deepens with each listen.
XL
CD
$14.00
Extra Golden
Thank You Very Quickly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.25
Extra Golden
Thank You Very Quickly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US 6-song wonder of a record, whose joyous danceable anthems were
crafted in the wake of political & economic upheaval in Kenya.
While EG's 1st 2 albums served as thesis & antithesis, this TYVQ
showcases a new level of artistry that could only be referred to as
synthesis. No longer a 'collaborative
enconter', but a band. 4-panel mini-LP style jacket.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00
Extra Golden
Thank You Very Quickly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US The third release from this international group (two members
are from the US and two are from Kenya) is a six-song wonder where
joyous danceable anthems were crafted in the wake of political and
economic upheaval in Kenya. The opening and closing tracks extend
a humble thanks to all the fans who donated money to keep the band's
families safe amidst Kenya's post-election violence in 2008. "Four
bars and you're hooked - lost in what is probably the most energetic
African sound of the year...It's a feisty piece of work produced with
energy and sensitivity" - Songlines (4 stars). LP limited to
1,000 copies and includes a free download coupon.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.25
Extra Golden
Thank You Very Quickly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$13.00
Fever Ray
S-T (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 24TH)
PS, US Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of THE KNIFE,
is set to release her debut self-titled album. Fever Ray is the title,
of both project and album, an evocation of the music's sound, intense
and anxious, yet luminous. It's the culmination of work that began
in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife,
decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows.
After having her second child and eight months of the most productive
daydreaming later, Karin had a batch of new songs and the raw materials
for the production of Fever Ray. Unsure how to get them over the finishing
line, she took half to Christoffer Berg (who mixed The Knife's work)
and half to Stockholm production duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal
Kid for a final brush and tickle. The result is Fever Ray, an album
that, while recognisably the work of the same artist, is dramatically
different from The Knife. It's still constructed on electronic foundations
and embellished with traditional instrumentation (guitar here, congas
there). Despite some upbeat moments ("Triangle Walks," "I'm
Not Done"), Fever Ray is starker, moodier, in places quite somber
- less an invasion, more a slow process of colonization. Not that
you'll find anything so literal in the lyrics. One thing's for sure
- in a country with a wealth of leftfield pop artists, Karin Dreijer
Andersson sounds like no one but herself. Constantly inventive, restlessly
emotive, Fever Ray swaggers, broods, intrigues and dazzles without
ever making concessions.
Mute
CD
$14.00
Flaherty, Paul & C. Spencer Yeh w/ Greg Kelley
New York Nuts And Boston Baked Beans (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY
24TH)
PS, US Violinist/vocalist C Spencer Yeh & unrivaled saxophone
elder-titan Paul Flaherty team up without the assistance of acclaimed
drummer Chris Corsano for the first time. Along for the Jamz Is Bonkers
Boston trumpeteer Greg Kelley. After performing numerous times and
honing a distinct group dynamic as a trio over many years with celebrated
percussionist Chris Corsano, Yeh and Flaherty decided to try it out
one-on-one. The record comprises of the best from two live sets from
a short duo tour in the Northeast -- at the celebrated venue Issue
Project Room in Brooklyn, and Nom D'Artiste in Boston. With minimal
editing, this is the sound of two people tearing at the limits of
their instruments, these iconic configurations of metal and wood;
hurling their respective accumulated life experience into one another,
exposed and raw. The duo is likely one of the most dangerous configurations
for people to interact within, musical or otherwise. Greg Kelley on
trumpet is added to the mix and the results mutate into an even more
mysterious form - the trumpet is indistinguishable from the vocals;
the saxophone creaks so the voice doesn't have to.
Important-195
CD
$13.00
Fol Chen
Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY
17TH)
PS, US "You know that mysterious black object that the creepy
family is staring at on the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Presence"
album? Fol Chen sound like that. But we don't sound like Led Zeppelin.
(We actually do a little.) Instead, we sound like Prince with Amon
Duul II and a children's religious revival, not to mention Hot Chip,
Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti,
Boards of Canada, The Blow, and Pulp. (Mostly.) We are using secret
powers and the guidance of legendary DJ Donna Donna to combat our
nemesis, John Shade. We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you
to dance."
AsthmaticKitty-53
CD
$11.50
Fol Chen
Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY
17TH)
PS, US "You know that mysterious black object that the creepy
family is staring at on the cover of Led Zeppelin's "Presence"
album? Fol Chen sound like that. But we don't sound like Led Zeppelin.
(We actually do a little.) Instead, we sound like Prince with Amon
Duul II and a children's religious revival, not to mention Hot Chip,
Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti,
Boards of Canada, The Blow, and Pulp. (Mostly.) We are using secret
powers and the guidance of legendary DJ Donna Donna to combat our
nemesis, John Shade. We are cryptic and joyful and we would like you
to dance."
AsthmaticKitty-53
LP
$11.50
Gainsbourg, Serge
Histoire De Melody Nelson (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 27TH)
PS, US For the first time ever, this lavishly packaged & true
to the original artwork CD reissue contains extensive English language
liner notes & informative content explaining the times & tales
behind the making of this passionate platter. Dispelling the countless
myths, hearsay & rumors surrounding Nelson, New York-based writer
Andy Beta contributes a stylish essay for your edification while Finders
Keepers' honcho & Twisted Nerve founder Andy Votel shares his
deep knowledge of Gainsbourg and the Gallic & UK music scenes
with great insight - never before have these stories been told. The
maestro himself even chimes in with a period Q&A interview from
France's Rock N Folk Magazine, and printed lyrics (both with English
translations)
LightInTheAttic
CD
$15.00
Gainsbourg, Serge
Histoire De Melody Nelson (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 24TH)
PS, US Limited Edition Vinyl LP feat. 180 gram wax, gatefold hand-numbered
old school tip-on jacket, and liner notes. Limited to only 2,000 copies!
LightInTheAttic-040
LP
$20.25
Gibson, Laura
Beasts of the Seasons (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Steeped in the fingerpick-guitar rudiments of folk music, inspired
by the expressionism of classic jazz vocalists, & finding common
ground in the minimal-ism & ear-taunting of the avant-garde. Collaborators
include RACHEL BLUMBERG (M. WARD), NATE QUERY (DECEMBERISTS), LAURA
VEIRS & DANNY SEIM (ME-NOMENA).
JealousButcher
LP
$11.75
Gun Outfit
Dim Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PPM
LP
$10.25
Gun Outfit
Dim Light (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US
PPM
CD
$10.25
Handsome Furs
Face Control (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US The second album by this Montreal band draws inspiration from
Eastern Europe and re-maps Eastern Bloc surveillance state themes
to contemporary life, showing the irony of our acceptance of self-monitoring
through blogs, credit/debit accounts, surveillance cameras, and GPS
devices. The album's juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic
beats with jagged, dissonant and frail guitars convey what it is to
be human in the 21st century. At the same time, it provides the means
to opt out.
Subpop
CD
$12.50
Handsome Furs
Face Control (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50
Haptic
Medium (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Flingco SS is the new label from Kranky founder/righteous dude
Bruce Adams. Creating densely textured works that can range from stark
minimalism to violent, carefully directed chaos, Haptic combines a
rigorous attention to sonic detail with restless experimentalism.
The Medium consists of two sidelong tracks & includes contributions
from Boris Hauf, Olivia Block & Tony Buck. LIMITED edition 180
gram vinyl with download coupon.
FlingcoSoundSystem-005
LP
$21.75
Harpoon
Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Drum machine project from Dean Costello & Toney Vast-Binder.
Contains songs from their '07 demo along
with three new tracks. A mix of grind & punk with drum machine.
A loud, confrontational, aggressive record with lots of screaming.
Shield the children's ears.
Interloper
CD
$9.00
Harpoon
Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Interloper
LP
$11.50
Here We Go Magic
Here We Go Magic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Developed over a two-month period of stream-of-consciousness
recording in Greenpoint, Brooklyn Luke Temple's self-titled debut
under his new moniker Here We Go Magic is a remarkable departure from
his signature singer-songwriter material. Luke recorded the album
at home using analog synths, a cassette 4-track, and his trusty SM-57
mic, coloring the sound with warmth and creating textures you want
to wrap yourself in. The album opens with the trance-inducing polyrhythms
and gorgeous multi-layered vocals of "Only Pieces. " What
follows is an album oozing with sounds maternal and subconscious...like
floating in amniotic fluid, ripe, hiccup-y and desperate to emerge.
Many of the songs pulse with infectious afro-beat and kraut-rock influenced
grooves, calling to mind classic albums like Remain in the Light and
Graceland. In contrast, the instrumental tracks conjure mystical introspective
landscapes reminiscent of Popol Vuh's unforgettable ambience. Despite
the album's murky aquatic underpinnings it's hard to resist shakin
what you got to ebullient blissed-out tracks like "Fangala"
and "Tunnelvision." The album closes with "Everything's
Big", a bleak commentary on weakness and fear birthed of opulence
and gluttony. Luke's fragile tenor delivers this absurd carnival waltz
with the fervor and abandon of a teetotaler under the influence, never
breaking the spell of the album's mood of rejuvenation and release.
WesternVinyl-57
CD
$11.50
Hitchcock, Robyn
Goodnight Oslo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
YepRoc
LP
$16.50
Hitchcock, Robyn
Goodnight Oslo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Stabbing horns from compatriot TERRY EDWARDS swim alongside
gorgeous harmonies throughout this 10-track snapshot of his version
of pop music in a perfect world. Features guest vocals from COLIN
MELOY, SEAN NELSON & MORRIS WINDSOR. An album of nearly unwavering
positivity.
YepRoc
CD
$14.50
Horntveth, Lars
Kaleidoscopic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, NORWAY Follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut album, Pooka,
by Jaga Jazzist leader. Kaleidoscopic consists of one 37 minute long
composition & was recorded with 41 members of the Latvian National
Orchestra (34 string players, 3 percussionists, clarinet, flute, bass
trombone & one harp), with Lars Horntveth himself playing piano,
horns & clarinets. Lars' dogma in creating this album was to write
the music chronologically into an open, endless score, similar to
a diary. Intending for the music to flow from idea to idea, Lars wanted
the score to grow 7 develop along with his state of mind. The album
is a journey in sound, its form fitting somewhere between Steve Reich's
Music For 18 Musicians & KLF's Chill Out. It is a musical experience
from start to finish, an auditory trip into very different rooms &
moods, with great contrast & surprises from one musical genre
to the next.
SmalltownSupersound-097
CD
$15.25
Houghton, Beth Jeans
"Golden" b/w "Night Swimmer" (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
MARCH 3RD)
PS, UK In the past year, 18-year-old Newcastle based singer/songwriter
Beth Jeans Houghton has garnered a reputation as an antidote to the
current crop of acoustic songstresses. With her alternative blend
of experimental folk, Beth has been hailed by the NME as "a Joni
Mitchell for the anti-folk generation". With influences ranging
from Frank Zappa, Vashti Bunyan, Fourtet and Love, Beth has cultivated
a sound that is truly her own. Since her first performance in August
06 Beth has played alongside a diverse collection of artists such
as Bon Iver, Adem, Imogen Heap, Fionn Regan, Jeffrey Lewis, Scott
Matthews, Bowerbirds, Josephine Foster, Woodpigeon, White Magic, King
Creosote, Alasdair Roberts, PG Six, Dead Meadow, Voice of the Seven
Woods, Tom Brosseau, St Vincent, Euros Childs, Diane Cluck, Jack Savoretti
and Stephen Fretwell amongst others. At last years Greenman Festival
Devendra Banhart invited Beth to play one of her songs during his
set on the main stage to an 8000 strong crowd describing her as, 'very
lovely, a musical magician'. Beth's limited edition self-titled Debut
EP is out now on Finders Keepers/Bird records, with another single
due out on Static Caravan early '09 to be produced by Adem. Beth is
currently writing/recording, and is gigging regularly throughout the
UK Edition of 500 on 7" vinyl with 'give us a break' quiz card
insert.
StaticCaravan-180
45
$6.75
Hussy's, The
Super Pro+ (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, JAPAN Do the departed listen to their T-Rex records in heaven?
One of many questions posed on the second album by Glasgow's The Hussy's.
A superabundance of hooks explains the handful of commercial licensing's
already under The Hussy's belt (from Payless Shoes to MTV's The Hills
and Paris Hilton's BFF), but for the rest of us, there's ALSO a solid
dose of lyrical wit and humor. The punchy quintet features the sly
yet substantial vocals of a lass called Fili and lead guitar of James
McColl (ex-Supernaturals), while lyrical coverage takes in the semi-square,
mods, roller discos, nuclear plant workers turned Russian beauty pageant
contestants, and cross dressing nuns. This Japanese version of the
album features "Rock Steady," "Jesus," and "Sister
Mary Jo" as bonus tracks. Sorry folks, but 2007's "We Expected"
mini-album is already sold out. Highly recommended.
QuinceRecords-066
CD
$13.50
Kebnekajse
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 31ST)
PS, SWEDEN Their sound can be heard echoing in most Swedish psych/prog
bands, & of course in Dungen, whose lead guitarist worked on the
recording & production of this album. Known as the highest band
in the land, they were pioneers w/ their instrumentals of electrified
Swedish folk/fiddler music w/ psychedelic overtones.
SubliminalSounds
CD
$16.25
Keene, Tommy
In the Late Bright (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US A wide range of songs from the rollicking opener "Late
Bright," to his first recorded instrumental "Elevated"
& the wistful "Save This Harmony"
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50
Keene, Tommy
Painkiller (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Vast & immediate, lyrically intoxicating, musically loose
& rocking or spacious & trippy. It swings from delicate psychedelic
pop songs to radiotronic space rock monsters. A must listen for all
Church or Kilbey fans.
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50
Kerretta
Antient (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
US, AUSTRALIA For those who have seen their blistering live show,
Kerretta will no doubt be high on the "to see" gig agenda.
Those yet to experience the propulsive, driving rock of this instrumental
three-piece have a chance to see them push the envelope of tone &
dynamics with their sometimes ambient & occasionally earsplittingly
heavy brand of molten-core, Antient will appeal to fans of Isis, Sigur
Ros & Bailterspace, but discerning listeners will know the trio
peddle a uniquely atmospheric take on angular rock. The Antient 12"
contains 4 new songs at a classy 28 minutes, exclusive to the 12"
on tasty coloured grey & with free download codes!
Midium
LP
$13.50
Kilbey, Steve
Painkiller (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Vast & immediate, lyrically intoxicating, musically loose
& rocking or spacious & trippy. It swings from delicate psychedelic
pop songs to radiotronic space rock monsters. A must listen for all
Church or Kilbey fans.
SecondMotion
CD
$14.50
Land of Kush
Against the Day (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US A complex, intense but accessible hour of hybrid, genre-defying
music. The marriage of middle-eastern, North African & western
modes & influences that evades categorization from one of Montreal's
most challenging & prolific musical iconoclasts, SAM SHALABI.
Inspired & named after the Thomas Pychon novel, the music is broken
into five sections, named for the book's chapters.
Constellation
CD
$16.25
Last Days
The Safety Of The North (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US Graham Richardson's Last Days project returns with it's latest
full-length The Safety of the North. Richardson has fully embraced
his cinematic tendencies, expanding his creative palette to include
spoken excerpts, a vocal collaboration with Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar
Trees, and a "script-based" compositional approach. Drawing
on a theme first explored in Sea's "Arrival at Jan Mayen"
(in which its sailor is first excited by the prospect of a distant
island home, then disappointed by its barren terrain), The Safety
of the North tells the story of Alice, her parents and their relocation
to a remote northern land. Disappointed with the trappings of the
city, they wish for a simpler, more rewarding way of life. Their arrival
promises clean air, miles of snow-covered fields surrounded by forests
and mountains but above all, safety and a protected existence. As
dark as it is light, the Safety Of The North explores relationships,
loss, recovery and how hope is the only certainty in life.. With a
strict script in mind, Richardson divided the album into 15 "scenes,"
scoring each with a new focus on the emotional states of his characters
and the settings they inhabit. Using the same tools he employs on
his previous albums (i.e. field recordings, song titles, and album
art), along with snippets of dialogue, monologue and more diverse
instrumentation, Richardson guides the listener through Alice's initial
departure, hopeful beginnings and eventual tragedy in what may be
Last Days most melodic work to date.
n5MD-166
CD
$12.00
Lothar
Montgolfier (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, JAPAN Snappy Swedish pop gets an uncharacteristic shoegaze treatment
on the debut album by Lothar, a Stockholm 7-piece (4 guitars!) whose
sound was purportedly changed when the members set up their rehearsal
space next to a whirring, ticking, and buzzing power station on the
outskirts of the city. "...[V]ery very good stuff recalling Blonde
Redhead, Stereolab, Pia Fraus and the straightforward end of Deerhoof.
The guitars are set to 'noisy', the songs are very catchy and very
energetic and the singer is a lady. I'd heartily recommend this to
those folks who are rather fond of early Lush records." - Clinton
@ Norman Records
Quince-65
CD
$13.50
Lovetones, The
Dimensions (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 27TH)
PS, US "glorious psychedelic-pop wave... A trip from start to
finish" - Rolling Stone. The Lovetones released their debut album,
Be What You Want in 2002 through Bomp! Records creating a palpable
buzz among critics from the likes of Creem and Rolling Stone magazine.
The latter hailed mainman Matthew J Tow's songwriting worthy of Ray
Davies, Bowie, Lennon and McCartney: a bold statement, yet in his
case, completely justified. After enjoying the critical success of
Be What You Want, touring Australia extensively and even supporting
Morrissey during his first ever solo Australian tour, Tow joined The
Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2003 and contributed two brilliant tracks
to their sonic mastery, ...And This Is Our Music. Tow's opening track
Starcleaner later also appeared on the The BJM retrospective Tepid
Peppermint Wonderland. In the same year, UK based Fire Records invited
The Lovetones to contribute to the James Joyce Chamber Music project
alongside Mercury Rev, Sonic Youth and REM's Peter Buck. 2004 saw
the release of the Stars EP, coinciding with The Lovetones supporting
The Brian Jonestown Massacre on their infamous and now legendary tour
of Australia. The second album Meditations was released through New
York's Tee Pee Records in late 2005, revealing a stunning development
in Tow's songwriting and providing a soundscape of radiant pop, ethereal
psychedelia and truly remarkable vocal melodies that arched for the
stars. Soulful and sincere, Meditations nodded gently and respectfully
to the pop masters of the sixties whilst never lacking in original
vision. Returning from triumphant shows in the US in late 2005 and
also at SXSW 2006, The Lovetones toured to support Meditations' Australian
release in May 2006. June 2006 saw The Lovetones complete a crazed
European tour across 12 countries with The Brian Jonestown Massacre
in support of Meditations' release there through Tee Pee/Cargo Records,
culminating in a rave album review in respected UK magazine Uncut.
The Lovetones also managed to record their third album Axiom during
2006 with fervent sessions split between Figment Studios in Hollywood
and the Sydney Opera House Recording Studio. More extensive touring
in the US and Australia followed. Set for a November 2008 release
in Australia, Dimensions is The Lovetones' fourth studio album and
the latest chapter in the indie psychedelic pop legacy of frontman
Matthew Tow, who remains one of Australia's most underrated songwriters.
The album was recorded in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, mixed
in Los Angeles by Rob Campanella (Brian Jonestown Massacre/Quarter
After/Black Angels) and mastered by William Bowden (one of Australia's
finest mastering engineers). The Lovetones will be touring Australia
in November/December before heading back to the US to support the
album's North American release via Planting Seeds Records in early
2009.
PlantingSeeds-060
CD
$12.25
Low Frequency In Stereo, The
Futuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, NORWAY VINYL VERSION.
RuneGrammofon
LP
$17.75
Low Frequency In Stereo, The
Futuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, NORWAY This is the fourth full-length release from The Low Frequency
In Stereo. Founded in 2001 in Haugesund on the west coast of Norway,
they have been called the band with one foot in Pompeii and one in
space. With their first three albums released from 2002 to 2006, they
have developed from an instrumental lo-fi-post-rock band that Pitchfork
dubbed "psych-garage dronemeisters" to a full-blown, focused
and fresh-sounding rock ensemble with great songs and a mix of dark
atmospheres and catchy choruses. From the Eastern-tinged pop flirt
of "Starstruck" to the near 10-minute cosmic groove-trip
that is "Solar System," the new album from this excellent
group finds them in top form and taking a big leap from their previous,
Norwegian Grammy-nominated album. A sharper and more focused effort
without a weak track in sight, Futuro is both industrial and rough
as well as polished and streamlined. There are nods to fellow Norwegians
120 Days as well as Stereolab, Can, Joy Division and even The B-52's,
but first of all, this is a group that have perfected their own sound
from album to album and through periods of extensive touring, working
up some well-deserved hype in the process. Per Steinar Lie (bass,
organ, voice, guitars), Ørjan Haaland (drums, percussion, organ,
voice) and Hanne Andersen (organ, percussion, trumpet, voice, guitars)
are founding members, while Njål Clementsen (guitars, organ,
piano, voice) and Linn Frøkedal (organ, voice) both joined
ranks before the recording of Futuro. Clementsen and Frøkedal
are also members of up-and-coming group Megaphonic Thrift. Guest musicians
include Rune Grammofon-affiliates Nils Økland and Kjetil Møster
(Ultralyd) and the album is produced by wonderboy Jørgen Træen,
who has also worked with Jaga Jazzist, Kaizers Orchestra, The National
Bank, and Sondre Lerche.
RuneGrammofon
CD
$16.25
M. Ward
End of Amnesia (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 3RD)
PS, US Available for the first time on vinyl! Creating gigantic compositions
w/ little more than a guitar & sparse instrumentation, Ward was
thrust onto the fertile singer/songwriter scen w/ this release. His
music features deft, poised guitar playing, vivid lyrical imagery,
& melodies that burrow into your brain - as if they'd been there
all along.
FutureFarmer
DLP
$17.50
M. Ward
Hold Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Well I think we can safely say that since M. Ward & Zooey
Deschanel's breakout album of last year, She & Him Vol. 1, Matt
Ward is now pretty much a household (read: Starbucks' and soccer moms')
name. This dude is EVERYWHERE. His records continue to grow in sales
and it was just announced he will be playing Coachella this year.
Merge
CD
$13.25
M. Ward
Hold Time (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$16.50
Machine Fabriek & Stephen Vitiello
Box Music (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Rutger and Stephen sort of accidentally met through e-mail.
A simple note regarding an ordering question for a CD led to an enthusiastic
e-mail conversation and climaxed in a musical collaboration. This
all happened in a very short period, both musicians being very inspired
by the concept of "exchange," as a means to cross space
and time -- Rutger living in the Netherlands and Stephen in Virginia.
Most of the time, when (electronic) musicians work together it's a
matter of swapping digital files. In this case they decided to do
something different and sent each other a box full of (mostly non-musical,
or musically non-functional) objects and recordings, with the "assignment"
to make music with those objects and all as source materials. As the
titles tell, we're talking about an egg cutter, thumb piano, a broken
kraakle box, rice, chocolate sprinkles, old cassette tapes, a broken
7" record, etcetera, etcetera. Both musicians made two of their
own solo tracks with the box they received, and the last track was
done together by Rutger adding sounds and processing to a piece started
by Stephen. For Rutger/ Machinefabriek this is part of his most delicate
work. For Stephen, it was a new and extremely enjoyable form of long-distance
collaboration. Machinefabriek: Rutger Zuydervelt, better known as
Machinefabriek, lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Started as Machinefabriek
in 2004, he released 40+ small run home-made cdr's as well as work
for Type Records, Lampse, Digitalis, Staalplaat (Mort Aux Vaches)
and now 12K. A double remix cd was released in 2007, with interpetations
by Alva Noto, Pita, Mitchell Akiyama, Xela, Gert-Jan Prins and many
more. Collaborations (live or recording) include Steinbrüchel,
Jasper TX, Wouter van Veldhoven, Simon Nabatov, Frans de Waard, Aaron
Martin and Peter Broderick. Stephen Vitiello: Stephen Vitiello is
a sound and media artist based in Richmond, VA. CD releases include
Bright and Dusty Things (New Albion), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub
Rosa) and Untitled/Exchange, a collaborative CD with Michael J. Schumacher
(A Question of Re-Entry). Solo exhibitions of Vitiello's sound installations,
photographs and drawings have been presented at The Project, NY, Museum
52, London, the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX and Diapason, NYC. Group
exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2006 Biennial
of Sydney. Over the last 18 years, Stephen has collaborated with numerous
musicians and artists including Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew
Deutsch, Julie Mehretu and Tony Oursler.
12K-1048
CD
$12.25
Marching Dynamics
The Workers Party of Haiti (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, GERMANY It was worth waiting more than a year for the second aural
manifestation of S. Talada's darker self. M.D.'s unique mix of intelligent
dance music, dark experimental sound layers and technoid beat'n'bass
patterns enthused a large audience worldwide on the previous Nailsleeper
release. Now it's the time for the workers party of Haiti to take
over... Music as diverse as moody atmospheric dark ambient tunes,
slow hop-beat-driven sub-bass monsters and fast dance tracks built
upon hard hitting breaks. This album displays Talada's ability to
merge all these styles into one instead of simply stringing them together.
Crisp percussion blasts meet sound-trackish synth lines while aggravating
your somatic responses - distortion from Detroit meets with Los(t)
Angeles industrial gloom - dark complexity amalgamates with rhythmic
intensity... "'The Workers Party Of Haiti' was my own exorcism
from the demon that surrounded me and that was haunting me."
(S. Talada) - join the exorcism!
Hymen-773
CD
$16.25
Mathieu, Stephan
The Key to the Kingdom (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, GERMANY Limited/numbered 400. "The Key to the Kingdom"
is Stephan Mathieu's tribute to the great gospel preacher Washington
Phillips and the world of raw, early gospel on 78rpm platters. The
2-part suite, presented in the classic 10" vinyl format that
comes in an authentic, individually stamped and numbered 78rpm archive
sleeve, has been performed on a historic Phonoharp No.2 zither from
the 1890s utilizing five E-Bows and entropic and convolution processes.
"The Key to the Kingdom" is a spin-off of Mathieu's "Virginals"
project, a solo recital of contemporary classics performed on historic
instruments. Stephan Mathieu is a musician and sound artist based
in Saarbrücken, Germany. Duri ng the last decade his music has
been released on 16 critical acclaimed CDs, both solo and in collaboration
with Douglas Benford, Ekkehard Ehlers, John Hudak, Janek Schaefer
and Akira Rabelais on some of the finest electronic music labels worldwide
(Die Schachtel, Häpna, Ritornell, Lucky Kitchen, HeadzŠ).
His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound
and obsolete media which are recorded and transformed by means of
experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes
involving spectral analysis and convolution and has been compared
to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and the work
of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.
Stephan is a collector of 78rpm records from the 1910s and 20s, the
era of acoustic and early electronic audio recording. His most recent
album "Radioland" made it into "Best of 2008"
lists in The Wire, Dusted, Boomkat, Milkfactory and many others.
Dekorder-028
10
$11.25
Matthew & Arrogant Sea
Family Family Family Meets The Magic Christian (LP/CD) (PRE-ORDER:
SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Dreamy omnichord pop filled w/ hints of folk psychedelia. This
evokes the experimental natures of the Flaming Lips & Animal Collective
perched upon harmonies reminiscent of the Beach Boys & The Mamas
& The Papas. W/free CD insert.
Junketboy
LP
$19.00
McGill, Cameron & What Army
Warm Songs for Cold Shoulders (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH
2009)
PS, US warm songs for cold shoulders is the kind of record we hoped
Cameron McGill would make for his Parasol debut; songs stripped down
and stories laid bare. The songs show a similar vulnerability evident
in many of McGill's recordings, though here he returns to the thoughtful
folk musings he has made his signature. There is always enough pop
to make the songs memorable, but this album deals a weightier hand
than his last, the self-released Hold On Beauty (also highly recommended).
Cameron is aided & abetted by vocalist Kathleen Bracken (Those
Transatlantics) on a handful of duets and backed by What Army, comprised
of Noah Harris (Elanors), Daniel McMahon (Wandering Sons), Rodrigo
Palma (Judah Johnson) and Darren Garvey (Andreas Kapsalis Trio).
Parasol-CD-110
CD
$9.00
McPhee, Joe/Nilssen-Love, Paal
Tomorrow Came Today (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, NORWAY Recorded in Olso's Grandsport Studio, an analog studio
that perfectly captures the atmosphere & warmth of these improvisations.
Free jazz legend Joe McPhee spent one day with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love
in studio improvising direct to tape. The music is spontaneous, raw
& groovy, but at the same time mellow, melodic & beautiful.
SmalltownSuperjazz-148
CD
$15.25
Mi Ami
Watersports (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US The second newest addition to our roster! San Francisco noise
rhythm trio, Mi Ami, features two former members of Dischord cult
band Black Eyes. The DC natives have graduated from the angular post
h/c steeze into organic, hyper-percussive, post Arthur Russell territory.
They have been featured in the Fader and last month's 12" was
just reviewed in the New York Times yesterday. This is their first
full length. They are on tour constantly and their live show (which
frequently evolves into a full on post-Burning Man tribal drum circle)
will blow your mind.
Quarterstick
CD
$12.00
Mi Ami
Watersports (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Quarterstick
LP
$13.25
Miller, Niela
Songs Of Leaving (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Culled from a warped acetate cut in 1962, this is the complete
songbook of NYC folkie Miller. Claim to fame: she wrote "Baby
Don't Go To Town," a song that boyfriend Billy Roberts would
steal and "rewrite" as "Hey Joe." Inaugural release
on Numero Group's new LP-only imprint. Impeccably designed, housed
in thick jackets, & pressed on durable 150g vinyl, you'll know
a Numerophon album when you see it, the same way you knew Folkways
after that 1st thrift store find.
Numerophon
LP
$15.00
Minus The Bear
Acoustics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Originally released as a tour only cd, this album contains
seven exclusive tracks of MTB doing acoustic (in case the title didn't
give it away) versions of some of their classic material. Contains
two Menos El Oso tracks (S047), three Planet of Ice tracks (S065),
a track off Highly Refined Pirates (S021) and one BRAND NEW SONG.
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$10.75
Monks, The
Black Monk Time [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: APRIL 14TH)
PS, US Rerelease of The Monks' notorious 1966 album, their one and
only, lavishly packaged, lovingly remastered. The Monks were American
G.I.s based in Germany who created batshit-primal garage-punk and
dressed accordingly. Details, release date and price TBC.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$15.25
Monks, The
The Early Years 1964-1965 (PRE-ORDER: APRIL 14TH)
PS, US Collection of The Monks' singles anmd extraneous genius, lavishly
packaged, lovingly remastered. The Monks were American G.I.s based
in Germany who created batshit-primal garage-punk and dressed accordingly.
Details, release date and price TBC.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$15.25
Monks, The
Black Monk Time (PRE-ORDER: APRIL 14TH)
PS, US Limited Edition Vinyl LP features 180 gram wax, gatefold hand-numbered
old school tip-on jacket, lyrics, and notes. Today, "garage,"
"psych," and "punk" are three overused words to
say the least. They're dropped from every direction to brand, market,
and sell, but looking back to the mid-1960s, there was only one group
of musical mavericks that clearly defined them. The Monks were five
beat playing American GIs stationed in Germany who, after their discharge,
decided to stay and continue their musical mission. Meeting up with
a team of local managers, they transformed themselves and their sound
into a holy racket like the world had never known. This five-person
order literally birthed the above genres through a fuzz-drenched evolution
of sound, bursting with social commentary and future primitive rhythms.
Krautrock? It started here. Do we hear non-believers? We are NOT making
this up. If you aren't already converted, it won't take long... Light
In The Attic is ecstatic to present the Monks recorded legacy through
two lavishly packaged and lovingly researched reissues (available
on CD, LP, and digital download): The Early Years 1964-1965 as well
as their landmark studio album Black Monk Time. Numerous period photographs
(many unseen) and an extensive two-part essay by Canadian music journalist
Kevin Howes (Jamaica-Toronto series) accompany both releases and tell
the Monks story like it has never been told. Bonus material dating
back to pre-Monks Torquays and up to post Black Monk Time 7"s
are also included. From "Shut Up" to "Boys Are Boys",
"Complication" to "Cuckoo," worlds will collide
before you very eyes. Press play, drop the needle, zone in, and see
for yourself. And while there's no need to shave your head, you'll
certainly flip your wig. Come on everybody, its Monk Time! TRACKS:
1. Monk Time 2. Shut Up 3. Boys Are Boys And Girls Are Choice 4. Higgle-Dy
- Piggle-Dy 5. I Hate You 6. Oh, How To Do Now 7. Complication 8.
We Do Wie Du 9. Drunken Maria 10. Love Came Tumblin' Down 11. Blast
Off! 12. That's My Girl Bonus Tracks: 13. I Can't Get Over You 14.
Cuckoo 15. Love Can Tame The Wild 16. He Went Down To The Sea 17.
Pretty Suzanne 18. Monk Chant (Live)
LightInTheAttic-042
LP
$21.75
Monks, The
The Early Years 1964-1965 (PRE-ORDER: APRIL 14TH)
PS, US * Limited Edition Vinyl LP features 180 gram wax, gatefold
hand-numbered old school tip-on jacket, lyrics, and notes. Tracklist
- 1. Monk Time 2. We Do Wie Du 3. Boys Are Boys 4. Pretty Suzanne
5. Higgle-dy Piggle-dy 6. Hushie Pushie 7. Love Came Tumblin' Down
8. Oh, How To Do Now 9. Space Age 10. I Hate You Bonus Tracks: 11.
Boys Are Boys 12. There She Walks
LightInTheAttic
LP
$21.75
Morrissey
Years of Refusal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
LostHighway
LP
$10.75
Morrissey
Years of Refusal [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US Deluxe version of new CD comes w/ a bonus DVD of videos, live
performances and an interview w/ Russell Brand.
LostHighway
CD/DVD
$19.00
Morrissey
Years of Refusal (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US PITCHFORK: "Morrissey and his Tormentors continue their
21st century winning streak with a record that, while offering no
new twists or surprises, finds the former Smiths co-leader in strong
voice-- both as a singer and songwriter."
LostHighway
CD
$15.00
Mountains
Choral (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US BRANDON ANDEREGG & KOEN HOLTKAMP seamlessly blend pastoral
electronic sounds with both field recordings & a plethora of acoustic
instruments. The resulting soundscapes are broad in scope & rich
in detail, often compared to artists such as Brian Eno & Fennesz.
CD version is
presented in a 4-panel mini-LP style jacket.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00
Mountains
Choral (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION, limited to 1000 worldwide, includes 2 vinyl-exlcusive
tracks and a download coupon.
ThrillJockey
DLP
$14.50
Mummies
Play Thier Own Records (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US After long years in remission, this release is back in circulation.
By the turn of 1990, The Mummies were fed up with the records of their
time. Not content to take things lying down, these cut-rate visionaries
put out a bunch of their own. So pleased were they with those 45s,
that they recorded a mix tape. In 1992, they convinced Estrus Records
to release it as the standard long player, "The Mummies: Play
Their Own Records," which sold out sometime in 2005. Relive those
lazy, hazy, crazy days of the twilight years of the last century with
this LP.
Estrus
LP
$12.00
My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anthing [2009 remaster] (DELAYED. PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH
2009)
PS, UK New, 2009 re-issue in a digipak, digitally remastered by Kevn
Shields.
SonyBMG
CD
$21.75
My Bloody Valentine
Loveless [2009 expanded remaster] (DELAYED. PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH
2009)
PS, UK New, expanded, digipak version of MBV's otherworldly 1991 shoegaze
classic, digitally remastered by MBV honcho Kevin Shields. Second
disc is reported to be a alternate and previously unreleased version
of Loveless remastered from original analog tapes.
Sony
DCD
$23.00
Nanda Devi
Fifth Season (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Members of ALTER OF EARTH & HELLAS MOUNDS. Drawing influences
from Neurosis, Khanate & Red Sparowes, this is one hell of an
evil record.
Cavity
CD
$10.75
Neva Dinova
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US Originally self-released in 2001, this self-titled full-length
debut is now re-issued with two bonus tracks. Their haunting, three-guitar
swirling debut was heralded as a "Top 10 Release of 2002"
by the LA Times. Following a split EP in 2004 with Bright Eyes ("One
Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels"), and a second album, "The Hate
Yourself Change" in 2005, the band released their third full-length,
"You May Already Be Dreaming" last year.
SaddleCreek
CD
$10.00
New Ruins
We Make Our Own Bad Luck (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 17TH)
PS, US We Make Our Own Bad Luck is the new album from Illinois rock
act New Ruins, the follow-up to their first release, The Sound They
Make, from 2007. Droning acoustic/electric rock haunted by rural spectres,
songs rendered in sepia-tone, but updated with DIY studio machinations.
Since their debut the original duo of songwriters J. Caleb Means and
Elzie Sexton has expanded into a quintet, featuring bassist/multi-instrumentalist
Paul Chastain (Velvet Crush, Matthew Sweet), drummer Roy Ewing (Braid,
Very Secretary), and Andrew Davidson (Tractor Kings, Chemicals) on
bass and auxiliary percussion. New Ruins is a band as comfortable
in a stage-shaking three-guitar line-up as it is in a more intimate
stripped-down acoustic setting. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Dark-hued pop
music that strikes a balance between melody-driven pleasure and guitar-fueled
malaise."
AHiddenAgendaRecord-092
CD
$9.00
New Ruins
We Make Our Own Bad Luck (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Limited to 500, pressed on brick red wax.
CD available in March.
AHiddenAgendaRecord-092
LP
$10.00
Ocean
Pantheon Of The Lesser (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE NOVEMBER 11TH)
PS, US 2xLP to follow in about one month. Following their acclaimed
breakthrough debut album that caught the ears of critics and fans
worldwide, and became Important's highest selling album, Ocean has
returned with their forward thinking, brutally heavy and purely minimalist
sophomore album Pantheon Of The Lesser. Pantheon Of The Lesser was
composed over a period of two years in Ocean's home studio in Portland,
Maine. As the seasons passed each track was written, re-written, played
and then re-played as layers were slowly stripped away until the true
essence of the song was revealed. Once Ocean entered the studio it
took another two years to deconstruct Pantheon Of The Lesser until
they had found the essence of their writing. This disciplined deconstructionist
approach to songwriting is how Pantheon Of The Lesser is how Ocean
takes it to the next level of the abyss. The result of this compositional
technique is over an hour of strictly bare instrumentation and a kind
of natural heaviness that slowly rises and falls in a pure organic
fashion. Everything in it's own time. Simply profound. Heavy like
Schoenberg. While Ocean continues to explore and expand upon their
"less is more" approach of profound musical minimalism and
sheer heaviness, Pantheon Of The Lesser is a bit more musical than
its predecessor. The Beacon, the opening track on Pantheon Of The
Lesser, was played as Ocean's complete set on a recent US tour and
on dates with Mono and Boris. Clocking in at 41 minutes on record
and over an hour live; The Beacon evolves in 3 distinct movements
with fleeting moments of hypnotic melody and earth shaking heavy dirges
creating an all-encompassing tone of pure misanthropy. The second
and final track on Pantheon Of The Lesser, titled Of The Lesser, carries
a similar theme of misery. Written as an ode to distraction, chemical
and otherwise, it is Ocean at their most personal: a pure sonic stream
of consciousness in slow motion. Packaged in a deluxe foil printed
heavy-duty cardboard jacket with art by renowned Maine illustrator
Bruce Hutchison. The vinyl version is packaged in double 200 gram
vinyl, packaged in deluxe letter pressed covers and limted to 500
copies.
Important-219
CD
$13.00
Odawas
The Blue Depths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US At first glimpse of the album art - details from Helen Maurene
Cooper's Birds Of Appetite series - it becomes apparent that a certain
surreal quality will mark the contents within The Blue Depths. A sense
of longing and desire is buried within the dizzying layers. Odawas
heighten the more subtle components of previous efforts, unashamedly
giving into their love of Vangelis' romanticism, Eric Serra's dusky
mysticism, and the sweeping, Southwestern strings of Jack Nitzsche.
They demonstrate their mastery of nudging to the edge of the over
the top with enchanting results. The Blue Depths is an album for warmer
places, a balmy haze habitat for headphone meanderings. This is a
dream world where Neil Young and Jimmy Webb float in the reverb saturated
summer breeze. The solemn harmonies of "Moonlight/Twilight"
drift between sheets of stirring bowed bass murmur as shimmering guitar
notes ebb and flow underneath. Bursts of yearning harmonica arc over
ethereal soundscapes in "The Case Of The Great Irish Elk."
The jubilant piano of "Harmless Lover's Discourse" gives
way to the most startling pop moment of the album, a soaring bed of
synth propelled by a driving bass line and vibrant rhythms. Pulses
of light extend towards the murky crevasse of the subconscious: these
depths never looked so enticing. - Joel Beeman
Jagjaguwar-138
LP
$11.50
Odawas
The Blue Depths (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US At first glimpse of the album art - details from Helen Maurene
Cooper's Birds Of Appetite series - it becomes apparent that a certain
surreal quality will mark the contents within The Blue Depths. A sense
of longing and desire is buried within the dizzying layers. Odawas
heighten the more subtle components of previous efforts, unashamedly
giving into their love of Vangelis' romanticism, Eric Serra's dusky
mysticism, and the sweeping, Southwestern strings of Jack Nitzsche.
They demonstrate their mastery of nudging to the edge of the over
the top with enchanting results. The Blue Depths is an album for warmer
places, a balmy haze habitat for headphone meanderings. This is a
dream world where Neil Young and Jimmy Webb float in the reverb saturated
summer breeze. The solemn harmonies of "Moonlight/Twilight"
drift between sheets of stirring bowed bass murmur as shimmering guitar
notes ebb and flow underneath. Bursts of yearning harmonica arc over
ethereal soundscapes in "The Case Of The Great Irish Elk."
The jubilant piano of "Harmless Lover's Discourse" gives
way to the most startling pop moment of the album, a soaring bed of
synth propelled by a driving bass line and vibrant rhythms. Pulses
of light extend towards the murky crevasse of the subconscious: these
depths never looked so enticing. - Joel Beeman
Jagjaguwar-138
CD
$11.50
Old Canes
Early Morning Hymns (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US NOW ON VINYL! APPLESEED CAST frontman, Chris Crisci, departs
from space rock & moody atmospherics fro a multi-instrumental
fuzz-folk experience featuring the talents of Jordan Geiger (MINUS
STORY) & Nathan Richardson (CASKET LOTTERY). Layers of home-recorded
toy pianos, glockenspiels, children's xylophones, trumpets, &
cellos combine w/ the traditional folk-rock instrumentation of acoustic
guitars, banjos, & harmonica to form an eerie mix of Daniel Johnston,
Van Dyke Parks, & Marc Olsen.
SecondNature
LP
$17.50
Our Love Will Destroy The World
Stillborn Plague Angels (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, GERMANY The gates of Birchville Cat Motel crack, creak wide, and
crash, unleashing a gush of soul-fried bleakness and love-damage stained
with a defiantly metallic pose. Thats 'METALLIC... as in, has the
surface qualities of metal' not 'METAL... as in, has the surface qualities
of Metallica'...step back you freaks. Although the broken bricks of
BCM are still plain to see amid the burning wreck and ruin, 'Stillborn
Plague Angels' represents the first fully formed sentence in a new
chapter of Campbell Kneale's ongoing tome of star-spangled, psychedelic,
noise-OM. Cholesterol shaving guitar peeks over the trench to survey
an adrenalized landscape of endless roaring catastrophe... Everything
louder than everything else! Our Love Will Destroy The World is the
new one-man project by New Zealander Campbell Kneale after disbanding
BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL. In the past Kneale has released albums on Ecstatic
Peace, Corpus Hermeticum, Last Visible Dog, Conspiracy and his own
Celebrate Psi Phenomena label. He has collaborated with Lee Ranaldo,
Neil Campbell, Bruce Russel, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Yellow Swans,
has toured throughout Japan, Europe, America and Australia and also
records und the names Black Boned Angel and Ming. "Stillborn
Plague Angels" is the debut LP by this new project.
Dekorder-030
LP
$13.50
Outrageous Cherry
Universal Malcontents (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US This new set of pop songs once again showcases the band's distinctive
mid-seventies sensibilities. The album is evocative of artists such
as early Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, Sparks, 10cc & Eno, &
meanders at times into the improvisation realms charted by Amon Duul
2, Man, & early Soft Machine. They have reached well-deserved
cult status by releasing amazing psych/pop albums on labels such as
Bar None, Mind Expansion, & Alan McGee's Poptones.
Alive
CD
$13.50
Owen/Joan of Arc/Make Believe/The Love Of Everything
The Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers (2X7) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE
FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Repress. The Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers signifies
the collaborative efforts of a group of Chicago musicians whose involvement
with one another has spawned a host of influential bands, each connected
to the other. Includes new songs from • Joan of arc, owen, make
Believe, and the love of Everything as well as one surprise bonus
track. Second pressing, on colored vinyl (purple and green) for the
first time ever. • Double 7" with gatefold cover. •
Includes digital download of all the songs.
Polyvinyl-090
45
$7.25
Pan American
White Bird Release (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, US The sixth album from Mark Nelson's longtime solo project following
Quiet City. "...a mix of warmth & foreboding expansiveness,
neither of which is minimal nor overdone" -Dusted (about Quiet
City).
Kranky-128
LP
$13.00
Pan American
White Bird Release (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, US The sixth album from Mark Nelson's longtime solo project following
Quiet City. "...a mix of warmth & foreboding expansiveness,
neither of which is minimal nor overdone" -Dusted (about Quiet
City).
Kranky-28
CD
$13.50
Paramount Styles
Failure American Style (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 7TH)
PS, US This is the 1st solo outing from Scott McCloud (GIRLS AGAINST
BOYS). Feat. Richard Fortus (PSYCHEDELIC FURS/GUNS N' ROSES), Alexis
Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), & Angela McClusky. The sound of
dark forces gathering in a radiant club, at times intimate & at
others soaring, slow burns bend & swerve into panoramic lush walls
of sound.
Konkurrent
CD
$13.25
Parker, Evan / Jaker Flaten, Ingebrigt
Brewery Tap (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 24TH)
PS, NORWAY Brewery Tap is the duo of free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker
& Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten. The recordings on
this disc were recorded live at Oslo Jazz Festival the 13th of August
2007 at the Belleville venue.
SmalltownSuperjazz-160
CD
$15.25
Peter Bjorn And John
Living Thing (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 31ST)
PS, US New album, details and price TBC.
AlmostGold/StarTime
CD
$13.75
Point Juncture, WA
Heart To Elk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Mt.Fuji
LP
$16.75
Point Juncture, WA
Heart To Elk (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US The group keep their focus towards modern classics like Yo
La Tengo's "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One" & the
Jogges "Solid Guild" while creating something that sounds
fresh & entirely exciting.
Mt.Fuji
CD
$12.75
Rabid Rabbit
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US Vinyl with free download code! What began as a two piece instrument
of terror between Mike Tsoulos & Andrea Jablonski
quickly grew & the buzz saw guitar antics of Gregg Prickett were
enlisted. Arman Mabry joined the ranks shortly after on second bass
& Rabid Rabbit was spawned. Giving nods to such influences as
Sea of Tombs, Earth, Jucifer & Harvey Milk, the band weaves arrangements
of doom, rock, jazz & always the heavy low end groan of dual bass.
Interloper
LP
$12.50
Reichmann, Josh Oracle Band
Crazy Power (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE MARCH 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED edition LP returns to music w/ an entirely new lineup
of collaborators, now gathering from a pool of soul, early-funk, roots
and dark punk influences. Stevie Wonder meets the Stooges.
PaperBag
LP
$17.00
Romance of Young Tigers
Marie (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US The group guide us through an all-consuming, inherently powerful
two-part symphony of glacial-paced chord shifts, electromagnetic static,
rumbling surface reverberations & resonating warmth. At times,
the sound generated resembles that of an angelic choir, as the apparitional,
slow-motion melodic drones thaw, melting layer upon layer of sound
into pindrop silence & back again into monolithic walls of noise.
Fans of Machinebabriek take note.
MagicBullet
CD
$14.50
Romweber, Dex Duo
Ruins of Berlin (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 10TH)
PS, US This promises to be the greatest of Dex's post-FLAT DUO JETS
releases thus far, and an exemplary addition to his long and storied
career. Here, Dex is joined by his sister Sarah (formerly of LET'S
ACTIVE and SNATCHES OF PINK) in a true return-to-form from the man
who paved the way for mega-popular two-piece garage engines like Black
Keys and the White Stripes. Also included here are duets with such
luminaries as CAT POWER, NEKO CASE, and EXENE CERVENKA.
Bloodshot
CD
$12.75
Sand Pebbles
A Thousand Wild Flowers (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 17TH)
PS, US A "best of" compilation from the Australian psych-rock
outfit. Influences range from Stones to Spacemen 3 to Stooges to Alice
Coltrane, sometimes they sound like Sonic Youth, sometimes like the
Byrds
DoubleFeature
CD
$13.50
Schaeffer, Janek
Extended Play [Triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict]
(PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US LIMITED EDITION 600. LINE is proud to release the latest audio
work from British composer and installation artist Janek Schaefer
based on his installation of the same title. Installation Reviews:
"a piece to return to again and again... haunting and lulling"
[The Wire, UK] "so inspirational, and in many ways very spiritual"
[Gerry Turvey] "I was so deeply touched by your piece" [Mandeep
Kaur Samra] Red is the colour of Life, of Death, and of Love. Scarlett,
my first child, was born in 2005, and since then I have been very
aware of how lucky we all are. have bee
