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A Weather
Cove
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TeamLove
LP
$12.50

A Weather
Cove
PS, US Like a postcard from the green & gray environs of Portland, this is moody & warm, rife w/ odes of looming loss, hopeful notes to self & hushed revelations that speak directly to the yearning heart. The songs are marked w/ an intimacy so striking that it feels like you're eavesdropping on the pillow talk of 2 forlorn lovers. Indeed, this is music to curl up with.
TeamLove
CD
$12.50

Adorable
Footnotes: Best Of (92-94)
PS, UK First compilation of songs from former Creation Records artists Adorable. Contains tracks from both their albums on Creation released in the early 1990's, along with non-album singles and B-sides -- all seven singles released by the band. Also included is a new edit of 'Glorious' from the debut 'Against Perfection', which is exclusive to this release. All tracks included have been deleted & unavailable for several years. Includes a 20-page booklet with exclusive new extensive liner notes from all four band members - especially written for this release - along with photos, classic sleeve images & items from their personal archives.
CherryRed-327
CD
$15.50

AM Syndicate
Liberation
PS, US Sophomore effort from Austin TX based band. Formed in the Spring 2004 by Omar Chavez of RHYTHM OF BLACK LINES, AM Syndicate's sound is a constantly evolving musical experiment - both catchy and challenging - which is often described as a cross between the Arcade Fire and the Animal Collective. "The mesmerizing lushness that has always propelled AM Syndicate's music is pervasive and all-encompassing on Liberation. (The album) is a musical force that deserves recognition." - Austin Sound RECOMMENDED
Novastar
CD
$10.50

Angel
Kalmukia
PS, US This is Ilpo Vaisanen (PAN SONIC), Hildur Gudnadottir (Lost In Hildurness) & Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM). A vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melancholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery & a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other, creating a mesmerizing work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for.
EditionsMego
CD
$17.00

Apples In Stereo
Her Wallpaper Reverie [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "the band's most overtly psychedelic record, it's also their most experimental, achieving a near-perfect balance between candy-colored popcraft and musique concrète-influenced interludes. In a sense, the disc is a response to the grand ambitions of fellow Elephant 6-ers Olivia Tremor Control and their likeminded Black Foliage album, but the Apples' integration of Beatlesque melodies and experimental noises is much more seamless; not only are Her Wallpaper Reverie's songs the best Robert Schneider's yet written, but they're produced with a new richness of detail -- from the wonderfully Lennon-esque "Strawberryfire" to the Kinks-ish "Ruby," the music positively shimmers."
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Apples In Stereo
Fun Trick Noisemaker [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "One of the defining albums of the mid-'90s indie scene, the Apples in Stereo's full-length debut is one of those records that marks a sea change in musical attitudes, akin to Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick" or Pavement's early singles... The album that defines the post-grunge indie pop shift from sullen negativity into a kind of cockeyed, giddy optimism, and is also among the handful of albums that turned Brian Wilson, Arthur Lee, and Burt Bacharach into cool names to drop at the record store... Fun Trick Noisemaker is a minor masterpiece."Also available on re-issue: Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (2000) and Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Apples In Stereo
Discovery of a World Inside the Moone [re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Apples In Stereo's third full-length album is a return to their early-'60s Beatlesque sound... Robert Schneider's lyrics are more emotional and personal here than on earlier releases, and the added intimacy, as well as the musical layers, make The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone an intricate, poignant lunar trip."
OneLittleIndianUS
CD
$14.25

Aspen Woods
New World Disorder
PS, US Aspen Woods debut 70 minute 10 track debut LP will be released on Razorblade records (home of Bristol shoegazers Secret Shine www.secretshine.co.uk and liverpudlian acoustic artist Vincent Callan). Covering subjects ranging from the ritual sacrifice of Princess Diana in 'Passing of a Moon Goddess' to the unbreakable mother and son bond in 'The Witch's Son', the woods have recorded as much of the album as possible live using traditional recording techniques, to capture the guts and spirit of their live shows much the same way as the bands influences would have done so in the hazy 60s and 70s. Latchman Manghat (whose previous works include the celebrated great lost HEADS psychedelic album and Julian Cope favorite 'At last' that was 'er never... lost!) at Rolling Rex Studios has engineered and expertly, painstakingly co-produced the album with the band. For the Woods its as much about the journey as well the destination, just like how you choose to live your life - there are too many people prepared to step on too many people to get to where they want - only to realize their not happy when they get there. Getting where you want is nothing without putting in the hard graft to feel the satisfaction. People want things to easy in this day an age, without being prepared to work for it or care about who they step on the way. US distribution has been secured with Tonevendor, and the band are now seeking UK distribution aiming for a February 29th '08 release date and live dates to be announced throughout 2008 after the band return from the US. Homing their psychedelic crafts on a fruitful Bristolian live scene. The band have played memorable psychedelic hypnotic wig out sets at the legendary Espionage club and the world famous Cube cinema (check the live footage over at www.aspenwoods.co.uk) and have supported a wide variety of bands from Italian space rockers UFO Mammut to Japan's instrumental wonders Mono. Marketing plans for the album will be advertisements and media assault on the major alternative music press UK and US.
Razorblade-05
CD
$15.75

Atlas Sound/Mexcellent
Fractal Trax/Cornbread Jungle
PS, US Atlas Sound is the solo moniker for Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox. Surface noise & dust-bunnies-on-the-needle beats along w/ strung-out ambiance, creating an atmosphere of dirty & drug-addled bliss. Side B is a bleak, industrial slur. Voices & vaguely recognizable samples melt into a magnificent jumble of blackened & abstract beats, chopped, screwed & drowning in morphine reverberation.
Hoss
LP
$13.00

Autechre
Quaristice
PS, UK New album of clicktronica from veteran ambienteers. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "at 73 minutes in length, most of the 20 tracks are more like vignettes, yet the ideas arrive fully formed, never appearing to be dashed off or loosely sketched. The variety of ideas is nearly imposing, the best of which include the deadened chiming and clanging of "Simmm," the stealth jitter of "Tankakern," the Drexciya-worthy pitch-black neo-electro of "Rale," and the handful of stunning and duly swarthy ambient tracks -- especially the closing 12 minutes shared by the chilling "Notwo" and "Outh9x" tandem. A couple moments, unsurprisingly, border on the inscrutable, with "Fol3" sounding like a collage of car collisions and slammed doors smeared and backmasked for nearly four minutes, and "bnc Cstl" more like a hyper-speed gag of sound effects, its high hats and snares tucked deeply into the mix. While it can take some time to get a handle on its generous stream of components, Quaristice is far from just another Autechre album. Not since LP5 has being impressed been so obviously secondary to enjoyment."
Warp
CD
$16.25

Autistic Daughters
Uneasy Flowers
PS, US This intercontinental trio of Dean Roberts (guitar, vocals), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion, computer) & Werner Dafeldecker (guitar, bass). It's also the 4th in a series of records in which Roberts, having begun in more abstract territory in New Zealand's mid-1990s 'free noise' ferment, has embraced song, lyric & voice as vessels for topographic & psychoanalytic tracings of the impacts of territory & nomadism on the subject. Feat. Chris Abrahams of THE NECKS, Martin Siewert & Valerio Tricoli - as part of both cast & crew, foley artists behind the trio's complex, worm-turning arrangements.
Kranky-115
CD
$12.25

Axolotl/Inca Ore
Inner Voices/Nerve Language
PS, US "Karl Bauer and Eva Saelens (Axolotl and Inca Ore respectively) are two like-minded Bay area psychers operating on two opposing levels. Axolotl marks the A-side with skyward streaking drones and ethereal loops tinged and focused, ringing with the joyous bliss of upward passage. An endless array of vocals, electronics, and violin looping and looping, building and growing: stasis. Inca Ore makes her craft from an Earth-bound level. Oneness with her surroundings, roots firmly planted. Eerie incantations and meandering harp play foreground to layer upon layer of looped vocals and murky ambience, charting your way towards forever. In an edition of 450 white purity colored 7"s in black and white pro-printed collage fold-over sleeves by Eva with a numbered insert."
Arbor
45
$5.25

Band Of Horses
No One's Gonna Love You b/w Am I A Good Man
PS, UK
Subpop
45
$3.50

Bao, Billy
Dialectics of Shit
PS, US This screams freedom; freedom from presumptions, form, & safety. Its 10 tracks bludgeon wantonly w/ black metallic ferox, industrial rhythm jackhammering, & a gauntlet of free-swinging riffs designed to mash ears into the asphalt. The directions hinted at in his earlier works are given new purpose, let loose to manipulate any expectations brought in w/ the listener. Like the nihilistic pummel of the Brainbombs, the feral howl of early Nirvana, & the aluminum baseball bat dunt of New
Zealand post-punkers The Gordons
PartsUnknown
LP
$11.25

Basinski, William + Richard Chartier
Untitled 1-3
PS, US LINE is proud to release this new updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works 'Untitled 3' and 'Untitled 3 (reprise)' and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. "Untitled 1" contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 2" contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3/3(reprise)" contains Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. "Untitled 3" mixed by Basinski. "Untitled 3(reprise)" mixed by Chartier. "Richard and I became friends after meeting at Tonic in NY when he and Taylor Deupree did a show with Carsten Nicolai. He contacted me about a possible collaboration and sent me a track which I thought was very rich and harmonically similar to something I had recently been working on, a very swampy, dark piece I was calling "The Garden of Brokenness" after a very beautiful new installation by James Elaine. I popped it into pro tools with my piece and something really special was happening, so I spent a few weeks weeding my track, trying different things...eventually I stripped it way down and we were both quite happy with the result. Richard came up to NY and we fine tuned it a bit together and it was done. Since the piece had changed quite a bit we decided not to use that title for this piece. He then sent me another one and again, it just worked with something else I had been working on...the second track came together very quickly, and there you have it! I love Richard's work...very elegant, like the man!" - William Basinski. Both William Basinski and Richard Chartier have been digging through their archival matter as of late. In fact, the majority of Basinski's recent output is the result of his discoveries, including his profound Disintegration Loops series. Chartier, meanwhile, based his recent production Archival1992 upon two older pieces evolved into a single-minded composition of subtle disquiet. LIMITED EDITION: 1000
Line-034
CD
$12.25

Bauhaus
Go Away White
PS, UK New album! 'Go Away White' is everything you would hope Bauhaus would deliver as their final statement. Fronted by a cover photo of Bethesda, the angel of the healing waters in New York's Central Park, the music inside is pure cathartic renovation, a psychedelic glimpse into an enchanted moment. Aided in part by guitarist Daniel Ash's inspired use of Jimi Hendrix's own personal Vox wah wah pedal, gifted to him by Peter Murphy at the start of the sessions, it is pop as much as it is experimental. The 10 songs on 'Go Away White' channel the kind of magic timelessness you could imagine on a mighty bill with Joy Division, Bowie, Devo, the Creatures, Antony, My Bloody Valentine, and Kraftwerk--with Oscar Wilde playing master of ceremonies. NME: "Bauhaus are to Goth, what Radiohead are to Prog."
CookingVinyl
CD
$15.00

Beach House
Devotion
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Carpark
LP
$17.00

Beach House
Devotion
PS, US The familiar organs, slide guitars & reverb are intact but they offer some new directions here. Having developed their craft exponentially since last year's debut, their new record is a crisp recording that showcases a set of fuller & richer songs, with the band taking the pop duo format to the limit. ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "With Devotion, Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound... Like Beach House, Devotion sounds like it was made for, and possibly in, the dead of night. This time, though, Beach House's dark moods have more shades, and even a little bit of light, making them all the more compelling."
Carpark
CD
$14.25

Beequeen
Sandancing
PS, US After the by now usual gap of some two years, Beequeen is ready to present their latest album, further maturing their sound from 'The Bodyshop' (also on Important Records). More song based, this album features new vocals by Olga Wallis solely (with some backing by Freek Kinkelaar). Well-rounded popsongs in some places, but Beequeen never forgets to put in some strange element, without leaping in the dark alley of pointless experiment. Orchestral in 'The Illogical Song', collage like in 'The Edie Three Step' or a simple rhythm machine in 'The Honeythief'. Beequeen does all, and with great care and seemingly ease. This album features also the help of Barry Gray, former (and first) guitarist of The Legendary Pink Dots, and would not have been the album that is without the invaluable production skills of Erik Drost.
Important-177
CD
$12.25

Beequeen
Sandancing Demos
PS, US Limited edition of 300 copies in heavy duty screen printed jackets by Monoroid. The Sandancing Demos 10", as it's title suggests, contains the original ideas that birthed Beequeen's wonderful new album Sandancing. Original versions, rough mixes & home demos plus an unreleased track.
Important-186
10
$14.75

Bitcrush
Epilogue in Waves
PS, US '"Epilogue in Waves" is the third album from n5MD main-man Mike Cadoo's ever evolving Bitcrush moniker. The album is the soundtrack to a story which begins with a sense of hope, but whose undercurrents pull you to the end you feared. Epilogue in Waves marks the end of Cadoo's "wading in the ocean" thematic metaphor for lost time that constituted the backbone of his previous album, "In Distance." As his self-described "rock record," the album eschews some of Cadoo's previous electronic methodologies for a more stripped-down songwriting style which utilizes only guitars, basses and drums. This experiment in the basics has led to a sonically rich release that still contains those warm musical crevices to find solace in. Epilogue in Waves will please fans of previous works by Bitcrush as well as neophytes to Cadoo's brand of emotional and sometimes epic songwriting.
n5MD-156
CD
$12.00

Black
Donna
PS, US They perform their music w/ numerous players from the Austin music scene. Members of ...Trail Of Dead, Knife In The Water & the Crackpipes have helped them craft mid-tempo songs to be played in the parlour. Influenced by American folk, blues & country w/ abstracts of indie rock, alt-country & garage. "Straight Americana & 60's British Invasion sounds, twisted, filtered, spit out shiny & unique."-Rank & Revue
Kwoo
12
$9.50

Black Monk
Flowstone
PS, US "Flowstoned and dethroned, finally. Last year's bored/burning summer spell of Eagle Rock entropy birthed a numb drum 'n drones duo dubbed Black Monk. The aesthetic of inept, free-punk drumming and red-eyed, void-surfing low-end infinity found output on two micro-limited cassette releases (one on Buried Valley, one on Zac/Lambsbread's Maim & Disfigure) and one weedian live show (in Tempe, AZ) and then the scholars split to separate coasts. Fortunately for us/you, Flowstone comes crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer on a slab of black wax, collecting their out-of-print Murmur CS and half the V CS, plus an unreleased side-long wasteoid-land of subterranean percussion and roaring magma. Just in time for 2012. Black vinyl LPs in stark pro-printed fold-over covers plus a poster of arcane team scribble by BM. Limited to 270. Co-released with Not Not Fun."
Arbor
LP
$11.25

Bodeans
Still
PS, US New album.
Oarfin
CD
$13.75

Boeoes Kaelstigen
Pan European
PS, SWEDEN "The music is sharp-edged, a suggestive hybrid of minimal, luxurious Giorgio Moroder Italo and melodramatic black and white air busses. Boeoes Kaelstigen's beats and desolate keyboard lines makes you long for a future in the sign of modernity."
Adrian-12
12
$10.50

Born Ruffians
Red Yellow Blue
PS, UK PITCHFORK: "First full-length by the herky-jerky indie rock trio from Toronto expands outward from their debut EP, not so much a premeditated step toward maturity as an exploration of different shades of the young-man's blues."
Warp
CD
$15.00

Boy Omega
Hope On The Horizon
PS, SPAIN On "Hope on the Horizon", Boy Omega (Swedish genius Martin Henrik Gustafsson) follows up his critically acclaimed 2006-albums "The Black Tango" and "The Grey Rainbow", with yet another impressive collection of songs that showcase the growth of his songwriting. As always when you hear a new Boy Omega-record, there's something new going on. This time it's a lot less electronic than before. This is something warm and analog, featuring big walls of strings, horns, acoustic pianos etc. It sounds melancholic and drenched with the bitter beauty of life. Besides from recording "Hope...", releasing two albums, a tour-cd (feat. 15 rare tracks and covers), two singles, the split CD "If we were oceans" and appearing on the Magnetic Fields tribute CD "Our love is meaningless", Boy Omega also managed to play more than 60 shows in 2006. Germany, Austria, The Netherlands and the UK were frequently visited. In the summer they played the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, The End of the road festival in the UK along with artists such as Ryan Adams, Ed Harcourt and Badly Drawn Boy. They also did shows together with Isobel Campbell, Akron/Family, The Hidden Cameras and Jason Collett. "Fans of Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith will feel a kinship to these allusive tunes ... A fascinating series of snapshots, both disarming and engaging ... something incredibly fragile and perfectly crafted." - UNCUT "Sad songs and little-boy-lost vocals recall Bright Eyes, but his settings are all his own, mixing lo-fi sensibilities with gnarly electronics, warm cellos, lustrous violins, banjo and sax to lush effect ... One to watch." - THE INDEPENDENT "Naked and bare but still powerful, and not self-pitiful as so many others in the same genre." - GROOVE
Acuarela-1079
CD
$13.50

Bridal Shop, The
From Seas
PS, US The Bridal Shop is a new young band emerging from the fertile land of Sweden, and From Seas is the result of a year spent painstakingly crafting perfect pop songs. Inspired by New Order and shoegaze bands like Field Mice and The Radio Dept, From Seas features prerecorded drum beats and delicate female vocals that date the band, whose true loves are bands from the 1980s. These seven songs are solid all the way through, and are sure to break hearts! SCATTERBRAIN: "If you're a fan of almost anything Sarah Records put out, especially bands like Blueboy and Brighter, then you'll probably love this."
MagicMarker
CD
$11.00

Bryars, Gavin
Hommages
PS, UK Remastered. Originally released in November 1981 on Les Disques du Crepuscule, Hommages was recorded in Leicester in February 1981 and produced by noted Belgian new music composer Wim Mertens. The album was conceived as a series of diverse homage's to other composers, which include Bill Evans (My First Homage), Ferruccio Busoni and Gustav Holst (The English Mail-Coach and The Vespertine Park) and Percy Grainger (Hi-Tremolo). Featured musicians included Andrew Bilham, Ronald Reah, Andrew Renshaw, Nigel Shipway, Dave Smith, John White and Marie Wilson, as well as Gavin Bryars himself on piano and vibraphone. The album is the only one that documents the important period between Bryars' early experimental music and later works from Medea onwards, as well as his enthusiasm for small composer/performer ensembles. The new 63 minute digital remaster of Hommages now includes two bonus tracks composed and recorded by Bryars during the same period: Danse Dieppoise, and the lengthy piano piece Out of Zaleski's Gazebo. The booklet features extensive notes by Gavin Bryars on the origin and performance of all six pieces, and preserves the original album cover artwork by Marc Borgers.
LTM-2503
CD
$17.00

Canisius, Keith
Ferris Wheel Makeout
PS, JAPAN Multi-instrumentalist, singer & producer Keith Canisius (main composer in RUMSKIB) puts a personal twist on classic shoegaze and dreampop with his creative playfulness and multi-layered compositions. Ferris Wheel Makeout, his solo debut, is a dizzying good dream affair stacked with strong melodies and excellent guitar work. Local friend Jonas Munk (aka Manual) helps out with drum programming and post production for the finishing touches. Altogether a mix that the shoegazers and dreampoppers out there will love, as will fans of Rumskib, Manual, Ulrich Schnauss, Cocteau Twins, MBV & Serena Maneesh.
Quince-58
CD
$13.50

Cash, Brent
How Will I Know If I'm Awake (ON SALE)
PS, GERMANY The Marina label presents the debut release from Athens, GA-based Brent Cash. Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, How Will I Know If I'm Awake is overflowing with hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies and lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers and good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town and assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass and even a harp. The results are simply stunning. From the opening chords of "Everything That's Grey," we enter melody wonderland, a place where major 7 chords rule and beautiful vocal harmonies dazzle your mind. "Digging The Fault Line" is full of Byrds guitar jangle, sounding like the perfect soundtrack to cruise into golden California sunsets (with a great Wes Montgomery-like guitar solo along the way). "Only Time" explodes with 100 % fat-free youthful euphoria -- Roger Nichols meets The 5th Dimension. While deeply rooted in '60s songwriting -- influenced by Bacharach, Wilson, McCartney, and yes, The Monkees -- Cash certainly has his own unique signature style. Just listen to "And Had We Ever?" and "I Think I'm Falling In Love" -- with its complex, enchanting textures, ignoring conventional song structures. "Love Is Burning Down Tonight" -- a striking duet between Brent and Amanda Kapousouz -- is a special highlight of the album, while "Good Morning Sunshine" could be the theme song to the best TV series in the world -- the harpsichord-driven piece is chock-full of amazing twists and turns of melodic beauty. "This Sea, These Waves" moves us into bossa nova territory -- starting off in a classic Getz/Gilberto mould, the song soon morphs into heavenly orchestrated Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 elegance. "More Than Everything," clocking in at over six minutes, ends this beautiful song circle with a great final statement about overcoming heartbreak, delivered with the sincerity of a Carpenters record. Music made the way it was meant to be heard.
Marina-071
CD
$15.00

Cash, Brent
How Will I Know If I'm Awake
PS, US Sounding like a lost sunshine pop classic from the '60s, this is overflowing w/ hook-laden choruses, multi-layered vocal harmonies & lush, sophisticated arrangements. It's the sound of endless summers & good vibrations. From the start, multi-instrumentalist Cash decided to record his songs like "they did it back then," hiring the best musicians in town & assembling a mini-orchestra featuring strings, brass & even a harp.
Marina
LP
$18.00

Cave
Hunt Like the Devil
PS, US New project form Warhammer 48K mastermind COOPER. Space rock rifffs, squalls of guitar freak-outs, repetititeve & hypnotic grooves and chanting, cult like vocals. LIMITED to 500, includes a FREE cd of the lp.
Southern
LP
$13.50

Chatham, Rhys & His Guitar Trio All-Stars
Guitar Trio Is My Life
PS, US Utilizing multiple electric guitars and a single chord, 1977's "Guitar Trio" is composer RHYS CHATHAM'S signature work, and a euphoric, minimal-punk classic. Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Guitar Trio" on an epic scale, Chatham musters an all-star guitar army for the 3xCD set, "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" The sprawling collection FEATURES MEMBERS OF SONIC YOUTH, SWANS, TORTOISE, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, HÜSKER DÜ, MODERN LOVERS, SILVER MT. ZION, TOWN AND COUNTRY, DIE KREUTZEN, 90-DAY MEN, COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES, and many more; even TONY CONRAD gets in on the act. Together these artists celebrate Chatham's wordless anthem, with its minimalist origins, rock & roll rhythm, ecstatic whorl of harmonics, and ever-evolving, ever-expanding nature. So, take a listen, and hear what one man can do with hundreds of guitars, 30 years, one chord, and a skyscraper of amps set to Liquefy. "Guitar Trio" endures.
TableoftheElements-813
CDX3
$21.00

Chion, Michel
Requiem
PS, US ONLY ON LP! Originally released on INA-GRM in '78. Based in France, he is a composer of experimental music, & was an assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in 1970 as well as a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) between 1971-76. This is an electroacoustic masterpiece built on a system of echoes & correspondences within the context of a "choir" of voices, loops, tape crackles & drama-schemes.
SubRosa
LP
$15.50

Club 8
Strangely Beautiful + 5
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the fourth of four CD album re-issues by one of Sweden's most influential indie pop bands. Club 8s fifth album "Strangely beautiful" is released with original artwork and nothing less than five (5) bonus tracks. "Strangely beautiful" was the last of three albums in Club 8's productive peak between 2001 and 2003. Within a time frame of less than two years the band managed to release three full-length albums and two Eps without ever losing on quality. Quite the opposite, "Strangely beautiful" was by many considered their best album to date. "Strangely Beautiful is Club 8's best and most varied record to date...on this album, the band's trademark blend of soft indie pop guitars, perky dance beats, melancholy synthesizers, and sweet and innocent vocals remains intact, but Johan Angergard, the chief architect of Club 8's sound, seems to have spent some effort trying to expand their sound a little. The work pays off handsomely and the album sounds full of life and energy." ALL MUSIC Their previous album "Spring came, rain fell" had been a very diverse history ranging from electronica and dub to acoustic pop. Therefor it came natural for Club 8 to move in the opposite direction on their next album and make a more homogeneous album. "Strangely beautiful" mostly revolved around guitar based and melancholic pop music. But there was, as always, tracks that stood out as completely different from the rest. And in typical Club 8 manner this track, "Saturday night engine", was chosen to be the single. This noisy and Northern Soul-inspired track was a clear forerunner to The Legends "Up against the Legends". But that's another story.
Labrador-037R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
The Friend I Once Had + 6
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. With a glittery mix of jangly guitars, bossa nova and sophisticated, melancholic pop melodies, "The Friend I Once Had" was a big step forwards for Club 8. Their debut album "Nouvelle" may be regarded, as a twee pop classic by some but the band would happily rather bury most the songs under a rock. This is the album they wish was their debut. "All bubble-pop, break beats, and xylophones, Friend I Once Had was a step forward from the fey gestures Club 8 had once been known for." ALL MUSIC GUIDE "...showcases lusher, bouncier songs suitable for both easy listening and sophisticated grooving .... music that you will immediately cherish..." CMJ "It is absolutely essential to own at least one Lp by this group. I'd probably suggest this one as the place to start, but you really can't go wrong." 10 + INDIESPINZONE "The friend I once had" was not only a first step towards the band's characteristically elegant, yet melancholic, "Club 8 - sound"; it was a step towards a much bigger (and possibly wider) audience. The album gained critical success and reached thousands of new listeners in the US, Europe and Japan and they even had a minor hit with the single "Missing you". Ironically, this is the only song from the album parts of the band can no longer stand. "The Friend I Once Had" celebrates 10 years and remains a minor Swedish pop classic. A must have for just about anyone genuinely interested in quality POP.
Labrador-004R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
Spring Came, Rain Fell + 5
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to announce the third of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's kings & queens of happysad indie pop. Club 8s third album "Spring came, rain fell" is released with original artwork and five (5) bonus tracks. "Spring came, rain fell" was the start of a whole new era for Club 8. They had just bought their own recording equipment and started the now famous Summersound Studio together with fellow band Acid House Kings and from this a whole new level of creativity emerged. You can tell Club 8 enjoyed their newly found freedom with a studio of thier own. "Spring came, rain fell" is sparkling of experimental lust. Without ever losing their touch for seductive pop melodies Club 8 here produces songs and sounds ranging from dub and electronica to smokey trip hop and folky and acoustic pop. They did everything just because they could do it and because they loved doing. "Club 8 use the studio to bring the best out in every song ... shafts of melodica shine a light through Komstedt's dewy fatalism. It may be bleak, but you can't stop returning." - MOJO "As summer slips away, wallow in some Scandinavian sadness with this Swedish duo's wonderfully soothing (UK) début." - TIME OUT (London)
Labrador-022R
CD
$13.50

Club 8
Club 8 + 2
PS, SWEDEN Reissue. Labrador is proud to present the second of four CD album re-issues by Sweden's melancholic pop heroes. Club 8s self-titled third is released with original artwork and two (2) bonus tracks. It took three years from the previous album "The friend I once had" to the release of "Club 8" and listening to the albums after one and another it's obvious how much they'd changed in absence. This album definitely moved the band in a new direction. And you can tell directly from the first song on "Club 8". "Love in december" is breathtaking, soulful pop imbued by dark Scandinavian winter atmosphere and bittersweet melancholy. "If a lover's arms were as soft and sultry as the music on Club 8, returning to them again and again would pose little conflict, and the same goes for slipping into Club 8." ROLLING STONE
Labrador-018R
CD
$13.50

Cobain, Kurt
About a Son
PS, US "Extraordinary!"-Salon. Deeply personal portrait using his own words & voice. Based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book ""Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing
insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public & they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood. 97 mins.
Shout!Factory
DVD
$14.00

Coil
The Ape Of Naples + The New Backwards
PS, US The Ape Of Naples/The New Backwards is limited to 1500 copies. This 4 LP set is pressed on heavy duty 180 gram vinyl and each record is packaged in it's own LP jacket that is then housed in a deluxe tip-on style box. A poster is included. The first three records make up The Ape Of Naples and the b-side of each has a custom etching. The fourth record is The New Backwards and it is double sided. A four panel poster is included and the box has a 5th color spot-gloss. This box set includes 2 albums. The first is the complete Ape Of Naples and the second is The New Backwards, which is only currently available in this box set. The New Backwards appropriately is part of the Ape of Naples set. The material is additional completed versions of songs that were left unfinished, whose early raw loops and demonstrational incarnations might sound familiar to some but have never officially surfaced.
Important-174
4XLP
$87.75

Coltrane, John
Turning Point
PS, UK Over the all too brief 40 years of his life, John Coltrane had a profound and far-reaching effect on the world of jazz and beyond. Yet acclaimed as he already was after spells as a sideman with giants such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, it was only in 1957 that his musical vision began to truly find focus. The "spiritual awakening" of which he spoke prompted him to make wholesale changes in his lifestyle. Out, went the bad habits that had made many fears for his life, to be replaced by an all-consuming quest to make music that transcended national and cultural boundaries, bringing both player and listener to a state of connectedness with God. This edition illustrates that landmark year with selections from four important sessions; collaborations and first dates as leader with Tadd Dameron, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan and Red Garland. The listener will find abundant evidence of one of jazz's undisputed greats demonstrating total mastery of the music that succored him through his early years - blues, swing, bebop - and already beginning to hunger for fresh challenges. Coltrane's eclectic attitudes, encouraged by his friendship with Ravi Shankar, would soon inspire The Byrds ('Eight Miles High'), Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Tom Verlaine, The Stooges. Mating Call / Soultrane / On A Misty Night / Eclypso / Solacium / Bakai / While My Lady Sleeps / Chronic Blues / You Leave Me Breathless / Soft Lights And Sweet Music / Slow Dance.
FiveFour-027
CD
$15.50

Common Loon
Dinosaur vs. Early Man b/w Palestine Everywhere
PS, US Blending classic West Coast harmonies with some cosmically-inclined guitar-gush lushness and an otherworldly hi-fi-ness, local dream-rock duo Common Loon rates as one of the C-U Music Scene's bands to watch in 2008. Yes, there's an album in the pipe. Comes with a digital download ticket, so you can have it both ways. Pink-noise-pop for Sebadoh, Spiritualized, and Spacemen 3 fans.
IdealUtopia
45
$4.00

Coniglio, Enrico
'dyanMU
PS, IRELAND Dark Ambient/Piano works. Enrico Coniglio presents his second album on Irish label Psychonavigation Records. A slight change of style from the Italian producers critically acclaimed previous work 'Areavirus Topofonie Volume 1'. This time around in between Coniglio's abstract ambient soundscapes were greeted by short piano pieces from the talented musician Elisa Marzorati. A delicate and minimal contemporary Ambient work partly based on the piano preludes of Claude Debussy. The album also boasts a sample from the legendary producer Robert Fripp. The guitarist kindly granted Enrico the right to use a sample from his 'The Gates Of Paradise' album.
Psychonavigation-022
CD
$15.50

Corsano, Chris
The Young Cricketer
PS, US "The Young Cricketer" is CHRIS CORSANO'S debut of Frankenstein/gamelan skin detail. It's a monster and a babe all wrapped under the guise of "The Solo Drum Album". Corsano's flea-market kit of cast-iron pot lids, super-bouncy-balls on sticks, butter knives, and even a sax mouthpiece jammed-in-a-hose conjures a part rhythmic maelstrom, like a Milford Graves drip painting, and the sweet metallic ice drones of Tony Conrad and Keiji Haino rubbing sticks together until end days. Globally known for a dozen scorched/power jazz sessions with sax blower Paul Flaherty and a cadre of collaborators and groups (Jandek, Bjork, Jim O'Rourke, Dream/Aktion Unit, Vampire Belt, Michael Flower, Dredd Foole, etc.), Corsano's drumming has leapt from post-hardcore explorations into outrageous, primeval and outright futuristic depth during his past 10 years of recorded documentation. This LP is a field recording of wire, skin, metal and soul -- not tunes for yr neighbor's bongo party. Originally issued on Corsano's own Hot Cars Warp label as a CDR, this LP IS REMASTERED AND ISSUED IN A 600 EDITION.
FamilyVineyard-51
LP
$12.25

Country Funk
S-T [re-issue]
PS, UK Few artist names or album titles have ever been so misleading as this band's. Though there are certainly elements of funk and country in the mix, their beautifully crafted songs and harmonies (to say nothing of some biting electric guitar) are far closer in feel to the West Coast psychedelia of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Originally released in 1970 on Polydor, the album is a long-lost gem that is sure to please fans of U.S. West Coast rock -- it certainly appealed to Beck, who sampled one of its tracks on his Odelay album.
Fallout
CD
$16.25

Crabapples
Crabapples For Change
PS, US Inspired equally by '78-'79 punk (Buzzcocks, Swell Maps) and '80s and '90s pop (This Poison!, Television Personalities, Boyracer), The Crabapples were a tough little Bay Area four-piece that exploded briefly on the scene a few years back. Loud but melodic, their specialty was short, catchy tunes played with sloppy abandon. Live shows clocked in at around 15 minutes and this 4-song EP is an ideal keepsake of The Crabapples effervescent charms. From the mod-ish pogo of "Quality (Not Quantity)" to the angular "The Earnest Young Man Song" to the full-on near-hardcore of "Crabapples For Change" this great EP rushes along in a breathless blur, fuelled by lager, explosive tunes and a love of great pop. The band included members of The Frenchmen and Black Tambourine, and this single is sure to please all fans of scrappy punk-ish pop. All copies pressed on colored vinyl in a hand-stamped sleeve.
Slumberland-070
45
$4.25

Dawson, Kimya
My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess
PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies! Her most intimate record full of some of her best songs.
Important
LP
$15.00

Dawson, Kimya
Knock Knock Who?
PS, US Repressed & repackaged. Vinyl version limited to 1000 copies.
Important
LP
$15.00

Dirtbombs, The
We Have You Surrounded
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
InTheRed
LP
$14.50

Dirtbombs, The
We Have You Surrounded
PS, US PS, US Jam-packed w/ more of their soulful, Detroit-style, fuzztone fueled garage-punkpop- rock 'n' roll that has made them a popular favorite w/ club-goers around the globe. This record carries on the tradition w/ fantastic takes on songs by comic artist Alan Moore, stalwarts Dead Moon, & labelmates Sparks. That said, the originals here are what you really want to write home about. From the Stooge-oid "Ever Lovin' Man" to the finger-poppin' "Indivisible" to the extendo free-form psych jam of "Race To The Bottom" to the Euro-pop of "La Fin Du Monde"
InTheRed
CD
$14.25

Dixon, Andy
Mice of Mt. Career
PS, US This billows w/ a concentration of thick pop, live instrumentation, & multi-cultural musical references. It runs the gamut of emotion, from bitter sweet hooks to murky, claustrophobic dirges. His voice, guitar playing, & songwriting burst w/ a fresh, vibrant energy. Andy Dixon is in SECRET MOMMY.
Ache-036
CD
$12.00

Dolly Rocker Movement, The
Purple Journey Into the Mod Machine
PS, AUSTRALIA Hailing from Sydney the Dolly Rocker Movement have developed a style and sound bearing a true influence of late 60's garage, psychedelia and freakbeat, with splashes of west coast folk. ...this album promises to be just as popular with the critics and paisley-clad-gentle-people.
OffTheHip-7036
CD
$12.25

Dolly Rocker Movement, The
Electric Sunshine
PS, AUSTRALIA And now for something a little different; Sydney's DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT are equal parts VELVET UNDERGROUND, BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE and georgeous west-coast folk. Blending quaint psychedelia and haunting jabs of love, DOLLY ROCKER MOVEMENT pervade a space in your brain that's reserved for acid. [As heard on Australia's TripleJ radio.] "WHY ISN'T ANY BAND IN AMERICA MAKING MUSIC THIS BEAUTIFUL" GREG SHAW (RIP) BOMP.
OffTheHip-7031
CD
$12.25

Dot Tape Dot
Tomavistas: (Selected Rarities 2002-2007)
PS, US Daniel Romero is a multi-faceted musician based in Asturias, north of Spain. In a very short time he has molded a very personal discourse based on constructing low-budget electronic pop with lo-fi, toy instruments, combined with stunning homemade visuals. "Tomavistas" is something like an old video camera - literally taking in and recording the landscapes of contemplative, visual sound. It is a collection of Daniel Romero's rarities and personal favorites recorded as dot tape dot, spanning the years 2002 - 2007. "Tomavistas" is born of love of the domestic flavor of the "underground" and the pleasure derived spending time making music for this scene. Considering the difficulty for listeners to find these tracks, it became time to compile them along with other, little known pieces and clears out space for a new personal stockpile to be built. These 12 tracks are taken from limited edition compilations, vinyl only releases and "unofficial" albums, from labels in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Mexico, UK and Canada. This collection is intended to serve as a retrospective for fans, highlighting different musical stages, or a perfect introduction for new listeners, revealing a background upon which to consider future output. 1. Come to me 2. Df fragment 3. Rosa Luxemburger 4. Slow Birds For Mayo T 5. Miracolo a Milano 6. A Russian Poet 7. Pal Talk 2 (morning) 8. Rounded Tree 9. Ventano 10. Disaster 11. Making Waves 12. With Paul (Bluehouse Edit)
OtherElectricites-012
CD
$12.25

Doubtful Guest
Acid Sauna
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
PlanetMu
3XLP
$18.75

Doubtful Guest
Acid Sauna
PS, US This debut ushers in a new era of acid. Gone are the electro party jams, gone is the funky squiggle. This dark, suffocating stuff is full of nightmares & claustrophobic details that send shivers up one's spine. Not afraid to show her classical upbringing (she trained as an opera singer) & jazz heritage (granddaughter of J.B. Floyd), Libby Floyd infuses the rave sound w/ doom & dread.
PlanetMu
CD
$16.00

Dreamers, The
Day For Night
PS, SWEDEN The Dreamers are an Anglo/Swedish duo featuring Sarah Nyberg Pergament (Action Biker) and Kevin Wright (Always and Mr. Wright, on él, Le Grand Magistery and Siesta). After meeting at a Swedish music festival in 2004, the pair began making music together via London, Stockholm and Helsinki, and fusing jazz pop, bossanova, and soundtrack music. With "Day for Night" the Dreamers have made--to paraphrase Michel Legrand on Tom Jobim- the sad music that makes the world a better place. Influences: Stan Tracey, Caetano Veloso, Colleen, Francoise Hardy, Kryzystof Komeda, Matching Mole, Anna Karina, Bill Evans, Monica Zetterlund, Nara Leao, Bernard Herrmann, Nico... "[A] male/female duo with the vocal texture and cadence of Broadcast's Trish Keenan, but with its own musicality, personality and atmosphere set in a breeze-blown, sun-drenched pasture, the record is really charming and full of self-assured confidence - light on its feet in that Brazilian way and positive in that modern indie way, but solid and thoughtfully written. The Dreamers are very easy to like but definitely not just another guilty pleasure." - Other Music, NYC
FriendlyNoise-055
CD
$13.50

Duffy, Stephen & The Lilac Time
Runout Groove (ON SALE)
PS, UK 2007 release, the first output from the band in over five years. The Lilac Time was formed by the man known as 'Tin Tin' in the 80's, Stephen Duffy ('Kiss Me') with his brother Nick and their ranks have increased to six members with this album. It's Stephen Duffy's first set of recordings since taking over as prime songwriting collaborator with British superstar Robbie Williams and another previous pairing with Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as The Devils. The band of course still includes brother Nick as well as singer and multi-instrumentalist Claire Worrall along with Folk-Jazz luminary and former member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and co-founder of Pentangle, Danny Thompson. 12 tracks.
Fruitcake
CD
$15.00

Earth
The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
PS, US This finds Dylan Carlson & the band growing into a harder, more rock, american Gospel & impovisitory direction framed by truly psychedelic production & blazing guitar sounds. They show their affinity w/ a nod to the best elements of the more adventurous San Francisco bands of the late 60's & 70's, & the more spiritually aware & exciting forms of Jazz-Rock from the same era. This is no nostalgia trip but a thoroughly inspired & original metamorphosis. Feat. BILL FRISELL doing some of his most fuzzed out playing in years!
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths
PS, US Originally released in 1977. First reissue of this now-extinct material featuring contributions from reggae greats Johnny Osbourne, Carl Dawkins, Adrian "Homer" Miller & Bunny Brown from The Chosen Few. Heavy bass, drums, reverb, echo, roots vocals, keys, guitar, percussion & Brown's wild style behind the controls.
LightInTheAttic
CD
$12.50

Earth, Roots & Water
Innocent Youths
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LightInTheAttic
LP
$14.25

East Of Eden
Mercator Projected
PS, UK A milestone in the birth of "progressive" rock, East of Eden's debut album, "Mercator Projected" has been cited by Mojo magazine as a minor masterpiece. Released on the legendary Deram label in 1969, the album established East of Eden as a major act, particularly in France, where the band had several Top Ten singles and major album success. An imaginative fusion of jazz, psychedelia and world music, "Mercator Projected" has been remastered from the original master tapes and features twenty minutes of bonus material, including previously unreleased extended demo versions of 'Waterways' and 'In The Stable of the Sphynx' and East of Eden's take on The Byrds' classic 'Eight Miles High'. All original artwork has been restored and the booklet features many unseen photographs and memorabilia.
EsotericRecordings-2033
CD
$20.25

East Of Eden
Snafu
PS, UK East of Eden's second album, "Snafu" was originally released in 1970 by Deram Records and saw the band take their particular fusion of jazz, psychedelia, world music and even blue beat, one step further. As ever, the instrumental prowess of Dave Arbus on violin dominated the music, leading eventually to Arbus playing the infamous violin solo on "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who. "Snafu" was the result of many months in the studio, before being shelved in favor of starting work on a fresh project. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes and features many unreleased bonus tracks, including five previously unreleased tracks from the aborted album sessions and alternate demo and single versions of their 1971 hit, "Jig-A-Jig". An extensive essay features interviews and previously unseen photographs.
EsotericRecordings-2034
CD
$20.25

Egg
The Polite Force
PS, UK This now legendary debut album by Egg featured the talents of Dave Stewart on Keyboards, Mont Campbell on Bass and Clive Brooks on Drums. Egg was associated with the so-called "Canterbury" style of rock music pioneered by artists such as Caravan and Soft Machine. The trio produced music of startling originality and energy, drawing on influences ranging from rock to jazz to psychedelia to classical. This fusion resulted in some of the most enduring releases to appear on Decca's Deram and Nova imprints and are now critically regarded as some of the more unique albums of the early 1970's. Egg's classic second album is re-mastered from the original tapes and appears alongside the reissue of "Egg". With these releases, the entire EGG back catalogue is now available on Esoteric Recordings.
EsotericRecordings-2036
CD
$20.25

Enduser
Left
PS, US END.USER is one of the cornerstones of the modern eclectic electronic music. Support from BBC Radio's Mary Anne Hobbs and a list of DJs too long to fit on a one sheet, from many different genres, and 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 album on Ohm Resistance. Having relocated to San Francisco, a new lease on his creative power is demonstrated adroitly over the entire album. Album: left shows the most range of END.USER's album making career. Intensely personal, intensely musical, and just plain INTENSE at points, the album showcases a spectacular array of skills across the board. From radio play material ("black light") with Aussie vocalist Sol Thomas, to collaborations with and remixes by influential electronic acts SCORN and COUNTERSTRIKE, to absolutely stunning, no boundaries drum n bass, the album is diverse and full of powerful compositions. Compelling from start to finish, left is the culmination of more than a year's work. Label: Ohm Resistance is Brooklyn's premier experimental electronic label. Loaded with power, from Scorn, to Bill Laswell's Method of Defiance, to Enduser and Submerged, the label has transformed from drum n bass 12" powerhouse to cutting edge electronic project pioneer.
OhmResistance-07
CD
$12.25

English, Lawrence/Ai Yamamoto
Plateau
PS, US Over the past three years Ai Yamamoto and Lawrence English have been exploring the ideas and linkages between field recordings, texture and minimal electronics. Occasionally crossing paths around Australia and sharing the odd live performance together, the duo realized they shared a strong interest in the character of sound and the creation of sonic works that carry a strong sense of suggested narrative and memory (both invented and real). On Plateau, they create evocative and generously textured passages of sound that mask gentle field recordings collected across the globe including Yamamoto's home prefecture of Nara, Japan where English also spent time. Considered In worldwide as the "Bible" of modern, cutting edge and new music and in publication now for over 20 years is the U.K. monthly magazine, The Wire, here is what they had to say upon review of "Plateau" in the February 2006 edition: A man of many collaborations, Lawrence English joins fellow Australian sound artist Ai Yamamoto for Plateau, a somber album of impressionist fragments connected more by mood and ambience than by movement and composition. As in his previous work with Tujiko Noriko DJ Olive and Philip Samartzis, English applies a considerable amount of DSP-distilled polish to the ensuing sounds, whether they are textured field recordings, rasping tam-tams or post-Eno dronescapes. Considering that Plateau jumps from tonefloat shimmer to wintry Durutti Column guitar flourishes to a music box palindrome and back to a bout of ominous minimalism, English's production serves to encase the entire album with a consistent aura. Plateau's numerous stylistic transitions and melodic interludes never veer far from a compelling if fragile melancholy.
Phonostatique-007
CD
$15.00

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story
PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
CD
$9.00

Envy
A Dead Sinking Story
PS, US Originally released in 2003 ON LEVEL PLANE RECORDS, the album expanded ENVY'S American audience, and marked the first time the band toured North America. The original vinyl pressing sold out immediately, and not surprisingly now fetches over $100 on eBay. Here, finally, both CD and LP formats are repackaged and re-released along with the lion's share of their seminal back catalog. The vinyl has been remastered, sounding better than ever. Along with their now-legendary second album, "All the Footprints That You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead" (also reissued recently by TEMPORARY RESIDENCE), "A Dead Sinking Story" is widely regarded as an innovative high-water mark for hardcore. These two albums are justifiably viewed as modern hardcore classics whose monumental footsteps created an unending ripple.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-131
DLP
$14.25

Eprhyme
Punklezmerap
PS, US Enter EPRHYME: a rapper with more on his mind than his money; a Jew with issues other than his mother. A cultural nomad with roots in seemingly contradictory cultural contexts, Eprhyme approaches both Judaism and Hip Hop with a profound respect for tradition, balanced by creative freedom and poetic license. Not afraid to experiment or cross boundaries of content and style, Eprhyme blends and juxtaposes seemingly divergent sounds and ideas into a swirling and seamless whole.
Krecords-114
45
$3.75

Erik M
Steme
PS, AUSTRALIA Between his reputation as swift shifting improviser, concrete composer and turntable deconstructionist, Marseilles based artist ERIKM has earned himself an enviable position in the European music community. With Stéme, his most ambitious and fully realised compositional work to date, he devolves and recontextualises the boundaries between sound source and sound media. In essence, Stème originates from a selection of ten one minute long sound pieces burned on a CD that was deliberately damaged. These media (music on modified media or field recording) formed the basis of multiple improvised session including multiple stages of construction and destruction of these acoustic matters using my different electronic real time live music systems (3k-pad8system & MD or CD-dj and electronics). The resulting sounds are truly distinctive - filigree like sonic details are brought into sharp focus, tuning the ears with their paced spatial movements. Occasional grabs of the source sound material appear and are erased equally as quickly. A genuinely powerful statement of compositional intent. ERIKM has instinctively followed a relatively unusual, even risky, career path. Stemming from his interest in visual arts and his first musical experience as a rock guitarist, he has for some years now become steadily more and more renowned for his virtuoso turn tabling and his use of electronic instruments and tools in an integrated scenic set-up eRikm has followed up musical collaborations with Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, Luc Ferrari, among others. He is certainly one of the better-equipped artists of the new generation to actually demonstrate a relationship between rock music (in its widest sense) and contemporary music ; hiding behind neither cultural camouflage nor an easy pandering to his audience.
Room40-426
CD
$15.00

Excepter/Leb-Laze
The Troglodytes/Life In The Wilderness
PS, US A monument to f(l)ailing house beats & disembodied rock stars. "Life in Wilderness" is a dense mix of ping-ponging guitars, rolling drums, & keyboard manipulations. Limited to 500 copies
HOSS
LP
$11.00

Fairport Convention
Liege & Lief (Deluxe Edition, 2PC, Remastered)
PS, US In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at least in part because it grants equal importance to all three parts of that formula. While Fairport had begun dipping their toes into British traditional folk with their stellar version of "A Sailor's Life" on Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief found them diving headfirst into the possibilities of England's musical past, with Ashley Hutchings digging through the archives at the Cecil Sharp House in search of musical treasure and the musicians (in particular vocalist Sandy Denny) eagerly embracing the dark mysteries of this music. (Only two of the album's eight songs were group originals, though "Crazy Man Michael" and "Come All Ye" hardly stand out from their antique counterparts.) Liege & Lief was also recorded after a tour bus crash claimed the lives of original Fairport drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend; as the members of the group worked to shake off the tragedy (and break in new drummer Dave Mattacks and full-time fiddler Dave Swarbrick), they became a stronger and more adventurous unit, less interested in the neo-Jefferson Airplane direction of their earlier work and firmly committed to fusing time-worn folk with electric instruments while honoring both. And while Liege & Lief was the most purely folk-oriented Fairport Convention album to date, it also rocked hard in a thoroughly original and uncompromising way; the "Lark in the Morning" medley swings unrelentingly, the group's crashing dynamics wring every last ounce of drama from "Tam Lin" and "Matty Groves," and Thompson and Swarbrick's soloing is dazzling throughout. Liege & Lief introduced a large new audience to the beauty of British folk, but Fairport Convention's interpretations spoke of the present as much as the past, and the result was timeless music in the best sense of the term. In 2007, about a year after Liege & Lief finally earned a gold disc in the U.K., Island Records released a two-disc "Deluxe Edition" of the album. Disc one features the original album remastered by Denis Blackham, and while it doesn't sound strikingly superior to the 2002 expanded CD version, the audio is certainly improved over the 1993 CD (and the original vinyl LP). Disc two features ten bonus tracks: two Liege & Lief outtakes that surfaced on the 2002 reissue, "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood," lead off the disc, while another take of "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" also makes the cut. Most of the rest of the disc consists of BBC recordings of Fairport live in the studio in 1969, along with a fine cover of "The Ballad of Easy Rider" and a jokey medley of "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Fly Me to the Moon." Ultimately, the added material on the bonus disc doesn't seem to add as much to the package as the presence of "Sir Patrick Spens" and "Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" enhanced the 2002 edition, but the original album genuinely plays better in its original eight-song sequence, and this deluxe version does boast a beautifully designed package. Fairport fanatics will want to pick this up for the rare BBC material, but the less obsessed will do just fine to hold on their copies of the 2002 issue. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide
UmvdImport
DCD
$40.00

Fassler, Silvia & Billy Roisz
Skylla
PS, US This is the long-awaited debut collaboration between these long time associates of Viennese subculture; Silvia in various curatorial roles & Billy as video artist. Skylla is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer-generated sounds meshed w/ guitar & turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not
stupid.
EditionsMego
CD
$17.00

Few Nolder
No Mo
PS, US This follows this year's current trend for druggy wonk w/ a simple techno groove w/some floor-fuelling synthline progressions to make your head feel like it's getting smaller. "Brenn," on the flip, is a little more refined, attempting a more streamlined Kompakt or Traum style.
PlanetMu
12
$7.25

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings Rough Bunnies
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. The bonus, on top of it all, twist to the album is that it is mastered by the legendary Mr Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub!

The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" -Gustaf Kjellvander

WIRELESS BOLLINGER REVIEW: "But the hook that makes this album fun isn't just the fact that most of the tales told in each song are full of girly sweetness. Rather it's the Fine Arts Showcase sound itself - and in particular, Kjellvander's sensationally produced voice, mixing with the aforementioned feminie splendour of Rough Bunnies' original words, that make it work so well. Instead of coming across as simply a cute, slightly cheeky female pop record, what we've got here is an album by a man who's lovingly singing through diary entries, discovering her fascinations, disappointments, sexuality, crushes - the works. This grown male's perspective on adolescent female territory delivers a fresh-sounding positive romanticism to Sings Rough Bunnies; and it's bloody infectious."
Adrian-051
CD
$14.00

Fireflies
Goodnight Stars, Goodnight Moon
PS, SWEDEN Fireflies is Lisle Mitnik. He grew up in the tundras of New England playing classical piano and one day he moved to California to go to school and decided to start writing songs. He bought a porta-studio and started recording, combining his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined knowledge of classical arrangement. He try to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. We believe that this release will be loved by those who appreciate: The Clientele, Field Mice, Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Galaxie 500, The Cat's Miaow, Her Space Holiday, Nobuo Uematsu, The Softies, Belle & Sebastian, Fransoise Hardy and Trembling Blue Stars.
MusicIsMyGirlfriend-014
CD
$13.50

Fleet Foxes
Sun Giant
PS, US Seattle's Fleet Foxes make such complex, harmonic, 70s inspired folk-rock, it's hard to believe that the band's principle songwriter, Robin Pecknold, is only 21 years old. There's a moment on David Crosby's "Laughing" where Cros, Joni, and the whole gang hit a harmony that might be the most gorgeous moment in the history of recorded music. The Fleet Foxes know that moment and they go for it. This EP is a precursor to the band's debut, "Ragged Wood", out in June.
Subpop
CD5
$5.00

Food For Animals
Belly
PS, US Brings the best elements of ghettotech & glitch-hop together under one glorious B-club roof to form a bouncy, yet utterly bleak(-sounding) album
HOSS
CD
$13.00

Fool, The
The Fool [Bonus Tracks]
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.50

Foot Foot
Trumpet
PS, US Rather than sticking with the bedroom orchestra arrangements of their debut, Snaggle and Buck (Oedipus), with Trumpet they opt for a more traditional band arrangement. They round their song out with plenty of electric & acoustic guitars, stand up bass, drums, and a piano here & there. Although darker than it's predecessor, Trumpet finds them flirting with alt-rock & traditional country to find them sitting seamlessly on the Drag City roster between Silver Jews & Will Oldham without losing their California porch-country bliss.
Oedipus
CD
$10.00

Forbes, China
'78
PS, US For ten years, China Forbes has toured the world as lead singer of the celebrated "little orchestra" Pink Martini. Forbes has grown into an accomplished performer & built a devoted, diverse fan base around the globe. On her long-awaited solo album, Forbes dusts off her guitar & returns to her roots, displaying strikingly personal songs in a style all her own. Filled with intimate stories of love, loneliness, friendship & alienation. Backed by Gregg Williams & Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), with cameos by Eric Matthews & Phil Baker (Pink Martini), Forbes plays a variety of instruments- including guitar, piano, bass, harmonium & Wurlitzer- making this record clearly & uniquely hers.
Heinz
CD
$16.00

Gergis, Mark & Alan Bishop
Sumatran Folk Cinerma
PS, US This is a psychedelic collage of images & sounds from the heart & soul of the island's culture w/ the main focus on music. Witness classic dangdut rock music, street & country scenes, raw TV excerpts, Minang orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk musicians, audio/visual artifacts & much more wrapped in a 60 min. kaleidoscope complete w/ an epic soundtrack. All region DVD contains bonus footage of musical performances & trailer segment. Color; 60
minutes; digipak; NSTC format
DVD
$21.50

Giant Robot
#52
PS, US Carbon/Silicon, Blissed Out, Albert Reyes, music from the masses, Iced Out, Machine Girl, Maid Cafes, Hawaii Modern & tons more about Asian pop culture &
beyond!
ZINE
$4.75

Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree
PS, US This is written by Alison Goldfrapp & Will Gregory & was recorded at their own studio deep in the English countryside. It shimmers & shines w/ the warmth of a hazy summer, an electric whirlpool of sound over which singer Alison Goldfrapp's glistening voice soars.
Mute
CD
$16.00

Goldfrapp
Seventh Tree (DELUXE)
PS, US Deluxe Edition features a DVD of behind the scenes footage, videos & interviews, as well as a pull-out poster, postcards and exquisite packaging.
Mute
CD/DVD
$21.00

Guapo
Elixirs
PS, US The album transcends any musical antecedents for which they've been acknowledged in the past. Instead, the music here explores the outermost regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, Moondog, & early-70s Miles Davis are present, as the dense orchestration & finespun virtuosity create a richness previously hinted at but until now never fully realized.
Neurot-052
CD
$14.25

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia
PS, US The first album from the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. "Saturnalia" finds the Dulli nicknamed "Satanic Everly Brothers" going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. It proves rootsy but baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. The cumulative effect proves internal yet epic: the netherworld symphonics of Mogwai, Sigur Ros, and Bohren und der Club of Gore are touchstones, alongside the sprawling emotions of Pink Floyd, the melodically catchy paranoia of the Beach Boys, the primal confessionals of John Lennon. Still, what Dulli and Lanegan achieve ultimately feels like the determinedly individual product of two auteurs coming together.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$14.00

Harp
April 2008
PS, US
ZINE
$4.00

Higgins, Gary
Red Hash (LP+7")
PS, US This is your chance to grab at a letter perfect reproduction of a folk rock classic from the early 1970s. Don't space!
DragCity
LP
$18.00

How, The
Happy Matt
PS, US Ripping a page from the Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy songbook, The How might not be The Who but you'd be forgiven for getting them mixed up. The mod-rocking brainchild of Matt (Henry's Dress, The Coachwhips, Sic Alps) and Stewart (Boyracer, 555 Records), The How pays cheeky tribute to the Spirit of '66: slashing guitars, pop-art graphics, sharp threads and even sharper tunes. Upbeat A-side "Happy Matt" will have you frugging in no time, throwing more shapes on the dancefloor than the Ace Face himself. On the flip, "I Was A Boy" Matt sings oh-so-sweetly while Stew pummels his drum kit into submission; midway through the song bursts into a complete feedback frenzy, going all red with purple flashes. Two ace tunes to end your summer, all wrapped up in colored vinyl and a hand-screened transparent sleeve.
Slumberland-069
45
$4.25

Illusion of Safety
Quell & Sedate
PS, US One of a handful of American icons of experimental music. IOS has performed nearly 200 times in the US, Canada & Europe & has released material on labels such as Silent, Odd Size, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Manifold & Tesco. For fans of: Roland Kayn, Zoviet France, Joe Colley, Dead Machines, Hafler Trio, musique
concrete.
C.I.P.
10
$12.00

Iris, Donnie
Back on the Streets/King Cool
PS, US
AmericanBeat
CD
$15.50

Joe & Bing
Daybreak
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.50

Junc Op
2013
PS, US Junc Ops is an apocalyptic hip hop and electronica group known for its high energy live shows that make people dance. A unique blend of everyman sincerity and esoteric paranoia; Junc Ops is challenging party music made for people who seek something more than just mindless club hits! Smart dudes who don't take themselves too seriously, PG-13 (named Best Electronica Artist by New Times Miami) and Kentsoundz (former Fania Records Art Director) get people to celebrate hard times and failed romances. With honesty and openness at the core of what they do, its no wonder their fan base has grown exponentially in such a short time! Highly melodic and yet bass heavy production is at the core of their sound, fusing Miami Bass party music with an underground hip hop aesthetic. Imagine 2 Live Crew meets Aesop Rock in the future. For fans of Atmosphere, Def Jux, Madlib, Fourtet...
Circuitree-004
CD
$12.25

Kid Kishore
The Social Club Nº 9
PS, US Copenhagen native of Indian descent KID KISHORE strikes a balance between old and new, blending the sounds of India with the electronic music that permeates Denmark. Self-described as anything from "Danish ghetto-tech" to "golden age Bollywood," his beat-heavy sound is a scattershot mix of musical styles from all over the sonic landscape.
TheSocialRegistry-057
45
$5.50

Kohncke, Justus
Safe & Sound
PS, US He focuses his work on the instrumental, floor-friendly side of things. These tracks resonate w/ the screams of today's dancefloor, while also feat. his long history of enigmatic dancefloor wisdom. What's new is a certain technoid rigor, a vehement approach to his music that is new to his oeuvre.
Kompakt
CD
$15.50

Ladyhawk
Shots
PS, US LADYHAWK'S kiss-of-death evokes the devilish sounds of "Goats Head Soup" guitars, the honey-slides and howling of Neil Young in his darkest hours, and the phantoms that haunted Roky Erickson at the Holiday Inn. Recorded over a period of two weeks in an abandoned farmhouse behind the shopping mall in the band's childhood hometown of Kelowna, British Columbia, "Shots" is an album filled with the cold creaking and ghostly echoes of the old house in the dead of winter. Like a party for the last house standing in a sea of strip malls and condos, surely near the end of its time.
Jagjaguwar-117
CD
$11.50

Ladyhawk
Shots
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-117
LP
$11.50

Lair Of The Minotaur
War Metal Battle Master
PS, US 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
CD
$14.00

Landes, Dawn
Fireproof
PS, UK ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Landes' second album shows that while she's been characterized as a folk artist, it might be more appropriate to say she has her own quietly varied spin on a number of styles, using her talents as a studio engineer to create something that has a tense, moody feeling that wouldn't surprise listeners of performers ranging from Suzanne Vega to Alison Krauss (or, for that matter, producers like Jon Brion and T Bone Burnett). Backed by a variety of able performers, most notably Ray Rizzo on "drums, vocals, chaos," Landes plays everything from guitars to Optigans to bells as well as sings, but what's interesting is how relatively uncluttered Fireproof sounds -- there's always a sense of space that the music fills but doesn't dominate, matched by the gentle swath of echo she adds to her voice)."
CookingVinyl
CD
$14.25

Lodger, The
Grown-Ups
PS, US The Lodger was born in Ben Siddall's Leeds bedsit flat in 2004. Encouraged by local label Dance To The Radio, Ben recruited friends for bass and drum duties, tuned-up with live shows around town and debuted in early 2005 with a track on a Dance To The Radio compilation. The band quickly followed-up with their excellent debut single "Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion," the "Watching" 7" on Double Dragon, and track for the hotly-tipped Wrath label's split 7" series. 2006 was when the band got their act together-- a permanent line-up of Ben, Joe and Katie was established and the band went out on the road in the UK with kindred Yorkshire spirits The Research in February. London indie label Angular Records released the band's ace third single "Let Her Go" shortly afterwards. This single won the BBC 6music's Rebel Playlist and started to pick up airplay worldwide. In the summer the band decamped to Alan Smyth's tiny little Sheffield recording studio to record songs for their debut album. Thirteen tracks were recorded in a week in September and the result is "Grown-Ups." On the heels of the successes of bands like The Kaiser Chiefs and The Arctic Monkeys, the north of England is fairly bursting with exciting guitar pop bands, 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. Grown-Ups is a perfect introduction to the thrilling pop charms of The Lodger.
Slumberland
CD
$12.00

Lodger, The
Grown-Ups
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Slumberland
LP
$8.50

Lullatone
The Bedtime Beat
PS, AUSTRALIA Lullatone are back with their latest Conceptual pop masterpiece, Lullatone presents the bedtime beat This new 10 song mini-album finds the duo not only further perfecting their blend of self proclaimed pajama pop, but also taking it into new uncharted waters, literally. The album opens with the infectious "bathtime beat", which features a drum solo of tapping water in a bathtub! Other interesting sounds to be found on the record include a bed tapped to sound like a bass drum, snores cut up into hypnotic, breathy drum beats, Yoshimi's human beatbox, marching in slippers, and a full cast of toy instruments and soft sine tones intricately arranged into tiny little dazzling melodies recorded half at home and half in a music room at a Japanese elementary school. This is both Lullatone's strangest and most pop album yet, and a future classic for sure. So, come on everybody let's March to sleep with the new sound of the bedtime beat!
SomeoneGood-003
CD5
$13.50

Lulu
Something To Shout About
PS, UK Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie OBE, Glasgow's Princess of Pop, better known to adoring millions as LULU, comes to Rev-Ola! Or rather, we come to her, for we are not worthy! Since storming the charts at the tender age of 15 with The Isley Brothers' classic "Shout!", reinvented in a Brenda Lee-like rasp of amazing power, Lulu has been a star...films, TV Shows, Eurovision, recording pop-art classics and matching the best that Memphis and Muscle Shoals had to offer is all in days work for the Glasgow soul diva. Collaborations with David Bowie, Jennifer Saunders, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Duane Allman, Bert Berns, Take That and the star is always Lulu! Unbelievably, she has charted in five decades... look at the pics and weep! With notes by Brian Hogg, author of All That Ever Mattered, the definitive history of Scottish Rock and pop, this will be a pretty definitive take on Lulu's first hit-making couple of years. **Lulu's first smash album, including all her early monster hits!
Rev-Ola-239
CD
$15.50

Maclean, Juan
Happy House
PS, US This single is a dance tourist's window into the state of downtown clubbing in what has always historically been the worldwide capital for boogie. It is no longer as paranoid, as cold, as robotic. W/ remixes by PRINCE LANGUAGE & LEE DOUGLAS.
DFA
12
$8.00

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash
PS, US His first record in three years. Malkmus' genius is that he knows exactly when to fetter. These songs may sprawl like the Central Valley (told you), they may spread out like a jet's flame, but when they reach that last tract house they gracefully spread their wings and head for the unclaimed land beyond. Indeed, although Malkmus makes the Pacific Northwest his home, this feels like a "California" album. Check out how "Real Emotional Trash" begins as a modern-day "Tonight's the Night," before evolving into a road trip from the Mexican border to Marin, in the tradition of Pavement's "Unfair." And dig those Allman Bros. leads (really!).
Matador
CD
$13.50

Malkmus, Stephen & The Jicks
Real Emotional Trash
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Matador
LP
$13.50

Mancini, Henry
Touch Of Evil OST
PS, UK "Touch of Evil" is a masterpiece of 20th century cinema: Director Orson Welles' final Hollywood film and regarded as the last great film noir. Stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Welles himself as the crooked police chief Hank Quinlan, who always gets his man even if he has to concoct the evidence to do so! The searing semi-latin rock & roll score is considered (both by critics and the composer) to be one of Henry Mancini's finest. Barney Kessel, who featured on "Pet Sounds" and many of the Phil Spector and Monkeys' hits, plays guitar. Timeless and landmark cinema; the personification of cool.
El-134
CD
$15.50

Mayet, Hisham
Musical Brotherhoods: From the Trans-Saharan Highway
PS, US Filmed in 2005, predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh, MorForcecqou, tehnisc iceasptures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live & unfiltered on the home turf of the world's most dynamic string & drum specialists performing & manifesting the ecstatic truth. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must-see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins & the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes! Color; 60 min.; digipak; all-region DVD; NTSC format
Sublime
DVD
$21.50

Menche, Daniel
Glass Forest
PS, US Glass Forest is a highly listenable starting point for any newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography. It is also, according to Menche, the last cd he will release. From now on he'll be releasing his music on LP only or on DVD to accompany films he's been working on. Glass Forest is also the companion release to Body Melt which is being released simultaneously on Important on LP only. Recorded in the winter of 2005, Daniel Menches Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world that finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menches previous work but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on Glass Forest. Subsonic bass drums crawling underneath a massive sheets of glass-like sound layering infinitely into a thick and dense forest of delicate noise. For fans of Daniel Menche's ambient work and also his loud violent work, Glass Forest fits exactly right in the middle of these two polarities.
Important-176
CD
$12.25

Menche, Daniel
Body Melt
PS, US Body Melt is limited to 500 copies only on LP. This is the companion release to the Glass Forest CD being released on Important simultaneously. Both releases are housed in staggeringly unique artwork by Emily. Recorded in the Summer of 2007. Body Melt is a molting and simmering display of furious Hammond Organs & Native American Drums. Daniel Menche manages to merge together the powerfully fuzzed out organ drones along with hypnotically crushing and frenzied drums in a manor that is distinctly the graceful music style of Daniel Menche. Call it trance music for carnivores or ambient music for cannibals. Body Melt sits perfectly thronged on this limited vinyl LP release.
Important-175
LP
$14.75

Merry Go Round
Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection
PS, US
Rev-Ola
CD
$16.75

Miimo
Live at Super Deluxe
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type), clamshell case. Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant electronic / acoustic Steel Pan player), tatsu (well known bassist in Japan in the field of Ska, Reggae to J-pop), Norihide Saji (drummer/laptop artist). "Live at Super Deluxe" was recorded at the most advanced club in Tokyo "Super Deluxe" in July, 2007. Their live performance is vivid and emotional. Steel Pan is featured on drum & electric double bass with electronic percussions. Each members control dubbed samplers/computers, playing their own instruments. Hybrid performance. Chill-out dubbed sounds and beat-driven groove(tr1), jazzy and tender arrangement(tr2), heavy bass onedrop(tr3), hypnotic beat with Melodica and Steel Pan(tr4). Using special black disc (with authentic-looking vinyl groove!) as well as debut album.
Amorfon-2
CD
$15.00

Miimo
S-T
PS, JAPAN CDR (vinyl groove type) in clamshell case. Cool melody & beat from Tokyo! Miimo is a Japanese Dub-Jazz electronica trio featuring Steel Pan. Miimo's tracks have been already used for documentary movie and commercial spot as soundtracks in Japan. Members are Yoshio Machida (avant elect