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A Mountain of One
Collected Works
PS, UK London's pioneers of the new wave of psychedelic rock/Balearic/cosmic bands, A Mountain of One release their hotly-anticipated debut album. Evoking elements of Talk Talk, Santana, Air, Lindstrøm and Fleetwood Mac, this is one of the most eagerly-awaited albums of the year. People who've worked on these recordings include: Martina Topley-Bird of Gorrilaz/Tricky fame, Chilean classical opera vocalist Catherine Prado, Pablo Clements (Unkle/Psychonauts), Hugo Nicholson (Screamadelica) and many more.
MountainRecords
CD
$15.00

Abbasi Brothers, The
Something Like Nostalgia
PS, US Something Like Nostalgia is a film for your ears, a cinematic glimpse into the purity of everyday life. Written over 2 years time, these 15 scenes are like snapshots of daydreams, their soundscapes are their subtitles, and the origin is not so very foreign. Shoe-gaze, dream-pop instrumental.
Dynamophone-012
CD
$14.75

Accidental
There Were Wolves
PS, US Take the man behind The Memory Band & Trunk Records (Stephen Cracknell), the twisted songwriter from TUNNG main man (Sam Genders), one half of Fence Collective duo THE BICYCLE THIEVES (Hannah Caughlin) & singer-songwriter Liam Bailey. Put them in front of a PC & add occasional input from guests incl. harpist Serafina Steer & Rob, Jenny & Nancy from the Memory Band. The finished record is fittingly warm, personal & intimate, & less disguised in its folkiness than either Cracknell or Genders's main projects. W/in this, new influences have crept in, such as Liam's soul & reggae edge & Hannah's jazz-influenced vocals. The album also gave Cracknell a chance to experiment w/ vocal & instrumental loops & layers, inspired, in part, by Panda Bear & Animal Collective.
ThrillJockey
CD
$13.00

Accidental
There Were Wolves
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey
LP
$11.50

Adasiewicz, Jason
Rolldown
PS, US The 14th entry in 482 Music's ongoing Document Chicago series & the recorded debut from this Chicago-based vibraphonist/composer, joined by fellow scene stalwarts JOSH BERMAN, ARAM SHELTON, JASON ROEBKE & FRANK ROSALY. Many of the songs recall the brilliantly oblique postbob Bobby Hutcherson material, while others are based on gently rippling, coloristic passages.
482Music
CD
$11.75

All the Saints
Fire On Corridor X
PS, US Don't be fooled by the piss-stained mattress on the cover, the debut from this Alabama-raised Atlanta-based power trio is moderately clean for one of Atlanta's most thunderous groups. All The Saints not only commanded their control of volume & intensity, but with their debut album have proven their abilities in composition & arrangement. Reference points include Loop, Gun Club, Verbena, In Camera, Federation X, and Swans. The band has earned fans in groups like Deerhunter, Battles, and A Place To Bury Strangers.
KillerPimp
CD
$11.75

American Mars
No City Fun
PS, US No City Fun, combines indie-rock elements with Eno/Lanois-influenced soundscapes. Oft-compared to artists such as Joe Henry, the Dream Syndicate, Tom Petty, and Blue Nile while their emotional and cathartic live shows earned them support slots for 16 Horsepower, The National, Clem Snide, Tim Easton, Elbow, Magnolia Electric Company, and The Black Heart Procession.
Gangplank
CD
$10.00

Antennas
Lies [single]
PS, SWEDEN New single from Swedish soul-pop sensations, in advance of their upcoming album, Feeling Feline Tonight, due in September. EP features "Lies", remixes of same by Radio LXMBRG and Oscar Tillman (Holiday For Strings), plus a cover of the song by The Baboon Show. Yep, the price is a quarter...almost free, while supplies last.
Novoton
CD5
$0.25

ASS (Andreas Soderstrom Solo)
My Get Up And Go Just Got Up And Went
PS, UK Very limited! Peering out between the mass of strings, hanging like vines, there must have been a spark of childish curiosity. From the giddy playfulness of youth all the way to the folk hinterland, Andreas Soderstrom has been surrounded by instruments, exposed to the sounds of his father's bazouki factory - an extraordinary mélange of clattering noise and metallic melody. That natural inquisitiveness has obviously paid off, and it surely can't be a coincidence that a career in music beckoned. Trading under the pseudonym Ass - it stands for Andreas Soderstrom Solo - for more than a decade he has been the hitherto unknown man of Swedish pop, having played with the likes of electro-pop priestess Jenny Wilson, digital folk stalwarts Tape, offbeat folk-pop minstrel Blood Music, and Taken By Trees, the latest incarnation of former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman. All that will change with the release of 'My Get Up and Go Just Got Up and Went', the second full-length album from Soderstrom under his Ass moniker. Soderstrom plays all of the instruments found on this quietly intoxicating 10-track record, the follow-up to his astonishingly assured, eponymous debut - both released on Headspin Recordings. It finds him hacking through the folk undergrowth, his fluid dynamic underpinning a stark melancholy that simmers throughout. It's a real treat, and a chance to hear the whispered charm of a subtly disarming performer. To paraphrase George Clinton - free your mind, and Ass will follow...Very Limited vinyl Edition of 500 copies in thick cardboard stock, lyric insert and on purple wax.
StaticCaravan-167
LP
$19.00

Be Gulls
By the Beach
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Rad
LP
$14.25

Be Gulls
By the Beach
PS, US Sweeping and soaring music from the folks from LITTLE WINGS.
Rad
CD
$14.25

Blood Music
Don Quite
PS, SWEDEN Second album from former First Floor Power dude Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the follow-up to 'Sing A Song Fighter!', his charming fizz-pop debut. 'Don Quite' features guest appearances by James Huggins (Of Montreal), Lars Skoglund (Laakso), Sara Wilson (First Floor Power), Andreas Söderström (Ass), Leo Svensson (The Tiny) and Simone Rubi (Rubies). Lilting pop for fans of the coony, orchestral-pop sounds of Jens Lekman and Sufjan Stevens. The electric sound of joy, indeed, with a wild-eyed naivete. More on this when it arrives...
MakeItHappen
CD
$15.00

Booka Shade
The Sun & the Neonlight
PS, US PREFIX MAGAZINE: "For a duo with a reputation as the brains behind the tracks that Get Physical DJs M.A.N.D.Y. and DJ T built their fame on, Booka Shade take expert songcraft and blend it with dynamic beats, resulting in pulsing, pounding music that moves bodies and arrangements that hooking minds, twisting and turning at every corner. For The Sun & The Neon Light, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier expand their musical palette, this time incorporating tracks built around proper vocals (courtesy of Merziger) and more traditional song structure. With the broader audience Booka Shade reached courtesy of Movements, it seems they now look to increase the accessibility even further with The Sun & The Neon Light."
GetPhysicalMusic
CD
$14.25

Broderick, Peter
Float
PS, UK This is the debut full-length release from Oregon's Peter Broderick. In the last few years, the world has seen its fair share of musicians give up the trusty guitar in favor of the piano, the banjo and even the French horn, but rarely do we find a musician who seems so perfectly suited to any and every instrument he cares to try. Float is the ideal showcase for Broderick's well-honed instrumental talents, blending his love of folk music, classical music and good old-fashioned indie-pop. After the release of his Docile EP on cult Swedish label Kning Disk, there was no doubting his piano playing skills, but here we see the piano joined by violins, cello, drums, banjo, guitar, vocals and so much more, resulting in a dense and varied collection of tracks. An easy comparison might be Efterklang, the Danish band who Peter currently performs with, but Float could just as easily be linked to the work of Max Richter, Sylvain Chauveau and the Portland, Oregon scene which birthed him. Float is an album which has a definite narrative -- a fan of film and film soundtracks, Peter decided early on to make an album which was not simply a collection of random tracks. Themes appear and reappear, motifs signal different acts and characters, sometimes in the shape of instruments themselves, dropping in and out as if through some thick French cigarette smoke. Even the titles of the tracks tell a story, and as you listen to the album, subconsciously you follow a captivating broad narrative arc that links each piece together. This is thoughtful, carefully-constructed, significant new music from a young talent who is quickly catching on fire.
Type-027
CD
$14.25

Brother Kite, The
Waiting For The Time To Be Right
PS, US LP+CD. LIMITED TO ONLY 200 COPIES WORLDWIDE!! Finally, the sophomore album from The Brother Kite is presented to the masses on vinyl!! The production on this vinyl has been an absolute nightmare, fraught with problem after problem and delay after delay - but the Wait is over, and we hope you find it was worth the wait! This limited edition release is presented on 180-gram audiophile-quality virgin black vinyl. In addition to the vinyl, this package includes an exclusive bonus CDr (professionally-manufactured), entitled "Inside Waiting For The Time To Be Right". We thought someone who liked the album enough to purchase the vinyl might be interested in peeling away some of its layers, just for curiosity's sake. So on this CDr, you will find alternative mixes of every song on the album.
Clairecords-064
LP
$14.75

Butcher the Bar
Sleep At Your Own Speed
PS, GERMANY This is the debut full-length release by Britain's Joel Nicholson for Morr Music. He has described the cast list of his intimate band as "me and my bedroom." In Manchester, the songs of Butcher the Bar fill a small house, but soon these walls won't be the only ones in which they live. "Make this house a home" could be the phrase that matches this atmosphere. He sounds a little like Elliot Smith, with the persuasive power of his carefully-crafted chords and the immediacy of his softly-spoken vocals. An artist like Joel Nicholson would have been called a singer-songwriter before this word became a catch-all phrase. In the meantime, quiet is STILL the new loud and home-cooked tracks are still the tastiest and most comforting of all. Sleep At Your Own Speed is a coming-of-age novel consisting of 13 short stories. "Getaway," for instance, is a declaration of woe to a city that used to be home once, "Ball Point Skin Notes" illustrates the forlornness of youth, and "Leave Town" is as exuberant as a pop song can be. An acoustic guitar, a banjo, a warm, direct voice. Lyrics such as "I leave town tonight, if only western civilization feels alright..." point to the singer's earnestness and yearning for universal understanding. Melancholy, deceleration and reduction are Joel Nicholson's musical topics. Folk and post-folk, old and new heroes (Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens), searching, finding and finally letting go.
MorrMusic-082
CD
$15.00

Caethua
Village of the Damned
PS, US Brilliant psych-folk debut by Bloomington, Indiana's Clare Hubbard. Stark, ghostly, and ultra-melancholy, just begin to describe this buried treasure. "Caethua builds a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration that manages to cross the aesthetics of Harry Smith and This Mortal Coil." - Dusted
Magazine.
BlueSanct
CD
$10.75

Carter, Tom & Kiefer, C
From the Great American Songbook
PS, US This second collaborative work is an expansive & ambitious recasting of American music. With their interpretations, Carter (CHARALAMBIDES) & Kiefer have taken the songs that have seeped into their souls & extended upon them in such a way that brings something entirely new to their original ideas. Carter & Kiefer have taken the spirit of these as a starting point for their spectral guitar improvisations, then fleshed them out with piano, percussion, bass & drums. In this thrillingly vast sonic terrain are moments of foreboding, tenderness, melancholy & gut-wrenching rawness. Guest spots from Ben Massarella (CALIFONE, IRON & WINE) & limited edition deluxe packaging featuring award-winning design & liners by Tim Rutili & James Toth.
Preservation
CD
$15.00

Centromatic/South San Gabriel
Dual Hawks
PS, US Keeping track of the distinctions between Centro-matic and South San Gabriel could be a full-time effort, if one were so inclined. Based in Denton, Texas, Centro-matic once titled an album South San Gabriel Songs/Music, only to give a splinter faction of the participating musicians-meaning Centro-matic and more friends-the name South San Gabriel and release that album in Europe under the new band name. South San Gabriel includes the four core members of Centro-matic, plus additional members, but we'll get to that shortly. You might be inclined to say that Centro-matic material tends to be more rockin', with SSG its mellow, literary counterpart, and Will Johnson's solo material as...well...usually (how shall I put this?) skinny-dipping in the abyss-but it would be a gross oversimplification. Each of these projects shares all of the aforementioned respective qualities and more. What is distinctive about the release of Dual Hawks is that we get the chance to hear side-by-side the various ways in which Centro-matic and South San Gabriel complement and play off of each other-sort of the full-length equivalent of a split single.
Misra
DCD
$16.25

Chevelles, The
Barbarella Girl God
PS, US Career retrospective plus new gear from this Aussie garage-pop combo. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "14 of their most contagious numbers along with a trio of new songs as proof positive that they've lost none of their magic over the years. What really impresses about this album, though, is how well the band's wide-ranging sound and style are showcased. Garage pop is an easy tag for their music, but doesn't really capture the diversity of influences and elements that infuse their songs... From old-school to new-school punk, the band dances back and forth in time, tripping into new wave, psychedelia, and power pop along the way. The sound may be clean, a reflection of the Chevelles' tightness, but even at their jangliest, the guitars are down and dirty, the harmonies soaring, the melodies irrepressible, and the choruses irresistible. All in all, the perfect introduction to this stellar band."
WickedCool
CD
$12.25

Clientele, The
That Night, A Forest Grew (DELAYED)
PS, SPAIN This is the third, and last, of a trilogy of E.P.s the Clientele have recorded for Acuarela. They have always used the Acuarela E.P.s as a way to stretch out between albums, to create a through-the-looking-glass version of the band that shadows the better-known history of their albums. 'Ariadne' experimented with drones and minimalism; 'The Lost Weekend' stretched the foggy sound of their debut to epic proportions. In contrast "That Night, a Forest Grew' is the most commercial and -shockingly- danceable thing they've ever recorded. Part Bacharach, part Television, part Orange Juice, the E.P. shares the pristine clarity, light and shade of 'God Save the Clientele', but adds a new element of summer pop perfection. This is The Clientele as a hazily remembered 1970s cartoon series, all distanced off-key colors; imaginary summer hits, radio waves beamed in from a dream-discotheque.
Acuarela-067
CD5
$8.25

Club 8
Jesus, Walk With Me (ON SALE)
PS, SWEDEN 5 tracks. Club 8's critically acclaimed album "The boy who couldn't stop dreaming" is pop music at it's most profound - and the most personal, honest and beloved song in the whole collection spells "Jesus, walk with me". On this new 5-track EP the title track is backed up by four brilliant, exclusive tracks - two brand new songs and remixes by Jimahl and The Sound of Arrows. The first new song, "What I'm dreaming of is something I could have", perfectly highlights what everyone loved about their latest album. Gentle, warm pop music as loveable as it gets. The other new track, "Take me home", shows a new side of Club 8. It's minimalist psychedelia and colorfully mind-altering and hypnotic gospel pop! The first remix is signed by The Sound of Arrows - Sweden's most promising new act with an approach to music that bare some similarity to Saint Etienne around "Foxbase Alpha" or The Avalanches. Their take on "Jesus, walk with me" is just as surprising as it's genius. One of the most interesting ambient dub acts today, Jimahl, rounds up the EP perfectly with an extreme make over of Jesus. "Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to"? Possibly, yes... "Jimahl's 8-minute remix settles into chill-out mode at the start... more percussion and melodic snippets join as the song heads into the chorus, then settles back into a wistful, spacious groove, with just a few phrases shining out of the hypnotic mists." PITCHFORK.
Labrador-113
CD5
$10.00

Craig, Leighton
11 Easy Pieces
PS, AUSTRALIA Since 1995, Brisbane resident Leighton Craig has etched out a varied musical existence, from solo keyboard studies to an extensive body of collaborative work. His solo works, which span delicate ambient keyboard excursions through to site-specific live documents and most recently song-based explorations, have mapped out a focus of tone, duration and 'situations' for sound. On 11 Easy Pieces, his first widely available solo LP, Craig offers an intimate yet robust collection of works recorded on an array of cheap analogue keyboards, including his instrument of choice the Casio MT40. Recorded to cassette at the kitchen table between 2003-04, these recordings have been lovingly toasted by valve tubes during mastering to reveal not only a true sense of analog adventurousness inherent to Craig's mode of operation, but also his ability to unveil a rare tonal richness from his instruments. Leighton Craig casts out an audio net and collects together an essential haul of tonal gradients, phased rhythm and collapsed chordal interplays. 11 Easy Pieces (and two somewhat less 'easy' works), is a warm collection of distorted hymnals and blurred geometry - all of them visionary in their purity and timbral sensibilities. "This is more than Australian Music - this is Australia the musician." Sean Rabin, The Australian "an organic exorcism of the trees...the music of the earth...." Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. On Organ Notes "hazy minimal organ tones ... feel good mind-body static. Turn up loud and let it float." Eddie Flowers, Slippytown.
Room40-424
CD
$15.00

Depth Affect
Hero Crisis
PS, FRANCE The Depth Affect project was born in the new millennium in the suburbs of Nantes, France. In David Bideau and Rémy Charrier's student rooms, keyboards and laptops outnumbered Beach Boys and Autechre records. From then on, they were set to start building the architecture of their music. A few years later, with a handful of songs in their pockets, a few gigs and their duet being completed by a team composed of a DJ and a VJ, their music found its own personal path and their first album *Arche-Lymb* received critical acclaim. At that time the band also offered free downloads of remixes of Arche-Lymb tracks made by a wide cast of electronica musicians. On top of that they worked on their live performance and developed a new and original approach to the stage which they had a chance of displaying live in several glorious French venues and festivals. In their new album *Hero Crisis*, the colours of melancholy have taken over the naive beauty and bucolic joy of their first record. In Hero Crisis, their songwriting has become more direct, both harsher and colder, with catchy melodies enhanced by an astonishing production. The twelve tracks of Hero Crisis mix influences stemming from r'n'b, pop, hip-hop, ambient, click'n'cut and dubstep, thus creating a new dreamy and feverish soundscape.
AutresDirectionsInMusic-018
CD
$19.00

Eat Skull
Sick to Death
PS, US Leave it to the English to embellish a term like "shit-gaze." No surprise that the greatest shit-gazer of all time was none other than Samuel Coleridge, an avowed Brit who, plied full of laudanum, would sit for hrs & stare at his bowel movements, writing copious notes on their color, texture, etc. They are a quartet hailing from Portland, Oregon, co-masterminded by Rob Enbom (Hospitals and Hole Class) & another original Hospital, Rod Meyer (the greatest living genius of punk)(--erm--uh--wha?!).
Siltbreeze
LP
$16.00

Fairline Parkway
Memory of Open Spaces
PS, US Limited Edition of 700 hand-numbered, die cut. Zachary Okun & Raj Gadhia met in a quiet summer of college
unemployment. Raj recognized Zach as the guy in the back of the dusty university anthropology lab who diligently slept through monkey documentaries, waking from deep sleep only to angrily protest discernable differences in the skull specimens forced upon the class every week. In this manner things came to a head and they were graduated, just as they decided to have a good run at actually thinking. Reeling in denial, the two began recording together in 2002. They were promptly kidnapped by an enthusiastic fan & ushered into a studio.
Kora
CD
$11.25

Fantasy Bar
Friday Afternoon Car
PS, SPAIN Kieran, Diego, Jordi and Rubén used to be part of Migala, probably one of the best Spanish bands ever. It's something they won't try to hide. Now they are Fantasy Bar, whose debut album, Friday Afternoon Car, takes their music -and influences ranging from American Music Club to Nick Drake, Arab Strap to Neil Young...- into enchanting new territories. Friday Afternoon Car is an album of nostalgia and yearning for a brighter dawn; of harshness and tender feeling; of hopes and of fears. Its 14 stately, slow-paced rock songs are suffused with the beauty that lies just beneath the surface of existence. The careworn yet compassionate vocals of Scottish songwriter Kieran Stephen (ex-bassist with Los Planetas and Migala, bass guitar on El Hijo's album "Las otras vidas", live musician with QZIOS) speak of the emotions these four friends know so well: the persistence of memories; friendship and wasted love; the knowledge, throughout it all, that the good times can prevail. It's there from the first moments of "Spiders", which opens Friday Afternoon Car: the story of a bad dream called solitude, wrapped in gentle guitars and upbeat but delicate drums. The album was recorded at Rock Soul Studios in Madrid with the assistance of Carlos Torero, and features keyboards and guitar by Abel Hernández (El Hijo, former singer and guitarist of Migala) and electric guitar by Chris Bathgate (Sans Trauma, ex-Ganger, who also used to play bass with Arab Strap). It takes its name from an old British phrase that alludes to the belief that car-factory workers lose interest toward the end of the week: as the brief liberation of the weekend looms, everyday cares cease to matter. Friday Afternoon Car invites the listener to enter the universe of these songs: to discover a place to reflect and, above all, to feel. Fantasy Bar are: Kieran Stephen (vocals, guitars, bass), Diego Yturriga (keyboards, accordion and melodica), Jordi Sancho (bass, fender rhodes) and Rubén Moreno (drums).
Acuarela-1085
CD
$13.50

Felipe, Dino
No Fun Demo
PS, US Previously know for his electronic work with Miami's Schematic label and his experimental records on his own and with others: Old Bombs, Fukktron, etc. This time Dino stares right at the ghost of his MTV dreams childhood years and comes out of it with the most beautiful record of well put together songs you'll hear this year. A full instrumented record of pop rock, ballads, psychedelia, no-wave, rock noise and total mutations injected with Dino's own unique approach. This is the pop music of the present, and a recording shooting to change the future.
NoFunProductions-031
CD
$12.25

Fleet Foxes
S-T
PS, US Fleet Foxes are five. There are five of them, and they are from Seattle. They are, for lack of an imminently more marketable descriptor, a group trafficking in baroque harmonic pop. And the joy they derive in doing so is palpable. We feel it too. They are, self-described, not much of a rock band. With the help of credit cards, minimum wages, tip money, friends and family, Fleet Foxes crafted their first demo, and subsequently the Sun Giant EP and this debut full-length album, with family friend Phil Ek manning the rudder. Drawing influence from the traditions of folk music, pop, choral music and gospel, sacred harp singing, West Coast music, traditional music from Ireland to Japan, film scores, and their NW peers, Fleet Foxes ranges in subject matter from the natural world and familial bonds to bygone loves and stone cold graves. Robin Pecknold is in Fleet Foxes: "All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing..." And we believe them. PITCHFORK: "Supremely crafted and confident" SCORE: 8.7
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Fleet Foxes
S-T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Gatefold LP comes with a digital download code, AND includes the Sun Giant EP on a second piece of vinyl! This is currently the only way to get Sun Giant on vinyl so it seems crazy not to buy it.
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Franklin, Ron
S-T
PS, US Brings you back to the time when the urban & the rural, the folk & the blues were not far apart. With an impeccable underground pedigree which includes working with his bands the ENTERTAINERS & the NATURAL KICKS; artists such as Jack Yarber of The Oblivions, members of Tav Falco's Panther Burns, as well as Peter Case & a brief stint with Love & the late Arthur Lee, Franklin's music is part of the legacy of the wellspring of Southern sound.
Alive
CD
$13.00

Free Blood
Never Hear Surf Music Again
PS, US This two-piece Brooklyn band has more street cred than you can shake a stick at, & for good reason. Consisting of Madeline Davy (Octopi NYC) on the microphone & John Pugh (formally of !!!) also on microphone. An unpredictable druggy number, a mangled hybrid of Beatles-esque melodies fused angrily w/ a Butthole Surfers song. "Quick & Painful" is a raucous affair that delivers a swift kick to the jewels.
Rong/DFA
12
$8.00

Friction Brothers
S-T
PS, US Chicago's The Friction Brothers consists of Michael Colligan (dry ice, implements), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello, implements), & Michael Zerang (percussion, piano insides). While each member has a lengthy resume on his own, their combined forces have produced an endlessly interesting record full of harmonic resonances, grinding objects, manipulated dry ice, & heavy friction.
AbstractOnBlack
CD
$6.00

Furious Seasons, The
Self-Titled
PS, US The eponymous debut by The Furious Seasons, masterminded by the brothers Steinhart, lifelong Los Angeles-based music mavens with two decades' worth of indiepop tenure (Pop Art, Smart Brown Handbag), showcases quietly beautiful, super-literate songs of longing and despair, hope and transcendence. A collection of tunes with nothing to prove, nothing to lose, and everything to say, The Furious Seasons gets inside your skin, your head, your heart--and rummages around, affecting you in emotional areas you've maybe shunted aside since the last time you heard your favorite tracks by the likes of The Frames, The Go-Betweens, The Kings of Convenience, Sun Kil Moon, Wilco or The Innocence Mission. It's a record so replete with memorable melodies, and, ultimately, insidiously haunting sentiments, that you've simply got to submit to its carefree sincerity, its earnest craft masquerading as nonchalance.
Eskimo-020
CD
$9.00

Futureheads
This Is Not the World
PS, US New album.
Megaforce
CD
$13.75

Gable
Seven Guitars With A Cloud Of Milk
PS, US Containing 18 tracks clocking in at just under 40 min. The songs cover such diverse topics as group suicide, the state of urban music, self-realization, cats, & drunk foxes, in the best tradition of DIY bands like The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, & Beat Happening.
Loaf
CD
$16.00

Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead [Bonus Tracks] (Remastered)
PS, US Unfuckwithable.
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Grateful Dead
American Beauty [Bonus Tracks] (Remastered)
PS, US Unfuckwithable.
Rhino
CD
$12.25

Group Doueh
Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
PS, US This is a CD reissue of the very first Sublime Frequencies LP, which sold Fouret qinu aenn ciniesstant in early 2007. This Saharan sandblizzard of fine-crushed glass will grind your face to a bloody pulp. They play raw & unfiltered Saharawi music from the former colonial Spanish outpost of the Western Sahara. The sound is distorted, loud & unhinged w/ an impressive display of virtuosity & style only known in this part of the world.
Sublime
CD
$16.25

Harcourt, Ed
Beautiful Lie
PS, US Belated U.S. release of British singer/songwriter Harcourt's fourth full length album, originally released in the UK in 2006. Often compared to such diverse artists as Neil Finn and Tom Waits, Harcourt's touching and personal songwriting puts him in a class all to himself. Features guest appearances from former Blur guitarist (and current solo star) Graham Coxon, The Magic Numbers and BJ Cole. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Beautiful Lie is easily one of his most accessible and listenable efforts. Yes, the hallmarks of his tortured singer/songwriter status are still in place, as flagrant strings, grandiose arrangements, and rampant-but-quality peer-mimicry rule these 14 tracks. But even though his lyrics are sometimes overbearingly dark and too many vampire metaphors abound, the music and songwriting compare favorably to contemporary indie-centric, raspy-voiced artists like Beck, the Eels, Sparklehorse, and Tom Waits. Harcourt dabbles in many genres here, from acoustic folk to '70s style pop ballads to rootsy psychedelia to experimental lounge, all the while rooting the music's emotion in melodic piano... Beautiful Lie is an invigorating and frequently gorgeous affair, essential for old fans and a good place to start for newcomers."
Dovecote
CD
$15.00

Harvey Milk
Life: The Best Game In Town
PS, US After releasing several albums in the 90s, Harvey Milk are celebrating their own renaissance by lauding the virtues of "Life...The Best Game In Town". Spearheaded by the alternately burly and angelic vocal stylings of Milk mastermind Creston Spiers, "Life" is both tumultuous and grueling, resonating with the glorious slow-motion radiance of Total Dirge Power. They've since been joined by Thrones legend Joe Preston. "Combining the aesthetics of Earth and Melvins and Sabbath and Swans and goth and tectonic plates shifting..." - Econoculture. "...cult favorite Harvey Milk was responsible for some of the slowest, heaviest, and most uncompromising rock music created in the latter half of the 90s" - All Music Guide.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Heaven And
Sweeter As The Years Roll By
PS, GERMANY Heaven And are Tony Buck (drums, percussion); Steve Heather (drums, marimba, percussion); Martin Siewert (guitars, lap steel, electronics, keyboards); Zeitblom (bass, keyboards); Alexander Hacke (vocals). Sweeter As The Years Roll By is their debut full-length release for the Staubgold label and it's a phrase which many will associate with wine. The music of the 21st century has evolved to become the proverbial "old wine in new skins" -- since remixing, cut'n'paste, and other methods of producing new culture by using the old, have become available to almost everyone. Because of the "digital revolution," the layman can now easily become the mixer and magician. The music of Heaven And is inspired by the diverse music styles all conglomerated in our culture -- elements of the diverse musical styles from the last five decades are clearly discernible. Listening to the first track "As If A Star," one can make out a vast range of influences: a psychedelic backwards guitar cuts through the whirr of a cymbal reminiscent of jazz and trance music, while in the second half, a layer of guitar sounds hovers over it all, which reminds one of the sounds emanating from the Fender amps of the bands belonging to the so-called Americana movement. At the same time, the track comes across as an update of those stoic monster tracks of early '70s Krautrock. (And when it comes to minimalism, the bass line beats any of Holger Czukay's in terms of sparseness.) "Bring Back Those Happy Days" with its manic, almost exploding guitar and its rompish, hippie-like percussion orgy, is quite another cup of tea. Art Ensemble Of Chicago meets Keiji Haino? Or Pharoah Sanders meets Sonny Sharrock meets Boredoms?
Staubgold
CD
$16.25

Hefner
The Fidelity Wars [re-issue]
PS, UK 1999 was a special year for Hefner. The original Fidelity Wars reached number one in the independent album charts, with its accompanying single, cult favourite Hymn for the Cigarettes securing them the number one place in the independent single charts. It was also the year that saw Hefner working hard for John Peel, recording three sessions for his show and having five entries in the Festive Fifty for '99. They reached numbers two and three in the chart, only beaten to the number one spot by the Cuban Boys! Fidelity Wars saw Hefner coming of age; the rawness of songwriter Darren Hayman's earlier music and lyrics developing into a more intelligent, observational style. Hymn for the Alcohol, tells the tale of two alcoholics falling out of love, accompanied by the sweet pedal steel of new member Jack Hayter. The Weight of the Stars has the narrator memorising the contents of a roll of camera film, which was lost on a one-night stand. Don't Flake Out On laments upon the lost friends of our early twenties, accompanied by the broken voice of ex-Raincoat Gina Birch and brass section. This re-release of Fidelity Wars contains the original album plus an extra 29 rare and unreleased tracks including deleted EPs, b-sides, and alternate versions.
Belka-05
DCD
$21.75

Hess, Steven/Miles Tilmann
Departures
PS, US Vinyl only. Steven Hess (Pan American, Fessenden, Haptic and the Dropp Ensemble) and the experimental electronic composer Miles Tilmann (Consumer Research, Sub:Marine, Toytronic) come together to present Departures - their forthcoming vinyl-only release on Other Electricities. Hess creates a unique hybrid of improvised percussion and electronics, where Tilmann's deep bass tones and sublime waves of sound converse with Hess's intricate rhythms and textures: the sonic equivalent of a complex series of weather systems that assemble, unfold and disintegrate according to their own logic. Simultaneously intriguing and elusive through their manipulation of sound's depth of field, they successfully incorporate this often underused element, pressurizing shimmering pulses alongside chaotic decays. For Fans of: Fourtet/Kieren Hebden and Steven Reid, Andrew Pekler, Biosphere.
OtherElectricites-013
LP
$12.25

I Love Math
Getting to the Point Is Beside It
PS, US Includes frontman John Dufilho (DEATHRAY DAVIES, APPLES IN STEREO) & Philip Peeples (OLD 97s), among others. The sound is stripped-down, the songs are straightforward & to the point, & wouldn't be out of place next to Jonathan Richman, Yo La Tengo, vintage Kinks, & like-minded harmonizers the Everly Brothers.
Glurp!
CD
$13.00

It's Casual/Bullet Treatment
Split
PS, US This is sure to rip a hole in your woofer! All new & unreleased tracks! BULLET TREATMENT feat. members form ICARUS LINE, VULTURES UNITED & INSTED, w/ true So Cal hardcore. IT'S CASUAL is angry, old school punk w/ heavy distortion. They are clearing a path of destruction one show at a time.
BasementRecords
45
$5.50

Jaguar Love
S-T (Limited Edition, Extended Play)
PS, US Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Northwest supergroup JAGUAR LOVE features guitarist Cody Votolato and singer Johnny Whitney from the Blood Brothers, along with Jay Clark from Pretty Girls Make Graves (guitarist then, now drummer, multi-instrumentalist and producer). However the story is very different: having picked themselves up and moved from Seattle to Portland, these ferociously creative and once-noisy musicians have now added incredibly catchy melody to their songwriting.
Votolato's crazed Japanese electric 12- string guitar parts remain as complex and Beefheart-esque as ever, but Whitney has turned his scream to a Bolan-esque glam. Result: pop music. This super-deluxe, limited-editon prealbum EP is JAGUAR LOVE's first release ever, and serves as a taster for their upcoming debut .
Matador
CD5
$4.00

Jazkamer
Artbreaker
PS, NORWAY Jazkamer is always dealing with different kinds of noise & noise-music. This album has 58 tracks and is 17 minutes long! This time the Jazkamers has gone as far with rock & punk as humanly possible. We guess this is their homage to Japan's noisecore & their love for early Boredoms, Melt Banana, Hanatarash & Zeni Geva. But we don't know. Just listen for yourself.
SmalltownSuperjazz-135
CD
$15.25

Jennings, Mason
In the Ever (ON SALE)
PS, US VINYL VERSION.
Brushfire
LP
$13.75

Ladytron
Velocifero
PS, US New album, their 4th full-length, fully transcends the boundaries of electro-pop w/a fresh wave of distorted soul.
Nettwerk
CD
$17.75

Lair Of The Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master
PS, US ON VINYL! This is a concept album about solving conflicts w/ a big fucking axe! The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression & mega-riffage of the previous album: The Ultimate Destroyer & the unrelenting beatings & Sabbath chugs of Carnage, mixed w/ a new emotionless ferocity reserved for an executioner. Contains a 20 pg bk w/ graphic illustrations for each song.
SouthernLord
LP
$16.00

Leone, Dominique
S-T
PS, NORWAY Dominique Leone wears many hats, only a few faces & has a hundred songs that you haven't heard. And yes, he's a him. He's a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter... scratch that, he's one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteur with more than a slight command of pop history & theory chops, and writing songs for joyous, infatuated people. Perhaps some of them are a bit over stimulated. Perhaps some of them just like good melodies & strange chord progressions that still seem vaguely familiar. The music is catchy but ambitious; crafted but not sterile; interesting but not pretentious. It's just a lot of fucking fun.
Stromland-002
CD
$15.25

Leukers, Antonia
Hasenlove
PS, GERMANY Picture-Disc LP (limited 300). "Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. She's a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müller's (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his (pseudo-) scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artist's lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, gameboys and minidisk recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid.
Dekorder-023
LP
$21.75

Lithops
Mound Magnet: Part Two
PS, US "Elevations above Sea Level" is the second Mound Magnet part from Lithops aka Jan St Werner, 1/2 of the prolific duo Mouse on Mars, 1/3 of last year's surprise collaboration "Von Südenfed" with the Fall's Mark E Smith & 1/2 of the dsp group Microstoria. "Elevations above Sea Level" gives us aural diagrams of a large, hypermodern cities with futuristic vehicles moving around. The electrical ticking of fluorescent advertising panels, a thwappy airiness of the ventilation system, the rattles of trains & chopped up hums of distant roads, the mechanical groans that maintenance machinery starts up with, rain drumming on the stretched glass roofs of urban malls, the howling groans of motorcycles on city highways. It's not an ambient record by any means, nor is it purely musique concrete. It's rather an acid fulled hallucination of how to detect an idea of the future in the noises that surround us.
KillerPimp
CD
$10.00

Lodger, The
Life is Sweet
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$14.25

Lodger, The
Life is Sweet
PS, US Still filled with gorgeous melodies & catchy tunes, but is also deeper & more thoughtful, full of emotional peaks & valleys. Rather than just chip in w/ an album of "more of the same," they've paid extra attention to the arrangements, w/ 12-string & acoustic guitars, lap steel, & violin adding crucial detail & depth to the tunes. We don't know if it's something in the water or what, but England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands right now, and The Lodger are amongst the brightest hopes. Taking their cues from fellow northerners The Smiths and The Wedding Present, The Lodger's music is classic melodic pop, fueled by sparkling hooks and plangent lyrics. The tunes are sharp and timeless, a thoroughly modern distillation of great Britpop from the 60s right up to today.
Slumberland
CD
$14.25

Low
You May Need A Murderer
PS, US On several occasions in 2007, Dutch documentary maker David Kleijwegt filmed the legendary chamber-rock trio. This is a portrait of a band set against the scenery of modern day America, a country that according to Low is rapidly becoming a third world country. This high-standard documentary is more than an on-the-road movie or behind-the-scenes video. It shows Sparhawk as the ambivalent main character in an intriguing movie about religion, violence, questions of conscience &-whether concealed or not-madness, that can also be seen as a touching love story.
Soulmining
DVD
$15.75

Mae Shi
HLLLYH
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Really crazy prog rock from the LA band that doesn't stop touring.
Yosada
LP
$19.00

Mammatus
S-T
PS, US Named for the ominous clouds that are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed, they are a lean sludge machine that shoots giant burritos (carne asada) from their instruments. They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, subgoths & dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any "terrestrial" engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven w/ spells of the nameless one that were spoken of before rock could speak.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Mann, Aimee
@#%&! Smilers
PS, US (Digipack Packaging) "I've always been drawn to dark, eccentric personalities," says Los Angeles singer songwriter Aimee Mann. On Smilers, her 7th solo CD, Mann presents thirteen exquisitely-crafted new songs about the inner life of people living far from the bright lights of success or fame.
SuperegoRecords
CD
$16.00

Maquiladora
St. Cecilia's Drowning: Ritual Of Hearts & White Sands Revisited (DELAYED)
PS, SPAIN Maquiladora's create songs from a sense of place. Eric Nielsen, Bruce McKenzie and Phil Beaumont (with occasional guests of Black Heart Procession, Modest Mouse and The God Machine) approach music from all sides, a sound which conjures up moods of the deserts and oceans providing a landscape that is both familiar and remotely distant. Acuarela is pleased to release a new take on Maquiladora's early works on St. Cecilia's Drowning - White Sands And Ritual Of Hearts Revisited. A re-mastered collection of songs recorded between 1995 and 2002, including nine previously unreleased songs, which present a graceful invitation into the musical journey of this reclusive band. ERASING CLOUDS WHITE SANDS: 1. Prostitute Song // 2. Julian // 3.Happy Day // 4. Little Miss R. C. // 5. Ankle // 6. So Far Away // 7. Itchy Song // 8. Termez 1936 // 9. Mr. Grey // 10. Bueno Mis Amigos // 11. Cousin // Bonus Tracks: 12. Light of the Rain // 13. Itchy Song (Live at VPRO) // 14. 12 Steps // 15. A/part // 16. After All RITUAL OF HEARTS: 1. The Secret // 2. Ritual of Hearts // 3. Heaven // 4. Sweet Afton // 5. I'm In Love // 6. A Vow // 7. Sound Of Rain // 8. Dream Of Snakes // 9. Chinese Girl // 10. Avow // 11. She's More Beautiful To Me Than Water And Pure // 12. Static Hum // Bonus Tracks: 13. So Young // 14. Buddy // 15. Boatman's Mantra // 16. Mexico D.F.
Acuarela-1083
DCD
$16.00

Midnight Juggernauts
Dystopia
PS, US This Melbourne based band was described by Rolling Stone US as "David Bowie if his Berlin Trilogy was a collaboration w/ Kraftwerk & Faust." RAVE MAGAZINE: "Midnight Juggernauts are the dark horses of Australian electronica... On the surface, Midnight Juggernauts deal in much the same instantly-accessible synth pop of their contemporaries, but Dystopia is an album of hidden depths - surreal and eccentric, its thirteen tracks are washed over with a spacey, movie soundtrack-like atmosphere that suggests the early '80s output of Vangelis or John Carpenter... Poppy and inviting yet weird and abstract, Dystopia is the kind of album that invites multiple listens, and with any luck, will make international a-listers of Midnight Juggernauts."
Astralwerks
CD
$14.25

Minus The Bear
They Make Beer Commercials Like This
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SuicideSqueeze
LP
$10.75

Minus The Bear
They Make Beer Commercials Like This
PS, US This re-issue is a fan favorite and the band's biggest selling EP to date. The CD and LP are now re-mastered, re-packaged, and expanded to include a bonus track. Also includes MP3 download coupon of the entire album.
SuicideSqueeze
CD
$9.75

Mogwai
Young Team [expanded re-issue]
PS, UK Reissuing the brooding debut from legendary Scottish post-rock pioneers Mogwai may seem redundant to their obsessive collector fanbase, but there are treats within the second disc for devotees and newcomers alike. 'Young Team' itself is considered to be one of the more influential instrumental rock albums of the 1990s, documenting the band at their most violent and visceral. A stark example of the power of dynamics with rock instruments, but shot through with moments of darkness and quiet that are chilling rather than soothing. Re-issue includes the original album remastered and repackaged with an additional CD of bonus tracks including phenomenal live performances from T In The Park and Chemikal Underground's 5th Birthday Party; a BBC session version of "R U Still In 2 It?" featuring Aidan Moffat; a rare Spaceman 3 cover; a radio session track from WNYC and some other stuff.
ChemikalUnderground
DCD
$15.75

Mojo
#176 (June 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

M's
Real Close Ones
PS, US The M's formed in early 21st century Chicago. Things progressed quickly then, and some accolades followed for tunes that started as simply as a hum in a head and flowered into a shared scheme. The M's operated in extremes. Whether clunking along in their doomed shuttle bus, recording in the swampy air of an abandoned cafeteria, or later in their frozen Andersonville studio, the Salvation Ice-box; hardship and levity came and went with the seasons. Now, the M's find themselves in a new neighborhood with new history and new faces. These new faces exist in the songs on Real Close Ones, born from the band's passage through the world as musicians, men, fathers, husbands, sons, friends, baseball fans, carpenters, drummers, guitar players, producers, authors, real estate moguls, and whatever else they are. The faces in these songs are as real as any, and they are as familiar or as unfamiliar as we are to ourselves. MOJO MAGAZINE: "Melodies twist & turn, strings phase in & out, bells chime. All this ambition coagulates into an irresistible, tumbling, tune filled whole."
Polyvinyl
CD
$12.00

M's
Real Close Ones
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Polyvinyl
LP
$12.00

My Morning Jacket
The Tennessee Fire
PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, green and blue color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their fabulous debut album (1999). "Released to worldwide critical acclaim, The Tennessee Fire provides proof (200 proof) that heartfelt American music is alive and well and living in Kentucky. A must for anyone who loves the sound of Alt-country mixed with wide open spaces." -ALL MUSIC GUIDE. TRACK LISTING: 1. Heartbreakin Man 2. They Ran 3. The Bear 4. Nashville To Kentucky 5. Old September Blues 6. If All Else Fails 7. It's About Twilight Now 8. Evelyn Is Not Real 9. War Begun 10. Picture Of You 11. I Will Be There When You Die 12. The Dark 13. By My Car 14. Butch Cassidy 15. I Think I'm Going To Hell 16. Bonus track
Darla-089-1
DLP
$19.00

My Morning Jacket
At Dawn
PS, US Gatefold double vinyl re-press limited to 1000. 142 gm, red and gold color vinyl 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with matte finish. Their beloved second record (2001). "At Dawn has an Ineffable magic to it from start to finish, one that leads me to scour my brain for words that could describe something that sounds so special. Anytime a pop or rock song can give you chills, that's something. When a whole album can do it that's something else entirely." -POPMATTERS. TRACK LISTING: 1. At Dawn 2. Lowdown 3. The Way That He Sings 4. Death Is My Sleazy Pay 5. Hopefully 6. Bermuda Highway 7. Honest Man 8. X-mas Curtain 9. Just Because I Do 10. If It Smashes Down 11. I Needed It Most
12. Phone Went West 13. Strangulation 14. Bonus track.
Darla-111-1
DLP
$19.00

Names, The
Nightshift/Live At Plan K 15/12/2007
PS, UK 24 tracks live DVD by cult Factory Records band The Names, including their December 2007 homecoming concert at legendary Brussels (Belgium) venue Plan K. Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the Plan K section of the DVD features 11 songs, including the classic singles Nightshift, Calcutta and The Astronaut, as well as new tracks including I Am the Rain and Zeroes (a tribute to their former producer Martin Hannett), and an encore cover of the Magazine song The Light Pours Out of Me. These tracks were taped at the memorable A Factory Night (Once Again) event at Plan K staged on 15 December 2007, which also featured performances by Section 25, Peter Hook, Crispy Ambulance and Kevin Hewick. The 120 minute DVD also features several vintage promo clips from 1980-82, including shorts for Nightshift, Light and The Astronaut. An intimate extra bonus feature is provided by Celebration, 9 songs recorded live at a 2005 birthday party for singer/writer Michel Sordinia, at which the band run through versions of a number of Names originals as well as songs by Joy Division and Neil Young. Also available: Swimming & Singles (LTMCD 2324), Spectators of Life (LTMCD 2320). Live Au Plan K (Brussels) 15 December 2007: 1. Light 2. I Am The Rain 3. Calcutta 4. Zeroes 5. The Astronaut 6. I Liked You Better When You Were Dead 7. Nightshift 8. I Wish I Could Speak Your Language 9. Discovery 10. Friendly Fire 11. The Light Pours Out Of Me When We Were Kids: 12. Nightshift #1 13. Light 14. The Astronaut 15. Nightshift #2 Celebration (2005): 16. My Funny Valentine 17. Nightshift 18. The Astronaut 19. Calcutta 20. The Call Of Trains 21. Swimming 22. New Dawn Fades 23. Luka 24. Cortez The Killer.
LTM-2522
DVD
$21.75

Nisennenmondai
Tori/Neji
PS, US Nisennenmondai means "Year 2000 Problem'' and is an instrumental Japanese girl trio from Tokyo. Visits to Tokyo by
Lightning Bolt, Battles & No Age and others have unearthed these three girls with the mammoth sound. With song titles such as This Heat, Sonic Youth & Pop Group, one understand which musical territory the band comes from, and if you ad Black Flag, DNA, Neu! & Pere Ubu you are pretty close to Nisennenmondais sound. It's raw & repetitive (post) punk instrumentals, at the same time as they are wild groovy with a no wave/disco vibe to it. This is the first release outside of Japan & it contains the bands two EPs "Neji" and Tori" released as one album with new cover design by Kim Hiorthoy
SmalltownSupersound
CD
$14.50

Nyoukis, Dylan & Jaap Blonk
Dubbeltwee
PS, US Here is one of the most anticipated head-scratching meeting-of-the-(insane) minds recordings ever rumored to have existed: the blabber-gunk vocalistix of Chocolate Monk honcho & musical zone/zap improv outsider & founder of Decaer Pinga (nee Prick Decay) DYLAN NYOUKIS & the high-energy consistently startled & startling voicebox-tongue shredder JAAP BLONK. LP only - full color jackets - 400 copies
EcstaticPeace
LP
$13.50

Odd Nosdam
Pretty Swell Explode
PS, US This inimitable producer returns with an enhanced 2-disc collection (one album, one EP) of remixes, B-sides, videos, & original songs, incl. 8 tracks entirely exclusive to this set. Here Nosdam compiles the odds & ends created mostly around his last two fulllengths (2005's Burner and last year's Level Live Wires), as well as a few choice gems from bygone days. Accompanying these blasted sounds are 3 videos, also incl. a hidden unreleased version of Nosdam's Lee Perry-inspired "Upsetter."
Anticon
DCD
$15.75

O'Neil, Tara Jane
Bones
PS, AUSTRALIA New album from Lousiville, Kentucky born Tara Jane ONeil, released worldwide by Australia s Preservation label. After playing bass with Rodan, pioneers of post-rock and post-hardcore, the long-respected and much-lauded ONeil has formed bands like The Sonora Pine and Retsin and has collaborated with Sebadoh, Papa M, Come, Low, and Ida. ONeil records all over the US, from ballrooms in Louisville, apartments in New York to rural cabins. Similarly, there's a wandering spirit to her music, her songs an engaging mixture of folk, pop, ambience and electronic sounds, tropicana and melodies that span references from Joni Mitchell to Brian Eno. Bones is a collection featuring new material from ONeil, often at her most stripped back and full of her raw, alluring essence. Her delicate, vivid acoustic guitar playing is the highlight here, along with her enigmatic vocals floating over tracks fleshed out with airy layers of strings and piano. Others showcase her burgeoning interest in electronica and found sounds, which become hypnotic instrumentals. Bones is rounded off with a few rarities, including two tracks from a recent vinyl single and her sublime acoustic reading of "High Wire."
Preservation-004
CD
$15.00

Pants, James
Welcome
PS, US Mr. Pants is a purveyor par excellence of that unmistakable "fresh beat": 80's Soul, Electro Boogie, Early Hip-Hop, New Wave, & Post-Punk Disco, all of which can be found on this where James plays drums, keys, guitar & sings.
StonesThrow
CD
$16.00

Pas/Cal
I Was Raised On Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura
PS, UK Seven years in the making, and just as many members in the band. Le Grand Magistery is proud to present Pas/Cal's debut album, "I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura." Twelve songs so intricate, so catchy, so filled with bubblegum, glitter, and wit that you'll spend the next seven years singing along. If you like music like this, you'll love this music! So sit down, get down, and boogie down. Prepare to laugh ("Oh Honey We're Ridiculous", "Little Red Radio"), cry ("You Were Too Old For Me", "Glorious Ballad of The Ignored"), get seasonal ("Summer Is Almost Here", "Little Red Radio"), quizzical ("The Truth Behind All The Vogues She Sold"), reflective ("Dearest Bernard Living"), playful (We Made Out Way, We Amtrakked"), and enjoy the soothing sounds of the Suite Cherry suite of cherry-themed numbers ("Cherry Needs A Name", "Cherry Tree", "O My Cherry"). Oh yes, you're not going to want to miss this one folks. It's a doozy!
LeGrandMagistery-043
CD
$12.25

Pell Mell
1982: It Was A Live Cassette
PS, US Music from the pre-Steve Fisk years, recorded by this legendary Portland outsider group to fit in w/the punk rock times. Written to be played live, & thus much more aggressive, raw & abrupt than anything that ever made it onto wax on their various label travels (SST, Geffen, Matador, Sub Pop, K). Liners incl. handy band timeline. LTD 500
StarlightFurnCo
CD
$14.50

Pilot Ships
There Should Be An Entry
PS, US Low (as in lonesome) nights, starry skies, cool breezes with the windows open. Soundtracks days you wish didn't exist, but do; presenting a hopeful face that hides inner pain. Pilot Ships is Cheree Jetton (BEES ARE BLACK), Chris & Mike Linnen (MONROE MUSTANG), & Brian McBride (STARS OF THE LID).
BlueSanct
CD
$10.75

Pilot Ships
Limits Of Painting & Poetry
PS, US Long delayed, much anticipated release from Cheree Jetton (BEES ARE BLACK), Chris & Mike Linnen (MONROE MUSTANG), & Brian McBride (STARS OF THE LID). "like an old psychology text written in a foriegn language, the Pilot Ships operate the thin, grainy line demarcationg cognition and mystery." Austin Chronicle
BlueSanct
CD
$10.75

Pita
Get Out
PS, US Originally released in 1999 on the Mego label. Out-of-print for over half a decade, this new edition is remastered & packaged in a 6 panel digipack & incl. 3 extra tracks which appeared on the split 12'' w/ KEVIN DRUMM released by BOXmedia in 2000. Both restive & restless, orchestral & abrasive, this is the high water mark of laptop noise experimentation & it will absolutely scramble your brain.
EditionsMego
CD
$18.00

Pop Culture Press
#66
PS, US On the cover: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Also Nada Surf, Fleshtones, British Sea Power, Drive-By Truckers, Bob Mould, & American Music Club. On the CD: The Lackloves, South, Matt Keating & more
ZINE
$4.50

Radiohead
Best Of [regular]
PS, US 17 track retrospective, regular edition.
Capitol
CD
$18.75

Radiohead
Best Of [expanded deluxe edition]
PS, US Radiohead's first-ever career retrospective, this 2 disc Limited Edition CD package includes 17 of the band's most popular tracks including "Creep," "Karma Police," "High and Dry," "Fake Plastic Trees," and "Optimistic," plus a bonus disc featuring 13 more standouts including tracks not featured on Radiohead's prior studio albums. The Limited Edition package also features an extended booklet and deluxe packaging.
Capitol
DCD
$25.00

Radiohead
Best Of [videos]
PS, US All the band's critically acclaimed videos.
Capitol
DVD
$23.75

Ratti, Nicola
From the Desert Came Saltwater
PS, US Italian-born multi-instrumentalist and architect, Nicola Ratti, presents his debut for Anticipate. Nicola's music can best be described as warm, subtractive rock, whereby he reduces guitar figures and piano passages into quiet explorations of the hidden corners of an otherwise familiar sound. Guitars twang with slight and spacious percussion and softly hushed (occasional) vocals and atmospheric twinkles congeal into a carefully-composed re-imagining of music. In terms of situating this album in the context of modern electroacoustic music, Nicola uses more natural effects treatments, shying away from fragmentation and processing, which obscures the inherent character of the instruments. Rather, he uses these processes to add depth and subtly tease out the hidden sonorities of his tools of choice, re-composing them and adding atmospherics along the way. By taking advantage of electronic production approaches, Nicola reworks something which is imminently accessible into an album which adds new levels of intangibility -- turning a classic and subdued sound into a future-minded extension, using the acoustics of field recordings and found sounds as instruments in their own right and allowing the harmonies between object and instrument to become more fully-realized. Dynamic and well-balanced, the album maneuvers through full, layered sequences into spare moments of near silence and back again with ease. It isn't a loud-quiet dichotomy, but rather, skillfully placed areas of intimacy. Nicola segues from droning strings and almost invisible vocals to subtly uplifting chords in an almost unnoticeable transition. From the Desert Came Saltwater is an album that sneaks up on the listener -- disappearing and also taking hold without missing a breath. With one solo album on Megaplomb, a handful of single tracks and remixes, and a recent collaboration with producer and engineer Giuseppe Ielasi, Nicola is defined by the excellence of his craft.
Anticip
CD
$14.25

RE: UP
Issue #15
PS, US In RE:UP Issue 15, we are proud to feature a cover story on the boys whose music is a giant homage to the Jheri curl - Chromeo. Do they love or hate Los Angeles? Find out inside! We have in-depth interviews with Brooklyn's answer to M.I.A. - the super hot Santogold, the #1 band in college radio Hot Chip, the cosmic disco rocker Prins Thomas, the King of Horror himself Danzig, and Staten Island Afro-funksters known as The Budos Band. RE:UP #15 also sets up a Q&A session with comedic writer and actor David Wain, picks the minds behind the popular FABRICLIVE DJ mix series, takes a look back on the New Jack Swing era (Teddy Riley 4-EVA!), and showcases original artwork by Freegums, Acamonchi, and Gangsta Rap Coloring Book author Aye Jay Morano. Plus edIT & The Glitch Mob, Caribou, Datarock, Zeb the Pleb, Tortoise's drum breaks project Bumps, The Chemical Brothers.
REUP-015
ZINE
$5.50

Record Collector
#350 (June 2008)
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Residents, The
Eskimo [expanded re-issue]
PS, US In 1979 punk was all the rage. This set the Eyeballs spinning off into their own imaginary world of 6 month nights, marimbas made of frozen fish & Eskimo sex lives-- the result is one of the most unique musical experiences in the history of recorded music
Mute
DCD
$21.00

Residents, The
Duck Stab [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Taking a break from their usual experimental, noisy sound, this was their answer to one reviewer's sentiment that kids won't listen to their music because they can't dance to it. Released in 1978, it was an instant hit & is often thought of as the ulitmate Residents album. Re-issue details forthcoming.
Mute
DCD
$21.00

Ribot, Julien
Vega
PS, FRANCE A luxurious 24 page book edition. Julien Ribot has always loved both music and image. At the end of the nineties he was a professional illustrator. He had always composed from his early years on for his own pleasure and out of a natural need related to his being a man of many ideas... The triggering event was the meeting with a Japanese pop star seeking new songs for her new LP. He wrote her two songs and met a few people in the small French pop world. As the buzz around his mysterious personality increased, Julien Ribot gave up his job in order to devote himself entirely to music. He released his first LP Hôtel Bocchi at the end of 2001. On top of having Françoiz Breut's participation, he was surrounded on some tracks by Dionysos or Katrine, who helped him enjoy a pleasant succès d'estime. As a pianist and a singer he has been influenced (among others) by Mike Garson (one of Bowie's musicians) and Gérard Jouannest (who worked with French singer Jacques Brel). He also drew his inspiration for his second LP from graphic worlds belonging to David Lynch, Roland Topor or Tim Burton.
Icid'Ailleurs-040
CD
$17.25

Salas, Mikel
Bajo Las Estrellas (Beneath The Stars)
PS, SPAIN Acuarela releases the original soundtrack of "Bajo las estrellas" [Under the stars] Félix Viscarret's debut film (2008 Goya* for best Adapted Screenplay), starring Alberto San Juan (2008 Goya for best Actor) and nominated for best Soundtrack music by Mikel Salas with twilight western instrumentation. Surprising bonus track by Flamenco big star, Enrique Morente, who sings the standard classic "Stella by Starlight." *Goya is the equivalent of the Oscars for films in Spanish language. "Bajo las estrellas" starts, and we hear a ukulele, a xylophone; suddenly it bursts a fun rogue melody, with an ubiquitous banjo and a persistent rhythm, as if we were traveling in a ramshackle bus. We are entering the impossible city of Estella (in Navarra, Spain), more imaginary than real, a world fraught with losers who cling to any chance of leading a more 'normal' life. Mikel Salas' music is that of iron, scrap metal and abandoned caravans, rusting, with twilight western instrumentation and lo-fi sound, a succession of instrumental landscapes, almost borderline abstractions that travel along with Benito Lacunza (actor Alberto San Juan) in his journey towards happiness, to the possibility of a remote happiness. In previous conversations between the director and the musician, it was much-discussed Daniel Lanois, and, above all, his album "Shine". Félix Viscarret says that Mikel Salas likes to get into a project before even shooting. But the proper 'revelation' came when "Mikel faced the first editing of the film. That's when we started talking about road music for our peculiar road movie à la navarra, an industrial western, the redemption story of an embarrassment guy, Benito Lacunza, who's going to show us that behind his dirty appearance lies someone with a huge heart." This is Acuarela's first published soundtrack. But it's also almost like any other release this label has got us used to. Almost folk, dark but flooded by rare cracks of light, intimate, warm, sometimes funny and sometimes bleak. Mikel Salas has written and recorded (by himself) the sound of how is traveling on roads filled with dust, deep into the mists of the north, or bordering small towns. And to conclude the record, a surprise: the voice of Enrique Morente and his amazing, magical version of Victor Young's standard "Stella by Starlight, filling the sky with stars.
Acuarela-1080
CD
$13.50

School, The
Let It Slip
PS, SPAIN Only some weeks after letting you know about this amazing new band from Cardiff and their wonderful debut single, "All I wanna do", now it's time to confirm the commotion and clamor their songs are creating amongst the music press and 50s girl-group fans. Rough Trade compares them to Kirsty McColl and CAMERA OBSCURA, Hipersonica to BELLE & SEBASTIAN and THE BEACH BOYS, New York newspaper The Village Voice turns them into a magical daydream of THE RONETTES, weblog Parallax View makes them single of the week and Pitchfork considers them relatives to Phil Spector's wall of sound. And let's not forget about the two radio sessions the band has recorded for British BBC: the first one, last February, for Bethan Elfyn's show on Radio 1, and their second appearance live on the BBC by mid-March, this time for Marc Riley. After such enthusiastic reactions, we cannot do other than euphorically annouce that their second single, "Let it slip", has been released. Born from the same sessions that resulted in "All I wanna do", and with Ian Catt (SAINT ETIENNE, TREMBLING BLUE STARS, NOSOTRÄSH, THE FIELD MICE, SHAMPOO, THE BOO RADLEYS, Kahimi Karie) on production duties, this new single holds four delightful songs: "Let it slip" (which gives the single its name), "I don't believe in love", "I want you back" y "Shoulder". But the best thing about this release is the way it reaffirms our already strong belief in the single format's grandeur, especially when a band such as THE SCHOOL is able to record four songs that could very well be earth-shaking hits.
Elefant-373
CD
$7.50

Scorch Trio, The
Brolt
PS, NORWAY This is the third full-length release from New York's free-spirited power trio, Scorch Trio: Raoul Björkenheim (electric guitar), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (electric bass and electronics), Paal Nilssen-Love (drums and percussion). As with their previous albums Scorch Trio and Luggumt, Brolt is an old school analog recording -- the band set up in one room, instruments and amps miked with vintage microphones, playing live and recording to analog multi-track tape with no overdubs and editing and then mixing down to quarter-inch analog tape. There's a slightly different vibe to Brolt than that of its predecessors, maybe caused by the change of studio or the fact that they specifically set out to make it more of an ensemble recording where all instruments are treated equally. They went into the studio straight after a short, but very hectic tour of Europe and Japan, which may explain the more loose, live feel of many of the tracks. Björkenheim was raised on Hendrix, Zappa and rock music before he discovered Miles, Coltrane, Mingus and Eric Dolphy. He has written film scores and orchestral music and recorded with Bill Laswell, Henry Kaiser, Jah Wobble, Peter Erskine, Paul Schütze, Mats Gustafsson and others. Håker Flaten is a member of The Thing, Atomic, School Days and Free Fall and has his own quintet. He has played with Edvard Vesala, Krakatau and Tony Oxley and many others. Nilssen-Love is the most profiled player on the Norwegian jazz scene. A member of The Thing, School Days, Frode Gjerstad Trio, Atomic and several others, the two most important things for him are energy and creative freedom -- both vital ingredients in the Scorch Trio musical vocabulary.
RuneGrammafon
CD
$16.25

She & Him
Volume 1
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Merge
LP
$15.50

Shearwater
Rook
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$12.50

Shearwater
Rook
PS, US Austin's SHEARWATER return with a hugely ambitious followup to Palo Santo (2006, reissued by Matador 2007). Rook meditates on man's intersection with the natural world: the hunter and the prey; the extinction of species; the world after human beings are gone. On a wider level, the vivid images of animals and landscapes act as a metaphor for human relationships, a dark fairy tale encased in a cycle of songs.
Matador
CD
$12.00

Sirhan Sirhan
Blood
PS, US West Coast (San Diego, hmm) heaviosity, think Melvins meets Black Flag.
Anodyne
CD
$13.00

Small Cities
S-T
PS, US Three friends from the Twin Cities playing well-crafted songs with nostalgic storylines & infectious refrains. The modest 3 piece outfit earned their wings in other Minneapolis bands like Wes Burdine & The Librarians & by swimming in at least three of Minnesota's ten thousand lakes.
CommonCloud
CD5
$6.00

Spiral Ascension
Land, Sea & Sky
PS, US Tribal virtuoso musician extraordinaire, Carl Roessler, and master Guitarist Clive Wright are Spiral Ascension. Spiral Ascension is a fusion of sweeping, synthesizer-driven soundscape beds, overlaid with digitally delayed guitar, richly textured native wind instruments and breezy percussion. Wright is a master of the ebow that he used to affect the discs distinctive guitar sound. With elements drawn from the Brian Eno/Harold Budd ambient sector, Spiral Ascension mix of modern and indigenous instrumentation also speaks to a kind of future/primitive fusion.
DesertSkyMusic-006
CD
$12.25

Spiritualized
Songs in A&E [regular CD version]
PS, US Sixth studio album is an 18 track opus partially inspired by Jason's hospitalization. Songs in A&E finds Mr. Spaceman in minimalist mode, backed by his Acoustic Mainline idealism and arranged thusly: a gospel quartet, a string section, an electric piano and acoustic guitar. THE ONION A.V. CLUB: "Songs In A&E is Pierce's best work since Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space-and easily his most personal. While Pierce's haunting hymns have always been rooted in simplicity, most Spiritualized records have buried them under layers of feedback or gauzy stratosphere. Songs strips them down to their vulnerable core, with Pierce's voice sounding unnervingly ragged on confessionals like "Death Take Your Fiddle," backed by a mournful choir and the morbid whooshing of a ventilator. But even for an album whose final words are "funeral home" (on the heartbreaking eulogy "Goodnight, Goodnight"), there's still plenty of uplift, from the Can-esque freak-blues of "I Gotta Fire" and "Yeah Yeah" to the gospel sing-along of "Soul On Fire," which boasts one of the most stirring choruses Pierce has ever written. Death has never sounded so alive."
Spaceman/Universal
CD
$12.25

State Bird
Mostly Ghostly
PS, US Sophomore collaboration between Coby Hartzler & Jared Riblet, expounds upon their manic, earthy, mantras, presenting a captivating album & a cornucopia of sound, earnest & brave... unfettered even. With towering contributions from the rest of the tribe, Mostly Ghostly finds State Bird with their feet planted firmly in the soil, heads in the clouds, gazing into the blinding sun. "I need the light to help me grow," howls one chorus. And grow they have. Throughout the 35 and a half minutes of Mostly Ghostly, State Bird forges deeper into their folk/country roots, summoning joyous revivals & invoking hallowed tribal dirges, while vacant
guitars & drunken choirs lament the extinction of an age when life was sacred & man was grateful.
RecordMachine
CD
$11.75

Steinski
What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006
PS, US Steinski has produced a variety of tracks & this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about
the Kennedy assassination to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa's "Jazz" with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release will also includes the critically acclaimed "Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix," an hour-long mashup that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by Salon as, "the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced" and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with The Lessons) to Girl Talk's Night Ripper.
IllegalArt
DCD
$16.25

Tape
Luminarium
PS, SWEDEN This is the eagerly-awaited fourth album from the Stockholm-based trio of Tape, comprised of Andreas and Johan Berthling and Tomas Hallonsten. Taking cues both from pop, experimentalism and minimalism, Tape's sound has become recognized internationally and is clearly unique. Their first album Opera was released on the Häpna imprint (Johan is a co-owner) in 2002. Working intuitively, all by themselves, they created mini-symphonies out of electronic sounds paired with a stunning melodic lyricism. With an array of electronic and acoustic instruments at hand, they recorded at a small stone barn on the island of Öland, east of Sweden. 2003 saw the release of Milieu, recorded at the very same barn. These recordings had a more arranged feeling and a clear pop sensibility in some parts. In 2005, they went to Cologne to have Marcus Schmickler produce and record their third album, Rideau. This was done in his Piethopraxis studio and his involvement left traces; an almost architectonical approach was taken and some of the intimacy that characterized the first two albums were replaced by a harder edge. This new album is a luminarium of sound where past and present merge at the speed of light. A world which lets itself be sensed, not known; the first light of your rosy-fingered youth; birches and concrete, touch and go.
Hapna-042
CD
$16.25

Times New Viking
Paisley Reich
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Siltbreeze
LP
$12.00

Ting Tings
We Started Nothing
PS, US A debut album brimming w/intuitive pop noise. It's pure garage-pop & once heard will in-bed itself into your subconscious for many days, weeks, months to come. Snappy choruses trade off against angular guitar work, whip smart drumming & a succession of loops that they create live w/the use of delay pedals.
RedInk/Columbia
CD
$13.25

Torche
Meanderthal
PS, US Copious hooks abound & psychedelic swarms of drone weave throughout riff-wizardry on vinyl.
RoboticEmpire
LP
$18.75

Ueno
Sui-Gin
PS, AUSTRALIA Ueno, along with his partner Saya, is one of the core members of Tenniscoats, who've released a number of fantastic discs of straight up melodic to the core sing-songing joy. 2007 saw the release of Tenniscoat's 'Totemo Aimasho' for ROOM40 and 'Tan Tan Therapy' for Häpna/Headz. In addition to his contributions to the Tenniscoats mothership, Ueno has released a string of solo releases, most of which explore his engaging approach to the guitar. 'Two Things Always Happen Simultaneously' released in 2003 on Majikick as a cdr and then re-issued two years later as a 'proper' Cd on Commune-Disc lays the foundations. Whilst it is more explicitly a guitar record than what goes down on Sui-Gin, the Fahey-esque finger-picking that would otherwise plant him firmly within the Takoma school (Ueno's cat is not called 'Fahey' without reason) is willfully offset by Ueno's technique of recording multiple overdubs without recourse to the original. There might be a little of that on 'Sui-Gin' (Japanese for mercury), too. Either way, there is an ongoing slippage between intention and accident in the complex mesh of notes, and Ueno sends himself further away from any superficial 12-string Tacoma purism by plugging his guitar into a moog ring-mod and completing erasing its original sound. What you hear on 'sui-gin' is 9 tracks of alien beauty that sit somewhere between Derek Bailey and Mouse on Mars' 'Instrumentals' lp. Takashi Ueno plays 12 string acoustic guitar & Moog ring modulator. "For an instrument that when presented solo often brings to mind a clutter of reference points, Ueno Takashi's playing is stubbornly his own and (((hasunosu))) suggests we are hearing but the first offerings of an increasingly vital proponent of contemporary Japanese guitar composition." Signal To Noise.
Room40-428
CD
$15.00

Uncut
#134 (July 2008) [Magazine + CD]
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

Various
Gigantic: A Tribute To Kim Deal
PS, US A tribute to one of the most influential and certainly one of the coolest rock chicks of all time. This tribute is a pure labor of love for the label and features indie-rockers from all over the globe covering Kim's impressive body of work. Songs Kim's written for The Breeders and The Amps are covered with utter reverence here. Liner notes by Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders). Mastered by Sean Glonek (Frank Black, OK Go, Kristin Hersh, Dresden Dolls, Mogwai). Produced by Joseph Spadaro (Dig For Fire - a tribute to Pixies, Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity). Original album art by David Yurchuk. Limited edition pressing. Tracklist: 01. The She / WITCH HATS 02. Bragging Party / THE GERMAN ART STUDENTS 03. Cannonball / THE WHEELERS 04. Tipp City / TARA KING TH 05. Do You Love Me Now / MELISSA GIBBS 06. Fortunately Gone / JULIE PEEL 07. Off You / FRANCINE 08. Doe / RIZZO 09. I Just Want To Get Along / DESCARTES A KANT 10. Invisible Man / THE NUEVOS 11. Safari / THE DOUGLAS FIR 12. When I Was A Painter / LE TETSUO 13. Divine Hammer / THE MODIFIERS.
AmericanLaundromat-013
CD
$11.00

Various
Radio Myanmar
PS, US This is a special opportunity for listeners to delve behind the headlines & into the airwaves; to hear for themselves the sounds, rhythms, & voices of urban Burma's radio experience, unfiltered by the international press or state-spokesmen. Due in part to the near-blackout of all foreign music on state airwaves, the few FM stations that do exist in Yangon & Bago divisions, transmit a rather bizarre assortment of music from 7am to 9pm: synth ballads, hip-hop jingles, & internationally popular songs re-recorded in Burmese. This release also feat. assorted tracks recorded between 1994-2002, highlighting many wonderfully strange
& beautiful pop, folk, & classical music styles
Sublime
CD
$16.25

Various
We Are All Circling the Stars
PS, UK An outstanding 30 track 2CD compilation of fresh faced troubadours and more seasoned songsmiths, solo artists and bands, bringing sounds that encompass everything from shimmering folk pop to sun drenched psychedelia and cosmic avant-country. There's Fence Collective head honcho King Creosote with the sea shanty-esque alt-folk of 'Russian Sailor Shirts' Diane Cluck's minimalist anti-folk gem 'Dilapidalliance' the low-fi jam band sounds of Diamond Caverns 'Monkey Mind' the beautiful traditional English folk of Mary Hampton's 'Silver Dagger', The Skygreen Leopards sunshine acid folk-pop nugget 'Sally Orchid', Donovan Quinn's laid back, west coast, avant-country 'Rabbit Tracks', Beth Jeans Houghton's folk pop pearl 'Milk Bottles' and Papercuts indie-pop 'Sandy'. We Are All Circling The Stars mixes some more established artists with the musical talent of tomorrow and as such stands as an important document containing the cream of artists that walk the narrow forest path between singer/songwriter, wyrd-folk strangeness and beyond.
CosmosRecordings
DCD
$18.25

Various
Gigantic: A Tribute To Kim Deal
PS, US A tribute to one of the most influential and certainly one of the coolest rock chicks of all time. This tribute is a pure labor of love for the label and features indie-rockers from all over the globe covering Kim's impressive body of work. Songs Kim's written for The Breeders and The Amps are covered with utter reverence here. Liner notes by Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Breeders). Mastered by Sean Glonek (Frank Black, OK Go, Kristin Hersh, Dresden Dolls, Mogwai). Produced by Joseph Spadaro (Dig For Fire - a tribute to Pixies, Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity). Original album art by David Yurchuk. Limited edition pressing. Tracklist: 01. The She / WITCH HATS 02. Bragging Party / THE GERMAN ART STUDENTS 03. Cannonball / THE WHEELERS 04. Tipp City / TARA KING TH 05. Do You Love Me Now / MELISSA GIBBS 06. Fortunately Gone / JULIE PEEL 07. Off You / FRANCINE 08. Doe / RIZZO 09. I Just Want To Get Along / DESCARTES A KANT 10. Invisible Man / THE NUEVOS 11. Safari / THE DOUGLAS FIR 12. When I Was A Painter / LE TETSUO 13. Divine Hammer / THE MODIFIERS.
AmericanLaundromat-013
CD
$12.25

Various
Let's Ride: 20 Popsike Excursions from the UK & Europe, Fairytakes Can Come True Volume 3.
VA: Let's Ride: 20 Popsike Excursions from the UK & Europe CD (PC 7022CD). ...Fairytakes Can Come True Volume 3. The Psychic Circle label has visited this Neverland twice before, and due to the great response, they're going back for yet another trip. This time you'll meet a suitably freaked-out Irish showband, an American band transported to Paris, a family band from Fulham, a Scottish supergroup in the making, plus a whole lot more. The many-hued charabanc is fuelled and ready to depart. Climb aboard, wrap your paisley travel rugs around your vertically-striped hipsters and Let's Ride. Compiled by legendary psych musician and Psychic Circle label-head, Nick Saloman (The Bevis Frond). Artists include: Sight & Sound, Winston G, Hubert Thomas Valverde & The HTs, Royalty, Les Irresistibles, Stoics, Grand Union, Barry Benson, Graham Bonney, Katch 22, My Kind Of People, Mike Batt, The Chanters, Des James, Unit 4 + 2, Tony Hazzard, The Newmens, Dave Christie, White Lining and Equip 84.
PsychicCircle-7022
CD
$16.25

Various
Lo Dubs Presents Analog Clash, Mixed By 6Blocc
PS, US Lo Dubs is pleased to present Analog Clash, our first Compact Disc, mixed by LA's 6Blocc, and destined to become the Rosetta stone of the Dubstep sound emanating from all regions of the Americas. From Toronto by way of DZ, Bombaman, XI, and the Doom metal group Nadja (Remixed by Vex'd, an exclusive to this release), to Venezuela via Pachecko and Cardopusher, and back to the middle with Philadelphia's own Starkey and the mighty South3rn of Texas, all the earth encompassing the two continents is represented in a release that may very well be the first of it's kind to represent the movement on this side of the pond. As a mix, 6Blocc has demonstrated once again his ability to thrill, compiling a hour-plus recording that weaves through Lo Dubs diverse list of releases, in addition to a host of unheard recordings, many of which will be featured on 12"s in their own right in the months following the CD release, thus continuing the cross pollination process. As a bonus, included is a second disc, containing every Lo Dubs release to date, in full CD audio format, mastered to perfection. This will be THE ONLY WAY any Lo Dubs releases will be available in such a high quality digital format, a point which will be made clear in all aspects of promoting this release. Key points of blag/boast: *Multitude of exclusive tunes, including a remix of the ultra prolific group know as Nadja, Remixed by the one and only Vex'd, and Solvent, known via releases on Ghostly, suction, etc. *Full color, highly evocative artwork, packaged as a 2CD jewel case. Front sticker explaining release, exclusivity. *6Blocc just returned to LA, having just blazed a trail of over 30 dates throughout Western/Eastern Europe, playing many of these tracks on Dub Plate to huge response. *the only way digital DJ's will be able to procure these tracks in digital .wav form is this release, period. *full color posters and postcards. Full press blitz in the works. No dizzah. CD1: 6blocc DJ Mix 1: DZ Feat. Awaken Lion - Chalice Dub 2: Starkey - Dementia 3: Nadja - Alien In My Own Skin (Vex'd V.I.P. RMX) 4: Solvent - Think Like Us (Bombaman RMX) 5: XI - G Funk-3000 6: DZ/XI - Guns at Dawn 7: South3rn - Fully Loaded 8: DZ - That Bongo Dub 9: Hoodz - Clash 10: Pacheko - Bi Polar Bear 11: Pacheko - Bi Polar Bear (Starkey RMX) 12: Pacheko - Tryouts 13: Pacheko - Tryouts (Cardopusher RMX) 14: 6blocc - Give the DJ a Break 2008 15: Cardopusher - Milk Thistle 16: XI - Lucky 17: South3rn - Mangione Tribe Dub CD2: Unmixed CD audio tracks 1. Starkey - Dementia 2. LOSBUD1207002 A 3. LOSBUD1207002 B 4. South3rn - Mangione Tribe Dub 5. South3rn - La Rana 6. Solvent - Think Like Us (RMX) . Bombaman - Rise Against 8. LOSBUD1208004 A 9. DZ Feat. Awaken Lion - Chalice 10. DZ - That Bongo Dub 11. South3rn - Fully Loaded 12. South3rn - Muslim Dub.
LoDubs-1208001
DCD
$12.25

Vegetable Orchestra, The
Remixed
PS, ITALY The Vegetable Orchestra are from Vienna and they use musical instruments made out of vegetables: using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens. The music represents an isomorphism of electronic music and the structure of the sounds produced by the vegetables. The concept of this remix project is the interpretation and reconstruction of electronic music with organic means by using the original vegetable sounds and samples. Karmarouge Records has invited well-respected international artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Gabriel Ananda, Frank Martiniq, Oliver Hacke, Märtini Brös, Anja Schneider, Basteroid and Sian to take part and create their individual vegetable sound interpretation. Armed with vegetable samples, a sequencer and a hand-held blender, it's up to them to show the world how to brew a large portion of minimal techno out of ginger, leek and onions, how to buzz the pumpkin bass and cook a delicate celery soup. Listen to the vegetables!
Karmarouge
CD
$16.25

Venus
Summer 2008
PS, US Hip Hop issue with Missy Elliott on the cover. Also featuring Zooey Deschanel, Kim Gordon, Santogold, and Erykah Badu. Features include: 10 Artists to Watch, World's Quirkiest Music Joints and more.
ZINE
$4.25

Wainwright, Rufus
S-T
PS, US Showered w/critical praise upon its '98 release, his debut album established him as the massive talent that he remains today. The debut pop classic from one of this generation's most important artists. Available on vinyl for the very 1st time.
Plain
LP
$20.75

Walter Meego
Voyager
PS, US Justin Sconza & Colin Yarck, the heart & soul (respectively) of the group, are two rare suburban white boys who intuitively understand the subliminal power of synthy, salacious bass. Effervescent pop is their specialty, & it flies out of speakers like a Pegasus riding a cheetah. Truth is, it's a happy coincidence that the sound comes out of these two guys from Chicago. More than anything they're worshippers of the 'alternative pop years' between 1988 & 1994. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Chicago dance-pop duo Walter Meego have a bright and shiny sound that places them firmly on the "daft" end of the daft punk spectrum. Their debut album, Voyager, is 40 minutes of fat synths, shimmering vocoders, jumpy beats, and glittering hooks that will have you in a post-disco narcotic haze of happiness by the end."
AlmostGold
CD
$13.25

Weezer
S-T (The Red Album)
PS, US New album.
Geffen
CD
$16.75

Weezer
S-T (The Red Album) [expanded deluxe edition]
PS,US Limited Deluxe Edition of their 2008 album features four bonus tracks over the standard version and comes housed in a special digipak, with a deluxe booklet containing lyrics, photos, liner notes and band commentary on the songs. Weezer, one of the biggest and most influential bands of the last decade will, for the third time in its six-album history, release a self-titled album already being referred to by people as The Red Album. Comprised of sessions produced by Rick Rubin, Jacknife Lee and the band itself, the album is adventurous and undeniably Weezer. The first single, the quirky and catchy 'Pork and Beans', was recorded under the watch of the Irishman Lee and already a Modern Rock smash hit.
Geffen
CD
$20.00

Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Heartcore
PS, US Together, the Swedish duo of charismatic singer Mariam Wallentin & drummer Andreas Werliin have forged an extraordinary hybrid of spiritual pop, primal blues, & ecstatic soul music. Seesawing between pagan rhythms & sparse, bewitching ballads, this self-produced debut is a declaration of intent: immediate, exhilarating, & just plain new. PITCHFORK: "Despite its simple ingredients, Heartcore is neither native nor instinctual. "Primal" or "sparse" miss the point, too; Heartcore, instead, is cleverly orchestrated pop music preternaturally reliant on the skills of its performers: Both Werliin and Wallentin were music school dropouts, and their technically sound playing disguises the complexity and range of Heartcore's material." Score: 8.0
Leaf
CD
$15.25

Winning
Could We Believe In Magic?
PS, CANADA Vancouver trio, Winnings sophomore full length is as dour and uncomfortable as it is playful. Its a paradigm sprouted from the seed of improvisation, but nurtured from a dark and claustrophobic sentiment. Structurally, Could We Believe In Magic? has it's hands in a variety of extremes. It runs the gamut, from an apparent abandonment of traditional tempo and structure, to, at least comparatively, more conventional composition. Last year's, This Is An For Cigarettes, Winning's debut album, was a tangled and puzzling foray into rocks most experimental corners, abandoning rhythm, and structure almost completely; Only Magazine called it ...a clumsy acrobatic act beneath the Big Top of punk rock. And Magic is, no doubt, a logical continuation of such acrobatics; the most notable difference being much larger occurrences of coherency. Melody and structure are gestured at; sometimes completed, and sometimes spun quickly out of control. One may assume that these moments of melody (are we bold enough to call them 'choruses?'), would smooth out Winning's cumbersome disposition. But it is arguable that the exact opposite is true. Much like how one warm day will make the cold ones feel colder; these moments create a reference point for normalcy. The pop insinuations on Magic are equally as baffling as the free structured ones.
Ache-037
CD
$13.25

Wire Magazine
#292
PS, UK
ZINE
$10.25

WRNLRD
Oneiromantical War
PS, US Working with guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo, synths & samples; Wrnlrd throws metal, industrial, noise, dark ambient & folk musics into a blackened & bubbling cauldron. Wrnlrd records spontaneous, wordless vocalizations & details the lyrics later, improvises massed guitar tones, buries samples deep into the mix & brings the disruptive & unpredictable elements of improvisation & chance into recording. ONE TIME PRESSING OF 500 on 180 gram vinyl in a gatefold jacket with metallic ink artwork. Comes with digital download code.
FlingcoSoundSystem-01
LP
$21.75

Forthcoming Releases

1900s, The
Everybody's Got A Collection (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008)
NO PS, US New 7" vinyl phonograph single from Chicago psych-pop troupe, featuring two non-album tracks. White wax, black jacket, real posh.
Parasol-039
45
$3.50

Abe Vigoda
Skeleton (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US This is a twisted joy ride through the four boys' private party. Soothing parts that remind you of Captain Beefheart & My Bloody Valentine, or some punk w/ a haunting reggaeton pulse that makes you move. When the record is done after a little more than 30 mins., you are left feeling that there is something they are trying to tell you, on second listen it smacks you in the face.
PostPresentMedium
CD
$11.50

Action Biker
Hesperian Puisto (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, SWEDEN It really is time for Action Biker's first solo album! It has now been six years since she emerged as an artist doing fun and popular live shows and releasing CD-R's in the indie pop scene of Gothenburg, Sweden, which included people like Jens Lekman and The Honeydrips. Since then, Sarah Nyberg Pergament has been involved in other projects, such as Flow Flux Clan, Kissing Mirrors and The Dreamers, whose record "Day For Night" has received great acclaim from different places around the world. Over the years, Sarah has also performed lots of Action Biker shows (some, as an opening act for Le Tigre and The Embassy), contributed to recordings with Lars Blek (The Field), Differnet and The Honeydrips, and all this time, new recordings with Action Biker have popped up on compilations and singles. In brief, when "Hesperian Puisto" finally is released, it means the début of someone with a lot of experienceŠ The record is named after the Hesperian park in Helsinki, Finland, where Sarah lived for a while. She describes her music as baroque on synthesizers. It is pop music built on complex naivety - altogether very accessible music with distinct vocals and a crispy, sweet, analogue sound. Two great-looking videos are also included on the CD. References and Influences: Young Marble Giants, Broadcast, Dislocation Dance, Moondog, Virna Lindt, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Antena, Francoise Hardy, Saint Etienne, Brian Eno, Ghost Box, Stereolab, Fred Astaire, Maurice Ravel, ESG, Komeda, Cluster, Flying Lizards, Syd Barrett, The Passions, St Christopher, John Barry, Can, Human League, Colleen, Marine Girls, Eric Dolphy, Telex, George Delerue, The Wake, Kraftwerk, Lori & The Chameleons, Differnet.
FriendlyNoise-69
CD
$13.50

Anniversary
Devil On Our Side: B-Sides and Rarities (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Posthumous from the 5-piece Lawrence, KS group. A two disc set featuring tons of rarities, b-sides, compilation tracks and more.
Vagrant
DCD
$13.75

Architecture In Helsinki
Like it or Not EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US The Australian sextet is back with their 3rd single from their critically lauded new album Places Like This. The band has been on a tear since the album's release in fall of 2007, selling over 25,000 copies in the US in under a year. On top of that, they made their debut on the Billboard charts in the first week of release, peaked at #3 on the CMJ Top 200, and sold out several clubs nationwide on their fall 2007 tour. With the Like It or Not EP, the band finally records "One Heavy February" and "Beef in Box," which are two long-time crowd favorites from their live shows, to accompany the single version of "Like It or Not". To top it off there is a "Like It or Not" remix by one of 2008 biggest buzz bands, El Guincho.
Polyvinyl-157
CD5
$7.25

Au
Verbs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Sophomore record from acclaimed Portland experimental pop collective, which, in its swirling depths and subtleties, promises to be one of this year's most satisfying surprises. Verbs is padded out with contributions from nearly thirty collaborators, a list which includes members of YELLOW SWANS, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, and EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND, among many others-inadvertently resulting in a strange & singular snapshot of the city's. famously sprawling musical community. The resulting record seamlessly segues through new & unlikely ecstatic extremes with an arresting economy.
Aagoo
CD
$12.00

Band In Box
This Fiction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK Debut album from Swedish act featuring members of Buren.
StereoTestKit
CD
$12.25

Be Your Own Pet
Get Damaged (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, UK While the follow-up, Get Awkward, is gearing up to rival the attention bestowed on their self titled debut - even more attention is now being paid to this EP of songs missing from the US version of the album. Get Damaged contains three tracks banned from release in the US by their major record.
XL
CD5
$5.50

Beach Boys, The
U.S. Singles Collection Box [deluxe limited edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US 16 CDs! Super Deluxe Edition features recreations of the first 16 singles of the Beach Boys Catalog (1962-65), including accurate reproductions of the original sleeves and labels. Packaged in a board-wrapped, telescoping box featuring a retro chrome appliance sticker, and a variety of textures including gloss & rubber coatings, inlaid wood veneer and a foil stamp. 48 -page casebound photo book with 8 vellum pages is wrapped in mock sand. Accordion-folding credits folder. C-shaped card with titles, legal lines and barcode wraps over top, back and bottom of box under shrinkwrap.
Capitol
CD-BOX
$131.00

Black Sun Ensemble
Across the Sea of Id: The Way to Eden (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US Quite possibly the final BSE release after an illustrious career of nearly 25 years. It marks a return to the beloved semi-acoustic style of their first few releases, and also - due to public demand! - contains no vocals. It is a mixture of new readings of past tracks & new compositions. The new material offers a singular, dreamy vision of BSE's potentially final works. The two title tracks, Across the Sea of Id and Eden Song, are reflective, yet hallucinatory explorations into Jesus Acedo's unique compositional & melodic sensibility. While Angel de la Guardia has a refined yet explosive rock swagger, it is balanced by the meditation Perelandra & La Paz. The CD also contains a video of the band performing the signature BSE piece "Dove of the Desert"
CameraObscura
CD
$14.00

Blackshaw, James
Litany of Echoes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Blackshaw's 6th studio album in 5 years, shows a more mature, focused and accessable. Featuring Blackshaw adding some glistening piano work for the first time and Fran Bury returning to play sweeping string parts.
TompkinsSquare
CD
$15.00

Bowerbirds
Hymns For A Dark Horse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Only once every ten years or so does one hear a new band this good, this bursting with ideas, this audibly in love with musicŠ It is beyond stunning. This band is the complete package." Ears tend to perk up when a record review sings praises like these, especially when the praises come from the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, as they did recently on his Last Plane to Jakarta website hailing the BOWERBIRDS' debut album, "Hymns for a Dark Horse." DEAD OCEANS is overjoyed to be sharing the sounds of Bowerbirds with listeners worldwide. "Hymns for a Dark Horse" was originally released in July of 2007 on BURLY TIME RECORDS, and now will be issued in an expanded form featuring TWO BONUS TRACKS. Upon the initial release of the album, Pitchfork graced it with an 8.4 and "recommended" stamp of approval, saying: "[Bowerbirds] churn out deceptively pleasing folksongs about plants and animals and the unforgivable things we do to them... hypnotically pretty and a little bit weird, characteristics of the very best kind of Americana music. Bowerbirds do for backyards what the Hold Steady's done for parking lots-- translated place into sound.
DeadOceans-017
CD
$11.50

Bowerbirds
Hymns For A Dark Horse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Only once every ten years or so does one hear a new band this good, this bursting with ideas, this audibly in love with musicŠ It is beyond stunning. This band is the complete package." Ears tend to perk up when a record review sings praises like these, especially when the praises come from the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, as they did recently on his Last Plane to Jakarta website hailing the BOWERBIRDS' debut album, "Hymns for a Dark Horse." DEAD OCEANS is overjoyed to be sharing the sounds of Bowerbirds with listeners worldwide. "Hymns for a Dark Horse" was originally released in July of 2007 on BURLY TIME RECORDS, and now will be issued in an expanded form featuring TWO BONUS TRACKS. Upon the initial release of the album, Pitchfork graced it with an 8.4 and "recommended" stamp of approval, saying: "[Bowerbirds] churn out deceptively pleasing folksongs about plants and animals and the unforgivable things we do to them... hypnotically pretty and a little bit weird, characteristics of the very best kind of Americana music. Bowerbirds do for backyards what the Hold Steady's done for parking lots-- translated place into sound.
DeadOceans-017
LP
$11.50

Brother Kite, The/Plumerai
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Track Listing: Plumerai "Vacant Eyes". The Brother Kite "We Can Never Be Friends". LIMITED to 500 copies. Clear vinyl in see-thru package. An idea hatched during the recording of Plumerai's "Without Number" CD out on Silber Records. The thought was to strip away the pedals and even electricity and release a record that would simultaneously draw upon the band's ability to evoke emotions and utilize one of the band's noted strengths; the intimacy and power of Elizabeth Ezell's voice. After consideration they sought out The Brother Kite to record a track for the flipside. A Clairecords staple and another top-notch New England band known for their shoegaze influences, they seemed like a perfect match for the concept of stripping down their sound and writing an acoustic track.. Plumerai's "Vacant Eyes" relies more heavily on orchestration and layering of instruments such as acoustic guitar, reed organ, violin (arranged and performed by Clara Kebabian) and bells to accompany Ezell. While The Brother Kite's "We Can Never Be Friends" is a more basic track with acoustic guitars and a catchy vocal melody carrying the song. This stunning and beautiful record comes on coke bottle-clear vinyl and is limited to 500 copies.
Clairecords-077
45
$5.25

Brown Bird
Bottom of the Sea (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST)
PS, US Dark Americana trio have brought subtly disturbing lyrics dressed in soothing harmonies to those who will listen since 2003. Their sound ranges from simple sea-shanty style folk to complex counterpoints with an Eastern European flavor. Their influences of indie, classical, and old american hymns rise and fall within their songs like whitecaps on a dark and stormy sea. For fans of John Prine, Dirty Three, and Low.
PeapodRecordings
CD
$10.50

Camper Van Beethoven
Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US
CookingVinyl
CD
$14.25

Cannabis Corpse
Tube of the Resinated (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US This collects evil shredding & devilish melodies of ghoulish hunger, balanced out w/ steamrolling death metal grooves & set to an old-school battery of blasts & kick-work. Spidery bass lines & growling vocals relate ironic weed-laced tales of gore & murder (w/ a bit of heavy-handed humor), creating a reality that incl the existence of bloodthirsty bud monsters & mysterious death-dealing weed-cults. Reeking w/ pungent infectiousness.
RoboticEmpire
LP
$16.00

Carr, Derek
The Digital Space Race (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, IRELAND Derek Carr is one of Ireland's unsung heroes of soulful techno. Derek has been making music for almost 2 decades now (if you include his early experiments as a 14 year old with a Casio sampler). Following many releases over the past 7 years on a wide variety of electronic labels now comes his anticipated debut album for Psychonavigation Records.. 'The Digital Space Race' compiles ten tracks of sublime electronic music that can be enjoyed equally in the stoned privacy of your home or on the dance floor. For fans of John Beltran,B12,The Black Dog, Carl Craig... this is an essential record.
Psychonavigation-025
CD
$15.50

Chap
Mega Breakfast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST)
PS, US They've become known & loved for their inimitable pop/improv/disco/rock-with-strings sound & a furiously rocking live show, complete w/ dance routines. It's the sound of the search for a heart of gold in a world gone cold. It deals w/ sex issues, depression & classic economics. It's all infectious, blistering pop music, but all the while something is deliciously wrong here, making for what is sure to be one of the most intriguing releases of 2008.
GhostlyInternational
CD
$12.75

Charlatans UK, The
You Cross My Path [deluxe edition] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Expanded version of the new album. The Charlatans' tenth studio album, You Cross My Path, is nothing less than a masterpiece - only the latest triumph, in a career which has been positively stuffed with them. It was one of the most talked-about records in recent years, before anyone had even heard a note of it. It was first released in early March in MP3 format, via alternative radio station Xfm's website. In a revolutionary move, The Charlatans were charging their fans not a penny to own and enjoy their latest music. You Cross My Path includes some of the most euphoric music the Charlatans have ever made - some of the most disturbed, too. Like on a classic Cure or New Order record, Blunt's basslines lead from the front, for a driving, danceable sound, which is both nostalgic and fiercely contemporary.
CookingVinyl
DCD
$16.75

Cloudland Canyon/Lichens
Exterminating Angel (PRE-ORDER SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US This single 30-min. track (split into 2 parts on the LP version) uses voice, guitar, samplers, & ARP synthesizer. Here are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft that's a combination Death Star & Taco Bell from the 70s filled w/ Mayan temples & pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed
reptilian beings.
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Cobalt
Landfill Breastmilk Beast (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Feat. an appearance by ex-SWANS singer JARBOE. Clocking in at over 50 mins, this previews new & excl. material. "Ritual Use of Fire" is an epic 35+ min. Atmospheric/ambient journey through a landscape of desolation, loneliness, & desperation. Incl. a new track, "Stomach", a cover of "Extinction" by crust punk anarchists Nausea, & a hidden experimental track.
ProfoundLore
CD
$10.00

Dead End Armory
Hope You're Good (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST)
PS, US 4 piece rock band that's equal parts Texas-style indie rock and New England wintercore. Their sound ranges from spare, solemn songs that bring to mind The Red House Painters, early Low, to the cacophonous noise of "Sister" era Sonic Youth or classic Crazy Horse. "The vocals are a perfect match for the sonic scenes behind them, whether it's driving, straight-ahead rock or a field of sparse cymbal tings and snare cracks with ghostly guitar whines in the distance" - The Bollard
PeapodRecordings
CD
$10.50

Dinosaur Jr.
Hand It Over [re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US 1997 album now re-issued.
RhinoEncore
CD
$13.75

DJ Scotch Egg
Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$14.00

DJ Scotch Egg
Drumized (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Powerful cosmic energy using the simplest tools available: 4 Nintendo Gameboys & mixer. Not a noisy release by any
means, instead a fully activated set of lean muscular gabber pop music that stares boldly into the sun with the jihad of a suicide vest full of gummi bears. Drumized takes cues from older trad jazz, Earache era gabber & some of your better ringtones.
Load
CD
$12.50

Duchess and the Duke, The
She's The Duchess, He's The Duke (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US
HardlyArt
CD
$10.75

Duchess and the Duke, The
She's The Duchess, He's The Duke (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HardlyArt
LP
$10.75

Durutti Column, The
Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, UK "Sunlight to blue ... Blue to blackness" - This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective new album from The Durutti Column. Vini Reilly has recorded under the name The Durutti Column since 1978 and has a rich portfolio of work, releasing over 15 albums in this time, but Reilly has been through some dark times the past year. In a conscious response to his last two polished and studio based releases he has created some sparse, simply beautiful 'sketches' as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are simply instrumentals played on his Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to 'Without Mercy' for the last track 'Grief' and reinvents 'Never Known' from LC. This release also sees the debut of a talented young pianist and singer, Poppy Morgan, who co-wrote the melancholy Ananda as a duet with what Reilly dryly calls 'intrusive guitar'. For the uninitiated, Vini was the first artist signed to Manchester's influential Factory Records, co-wrote and played on Morrissey's first solo album 'Viva Hate', and was heavily featured in the film about Manchester music culture, '24 Hour Party People'. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this return of The Durutti Column. Track listing: 1. Glimpse 2. Contact 3. Messages 4. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys! 5. Ged 6. Never Known Version 7. Anada 8. Head Glue 9. Demo For Gathering Dust 10. Wordless 11. Grief.
Kooky-027
CD
$17.75

Eden Express
Que Amors Que (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Kip Uhlhorn (CLOUDLAND CANYON), Kelly Uhlhorn, & John David Lovelace. Their debut is a lush, tropical album formed by a decadent love of drink, the non-erotic possibilities of equestrian ownership, & a finely tuned sense of the dark supernatural side of things. It's like castle rock w/
warm, white sand beaches.
HolyMountain
CD
$16.00

Eksi Ekso
I Am Your Bastard Wings (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US At the edge of an impossibly calm reservoir, face down among broken glass & apocalyptic debris, you have no identification... no recollection of how you ended up here. This duality is the thematic arc here. Forged w/ a sense of triumph & hope when everything else has been eradicated, this pendulates over the fine balance between creation & annihilation: at one second breathy, calm, & sparse; followed immediately by snaking melodies, unrelenting density & climactic cacophony. The latest brainchild from the creative forces behind THE BURNING PARIS & ON FIRE
MagicBullet
CD
$14.50

Endless Boogie
Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US This NYC four-piece started out as an "old man hobby" and turned into the best psychedelic rock 'n' roll band in the city (maybe country, possibly world). Endless Boogie jam, then jam some more. They lock in grooves so tight there's no escape - like entering a black hole, that last second stretches out forever. The only thing keeping them from living up to their name is the physics of the compact disc. The perfect soundtrack to hot summer nights. Hanging out in the basement. Smoking figs in the yard. The double LP is presented in a deluxe old-style tip-on gatefold jacket and comes with a bonus track and digital download coupon.
NoQuarter
CD
$13.25

Endless Boogie
Focus Level (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
NoQuarter
DLP
$16.50

Enduser
Left (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, GERMANY Tracklisting: Interruption 4, Black Light, Retaliation, Of View. Fear, Black Light [scorn remix], Stillness (re-edit), Chaos (re-edit). Info: End.User is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music releases across many platforms have built him into a juggernaut. A usually prolific artist, having recorded for Hymen, Ad Noiseam, Sublight, cargo, and many others, he took 2007 off, working on something very special: his debut on Ohm Resistance and the 2x12'' vinyl version on Hymen Records. Having relocated to San Francisco, a new lease on his creative power is demonstrated adroitly over the entire album Furthermore, there are two re-edits on side d which are vinyl-only tracks!
Hymen-055
DLP
$21.75

Feelies, The
Crazy Rhythms [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1980 and featuring a noisy angular sound that's somewhere between Krautrock, the Velvet Undergound, & New Wave. Massively infuential to bands as wide-ranging as R.E.M. & Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. A post-punk classic back in print for the first time in many years.
Water
CD
$14.00

Flaherty, Paul & Randall Colbourne
Bridge Out! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Don't call it a comeback. "Bridge Out!," the first release in almost a decade by the outlaw duo of saxophonist PAUL FLAHERTY and percussionist RANDALL COLBOURNE, is better thought of as a renewal, a reawakening of a collaboration which has lain dormant for too long. Joining forces in the late 1980s, these two New Englanders released over a dozen uncompromising albums of avant-garde jazz on their own and other labels that have since vanished into legend. Since then, Flaherty has expanded across the world stage in improv, out-rock and noise (with Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wally Shoup, etc.) while Colbourne pursued private study. Together again, they've created eight instant compositions of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns that commemorates the past celebrates the new. Includes liner notes by Nick Cain.
FamilyVineyard-055
CD
$11.50

Friska Viljor
Tour de Hearts (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN Second album from Swedish duo.
CryingBob
CD
$15.00

Giffoni, Carlos
Zamuro (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in a heavy stock screen-printed jacket. Numbered. A Zamuro is a dark South American vulture of great size. Zamuro is also a solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter. Side A on this LP is a live realization of this piece recorded at the Compound in San Francisco in 2006 (Mastered by Lasse Marhaug). Carlos composed and performed this piece live on several tours in the US/Europe/Japan all trough out 2006 and 2007, if you saw him live in those two years this is the piece he performed. This was the most complete version of it that made it to tape. Side B is a studio piece recorded live on a much larger modular synth, based around the same theme, but with structural and tonal variations not in the original composition. .This is pure psychedelic electronic music.
Important-201
LP
$19.50

Government Issue
HarDCore (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Over 2 years in the making! This feat. 3 gigs from 1982, 1985 1988 + a John Stabb interview & liner notes from Stabb & Tom Lyle. Painstakingly comiled by Tom Lyle himself. These shoes haven't been seen in years! Great quality too!
Dr.Strange
DVD
$12.00

Head Like A Kite
There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US "There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere," HEAD LIKE A KITE'S second full-length album, and first for MUSH, is an expert blend of electronic rock production and pure pop-songcraft built on a bed of pillaged found-sound from cities the band visited on their 2006 US tour. No stranger to sharing the stage with big names on national and international turf, ringmaster Dave Einmo has assembled some of Seattle's finest for the album including members of The Long Winters, Smoosh, Radio 4, Crooked Fingers, and Preston School Of Industry. Whether it be guest vocals from Asya Smoosh and Graig Markel, added inspiration from touring drummer Trent Moorman, or the production of Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) each track is flavored with the perfect additions to the epic songwriting and big-beat electronic production that is Head Like A Kite's forte. "There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere" strikes the balance between art and craft and is the finest sonic road-trip in the Mush catalog.
Mush-259
CD
$9.00

Helm, Levon
Dirt Farmer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US I'm so excited that this album will finally see the light of day on vinyl.
Vanguard
LP
$22.00

Hercules and Love Affair
S-T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US
Mute
CD
$15.25

Herman Dune
1-2-3 Apple Tree (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Legendary anti-folk French duo return w/their 2nd EP for Everloving. "French folkies w/ a Jonathan Richman fixation address rock's criminal lack of ukulele on this totally twee, utterly charming tune, complete w/horns, bongos & backup angels" - Rolling Stone
Everloving
CD5
$6.25

Holy Modal Rounders
Live in 1965 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US A rousing live album from the Rounders featuring songs spanning their careers on both the ESP and Prestige labels.
A must have for any Rounders fan! Digipak.
ESPDisk
CD
$12.75

Hosaka, Akane
Niko Niko Denki Muzic (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, FRANCE With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys. Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation. References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop are deliberate: there for all to see. Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy: Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari. For her, these images evoke music that she then sets about transcribing. Naturally reserved, she's a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes. Her compositions are like pastel-colored soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8.
Sonore-27
CD
$17.50

Impossible Shapes, The
The Impossible Shapes (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES have been merrily music making - mostly under the radar - for a decade now. With this release the band has recorded songs that were flushed out over many live performances over many tours all across the globe. This album is their pinnacle song mound that could have been issued by Zapple, if times had been different. At the root these four long-hairs are a pop band - kinda like how Byrds became a meta group - who've been strained through British folk as well as the whole post/beat/mystic literate gob. Songwriter Chris Barth translates a cosmological view as psychedelic nursery rhymes or rock n roll cracked into free form strata.
SecretlyCanadian-140
CD
$11.50

Isol/Zypce
Sima (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Digipak with 16 page booklet featuring the artist's illustrations. Isol and Zypce present Sima, their latest collaboration. Isol: singer, composer, ex-vocalist of the electronic pop band Entre Ríos, singer with the baroque group The Excuse and member of the synthpop American band Alsace Lorraine. She's also an internationally renowned illustrator of books and printed media. For the first time, she composes the melodies in the songs and writes their lyrics on this new record. Zypce: musician, composer. In 1994 he released his CD Nuevo Muerto (New Dead) on which he and his ensemble play his own works of contemporary classical music tainted with industrial reminiscences, although these categories are in fact very dubious labels. He has also composed music for the film, dance and theatre in Argentina and abroad and has performed his experimental compositions with pianist Adriana de los Santos, among others in concert. He builds his own musical instruments and has an extremely elaborate
approach to the stage factor. On this CD he composes and arranges the songs by being clearly faithful to his peculiar aesthetics though approaching a pop song format, always with very experimental results. Isol and Zypce are siblings, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. About Sima: 11 tracks / Voice: Isol / Instrumental arrangements: Zypce / Lyrics: Isol / Music: Isol - Zypce (except "La primera vez" and "Vos me llamás", by Dani Umpi - Adrián Soiza) / Artistic production: Zypce (in "Vos me llamás": Zypce-Cecinini) / Mastering: Nicolás Cecinini. Sima: f. abyss, precipice, crag, depth, chasm.
Darla-195
CD
$13.00

Jay Reatard
Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US This is a collection of all his out-of-print material, re-mastered by the Real Tard himself. It's finally possible to hear these gems in one straight shot, remasterd (hence sounding better than ever), without flipping over a pile of 7'' platters. Includes a DVD showcasing some choice live performances.
InTheRed-151
CD/DVD
$17.00

Jay Reatard
Singles 06-07 (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
US,PS VINYL VERSION. Double-LP housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve
InTheRed-151
DLP
$15.50

Jeremy Jay
AlphaRhythm (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US JEREMY JAY, a Californian, has toured the West Coast and ventured as far a field as New York City in the past year. He will performing across the U.S. after the release of "A Place Where We Could Go," and has already begun working on his second K album, to be released in January 2009. His most recent release, "Airwalker" [IPU115], also a volume in the International Pop Underground series, was very well received by radio, press and interweb fanzines/logs/journals.
Krecords-117
45
$3.75

Judys, The
Land Of Plenty [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US First ever official release for The Judys last album, recorded but never released! In 1990, The Judy's set out to record a new album with a new Judy's sound. Featuring the lineup that had been established over a number of years the band, including Barbara Donaho (keyboards/guitars), Lee Malone (bass), and Darwin Keys (drums), set out to explore new horizons musically and thematically. Land of Plenty injected multi-layered keyboards and guitars, stacked vocals, a gospel choir, and even a bit of banjo into the band's palatte and sought to realize Bean's vision of a new Americana musical landscape. Broad in its scope and daring in its expansion of the band's definition of itself, Land of Plenty was shelved when the group disbanded before the CD's release. While a handful of copies have been given out, this is first time this long sought-after project has been available to the general public.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Judys, The
Moo [re-issue] (DELAYED, PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, US The original 'Moo' album finally re-issued on CD for the first time! CD sports seven bonus tracks, mainman David Bean's "Modomusic" EP. Released almost four years to the day after Washarama and following an eighteen month hiatus, The Judy's Moo album has a slightly more progressive sound: richer production values, fuller arrangements and thicker harmonies. As the band returned to the stage in 1985, this was the album that showed the band's maturity and development as songwriters and musicians. The twelve songs on Moo, laced with solid-state irony, well-placed cynicism and standard issue Judys' wit, show the band at the peak of their creativity and acted as a springboard for their live extravaganzas. The album was released with The Moo Tour - a month of live performances across the state which included giant cereal boxes, moving conveyer belts of milk cartons, and a dancing cow while the band donned milkman uniforms. Critically acclaimed and fan-revered, The Moo Album continues to be a milestone in Texas pop music.
WastedTalent
CD
$15.00

Lexie Mountain Boys
Sacred Vacation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Everything that is good & bad about the things you think, about the sound of your own voice as imagined in the mind of another person, each sound you made alone & some made not for speaking but for blaming. This is a minor document of soul noise diva karaoke, collaborative cave-chanteuses rippling w/ roquefort vibes, & the slippery wet nightgown that is her songsmithy.
Carpark
CD
$15.00

Love As Laughter
Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Epic/RedInk
LP
$12.75

Love As Laughter
Holy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US The group's distinctive sound can only be described as a melting pot of flavors of artists such as the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, & Neil Diamond.
Epic/RedInk
CD
$13.25

LSD & The Search For God
S/T (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US ON VINYL! This masterful collection of five lysergic-dipped, guitar-based gems is delightfully reminiscent of the early Creation Records sound. Turn it on & tune in to a psychedelic trip, where swirling guitars & playfully flirtatious boy/girl vocals travel through dreamy pop hooks & fuzzed out drones. Limited to 1000
DeepSpace
12
$12.00

Made Out Of Babies
Ruiner (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US While the album retains the group's trademark ferocious hybrid of PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard & Big Black, it also finds the band's musical exploration showcasing something unsettling & unique.
The End
CD
$15.50

Melodyguild
Aitu (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Vocalist Suzanne Perry (LOVE SPIRALS DOWNWARDS) returns w/her 1st new collection of work in almost a decade w/this driving shoegazer/dream-pop quartet. A must for lovers of Tearwave, Mira, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, & Autumn's Grey Solace.
Projekt
CD5
$7.25

Moonbabies, The
Take Me to the Ballroom EP (DELAYED PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE APRIL 2008)
PS, SWEDEN The second single from their latest album 'Moonbabies at the Ballroom' released last Summer on our Hidden Agenda imprint. Features the exquisite title track plus two previously unreleased gems: "Flip-Top Boxer" and "Crispin Glover".
Startracks/Hidden Agenda
CD5
$2.00

Mount Analog Feat Karl Blau
That's How I Got to Memphis (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US MOUNT ANALOG is the solo project of Grammy Nominated producer TUCKER MARTINE. In this recording, record producer Martine (the Decemberists, Laura Veirs, Sufjan Stevens, Mudhoney), and his talented cast of Mount Analog--STEVE MOORE(Earth, Sunn0))))), JON HYDE, LAURA VEIRS and BRUCE WIRTH pay tribute to Nashville style in its classic country aesthetic circa 1972. With Martine having grown up in Nashville, this single could be construed as a shout-out to his songwriter father Layng Martine, Jr. who's songs have been recorded by Elvis, the Pointer Sisters, Bo Diddley, Reba McEntire, Billy "Crash" Craddock and many more. It was the Tom T. Hall version of "That's How I got to Memphis" that first caught Martine's attention as a teenager, but folks like Lee Hazlewood, Buddy Miller and Bobby Bare have all made the song their own since. "I am such a huge fan of Karl's, I knew that he was the one to help our version stay true to the spirit of the original version I loved so much, while shining the light on it from a different angle," Martine states.
Krecords-118
45
$3.75

Mueller, Jon
Strung (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Peripatetic composer, performer, improviser, and designer JON MUELLER is a busy guy, and both the rock and experimental music scenes are the richer for it. As a drummer he propels the ecstatic whorl of COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and the occasional guitar army of RHYS CHATHAM; alternately his solo project, "Metals", is the most harrowingly intense percussive barrage you'll ever encounter. He also finds time to collaborate with artists ranging from Wilco's Glenn Kotche to Swans' Jarboe. Whether it's minimalist bombast, free-improv interplay, or electroacoustic finesse, Mueller's got it covered. But what can he do with a guitar? In "Strung", Mueller doesn't play the guitar; he scrambles its molecules. Laying down a photon-blast of sound, he initiates a relentless, rapid-pulse attack signal that summons wave upon wave of white noise. Think inexorable alien invasion - The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Lou Reed as Klaatu and Metal Machine Music as the message. Earth doesn't stand a chance.
TableOfTheElements-94
LP
$14.25

Mueller, Jon/Jason Kahn
Topography (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Percussionist JON MUELLER continues his amazing run of releases (he appears on eight TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS titles in the first half of 2008!) with "Topography," a collaboration with Zürich-based sound and visual artist JASON KAHN. As a drummer, Mueller propels COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES and the occasional guitar army of RHYS CHATHAM; he also finds time to collaborate with artists ranging from Wilco's Glenn Kotche to Swans' Jarboe. Kahn draws on electronic and acoustic sound sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness. "Topography" addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness, and is a remarkable display of electro acoustic finesse. It's a joint, limited-edition release with Mueller's own Crouton label, exquisitely packaged in a debossed, white-on-white jacket.
TableoftheElements-116
CD
$13.00

My Brightest Diamond
A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US With this Brooklyn band's sophomore release, we're instantly reminded of Shara Worden's reputation as one of indie music's most vibrant, creative, and original voices. This record is charming, playful, daring, foreboding, graceful, eclectic, exciting, and visceral. The songs marry vast instrumentation - marimbas, harps, clarinets, French horns, rabid guitars, vibraphones, and more - to create an unequaled amalgamation of style and color. In a word, beautiful.

SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this CD from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake.
AsthmaticKitty-046
CD
$11.50

My Brightest Diamond
A Thousand Shark's Teeth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PROMOTION: Pre-order this LP from Parasol and we'll send you a unique coupon code for a free download of a free digital EP featuring five alternate versions of album tracks plus one outtake.
AsthmaticKitty-046
LP
$12.00

My Education
Bad Vibrations (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Showcases My Education's sonic flights as sharply honed, highly melodic mini-epics. Layers of guitar swell & sway over propulsive rhythms while viola spins yearning melodies ever skyward, sprinkled with delicate color by vibraphone & keyboards. Book-ended by ambient passages pillowing heavy-lidded acoustic strumming languid strings & lap-steel, Bad Vibrations is certainly the finest summation of My Education's highly textured & emotive music yet.
StrangeAttractors
CD
$12.50

My Morning Jacket
This Is Not the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US New album.
ATO/Red
CD
$13.75

N.E.R.D.
Seeing Sounds (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US New album is a blistering mash-up of booming hip-hop beats & rollercoastering rock riffs, rumbling crunk rhythms & scintillating soul music.
StarTrak
CD
$15.00

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in.
Domino
CD
$11.50

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (Deluxe) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US The Notwist make music that's at once impossibly personal and hugely inviting. This release is their most important and moving to date, in the band's nearly 20 year career. Markus Acher's singular voice surrounds you with all the comfort of familiarity, the euphoria of re-acquaintance. It takes a while before the words and the scale of the musical language sink in. The deluxe limited edition is a hard-bound book with full color 24-page insert.
Domino
CD/BOOK
$15.50

Notwist
The Devil, You + Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 8TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
LP
$17.50

Osorezan
Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.75

Osorezan
Mimidokodesuka (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 20TH)
PS, US "Do you like Derek Bailey?" This was the question posed to JIM O'ROURKE on his first meeting w/ bass-playing fury DARIN GRAY. This is Jim on electric guitar & Darin on contrabass bonded w/ CHRIS CORSANO, who's blown the free world on its tony ass w/ his unbridled power, intensely collaborative nature & smooth stickwork behind the kit. Recorded live at the Pit Inn in Tokyo during a 2005 residency.
DragCity
CD
$13.00

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

Parsley Flakes
Dead Living (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US With its member's cultural roots anchored in the rustbelt traditions of cold gray skies, unemployment, & a collective sense of loss, this dance-able sound may come off as a stark contrast to their surroundings. Peel back their songs, however, & they reveal heartfelt lyrics reflective of their deadened cultural environment. Fun yet subversive, this band is like going to a party w/ the pissed off kids next door.
HeWhoCorrupts
45
$5.75

Pelt
Dauphin Elegies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US This first new studio recording in three years picks up where 2005's Untitled CD leaves off-delivering massive slabs of heavy, all-acoustic drone action.
VHF
CD
$14.25

Pentemple
0))) Presents (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US In May of 2007 thee mighty SUNN 0))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that incl. performances in Australia & Japan. Upon arrival in Sydney, Australia, they invited one of their favorite black metal artists: STRIBORG over from Tasmania to collaborate w/ them during their show. The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio & visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Ambarchi edited, sequenced & overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. Strictly limited to 3,000 machine numbered copies. It will NOT last long.
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Pollard, Robert
Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US With ten songs in 35 min. it's an extraordinary rock tour-de-force. It sports Todd Tobias's cleanest & meanest production yet, giant songs & riffs that pack a wallop, & arguably Pollard's finest singing ever captured on record. Since freeing himself of a band in 2004, his albums have each had very distinct & varied flavors, & his creativity has flowered.
GBV
CD
$16.00

Pollard, Robert
Robert Pollard Is Off To Business (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
GBV
LP
$17.25

Ponies In The Surf
See You Happy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Ponies In The Surf is quietly one of a kind. Siblings and self proclaimed indie music nerds Alex & Camile live in Cambridge, MA though they're originally from Bogota, Columbia. The Ponies build perfect soft pop songs with elements Samba, Beatles, the more sophisticated folk set, the Pop Vocal traditionalists and they're very much akin to The Violent Femmes and Johnathan Richman in terms of song craft, a subtle humor and vulnerability. The Ponies' work is uniquely comforting and highly addictive. It is served with a rare passion and grace. It evokes nostalgia for the above mentioned while remaining firmly planted in its own special, almost timeless place. "After playing in rock bands for some time, Alexander McGregor decided at some point that he simply wanted to make some music that could even appeal to his grandmother. Joined by his sister Camille, the duo plays stripped-down folkish type music that sounds like it could have been created at any point in the past 40 years yet still feels fresh." --ALMOST COOL. "These powerfully quiet traditionalists perform folk songs with a pan-American touch. It's only a shame that music this delicate and warm doesn't garner more notice." -POPMATTERS
Darla-192
CD
$12.25

Ponytail
Ice Cream Spiritual (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US "Ice Cream Spiritual" is full contact aerobics. It's a hedonistic whirlwind for your ears and body. "Ice Cream Spiritual" is the exorcism your stiff loins have been waiting for. Randomly put together in a class experiment, the four members of Baltimore's PONYTAIL has stumbled onto what will be one of the top albums of 2008.
WeAreFree-005
CD
$11.50

Pumice
Quo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions,
anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy & distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk & noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting & tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of the Kilgours or Chris Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace.
SoftAbuse
CD
$11.50

Q-Bert
Super Seal Breaks II (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US If you're a hardcore skratcher, then you know all the infinitely fun possibilities a Super Seal 2 can bring!So hurry up & get it first so that your fellow DJs think you are mysterious & ask you, "What the hell record is that? I want it!" Also feat.a ridiculously hot triplet beat which was scientifically made to be played on 45 to get the full effects of attracting the opposite (or the same) sex! Get this limited pressing before it's gone.
ThudRumble
LP
$13.25

Radio Dept.
Freddie and the Trojan Horse (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, SWEDEN "It's time - once again and more clearly than before - to show our standpoint. 'Freddie and the Trojan Horse' is about the untruthfulness of the Swedish right-wing government and how the leading party seized power by portraying itself as supportive of the workers." -THE RADIO DEPT. In the beginning of 2007 people started talking about new material from The Radio Dept. There was even a rumour going on that they were working on two albums simultaneously and that both would be released in May the same year. In other words; two albums merely one year after the release of the previous album "Pet Grief". Those who had followed the band for a few years and know how they work probably suspected this would not happen. "Freddie and the Trojan Horse" is a first taste of their upcoming album "Clinging to a scheme" due to be released on September 10. The new songs are influenced by minimalist post-punk, krautrock, and repetitive "motorik" beat and ambient noise. Maybe "Freddie and the Trojan Horse" doesn't represent the upcoming album very well. But what do we know!? If the truth's to be told we haven't heard that much more of there, almost mythical, new recordings than anyone else. Still, we're have no worries whatsoever. We're only full of expectation and belief in the songs. Whatever they sound like, we're confident that they'll be of the same amazing quality as "Freddie..." The Radio Dept. "Freddie and the Trojan horse" is right now at #1 at Elbo. ws which compiles more than 2800 blogs. TRACK LIST: 1. Freddie and the Trojan horse 2. Closing scene 3. The room, Tarzana 4. Closing scene pt. 2.
Labrador-111
CD5
$10.50

Real Tuesday Weld
End of the World (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Recorded during the same time as his latest opus, "the London Book of the Dead" Steven Coates aka the Real
Tuesday Weld created this special side project release. A conceptual companion piece is an imaginary concert which takes places in an imaginary club. The album contains some of this fascinating artists' most atmospheric, haunting and downright beautiful tracks to date.
SixDegrees
CD
$10.75

Reggie & The Full Effect
Last Stop: Crappy Town (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Project of James Dewees, originally of THE GET UP KIDS. This album sees a different side of Reggie. Gone are
the poppy, danceable songs. This album reflects a real, rough time in James's life and this album is much heavier, darker and introspective. Poor Reggie.
Vagrant
CD
$13.75

Saturday Knights
Mingle (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Three-piece hip-hop/trailer park pop-punk band debut their genre-busting full length. They present a dash os psych, Afro-funk, old school style & a seductive collaboration with the DAP-KINGS. Kim Thayil (SOUNDGARDEN) spazzes out on guitar on the mesmerizing rock anthem "I Go" while Nirvana producer JACK ENDINO plays drums on a pumped up new mix of underground radio hit "45."
LightInTheAttic
CD
$12.50

Shit & Shine
Cherry (CD/DVD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Presented here again in remastered CD format w/ bonus live DVD, this is back for round two in digital format. 1000 copies for the world. Bonus DVD feat. a pro-shot 35 min. performance recorded for last.fm in London November 2007. They're an afternoon spent tearing up betting-slips at the bookies. A stain on your shirt that won't wash out.
RiotSeason
CD
$23.00

Shit & Shine
Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
DLP
$15.75

Shit & Shine
Kuss mich, meine Liebe (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Eight sprawling sonic puddles of Gibby's spittoon soaked puddle juice emerge from the hot flaps of England's Shit &
Shine. Combing a dense percussive chug & a megaphoned fart helmet the band emerges with a sound closest to the neck ache of powerful metallic headbang & the distorted totality of cheap speaker decay. The band has been known to employ up to 16 separate drummers & 12 feet of vertical bass amplification, so they are no strangers to erecting long standing brown waves of sound, an onslaught of bass boomed rock totality
Load
CD
$12.50

Sian Alice Group
The Dusk Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US "The Dusk Line" EP is comprised of four songs recorded during work on SIAN ALICE GROUP'S debut album "59.59" in the summer of 2007. For this release they opted to work on a smaller scale, stripping their sound down to just layered grand piano and voice. Featuring contributions from just two members of the group, Rupert Clervaux and vocalist Sian Ahern, "The Dusk Line" is an exercise in restraint. It was recorded at London's The Garden, utilizing layered piano parts all performed by Clervaux. Sian Alice Group have become known for their sweeping, orchestrated aesthetic, but "The Dusk Line" distills their sound to its core.
TheSocialRegistry-063
CD5
$7.50

Sian Alice Group
The Dusk Line (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US "The Dusk Line" EP is comprised of four songs recorded during work on SIAN ALICE GROUP'S debut album "59.59" in the summer of 2007. For this release they opted to work on a smaller scale, stripping their sound down to just layered grand piano and voice. Featuring contributions from just two members of the group, Rupert Clervaux and vocalist Sian Ahern, "The Dusk Line" is an exercise in restraint. It was recorded at London's The Garden, utilizing layered piano parts all performed by Clervaux. Sian Alice Group have become known for their sweeping, orchestrated aesthetic, but "The Dusk Line" distills their sound to its core.
TheSocialRegistry-063
12
$10.25

Sic Alps
United (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US This merch table gem is a one sided 7" limited to 1000 copies. 500 on blue, 200 on red, 200 yellow and 100 on green. Contained on this thick piece of love is a rockola version of Throbbing Gristle's track United. This will be gone fast and won't be repressed.
Important-192
45
$5.50

Sigur Ros
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US Inspired by the unfettered feeling of the acoustic performances filmed during Heima, Sigur Rós adopted a looser approach in creating their fifth album Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust. The album consequently is fresher and more human than anything they've previously recorded. Rough edges, cracked notes, and the sound of fingers on strings are audible resulting in tracks (e.g. "Íllgresi") that prove to be the band's sparsest and most affecting work to date. Worry not though, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ensuring Sigur Rós' commitment to challenging sonic limitations. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust is truly a groundbreaking album for Sigur Rós. It's the first time they've attempted to write, record, mix, release and support (by touring) an album in the same year. Notoriously known for their laborious writing/recording style and their Icelandic
roots, Sigur Rós decided to record an album outside of Iceland for the first time. Recording, mixing and mastering sessions took place in such un-Reykjavik cities as New York (Sear Sound and Sterling Sound), London (Abbey Road and Assault & Battery) and Havana. The result is pretty much their "leave home" album, the anti-Heima. The opening track, "Gobbledigook", is a manifesto setter with its shifting/no time signature. On the last track, "All Alright", Sigur Rós find themselves singing a song solely in English for the first time. The seventh track, "Ára Bátur", was performed with a full orchestra and the London Oratory Boys Choir. This was recorded in one take with no overdubs and the result was 90 people playing at once and just one perfect take. This is their first album working with Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey) and the first since their debut to not be recorded with Ken Thomas. It was a true co-production, one that found Sigur Rós breaking out of old molds/habits. The cover artwork is a photo taken from a flyer for Ryan McGinley's most recent photo exhibition in NYC, "I Know Where the Summer Goes", and the image captures perfectly the spirit of the album, one of free-spirited happiness and exploration.
XLRecordings
CD
$9.25

Sleeping Years, The
We're Becoming Islands One by One (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK The Sleeping Years is the new project from Dale Grundle, formerly of the Catchers. Now signed to innovative indie-label Rocket Girl, the debut album "We're becoming Islands One by One", is a gorgeous exploration of melody and melancholy. A gifted lyricist, Dale's exquisitely crafted songs tell of people trying to stay connected in a world seemingly designed to keep them apart. He is heavily influenced by the language and culture of his home in Ireland, providing a distinct character to this highly personal collection of songs. Born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland to an Irish father and a Scottish mother, Dale started his first band Catchers while at school. Their first single 'Cotton Dress' came out on Setanta Records and became single of the week in Melody Maker. Their debut album 'Mute' was recorded with Mike Hedges in France. Catchers went on to tour with Pulp, Edwyn Collins, The Divine Comedy, Dr. John and Oasis. Their second album 'Stooping to Fit' was recorded by Nick Drake's arranger Robert Kirby. Dale started his solo project The Sleeping Years with a trilogy of EPs in 2007, 'You and Me Against The World', 'Setting Fire to Sleepy Towns' and 'Clocks and Clones'. These were very well received and are very much living proof that independent singles do sell-out. They also garnered critical acclaim, featuring on BBC Radio 1's Introducing, the Guardian's writer's play list and on the cover mount of Rolling Stone Magazine. Songs have been heavily played on Gideon Coe's 6music show and on French radio, having been championed by France's answer to John Peel, Bernard Lenoir. 'We're becoming Islands One By One" is poised to become an instant, yet timeless classic with a refreshingly dynamic twist on acoustic song writing. Dale performs all vocals and guitars, not to mention bass, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano and e-bow parts and was joined by cellist Michelle So and Tom Page from Rothko on drums. The Guardian: 'his voice breaks exquisitely between hope and despair in songs that the acoustic guitar was invented for' Dazed and Confused: 'a one-man show that owes his lilting metaphysical lyricism to the likes of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and John Martyn. It's good to know that there are people like him out there.
RocketGirl-51
CD
$15.50

St. Pierre, Melissa
Specimens (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US MELISSA ST. PIERRE tosses classicism and post-classicism overboard, utilizing the prepared piano -- John Cage's notorious instrument of choice -- and electronic enhancement to sail resolutely in the direction of rock & roll. Peppering the strings, hammers, and dampers with a variety of objects, she transforms the piano's typical timbre: sparkling gamelans chatter; harrowing voodoo drums call out in the night. "Specimens", St Pierre's debut, features production and performances by COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES; together they rival famed electric harpist ZEENA PARKINS as conservatory arsonists with a decidedly Hendrixian flair.
TableOfTheElements-814
CD5
$9.00

Storm of Light
And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Neurot
DLP
$18.75

Storm of Light
And We Wept the Black Ocean Within (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Feat. Josh Graham, former member of RED SPAROWES & BATTLE OF MICE. The esteemed guitarist/vocalist is joined
on this recording by bassist/vocalist Domenic Seita (ex-TOMBS, ex-Asea) & drummer Pete Angevine of Satanized. Since then, rhythmic pugilist extraordinaire Vinny Signorelli (UNSANE, ex-SWANS) signed on as 2nd drummer. This is brutally hard-hitting.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Astralwerks
LP
$20.00

Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Recorded in Berlin's legendary Hansa studios over a 3 week period w/ producer Nick Launay. This captures the energy & enthusiasm of a band firing on all cylinders. To quote one review, "the beefy, stomporific riffs are back on board". Feat. a handful of rocking tracks debuted last summer when they were hand-picked as main support for the Arctic Monkeys at their Old Trafford shows.
Astralwerks
CD
$13.00

Sweet Cobra
Forever (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 24TH)
PS, US A gritty, disgruntled ball of stoner rock frustration from a group of hardcore guys w/ heavy hearts embracing their late 70's groove rock influences to the fullest. W/a truly unique approach to the genre, these tormented tracks are menacing, introspective & engagine simultaneously. The mix of crusty hardcore, d-beat & riff heavy rock draw comparisons to His Hero is Gone, Helmet, & Mastodon. RIYL: Sword, High on Fire, Crowbar.
MetalBlade/Blackmarket
CD
$13.00

Syclops
I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Little is known about the secretive trio. Despite the mystery, this is an engaging record that reveals the full shamanic magic of the trio; a mixture of dark intensity & subtle, crafted musicianship. Soaking in the band's brooding undercurrent, the listener will have to imagine where they find their inspiration; heavy metal riffs over acid house? Playing folkloric instruments w/ old school analog synthesizers in a Finnish laboratory?
DFA
CD
$16.00

Syclops
I've Got My Eye On You (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DFA
DLP
$17.25

Tallest Man On Earth, The
Shallow Grave {PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008)
PS, SWEDEN Incredible new album, Pitchfork approved. If you thought the EP was great, just wait until this arrives. Folk album of the year? Price to be confirmed, it might be better, it won't be worse. PITCHFORK: "While it's understandable to be skeptical of another skinny dude with a mustache, a guitar, and a worn-out copy of The Anthology of American Folk Music, the more time you invest in Shallow Graves, the more you'll realize how unusually memorable it is. Ultimately, Shallow Graves transcends comparison-- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype-- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting."
Gravitation
CD
$13.00

Tiersen, Yann
Tabarly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, FRANCE LP + FREE CD. For the 10th anniversary of Eric Tabarly's death, a famous skipper from Brittany (Northwest of France), the director Pierre Marcel and Galatée Film release a biography of this unsurpassed sailor on June, 11. Galatée Film did not hesitate at all to suggest another exceptional Breton (from Brittany), i.e. Yann Tiersen to compose the soundtrack of this outstanding film. As usual, Yann Tiersen did not just make a music that illustrates the film, but he made a full-fledged, independent, personal and powerful music. Yann made an instrumental music that gives pride of place to the piano and to the intimate melodies that will delight his biggest fans. This record is a kind of bridge in the artist's evolution, from his first loves to his new folk trend. Under this peaceful, mastered and warm movie soundtrack, lays actually a new album. After Eric Zonca's "la vie rêvée des anges", "Amélie from Montmartre" and "Goodbye Lenin", Yann Tiersen composed his fourth soundtrack and as the previous films, it is a safe bet that it will be a success! The record has been initially made for vinyl and the mastering has been made from this vinyl. The sound is therefore warm and powerful.
Lcid'Ailleurs-048
LP
$20.25

Tractor Kings
Homesick (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008)
PS, US Long-awaited new album from reverb-drenched country rockers, led by local icon Jacob Fleischli, who evokes both Lou Reed and Bob Dylan in myriad ways. His new band backs him with a rootsy but grand atmopheric sound, thanks to an evangelical pedal steel, equal parts terrestrial and extra...terrestrial. Think "rural cathedral". Recorded by Matt Talbott (Hum, Centaur) at Great Western Record Recorders.
Spur-CD-006
CD
$9.00

Twine
Violets (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US LIMITED TO 750!!! This is a requiem for the new dark age. A memoir of a dying era, defined by the years of an inevitably
dichotomized & isolated nation. The duo of Greg Malcolm & Chad Mossholder move from the muggy backwoods of their early work towards the sonic approximation of icy remoteness. Created by a process of long distance file-sharing, the layers mesh together in a synchronous & fragile splendor, melding disembodied vocals, guitar rattles & crispy unpredictability to create a modern classic.
GhostlyInternational
CD
$13.25

U.S. Christmas
Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Neurot
LP
$14.25

U.S. Christmas
Eat the Low Dogs (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US The music cannot be ignored. It hurts people, physically & mentally. It stirs intense feelings of pain, frustration, loss, fear, & occasionally euphoria. Snare drums rattle, amps hum & pop, dogs bark in the background. But that's the way it always sounds, & the band doesn't see any point in changing a method that works. Many a drunken bystander has been drawn to the theremin's magic antennae.
Neurot
CD
$16.00

U2
War [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

U2
Boy [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

U2
October [expanded deluxe re-issue] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 22ND)
PS, US U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 22nd. Following the remastered release of The Joshua Tree last year, Edge has overseen a similar remastering of Boy (1980), October (1981) and War (1983). All of which have been remastered from the original audio tapes. Deluxe double version including a disc of b-sides, live tracks and rarities. The packaging on all three titles has been restored and expanded, with new liner notes for each record, previously unseen photos and full lyrics, purportedly housed in a book like Joshua Tree.
Island
DCD
$29.75

Various
Slendid Isolation (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, SWEDEN A collection of exclusive tracks from the Radio Dept., Testbild!, Most Valuable Players, Differnet, Action Biker, Viktor Sjöberg, VED, Peter Jackson, Peter Nilsson, Redmalm, Enheten för musik och melodi, Malkovic, Erik de Vahl, Band in a Box, Flow Flux Clan, Robotboy, and Jian. Between January and December 2007 Friendly Noise released 18 mp3 singles offered as free downloads from www.friendlynoise.se. From the start it was intended to be a one-year-long project. The idea was simple: contributions chosen by us from our extended family of old friends and new discoveries, usually two songs, together with an introduction by the artists themselves and a picture to illustrate and enhance, once or twice a month. This was meant as a complement to our CD releases, and a chance to easily distribute great songs, in cases where the album context isn't necessary. These two ways of distribution aren't contradictory, they're related, as we stated on our website. Soon we realized the series had become a success, both when it came to the quality of the output and the amount of interest generated. So "Splendid Isolation" - our third compilation after "Friendly People Making Noise" (2003) and "Are You Scared To Get Happy?" (2006) - is our way of documenting the series through a selection of the songs and thus giving them a more official kind of release. The record is also a celebration of five years of Friendly Noise as a label. The order of the songs on the record isn't chronological, it's instead our attempt to make the record sound as good as possible as a whole. TRACKLIST: 1. Bognor Regis (Peter Jackson) 2. (Jack) Lullaby (Viktor Sjöberg) 3. Rondo (Most Valuable Players) 4. Stratoscope (VED) 5. Get Nowhere (Peter Nilsson) 6. Hultviksvägen 7 (Peter Jackson) 7. The Bravest Person I Know (Redmalm) 8. Shut Out (Flow Flux Clan) 9. September (Robotboy) 10. Hashish in Nizza (Peter Jackson) 11. Sol genom lövverket (Enheten för musik och melodi) 12. En gång i Stockholm (Testbild!) 13. Dedicated to Therese Holm (Testbild!) 14. 1959y (Malkovic) 15. Almost Close (Peter Jackson) 16. Open Night (Most Valuable Players) 17. Bachelor Kisses (The Radio Dept.) 18. Vinden susar i advent (Action Biker) 19. Postojna (Peter Jackson) 20. Whatever We Want (Erik de Vahl) 21. Leaving Smears (Band in Box) 22. Just A Little Lovin' (Jian) 23. Curriculum Circular (Differnet)
FriendlyNoise-68
CD
$13.50

Various
Auteur Labels: New Hormones (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK 17 tracks. LTM present a new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Manchester imprint New Hormones. New Hormones was founded in 1977 by punk pioneers Buzzcocks and their manager Richard Boon to release the epochal Spiral Scratch ep (ORG 1). The label went on to release approximately 25 records, the catalogue combining post-punk, pop and avant-garde by Ludus, Diagram Brothers, Biting Tongues, Dislocation Dance, Eric Random and others. These key groups are featured here, together with five more recent recordings by New Hormones artists. The 65 minute, remastered CD covers the years 1977-1982 and features a detailed label history by Justin Toland, together with interviews and archive images. Tracklist: 1. BUZZCOCKS boredom 2. THE TILLER BOYS big noise from the jungle 3. LUDUS my cherry is in sherry 4. DIAGRAM BROTHERS bricks 5. DISLOCATION DANCE stand me up 6. BITING TONGUES denture beach 7. ERIC RANDOM skin deep 8. THE DECORATORS twilight view 9. LUDUS hugo blanco 10. DISLOCATION DANCE you'll never, never know 11. DIAGRAM BROTHERS discordo 12. ERIC RANDOM hardcore + 13. DISLOCATION DANCE what can the matter be? 14. LUDUS acknowledgement 15. ERIC RANDOM free agents 16. BITING TONGUES heart disease (live) 17. HOWARD DEVOTO the presentation of the self in everyday life.
LTM-2492
CD
$17.00

Various
Thank You For The Music: 21 Swedish Pop Sensations from the 21st Century (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 2008)
PS, SWEDEN The Licking Fingers label (home to Concretes, Frida Hyvonen, El Perro del Mar) will release a new comp with the best of contemporary Swedish music. 21 songs, unreleased or recent, digipacked and ready to go! Features songs from (in order of appearance): Anna Järvinen, Jens Lekman, Lykke Li, Those Dancing Days, Friska Viljor, Shout Out Louds, The Concretes, First Floor Power, Pacific!, Kleerup, Radio Dept, Studio, Peter Morén, Loney Dear, Wildbirds And Peacedrums, El Perro del Mar, The Tiny, Frida Hyvönen, Speedmarket Avenue, Idiot Kid and Nicolai Dunger.
LickingFingers
CD
$15.00

Various
Auteur Labels: Les Disques Du Crepuscule (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK 21 tracks. LTM present a new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Brussels imprint Les Disques du Crepuscule. Crepuscule ('Twilight') was founded in 1980 by Michel Duval and Annik Honoré with the release the epochal cassette From Brussels With Love (TWI 007). The chic, cosmopolitan label went on to assemble an extensive cross-genre catalogue, much of it dressed by celebrated designer Benoit Hennebert. Associated labels included Factory Benelux, Operation Twilight and Another Side. The 72-minute, remastered CD covers the years 1980-1984 and features a detailed label history by Frank Brinkhuis, together with interviews and archive images. Tracklist: 1. MICHAEL NYMAN Mozart 2. MARINE life in reverse 3. THICK PIGEON subway 4. JOSEF K sorry for laughing 5. REPETITION a still reflex 6. BILL NELSON dada guitare 7. PAUL HAIG running away 8. TUXEDOMOON ninotchka 9. IKE YARD night after night 10. DURUTTI COLUMN party 11. THE NAMES life by the sea 12. STEVEN BROWN waltz 13. RICHARD JOBSON autumn 14. THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS pick up the rhythm 15. ISOLATION WARD lamina christus 16. ANTENA camino del sol 17. THE PALE FOUNTAINS (there's always) something on my mind 18. MIKADO par hazard 19. ANNA DOMINO land of my dreams 20. BLAINE L. REININGER mystery and confusion 21. DEVINE & STATTON bizarre love triangle Also available in this series: New Hormones (LTMCD 2492), Factory Benelux (LTMCD 2521).
LTM-2517
CD
$17.00

Various
Auteur Labels: Factory Benelux (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, UK A new volume in the ongoing compilation series Auteur Labels, here profiling cult Brussels imprint Factory Benelux. Factory Benelux was founded in April 1980 as a collaboration between Factory Records and Les Disques du Crepuscule. Early releases were 'spare' recordings by A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column and Section 25, after which Factory Benelux released a mixture of all-new recordings by Factory artists and licensed repertoire. Thus Benelux recorded key albums and singles by New Order, Section 25, The Names, Minny Pops, Crispy Ambulance, Stockholm Monsters, The Wake and others which never appeared on the more famous parent label. The 72 minute, remastered CD covers the years 1980-1985 and features a detailed label history by Frank Brinkhuis, together with interviews and archive images. Tracklist: 1. THE DURUTTI COLUMN lips that would kiss 2. SECTION 25 je veux ton amour 3. THE NAMES calcutta 4. MINNY POPS time 5. CRISPY AMBULANCE the presence 6. CRAWLING CHAOS breaking down 7. STOCKHOLM MONSTERS miss moonlight 8. THE WAKE something outside 9. LIFE dites-moi 10. SWAMP CHILDREN you've got me beat 11. QUANDO QUANGO love tempo 12. NYAM NYAM fate/hate 13. SIMON TOPPING prospect park.
LTM-2521
CD
$17.00

War On Drugs, The
Wagonwheel Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US THE WAR ON DRUGS push the boundaries of a quintessentially American music. Guitars soar and colorful clouds roll past whatever sun or moon you are cruising under, through whatever old bar you are reveling within. The War On Drugs point toward a tireless horizon in the distance that you will never reach but are compelled to chase. It's a tail you've chased your whole life and will continue chasing because your life is more poetic when you are moving toward it - your cinematography is more rich. "Wagonwheel Blues" is one of those albums that each of us holds onto tightly. They get moved from apartment to apartment through the years; they are songs on the radio that follow us from town to town. They evoke waves of nostalgia and grow more poignant with each new bump along the road.
SecretlyCanadian-167
CD
$11.50

War On Drugs, The
Wagonwheel Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US THE WAR ON DRUGS push the boundaries of a quintessentially American music. Guitars soar and colorful clouds roll past whatever sun or moon you are cruising under, through whatever old bar you are reveling within. The War On Drugs point toward a tireless horizon in the distance that you will never reach but are compelled to chase. It's a tail you've chased your whole life and will continue chasing because your life is more poetic when you are moving toward it - your cinematography is more rich. "Wagonwheel Blues" is one of those albums that each of us holds onto tightly. They get moved from apartment to apartment through the years; they are songs on the radio that follow us from town to town. They evoke waves of nostalgia and grow more poignant with each new bump along the road.
SecretlyCanadian-167
LP
$11.50

We Are Soldiers We Have Guns
Get Up, Get Out (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 1ST)
PS, UK WASWHG is Gothenburg, Sweden resident Malin Dahlberg (also in Douglas Heart and Laurel Music), with help from an assortment of musical friends. Regarded as one of Sweden's finest indie-pop vocalists, this is a most potent display of Malin's vocal beauty and songwriting talents. More powerful, more melodic and more immediate than before - mix Cat Power with Jason Molina, Low with Architecture in Helsinki and add the dark pop integrity of fellow Swede Stina Nordenstam. Most surely; music to die for.
StereoTestKit
CD
$12.25

Whisper in the Noise
Dry Land (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE FEBRUARY 25TH)
PS, US Self described "orchestral garage rock'" band from Hanska, Minnesota give an extremely humble & personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden rock music. Pretty, melancholic, sad & charming. for fans of Low, Arcade Fire, Guided by Voices.
ExileOnMainstream-030
CD
$13.50

Wickham-Smith, Simon & Richard Youngs
Veil (for Greg) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Originally released in 1997 and having sat in storage unit purgatory (growing finer) for the greater part of a decade, JAGJAGUWAR proudly unearths and re-distributes this visceral British take on American outdoor spirituality. "VEIL (For Greg) is a carousel ride inside a digital rock tumbler, a battle between gnomes and mercury termites for a maple tree's soul, and the reflection of a pile of Moog turtles in a bathroom mirror's swamp sweat. Throbbing Gristle reimagined as zen garden desk accessory." - William Gass
Jagjaguwar-137
CD
$11.50

Wolf Parade
At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US Their second album for Sub Pop might just be this generation's "Marquee Moon" or an indie rock "Chinese Democracy" released thirty years early. Better though, to think of it as the sound of a band edging forward into a wispy darkness, one hand reaching out, the other firmly clutching the past.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Wolf Parade
At Mount Zoomer (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 17TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50

Wooden Shjips
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
HolyMountain
LP
$16.00

Wooden Shjips
Vol. 1 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 10TH)
PS, US Their earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by & are now hopelessly out of print. Who are we to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10'', the Dance, California 7'', & the
SOL 7''
HolyMountain
CD
$16.00

Parasol Picks, Recent Restocks, & Noteworthy Reminders

A Weather “Cove” CD $12.50

Angel “Kalmukia” CD $17.00

Apples In Stereo “Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Apples In Stereo “Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Apples In Stereo “Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue]” CD $14.25

Aspen Woods “New World Disorder” CD $15.75

Beequeen “Sandancing” CD $12.25

Beequeen “Sandancing Demos” 10 $14.75

Bow Street Runners “S-T” CD $13.25

Canisius, Keith “Ferris Wheel Makeout” CD $13.50

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band “Dust Sucker” DLP $25.00

Club 8 “Club 8 + 2” CD $13.50

Club 8 “Strangely Beautiful + 5” CD $17.50

Club 8 “Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5” CD $17.50

DJ Donna Summer “Panther Tracks” CD $17.75

Egg “The Polite Force” CD $20.25

Erik M “Steme” CD $15.00

Fassler, Silvia & Billy Roisz “Skylla” CD $17.00

Kohncke, Justus “Safe & Sound” CD $15.50

Lullatone “The Bedtime Beat” CD5 $13.50

Lulu “Something To Shout About” CD $15.50

Menche, Daniel “Body Melt” LP $14.75

Miimo “S-T” CD $15.00

Miimo “Live at Super Deluxe” CD $15.00

Notorious Hi-Fi Killers “Which Side Are You On?” CD $17.00

Ocrilim “Annwn” CD $12.50

O'Malley, Stephen, Attila Csihar “6: Degree Fskyquake” CD $18.00

Peasant “On The Ground” CD $10.00

Perkins, Tony “The Prettiest Girl In School” CD $15.50

Port Royal “Flared Up: Port Royal Remixed” CD $15.50

Pwrfl Power “S-T” CD $10.25

Rameses III “Basilica” DCD $13.00

Reivers, The “End of the Day [expanded re-issue]” CD $9.50

Reivers, The “Saturday [expanded re-issue]” CD $9.50

Silver Apples “Garden” CD $14.00

Stone, Carl “Woo Lae Oak” CD $13.00

Various “New Folk Routes” CD $15.50

Various “Love & Circuits” CD $13.50

Weekend “Live At Ronnie Scotts” CD $15.50

Weird Weeds “I Miss This” CD $11.50

White Hinterland “Phylactery Factory” CD $11.50

Xasthur “Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors” DCD $12.50

Yellow Moon Band, The “Maybach EP” 45 $7.75